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Early September Sketches Early September 2012 sketches / (holding my pencil correctly!)
http://actionathena.com/2012/09/07/early-september-sketches/
Here's An Oldie For Ya [[Athena thinks to herself while riding a bus in the Pioneer Valley.]] / Here I am, I'm back here, how funny. / Goodness how I enjoy these buses. / As usual, I'm looking forward to the academic part. / I just hope I'm not too lonely this time.
http://actionathena.com/2012/09/10/heres-an-oldie-for-ya/
Uncommon Grounds and New Territory Uncommon Grounds / some memories of my first job in Minneapolis
http://actionathena.com/2012/09/12/uncommon-grounds-and-new-territory/
A Few Words About Autobio Comics [[A girl drawing comics at a desk looks on while a bunch of superheros read aloud from a book of autobio comix and laugh at it.]] / Superhero Dudes: HA HA HA
http://actionathena.com/2012/10/03/a-few-words-about-autobio-comics/
Unreasonable Wants ATHENA'S UNREASONABLE WANTS: / 1. [[a new laptop]] / 2. [[a bigger flash drive]] / 3. [[a 2012 monthly planner]] / 4. [[new running shoes]] / 5. [[a new iPod and/or headphones]] / 6. [[a hair trim]]
http://actionathena.com/2012/10/29/unreasonable-wants/
 
Smack Madness 2 Are Northfield's young heroin users just bad apples? Hardly. Many are "alpha" kids--top students and popular athletes who are spreading the habit to neighbors and friends.* / Just Another Example of: Northfield's Smack Madness** / * Katherine Kersten, a fair and balanced Star Tribune news source! / ** A slang word for heroin!
http://actionathena.com/2008/03/21/smack-madness-2/
Smack Madness 3 Did You Know: Kids have roamed through the dorms at Carleton and St Olaf colleges grabbing laptops and cell phones to sell. They have even invaded hospitals in Rochester, soliciting patients for OxyCotin.* / Just Another Example of: Northfield's Smack Madness** / * Katherine Kersten, a fair and balanced Star Tribune news source! / ** A slang word for heroin!
http://actionathena.com/2008/03/22/smack-madness-3/
The Other Girls 1 The OTHER Girls / Guinevere / Morgan Le Fay: psh.
http://actionathena.com/2008/05/03/the-other-girls-1/
The Other Girls 2 The OTHER Girls / Virgin/Mary, Jesus' Mom / Whore/Mary Magdelene: Jesus Christ.
http://actionathena.com/2008/05/05/the-other-girls-2/
The Other Girls 3 The OTHER Girls / Snow White / The Evil Stepmother: Gimme a break.
http://actionathena.com/2008/05/18/the-other-girls-3/
 
The Other Girls 4 The OTHER Girls / Sandy / Rizzo: What a flake.
http://actionathena.com/2008/05/19/the-other-girls-4/
Sex and the City the Movie, You Broke My Heart (Pt 1) Rich Moments. (Why "Sex and the City: The Movie" sucked balls. Part 1.) / Jennifer Hudson (aka Louise, aka Carrie's black servant) looks longingly at one of Carrie's 100+ pairs of shoes and says: / Louise: For a pair of these, I could move! / So why doesn't Carrie just give her the shoes? / To make up for it, Carrie later gives Louise a hideous purse. / Louise is so grateful! Aw, with her owning one purse, and Carrie owning a bajillion, it's almost as if they were equal! / After attending a fashion show, Samantha's enormous white fur coat is splattered with red paint by animal rights activists. Samantha laughs it off. After all, we know the activists are just crazy: they're old, ugly, and wear boring clothes! / Carrie knows it's meant to be with Big when he buys her a gargantuan apartment. / Big: I got it. / And then to seal the deal, Big pays to have a walk-in closet put in. / Carrie insists she wants a simple wedding...but a white dress the size of a small planet convinces her otherwise! / To prove she is thoroughly over Big after he backs out of their wedding, Carrie DRAMATICALLY TOSSES her cell phone into the ocean. / (When she gets back to New York, she just buys a new one.) / Then, to further prove she is over Big and an all-around mature forty-something woman, Carrie redecorates her entire apartment, changing the color scheme from pink to blue!
http://actionathena.com/2008/06/30/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-you-broke-my-heart-pt-1/
Sex and the City the Movie, You Broke My Heart (Pt 2) Man Moments. (Why "Sex and the City: The Movie" sucked balls. Part 2.) / Louise clarifies exactly why all these women have come to New York. For career? Travel? Culture? Nah. / Louise: I moved to New York to fall in love! / But then she just gets hitched to some dude in St Louis anyway. As long as she's married, I guess! / Samantha covers herself in homemade sushi for a Valentine's surprise...but then her man doesn't come home for hours. / We never do see Samantha have sex in this movie. Instead, we see her get fat, and buy a tiny dog. / At least Big has a good excuse for backing out of the wedding. It's because, ah...because he can't see Carrie's face through her veil, and, um, she won't pick up her phone. / It's like some snazzy Shakespearean comedy of errors thing. Except not. / Finally Carrie picks up her phone and Big tells her it's off. In DRAMATIC SLOW-MO we watch the phone drop from her hand and fall to the ground. Oh, is it ever a moment. / Hey, but what about Charlotte and Miranda? They were both dating nice dudes at the end of the series. Yes. Yes they were. But for some reason Harry is like not even IN the movie, and Steve's there just long enough to cheat on Miranda. / Back to Carrie stuff, then! Big has some very odd eye make-up/lift going on in this movie. / At least Big does something original and meaningful to get Carrie back, right? Um...well, he emails her a bunch of old love poems written by other people. And then sends a two-sentence apology email. Yeah, I guess that's enough. / The most romantic line in movie history? / Carrie: It wasn't logic, it was love!
http://actionathena.com/2008/07/02/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-you-broke-my-heart-pt-2/
Sex and the City the Movie, You Broke My Heart (Pt 3) The movie lacks the fun club scenes of the show. But there's still a LOT of drinking. Drinking - club atmosphere = really depressing. / The music! It's bipolar. A perfect example of the movie's uncertainty as to whom it was catering toward. The ads played up the "Now we're old!" angle but the music screamed "Fergie!" / Then there's this weird bit where "Auld Lang Syne" plays. / The night before Carrie's wedding, she has a SLEEPOVER. And Charlotte's daughter attends! Six-year-olds, sleepovers...aaaand 40-somethings with martinis. Again, exactly what age demographic were they going for? / Playing up to some great stereotypes, Charlotte refuses to eat or drink anything in Mexico. But when she accidentally swallows some water in the shower...she gets massive diarrhea! It's hilarious! Diarrhea! Poop joke! Get it? / OMG POOP IN PANTS! / There's an AWFUL montage in the beginning. To "catch up" the uninitiated to the story (as if anyone who hadn't seen the show would see the movie), they use hideous girly graphics and just plain lousy editing. / And I'm still not over this one: Samantha gets FAT? Samantha gets a DOG?! That dog is the most sexual being in the movie! To all the ladies out there: sluts like Samantha Jones just get fat and buy tiny dogs. / Samantha: Don't make my mistake, girls! Save yourselves for marriage! / The last episode of the series prominently featured Carrie's "Carrie" necklace. It was a good symbol: it stood for her faithfulness to herself. The movie features a similar gold charm--but this one says "Love." In a nutshell: the series was about independence, the movie's about marriage. / The show ended perfectly! BEAUTIFULLY! What was left to wrap up? This movie is just fanfiction. / (Geez, what does that make this whining tirade?)
http://actionathena.com/2008/07/04/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-you-broke-my-heart-pt-3/
Bully! Number 1 BULLY! / Or: why my childhood was hilarious! / [[Younger Athena is writing in her journal.]] / Today some kids on the bus teased me (the same ones who called me a dog). They teased me and tried to read you (journal) and then told this dumb girl named Eva to sit with me and when she did she was really weird and now she thinks I'm her friend! / (Monday, April 27, 1998)
http://actionathena.com/2008/08/11/bully-number-1/
 
Bully! Number 2 Everyone had a grade school bully. Mine's name was MEGAN. / Remember Gelly Roll pens? Once I brought a brand new gold one to school. Megan asked to see it, then handed me back her used-up gold one. / I didn't say anything but went home all sad. My mom wheedled the story out of me, then called my teacher who made Megan trade back. / Athena: thanks. / Once, standing behind me in choir, Megan reached and rubbed her hand on my head, then smelled it. / Megan: Ew! When did you last shower? / Athena: Last night. / Megan: You should shower every morning. / The worst thing happened on the playground one day. / Megan: Go away! You're not even invited! / [[Megan and another girl are looking at SECRET INVITATIONS.]] / Apparently Megan was having a party, and every little girl in the class could go but me. / But I did go. Accidentally. / Mom: Who wants to go to Saturday swim at the pool? / Phoebe: I do! / Athena: I do! / Megan's Mom: Who wants birthday cake? / All the girls in my class: I do! I do! / [[Athena floats uncomfortably at the other end of the pool.]]
http://actionathena.com/2008/08/13/bully-number-2/
Bully! Number 3 So I have dark brown hair. Everywhere. In 3rd grade as we cut out pictures for an art project, this jerk kid turned to me and said: / Jerk: Woah! Your arm hair is SO DARK! You have GORILLA ARMS! / Jerk: Check out her gross GORILLA ARMS! / Another good hair moment is this one from 6th grade math class: / Jerk Girl: GASP! / Jerk Girl: Omigod. That GIRL doesn't SHAVE her LEGS.
http://actionathena.com/2008/08/15/bully-number-3/
Bully! Number 4 My high school boyfriend could not keep secrets. He loved hearing gossip, but inevitably passed it along to those who weren't supposed to hear it. / Athena: gasp! / On a field trip bus senior year, he sat behind some jock types from our grade. / Sam {{thinking}}: kettlebells. / One of them, John Murray, said: / I HATE that girl Athena. She's such a BITCH. / (No, there were not any other Athenas.) / Naturally, Boyfriend immediately passed this information along to me. / Athena: ... / I was stunned. I couldn't remember a single instance in my life when I might have spoken to John Murray. / Athena: ? / I was surprised the kid knew my NAME, let alone harbored such strong feelings about me. / Maybe I'd talked a lot in a class we had together? Maybe he just thought I was ugly? / I don't think of this moment often, but when I do, it's one of those rare memories that still has the ability to make me feel like complete shit.
http://actionathena.com/2008/08/18/bully-number-4/
Bully! Number 5 Senior year of high school, my boyfriend, (actually, he was an "Ex" by then) went on a class trip to Peru. / While there, he sat and listened while two classmates rated our entire grade, on a scale of 1-10, on level of attractiveness. / Girl: 5? / Boy: No, 4. 4. / Naturally, though sworn to secrecy, he told all of us our ratings as soon as he got back. / Ex Boyfriend: 4. 4. 6 1/2. 6 1/2, 7 on a good day. / Athena: Wh--what was G? / Ex Boyfriend: 7. 6 when she opens her mouth. / Athena: What were YOU? / Ex Boyfriend: An 8. / Only one boy and one girl recieved 9s. No one was a 10. So an 8 was quite something. / Dear Readers, Never Forget: 6 1/2, 7 on a good day!
http://actionathena.com/2008/08/21/bully-number-5/
Bully! Number 6 My sophomore history class was pretty awful. All the burnouts somehow ended up in the same hour. / Kid's Notebook: FU Neubel. / For one assignment, we had to be videotaped as we presented group projects. / Afterwards we watched the footage together. (WTF was the point of that?) / I was my group's narrator, so I talked a lot. / The girl doing camerawork was extremely awkward (and thus heavily teased). / She also wasn't much good at cinematography. / As we watched my group's presentation on the TV, the camera kept zooming in and out on my dorky, pimpled, bespectacled face. / (Outgrown short haircut. Basically a mullet.) / Everyone started laughing. My face turned bright red. Awkward Girl got all upset and shouted: / STOP LAUGHING AT ME! / Suddenly, I just felt really pissed. I turned around and said very loudly: / They're not laughing at YOU, they're laughing at ME. / I'll tell you what, there was a really awkward silence after that.
http://actionathena.com/2008/08/22/bully-number-6/
 
Smite Pt 1 SMITE / By Athena Currier / If I hadn't worked late in the media basement... / Athena: and then you hit ctrl-v... / Athena [[thinking]]: wow, somebody actually thinks i know shit about FinalCut! Sweet! / ...I wouldn't have been hungry... / If I hadn't been hungry, I wouldn't have remember the organic stuffed grape leaves... / If I hadn't bought those leaves, I wouldn't have needed a can opener... / [[Can opener device snaps off.]] / Athena: wtf. / Athena: Damn you, easy-open lid! Damn you to HELL. Aw, now I've gotta go back downstairs lookin' all stupid in my PAJAMAS. / And if I hadn't gone to get the can opener... / ...Well. / [[Door is locked.]] / * NOT supposed to lock automatically! / Simone: You can sleep on my floor! / Athena: Yeah, but I have a final presentation tomorrow--I really need my room... / Athena [[thinking]]: organic stuffed grape leaves. / If my roommate didn't have a hot girlfriend... / Athena: keys? / I wouldn't have had to bother him post-coitus... / Athena: You want...me...to come get them? / Athena's Roommate: Yeah, I don't feel like putting clothes back on. / Athena: Should I meet you downstairs, or--? / Athena's Roommate: No, meet me--we're in Kate's room. / ...And that really would've made the whole thing less drawn-out and embarrassing.
http://actionathena.com/2008/10/15/smite-pt-1/
Smite Pt 2 [[Athena tromps through the snow.]] / Athena: Hi. / Athena's Roommate: Hi. Could you bring them back afterward? / [[Athena tromps through the snow in the opposite direction.]] / [[Athena unlocks her door.]] / [[Athena tromps through the snow once more.]] / [[Athena throws the keys at her roommate.]] / Athena's Roommate: Hey! Kate--I mean, Athena, what's the matter? / [[Athena runs back through the snow.]] / Athena {{cold}}: Nights, guys. / Sam and Andy: Night! / Athena: sulk. / Athena: sniff. not hungry. / Athena: sigh... / NOTE: If it were a movie, I would not have eaten the grape leaves. / (they were delicious!)
http://actionathena.com/2008/10/17/smite-pt-2/
William & Sam: Pt 1 William: It was so hot-- / Sam Twito: With 2 ts or 1? / William: Um, actually, h-a-w-t. / Sam: Not h-a-u-g-h-t? / William: No.
http://actionathena.com/2009/01/07/william-sam-pt-1/
William & Sam: Pt 2 William: Remember when you gave that A.P. History presentation with all the pictures of naked men? / Sam: MONKS. They were naked MONKS. / William: They had weights hanging from their scrotums! / Sam: There were only 2 pictures like that! / ...
http://actionathena.com/2009/01/09/william-sam-pt-2/
Minnipeg Part 1 Phoebe: I need more things to do in the car. / Athena: I'M bringing a book, notebook, and iPod. Did YOU charge your iPod? / Phoebe: NO. / Ross Currier: I'm bringing my harmonica! / Phoebe: If you play that in the car, I will stop, buy a gun, and kill you. I'm not even kidding. / [[Dad stares at Phoebe. Then turns and walks away, looking miffed.]] / Athena: That's another thing to add to your hate list--harmonicas. / Phoebe: Only when Dad plays them. No! When EITHER parent plays them. Because with Dad it's like, "Why the fuck are you doing that." And Mom just does it to piss off the dog.
http://actionathena.com/2009/07/27/minnipeg-pt-1/
 
Minnipeg Part 2 [[Minneapolis skyline.]] / Athena: I think these buildings make a nice skyline. / Phoebe: Yeah. Where are we? / Athena: Ha! Phoebe! MINNEAPOLIS. / Phoebe: Oh. Really? / Ross Currier: We've been on the road for 45 minutes! / Phoebe: It feels a lot longer.
http://actionathena.com/2009/07/29/minnipeg-part-2/
Minnipeg Part 3 Phoebe: Y'know, I never minded that we brought homemade lunches to school. School lunches are gross. / Athena: Except the school pizza. That was SUCH. GOOD. PIZZA. / Phoebe: Ew! That pizza was disgusting! / Athena: I could eat it EVERY DAY. / Ross Currier: I liked it too. / Athena: That, and the nachos. With that cheese dip? / Phoebe: Ew, GROSS!
http://actionathena.com/2009/07/31/minnipeg-part-3/
Minnipeg Part 4 Athena: Oh LOOK, they have CHEESE DIP! / Phoebe: Great... / Athena: I want it. / Phoebe: No you don't. / Athena: Yes. I really do. Look how many kinds! Mom, can I get cheese dip? / Sarah Currier: You actually want that? All right... Phoebe, what do you want? / Phoebe: Uh...something chocolate... / Phoebe: umm...uh... / Sarah Currier: Hurry up. Here--here's a Reese's something. That's one you like.
http://actionathena.com/2009/08/03/minnipeg-part-4/
Minnipeg Part 5 Phoebe: What did she name the baby? / Sarah Currier: I don't remember. It was a normal name, but an okay one. / [[Athena looks out the window, smiling absently.]] / Athena: When I was a kid, I used to like the name LAURA. / Phoebe and Athena: HAHAHAHA / Sarah Currier: What's wrong with Laura? / Athena: snrk / Phoebe and Athena: HAHAHA
http://actionathena.com/2009/08/05/minnipeg-part-5/
Minnipeg Part 6 [[Athena and Phoebe walk around the side of a Pump N' Munch gas station.]] / Phoebe: No, I don't want to go into the bathroom together. / Athena: FINE. / [[Athena waits outside the bathroom, pissed off.]] / Phoebe: Okay, your turn. / Athena: Okay, you can hold the key. / Phoebe: Yep. / [[Phoebe waits outside the bathroom with an evil grin.]] / Phoebe [[pulling open the door]]: But LOOK, HA HA HA! / Athena: PHOEBE, GODDAMNIT!
http://actionathena.com/2009/08/07/minnipeg-part-6/
 

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