State of the Comic --Edited and Updated

Well guys, I'm not getting anything done on time this week. It's been a stupidly stressful week and my creativity is right out the window. I'm hoping that later on in the week I can catch up and get an update online--

but we'll see.

Observations of the week:
1) people stink
2) people who stink normally don't improve
3) people who stink don't mind spreading their stink on to you.

Edit: Many of you know I work in arts education. I try not to talk a lot about it here, because quite frankly-- it's damn depressing. This last week all those little statistics you read about came home to me. Childhelp.org says that 12 out of 1000 children are abused... so 1.2 out of every 100. I have pushing 400 kids in my school. That means about 5 are abused. I believe it.

If you look at mental illness, Wikipedia tells us that mental illness is pretty prevalent. So add another 3 to 10 out of 100 who are bonkers and need help.

So every week, I see 30 kids who are a challenge. I've got three autistics, one lays on the floor and throws fits and screams, a handful of seriously ADD/ADHD children, one of which has a poop fetish. I have two who have sexually abused a younger sibling and are being investigated by the police. I have several with parents in jail for drugs who have been neglected. I have two who are so aggressive and violent that they are constantly in the office for threats or confrontations.

I wasn't trained to be a therapist- and some times the stress of it all is overwhelming. I'm so looking forward to Thanksgiving break. I need it. Bad.

-Aggie