break?

sooooooooooo

today was my first day back at work! unfortunately, mom and i are scheduled for the same hours, which means i have to get up when she does to go in with her. i was up at 4 this morning. but, when mom was scraping the ice off the car i called anna to wish her a happy birthday. it was a weird message...

everyone i saw was all excited to see me and asked me about college. i saw najib, damean, jon, jon [lol], syeda, janeen, jaclyn, and yuri. and i get to see jt tomorrow! yay! and will too, i think... maybe...

crap, i have to write a proposal for mr obrien. we need to come up with a good purpose behind the duct-tape thing for them to let us do it, something besides "wow, that's cool!" but so far the deepest thing we've managed to come up with is "the artist herself is on display, she is the art" metaphorical bullshit that isn't very good. honestly, i really can't think of anything else... not good, cuz i can tell obrien kinda does like the idea. we even scoped out a better place and tested the duct tape and everything!

the christmas tree is already filled with presents. i know i got a dvd and a bunch of cds, but that's the only specifics i can work out... yesterday dad and matt and i went shopping for mom. and we went to panera bread, and i got a DELICIOUS bread bowl. and a d'peach mode jones soda. god, i love those things. the juice and the soup bread joy.

hmm, yeah.

i was just sitting here, thinking about what i could do online, and i remembered i hadn't updated this in a while. so i decided to.

my final grades are in. 3 c's, 2 a's and a b. my gpa is 2.78, which isn't too bad. the only real surprise was the b in time. i really didn't think i could get higher than a c, somehow... not even sure how i did that.

oh, speaking of just sitting online... i've been amusing myself with the joys of sapayne. and, after reading the 2 current stories as far as they've been written, reading 'snowflakes and embers', and re-reading 'heroes and ghosts' and 'the lies we tell,' i started to re-read 'btl: from the ashes,' only i started from, like, the middle. and i was reading this bit about toshi's granddad [human] working to during the plague, and it hit me: 'if i lie here' is a total precursor to 'btl'!! like, 100 years before it, but still! riley is one of the alphas, and the contruction company ranvier really is toshi's g-pa and the inkie communes are there being all awesome. and i was like 'sarah, i love you so much for this.' she must really like that universe if there are technically 3 stories written in it. it's pretty sweet, learning how the i/s guys came into being and all that stuff. i was pretty giddy for a bit there when i figured it out. and i wouldn't have if i hadn't gone back and read 'from the ashes' like i'm doing.

so, yeah...

oh, and anna and jenny have this strange fascination with cuttlefish...

eww, driving

so, i spent a lot of today driving. well, maybe not a lot, but more than usual.

i had to get up early to drive matt and dad to school and work so i could have the car. i got back around 8:30 and went back to sleep. it was nice.

course, the night before i was up till around 4... mom caught me still up at 3 when she brought a cat in to sleep with me. i told her i was going to bed then, but i just waited till she left before going back to what i was doing. which was reading this story on sapayne, which i haven't done in a while. somehow it's different now that i'm the one paying the monthly fee... which makes sense, i guess...

anyway, i watched the episode of house that was on tuesday when i did get up, and then it was time to get dressed and leave... for carver!!!

it's rainy and gross...

yasha and i met at carver for cafe. it's mediterranean week. he had a tasty looking shrimp wrap and i had pasta with pesto sause. very tasty. dessert was baklava, but not as good as mom makes it. of course.

we followed adashek to anatomy. on the way i was waylaid by stoll, who has really pretty curly hair now. she was excited as always, and it was nice. we darted in and ran to a table in the back to sit on. joseph was doing the potato and saltine test thing today, and we wanted to stick around for it. but there were other teachers to visit so we had to leave. we went to cook's, and found bri when we got there. cook was busy writing the last of his scholatic recommendations, so we couldn't stay for that long. then we found nate and followed him back to moore's class where yasha talked to her and i talked to nate. and then we went to the office and left a note for steele about the duct tape thing. yasha has to put together a nice email for her with pics and descriptions and stuff, and we're gonna try to get a meeting with her next friday to talk it out.

and then i drove home. i stopped at caribou on the way and got the best drink in the world, a turtle mocha. tasty.

i meant to get right into my drawing when i got back, but mom was in the family room and i didn't want to bother her or anything with the tv... so i ended up in my room, back on sapayne, until i had to go get dad.

and oh my god, that was the worst driving i've ever had to do. it's rainy and awful and dark out, and that was NOT fun. it's a good thing i'm so familiar with ward's chapel and berryman's and shit, otherwise that could've been very bad indeed.

so, having got nothing done on my drawing, i've got to finish it before, like, 3 tomorrow. hopefully val will be checking after that, or will check people and go back a bit later to check again, or something like that. cuz i've still got another 4-5 hours of work to do on that stupid thing before it's really finished and i can be happy with it.

wow, i haven't done a pic-a-day post her since thanksgiving. i've got a few more in the facebook album, but i've been slacking in the picture-taking over the past few days. ok, not since, like, thursday or friday.

my car. or, someone else's that looks like it...
'97 ford taurus station wagon, green-ish, over 160,000 miles.

break....

i'm a horrible person... i didn't update this all break... i did take pics, but i forgot saturday...

wednesday! in the midst of packing...

thursday! all dressed up for dinner

not sure what's up with this face...

uhh...

....

i think i was yawning...

ok, serious this time...

friday...

why does it get dark so early?!

today! yay! back in the dorm...

ok, so. thanksgiving. at the murphey's. mom made 2 pies, a cheesecake, cookies, whipped cream. pop-pop did the turkey and the gravy, lynne did everything else. after dinner we played trivial pursuit! but it was girls vs guys so my parents wouldn't be on the same team and kick everyone's ass... cuz they rule at trivial pursuit. and we played guitar hero on the wii. dad played! and once he stopped trying to play it like a real guitar he was pretty good. i'm actually better at it than the brother! i can play songs on medium, and he can't! i'm awesome!

ok, i need to finish unpacking all my stuff... laundry...

messing around

first things first...

today!

hair sticking out... needs to be washed...

I LOST MY MIND and explored what exactly picnik is...

these are the results... and they look pretty cool, i must say. i only took pics that had me in them, and i just made them look artsy not cutesy and dumb...

"she looks pissed"

"ecstacy"

"dance party"

"what a team"
[btw, this kinda looks like a movie still from the 70s or something]

"a conversation"

"GUUUIITTAARRHEERROOOOOoooo"

"tossed aside"

"inadequate and incapable"
[she's inadequate, i'm incapable]

"natural environment"

"addict"

"leaves"

"laughter"

"beaches"
[i really like this one. i think it's my favorite]

"anatomy lesson"
[THE. BEST. FUCKING. PICTURE. EVER. FOREVER.]

"delicious"

"rawr"

"food"

yeah, it's totally awesome. there's 45 pics in the album on facebook... i'm really lame...

anyway, i really need to go to bed. i'll give some actually relavent information about my life when i'm awake again. but i did have a nice long and entertaining conversation with shelley on facebook today. it was really nice.

chicken

we were eating chicken. and nicole is in our room. eating chicken. it was taaaaaasty chicken.

i've worked my way down to my boobs in my drawing! yay!

gravity

so, this is just to say i've taken the pic, as i'll be doing fun things later...

ETA
so, adventure to barnes and noble today. took the bus with angela and nathan. ate lunch at panera, and i had a FUCKING DELICIOUS bread bowl soup thing with cheddar broccoli. sooooo tasty. i got ces her gift, and i got fala's gift, and i got a book for myself. a giant one. that was $27.98 and was super discounted to $7. AND I WANTED IT! so i got it. we went to target and we went home.

and i got one of my 4 papers for my self-portrait done! the head and upper chest! and there were some sexy clavicles there.

sooo

today...

i was chewing gum...

i got kinda started on the giant self-portrait. i'm not gonna do the whole tearing it up thing cuz, during class discussion, it was brought up that would make it look surgical, i guess. and i wanted it to be smooth and perfect. so i'll be embroidering a background instead. oh god, sooooo much work! the final will be 22.75 x 66.5 inches, meaning the figure on it will be a little under lifesize. so far i've taken all my reference pics and started gridding the final paper. oh so much work ahead of me...

i've actually started my unit 3 paper. all of a paragraph and a sentence, but a start. yay...

yay! my ADD test is tomorrow! finally!! so happy that it's finally gotten to that point. i'll have time right after FI to get back to the dorm and put some stuff down and get my checkbook and go catch the bus. i can't wait to get this over with...

oh, and progress pics are over on the art blog....

as a random side note, jolt gum really does get me energized and a bit focused. which is great! meds in gum form!

i'm bad at this...

monday!

tuesday...

ho-hum

wednesday, in "winter" clothes

wednesday, normal

man, i keep forgetting to upload the pics here! i started a facebook album and you can flip through all the "official" pics to see how it's been going for the last 16 days. i'm still impressed with myself for only forgetting to take a picture on one day. i may not remember to upload the pics, but i at least take them.

i've decided/realized that it'll be easier to write the eleciton paper than it will be to write the unit 3 paper. it has to do with the amount of research and where it's coming from. simply, it's easier to find information on the environmental issues in this election than on cliques in other countries. unfortunately...

oh, i've gotten my last projects for both of my studio classes: a stop-animation in time and a larger than life size self portrait [conceptual or realistic] for surface. and i know what i'm doing for both as well. i'm taking parts of bodies that can look like faces: , , and making conversations and stuff for the stop animation. and for the self portrait i'm taking it upon myself to do a life size detailed pencil drawing in me in my underwear [and i'll actually look at myself, rather than just assuming like always], then tearing the drawings into medium pieces, sewing those back together and embroidering some sort of background. it's going to be intense. i'm going to try to get as much of the drawing done as possible before break so i can go get thread and embroidery floss when i'm home. oh god, so intense!

a whole mess of pics...

friday

what the fuck's up with me anyway?

i honestly have no idea...

I GOT DUCT TAPED TO A WALL ON FRIDAY! IT WAS PRETTY EPIC!!
[nicole's, laura's, more laura's]

saturday!

i'm a weirdo...

what was i still doing?

sunday... wow, my glasses are crooked... and my hair was sticking up funny...

vista... vid upload on fb, vcu page, itunes, notepad, desktop.

what i was doing at 10p:
facebook, skype with yasha, research, itunes

and at 10:10...
research, skype still, itunes

and at 10:34...
facebook, research, skype, itunes

and at 10:40. not sure why i was doing this...
youtube, dowloading the youtube, aim, skype, itunes, research?

i have to mail yasha his phone charger...

yeah... i'm pretty lame and cheap...