Why halloh, comrades.

As for Wardly updates, I have this to report:

1. Paintings-in-progress are humming along well, and I have a certain twinkle in the eye about an upcoming show. It’s been too long since I ruined some perfectly good apparel by sitting on a paint palette, so I’m lining up another exhibition for the next few months.

2. This has nothing to do with anything really, but I’ll use this blog as a confessional booth, of sorts: I just powered through a package of peanut M&Ms in less than six minutes while sitting at my desk and I offered not a one to any of my coworkers. They know where the vending machine is.

3. I have found the source of the rooster hooting in my neighborhood. For those who have followed my exasperated quest to locate my neighbor with the rooster and unceremoniously murder him (the neighbor, not the rooster), you may know that I have, on certain pre-dawn mornings, jutted my head out of every window to discern the direction of the 4 am squawking. Now that I have spied a chicken pen in the middle of my urban neighborhood, I fear that I lack the follow-through to actually commit a homicide. Perhaps a sharply worded letter. Sharply worded, but polite.

4. In other news, I’ve begun to do regular segments on LA news station KTLA. Generally, I talk of matters concerning my job as a Professional Leisurist. I’ll keep you posted on the next one, dears.

Issuing robust high fives,

Miss Alie Ward

Chief Curiologist

One more thing: Georgia and I crafted and consumed a culinary aberration called a McNuggetini, and the Huffington Post, ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com, DListed and some other folks on The Internets have apparently toasted the occasion. Clink.