
The caption sums it up. Last week Billy brought homemade banana bread into work, and watching the hungry Spaeth-cadets attack it at break time was like watching a pack of lions attack an antelope carcass. But not in an icky way. A funny way.

No, this is not a sad drawing. This is actually about another work-inspired moment. I had spent all day painting faux marble on a deck with Amanda, and when I got to the subway I was relieved to get to sit down (ahhh...) and close my eyes for a few minutes. But once I closed my eyes, I saw those marble veins just clear as day! Nooo! It had been a long day indeed.

"You seem to have a lot of stuff going on in your head," he told me. I replied, "It's like there are all these projectors, playing different images all at the same time. It's hard for me to focus..." So this is what I saw in my head when I described this.

Here I'm cutting off my shadow, a la Peter Pan. But the shadow isn't mine, it's someone else. Attached to the soles of my feet.