mystery woman

Uhg. Felt icky in the morning. Stomach all queasy and I didn't get that good of a nights sleep. Ate some saltines and bought some 7Up. Ran a secret mystery errand.

On the way back from mystery errand, I swung by Fred Meyer and bought some buckets. Buckets are better than boxes for moving. Got home and watched the new Doctor Who episode. Then I got to packing. Shoving clothes into buckets. Books into boxes. I want to clear out access to the shelves big things. It is getting there. It seems like I have less stuff than last move. A lot of trinkets. My clothing is being widdled down to just enough to last me the week. Also have a whole pile of things to take to William Temple. Clothes mostly.

So I've been doing that for hours. Taking a break to do my nails. I feel really, really tired. Tomorrow is commencement! I get my diploma!

Todays Portrait Is: Mika.

gettin' down with the lithographers

Some people on my street are going "WHOOO" and I totally feel it. It is a whoo kinda night.

Ahhh anyway, what happened today? Well I woke up at 9, and was all "what? I feel totally awake and it isn't 1pm in the afternoon". So I got up. Had some toast and Emergen-C. Did my stuff. Went to school. Met with Martin and Kristin. Strategized my approach with my website and promotional stuff. Then I backed up all the stuff I had on the student drive. Six 700 megabyte discs burned with stuff. Two of them were just thesis files. Then I went to Safeway and bought chili fixings. Then I went to Key Bank and closed my account, because I only had that account because it was somewhere to deposit checks without having to send them home to Seabeck. Also they were going to start charging for account inactivity, and since my account was mostly inactive, I might as well close it. Since the check went through, I thought I would take the cash and run. Ha.

Went home. Got the chili cooking. Did the dishes. Chilled out. Did my nails. Did my hair (Heidi braids). Tonight was Paul and Yoshi's going away party at Christy's house. Daniel and Heather gave me and my chili a ride. Daniel was sick so he didn't stay, but Heather did. I was cold at first in the house, but as I got inebriated and ate some of the potluck food, I was warmed up. Printmakers make for excellent company. DeAnn, Diana, Zachary, Heather, Karen, Leah, JD, BT, Mel, Phil, Robin, Anthony, Allison, Christy, Tom, Paul, Yoshi, Beth, Chelsey, Junko, Nell, Antonia...so many awesome people. And so much food! People are really good cooks. I had two plates of food. I knew to pace myself, I didn't want to stuff myself on deliciousness. Eva came with apple pie, and that is my favorite pie. I also sampled a lot of booze. Printmakers know how to get down. Daniel was giving Heather and I a ride back, so that was nice (in exchange for chili, of course). So I talked and mingled and ate and drank and generally had a fantastic time.

Stopped by Heather and Daniels and filled some tupperware for them. Went back to my place. I have just the right amount left over for me tomorrow. I have big plans for tomorrow. I'll let you know them...all though they are secret.

Yeah.

Good night.

Todays Portrait Is: Owen Clarke (Hot Chip).

pink shoulders

Ohh it was a consistently beautiful day all day. Sun sun sun. And warm! I rolled up my pant legs and put on a tank top and set out. Put my check in my bank account. Rode my bike to the Tiffany Center and locked it up. Today we did our graduation walk practice. About 20 people didn't show...don't know if that will cause any repercussions for them. I'm in the second to last row between Chloe Steinhoff-Smith and Will Schneider-White. Alphabetical! It went pretty fast. The MFAs walk after us, but sit ahead of us.

It was a brilliant day, so Robin, Kristen, Tabitha, Leah, Mel and I went for food. The Thai place wasn't open at that time. So we went for Japanese food. I got a bento box. A big amount of food but it kept me going through the day. In fact I'm not even hungry how. Whee!

Robin and I walked to school. I locked my bike up and we went to the studios. I cleaned the table on which my posters rested, because it was a bit crummy. I had to also defend it a little, because an Ikea table in a studio show sort of stands out amid all these pedestals.

Hung with Heather and Daniel. Met Karen at Rogue, but didn't order. Mel joined us and we three went to Yur's and we sat with Jeremy and Paul. But didn't order anything. Just sat and chilled. Karen got her hair done and it looked so blonde and lovely.

Left for home and now I'm chilling out. Gotta get up early for a meeting with Martin and Kristin and then make chili for Yoshi and Paul's going away potluck/printer celebration. Ohh need to draw some portraits. And start packing. I can start packing while the chili cooks.

Todays Portrait Is: Felix Martin (Hot Chip).

so much got done and I am so very tired

Alarm went off at 8. I rolled out of bed at 9. My new phone has such great alarm settings. I'm done with my new alarm, it was kinda not effective anyway.

Ate scrambled eggs with diced onion and a cuppa tea. Then at 10:30ish I hauled my table down to the studios.

It was a beautiful day and it didn't take as long as I thought it would. Wasn't that painful of a lug and I had Hound of Baskervilles to listen to. Ran into Craig on the way there, chatted a bit. When I got to the studios, a couple people were setting up. I agreed to move my space from a much larger wall to a smaller one next to Kevin and across from Eva. Originally my table had its own wall to rest against and the posters had their own one, but now it is cozier. The straight line of posters wrap around the corner and the table sticks out. I wrote with sharpie on the table "feel free to take one (or some)". I want these posters to be distributed! Hopefully they will be popular at the show. Talked to Nathan a bit on the phone. I was out of there so much earlier than expected. Went to the studios and picked up my screens. Farewell studio, I shant print in you again. For the time being. Swung by the money office and paid my remaining fees. Then I trotted up back home with three screens. Got back at 1pm, which was swell. Gave me time to eat, write up an invoice for my work at the girls camp, and generally relax. My shoulders hurt a lot when I woke up but the pain subsided.

Then at 3:15, I set once once again for the 5+ mile trip to the Rock n Roll Girls Camp. It was warm and lovely. The bridge was up though, but thankfully it came down in a reasonable amount of time. I zoomed up Williams. The distance on Williams from Sacramento to Ainsworth(Allingsworth?) is the one that feels the longest. The straight shot that is mostly gradually uphill that you can't really gauge how far you have to go. Once you turn onto Vanouver it is only about 5 minutes. I got there at 4, perfect! I took down the tees, turned in the invoice so I could get paid (not just volunteer work!!), set up the space, filled the bucket. My helper was...ohh dang I've forgotten her name but she was awesome. We exchanged some cool stories and tricks and stuff.

There were only three bands today: Name, The Minions, and Semi Colon Capital D. The last band was the one who played during the Ladies Rock Camp, and they were so cool. We got into it a little bit late, but some of the bands were ready to go. Name was the first to start cutting out their design, followed by ;D (get it?) and lastly The Minions, who were the last to finish printing. But they had a really cool design, it just had some trouble printing (pressure issues). Name had to flood their screen before printing because the cut out contact paper was really close to the edge. Sometimes I didn't feel totally needed because the girls have done the camp before and knew how to do the stencil, but when it came to problem solving and just being an extra adult to help, my presence was needed. It was fun. I felt a lot more confidant this time around. Clean up took a while, but no hurry. I listened to Name play their song Song, and DAMN THOSE GIRLS ARE AWESOME. So good. I wish I was that awesome when I was a wee one.

Got my lovely check, which I will deposit tomorrow. At 7 I rode home, got home at 7:30. Hydrated. Ate food. Talked to mom. Watched Sherlock. Now I am exhausted so I think I'll go to bed at...WHAT THE, IT IS ELEVEN? That is so early...

Todays Portrait Is: Al Doyle (Hot Chip).

little ladies that are most awesome

Oh man, I'm wiped! What a day with so much bike riding. When I calculated the distance, I was quite proud of myself.

Anyway, started the day with a scramble because I needed the energy. And had a salad later. Karen couldn't assist me. Oh well. Went to Fred Meyer and got some sweets and contact paper (which is needed for this silk screen technique).

At 3 I put on my yoga tights and my yoga shirt and stuffed my stuff into a bag and set out for the 5.7 mile one way bike journey to Rock n Roll Girls Camp. First I brought my posters down to school, because I'll be setting up tomorrow morning (bleh). Then I headed over to the way way north east. I listened to Hound of Baskervilles, so that was nice. And actually I made really goodtime. Like super good time. I got to the camp in like, 40 minutes. I was expecting an hours journey. I was sweaty but not totally worn out. I signed some paper work and found out that I was actually being paid for my work! Graciously paid as well. Booyah.

A nice young lady named Margaret was there to help, so I had her help. Got set up just about in time for all the little ladies to show up. There were some young ones and some teens. Some were hyper and some paid attention, but each had an adult of sorts to keep track of them. And some had done the screen printing method before. I just helped and jumped around. Heather is much better, but I think I did alright. No one maimed themselves. The designs turned out really good too. Maybe we were a bit pressed for time with some of the groups. Need to do better with time management. I was still a bit terrified. But it went well. Got out of there at around 6:20. It was a nice ride back, though the first (up hill) stretch was horrible. Then there was a nice large downhill bit. And it was great weather. Sort of staggered around when I got home. Very tired. Had some pasta. Watched Glee. Raising Hope. Now I'm watching Doctor Who. Time to go to sleep. Get up. Haul my table down to school. Haul my screens home. And do another 11.4 mile bike loop to helps some awesome girls silk screen.

Todays Portrait Is: Joe Goddard (Hot Chip).

work, fun, extra fun

Oi. Man, got up at a reasonable hour. How normal. 9am! AHG! But I actually got to school with time to spare. Got to the studios and got my job: finish up the tape job and then sand sand sand. My hair went a shade lighter with all the spackle dust. It was strenuous, but it only lasted two hours. Still, damn it was a lot of dust. Not fun.

Came back to the computer lab to find an email that rerescheduled my meeting, so I spent a couple hours adding color to the next five portraits! I want to get super far ahead with them again, especially since I'll be heading on a two week vacation come June. I finished five last night, also known as all of the band Hot Chip. So the rest of the week will be Hot Chip Week. Whee!

I went home, had a phone call with mum about stuff. Found out I could activate my phone through my phone, and didn't have to go to a store. So wham bam: my old Samsung from 2005 has now been decommissioned and I've moved onto Dominic's old Samsung, which takes pictures and flips in two different directions! It is really sweet. And not broken! So yup, I've moved on. It takes me a long time to give up a piece of technology, especially if it still barely works.

At 8ish I rode my bike over to Mel's. She was waiting for me on her bike and together we rode to the East Side. I think it was her first bike trip over the bridge. I went at my regular meandering pace, and it was quite a lovely ride. The Lovecraft, a sort of goth bar, was showing the first four episodes of Game of Thrones tonight, We arrived at fifteen till nine, but they didn't start till ten (even though their thingy said 9). So I had a couple brewskies and a salad roll. We chatted and all that fun stuff. We stuck around for two and a third episodes. They really work well in sort of distorted projected resolutions. Mel seemed to like it, despite how weird the show is prone to be.

And we had a nice ride back, all though some guy in a car barked at us. That was startling. Still, we made it home safe and sound. Mel will be a bicyclist yet!

Now I'm going to unwind with an episode of something, get up, and then go teach some kids how to screen print!

Todays Portrait Is: Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip).

breakfast in the afternoon

Oh boy, lots of work done today.

Slept in, because hey its me. I sleep in. Got showered and did a really really quick portrait. Ate a scramble. Tomorrow I will go food shopping, I'm out of just about everything. Especially breakfast food.

Anyway, got to the studios a bit late. Over the next couple days there are three three hour shift blocks a day, and we have to do two of them (two shifts). I am doing the 1-4 today and the 10-1 tomorrow. I arrived and was assigned blue tape duty. Hurrah! No heavy wall lifting or disassembling! There was a studio that hadn't been emptied yet. Booo! But I got it taped off to the best of my ability. Taped the wall outlets and the stairs and the I beams. Helped Dom and Jon with one of the walls. It went fast. Then I was assigned top of the wall cleaning duty. TOP. OF THE. WALLS. CLEANING. While you can see the tops of one half of the studio sections from the second floor, the other half you can't. Still, I got up real high and cleaned and cleaned. It wasn't quite effective because it wasn't paint so much as plaster, and it didn't so much as clean as just...absorb the dirt. Still, I kept with it till my shift ended.

At a bit after 4, I went to Safeway. There was a shindig of sorts at Phil, Karen, and BT's and it was breakfast food themed. So I picked up some orange juice and doughnuts and headed over to the other side. Ohh so much great food. Mel brought fancy jam. There was bacon. Waffles too! Phil's cousin Erika was there and her boyfriend...something. Forget his name. I mostly just chilled. Beth came. Mel showed me how to do macrame, and I made a bracelet! Mel was making herself a new semi-permanent necklace. She wore her last one for three years and was changing it at this sort of...time of change. I think that is pretty neat. Her new one is looking fantastic. Karen donated a bead to my bracelet, one that she said described me, "colorful and funky". I agree. It is a nice little bracelet. A friendship reminder.

We played Scrabble, though we used words that can't be mentioned in this blog. And spelling most heinous. But it was fun. Then we played Apples to Apples and I WON! Whooo!

At 10pm I went home. Queued up my Game of Thrones and The Borgias and knocked out FIVE PORTRAITS! And damn good ones too. I'm going to add digital color tomorrow during the time between my shift and my meeting with Martin and Kristen.

Todays Portrait Is: Santigold.

rock n roll ladies

Oh boy oh boy. Volunteering was a trip!

Got up nice and early, sort of, and got cleaned up and headed out to Heather's. Took me a good 30 minutes to get to her place. Funny how biking doesn't seem to take that long. Anyway, from there she drove us to the Rock N Roll Girls Camp, which is a totally awesome place in a very inconspicuous building. The camp provides a nice space for young girls to rock out and be awesome and learn instruments and generally get girl power. Heather needed some people to fill in for the screen printing section of the camp. Today Leah and I shadowed her while she instructed the Ladies Rock Camp (a three day thing where the money goes to help foster girls get into the program).

The contact sheet method of silk screening is this: you know that clear stuff you stick on stuff to protect it? Well basically you cut a shape out of it, then stick it to the back of your screen, and you can print with it! You don't get the best detail (also the screens we were using were super low thread count mesh) but it is instant, no chemicals, and awesome. So we set up and had some of the lunch they provided for us (awesome tacos, the Ladies Rock Camp is fully catered, hurrah). The first group was three bands of ladies. My group were the G Tornados, I say "my group" I mostly mean that I helped them the most. Their design was super rad. A Saul Bass sort of design. The shirts printed well, as did the test posters. There was also Trunk to Tail and Repeat Offenders. They came up with great shirts that printed quite well. Clean up was a cinch. Then it was about a 30 minute wait and the next group came in. Just two bands: Sauce Box and Stinky Pinkies. Their designs took a bit longer, but all in all it went well. The latter printed a ton of shirts. And the day ended with another delicious meal (lasagna). Damn so freaking good.

A wonderful day spent with babes rocking out and printing and learning new stuff. Now I just gotta teach some little ones how to do it on Tuesday and Wednesday. After I picked up my bike at Heather's, I rode to Karen's and real quick asked her to help on Tuesday, and she agreed. Leah is helping on Wednesday. Whoo! I guess I'm sort of the main instructor for it? It is terrifying and exciting at the same time.

Then I went home to my precious DOCTOR WHO! Oh man, what a phenomenal episode. It was written by the one and only Neil Gaiman, and thus it was just above and beyond wonderful. A lot was packed into that itty bitty episode. Now I'm going to watch it again!

Had some dinner, did my laundry.

What do you think is the minimum allowed time to let someones stuff rest in the dryer before you pull it out and put your stuff in? I say an hour. They left a basket so it wasn't quite so rude. I needed to dry my stuff! It is midnight!

Todays Portrait Is: Philip Ross Jacobsen (Odd Owl).