Tablets of Fire

by Mike Daly
Feb 4, 2004

Just for the sake of remembering the good times, I’m going to tell you about my sleeping habits this week. As you may have read in the post below, I didn’t get any sleep last Sunday because of homework. After submitting my program minutes before the deadline, I felt a tremendous weight lift off my shoulders. In my ecstacy I wrote the update before all that missing sleep caught up on me.

Then something kind of funny happened. I didn’t get sleepy. I was so happy about being alive (as opposed to dead) that I didn’t want to waste my happy emotions on forcing myself into slumber. So I didn’t. Instead I took up my tablet and drew a picture that was meant to capture the state of my happiness. No sleep again. Then an old friend had her 21st birthday so I trucked out to Chapel Hill to welcome her to the world of the old. So from sunday morning to wednesday morning (at around 3), I had only had two 2-hour pass out sessions, with no sleep beyond that. I can understand staying up that long for tests and classes and stuff, but this time I put myself through it just because I felt like it. Man, I’m crazy. Anyway, on to relevance. I’ve been drawing at a very respectable rate just recently. Monday night, after my update, I drew this picture; a self-poitrait of me just relaxing and being happy. Then again last night I made this screwy guy, I really don’t know what I was thinking, but it turned out, uh, interesting. Although it wasn’t specifically linked earlier, I also recently put up this little architecture study, as well as this line drawing of an elven woman. Also, I finally got around to coloring a picture I drew quite a while ago: the heroine. Man, if you add those to the two I put up two weeks ago, you could say I’m on fire. Right then, see you later.