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You ever think about how much more boring we get as we get older? Like I was sitting here, thinking about what to write and I thought...I could talk about the weather. And don't get me wrong, I love talking about the weather. I talk about the weather all the time. It's one of the few things in life we can all agree on. What the weather is. And most of us have similar if not identical opinions on it. See! I'm going on some random tangent about the weather right now!

When I was younger, I thought people who talk about the weather are the most boring, uninteresting people on the planet. Such a dry...unexciting topic of conversation. But you know what? Somewhere down the line (and I'm only 26) I got to a place where I am now fighting the urge to write multiple paragraphs about the weather.

This reminds me of the time I was at a music festival and I got really high, and I confessed one of my dark secrets to the boyfriend of a friend of a friend...

My dark secret...was that I kind of wanted to get into bird watching.

I'm not kidding by the way, I went in to a full on rant about how I would never ever want to be the kind of boring sod who looks at birds, and that I've been fighting the urge to get into it more and more as I get older. Now at the time...honestly I don't even know what this boyfriend guy thought, he was just going along with it. But I recounted this story to my friends at the festival and they were all pretty entertained by the concept that I thought bird watching was an embarrassing hobby, which they apparently didn't.

(5 minutes later)

So alright, I just sent out a couple messages to get feedback on this topic and my friends seem to also think that bird watchers are weird saddos. Although one of them did say it's fine to do on your own just not with a group of old people so...take from that what you will.

I'm not gonna lie, I am for sure relaying this feedback to the initial festival group to get further insight into the wider perspective on this matter.

We need to get to the bottom of whether or not it's lame to bird watch. I will have an update for you next week.

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At some point we did actually pass the anniversary of me posting Tuft Luck, but I failed to realise or mention it. So...happy belated anniversary Tuft Luck. I'm now in the process of prepping the book to print (I don't know if I've said that before) it's surprisingly tedious but I suppose once I've done it once it won't be this complicated again.

I'd like to say I'm gonna miss posting it every week and sharing my thoughts but...I'm not. I'm not gonna miss it. It's not that I've hated doing it necessarily, but even the stress of having to have a page prepared every week is just...needlessly stressful when I've got other stuff going on. But I'm glad to have an archive of my thoughts while I complete my first graphic novel.

This also has gotta be the first project of this size I will have ever seen through to the end. Not counting freelance work. But as far as a personal project goes, this has got to be the most ambitious one so far. Maybe. I dunno. On the other hand I'm an animator, and the amount of work that goes to even one really short animation potentially rivals this project. I've definitely never spent this LONG on a project anyway. So at least timeline wise, it's the longest I've ever committed to a personal project and finished (or it will be when I print it.)

Admittedly, since I never read this stuff after I post it...I have no idea if I've said any or even all of that before. Easily could have. Easily could be repeating myself. If I am...well...consider it a refresher on my personal life. That's all folks. See you next week.

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So, I'm here trying to upload this comic and I get the worlds most annoying text. And now, I'm supposed to write something and...I'm just too angry to think. The only saving grace is that VERY little thought goes into these bits of text anyway (as I feel like I've said 400 times) so I think we will be fine.

But it's crazy right? When these awful, annoying people do they're horrible annoying things. Do they not realise...they're throwing me off my game?! Hello?! I'm out here trying to post the latest page of Tuft Luck guys! Maybe leave me the hell alone so I can give the people what they want! I mean...right?

Also while I'm getting annoyed at stuff, I've had enough of the internet trying to correct all my typing to American English. I'm not American. I'm not in America. I've tried to change the settings but you know how technology is, it's basically all designed to inconvenience ME specifically.

Hmm...what else annoys me? Oh! My neighbours! GOD they've been getting on my nerves these past couple weeks. I swear they don't wake up until 4. Then they leave the house at like..7 or 8. Then at midnight they come back and REALLY start making noise. The other night I was going to sleep (or trying to I mean) and I could hear this loud passionate argument about how the black roommate was being racist to the white roommates because the black roommate keeps trying to trick them into saying the n-word. I can't make this up, this is my life. They're literally playing rave music right now! It's 15:45 on a Tuesday, what could possible warrant a rave right now.

Let's see, what else annoys me? Oh! People who don't respond to emails. You don't wanna respond to text? Sure whatever, I do that all the time. But an email? That's formal. That's important. Don't ignore emails!

Alright, I think I got most of my irritation out of my system.

God I can't wait 'til I start livestreaming and I can be the one to keep my neighbours up in the middle of the night instead.

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You know how you have some conversations topics that are like...your go to? Like I feel we all have a handful of topics that we're ready to rant about at a moments notice. Things that are kind of easy to bring up in conversation, maybe to varying degrees even.

I'm only thinking about it because I was going to write something about school. I've had a very boring day. One of those really tedious ones where you've got to do a bunch of civilian stuff you'd rather skip. And it got me thinking about school and what a brain melting experience that was for me as a kid. So I was gonna say something about that and suddenly realised, wait. This one of my topics. This is one of those things that when it comes up in conversation, I've got a premade rant ready to go off about my memories. Then it got me thinking about anyone who might read this, who's already heard the shpeel  before. Then it got me thinking. Wait. If I complain about school in writing. It's officially etched down. And then...can I even really CONTINUE ranting about how much school sucked for me growing up? Then I had another epiphany...

Am I STILL bitter about having to go school in my (almost) late twenties? Why is that still something I talk about? Am I really NOT over it yet?

So that's pretty pathetic. I'm not too embarrassed to say that. That isn't my only pathetic trait. I've developed several pathetic traits in my life that I've grown to know and distain. The worst part is, school wasn't even really that hard for the most part...it just always seemed really pointless and stupid...and we'll...it was, I was bang on about that. And I guess that's maybe the part of it I never got over. That I was right the entire time, all of this nonsense was a waste and my childhood was slipping away in this building of adults that more often than not, I don't even really think LIKE kids.

However. I did my GCSEs at 15. It's been over 10 years since I was a school student. That is a silly thing to still be in your roster of rants. I'm supposed to he ranting about sports or women or the government or conspiracies or...okay non of those are actually things I want to rant about. But i can't keep ranting about school. It's over. It happened. It's whatever. The fact I still bang on about it from time to time, is one: a SERIOUS testament to how much I hated that place I mean my God what a mark it left, and two: ...pointless and stupid.

Did you catch that?! School, the most pointless and stupid part of my life (and that's saying something) made ME into someone pointless and stupid. In trying to defeat my enemy...I became my enemy. I've become the human form of school. Accept its not mandatory to listen to me. Which I guess is why so few people listen to me.

And for that, you're all getting homework.

...

Yeah...I don't know what I'm talking about either...I trailed off again...

And this, my hopefully last rant about school, is dedicated to my mum...who is a school teacher😂

(P gridf)

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I think that cake is underrated. Seriously, I just don't think other people like cake as much I do. Like people like cake right. But...people prefer biscuits...CRISPS. Dude, I'd much rather eat a cake than a crisp. Maybe that's a strange comparison, like I guess crisps are a lighter snack. But that's half the issue. Who wants light snacks? You know what else is better than crisps? Banana chips. I actually have to pop to the shop in a second, I might buy some banana chips right now. And no crisps. Honestly, what is this country's obsession with crisps? 

Speaking of this country's obsessions, do less people drink tea nowadays or is it just me?

It's not so much regular everyday people. It's the more hipstery creative types. There's like...an Americanism going on in the middle classes as I swear. People only drink tea if it's like chai or green tea or some bs like that. I don't mind those kinds of teas. I just...I find coffee drinkers suspicious. And I feel like there's a lot of people I've been coming across who are all coffee no tea. And I'm just thinking...what's going on here. What are doing right now.

It's all these American businesses that have come over I'm telling ya. Yesterday I saw an interview with a guy that was saying that America has a huge stake in the UK economy. Like, 4 times as many people in the UK work for American companies compared to places like France and that. And did you know Costa Coffee was owned by Coca Cola?

Thing is, the whole time in this interview they had these really blatant Cafe Nero cups. One of them wasn't even drinking out of it. It made me think this was just a hit campaign against their competitors because Cafe Nero is a UK based company. So they're saying American companies are bad, UK companies are good. So you go to Cafe Nero not costa coffee. Which is a UK based company but...like I said, western coffee culture is an American thing anyway. The guy who founded Cafe Nero (the UK one) is actually American as well. He just LIVES in London. He probably knows the person running Costa Coffee personally from school and that's why he's sneak dissing them.

Anyway here's to cake. Muffins too. And brownies, love a good brownie. Maybe I'll buy some brownies.