Return to Responsibilities

Return to Responsibilities

Panel 1 - Ellie pumps her fists. She has stars in her eyes. She says, I'm back from the conference! I feel inspired, connected--ready to turn theory into action-- Panel 2 - Ellie stands in awe or fear of several entities embodying the traits of all her waiting responsibilities: a dusty purple cat-like being labeled Aging Pet; a pink Projects with spiky back hair; a steel blue large male humanoid labeled Whole Crapton of Other Responsibilities; an orange Future Career with curly hair; a Grad School dark blue entity; a dark read Car Repairs entity; and a green entity with curtain bangs and a heart on his forehead hugging her shoulders from behind.

Don’t get me wrong, it is nice in a way to return from a four-day trip and find familiar sights and experiences waiting for me. But all at once…

Such a nice, blustery, tropical stormy day. There goes my intention to experiment livestreaming with my iPad. I could give it a go, but then I’d be tempting fate and have a power outage cut my stream short. At least I can do some video editing; if the power goes out, at least my laptop will stay on long enough to save any work.

Or I could continue prototyping a card game. Or catch up on Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Or turn in that draft intro for a proposal…