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From the Friday Five:

When was the last time you...

1. ...went to the doctor?

Two weeks ago.


2. ...went to the dentist?

Three days ago. I don't know why I make these appointments for February - it's always a long, cold trip by bus. In any case, just as well, this year - I have a broken filling that needs work. I've been going to the same dentist in the same place for more than thirty years. I make him feel old. He makes me feel old.


3. ...filled your gas tank?

Never. I don't drive.


4. ...got enough sleep?

Aaargh! Always a problem. Last night was pretty good, though. I think it says a lot about our civilization that this is even a question.


5. ...backed up your computer?

Yesterday.

Sometimes these questions (and my answers) are so boring I don't post them. This set comes close.

Something new...

maboroshimaki thought I needed a hobby. She's into crafts. She makes quilted things and designer doll clothes and lovely works of art. Me, I buy fabric and never use it. Plan art and never paint it. Gave up on knitting decades ago and I've had an afghan in the making since 1976. Rubber stamps, I go for. Origami: yes. So got a good idea.

"You should make a scrapbook," she said.

You know how sometimes someone says something, and it just clicks? I was about to scoff, and found myself intrigued. Yes, I could make a scrapbook. I could make a fannish srapbook. I could use my LOTR clippings and my PotC clippings and suff I've collected re Smallville. I went out and bought a real scrapbook from Lewiscraft. (I did toy with the idea of using an actual book and making it a book-art project; maybe in future.) During the past week or so I have been going through my fannish pictures and other pictures I wanted to enhance the pages I was designing in my head - iconic symbols that I associate with the characters I'm working on: sunflowers for Clark, a laptop for Lex - that sort of thing. I made a sort of rule for myself: it's cheating to make it a digital art project, by just finding things online and printing them. Cheating and, with the cost of ink and photographic paper, expensive. I'm trying to do it with magazines I have or can get at a reasonable price, and ingenuity.

I still need a good picture of a katana, white tulips, and a back pack like the one Clark carries.

Tonight I started my first three pages. The first is a page on Clark Kent, with the words last son of Krypton in Kryptonian script at the bottom of the page. The second is a page on Lex Luthor. The third - which is actually page four in my book - is Chloe Sullivan. Page three is reserved for Lionel Luthor, if I can find any art.