Commission: Mark, to be done by May 10th

Sick and slept all day. My brain hurt and my eyes felt dry in their sockets when I woke up. Mark sent me a text: "Hey, you want to make 20 bucks?"

I figured it had something to do with a website or drawing. Texted him back to call and make it quick.

T____T He gave me a frrkkin' commission due by May 10th.

"If you do a really good job, I'll give you $40."

"I'm not thinking about the money, I'm thinking about my own ability. I haven't drawn in forever. I don't know if it'll be good."

"It better be good."

"When do you need it by?"

"May 10th, her birthday."

"Oh man."

"I kind of screwed you on the time frame, huh?"

"Pretty much. Well, I'll see what I can do."

The funny thing is that it's pretty much a commissioned déjà vu. It's for a female friend of his, but he gave me (what I feel like is) a different version of the exact same assignment he gave me to draw years ago. Except that drawing was with him and his ex wife. That drawing was embarrassingly bad. It's in the dark past now. Maybe this is a chance to redeem myself.

I didn't bring up the correlation because I didn't want to make him sad.