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It was hard figuring out what part of this conversation to put into comic form. Something about discussing my own mortality really tickled me. I sent the form back to HR and said “Thanks for bringing this to my attention” and the HR lady responded “Just glad I haven’t needed to use it!” I guess we all have a sense of humor about death. Probably because it’s really scary.

Twice in the past month, I’ve heard people say “I only want to live to be 70 (or 80 or whatever)” and I questioned it both times. Me? I’ll go as long as I can. Maybe that’s an immature thing to say. We’re supposed to come to terms with our own mortality. After all, that mortality rate is up to 100% these days. Anyway, my argument is this - Living is basically all I do. It’s pretty awesome, and I don’t see why I should hope to hit 75 or whatever and then call it quits. Let’s be a little more ambitious, people! We can at least shoot for 100. Yoda made it to 900 and he seemed alright.

That being said, I won’t be disappointed if I don’t make it to the century mark.

I’ll be dead after all.

I drew a comic last night, but I had to draw it by candle light because my power got shut off.  Apparently our meter and the meter for the vacant unit next door were mislabeled, so I sat in the dark all night while the etherial spirits that dwell next door enjoyed the luxury of artificial light.  Someone from the electric company did come out around 11pm, but we couldn’t get a hold of our building’s maintainence guy which meant we couldn’t get into the electric closet… the whole thing was a mess.  I did, however, enjoy when the electrician tried to jimmy open the closet door with a screw driver.  That’s exactly the kind of quality work I’d expect from a utility worker.  Ultimately, it didn’t pay off.  There were bolts on the top and bottom of the door as well as the handle lock.  It’s almost as though they don’t want people breaking into it.

In any case, the lack of power made it difficult to scan and ink the comic.  I diverted the last of my laptop’s battery power toward charging my phone so we could call the various people that would eventually get the power back on around 8am this morning.  So the story has a happy ending.  Power just in time for me to make some coffee before work.  Coffee I intend on enjoying right now.  So, I’ll probably post a new comic tonight.  It’s hilarious.  I assure you of that.

This blog was written by Julia Wertz of The Fart Party, another fantastic diary comic. I stumbled across it just now and it cracked my shit up. Sadly, about half of her high school experience does not parallel mine (the part about wondering if I’ll ever be cool does), but she hits the post-college life portions square on the head.

I hope you enjoy. Have a good weekend!

It appears Aaron Diaz over at Dresden Codak has caught wind of the Comics-Comics ways.

You know what they say… Imitation is the best form of flattery.

The elevators at work all have little tv screens in them that go through little news slide shows to keep you entertained and give you something to get your mind off of how awkward it is to be riding in crowded elevators with strangers. Anyways, when I got back from lunch, I saw a little fun energy fact on this screen that said “Buildings in the U.S. use enough electricity to power a 100 Watt light bulb for a billion years.”

Okay.

I suppose that is interesting, but I’m not really sure what the point is. I don’t think it comes to anyone’s surprise that buildings in the US use electricity and there are, in fact, many buildings in the US. The only purpose I could come up with was that it was a subtle suggestion that we need to rethink how we are using our natural resources, much in the same way you’ll see an ad pointing out that tens of billions of dollars are being spent on war that could be used for education. Well, the logical next step for me is, “Are they suggesting that we reallocate our resources to a single light bulb that we can use for the next billion years?” That seems like a much poorer use of our resources, if you ask me.

In case you haven’t caught wind of this yet, you should really check it out. It’s tailor made for people who like Joss Whedon, Neil Patrick Harris, and/or things that are funny. The final installment of Dr. Horrible debuts tomorrow!