Various & Sundry: November 2005 Archives

Here I am sitting at home totally minding my own business and waiting for my sweet potatoes to finish cooking so I can go to Becca's. I casually glance out the window, and then do a double take, and then gasp out loud and run for my camera, because:

OH MY GOD THERE IS TOTALLY A 10-FOOT ALLIGATOR SITTING ON THE EDGE OF THE BAYOU ACROSS FROM MY APARTMENT!!

I went out to take a picture and one of my neighbors was out on his balcony inspecting it through binoculars. I've lived along this bayou for three and a half years and never seen one. I suppose I knew they were there, but I think I liked it better when I hadn't seen one. There is an alligator that lives near me. That is slightly unsettling.

Randomly, the Chronicle had a story today about bats living under a bridge here in town, just after I presented my 4th project in graphic design class last night -- two pages of a children's book I made up about Bernard the Bat! Here are my two pages:

I'm not entirely satisfied with them -- just feel like something is missing -- but I guess they are decent.