11 posts tagged “lists”
Thumb Up:
- Taking care of business. I've gotten most of the things I've needed to do done. Everything I need for tomorrow (which was a lot!) is ALL SET.
- So far, the new homeworks assigned this week are relatively easy.
- There is an apricot tree in the yard nextdoor and some of its branches hang over the wall into our porch area. The apricots are ripe and I've been eating a few every day. Picking a piece of fruit off a tree and eating it is a very satisfying thing.
- This week is getting closer to being over.
Thumbs Down:
- I did not get everything done and I feel guilty :(
- Tomorrow is going to be a horribly busy day. stressinnn.
- Dentist appointments! Aaaaaghhhhh. hate hate hate it.
- My bedroom is the biggest disaster. It was already an awful mess, and then yesterday I tore it apart like a crazy person searching for a piece of homework that I eventually remembered was actually in my car. Now it is straight up chaos.
- My alarm clock is busted and the fact that I need take time out of my day to drive into old town and buy another one pisses me off. This alarm clock was so cool, too. It allows you to set 2 different alarms, you can set them to go off on certain days of the week, it automatically adjusts itself in accordance with daylight savings time, it remembers your alarms even when it is unplugged, and when you set an alarm you are able to scroll through minutes forwards and backwards. Too bad its radio tuning and volume control goes insane after a year. Boo.
goods:
- Hello, Obama, our new president (practically)
- I learned how to make my own brushes in Illustrator. It's neat and promises to be a handy trick in the future.
- House Of Leaves grows increasingly amazing as I read it, despite the fact that its crazy density makes progress slow-going. It makes me want to use tons of footnotes in everyday writing. I will need to learn the key codes for typing little upper-corner numbers.
- I'm going to the gym again these days. I hadn't been to a challenging yoga class in a long, long time before the other day, and it was good to get that again.
- Oingo Boingo
- I feel much better about my revised art of research topic.
bads:
- ughh I've put off doing this digital illustration assignment and it is due tomorrow night and even though I've been working on it for a couple hours already (setting up brushes!) I practically haven't even started yet and it's going to take for-frikin-ever. eh I'm working on it.
- My BACK is SORE. (my NECK, my BOCK.). So are my sides. Caused by exercise/asking something of my sad, stiff muscles, and exacerbated by sitting hunched over for hours working on homeworks. Hurtin.
- I went to a step aerobics class (haha) and since the moves were so fast and so foreign to me I felt hilariously uncoordinated. This wasn't really "bad" and I wasn't actually very embarrassed about sucking at it because everyone else looked like just as big 'a clown as me, but there you go. It's going in the "bad" section because it made me sore.
- Odwalla bars are $1.95 at Art Center, in contrast to $1.00 at Vons. Fuck you, AC cafeteria jerks. For that and for having a fruit selection of the same 3 fruits every single day: apple, orange, banana. You get the fist.*
*jk the Art Center cafeteria is okay by me (aside from their insistence upon using styrofoam plates, bowls, cups, etc). They offer more vegan options than most chain restaurants, pricey though they may be.
Good:
-I cleaned the stove and it is no longer repulsive to behold
-I am sprouting quinoa and sesame seeds
Bad:
-A bit of sad news: Peder, my pet millipede, died. I feel really horribly awful about it. :( ...Poor little thing with her limp little body... she used to be alive.
Good! :
- My lunch! Let me show you it:
It consists of: quinoa, red lentils, black lentils, garbanzo beans, broccoli, white mushrooms, toasted sesame seeds, nori flakes, a little bit of ground flax, and a little bit of soy sauce. Yum. I am eating it as I type!
- I picked a topic for my Art of Research project! woo!
- Visiting friends tonight!
- Yesterday I learned how to use power tools. I now possess knowledge of how to use a band saw, a drill press, and a lathe. I am most excited about the lathe. It seems like my kind of tool. It and I have an understanding.
- Thomas and I will have been together for 2 years tomorrow. Pretty neat!
- I sort of hate to keep yanking things from Drawn!, but they featured another thing that I thought was really amazing and wanted to share. It's an animation made of paintings done on walls, graffiti style. It was done by an Italian street artist called Blu. Click here to watch it on his vimeo page. It is massively impressive.
Bad! :
- Working in the [um I don't know what it's called... the power tool room?] at school and inhaling large amounts of sawdust makes my nose all congested and dry. That is an especially bad thing for me because a dry inner-nose = nosebleed city. I woke up last night with a minor one. Maybe I should get some of that dumb nasal spray.
- While I will get to see Jeff and Ruth, I will not get to see Tommi, who will only be around during the time slot of my digital illustration class. :(
- Sunday was the stupidest driving day ever. I don't want to type out the whole thing, but just know that it sucked and that AAA is the Mario to my Princess Toadstool.
Neutral! :
- My hairs are getting long and I feel like I should cut them?
Good things!
- Body Worlds was amazing. The fetuses were definitely the strangest part, for me. It's amazing how even the
squiggly little 7-week-old wormy fetuses actually LOOK like Impossibly tiny humans, with their teeny little hands and fingers. They are so ugly and weird dude it's awesome. Among the other highlights: blood vessel configurations floating in space (as pictured to the right [more photos of these things can be found here), the thoracic and abdominal organs (especially the intestines. In person, they look much more like balloon animals than they do in illustrations), and the entire muscular system. The elaborately posed (mostly)intact bodies were all incredibly beautiful.
- Um I am still on break and it is still awesome.
- Check this shit out: illustrations by Emily Jo Cureton, based on words from crossword puzzles! It's basically the greatest idea ever and I'm really excited about them.
See the rest of them HERE.
(I found out about these, as well as the stop-motion movie I posted a few days ago, from the illustration blog Drawn!)
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Bad Things!
- Thomas might be allergic to Wednesday. (the cat).
- Gas prices.
- That is all.
Other!
- Pasadena just passed that law about smoking in public places. I will personally enjoy not encountering smoke as often, but I feel sort of bad for the smokers in my life.
The Bad:
- My laptop gets warm and makes my hands sweat as I type :(
- Fuckin essays
- Tap water as drinking water. ick.
- Lots of homework.
The Good:
- My birthday party was superfun / I am legal wooo!
- Even writing a long and painful research paper on him does not put a dent in my appreciation for Rene Magritte.
- Just one more week of the term! Then 3 weeks of sleeping-in. mmmm.
- My comp & painting teacher liked my late-night painting. (He's nice to us in that he doesn't give us grief for turning in still-wet oil paintings that were obviously done in the middle of the previous night)
- I finished my Magritte paper and handed it in on-time. Relief of reliefs.
- Modernism is over! It was a really interesting class, but I'm glad I don't have to go to it anymore. ?
- I registered for Summer classes. My schedule:
Tuesday:
art of research 12pm-3pm (NOT looking forward to this one. Pretty terrified, actually)
Wednesday:
history and principles of visual communication 12pm-3pm
digital illustration 7pm-10pm
Thursday:
sketching for illustration 8am-1pm
materials of art and design 2pm-7pm
Pretty good. Only one early class this time. But I want to take materials on Monday instead of Thursday because 2 studio classes in a row = scary, but I can't sign up for it at this moment in time because it is full. So I'm going to keep an eye on the school website and see if a seat opens up so I can make the switch. But if that doesn't happen for me, it'll be pretty cool not to have class on Monday. blah blah THIS IS SO INTERESTING TO YOU.
The Somewhere In-Between:
twizzlers (so good! but so bad! but so good!)
I made a list yesterday and everything, but couldn't post it because my internet was down most of the day. So here is the good and bad things list from yesterday, which I wrote on a sticky:
thumbs down:
- clogged toilets
- plungers that suck (or rather, don't suck, which is the problem)
- parking tickets
- dark red velcro does not appear to exist in the world
- the internet keeps breaking
- I have so much crap to do this week
- I'm pretty sire I left my phone in Lancaster on Sunday (shitdamn!)
thumbs up:
- emerging victorious from an epic battle with a clogged toilet
- I didn't really want to use velcro anyway
- the internet being broken encourages me to get things done in the real world
- ugly gooey non-solid self-healing lemon blueberry pie
- adjectives
- I hear it rumored that I've got a drawing up in the hallway at school
- the birthday is coming!
(I did indeed leave my phone in the 'caster, but I have it now because Thomas is a good man and retrieved it for me)
I really can't think of many negatives right now. That's pretty good.
bad:
- I felt like a jerk at the gas station
- I felt like a jerk in comp & painting
- I'm putting off doing drawing concepts homework right now because I don't have a good idea for what to do
good:
+ I finally went grocery shopping / I now own food items! (I gave in and went to the store after resorting to straight-up eating a can of black olives)
+ my dad just called to tell me that he fixed my bike! Huzzah!
+ the fine art gallery at school is incredibly awesome right now: the floor is covered in layers of bubble wrap (the big-bubble kind) and hanging from the ceiling is a chicken wire canopy full of REAL, EDIBLE COTTON CANDY. As you walk around inside (you have to crouch over, to walk beneath the cotton candy), bubbles pop under your feet (unless you stand very still and are pretty lightweight--it feels like walking on eggshells) and it sounds like gunfire. The ceiling lights shining through the cotton candy turn the atmosphere pink. It's wonderful. This has actually been up for a couple days now and the cotton candy has lost most of its spunk. It has drooped and solidified significantly, and now it looks like a pepto-bismal war zone.
+ I'm now qualified to use the laser cutting lab at school
+ 3 new netflix: No Country for Old Men, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ratatouille
negative
- being woken up multiple times before 8:00 am by the loud housemate
- knowing how much school work I need to get done before _:00 pm but insisting on internetting for just a little bit longer, regardless
- the stress and guilt that come with putting off responsibilities
- the fact that it costs over $15 to print one homework assignment
- people not calling me back
positive
+ weird dreams that I am able to remember all day
+ clean hair
+ swedish fish are vegan!
+ people laughing at my jokes
+ finishing homework
+ The Book of the New Sun; The Urth of the New Sun; Gene Wolfe!
+ finding a vox group about lists
school notes from one summer ago
pages with margins full of doodles
tests
homework
folders
scantrons
graduation letters
stacks of pay stubs
a few weeks worth of paychecks
bank statements
receipts
CDs
textbooks
index cards full of French
index cards full of math
birthday and graduation cards
union strike letters
credit card applications
crumpled grocery shopping lists
magazine page pieces cut out for collages that haven't happened yet
loose change
netflix sleeves
dirty clothes
clean clothes
packing leftovers
markers
pencils
bobby pins
