Month in Review: July

I've been working 6 days a week consistently for most of the year. This month I went two weeks without a day off.  The hottest days of the summer were also in July. We had two periods of exceptionally hot days, where the temperatures once went as high as 110 degrees. The hottest days stretched out for as long as 3-4 days. But even when the heat did slightly break, the temperature remained in the high 80s. I'm writing this in mid-August and can look back in relief. It has been significantly cooler so far this month and even if we do have a few more hot days, I don't expect anything like July. Because of the heat and my general exhaustion I didn't listen to as many audiobooks or do as much reading at home as I had previous months. I mostly went home, had dinner, and watched an episode or two of Star Trek or The Leftovers. On the advice of Ron Drummond I watched the Australian film Walkabout which is referenced in season 3 of the Leftovers.  I read Marianne Williamson's A Politics of Love. I also read another Culture novel, Player of Games, this month. I saw this years Shakespeare in the Boston Common play, Cymbeline twice. Once with Dennis Donohue and later with my brother Joe. As far as the comic goes, I had more good ideas here and there. I picked away at it more. I did have the idea recently that I wanted to set the more modest goal of sketching the whole thing out for this year and then start releasing it next year, editing and revising along the way. I'll release a page (actually two pages-each "page" is a spread) a month.