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).

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).