Daniel and Claire Get Married

This is (a somewhat crappy scan of) a painting I did for Daniel and Claire in honor of their wedding (which was last weekend, the 12th of June 2010 – I am a bit late getting this up) – for those who are new to the comic, Daniel is my younger brother.  Both he and Claire used to be comic regulars before they moved to Baltimore, so I thought it would be nice to do something in comic form for them.  In reality the comic is four panels wide by two down, but I thought this way I could make it a bit bigger so you could see the details.  It took me a long time to scan.

I’m taking an intensive Vietnamese course which is eating up not only my brain but all my ability to think.  I’m in third year (fifth semester) which will look great on my resume if it doesn’t kill me.

Here’s some of my vocab from the past week (hopefully the text will come out correctly):

1. thủ thư – librarian
2. ngoài ra – besides
3. kinh tế – economy
4. kế hoạch – to plan
5. nổi tiếng – famous
6. di cư to emigrate
7. ấm – warm
8. kết hôn – to get married
9. ly dị – to get divorced
10. chỉch – to inject (e.g. drugs)
11. thám tử – detective
12. hiếp – rape
13. đao phủ – execution
14. địn ngục – hell
15. buồn cươi – funny
16. tra tấn – torture
17. bảo hiẻm y tế – health insurance
18. mìn – mine (e.g. a landmine – mìn nước is a sea mine.)
19. dân ca – folksongs
20. khủng hoảng – crisis

The actual topics that I have been studying are left as an exercise for the reader.

So in other news I’m doing my first triathlon tomorrow.  It’s only a sprint, and I know I can do the individual parts (a 1/3 mi swim, 11 mi bike, 5k run) with no particular training…it’s just the transitions that I’m worrying about.  We’ll see how it goes – wish me luck!

This comic is filed under:

ND1460.W44 L86 2010

for:

Painting — Special subjects of painting — Other subjects — Miscellaneous, A-Z — Weddings.

Very appropriate.