today

so i'm back from visiting my parents. it was sort of stressful, but then familial visitations usually are. my mother appears to have come home from her trip with some sort of tahitian parasite, so she wasn't terribly active. there was a lot of reading. a lot of movie watching. some visiting of my grandparents. thrilling, yes.

so i have my new g4! it's sexy as hell. gundam messaged me on friday morning to let me know it had shown up at his office, which is where i had it delivered as i can't really have stuff shipped here. their mac guy was drooling over it. so i took the train over to the office and gundam and sam helped me get the monitor box and the g4 box into a cab, though the monitor box was fucking huge and we barely fit it in the trunk. it was even more of a bitch getting the damn thing up my stairs to my apartment. it's all set up though and gorgeous and delish and i am in the process of getting mac os x running on it. its name is oscar, after wilde and the grouch.

i'm going to be starting a new project with hot soup and safety monkey soon which i'm really looking forward to; it's looking to be right up there with the penny arcade redesign in terms of being wicked fun to work on. a new illustration soup showed me today made me realize all over again how much i like his art. it's good stuff.

a book recommendation: david foster wallace's brief interviews with hideous men. i bought this to read on the train, since i loved dfw's novel infinite jest. hideous men is a collection of his short work and it's as much a joy to read as infinite jest was. there's something really appealing about dfw's prose; there's a sense that he knows exactly what he's doing that i like very much. plus also his vocabulary is fucking delicious.

oof. i am full of garlic bread at the moment. i think i will go read some more.