Thinking about the storyboard as a form of illustrating my routine jolted me a little bit. I didn't think I'd ever been so good with routine until I tried to consider smaller routines within the day, not 1 solid routine throughout the day. Micro vs. macro.
My second problem was being able to construct some kind of story out of this. Superheroes? No, no superheroes in this one.
Rio might be a superhero, only in a surprising longevity...he'll be 15 soon. He's concerned with lack of adequate attention, but aren't all dogs a little worried about that? He's got the big eyes and old-man beard as evidence that he's a puppy forever, no matter how old he gets.
The story would have only been screen shots of me driving closer to my house, with speech/thought bubbles from Rio way off in the distance. Could do two perspectives, me coming from the street and him getting too excited about the wrong cars. (Could he look like a little yoda, sprawled in the sun, snoring away?) His little dog-spidey senses go off and he senses me coming. (Honestly it could be anyone, not just me. It's any car!)
He'll keep talking about something happening, something beginning, and by the time I pull into my driveway, he has an (exaggerated) pile of tennis balls ready to go.
My other idea was just cooking a pot of beans. I made them today and I kept thinking about how strong our senses can be for taking us way way back, and in specific, I'm talking about scents. So I took several little snapshots of a few things that went into the beans, and I was hoping the story might be about how cooking something I've been eating my whole life and getting it right for the first time can be really exciting, and for the thousandth time, I wish I'd known my Abuela in my twenties.
I knew it was right by the smell.
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