Well, I just got done with my first mature piece of classical music, and I've been up since about 5 and I'm very tired. I'm more relaxed because I'm not midway through a project, but canning the smokes has left me pretty uncomfortable this week. I've got a cup of coffee right now, and I'm planning next week's attack... I may decide to get some art supplies. I like doing inks, but I'm not impressed with the colored inks, so I may just buy some cheap water colors.

I tried some sumi-e and I just don't have the heart to draw bamboo shoots. This is no insult to sumi-e, but I'm not really a landscape artist. I'm more of a figure artist, and sumi-e is not well suited to figures. I tried the inks on thicker paper with better results, and ended up giving my brother a picture I did of Buddha. He's more Jon Kabat-Zinn than Lotus Sutra, but I didn't think a picture of John Kabat-Zinn would be very effective...

Also, for Mac users I recommend Voodoo Pad. What it does is create a series of documents linked together like a wiki or a hypertext page, and it's great to keep all my projects related together with. I have the free one and the functionality is just fine, but if you want to be able to add sound bytes or things like that you'll need the real one. I think it would be a great book this journal I've got on Voodoo Pad. Lots of little nuggets about splitting hairs in electronic music, nude art pictures, journal ranting, song critiques, all kinds of stuff. Great fun.

Well anyway, I'm going to take a nap now. It's pretty bad to be this bushed at lunch time, but I've been up 8 hours I guess. It feels like about 7 at night. Later.