So You're Struggling With a Chapter in Your Dissertation...

Clearly, the best way to cope is to bust out your tin box of artist-quality pencil crayons!!

Marvel at how much your drawing skills--never exactly well-developed--have regressed back to (roughly) your seventh-grade level of skill!

The memory-book-journal is also progressing at a consistent pace, thanks very much.

Memory Books

Just this morning, I read a post on Ill Seen, Ill Said about keeping a notebook specifically for writing out memories--a more disciplined, and more useful, version of the dream journals I used to try (and always failed at) keeping. I've already started one in a pretty notebook I never knew quite how to use. It was too pretty for academic stuff, and the unlined pages didn't lend themselves to easy use. But combining words with my best drawings of the things I remember? It's just about perfect for that.

And, of course, I immediately dumped coffee all over the very first page.