what if the meanings change?

I don't like how out of whack my sleep schedule gets on the weekends. I predict a really tired Monday.

So my Saturday plans fell through, now I'm stuck with nothing to do on Halloween weekend. Have to make my own fun now.

Work goes fast, each task is so time consuming. Had some of the cheap Sammie sandwiches from Quiznos for lunch, pretty good for how cheap they were.

Rode home and started work on my hat. Rode back to school for movie night.

The first one, Red Angel, I had heard of. It was decent though the romance was really forced. At least she lived in the end. The second one, Alphaville, was a sci-fi without any sci-fi effects. Pretty neat but philosophical stuff got lost on me a little at times. The movies ran late so I pedaled back full speed to the dorms and Sean was already at my place hanging with Lindsay so we skipped off to 30 Days of Night with minimal dawdling.

30 Days of Night was awesome for the most part. A few lagging "okay, now what?" moments but overall a good Vampire flick. Josh Hartnett never interested me before I saw him in Sin City and now this movie. Yeah, hes sort of hot when hes dark.

James was also in attendance at 30 Days Of Night and we walked back together and traded off some comics. Transmetropolitan and Sin City mostly, and I got the rest of The Boys back from him and that's cool. I love The Boys, I don't know how popular it is but I really bonded with the story while waiting for it to start again. It is like, my little discovered prize that I put effort into loving.

Macho Adventures: Battlerama

Had such a good night sleep. Sooo goood. The neighbors alarm clock woke me up but it didn't wake him up for about a minute after going off. Ibanez cuddled with me all night long, he likes to lay under the bed sheets. What a sweety. He darted out of bed when Lindsay stopped by.

Yesterday was busy busy. Ish.

Made a color wheel in digital tools. It looks pretty good I guess, but the green looks sort of iffy. Oh well. Also doodled a color wheel on a certain someones Facebook during break. Probably will have to paint one in 2D design in a few.

In drawing, our model was Scott. He's the only male model I have ever worked with, I could paint him naked with my eyes closed. Left my sculpture of him at home with mum and dad and nate, he has a little spangle to cover up his shame.

Mollie revealed that she isn't planning on staying at PNCA past Foundation/Freshman year. Really big bummer.

Spent the last part of Drawing working on a single drawing. I'm not too fond of it as the head is way too small and its wonky in a few bits. But I can't say that in critique because people will always say the contrary. Scott is a good model, he needs to stretch half way through but he always returns exactly to where he was.

Female models always change behind the screen and never look at the drawings. Scott takes it off in front of us (in like 30 seconds, you blink and his clothes are off) and looks at the drawings (clothed) afterwards. I wonder why that is?

During the student council an MFA guy came in and said they had open seats for a trip to Seattle they were taking in a few weeks. Mollie wants to go so I might join her. I hope we won't go to the sculpture park. That sucks. It is a bunch of "do not touch" rich people's sculptures. Our student council made fun of their student council a little bit. Maybe that is why they don't want to join in our reihndeer games?

Rode home after drawing and did my laundry. Then at 6:00 I rode back to PNCA for the Comic Club, I arrived a little late but I brought cookies so all was good. We talked about how to do our Zine, what to name it and what to do. It all came down to drawing words out of a hat. Four our Zine we will be doing short two page comics about three things we drew out of a hat; two nouns and a situation. My short comic will be about an Arabian Dancing Girl with rubber cement is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Jim's is a repair man and God are trapped in an attic with a Wolverine. The attic with the Wolverine was my submission to the hat. Sean has my penguins with machete submission.

Then we tossed random words into a hat to come up with our zine title. We went from Shakespearian Macho Adventures Battlerama down to just Macho Adventures: Battlerama. MAB for short.

After that, Sean and I went to Powell's to kill time and hang out. Read some Darwin Awards and Post Secret then I rode my bike home and dropped it off and headed out again to meet Sean at the Broadway Metroplex to see 30 Days Of Night. Ran into Mike on the way there and he joined me in my walking. We got to the theatre and found out the late showing is only Friday, Saturday. Bugger! So we went to Panucci's and had some bread and I played Mike and Chess. His king took my king.

Lounged about on the internet and then snuggled into bed with Ibanez and slept oh so well.

upward facing trillian

Wow I'm tired, don't know why I am still up. Oh yeah, to blog.

Pretty good day, well except for one sad moment but it makes sense so I guess it isn't so sad just unfortunate? Ehh maybe not unfortunate. Anywhoo. What/who I am talking about is Megan; a lovely lady in all of my Monday/Wednesday classes has decided to withdraw from school. She is sticking in her printmaking class but she came to the revelation that school isn't for her and she would rather volunteer and get hands on experience than be here. Shes very self manageable so I have all faith in her that she can do it without PNCA. She has been lovely and kind and I will miss her, hope we stay in touch. She will still come for Time Arts as we are working on a project together and didn't want to ditch us. See, what a great person.

When people leave, I consider my own reasons for staying. Foundation year sometimes for me is really rudimentary and I have the "I know this, I don't want to do this" thoughts. I stick it out and go because I know that in the little ways these exercises and assignments are all the little bits I need to make my official work brilliant. I have faith that this work is fully helpful to me. Also, I don't have a solid direction so I hope being here will help in my full realization of where I want to go. I need training and discipline. Some people, like Megan, are fully capable and can do this thing on their own. I'm not so capable. Not that I am wholly incapable, but just in the fact I need this setting to help me prepare for what comes next.

I left early to pick up some more photo paper. I have more than I need now. I forgot a spare shirt so I was sweaty and unpleasant when I got to school.

I set up the darkroom today, other people were there but I think they had the mindset of "someone else will do it". Namely me. It isn't that it is hard (mix solutions, turn on safety light, turn on water, adjust water temp, wait for safety light to warm up, wipe down edge, shut door and turn off main light if safety light is warmed up) but they are just unwilling. Really, some things only get down because a person steps up and says "someone has to do this now and I will be that someone". The teacher gave us a really long lecture on how to make nice mats for our photos for extra credit. I didn't get my final print, but I'm close. Need to tweak it.

Lunch was Quiznos. The little munchy breakfast bar would not have been enough. Beef dip sandwich, mmmm!! Sat with Jim at what always astonishes me to be the long, largest table of people at lunch. Me, sitting with the crowd? What? Also sat and chatted with Michael who reminded me of the open figure drawing tonight (free for students).

It was sunny in the morning, but looking gray at lunch so I put my plastic bag over the seat.

Time Arts, not much got done. It was a lot of explanation of sound effects and Garage Band and also a tour of the sound room. We had our narration recorded and it should be easy going from there. Just have to time the clips to the audio and add in some background noise.

After that I went to the 3D building and saw a sign indicating me to go to room 110 for the free Yoga class instead. The instructor, Melanie, was one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen. Her dreads were epic and nicely balanced with cute baby bangs and soft curls framing her face. Her septum was pierced but in a way that was aesthetically pleasing and not rebellion based. Yoga was tough, lots of bending in ways I can't really bend. In one class I was able to touch my toes and that was fantastic.

Yoga, for me, is about getting the other part of exercise and athletics filled out. Biking is mostly cardio and leg strength, but it is just that. I get real sweaty and it gets me pumped for the day but it won't come close to working my whole body out. Yoga should provide some toning, flexibility and much needed balance. It won't be too hard to stay with it, sept next Wednesday is Halloween so I'll be missing Yoga then.

After that I dropped off all my stuff in my locker and grabbed my sketchbook and Stingray lunchbox and palette and went upstairs to open life drawing. I only stuck around for two poses as it is very cold to bike home and the longer I stayed the colder it would be (Michael offered me a lift but he has a small car and I don't think my bike would fit). I did something on my big sheet of paper but my two sketchbook pieces are the ones I really love. My Stingray box is my in-class ink box and it works perfectly. I did the first one with black ink and the second with blue and was amazed at how the blue turned out and managed. I think I'll break out the TRUE ink box and use all the colors of the rainbow. My sketchbook also has been a bit light lately so it really needed some artistic padding.

Biked home, it wasn't that chilly and my seat was perfectly dry after the late afternoon rain. Had some delicious macaroni and cheese and now I am ready to beddie bye.

real life, in 3-D!

Whoo saw Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D tonight! Yeaah, it was awesome. I was too young to see it in theatres so it was a double treat. The 3-D really made the animation pop. It has been a while since I have seen it, sucha beautiful treat to watch every time. Except for that time when I was a kid and mum got rid of VHS because she thought it was too creepy for us at the time. Which yeah, it sort of was. The songs are so amazing, the design, the color, the..everything! When Burton is smart he is a GENIUS.

Before the movie a theatre guy invited us (Brandon, Lindsay, Sean and I) to a secret sneak preview for an animated movie due to release in 2008. They didn't tell us what it is but I think we will still go and see it even if it turns out to be another piece of tripe like standard kids movies are these days. Well, I have a hope for what it might be.

Digital Tools was spent entirely in critique again. At least we all got fare time. Gordon really was nice about how I sort of missed the mark on the assignment. He really seemed like he didn't want to tell me I had done bad, just that I was off. It was really sweet. I was kind of wondering in my head, "does he think he is being mean? That is sooo cute!" I've had bad critiques. I respect Gordon so I respect his opinion.

We moved into ink and washs in drawing. Lots of fun! Had to buy a bamboo pen and rip a stick out of a poor tree. My final drawing, I think, turned out really well. Nice and loose but I still got all the areas I wanted.

I rode home during lunch to get my newsprint pad, some ink, and a palette. Ibanez and I had a power cuddle.

Another brilliant and beautiful day. Way way over dressed, but if I under dressed it would be cold and rainy so better safe than sick with a cold.

I love having no homework. Slack slack slack.

a shopping cart full of body parts

Slept in so much on Sunday. Didn't get much done and didn't sleep too well because of it. Got my last photos shot and read some Art History. Lindsay was nice and helpful for some of the photos.

Was awake for all of Art History; no where near nodding off. Have to make time to go to the museum and see a Greek vase and write about it. Maybe tomorrow? Oh wait, I'm seeing Nightmare Before Christmas 3D tomorrow. Well, maybe I could squeeze it in? Hmmmn.

Played around with graham crackers in the dark room but I decided to take off early and get my roll developed instead of wasting time and printing sheets. Good thing I left early because it took Fred Meyer ages to get my roll developed. I hate biking on Burnside, I don't like riding with civilians on the sidewalk but those drivers are just too nuts to drive with. They really need a Burnside bike lane. Got back and made two awesome prints. One you can identify an arm but the teacher said it was cool that way (hope she isn't setting a trap). I have a week to make one more print. It is good to be ahead. I need more printer paper though. Maybe I'll get it tomorrow. I did another of Lindsay just for fun. The lights and darks are really cool but it isn't flattering.

Time Arts was spent shooting our video. We got some weird looks. I was dressed up in "auntie" clothes, we had some mannequins, and other miscellaneous fun stuff. Not quite as noticeable as the group with the shopping cart full of mannequin parts but still weird enough. Hhaha. Fun to be an art student. We got it all done, despite problems with the battery (not charged, gee thanks last person to use it). I think it will come together...well.

Had a lot to lug back with me so it was slow going. Ate two servings of left overs. Burger meat, cheese and tater tots ALL IN ONE BOWL.

Wrote up my essay about Allan McCollum for class tomorrow. Now to read some textbookles.