[an error occurred while processing this directive] 036 [an error occurred while processing this directive] 038 [an error occurred while processing this directive] Complex Conjugate Man: Irrational Crime [an error occurred while processing this directive] 037 [an error occurred while processing this directive] 12/17/06 [an error occurred while processing this directive] Well, finals are over. Officially, the semester has been finished for 34 hours now, and I'm already bored out of my mind. How I'll survive until the 10th, I know not. I'm sure I'll manage somehow.

In the news regarding the future of the comic, the plan will be as follows. Each Sunday for the next few weeks will consist of a new comic. Each Wednesday update will not be a new comic, but will rather be a reworking of the earliest comics. Many of these will just be redrawings, but there will likely be a fair number of rewordings as well.

Additionally, the bonus comic you all earned by voting through the month of November will be up next Friday. It's not a normal update day, so I'll make sure to remind you all again next Sunday. [an error occurred while processing this directive] 12/13/06 [an error occurred while processing this directive] It's been a 20 hour day so far, but I've finished two more final exams in it, as well as grading the final exams for another class. Just one last final in quantum mechanics on Friday, after which I will be able to once again think of more pleasant things. Things such as improving the webcomic, drawing new comics, fixing an as of yet undetermined number of broken, half assembled, or malfunctioning computers, and watching all 21 seasons of Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager. Just three more days. Until then, may those of you who are still students find the point at which the marginal costs and benefits of sleeping and studying are balanced, and those of you who are no longer students relish in the relative freedom you have from the tyranny of tests. [an error occurred while processing this directive] 12/10/06 [an error occurred while processing this directive] I don't think it needs to be said, but I'm going to say it anyway. Finals week sucks! It will all be over by Friday though, and then you'll have your normal happy, healthy, and geeky webcomic author back.

In the meantime, I want to point you all to a great game that goes by the name of N. I've been passing many hours procrastinating on studying with it. Check it out (but you should probably wait until after your finals, lest you get addicted.)

Finally, you are well on track to getting another bonus comic this month, so keep up the good work. I'm still working on this month bonus, and I suspect I'll have it just in time for it to be a Christmas present for ya'll.