x4

Didn't get that great of a night's sleep. My schedule is all out of whack. Only got to sleep for a bit before the 8am alarm went off. Rolled out of bed a bit after 11. Had a bagel and shmear and some tea and powdered water drink. Community was fantastic, as was Parks and Recreation. Finished up only four text sides, but that was enough for the day as it turned out. Got to school after 3. Scanned, printed. Went to the lab. Emulsified. Exposed. Set up my station. Not a very crowded studio. Mel came and printed. And left. I listened to Mockingjay. Lots and lots of Mockingjay.

Printed Mel's color text layer. That went well.

Printed Beth's color text layer. That went well, all though some of the tape kept coming off.

Printed Samala's color text layer. Had some issue with the opaqueness of the ink I was using. Hate opaque ink. But got it done.

Printed Acey's color text layer. Went really well.

Washed all the screens out and drew in the water resist for the second blank ink layers. Exposed. Washed out. They are all ready to be printed tomorrow. Another four hours and I'll have four more posters finished. Yaaay. I'll be getting up early to do that, because Lindsay, aka Toon, aka my first roommate invited me to a beginning Aerial class. You know, with the ribbons and stuff. So I'll be doing that tomorrow afternoon. And afterwards I guess I'll fold and edition prints. Bleh, have to get up super early. So I'm blogging now.

Have to work on my spirit animal print.

Todays Portrait Is: Donal Logue.

mmmmmcqueen

Let myself sleep in without the alarm clock. Which was a bad idea because I slept way way in. Need the alarm to check myself.

Worked a bit on stuff. Mostly took a long time to get warmed up to doing anything.

Yoga was just Fawn, Ruth, and myself. Lots of back bending, which is good.

Went to the east side for a get stuff done night. Whooo! There were a lot more people over this time. Robin, Diana, Lacey, this dude John, this dude Michael, Evan was there for a bit, and of course Phil, BT, and Karen. We watched The Great Escape. That hunk Steve McQueen. And that guy with the big forehead that I know mom likes. David McCallum. I worked on my text side. I have seven names done, about four nice words and a couple blurbs. Need to get more done. I stayed for another movie, though Karen took most of the people home. Karen made tacos. They were good. I left at around 2am. Got some work done, should be further along. I'll need to get to school by at least 3pm tomorrow. Seven hours to scan, print, emulsify, expose, and print five layers. The printing should go super fast. The more screens I have prepped, the faster I get through each layer. I think I did three layers in two hours last session. So yeah. Long day. I'll have to get up at an actual hour and finish five of the compliment sides.

I also have another print exchange to do, but that will only occupy one screen. I'll work on that drawing tomorrow night, because the school closes at 10.

Work work work. Listen to audio book listen to audio book listen to audio book .

Todays Portrait Is: Joelle Carter.

wednesday

Got up a bit early but was largely unproductive for the first chunk of the day. Ate nutella and toast and chocolate croissants for breakfast. Drew me some Walton Goggins.

Got to school around fiveish. A bit later than I wanted and with less work, but as it turns out folding took a long time to do. But I'm getting ahead of myself. In near record time, I printed three layers. I finished Daniel and Heather's poster and I finished Jon. TWO DOWN! Seven immediate ones to go and at least six or so more to create. Hurrah. I also finished Leah's side and that looks good as well. I then editioned the two sets and started giving them away. It begins! Tomorrow will be spent in whole on compliments. Can't print what I don't have ready to print.

A pretty good day. Am I as productive as I'd like? Eeer no. But tomorrow is a Get Stuff Done night at BT, Berger, and Bone's (BT, Karen, and Phil) so I'll draw people there. And work on compliments. Huzzah. Friday Karen and I will go see Rango. And Saturday there will be karaoke. But I will also be productive and work. Friday and Saturday I will print what I make tomorrow. If I get five compliments, that is five screens. I can easily print five layers in one day. By Sunday I could have seven completed posters! And Sunday I could print the remaining two. Damn, if I could get all nine posters finished by the end of Spring Break. Wow. But I don't want to set myself up that high, because if I don't reach that, I might be hard on myself. But I can see the schedule working itself out. Just have to be really productive tomorrow. But man, if I do do that then I'll be in such a good thesis place. So good. And I'll get through Mockingjay as well, which is the third in the Hunger Games series.

Got home at around nine. Had a salad and orange juice for dinner. Bleh, healthy. Don't worry, I had some candy as well. Drew some portraits. Need to get on top of them again, the last two were drawn the morning of (and todays came up after 3:00pm). Now I'm tired. Report to y'all tomorrow night.

Todays Portrait Is: Walton Goggins

should work harder though...

Whooo got stuff done and had tacos!

Got up at 9:30ish, like some sort of miracle. Showered and got all cleaned up. Went to Trader Joe's for some supplemental shopping. Had a scramble. Got to school later than I wanted to. Emulsified two screens. Printed the first Jon text layer. Exposed screens. Printed the Leah color layer. Printed the first Heather & Daniel text layer. Put on the drawing fluid over the text layer. Got into my yoga gear with time to spare. We worked on hip openers and hand stands. Against the wall hand stands, not free form. I need more arm strength.

After yoga I put emulsion on the screens and let them dry and exposed the screens and washed out the drawing fluid. Hurrah!

Tomorrow is a really open day. So early on I'll work on three more text compositions, then I'll go to school and put them on screens and print as much as I can. Huzzah. Getting stuff done. I'll have two finished thesis posters by the end of tomorrow. Maybe more? Need to do more hanging out though.

Anyway, after all that it was time for tacos! Dom bought da beer and I cooked up the beef. He's all lactose intolerant and stuff, so all the cheese was for me. We gnawed on tacos and watched The Social Network. Good back stabbery drama. Well acted. Well shot. We said our goodbyes after that.

I'm almost done with Catching Fire, the second of the Hunger Games series. SO GOOD. Young adult stories also read (well, listen) really fast. Did da dishes. It is good to have a clean sink.

Todays Portrait Is: Timothy Olyphant.

edging forward...towards the bar

Another slow start to the day. BUT I managed to be productive for the middle chunk. Got two text sides done, and once I know how to do one then I know how to do the rest. So I went to school and scanned those and edited those (and the sketch I did of Leah) and printed those out. I emulsified some screens, all though when I exposed them some of the inverted text didn't do so well. It wasn't opaque enough. Oh well. I have three unexposed screens for tomorrow to expose, and two that are ready to print. I'm so close to finishing a poster! I printed both sides of Acey in what seemed like record time. Mel and Carla were working in the studio as well.

I'm just breezing through the printing stage. So tomorrow I'll print Leah's poster and print Jon and Heather & Daniel's side and then do the water resist emulsion for the second layer of Jon and Heather & Daniel's. If I get to school around Noon to One, that should be plenty of time. Four printing hours, one to two for technical stuff and set up. Whoop!

After printing I returned home for some food, and then I went to Yur's at around 11:30 to chill with the people. There was a design group and an illustration group at opposite sides. I hung with both. Talked to Alex and Mark and Jon and Dom, and also Chloe and Mel and Ashley and uhh...that other guy. It was a good night. I was there till last call even. Tomorrow night Dom and I are going to eat tacos and watch The Social Network. But before that: printing! and yoga! productivity! hurray!

And for that to happen, I'll have to get up at like...10. And stuff. which is totally doable.

Todays Portrait Is: Maggie Siff.

first paper back, whoo!

Spring Break already feels like it is slipping away really fast and I'm not as productive as I should be. I did start on the compliment side of the portraits. Got a couple text treatments and such.

Went down to school and hung out with Leah and drew her. So that brings the portrait count up to 9. Huzzah! But I really need to spend my time finishing my posters.

Went to Trader Joe's and got hella fruits and vegetables. Now that I eat more salads and apples, my body really feels it when I don't intake them and eat mostly carbs.

I think I'm going to go to bed early (compared, 2am isn't really early but it is earlier than 4am which happens more than it should) and make a real effort to get stuff done tomorrow. Get stuff done, scan it, send it, print it.

Finally got my first paper review back, and the feedback was good. "Awesome paper writing skillz! Great voice and clarity." And some stuff about more citations and research and explaining this and that. But it is nice to know my paper isn't a complete mess or anything. Excited to get my other three floating edited papers back, whenever that happens. It is good to know that my copies do indeed have my name on them. I was worried about that when it had been a while and I had not received any back.

Yesterday I filled out my spot in the focus week form. Put in my blurb and desired room and set up parameters. Totally insane to be AT THAT POINT. Just need to start finishing these posters. I'm so close to that point. So many halves. So many audio books to listen to. Almost done with Hunger Games. Excited to listen to the rest of the trilogy. Listening to it while I while I'm productive is a great incentive to be productive.

Mmm salad and apple and banana. Very good!

Todays Portrait Is: Johnny Lewis.

doo doo doooo the other things that need doing

Didn't really touch on any thesis stuff today. Spent the day sorting out the apartment and stuff. Did a lot of dishes (though most of them were done by Mark and Kristen, I just did the rest of the accumulated dishes). Put away my laundry. Tidied my room. Put another henna wash in my hair. I think I'll go for the more red block of henna from Lush next time. It was a nice touch up. Didn't give me a headache like the last time, though I used considerably less of the stuff this time around. I just used the bit remaining from the block of henna I bought for the first dye. The color may be very subtle, but my hair feels good. Mmm.

The library is closed during Spring Break. Boooo. That is such crap. I can't believe how fast time runs out. But taking a chill day to sort to things was much needed.

Went to Fred Meyer's and got some soap and cotton balls and creme cheese and aluminum foil and other things.

Did a couple more portraits.

Been listening to Hunger Games. VERY good. Very invested in Katniss and Peeta.

Todays Portrait Is: Ryan Hurst.