I just love this song, don't you? It's so dreamy.

I'm at my parents' house in Raleigh watching Twin Peaks DVDs I borrowed from my work in case of boredom. I am sick: a sore throat and a cough, slightly more tired than I usually am. It's the first I've been ill all semester. I'm amazed. My graduate school applications are not yet complete; I have done a good amount of work on my writing sample in particular, but it isn't finished. I have forty-nine days until my University of Maryland application is due. The time is Fall Break.

Failtober is in full swing. Today is the twentieth, which means there are eleven days until my favorite of all holidays: Halloween. I have my costume all worked out; bought the ears today. I'm going as Molly Sanders from Chris Onstad's Achewood (my favorite webcomic). This time is the first in a while I've wished I had a boyfriend, but I do, and I wish he were into Achewood and owned a short-sleeved white dress shirt and black tie. Roast Beef and Molly Kazenzakis would make an absolutely awesome set of costumes.

Molly is the most regular female character on Achewood. Unfortunately, Onstad has left Molly a mostly undeveloped character and uses most of her speaking opportunities in both the comic and Molly's personal blog to explore the personality of her now husband Roast Beef. I'm curious about Molly. I think there's more to her than her various unfulfilling jobs in food service and her relationship with Roast Beef. I know many women who are as wrapped up in their relationships as Onstad writes Molly. But any coding woman worth her programs wouldn't put up with having herself relegated to such a role.




Come on, Onstad. Molly can stay a small character, but don't make her all about Beef. She has enough interesting character attributes and possibilities. Let her explore them.