The Far Out There Staff Office Christmas Party – page 15
…aaaaaand here’s where things start to get a little confusing on my end. This is the final page that I’m queuing up on the night of Sunday, November 30th. It is NOT the last page that’s done at this point, though. I went ahead and finished the pages for the 23rd-25th, just to make sure I wouldn’t risk being stuck editing anything Christmas Eve night. HOWEVER, to avoid my losing the plot and forgetting what was going where, I’ve made a point to only LOAD these things in chronological order, meaning those finished pages will stay sitting on my computer until I finish the ones that go between them and where we’re at now. As I write this, page 16 is already two-thirds through editing, and the remaining six pages are already penciled. All things concidered, only having six pages left to finish at the start of December is pretty darn good, but is IS more of a variable than I’d like. Still, I’d LIKE to think that by the time anyone reads this, it’ll all be squared away already. Cross your fingers, everyone!
Also, I just want to state for the record that Mariska is NOT carrying a tray around to serve the other partygoers. That’s just how many drinks she normally has at once.
The person I have to assume is Emily, if only because I suspect that you wouldn’t call the near-certainly female character Arnold & the near-certainly male character Emily, looks a LOT like Patti. To the point where these two could be Layla’s cousins on her mother’s side.
…I have to presume that the Gomelsky Syndicate is an organisation made and run in part by the Lomax family that Patti was born into. And they’re probably about a third of the size they used to be due to Patti’s and Eric’s business.
LOL Their fashion isn’t great for making the gender of the wearer clear, is it? But yes, the tall one is Arnold.
Fun Fact: the names Arnold and Emily are references to Pink Floyd’s first two singles.
When I was a kid, I don’t think I had ever encountered eggnog in real life, only heard of it in fictional contexts, so I assumed it was some sort of inherently alcoholic beverage, like fermented eggs or something. I had to have been at least a teenager before figuring out that it actually wasn’t alcoholic.
Ya know, that’s a good point. People only working from pop cultural references probably WOULD assume the whole spiked eggnog phenomenon is more common in real life than it actually is. (I think I’ve only had eggnog with the hard stuff in it, like, twice in my life)