Thanks, guys! I had a good birthday. First half of it was at work, but then I spent it relaxing at home, then went out for pizza and pasta with my boyfriend (I always like to lay low on my birthdays, since there are already a lot of parties all year long).
Steffen, thanks for the tag. I had not found this thread and probably wouldn't if not for you.
NBNP, I have been resting from theater these last three months. It started in January because I spent Christmas time with my parents, so I could not rehearse for any projects that started in January. I also stopped going to some classes I had been taking for some years, so I started the year with only my job taking my time, leaving the rest of the day as free time.
It had been years since I last had the chance to spend so much free time however I wanted, I loved how I could finally get to read more or finish video games that had been waiting for years. So I have been trying to not get into a new play for the time being. I know I will eventually get into one, so I have to enjoy this different pace for as much as I can/want.
In this period I finished reading The Waste Lands (loved it) and received my boxed set with the 8 DT books (I previously had a set of the first 4 books and a loose copy of TWTTK, but I wanted a single set so I will give the old books to a friend).
Instead of going to the fourth book, though, I restarted reading The Stand (something I would definitely not do if I had less free time, because it is a large book). I am better at taking notes than I was when I first read it (was it last year?), so I should be able to get more useful data for more characters I would love to draw.
By the way, being better at taking notes means I stopped manually transcribing things and started taking pictures of the text with my cell phone. For this second time with The Stand I started using small pieces of paper with the name of the book and the character so I can more quickly see what each picture contains. Example:
The Stand.
Jess Rider.