RETURNS FROM THE DEAD!!! ... or at least hibernation
Monday, April 27
My roomie got a dog!! Its only for 2 weeks, but I am excited :D she is small and cute and does not bark too much.
Paper is coming along... I will eventually finish it tonight sometime, and then I will be done! Huzzah! Then I get to sit around and read and sleep (and finish up a couple of pots in ceramics) and maybe party a little bit ;D
Saturday, April 25
blurg... really do need to be writing a paper :/ papers are ick. but its the last thing I have to do!! I will pretty much be completely done once I finish it :D heee no school no school no school
Tuesday, April 14
god, so again I have stopped blogging. I'm not really sure why I do it so sporadically. I think I am still motivated to write something by a sense of guilt instilled in me by my 4th grade teacher, who told us all how disappointed our older selves would be in our younger selves if we didn't journal our lives. but I am also lazy and don't feel like it a lot of the time. oh well, I suppose since it is for myself and not any hypothetical readers it does not really matter how sporadic I am.
so has anything significant happened in my life since november? I don't know. I've been volunteering at safeplace, which is entirely unexciting but still fun to play with the kids. though it still feels like a bit of a chore; I'm not used to having something to do on friday's. I almost want to be done with it, but that makes me feel guilty. :/
I also want to be done with rating. though it is super helpful to have a job that I can do at home and get that constant source of cash, but god it is so tiring. in a real job you don't actually have to work every minute that you are paid for, but with rating you do, and hours are a lot longer that way :P but by the time I am done in june, I should already have a real full-time job so money wont be an issue. the job is pretty important since I sort of need insurance, as it is getting ready to poof out of existence when I graduate.
sadly, when I graduate I will be living with my parents, rather than with Minda and Michelle :( I just am not confident enough in my money situation, and I think its probably the most mature and responsible thing to do at this point, plus it will give me a chance to pay back Afshan all the money I owe him. I just payed him about a fourth, $900, so I am on my way to being debt free! I hate owing him that money, because I get all excited about my savings, then I remember that none of it is actually my money. I want to start earning my money again :P
other than that, just FREAKING GRADUATION. haha, though its not actually that big of a deal... at least not in my head. much more important, my senior show is up at the moment! it was very exciting and stressful getting it all together, since I didnt decide on my theme until this semester, so I had to make everything for the show this semester, instead of using stuff I've made before. so that was crazy, but I got it all together, and the show is awesome and the opening was great! yayyyy. the only problem is I still have some number of weeks of school, a few loose ends in ceramics, and a stupid 10 page paper to finish before I graduate. but I feel so done... I dont want to work more :( ..and havn't been so far. bah. but I will get through, and then I wont write another paper for at least a year! I vow! we will see if I end up in graduate school... bleh.
mostly I just want to sleep all day, then wake up for food breaks where I eat amazing delicious cheese, and greek food, and olive oil with bread... mmmmmmmmm. I have become addicted to brie this semester.. bad for me and my bank account. but once I live at home I wont have to buy normal groceries, so I can splurg on delicious things at least some of the time! plus I plan to learn how to make things like hummus so I dont have to buy it. mm hummus. god I want to eat delicious food :( that is my number one motivation for going overseas. foooooood.
bah. well I have updated. perhapse I will do it again. but right now my freaking allergies are killing me, and my terrible beer is not helping, so I choose to sleep. if I am lucky I get to see crazy tomorrow and my nose will not be dripping like a leaky faucet!! huzzah!
so has anything significant happened in my life since november? I don't know. I've been volunteering at safeplace, which is entirely unexciting but still fun to play with the kids. though it still feels like a bit of a chore; I'm not used to having something to do on friday's. I almost want to be done with it, but that makes me feel guilty. :/
I also want to be done with rating. though it is super helpful to have a job that I can do at home and get that constant source of cash, but god it is so tiring. in a real job you don't actually have to work every minute that you are paid for, but with rating you do, and hours are a lot longer that way :P but by the time I am done in june, I should already have a real full-time job so money wont be an issue. the job is pretty important since I sort of need insurance, as it is getting ready to poof out of existence when I graduate.
sadly, when I graduate I will be living with my parents, rather than with Minda and Michelle :( I just am not confident enough in my money situation, and I think its probably the most mature and responsible thing to do at this point, plus it will give me a chance to pay back Afshan all the money I owe him. I just payed him about a fourth, $900, so I am on my way to being debt free! I hate owing him that money, because I get all excited about my savings, then I remember that none of it is actually my money. I want to start earning my money again :P
other than that, just FREAKING GRADUATION. haha, though its not actually that big of a deal... at least not in my head. much more important, my senior show is up at the moment! it was very exciting and stressful getting it all together, since I didnt decide on my theme until this semester, so I had to make everything for the show this semester, instead of using stuff I've made before. so that was crazy, but I got it all together, and the show is awesome and the opening was great! yayyyy. the only problem is I still have some number of weeks of school, a few loose ends in ceramics, and a stupid 10 page paper to finish before I graduate. but I feel so done... I dont want to work more :( ..and havn't been so far. bah. but I will get through, and then I wont write another paper for at least a year! I vow! we will see if I end up in graduate school... bleh.
mostly I just want to sleep all day, then wake up for food breaks where I eat amazing delicious cheese, and greek food, and olive oil with bread... mmmmmmmmm. I have become addicted to brie this semester.. bad for me and my bank account. but once I live at home I wont have to buy normal groceries, so I can splurg on delicious things at least some of the time! plus I plan to learn how to make things like hummus so I dont have to buy it. mm hummus. god I want to eat delicious food :( that is my number one motivation for going overseas. foooooood.
bah. well I have updated. perhapse I will do it again. but right now my freaking allergies are killing me, and my terrible beer is not helping, so I choose to sleep. if I am lucky I get to see crazy tomorrow and my nose will not be dripping like a leaky faucet!! huzzah!
Sunday, November 2
yes... still lazy
Friday I went in to have my interview at SafePlace, which was pretty typical (tell me about yourself, what are your strengths, do you have any fears about volunteering?) but I ended up deciding to work with the children's programs! They were pretty excited since I am all artsy, and god I love doing crafts so its a great mix :) I mean, its still not the most happy situation ever, since all of these kids have at the very least seen domestic violence, but that also doesnt mean that they arnt still kids. And love doing crafts. So I think that will be good, and once I graduate and move into an apt. I can start doing pet fostering, which will be fun.
Halloween was pretty cool, Afshan and I just did some party hopping with the Ave. B guys and then hung out at their house for a while. I tried to dress up as Leela and was semi-successful (I couldnt really see through my 'eye' mask, so I had it up on my forehead a lot :P) but I really like the color my hair turned out. I started out with a purple, but it was really pale and I didnt really like it so I put a red over it so now its a nice bright purplely pink. Also I made quesodillas. Toaster oven quesodillas are amazing.
I gave platelets for the first time today! It was fun but it take a lot longer than giving whole blood, about 2 hours for the whole shabang. It was pretty cool to watch the machine that did it though, it sucks your blood out for about a minute and centrifuges it to get the platelets out, then spits it and some extra fluids back into you for a minute, and repeats for about an hour. But they have all these little dvd players so I was kept entertained :D Platelets look kind of gross once they are out of your blood... lumpy yellow stuff.
mrah. Essays are not fun, even when they are for good classes... What I really want to do is work on my design project, I like drawing with rulers and graph paper and stuff :D Isometric drawings are super! But I suppose this take-home test is more important...
Friday I went in to have my interview at SafePlace, which was pretty typical (tell me about yourself, what are your strengths, do you have any fears about volunteering?) but I ended up deciding to work with the children's programs! They were pretty excited since I am all artsy, and god I love doing crafts so its a great mix :) I mean, its still not the most happy situation ever, since all of these kids have at the very least seen domestic violence, but that also doesnt mean that they arnt still kids. And love doing crafts. So I think that will be good, and once I graduate and move into an apt. I can start doing pet fostering, which will be fun.
Halloween was pretty cool, Afshan and I just did some party hopping with the Ave. B guys and then hung out at their house for a while. I tried to dress up as Leela and was semi-successful (I couldnt really see through my 'eye' mask, so I had it up on my forehead a lot :P) but I really like the color my hair turned out. I started out with a purple, but it was really pale and I didnt really like it so I put a red over it so now its a nice bright purplely pink. Also I made quesodillas. Toaster oven quesodillas are amazing.
I gave platelets for the first time today! It was fun but it take a lot longer than giving whole blood, about 2 hours for the whole shabang. It was pretty cool to watch the machine that did it though, it sucks your blood out for about a minute and centrifuges it to get the platelets out, then spits it and some extra fluids back into you for a minute, and repeats for about an hour. But they have all these little dvd players so I was kept entertained :D Platelets look kind of gross once they are out of your blood... lumpy yellow stuff.
mrah. Essays are not fun, even when they are for good classes... What I really want to do is work on my design project, I like drawing with rulers and graph paper and stuff :D Isometric drawings are super! But I suppose this take-home test is more important...
Wednesday, October 29
Still adapted 'letters' to Hollen:
Hey, jeeze... its been like two months since I've wrote! I would make a terrible pen pal :P So anywho, I feel like my weeks have been crazy busy lately, though weekends are usually a bit more sane. I am actually almost done with the SafePlace training, it was basically Tue and Thur nights all October, plus a couple Saturdays, and I've only got two sessions let. 40 hrs doesnt sound like that much when spread out over a little over a month, but when you add in about 2hrs total travel time, thats two weeknights ever week where from 5-10 I'm not doing anything particularly useful (for school that is). :/ Also I'm doing this result rating work for Google (I dont think I mentioned it before) which is fairly simple but I have to do a minimum of 10 hrs a week, so thats another 1-2 hrs per day that is claimed. I know I dont have it that bad, especially considering that my being 'really busy' is in part because I refuse to get less than 8 hrs of sleep a night :P But I'm not used to having those two extra time commitments outside of school. But next week I will be done with SafePlace training, which should help a lot. I'm not sure exactly what type of volunteering I will be doing, but they only ask you to do 8 hrs a month, which is hardly anything at all, so it wont be much of a time commitment. I will probably end up doing general gopher/secretary work at the shelter because thats the position that is most flexible with hours, but I may help out in the afterschool care with the kids or if I am brave enough do hospital advocacy, which is where we go into the hospital when survivors are geting their SANE exam. But that would be pretty intense, and I'm not positive I am emotionally ready for that.
Gosh... long paragraph. Anywho, the art is going pretty well, I am really starting to figure out my technique, which is carving on the surface (and as soon as I get some fired-I have a ton that are almost done-I will post some pics), and I have been sort of leaning towards current issues with animals, like endangered animals and hunting and such. Its freaking tiring and takes forever to carve them, but it is a lot of fun and I am really liking how they are turning out, so its pretty exciting. This week I started throwing some plates, because that is something I never really got very good at and have kind of been avoiding :P but surprisingly enough, now going back they are not nearly as hard as I remembered :D probably partly because I have been throwing much bigger pots and so its easier to handle the smaller ones. I am also starting to try throwing in porcelain, which is hard, but also pretty awesome. Porcelain is a lot softer than other clays, so it can be harder to manipulate without it coming off in your hands or falling over, but it also feels so awesomely smooth and soft when you are throwing. I also think its going to be easier to carve since its so smooth, because a lot of the stoneware that I have been throwing with has a lot of particles in it, and my little tool doesnt actually catch on them but its just rougher to carve. If that makes any sense.
Anywho, on a slightly related note, Abby is at SU this semester, and I've been hanging out a lot with her because she is in the ceramics class the day I proctor (which means I sit and work in the studio and make people sign in when they come in after hours) so I see her then, and also shes living with Harry in Austin and has been having occasional parties at their place which is fun.
Bah.. its already 9:40 and I made myself promise to get some more stuff done before I leave, so I'm off to throw more pots, but I swear I will write again BEFORE December.
Hey, jeeze... its been like two months since I've wrote! I would make a terrible pen pal :P So anywho, I feel like my weeks have been crazy busy lately, though weekends are usually a bit more sane. I am actually almost done with the SafePlace training, it was basically Tue and Thur nights all October, plus a couple Saturdays, and I've only got two sessions let. 40 hrs doesnt sound like that much when spread out over a little over a month, but when you add in about 2hrs total travel time, thats two weeknights ever week where from 5-10 I'm not doing anything particularly useful (for school that is). :/ Also I'm doing this result rating work for Google (I dont think I mentioned it before) which is fairly simple but I have to do a minimum of 10 hrs a week, so thats another 1-2 hrs per day that is claimed. I know I dont have it that bad, especially considering that my being 'really busy' is in part because I refuse to get less than 8 hrs of sleep a night :P But I'm not used to having those two extra time commitments outside of school. But next week I will be done with SafePlace training, which should help a lot. I'm not sure exactly what type of volunteering I will be doing, but they only ask you to do 8 hrs a month, which is hardly anything at all, so it wont be much of a time commitment. I will probably end up doing general gopher/secretary work at the shelter because thats the position that is most flexible with hours, but I may help out in the afterschool care with the kids or if I am brave enough do hospital advocacy, which is where we go into the hospital when survivors are geting their SANE exam. But that would be pretty intense, and I'm not positive I am emotionally ready for that.
Gosh... long paragraph. Anywho, the art is going pretty well, I am really starting to figure out my technique, which is carving on the surface (and as soon as I get some fired-I have a ton that are almost done-I will post some pics), and I have been sort of leaning towards current issues with animals, like endangered animals and hunting and such. Its freaking tiring and takes forever to carve them, but it is a lot of fun and I am really liking how they are turning out, so its pretty exciting. This week I started throwing some plates, because that is something I never really got very good at and have kind of been avoiding :P but surprisingly enough, now going back they are not nearly as hard as I remembered :D probably partly because I have been throwing much bigger pots and so its easier to handle the smaller ones. I am also starting to try throwing in porcelain, which is hard, but also pretty awesome. Porcelain is a lot softer than other clays, so it can be harder to manipulate without it coming off in your hands or falling over, but it also feels so awesomely smooth and soft when you are throwing. I also think its going to be easier to carve since its so smooth, because a lot of the stoneware that I have been throwing with has a lot of particles in it, and my little tool doesnt actually catch on them but its just rougher to carve. If that makes any sense.
Anywho, on a slightly related note, Abby is at SU this semester, and I've been hanging out a lot with her because she is in the ceramics class the day I proctor (which means I sit and work in the studio and make people sign in when they come in after hours) so I see her then, and also shes living with Harry in Austin and has been having occasional parties at their place which is fun.
Bah.. its already 9:40 and I made myself promise to get some more stuff done before I leave, so I'm off to throw more pots, but I swear I will write again BEFORE December.
