Our house is a mess of GRE books right now, so I really don’t have the time to post much anything of any substance.
But I did come across a really great paragraph from an interview with my hero, Lynda, about being married and artistic, and a setup that sounds like everything Meg and I one day hope for:
My husband is a really good painter and a really good sculptor, and the first floor of our big old funky house is his studio. I have the third floor. We mainly live an the second floor, but there isn’t a room in the house without some sort of project going on in it. He works during the day restoring prairies and oak savannas. So at the end of the day there is always a lot to talk about. He drives a tractor around and wears bib overalls and then comes home and we eat dinner and then we both make things in out studios and run up and down the stairs and look at what the other is doing. We work on the house together – we tiled the bathrooms and put up a ceiling in my studio and painted all the walls and do all the things hardcore do-it-yourself types do. We both love to build things and fix things, and we like to hang out together. He makes me laugh really really hard. I have a Casio keyboard I got at a garage sale, and I’ve taught the dogs how to “play” it. They can select rhythms and chords and then they do nose solos. We roll around on the couch laughing a lot at the dog music. It’s a happy active household with occasional explosive scream fights that are also kind of fun. I lucked out with my home life.
And she also talks about why she chooses to live in the rural Midwest:
Well, like Goldilocks, I was looking for the place that felt just right, and it certainly is the Midwest….my first sense experiences were here and whenever I came back to the Midwest, I felt a certain unnameable excitement. like I had found a world that was lost to me. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that I’m living now where the light is like it was when I was very young.
And though they have nothing to do with being married or living in the Midwest, I am really digging the work of two other female cartoonists, Hope Larson and Lilli Carre. There is an interesting blog called Comic Tools where Hope has disclosed her methods/tools.
Ok, back to the flaming inferno of GRE hell…
good luck on the exam. a bit of advice: when you’ve finished don’t get anxious and cancel your score, as I did last week. it’s a pity, because I think I actually did just fine.
130 bucks down THE DRAIN!
I cried my way through the GREs. I had made sure that my first and only choice of grad school actually didn’t want people who could do math, so some of the pressure was off. Still…it wasn’t fun being validated that I’m a total math dope. My math score was like minus 83.
Good luck.
Your blog is bril and you’ll go far, no matter what.
aww, thanks liza!! they’re over and done with now…thank god!