Duck Goes Moo!

Last night I had another one of my “platonic one night stands”.

I was at a party with my friends Seth and Mimi and at one point I just went exploring around by myself meeting new people and such. As the night went on I ended up in the kitchen, drinking beers and just people watching, when I suddenly got this weird feeling I was being watched. I looked to my left and there was a girl who I thought was looking at me that appeared not to be. She was kinda cute, wearing heavy eye-shadow, a Batman t-shirt and a pair of overalls, but she was looking elsewhere seemingly not aware of my existence. I then guessed I must have been mistaken about her watching me.

So, I turned away and went back to people watching when I got that sudden feeling of being watched again. I turned to look at her but she was again not looking at me. I turned back and once more I felt like I was being watched almost immediately.

I decided that my spidey sense was off and went back to drinking my beer and watching my people, which went undisturbed until another woman walked up to me and was like, “What’s this?”, while pointing at my chest. I assumed she was talking about the awesome Target bought rock’n'roll t-shirt I was wearing and started to look down to begin saying, “Oh, you mean my awesome Target bought rock’n'roll t-shirt?”, when she raised her finger up and blipped me in the nose.

I gave her one of my classic looks of indignation when she then explained to me she did that for being a jerk to her friend who she said I was making feel like garbage.

Her friend was the girl I thought was looking at me, who I guess had indeed been looking at me and thought I was ignoring her. The batman-tshirt-with-overalls girl’s name was Christine and she demanded to know why I was acting like she was invisible. I tried my best to explain myself and I eventually succeeded, I think. At some points I couldn’t tell if we were having an actual argument or if we were just having fun with each other.

I don’t remember everything about the conversation, but in the end we started ending up having a lot of fun chatting about all sorts of stuff. We went outside for a while and I held an umbrella over her and her friend while they smoked. At the end Christine and I seemed to have gotten a bit close, and we hugged and held hands a bit. I tried to get her number, but she said she didn’t have her phone or number, and I then realized that she wasn’t looking for a relationship and this was a platonic one night stand.

I didn’t push the issue and just enjoyed her company and the physical closeness while I could. Her friend tried that hey-whats-that-blip-you-in-the-nose trick again, but this time I didn’t fall for it and instead of looking down I pressed her nose with my finger and said “beep”, which got quite a few laughs.

At the end of the night, I gave Christine another big hug and longingly held her hand as I walked away into the rainy night.

All in all, a fun night, but I do wonder if I could have gotten Christine’s number if I had pushed the issue a little, or if I tried to kiss her, but I didn’t want to get slapped in the middle of a party if that didn’t go over well. Then again, she might of been pissed off at me later that night wondering why I didn’t want to kiss her.

Ah, the girls.

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Also, today I went and saw “Avenue Q” at the fabulous Fox Theater with Janet, RØB, Peter, and two acquaintances whose names I cannot remember. It was really well done and funny. I especially loved the “Bad Idea Bears”:

I think these two follow me around wherever I go and explain most of the dumb things I do, like writing this extra-long blog entry instead of finishing the work for a client I need to finish before I go to sleep tonight.

This was one of my favorite bits from Family Guy. Not really any sort of genuine political satire, but still a fun play on Clinton’s persona as a “force of nature”, as Hillary Clinton wrote in her book “Living History”.

I’ve taken a stab at doing some 3D animation with Poser. The end results came out… interesting. Well, it is my first try. Click here or click on the image on Cammy below to see the animations:

This time I tried to make a model that looked a bit more like Camille and better matched her personality, but I still need to model a tail.

I had some fun with a 3D modeling program called Poser:

This is not really indicative of Camille’s new look or personality in the rebooted “Changing Gears” comic; I just warped the ears of a model to have mouse ears for fun.

Still, I will probably use this altered model for practicing my drawing of her, perhaps a slightly less busty version though.

This one is a little racy, but I still like it a lot. They put a lot of character into the… characters.

I’m not sure if this is from a game or an upcoming movie, but I thought it was pretty neat and well done. The voices are too spot on to not be either the original voice talent (Hamill and Sorkin) or the work of professional voice actors. I suppose they could of just taken the voices out of the animated series, but I don’t remember this dialog.