Subway Drawings (BART)

I first sat behind her and was sure she was holding a can of Budweiser. It seemed so sad at 8:30 a.m. I couldn’t stop thinking about her sad life, dressed in business attire and having to drink a can of beer on her way to work so I moved to a seat to the right and slightly behind her. When I looked again, I discovered it was a can of Slimfast, not beer. She spent more time staring at the can than drinking it. I tried that stuff once and it was like drinking liquid cake batter (ewww!). I just noticed I entered the date in my sketchbook as 9/20/06 but it was really 12/20/06. Wishful thinking?

Micron Pigma pen in small Moleskine sketchbook
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This position is becoming increasingly familiar as I draw on BART — people playing games on their cell phones while listening to their iPods. I was so tired coming home tonight I didn’t even want to read or draw, just wanted to close my eyes, but then I saw this guy and had to draw him. I got the date wrong again when I entered it in my sketchbook — this time I wrote 10/21/06 and then corrected it to 12/21/06. I seem to be having trouble dealing with December!