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Well guys, it’s finally that most magnificent time, when the days are just barely warm enough and the evenings are crisp; it’s the time of year when apple juice tastes its best, and pumpkins stand watch on doorsteps. It’s the season when summer breathes its last dying gasps into the festivities of the harvest.

Autumn is here.

This is probably the time of year when it is hardest for me to work on the comic. Unlike the hectic rush of Christmas, when working on the comic is more of a relief, but time is short, in Autumn, all I want to do is romp about in the woods, eat caramel apples, and soak in the scent of the dry cornfields. In spite of old injuries and long days at work, I feel rejuvenated in the twilight between summer and winter.

I hope you guys have all sorts of wonderful fall activities planned. I sure know that I do.

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Urf! I actually had this done late last night, but kinda got tired and ended up falling asleep.

But in other news… autumn is just around the bend. I’m so excited that it hurts; some of the leaves are even starting to turn, and pumpkin and apple everything is showing up…

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There’s probably big errors on this, but life’s been hectic so I’m gonna just post this and run. 

Life is terrible and wonderful at the same time, and I think I’m losing my mind a little, and I’m not eloquent enough to articulate my thoughts right now, nor do I have the time to do so even if I could since I have to be up for work in five and a half hours, because I’m taking extra shifts. 

Yay run-on-sentences.

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This still counts as Wednesday.  It still counts.  I just got busy; that’s all.  I haven’t slept yet, so it’s still Wednesday.

Ohgodgottasleepthenworkthenhittheroadohgodohgod.

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Well, thank god it wasn’t zombie pirates.

So, some things have been kind of disappointing for me lately.  I think I may have mentioned it earlier, but I recently had to make a hard decision and cut a lot of material that was due in a couple of chapters.  I’d been holding onto it with tooth and claw, but, well… it slowed down the story, and didn’t add much; it was a relic of previous edits.  However, I hope that after Eldritch is finished, maybe I can revisit those plotlines, as well as several other stories that I want to tell in the Eldritch world.  There are so many stories I want to tell, but I struggle just getting one of these crammed out every week.  Also, as it turns out, I’m not gonna get to see a friend of mine, who I’d hoped to see in a couple of weeks.  Bummer.

On the bright side, I look forward to next week’s page, and autumn’s only a month away.  Harvest has been good for my garden this year, and wildcrafting’s gone well.  So, while some things have been disappointing, things overall are pretty okay.

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Okay, scraped this together.  Been up since five thirty this morning… so I’m kinda loopy.  I’m also anxious as hell with no good reason why.  Guess I’d better sublimate all that stress and try to get working on next week’s update before I finally crash.

But hey, at least Todd’s doing Big Bad Wolf stuff, yeah?

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Please forgive Todd in the second panel.  I swear, that wasn’t in the bloody script, but it happened anyway.

Sorry to be brief, but I just got home from a crack-of-dawn shift at work (they’re trying to kill me), and in a couple of hours I have to head right back out and drive to another freaking state and back, just so I can be at work at dawn again tomorrow. 

In other news, the persied meteor shower was neat, so, uh, there’s some good stuff!