Birthday Comic

True story...

I am considering making this my submission for the Durham Comics Project.

While You Were At Work

Sewing Lessons

Where's Lyra?

At the library...

Solstice at the Marsh

I went to the most magical aerial dance retreat in Georgia last week. I spent 4 days at The Marsh Studio with lots of amazing people, bruising myself on trapeze, learning to open myself up and make myself vulnerable and receptive to the experience of dancing with my apparatus as partner. I think my favorite lesson of the whole weekend was the reminder that I am enough. Never apologize for a performance and what I have created.

Kirill Draws

For some reason tonight I decided to draw Kirill, not how comic Kirill looks, but a little closer to real life Kirill.

Summer has arrived...

Christine tells it like it is...

Headaches

Warning: this is a little self-indulgent, but it was necessary at the time. 

 

So, disclaimer, things are much better than they were when I drew this comic about a month ago. My doctor had put me on a crazy anti-seizure medicine in hopes it would help with my migraines. Not only did it not help with the headaches, but I had really bad side-effects. I had trouble thinking and focusing, I would forget words all the time which made it very difficult to hold conversations, I was running into things while walking, I lost weight because I would forget to eat for a whole day, my fingers would tingle all the time like my hands were falling asleep, and I was having panic attacks. I was on this for a little over a month and for that month it became really hard to deal with daily life because now I was not only in pain but I felt like my brain was failing me.
It took so much energy just to get through work that I didn't really have energy for anything else so I mostly stopped hanging out with people because it was too hard to hold a conversation. I didn't go right back to my doctor to be taken off of it because I no longer trusted myself and I thought, maybe this is just what I'm always like. The headache specialist I started seeing this month took me off the medicine right away and things got better fast. Now that I'm seeing this specialist I feel much more hopeful that the headaches will pass with hopefully as few unobtrusive medications as possible.
I wasn't going to post this one originally because it just felt too personal, but I also wasn't really talking to people about what I was going through at the time so I will share now.

Turtle in a Forest Fire

Did I ever mention that I once saved a turtle from a forest fire on my lunch break? Well, I did.

Majka is a Hotdog

It's True!

1984

Fun-A-Day 2012

This year I am not running a Fun-A-Day and I will admit that not worrying about who's participating and organizing the show is making the whole experience much less stressful. Since there will be no Fun-A-Day NC I'll be participating in the Buffalo Fun-A-Day that my friend Curtis is organizing. Last night as I was trying to figure out a theme for this year's comics, something different from strict daily diary comics, and it occurred to me that this is a leap year so there are 29 days in February, and this is my 29th year so I'm making a comic for every year of my life.
February 1983 I was about 7 months old.

The Proposal

I actually drew this comic about 6 months ago, but alas, I'm slow. This is how Kirill and I decided to propose to each other at the same time.

I would like to point out that the conversation leading up to this point was a discussion about how we should get married (and not me demanding a proposal). Kirill wanted there to be an official proposal because saying we had a discussion and decided to get married doesn't make for a very good story.

Oops.

and 3 months later I still can't touch my toes. 

This is why I'm shy around people I don't know very well...

because when I talk things like this come out of my mouth.

Gogol Bordello

Kirill and I have an unexpected secret obsession with Gogol Bordello. Well, I do, and Kirill plays along, but we have on occasion found ourselves on long walks playing Gogol Bordello 20 questions. 

This one's an annoying grumblefest. Sorry.

I try not to have my fun-a-day comics be grumblefests, but somedays I can't avoid it. This was one of them.