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Em oi! #311: Holy Cats

It beats the alternative.I will come up with some subject headings for this later.  Anyway, thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.

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Okay, it’s later!  This comic carries the numbers:

GT2430 .L86 2010

294.2 L966 2010

LCSH:

Birthdays in art — Comic books, strips, etc.

So I rechecked the Cutter Sandborn Tables – that’s the device librarians use to generate that letter-plus-three-digits number at the end of a Dewey number?  For some reason, I’d taken to using L866, which is what my last name (Lupton) would cutter out to using the LC Cutter table.  But the Cutter Sandborn Tables, which are the ones you’re supposed to use for Dewey, say Lupt = 966.  So there we go – I am corrected.  I apologize for any problems this may have caused.

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Em oi! #310: Exactly Different

Yours are terrible in different ways.When we had this conversation we were lying on the floor for some reason, so I decided to go with it when I drew it.  The art came out well, but I’m not exactly sure how you draw carpet grain…

The look on B’s face made drawing it worthwhile.  Also, don’t worry – I am neither quitting the internet nor the comic.

BF687.5 .S428 L86 2010

155.232 L866

Self-perception in authors –Comic books, strips, etc.

Self-doubt — Comic books, strips, etc.

#309: Sugar Rush

We have variations of this conversation almost every single day.

Usually the person eating gross stuff is Bryan, and the gross stuff is, oh, a bacon cheeseburger or something that is only gross if you are a vegetarian who thinks eating dead things is weird/disgusting, ie ME.  I burn somewhere between 2000-2600 calories per day, so I’m pretty much always hungry, so occasionally the stakes are reversed.

This gets 644.153 L965 for “Candy (sweets)” and the LCC number TX791 .L86 2010.

Subject heading:

Peeps (Trademark) — Comic books, strips, etc.

Cabbage Tomato Noodles

I enjoy making dishes with cabbage, but there’s always a problem at the end.  Most dishes require about half a cabbage to feed two (or even four) people, so what am I supposed to do with half a leftover cabbage?

This time I had half a can of diced tomatoes left over as well.  A tricky combination – I’ve seen very few recipes calling for both.  So, turning to Google, I came across this.  And it was delicious.

Here’s what I did.

Continue reading “Cabbage Tomato Noodles”

Em oi! #308: Our Honeymoon, a Recap (part 3/3)

Part one is here, part two is here.

And then we lived happily ever after. So far.So normally in this situation I would have said, “Let’s get a cab and go find some ritzy place to have lunch.”  But Bryan was on a diet consisting of a) bananas b) saltine crackers c) soup, so we couldn’t.  Neither did we think that hanging around in the sun was going to be the ticket to a good time.

The Orlando airport, on the public side of security, is a giant mall.  At one point we tried to find a travel chess set in one of the shops and failed, though we did find travel “Hungry Hungry Hippos ™” and about fifty different Sudoku books (alas, no Kakuro).  On the non-public side of security, it’s a wasteland.  Nary a *$ to be found (sad, since I wanted a chai latte).

Anyway, the flight home was fine and Bryan got better and we actually had a really good time, with the exception of that 24-hour period that Bryan was vomiting/unconscious (from the anti-emetic injection they gave him – it was a type which tends to make people sleepy as it acts on the brain to stop nausea – he slept in the cabin, I read The Satanic Verses on the deck and reminded him to drink a glass of Gatorade every hour or so).

Next week, a comic with fewer than 22 panels!  I am excited.

Em oi! #308: Our Honeymoon, a Recap (part 1/3)

Bryan thinks I am way too bitter about the treadmill thing.

I don’t want to mislead anyone – we actually had great weather on the cruise, it was just Orlando (and the first couple of hours in Port Canaveral) that were cruddy.

The Quality Inn…well, it had like two stars on Hotels.com.  Bryan claims that it exactly matched his expectations.  It was mostly filled with frail looking old people when we came down to breaky the next morning.  And all that was on the news was a story about a guy who had claimed he had a bomb on a cruise ship (different line, though).  Good start.

More to come.

This comic has the LCC number GT2798 .L86 2010, the Dewey number 392.5 L866 2010, and the subject heading:

Honeymoons — Bahamas–Biography–Comic books, strips, etc.

Em oi! #307: That’s Not My Name

They call me 'hell' /They call me 'Stacey' /They call me 'her' /They call me 'Jane'

This one has an odd layout, but I’m pleased by the art.

I don’t mean to sound mean to anyone who has referred to me as “Mrs. Metrish” or to those who gave us gifts addressed to “Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Metrish.”  I understand the intention, I do.  It’s just a personal problem of mine, and I’ve had it ever since my mother taught me to formally address envelopes.  I feel like it eclipses the woman in some way, and while I’m happy to be married and view changing my name as an expansion of my identity, I am not into feeling like I’ve been erased in some way.

Emily Post is telling me I’m a bit wrong, by the way – it should be “Mr. Bryan Metrish and Ms. Emily Metrish” if I prefer Ms.  All right, there you go.  In business situations, Ms. is default unless you know for a fact the woman prefers Mrs.  And now you know my feelings on that.

I have spent some time working with the Library of Congress subject headings list and assigned the following subject heading and call numbers to this entry:

Subject headings: Married women–Names
Married women–Legal status, laws, etc.–United States–Names.

Call number: KF521.L8 2010

I will try to tag all my entries with a call number. I hope this will help.

B and I are off to the Bahamas on a cruise tomorrow.  Yay.

Em oi!#306: That Foucault Guy

There is some sort of philosopher threesome joke to be made here, but I ain't doin' it.

I drew this comic on Sunday, but it took me until today to actually get it colored and uploaded (I inked it on St. Patrick’s Day, hence the date).  It is probably no surprise that I am busy since we are getting married in approximately 48 hours.

I might have a comic up Saturday morning, and then one more before we head out on our honeymoon next week.  We’ll see.  Right now, I should really go sleep or something.

Oh, about my 5k last Sunday: my goal going in was to finish in 24:00.  Instead, I finished in 22:57 (7:24 per mile pace), good enough for 9th in my age group and 15th among women.  I thought I was pretty hot shit, but then I passed a seven year old in the last two blocks, so clearly not that cool.  You can click here to check out some incredibly hilarious photos of me in the final stretch.  If I look kind of unhappy or like I’m going to throw up, that’s pretty accurate to how I was feeling at the time (didn’t barf, though).  You can see the seven year old in the background.

I guess I’m actually pretty pleased that I finished before he did.  It beats the alternative, anyway.