Well…they did promise 🙂 I hope the Karen-fans amongst you enjoyed this page.
I’m sorry to say that there will be a week’s delay in the next Back Office coming out. This due to a whole load of last-minute commissions coming up, together with life in general, and prepping for Bata Neart – Chapter 6. I will try to pick the pace in the coming new year.
Sorry for the delay and I hope to see you back here on the Monday after next 🙂
I am enjoying this page now 🙂 I think I enjoyed it when it was posted as well, but somewhere in that November I had the extremely unsettling realisation that I had attended the last lecture in my studies (which wasn’t quite true, but could’ve been) and had no idea what the next chapter of my life looked like. I pushed on through December but then I was down and out. I was sort of back on track by, uh, August… I put my exam work together in the following year. But I still (that is like 1.4 years more on top of the exam work year) haven’t figured out what the next chapter is, and it is still eating me to the point where I’m struggling to keep it together. And just flat out don’t, some days. At least I’m back to where I can enjoy reading some nice comics 🙂
@O8h7w: I’m glad you are feeling better and can get back to enjoy the comics 🙂
If it’s any consolation I never know what my next chapter will be like, be it in comic of life. I kind of just flow with it. I’m not sure that is a good or bad way of doing things :/
Well, I’m now in what came to be the next chapter of my life. Further studies, to no surprise, but there was an unexpected transition from engineering to physics and there is now a growing realisation that maybe my main interest has shifted to computer science. So I’m doing my PhD in a subject that is not really my expertise or my main interest… which I would strongly advise against. It makes an already hard thing a lot harder.
And I’m already worrying about what to do next. Time seems to fly by ever faster, I have three or four years to figure it out and that now seems like a very tight schedule. I don’t know anything about “going with the flow”, but I can say this about the opposite approach that I take: it consumes lots and lots of time and brainpower. Sometimes results are good, sometimes they are not. Overall it seems to me that people who tend to just do things rather than dwell on them seem to get further in life in the same amount of time.
Yet, for me, it seems that I’m stuck with this inefficient and sometimes depression-inducing approach of thinking too much about things both before they happen and after. It is not rational, but I just can’t stand leaving things to chance, just as little as doing the same mistake twice. It is soooo fundamentally uncomfortable. I often wish it wasn’t – and sometimes, confusingly, it isn’t! I should really figure out how that happens, I could be a happier person if I could make that happen more often.
On a more positive note, I still enjoy this page 🙂