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Dennis Jansen

November 27th, 2011

Best Fall Ever Weeks 9, 10 & 11: Comicing

I suppose it was a relatively eventful few weeks. It snowed, I bought a Nook tablet, changed my diet, grew a pornstache, and almost lost a finger.

The webcomic is also going strong. I was the dork at the coffee shop today watching Law & Order on the Nook while working on this week’s comic.

nook tablet

Don’t worry, I was in the corner of Dunn Brothers so no one saw my dorkatude. The dilemma of the day was deciding whether to stick with the simplistic cartoony characters or switch to a more realistic style.

nook tablet

Time is the real issue here. I’ll figure it out by Thursday.

November 7th, 2011

Best Fall Ever Weeks 7-8: A Portly Fall

What a lovely two weeks. Fall was extended this year so Minneapolis still has temperatures in the 50’s and 60’s. The colors are amazing and the morning dog walks have become sprawling two-hour events because it is so nice outside.

Fall Minneapolis

Fall Minneapolis

I also bought my tickets for Miami. I return to the land of Chongas y Reggaeton in six weeks. The problem is that life has been a little too luxurious lately and I’m a whopping 15 pounds above my normal weight.

I knew I was in trouble when I met up with Jack and Adam recently and Jack glared at my stomach. Adam then confirmed my fears by saying “Yeah, you’ve gotten a little portly.” PORTLY?! GAH!These are my first world problems.

Hopefully I can channel my inner Jillian Michaels and get it together before my fabulous vacation. Hopefully they aren’t singing Tuck in Yo Belly or asking me to hit that Ices Brown at the airport…
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October 23rd, 2011

Best Fall Ever Weeks 4-6: Cartoonin’

What a crazy couple of weeks. Fall finally came and I started a comic!

jansen cartoon

The dogs were particularly challenging the past few weeks. Harley discovered how to get into the trash and Gertrude is as crazy as ever.

I also got sick. The worst thing about being sick is the cough that I develop afterwards. It lasts for weeks after the illness and makes work meetings particularly embarrassing. No one likes a hacking Henry.

I almost bought an iPad to draw my comic, by ended up purchasing a Bamboo Pad. I hope to someday reach the genius of Hyperbole and a Half, You’re Like Really Pretty and The Oatmeal, but for now I’m content recycling the best stories from this blog. Who’s up for buying the book?

October 3rd, 2011

Best Fall Ever 3: The Leaves a-turning

The leaves around Minneapolis are turning orange again and I actually bought a pea coat, this fall thing is mighty real.

Minneapolis Fall

Some of us are less amused than others.

Minneapolis Fall

Besides going to parties and cleaning up copious amounts of dog shit, the most exciting thing that happened this week was that I finally finished reading a novel!

I have not read an entire novel since the beginning of law school three years ago. And it’s not that I don’t read – I read more in the past three years than I did in the previous 21 – I just did not make time for fiction. Well no longer! I finished one novel this week and started another.

Okay, so it was a James Patterson book. WHATEVER. The page count was 464 and I’ll take my wins where I can. Who cares if the chapters are only 3 pages long? At least it didn’t have pictures…

And yes, the next book is by John Grisham. I’m slowly working my way back up to Dostoyevsky.

September 25th, 2011

Best Fall Ever 2: The Frump

Besides this week’s Microsoft Store drama, things were profoundly uneventful this week. I now know why middle aged people are fat – all I want to do after work is drive home, walk the dogs, eat fattening things, and go to bed. That’s all.

It’s terribly frumpy but I do not care.

On the weekends I want to stay home and watch more TV, eat fattening things, and play Civilization Vwhich is like an 8-hour version of Risk. That’s it.

I mean, I do go to things. Really. I do. I recently went to the MCAD gala, Jetset Bar and Katie Shoop‘s super fancy Playboy Club preview party at the W Hotel’s Prohibition Bar. Isn’t that enough? I showered, dressed up and smized! Can’t I be a sloth for the next month? I totally need to mop the floor of our apartment and do laundry. I’ll see you in Decemember.

I think my new apartment is the biggest factor in my newfound laziness because I have not lived in a nice place since high school. I stayed in claustrophobic cinderblock dorms throughout college, then a decrepit law school frat house and then a mouse infested apartment building. It’s easy to go out and be fabulous when your home is gross.

This is the first time that I feel comfortable lounging around a place in about 7 years. So please excuse my frump. It’s justified.

September 18th, 2011

Best Week Ever 1: Start of Fall

While some of my friends spent Saturday evening in the law library, I was at the MCAD gala drinking wine and watching the governor bid $11,000 for a painting of a girl swimming. Post-law school life is kinda awesome.

MCAD gala

The week was filled with less glitzy events like dog walks, work and three trips to the Microsoft Store. My new laptop starting having black-out seizures so I had to drop it off (again) for repairs. I picked my laptop up on Friday but didn’t unpack it until Saturday when I realized that they sent me home with the wrong power cord.

So I go to Mall of America to fetch my power cord. Not only is it a busy Saturday, but it is also the busiest day of ScrapFest, the frumpiest event in America. The entire mall is dominated by scrapbooking workshops and a hoard of soccer moms with Nancy Grace bobs. It is mighty intense.

MCAD gala

They probably think twitter and foursquare are intensely dorky, so I won’t give the Cheryls too hard of a time.

This week was also a great success because I made it to all of my weight training sessions at LA Fitness. I porked out a little during the weekend – something about a epic bar hopping night with James, Ben, Paul and Aaron – but that’s a first world problem isn’t it?