Copyright Stephen Vincent Benet

THANKS

For these my thanks, not that I eat or sleep,
Sweat or survive, but that at seventeen
I could so blind myself in writing verse
That the wall shuddered and the cry came forth
And the numb hand that wrote was not my hand
But a wise animal's.
Then the exhaustion and the utter sleep.

O flagrant and unnecessary body,
So hard beset, so clumsy in your skill!
For these my thanks, not that I breathe and ache,
Talk with my kind, swim in the naked sea,
But that the tired monster keeps the road
And even now, even at thirty-eight,
The metal heats, the flesh grows numb again
And I can still go muttering down the street
Not seeing the interminable world
Nor the ape-faces, only the live coal.

Some doodles

So here are some sketches that I did (without touch-ups) from "how to draw" books. If you actually want to see them you can click for the larger image :)

We'll see...

So this picture is for fun and not related to:

I had a job interview today for a teaching position in a preschool. Turns out it would be a real teacher position not an assistant teacher post. That would be an upgrade for me! It also turned out that ten people were interviewing me, not one. *look composed, look composed* Cross your fingers...

New shoes finally..

To those concerned we got new shoes for the boys today. Avery is now size 12w and Curran is size 7.5 regular (or wide, depends on shoe). Avery got the even more garish version of this for his sneakers (read: more neon green) and sandals kinda like these. Curran got the same sneakers as Avery, but with more silver. They were Slime Monsters (like the shoe name) all evening! Curran also got brown leather sandals, but the stuff we get at the outlets isn't online anymore.

Weird things..

So there I was making apple cheddar muffins on a whim, when Avery out-whims me and makes potato chip muffins. I kid you not. They were cheddar muffins like mine, but with cheesy potato chips instead of apples. ...They were actually pretty tasty :)