Bathtub Cowboy

I've had a thought that maybe there is a cowboy sitting in a bathtub giving me advice that I already knew. He wears his hat and boots and chaps and holster and slurs his words like a real rugged wrangler. He drinks too much whisky, but never shoots off his revolver unless he really means to. 

He gives me this idea that I want something else - badly, and that makes me restless. Like maybe the world really is made up of cowardly sheriffs, ruthless bandits, and lonely bounty hunters resting above the surface doling out revenge. Someday, maybe, the bounty hunter killed God to see if it made anything better for him. To see if the cycle would stop, or... 

When it didn't, he felt like a murderer, but realized that he didn't need to because it was God who decided murder and that kind of thing. Clean and unclean. But that idea, the guilt, it was still there even without God, so the cowboy had to clean himself up, to purify, to, well, to sit in a bathtub and clear his karma by helping me out every once in a while.

The Condition of Contemporary Man:

So, it's 2009, right?

Throughout the holiday break, my computer has made it entirely too difficult to keep up with blogging (I need a new one. Or a used one. Just one that turns on consistently...)

Anyhow, unless the apocalypse happened everywhere except America, you probably all noticed that it's not 2008 anymore. Let's recap some cool stuff that happened to ME in 2008, shall we?

* 2007 was over! Yay!
*learned a lot of cool video stuff
*met my super-cool boyfriend extraordinaire
*lived with the Giuliano's for a while
*went to Mongolia for a month
*signed the lease on my own house
*started a pseurority
*saw The Dark Knight (on Imax)
*ate a lot of food
*acquired some new friends and fiends
*started working with my mentor and learning coolstuff while playing with plastic and making art
*worked through a really tough semester and came out (sort of) unscathed
*spent some quality time with the family
*learned a little more about how important the above is

So, what's cool about 2009 already?
* 2008 is over, Yay!
*Dad and Jan are officially engaged
*I get another crack at painting (this time, I'M going to win.)
*I have some time to sleep and gather my wits before the semester starts again
*I'm working on a really interesting project with the 3D juniors and the Wilma Theatre (details later)