'Don't use your crazy moonspeak on me when I'm covered in ruffles!' by Kara
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 9:55 AM

Well, this cosmic curse that Co-Writer has been suffering for the past month and a bit seems to have jumped to my drawing hand.

Last Friday I was using a toaster oven to make my lunch. It's old-school and has a metal tray. I didn't have an actual oven-mitt, so I found the biggest potholder I could. It wasn't big enough, because I ended up burning my right thumb fairly damn badly. I'm looking at it now, and it's still a bit ugly.

Last night I was going to do some laundry. I don't have my own washer/dryer, so I have to hop down to the mini-laundromat at the end of the block. Oddly enough for a Wednesday night, all the machines were taken. Well, except the broken one. So I toted my stuff back, and walking up my stairs, I scraped up guess which hand on the wall. (It's a rough wall on the right.)

Yeah, cry more. Given my hand was already unhappy, it actually hurt a fair bit. Fortunately, since Co-Writer was wonderful and got me this page early, I didn't hafta worry about drawing. So I sat down to do some hand-sewing and stabbed my thumb. Right where it'd been burned last week.

Feh.

It's not like I can't draw. It's just getting about as ridiculous as, say, having something come up at the last minute every weekend for six weeks in a row. Which leads me to believe that the curse has moved. Now, if it'll stay put for a few days, it'll be good for both of us. Also I may finally have my own evil hand.

If you have been, shhhhh!