one side/infinate sides

Whooo!! Dorothy gave me a righteous and totally sweet mobius scarf. She knitted it herself! How cool is that?

So yeah, went to Seattle today. Hopped on the good ol' Bainbridge Ferry. Rainy and gray day but thankfully we were driving around so all was good. We went to Archie McPhee's to pick up some birthday stuff and other things. They don't really have a nice set up there; more of a place for people to get what they know they want as opposed to browsing. We went to an electric bike shop next, not for me but for mom and dad. They want fancy new bikes that do the work for them.

After a little bit of tiffage we went to get some fish & chips. After that it was a Danish bakery and then to Jeanette & co.'s.

Their house was very cute. Liam is definitely a young boy now. Exchanged some gifts (got the new Michael Chabon novel, sweeet!) and I showed off my drawing portfolio. Dan and Dorothy showed up and we went through my portfolio again. Really happy with the work that I did in that class. Have to do something nice with the choice pieces. It was a wonderful visit; seeing all the people. Ate some tasty cake and drank some tasty tea. We bid adieu and went to catch a ferry.

Listened to Jack Flanders and dozed off. Now I am watching Eastern Promises. It is okay thus far. Not really mom and dads thing but seems all right.

snow, ice, rain, wind and darkness

The power went out last night. It only was out for about forty-five minutes but for some reason my computer was unable to connect to the Internet when it returned.

Yesterday I left the house again (amazing! I know!). Dad and I went to the Verizon store to see about upgrading my phone but there wasn't a free upgrade. I don't need a fancy phone but even the less fancy phones were still pricey. Don't know why they don't have better deals but then again most people probably buy the fancy phones because they think they need them. Consumerism blah blah blah.

After Verizon we went to the mall to see about a haircut for dad. The wait was exceedingly long so we walked to Walden's and looked around their shelves a bit. After that we got some hot dogs from a new place in the mall and I proceeded to bite a chunk out of my cheek as well as the hot dog. Ouch.

We then met up with mom to go swimming and the Club. Well, we spent more time in the hot tub than in the pool. I am really out of swimming shape. Well, I haven't really broken out in a sweat since I arrived here. After that we went home.

Dad and I stretched some canvas across some frames that he built. I made some more peanut brittle and then we watched Wilde. As the name gives it away it is indeed a biopic about Oscar Wilde. Stephen Fry was quite awesome in the role, as was Jude Law. We haven't watched the last 15 minutes of the movie because that is when the power cut out.

it better be a stage name...

Stay up late.
Sleep in late.
Spend about ten hours lounging about watching TV and movies.
Go to bed.
Try to sleep.
Repeat.

I will be going home a little earlier than I originally thought. I don't think I can spend another week doing nothing up here. It is time to return to Portland.

Celia came over for a lovely visit. We ate some spaghetti and watched an episode of QI on youtube. Then we watched a few minutes of Nip/Tuck and then decided to watch some of Celia's Netflix movies.

First up was the Devil Wears Prada. Not really my type of movie and I only sort of payed attention to it out of the corner of my eye. Better than I expected it to be but still pretty much what I thought it would be. Some really cute outfits. As the credits went by Celia gasped and started saying my name. I looked up and she was pointing out that my name was RIGHT THERE in the credits!! Trillian! Head Seamstress! Blimey!

It wasn't all that late when we finished that one so we watched another movie. This choice was Gia, an HBO biopic with Angelina Jolie as the model who died from AIDS. Yeah. It was depressing. The actress who plays Juliet on Lost was in it and she was awesome. Jolie is talented at playing crazy people. She is also purdy.

Now to relax, sip some tea, watch Zoolander and eventually go to bed.

return by date

Had a nice sleep in today. Better enjoy it while I can. I'm returning to Portland in about a week (next Thursday I think).

Went to the movies with parents today. We say the new National Treasure movie. It was pretty much exactly like the first one just with a different goal and some more characters. Not really gripping-the-seat tense action but after you have seen No Country for Old Men nothing is really quite as nail biting. It was okay I guess.

We did some quick shopping and went home. Ate some steak, mashed potatoes and peas and chilled out for the night.

Tomorrow I will be hanging out with Auntie Celia. 18 days left in my vacation.

hang out (verb)

The last time I was in Seattle was for the MFA trip and that time I managed to see Llyw. This Seattle trip was no exception; minus the art museums.

Took a little effort to get my car out of the icy driveway but the main roads were peachy. Parked and payed at Bainbridge Island. Nine bucks for all day parking. NINE BUCKS! That is almost ten.

Read some of Mourning Star on the quick ride over and Llyw was there about a minute after I got off the ferry.

With no real plans we set out towards Uwajimaya. The walk took less time than I remember it taking (maybe he knew a quicker route). Didn't spend much time there; picked up some snackums and that was pretty much it. There were no movies to be seen so we just headed to his place to hang out. I brought along my external hard drive and put some various things from his computer onto it. Sweet thing to have.

While those things were loading we went out for lunch for some delicious fast food. I have never had Jack-In-The-Box before, and if I had it has been years and years. It was pretty tasty stuff. After lunch we settled down into watching DVD's via way of his awesome projector. The main selection for the rest of the day was Wonderfalls (with one episode of Spaced thrown in). Great show, I can see why it got cancelled as it was an hour long show before the slightly surreal hour long shows achieved the larger audience. It has notoriety now.

After we finished the first disc we sat about and talked and chatted and even conversed a little. Time flew by while the time to catch the bus downtown crept up on us.

I missed my bus to take me to the 9:00 ferry so Caleb gave me a lift to the dock to catch the 9:45 (Llyw tagged along on the ride).

Goodbyes and hugs were exchanged and I went up to the near deserted terminal, bought my ticket, and waited for the ferry to come in. Read a little more Mourning Star. The drive home went really well; the roads were hardly iced over and traffic was minimal. Even the driveway ice seems to be melting.

Super fun day. It is great to get out of the house and to see old friends. But now I am really feeling the want to return to Portland.

start with a tune and a delayed bang

2008 is upon us! Whoo! Two-oh-oh-eight. I will be Twenty. Out of my teens. Out of adolescence, childhood, and all that other stuff. I will be in my TWENTIES this year. YEE-HAW! And I will be starting my Illustration program at PNCA so that is awesome.

The fireworks at the Space Needle on TV might have been more impressive if they had synced up to the music instead of having "computer glitches" and not go off for minutes at a time. Still nice. We lit some crackers, bottle rockets and sparklers. We used up our good fireworks last Fourth of July.

I was trying to pull an all-nighter so that I could readjust my sleep schedule (I've been staying up past 2am and sleeping in till past noon) but at 6:30 am I fell asleep and woke up a little before 2. Oh well.

Went into town with the parents to do some shopping. I picked out my major (and most likely only) birthday present: a 320 GB external hard drive. Now my laptop won't be all full up! Before I had 7.25 GB free and now I have 57.7 free. Huzzah! My hard drive is a thing of beauty. At Best Buy I ran into Chris and we chatted briefly. Oh I also got some Pixi Stix. Yumm!

After some late lunch and grocery shopping we went home. I moved my computer files around and finished binding my book. It looks a little clumsy and shoddy but I am going to say that it makes it have "character". The paper I used for the cover turned out nice. Can't wait to see it tomorrow after it has finished drying in the press.

Going to Seattle tomorrow. Anti-hermit activities.

Happy New Year Everybody! Here is to another year of art, new friendships, scrubbed bathrooms, frustrations, and achievements.

how much worse could it get

I. hate. the. ice. Hate it hate it hate it. The snow has moved into that stage of never melting ice that coats the roads and makes it a real pain to drive through and on. Bugger! Made it back safely from Chris' but that was only a couple miles away; normally a 5 minute drive. It took me easily fifteen minutes to get home. Real slow driving and a wee bit dangerous. I felt less in control on the main road than on the iced over driveways.

Hung out with Chris today. He has been my friend for years and years. We always hang out when we get the chance. We sat about and surfed the net on our adjacent laptops. Talked at great length about school and people and whats going on (Cheryl Christy is engaged? what?). General catching up really. I miss having a friend about that I am totally comfortable with and don't have to worry about what they will think of me; someone I have that bond with. Portland is a fresh start but it is also a start from square one pretty much (with the exception of Sean who I knew before).

After watching some Wild Zero clips we decided to watch Tideland. That movie was horrible. Not a bad movie just really sad. Combining her imagination in the simple childlike way and not utilizing it as a coping mechanism it just amplified the sorrow. Horrible thing after horrible thing kept happening to the poor little girl (and her accent was all over the place). In the end we just wished she would die so she could be in a happier place. Damn you Terry Gilliam and your ability to make horror out of reality.

Left from Chris' very late but I think even if I had left earlier it would have still been a bother to drive and there might have been more people on the road.

Before I left for his place I halfway bound a book while watching Twin Peaks. Now that they have "solved" it and know what Bob "is", the story is going to get more intense and weird. Wooooah!

Leonard Baskin Study

Leonard Baskin study made during a class trip to the Portland Art Museum.

I'm a whole town!

Slept in till 1pm.

I helped dad make the frame I need for book binding. While we were working in the garage it started to snow again. It didn't really stick but still...more snow. After helping him in the garage that was pretty much it for the days activities.

I have no will or energy to do anything. Haven't started on any of my vacation goals. Well...it has just been a week since I've been off. I haven't had a break longer than two weeks in well over a year.

Time to watch another episode of Twin Peaks and go to bed. Plan to meet up with Chris tomorrow and I have another rendezvous later in the week. So that should be fun (gets me out of the house at least).

this isn't root beer

I planned to wake up early today and get a jump on things and hang out with Peeler later. But I fell asleep after I turned off my alarm and didn't wake up till noon. Oh well.

Mum, Dad and I went into town for a movie and errands. We saw Juno. It was okay, it might have been better a few years ago when all the hipster indie movies were just starting to hit mainstream. The cast was excellent. The soundtrack was really annoying; all the sounds sounded the same and didn't fit the lead characters that much. Some of the teen speak was very forced sounding. I give it a maybe DVD rental.

After than we went to Artist's Edge and I used my gift certificate to buy some art supplies. Art supplies cost so much. Booo for art supplies costing so much.

We hit up the mall next. All the teens look exactly the same and all walk around in same-looking lame little packs. Hanging around with artists and art school students sort of makes the rest of the people look the same. When I visited Seattle all the UW students looked the same. There isn't as many generic flat-hair-with-piercings scenester kids at PNCA. There are some sceney people, and tight pants are everywhere, but no one really seems to force who they are or how they dress. It is very refreshing. I'm really glad to be there; I never fit in here.

We ate at the Mongolian Grill where you select the food and they cook it up for you. When we were finishing up our meal and assembling all our food trash mom dumped the soy sauce into the soda cup for some reason. Dad was unaware of this and, much to our horror, took a drink. He promptly spit it out and we had a good chuckle at his expense.

I was so tired all day. From the instant I got up all I wanted to do was climb back into bed. Now I am in bed and it is GREAT!

never too young to sled off the road into the ditch

Well Mom and I were planning to go out to Silverdale today but it was snowing something fierce (well it was rather gentle actually) and we were trapped. By the end of the day we had 4 1/2 inches! A nice constant down-float of white misery.



At some point in the day Mom yelled at me for sitting about doing nothing for days on end so I put on some boots, jacket, gloves, scarf and hat and we went out to hit trees with sticks (to vanquish the snow from them).



When we returned from our walk we all sat about and drank cocoa. And I called it quits on the exercise for the rest of the day.

blue nude

Figure study from an open life drawing session on campus. Ink and bamboo stick pen.

relax mode: engage!

I did nothing today. Nothing nothing nothing.

Slept in. Sat about on my computer. Watched some Twin Peaks. Watched some Futurama.

Ate some chicken.

I think I'll watch some Tekkonkinkreet now.

Tomorrow I think I will actually venture outside.

I'm in deep relax and recovery mode right now. Been at the school thing full steam from September 4th (or close to that, whenever) up till December 20th. Nearly four solid months of work. Looking so forward to the next four but right now I need to just enjoy nothing.

snow, sardines, starships, straws, sugar, strategy

Well Christmas has come and gone.

Slept in a little more than usual for a Christmas day, my stocking was waiting for me all plump and full of goodies. We had cinnamon rolls, bacon and grapefruit halves for breakfast. Not the largest of gift exchanges we have had in the past but we are all to the point of wanting things we need and not wanting extra things.

I received from the family: crazy straws, sardines, socks, pringles, chocolate orange, bike fender, and sweets. Lots of sweets. Also Kirie and Mark sent me these VERY AWESOME snap closure leg warmers from Harlem. Very cool (and warm!).

I gave a Post Secret book to mum and dad, some skeleton stickers to mum, a treehouse making book and a PNCA tee to dad, and the Perry Bible Fellowship anthology to Nathan. Not the greatest amount of gifts but hey...I'm poor.

Rubie gave me these photo coasters that had photos of me, Nate and Basil in them. Sooo sweet! No photos of her and me so I'll just paste over Nathan's face with hers. Auntie Celia gave me some sweet art supplies.

We sort of chilled out for a while. Nathan got this game called Khet and wanted to play us. He beat dad and then I played Nate twice after that. I wasn't really paying that much attention and I beat Nathan at his own game. Hehehehe. That never happens. Dad beat me pretty quick after my two rounds with Nathan.

It had started snowing around Noon so we decided not to head out to the Grandparents right at that moment and see how the weather was going to shape up. We went outside and played in the snow a little bit.

I watched part of the first episode of the second season of Twin Peaks. That scene with Dale Cooper laying there on the floor after having been shot; EXCRUCIATING!! Oh my...I knew he would get help but when was just trying my nerves. Also around this time was when I started to "acquire" the new Christmas Special of Doctor Who. I don't like David Tennant but I do like Kylie Minogue. Ooohh I couldn't wait for it to finish...

About...ohh maybe three-ish we headed out for the Grandparents Spencer. The Seabeck roads were highly treacherous. Nathan wanted to play another game of Khet. He made a mistake in the middle of the game and I would have won but I let him have a redo so he ended up winning.

Grandma and Grandpa didn't have their Christmas Tree up but there WERE party poppers. Ohhh. They also didn't have their bouncing angel. Dad made an over sized red wagon for Grandpa and I brought along some of my peanut brittle. We threw a couple Christmas Pizza's in the oven and dad played Santa and handed out gifties.

Nate and Pa received matching flying helicopters. Those things didn't so much fly as go up really fast and all about randomly. Lots of fun. I received a gift certificate for Artist's Edge, my favorite little art store in Silverdale (Utrecht and Art Media are gougers). I think I will apply it towards book binding supplies, pen nibs, and nice paper. Auntie Joyce gave me the very awesome gift bag of uber hot cocoa mix, uber uber brownie mix in a snowman shaped glass, and a gift certificate for Bed Bath and Beyond. Whoo!! Nathan also received brownie mix, but mine was the only one shaped like a snowman. Yeah, I rock.

Our festive Pizza was delicious and thick. Take that Portland Pizza! Nathan and I played yet another game of Khet. I won. Or..wait I think he won. Uhh. Oh right yeah we played two games. I won the first rather sneakily and complexly (my earlier wins had been rather simple two laser bounce wins) and the second time we played, a freestyle set up, he won.

Dessert was had, more games were played, lounging was enjoyed. At around 8:00ish we returned home and slacked for the rest of the night. My Doctor Who had some problems in its acquirement so I had to start fresh. Watched a little more Twin Peaks while waiting for it to meander its way onto my hard drive. Sooo worth the wait! Still don't like Tennant (teeth gnashing, etc.) but Kylie was so adorable. Nice little complete special with mostly good effects (great for Who).

So late. I least I have no plans for tomorrow and can sleep in.

how can I sleep?

Oh man oh man oh man oh man! I watched all of the first season of Twin Peaks. It is 12:36 am. That season finale cliffhanger!! I can't go to bed now...have to see what happens to Special Agent Dale Cooper!

Oh and it is Christmas Eve. How ever could I nod off on a night like this.

Lazy lazy day. Didn't have to be anywhere so I didn't go anywhere. Made some Peanut Brittle, ate some cookies, had a nice family dinner by candle light.

Sat about in front of the fire mostly. Big day tomorrow! Presents, food, candy, and the Grandparents! We are going to be eating Pizza. I. Can't. Wait.

fish coffee

I've been up watching Twin Peaks and I am only two episodes in and already I am a little scared. Just want to watch more now...

Today we went to Grandma and Grandpa Pedersen's for a pre-Christmas dinner.

I brought along my tube o' art to show Grandpa John and it was really well received. He showed me some of his work from the late 30's through the 50's; Cornish through when my mum was a child. Really amazing, the Cornish figure studies were exquisite (interesting how we work with nude male models at PNCA and they had underpants on at Cornish) in their attention to detail. His sketches from Mexico were great at capturing the people and scenes with fewer lines (and more in some of the longer market scenes). That is what I hope to be able to reach, that level of talent where you can capture something without having to go over it again and again fine tuning it.

Dinner was a tasty soup, even though I only got one shrimp.

After dinner I read the new David Sedaris story from the New Yorker out loud for everybody. A very thoughtful and poignant piece, it made me think about my own reaction to Tracey's death. I love Sedaris because he is very truthful about how selfish we are.

Showed Joe Z. and Celia my art. Wish I had more to show after a whole semesters worth of work.

We did some last minute shopping in Silverdale on the way home and then we chilled for the rest of the night. Whoo for being freaked out by TV that is older than me!

I miss...my bike

Left my heroic post up a little longer, to make sure everybody read it, for I am awesome.


Yesterday:

I barely made it to the train on time. I missed the Max closest to 2:00 and caught the 1:15 one and didn't arrive at the station until 2:40 for my 2:50 train. Had to lug my suitcase up into the train and find a spot for it; couldn't check it. Sat next to a nice enough guy who just watched skater videos on his Mac. I forgot my headphones so I couldn't watch anything from my laptop. Enjoyed a hot dog, soda and a cookie for my lunch and read some more of Rant.

Mom and Dad were waiting for me when I arrived in Tacoma. Yay! Dad! Haven't seen him since August, yaaay!

We went to Nathan and Rubie's new Tacoma apartment. Pretty nice, mine is bigger. Ate some more food and dismissed the offer of Oreo's. Mom doesn't like my Patrick-telling-off story. I think I was awesome.

Arrived home and revved up my computer to utilize the Internet. Watched the last half of Ratatouille with the parents. It didn't interest me enough to watch the first half. We watched an episode of Scrubs and then tucked in for the night.


Today:

Slept in nice and proper.

Mom stuffed some of the cookies she had made this morning in my mouth for breakfast. She gave me a glass of Emergen-C to balance it out.

Mum and I went to go see The Golden Compass. It was pretty good, it ended right where I am in the book so it is good that that part didn't get spoiled for me, not so good that it didn't get the full book stuffed into the adaptation and the ending is a little anti-climactic. It captures the energy of the book; which is to say that it shifts scenes really quickly without resting to long anywhere. The quick scene jumps are...quick. Still, sad that there won't be another adaptation because this one is totally failing in theatres.

We went home, relaxed a little and Mom, Dad and I swung by and picked up Joe Z. and Celia for Auntie C's Birthday Dinner.

We went to a place in Manette (Manet?) which isn't "Bremerton" but damn close. I dozed off on the car ride there.

The place, while cold, was very nice. We ended up being there for about two and a half hours. I had this ricotta and butternut squash stuffed in...something...with something on top...uhm. It was really good! Mom and Celia complained about how long it took the food to get to us but the place gave us lots of bread and I was perfectly fine. We had nowhere to go so why were they ranting about the time? They were understaffed and busy; perfectly good excuse for being slow. The food was worth it. Totally worth it, the first time I have had gourmet fancy expensive food that seemed like it was worth the price tag.

After I gave Celia her present (some Log Home magazines) and we all went home and chilled out for the rest of the night.

Mmm my food was so soft and gooey.

Being home I am so tired and sapped. I think it is because I am not riding my bike three miles like I am used to. Bah.

it is when the quiet ones snap...

I told off Patrick. He didn't say anything during critique again; just stared at the computer screen. His critique went quick as no one really wanted to say anything. Gordon closed out of his website and then I snapped and said something.

Pretty much, from the back of the room I said:
"You know what Patrick. During this whole critique you have just been sitting there staring at your computer watching movies. You haven't said anything. It is really disrespectful to all of us, and insulting. It is insulting to me. You come in late and say you don't want to do the project. We all did the final. We all did the work. It doesn't matter if you don't want to do it, you do it."

There was a moment of silence and Gordon said, "You know, she has a point."

During his short critique I indicated my mood towards him, a prelude or a foreshadowing if you will, with a little comment:

"For a photo major you don't have really any photos on your website."
"I'm not in a photo class this semester."
"Bullshit. We spent 10 weeks in the dark room in our 2D Design class."
"Yeah but I didn't like anything I produced."

After my comment I looked back at people's faces and they had a frozen expression of ecstatic joy on their faces. I have been basking in the praise of my accomplishments all day. Karen reenacted the events for Cidney, Laura, Tabitha, Robin and I later on. It was great. All of it was great. Just gotta stand up in class, stand up to the major E-bags who think they can get away with it. YEAAH!! I ROCK!

Chatted with Mel, Jim, Karen and Chelsea between the break of classes.

We had Paul for drawing and that was just painfully slow and bland. He lectured for ages about the techniques of the Masters and this line thing that doesn't work at all. I couldn't make a decent drawing in the whole class today, all the proportions ended up looking screwy even though I laid them out. A really slow and stressful way to end my semester. Scott was our model and he was great. Really friendly and top notch. Paul supplied us with cookies and juice again but Scott was naked so he didn't get up to get any (nice guy like that) but I asked if he wanted one and brought a cookie to him when he said yes.

Sarah, Danny, Mollie, Elaina and I went to Acorn for lunch. I had an overpriced sandwich. The staff was cute but it was way way overpriced. The talk was centered around their upcoming ADCS debates and not my heroism (I don't think they know Patrick).

After class I hung around PNCA; running errands and whatnot.

I am lending Sandman to Diana and on my way to her place to drop it off, I passed Tabitha and Karen. They informed me that they were not invited to Cidney's Going Away Party going on right then and there and they were going to crash it. I said I would join the after I swung by Diana's.

So I swung by Diana's and I did some last minute Christmas shopping. Went home, dropped my stuff off, and went down one floor and crashed Cidney's going away party.

It was fun. Karen, as I mentioned, reenacted my heroism. Robin played her Cello. Then I played her Cello. Then Tabitha played it. And I played it again. We ate ice cream and fried bananas. Tabitha sells knives door to door. I never knew that, amazing! The night was filled with lots of chatter about whatnots. Fried banana is delicious. Cidney is leaving us for Evergreen. She is going to be a Geoduck now, bah! I wanted to be all awesome and Illustration Major-y with her. Bah! Sucks. Gave her a group hug and bid her farewell to the tune of "Giiiiiiiii..."

...

My first semester at PNCA is over.

no pain, maybe some gain

Oww my abs hurt so much. I didn't even know I HAD abs. Yoga activated some hidden muscle within me.

I came to school early to print out some more copies of my minicomic for class. The good printer was out of ink, the other printer had someone on it, and I couldn't use the worst printer because far too many people were using it for it to be viable for many copies. Grr! I hate how horrible the printers are at this school. You think, what with it being an art school and all that, it would have good printers and lots of ink cartridges on supply. Bleeh! So I only have about 6 one sided comics. That is no good for giving to people, none what so ever.

The 2D critique went fast. We didn't really any intense discussion. My messages didn't come across very well but my first collage was complimented as working really well as a piece. Tabitha's collage was beautiful. Patrick came in during the last 20 minutes and didn't even have his final with him. He didn't even say anything during the critique. Glad I won't have him in anymore classes; what with him being a photo major and a flake. It went quick and so we didn't have to return after class. Which does me no good because I have class at 3.

Comic Club had two more people show up and four old people. Sweet meeting some of the other people. We had Pizza Shmizza instead of Hot Lips. For some reason I horfed down four slices. A small meeting but a good show up considering it is finals week. I hung out in the commons after with the left over pizza, offering it to who ever passed. It got gobbled up pretty quick.

Craig had a slice, he said he is doing his science comic with scratchboard which seems unlike him. His paintings are so colorful and vibrant, I can't imagine him black and white. It will be super rad to see!

Time Arts was all critique and all the work was brilliant and well thought out. Some of it at different levels of completion but overall a great variety that was a joy to go over. There was karaoke, sped up eating, people walking with mixed up sound effects, illustrated Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, visual poetry, slow motion fabric, gridded animation, music video with a guy and an animated chalkboard rabbit, a comic about the end of days, a comic about purgatory, and a comic that seemed to be the exact opposite of mine in a way. I'm going to miss everyone, I'll see them eventually!

Oh and Marilyn can't be human with her ink skills. Seriously. Not human. Her work was just one page but she contained more lines compacted neatly together than I have ever seen before. Her work was about this gummy shark boy trying to win a beauty pageant. I don't understand it either but wow.

Yoga, as I mentioned earlier, was a serious ab workout. Even if we only did ab-stuff for a few minutes. Ow ow ow...

expressive use of line

I had a really great day today. I feel great. The energy from biking combined with all the Oreos: YAAAY!! I'm close to sugar-crashing though. Not so fun.

The first hour of Digital Tools was spent dealing with the network glitches that arose with publishing our website and then burning to a disk. The computers kept freezing, or they wouldn't turn on... I had to restart mine three times. Macs are such poo. We eventually got it to work and the critiques went off without a major problem. We have four left (we went alphabetically and so mine is last) and we agreed to meet at 9am. Yay for sleeping in a little on the last day. Some really nice websites, amazing what people did with the technology. Mine will be rather plain in comparison. Hmmn. Oh well. Still went great except Patrick irked me because he spent all the critique looking at trailers online and not paying the least bit of attention.

In Drawing we had Morgan Walker for a teacher and he barely seemed aware he was supposed to teach us. We drew for 10 minutes and then he gave us some proportion instruction and we drew proportional sketched up till lunch.

Mollie and I went to Hot Lips and had pizza and had an intense conversation about being mature, acting your age, relationships, social interaction vs world experience, etc etc. You know, girl talk.

After lunch we sat in a circle and ended up talking for almost an hour. We all learned a little more about each other (Eva is a Jazz singer! Morgan B. is insane in a totally awesome way! Nell has a dog named Indie!). The last 15 minutes we did 3 5-minute poses with each posed representing an emotion. One we had to draw sad, the other happy and the last a haughty socialite. I can see where Lindsay got the idea that he, Morgan W., is crazy.

After that I went Christmas Shopping and bill paying! Yay!

Stopped by Powell's and picked up a few things for some certain folks back home. I went to Finnegan's to see if they had the Hazmat Playmobil (I really want it for myself, not getting it for Liam) but they didn't have it (still great Playmobil selection). Then I went to the Portland Clinic and dropped some much dinero for that appointment I had months ago. Bleeeh so expensive to get treated.

Went home and Lindsay was working on her "delicious" final. I had SO MANY OREOS!! eHHHHEEHEHEHHEHEEHHE!!! WHEE!! YEAAAH!!! OREOREOREOREOREOREOREOREOREOREO!!! BWAHAhAhAHA ohmanI'mtired