Jean is French! (Therefore it is NOT pronounced “Gene.”) He lives across the street from us. He likes reading Kafka and Camus. He saw “500 Days of Summer” in theaters five times. As this comic indicates, he is a snappy dresser. Jean is also, maybe, meaner than I am. We are currently trying to figure this out for certain.

BORING SHIT ABOUT SCHOOL:

I’m taking two classes this semester:
1) Division III Writing Seminar (taught by Nell Arnold, who is also my Div III chair)
2) Graphic Novels (at Amherst College, taught by Alex Chee, who is cool)

I am also:
* Working in Alumni Relations for eight hours every Monday.
* Hopefully picking up a Media Basement shift soon.
* Doing my weekly Cross Hatch Dispatch.
* Drawing this stupid M/W/F comic that you may have heard about.
* Aaaaand I plan to apply to post-college things like schools and grants and jobs.

This weekend, a large amount of time was swallowed by making a comic for Broken Pencil (you can see three of my previous ones online there), and cutting/folding/stapling 150 Minnipeg minicomics.

My Div III committee is cool. I walked into our meeting and was all, “So I guess I’m gonna be writing some pieces, maybe some of them about comics, ‘cause I like comics,” and they were all, “Why aren’t you doing comics? You seem to like comics.” And I was all, “Hmm, maybe I should do that.”

The end of the story is, it looks like I will be doing both writing and comics for my Div III.

Oh, and yesterday I got to conduct an interview! I love interviewing people (and am suddenly, beautifully, no longer afraid of it). So, as planned, my Div III will include plenty of that as well.