going out and staying in and standing in the door way

Bekka stayed the night and we both slept in till 11. Luna traded beds quite often. What a loving little kitty. We woke up with green tea and oatmeal and The Tick. I walked her to the Max and hugged her goodbye and quickly showered up.

The RA's were having a little food party with burgers and hot dogs and chips. Charades were also to be had for awesome prizes. I woke one of those elongated forks that you can use to steal other people's food. There were Da Vinci, Van Gogh, and Blackbeard toys but I really wanted that fork. Whooo!! There was a fair number of people around and coming in and out. I talked with Junko a little bit. My Japanese is horrible but it might be good practice to converse with her. Well it would be good practice.

My birthday was fun.

Today, well rather tonight, Jason and I are going to the Rose City Rollers to see some roller derby. It is a long way out and I don't know when I'll be back so I'm just putting this up now. I feel bad when I miss a post.

shindiggies

Whoo! Birthday Shindig was a huge success in my book. I got a late start but everything came together with plenty of time to spare. Ate breakfast, ate lunch, went to Safeway. I bought some more sake (cheap but good and cozy) and I wasn't carded. I had my passport out, ready to show him but I guess he didn't need to see it. Noticed I was ready to provide proof. Anyway, got my feeding friends supplies so it was time to prepare!

After cleaning!

And dishes!

I got it all tidied up in less time than I expected. I made the gluten free brownies first. Bought the mix because Diana is intolerant to the stuff. I think it turned out right. It was edible so I guess it was supposed to fall apart like that. I made a batch of chocolate fudge cupcakes. I bought the icing and had left over sprinkles so I went with last years decorating choice of letting my guests make their own. Everything was set out and ready to go! So I put on A Very Long Engagement and waited for people to show up.

Bekka and Madeline came together and it was awesome. We put on Fifth Element and got settled. Kristen and Chelsey followed soon after. Amanda was next and a little later came Karen, Robin, and Diana. We all managed to seat ourselves comfortably and the movie was highly enjoyable. Fifth Element is a lovely movie to watch with a group. Fast paced, easy to follow, and plenty of laughs abound. The cupcakes were devoured, cheese puffs were consumed, laughs were had. After the movie Kristen and Chelsey left. The remaining ones gathered in a circle and we played Uno with the new sleek cards that I got for my birthday. I can't quite remember who won but it wasn't me. I think Amanda won the second turn. Hmmn. It was really fun. Uno can go for so long. Diana and Karen skipped out to do some RA stuff. I set us up with Wario Ware and Mario Kart. I made some tea, brought out the sorbet, and tried to be the best hostess I could be. Could have been better but oh well. Karen brought a vegetable platter so there was a little balance to the sweets. There were a lot of sweets. After the games, Diana left and Adam showed up. I set up my speakers and computer and put on The Fall for the remaining crew. The sound went in and out on my horrible speakers but the gist of movie was caught. Anyway, The Fall isn't watched for the sound anyway. Lovely!

I had a wonderful birthday. Lots of people showed up, sweets were consumed, and I had fun. It was nice. Bekka is staying over because she takes the Max to Hillsboro. We are chatting while I blog.

pool and probability

Katie and I arrived at the theatre to find that JCVD was only playing late on the weekends. What a bummer! We ended up going to Momo's instead. There was a large enough amount of people that it didn't feel odd being there on a Wednesday night, but it wasn't so full that I was uncomfortable. Katie bought us a matching set of Long Island Iced Tea and we set in on them at a center booth. As I finished, one of the cute pool playing boys asked us to join them. We did. There were two of them, tall shaved head Jeff and shorter short haired Mikey. Jeff bought me a Kamikaze and Mikey bought me a White Russian. My drinks were spaced fairly evenly through the hours so I didn't PARTY HAAARDDYYY. Not my thing anyway. I was out to have some fun, and I did. We played some pool (Mikey was on my team, we won the first game and Jeff and Katie won the next). I sunk a few in. I hit my finger on the table and a chunk of skin came off. It sorta hurt but oh well. Jeff took an interest in Katie. Mikey held his interest in pool, which is fine because I still have my interest in that curled haired computer science major named Jason. We talked about which dinosaur we would want to be, school, art, and other things. We left at around 1:30am. It was a lovely little birthday all around, even though we didn't see JCVD.

Thank whatever that my class was at 9:30. I was still tired and drifted off a little bit but I think I understood the probability explanations. The homework wasn't due but I have it done. So I'm ahead in this one class! Hurray, what good news. After class, Robin was caught by the teacher griping about the pace. She is a smartie so artists math is a little easy for her.

I wasn't feeling up to riding home and back again so I took a nap in the library. Jen, Robin, Karen and I all commandeered the couches and poured over the artbooks. One by one they left and I was left to doze. Another girl took the other couch indicating that my idea was a good one. Eventually Karen returned and she escorted me to Quiznos. I devoured my sandwich while reading Terry's very personal zine. Terry rocks. He is working on an awesome Pushing Daisies piece.

Digital Painting was productive. Some of the little techniques went by a little quick for my learning but I picked them up well enough. We worked with overlaying things and transforming objects to look like they are on a curve. It was very educational but hard to follow. Like, you are doing it at the same time and all of a sudden the rest of the instructions have passed in a blink. It was a quick little class. I can't wait to get into the bigger projects.

On the way home, I got some stuff for my birthday shindig tomorrow from Trader Joe's. Picked up some gluten free brownie mix so Diana won't miss out on the sweets tomorrow. I love Trader Joe's. Picked up a lot of little things.

Karen, Robin, and Diana all stopped by for House. Karen and I watched more episodes. I think we watched three. Wonderful show. I really need to watch more of the second season. Tomorrow is my shindig! Have to bake and clean and clean some more even though it won't be enough.

21 on the 21st, my Golden Birthday

Last night (or rather this morning) was very fun! The sake was thoroughly enjoyed by me and the movie was hilarious because of it. It was shot all in sepia tone and had a long sequence with hopping Roman gladiators. It was bad bad bad but it was fun. And I had a pretty good sleep and no issues with getting up.

Graphic Novel is as was said. August, Lacey, and Maddison are in my class. It will be focused on one project with some deadlines. Most of the stuff will be due pre-finals in time for Stumptown. I think I might try and do a series of chapters, that way I can finish as many as I have time for and not rush a huge project.

I stopped by Office Max to pick up some notebooks, envelopes, and mechanical pencils.

For a little while, all the printmaking classes grouped together and they chatted about the department. I gave an invite to Madeline for my birthday. Then the two classes split up. My woodblock and screen class has Patrick (the one who I told off a year ago, he seems to be a lot more focused and joyful so I'm down with that), Phil, Diana, Devin, and Junko. A few others I recognize but don't know right now are there as well. It seems like it will be good.

For lunch Karen peer pressured me into going to On Deck, a sports bar a block from the school. We shared an order of onion rings and we each had a lovely pale ale to accompany it. Diana watched us drink. It was a nice cozy rozy little lunch (we have an hour at school to eat). Some people came in to sell us woodblock tools, I am sharing with Karen so I just bought some wood and a small u carver. Most of class was spent discussing what editions meant and what the assignments will be like. No tutorial yet but next week it seems like we shall be hardcore into it. The design for the woodblock is due then and we will start carving.

Rode home and took it easy. Karen stopped by for an episode of House. I ate some pizza. I got my box from home! My birthday box! I got the Leyendecker book, the Juxtapoz Illustration book, Bangkok Haunts, Stardust dvd, some new cons, some card games, and gummy worms and some other wonderful stuff. It was a big box of spoiled Trillian.

Now Katie and I are going out to see JCVD and drink a little.

Happy birthday to me! 21! The time goes by so fast.

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School has started. Math used the whole class. We introduced ourselves and made sure to talk about something interesting. Jen, Karen, and Robin are in my class. It is the Rubik's cube class. We have homework. I was quick to call Jason for help after class. I think it will be cool. It is artists math after all. We did a quick survey to find out the probability of having two people with the same birthday in our class. No one had the same birthday but there were about 5 clusters that were really close.

9:30 is a much nicer class period to attend.

I worked on my homework in the library and checked out some movies. I talked to Gordon in the commons for about an hour. Chatted about fiction and nonfiction, I suggested some comics, talked about projects. He has nice, new glasses.

I rode home. Didn't feel like sticking around. Watched Daily Show. Relaxed.

Painting Techniques was introductions and some Googling and suggestions of artists. cool site, like youtube for images: http://ffffound.com Bryan, Erin, Lee, James (who got a free tattoo recently), Terry, Nathalie, Karen, Jen, and a few cool others are in the class. We let out early.

I called Jason for some more math help. Karen came over for House. The projector draws a big crowd. Karen, Adam, and I went to Safeway at 12:45am to utilize my 21 status. Now I shall drink sake and watch a movie with the crew. Tomorrow I am going with Katie to Living Room Theatres to watch JCVD (it is a fancy bar theatre). Yay!

Bacon Man!!

There was sleeping in and no going out this morning. I brewed up a pot of Billy Tea and all too soon it was time to stroll to the station. With an hours worth of time to do it, Llyw and I opted out of taking the streetcar or max. A guy was yelling at the Safeway cops. It was a lovely little visit but it ended all too soon.

I didn't feel like heading back to my place so I called Jen to find out if she wanted to catch the 2:15 matinee of The Wrestler at Cinema 21. I read Alex Garland's Coma while waiting outside the theatre for her. It is a brilliant day, not too chilly to get nippy and not too hot to overheat. With much time to spare, Jen and I went to the Blue Moon cafe for lunch. I had a root beer and a cheeseburger with tater tots. It was the perfect portion of food. The Wrestler was good. The character interaction seemed very real and it was a beautiful character portrait. Something just didn't click all the way through. It was very different for an Aronofsky movie.

Jen and I strolled but I split at 19th to go home. I took a bath to relax. I read some more of Coma. Felt like watching a bad movie so I watched The Happening. It was bad. Katie's friends Tom and Nikki came over and we watching Sharks in Venice. It is about this hidden gold that the Mafia wants and has put sharks in the Venetian canals to prevent people from getting it. Enter the emotionless Stephen Baldwin: archaeologist and diver! His leg got bitten off but...it wasn't. It was bad but good. Happening was just bad. Nikki (Nicky?)is pregnant. I suggested the name Bacon. The father's last name is Man(Mann?).

School tomorrow. Math. Digital painting.

"I like how scott is completely and totally stupid"

While Llyw reads Scott Pilgrim, I shall write!

The train came in right on time. A little brisk walk and a job landed us right on the Red Max to Goose Hollow. We relaxed a little bit and then it was time to introduce him to my friends. Karen, Adam, Diana, and Robin were at Karen's. There were macaroons and popcorn. Diana tucked in early. We tried to figure out Killer Bunnies and near the end we got it but then it was over and Karen won. I had a lot of carrots but no bunnies. After the game we stayed up for way too long chatting. The process of distillation was brought up, glass work, story telling, ninjas, what people would do for a million dollars, and more ninjas. There was a lot of ninjas.

At around 2am we crawled into my apartment. Katie set us up with a sweet foam thingy and sleeping bag. Gabe is locked out of his place. Gabe made us breakfast. Fritata! It was fluffy and delicious.

The ability to set right out adventuring was hampered by a Goose Hollow Pod meeting at 2. It was tiny and not really well attended. We talked about activities we would like to do. I ate some ginger snaps. Then it was back to my apartment and time to adventure! The general course of action was to go to Compound Gallery via the Skidmore Fountain Max Stop and work our way up. Compound had lovely prints for good prices. Not the most amazing selection. A significant portion of their current gallery show was lame and dull. There were some pieces that had some brilliant type and lovely hues.

It was time to eat again but Ichiban Sushi would not open till 4pm. We killed time in the Powell's Technical Books. We got in right on time. The place filled up quick. Heather the print aide works there and she was very nice and chatty. I stuffed my face and even tried a little wasabi. It was delightful.

Cold set in. We hobbled over to Peet's Coffee House and thus began a long series of ping pong voice mail messages to Auntie Celia. She was breezing through town and all she wanted was some coffee. When we got back to my place we Googled directions but she was already in downtown and just needed to be told to go up Jefferson. Starbucks was open till 7. She parked on the hill, we met her, we hugged. It was wonderful! I didn't get a good enough chance to catch up with her over break. She got a nice amount of coffee and, well, we caught up. She was wearing the awesome hat I gave her for Christmas. I miss my auntie C.

After that we spent the rest of the night in. We watched about seven-eights of Repo: The Genetic Opera. Played WarioWare (I didn't win). Time went by far too quick. By noon tomorrow Llyw will be on the train to Seattle. And then school.