G’duh, I completely forgot to tell you about the funniest part of my day. I made myself a tshirt. 🙂 I didn’t actually make the shirt itself, I just embellished it. I added a clear vinyl pocket to the front, conveniently sized to the same measurements as a printed-out comic strip. Now I can change out comics depending on my mood. I wore it to that youth volunteer/mandatory thing tonight and it was a big hit, although there was one minor drawback. Since no one was really familiar with the comic I chose (Red Meat), a bunch of people ended up staring at my chest while they read the comic. I’m sure my face turned violently red a few times. It wasn’t bad when some of my girly friends read it, since they were just girls, but then the girls started laughing and the boys heard, which then lead to them wanting to know what the joke was. That wasn’t that embarassing until the local religious leader read the comic. It was entirely strange to have a man who’s in his late forties, a religious leader person, and a guy most people look up to, stand around and stare at my chest. I may have to rethink what I put in that little vinyl pocket, preferably replacing it with something that doesn’t take that long to read.
But I like the shirt itself. I’ve been wanting one for a while. I think tomorrow I may print out a picture of myself and put it in the pocket. It’ll be me wearing a picture of me. Hey, then I could take a picture of myself wearing the tshirt with the picture of me in it, and then it’d be like when you look into a mirror and see your reflection times infinity. It’d be an eternal shirt. (Which would be a great name for a band, by the way: Eternal Shirt.)
Tomorrow I also want to see if I can find a big strip of velcro so I can make a velcro shirt. It’ll have a long strip of fuzzy velcro across my chest, so I can change out letters and every day have a new message on my shirt. Alastair had one of those and I was going to buy one in Brighton, but with the exchange rate the shirt would have cost around $35. I figure I can buy my own shirt for $7, then add the velcro myself. It’ll take a little bit of effort to make the velcro alphabet, but I think I have time.
And the day after that, I’m starting Eternal Shirt. Hehe. 🙂