Ever get sick but not sick enough?

You go to work, put in a couple hours, and then you realize you have no more energy and your voice is gone? Yeah, that was me today.

I had a great weekend. I set up the Internet Room at Arisia and it took care of itself. I made new friends, possibly started new other stuff, had a great damn time. I got to perform "Chicken Heart" again, this time in front of a lot more friends. It was good fun.

Then I comforted quem98 on Sunday night. She had a bummer of a weekend and I couldn't leave her to collapse alone. This led to a lack of sleep, which probably exacerbated any viral exposure I received during the convention. I can't blame anyone for that: sometimes I undersleep and disease happens. By Tuesday morning, I was sick. By Tuesday afternoon, I wasn't so sick.

I keep thinking I'm not sick enough to skip work. Then I go to work and go bleh. So this time I'm going to stay home, sleep a lot more and feel frickin' perfect on Friday. That'll work.

I have other tales to tell. However, I need to sleep some more.

-been reading a lot of Jerk City, Dante

P.S.: Jeph Jacques, the author of Questionable Content, mentioned a very strange comic called Cooking With Anne. It takes only a few minutes to read the existing backlog and it's... weird... and... hypnotic. Check it out.

How I can tell I'm still sick

There are the obvious signs I'm still sick: a lame cough, stuffiness, weird spikes and troughs of energy, sudden naps. Then there is the cranky feeling I have because my room is creme-colored.

Then come the bad ideas which may be cloaked in good ideas. One thing I miss about having a live-in girlfriend is someone who will curl up with you in bed when you're sick. Instead, my cousin is making crazy plans to fly to England on Monday for six months. This means she is talking a mile a minute about things she could use my help doing. I'm so tired that I have to say "I'm sorry, but I'm too tired to perceive anymore. Back to bed for me." If I don't walk back upstairs at that exact moment, I will get caught in another energy tap. My idea becomes "why don't I drive around and bother more relaxing friends?" Then I realize I'm too tired to drive.

I've been reading a LOT of web comics. I mean, a LOT. I realize they're the closest thing to soap operas I can tolerate, mostly because I can read an entire backlog and get all the twists compressed into a couple hours. Of course, I am getting jealous of web cartoonists because I can't draw. Seriously. Can't. Achilles's heel. All I can draw are maps.

However, I wanna do a web comic. I can write characters, concoct a story, build the server, all that. I just need to figure out whether I could make a normal written story work the same readership pull of a comic (likely it can't)...

...or what I can do without drawing to make anthropomorphic visual manifestations without the skill of drawing. See, it's the faces that make you stay. You could read a story line but you won't wait a whole day to read a few paragraphs. You'll wait to read a chapter but a daily addiction requires drawings.

Right?

Help me out here. Ideas? I know Rob Balder's Partially Clips does fine without a lick of him drawing but he has no plot continuity. At best I'd end up with a comic along the lines of Tsuduku ("To Be Continued") except that comic has already been done.

-so yeah, gimme a clue, Dante