charcoal Jenna I've spent most the evening remembering how intimidating a simple sheet of drawing paper can be. 040428 ... ^.^ I still had charcoal all over my hand. I was walking down the hall when I saw __. she hadn't seen me. I put on a pained look, grasped my blackened hand and walked over to her. "Ahhhg... Hey,__ . how are you- Ow!" "what's wrong?" she asks innocently "Oh, It's nothing," I respond "I just burned my hand." I show her my blackened fingers. "really? How- Oh, my... What happened?" "Well, I was working in the shed, when an appliance caught on fire, I tried to put it out...with my hand." "oh. It looks Painful..." "..." "sayy..."she says with a thoughtful look. I began to laugh. __ became quite embarrassed and wouldn't speak to me for the rest of the day. How naive. 040508 ... failure A smear of charcoal down the side of my mouth. Yet another failure. 040509 ... B i used to love it. smudgey smeary dark definite black. i can't do it anymore the page is as blank as my mind and i seem to have lost the way to draw how do u get that back 040625 ... New Zealand girl death drinking it after taking an overdose of pain_killers is not even near the top of my things to do list 040801 ... newme burn the willow 040801 what's it to you? who go blather from