Boggis and Bunce and Bean
One fat, one short, one lean
These horrible crooks
So different in looks
Were nonetheless equally mean.
Sitting home on a Friday night, munching on cheese & baguette, watching as many Wes Anderson movies as I can before the sun comes up, making some cake decorations, cleaning, and getting ready for my mother's birthday this weekend. I suppose it'll be an all-nighter since it's about 10:30 already.
warm spring sunshine, come back. this grey rainy overcast chill is no good.
You know how people say "funny" when what they really mean is "peculiar"? That bothers me for some reason. Clarity is important, although I can't spell worth a damn.
Anyway, today was a peculiar day, compared to a normal person's schedule; compared to my own schedule three weeks ago. I got up around 10am because the sun sears through my bedroom window washing the pillows of my bed in searing light. It's really the best natural wake up call I've ever gotten. There's no rolling over or hiding from it and there's none of that loud and irritating alarm business. During the winter time it doesn't happen because the sun is angled behind the high rise apartment buildings differently, but spring through fall, it's there making sure I don't waste the day away.
I spent a solid chunk of the day screenprinting 4 t-shirts for one of my best friend's new landscaping business. Now, this is the first time I've ever done this for profit (which I mean loosely because I'm charging him a measly $20 for them) and I'm not sure I'm going to do it again. I love doing the creative and experiental stuff, but cutting out 32 tiny letters by hand (and praying I don't muck it up), printing front, back, side & top seam, with a three color registration is not only mind numbingly boring but incredibly irritating. In the end, I hope he likes the way they came out because I worked pretty hard on them, but it was definately too much work to do on a regular basis. This is what it ended up looking like:
Through a stroke of luck and a little miscommunication, I am currently getting free cable (HBO included) which I'm very okay with. Normally, I don't watch a lot of tv. Before moving into this apartment I hadn't had cable for about 5 years, so tv hasn't really been my thing. I have a lot of DVDs, but meh. The difference is, now that I don't have a job I'm spending a lot of time in my apartment and I leave the tv on for noise or to catch my attention occasionally. Well, today I remembered why cable is so bizarre. I watch about 2 hours of "the Deadliset Catch" on Discovery, followed by several hours of cartoons on Nickelodeon, about an hour's worth on Cartoon Network, 15 minutes of a plastic surgery show on E! before I was totally grossed out, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC (SUPER crush) and a show on Water Ceremonies in Cambodia on some Chinese channel. I signed up for Netflix.
Alright, my boyfriend is mocking me. It's time to start reading the third twilight book, which will only humiliate me more. Not to mention I'm still being sour about some pretty heartbreaking defeats in Mario Kart tonight. Ciao.
Anyway, today was a peculiar day, compared to a normal person's schedule; compared to my own schedule three weeks ago. I got up around 10am because the sun sears through my bedroom window washing the pillows of my bed in searing light. It's really the best natural wake up call I've ever gotten. There's no rolling over or hiding from it and there's none of that loud and irritating alarm business. During the winter time it doesn't happen because the sun is angled behind the high rise apartment buildings differently, but spring through fall, it's there making sure I don't waste the day away.
I spent a solid chunk of the day screenprinting 4 t-shirts for one of my best friend's new landscaping business. Now, this is the first time I've ever done this for profit (which I mean loosely because I'm charging him a measly $20 for them) and I'm not sure I'm going to do it again. I love doing the creative and experiental stuff, but cutting out 32 tiny letters by hand (and praying I don't muck it up), printing front, back, side & top seam, with a three color registration is not only mind numbingly boring but incredibly irritating. In the end, I hope he likes the way they came out because I worked pretty hard on them, but it was definately too much work to do on a regular basis. This is what it ended up looking like:
Through a stroke of luck and a little miscommunication, I am currently getting free cable (HBO included) which I'm very okay with. Normally, I don't watch a lot of tv. Before moving into this apartment I hadn't had cable for about 5 years, so tv hasn't really been my thing. I have a lot of DVDs, but meh. The difference is, now that I don't have a job I'm spending a lot of time in my apartment and I leave the tv on for noise or to catch my attention occasionally. Well, today I remembered why cable is so bizarre. I watch about 2 hours of "the Deadliset Catch" on Discovery, followed by several hours of cartoons on Nickelodeon, about an hour's worth on Cartoon Network, 15 minutes of a plastic surgery show on E! before I was totally grossed out, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC (SUPER crush) and a show on Water Ceremonies in Cambodia on some Chinese channel. I signed up for Netflix.
Alright, my boyfriend is mocking me. It's time to start reading the third twilight book, which will only humiliate me more. Not to mention I'm still being sour about some pretty heartbreaking defeats in Mario Kart tonight. Ciao.
So last week I zipped straight through the first two Twilight books and dove into The Bell Jar, which I'm now about halfway through because I couldn't get to sleep last night and stayed up for a long time reading. All I want to do is read. In my bed, at a coffee shop, at my boyfriend's house, lounging in the living room, everywhere, all the time. My consciousness is telling me I'm trying to shut the rest of the world out and be something else for a while. My subconscious agrees I think.
But alas, that's not all I've been up to. I got a little bit of writing done, although I feel like I need to write MORE if this project is ever going to get some bulk to it. I've also made a list of daily sketches to make for the next 30 days (well, 28 now) to push myself in the drawing & visual thinking direction. It's an idea I picked up from old high school classes when our professor would give us a list of things to draw and each week we had to pick at least two things from the list to sketch. Anyway, I've got a small sketchbook at the moment, and I thought it would be simple enough to do some kind of sketch once a day. Since I've already planned out what to do each day, there's pretty much no excuse not to - which is what I feel like I need right now - no excuses.
OH! I also picked up these headphones yesterday which I'm pretty excited about:
Sure, they're pretty gaudy, but I'm okay with that. At least now I'll be able to hear the classical music I'm trying to listen to over whatever's playing at the coffee shop.
So, time to get things in order today and move on to....the next step of this whole joblessness thing...? I have no idea what I'm doing these days.
But alas, that's not all I've been up to. I got a little bit of writing done, although I feel like I need to write MORE if this project is ever going to get some bulk to it. I've also made a list of daily sketches to make for the next 30 days (well, 28 now) to push myself in the drawing & visual thinking direction. It's an idea I picked up from old high school classes when our professor would give us a list of things to draw and each week we had to pick at least two things from the list to sketch. Anyway, I've got a small sketchbook at the moment, and I thought it would be simple enough to do some kind of sketch once a day. Since I've already planned out what to do each day, there's pretty much no excuse not to - which is what I feel like I need right now - no excuses.
OH! I also picked up these headphones yesterday which I'm pretty excited about:
Sure, they're pretty gaudy, but I'm okay with that. At least now I'll be able to hear the classical music I'm trying to listen to over whatever's playing at the coffee shop.
So, time to get things in order today and move on to....the next step of this whole joblessness thing...? I have no idea what I'm doing these days.
Alright, I need to get this out of my system here and now: This celebrity crush on Robert Pattinson has gotten out of control. I mean, I'm a 24 year old mostly right minded upstanding citizen. I'm am not some uncontrollable impressionable 14 year old idol loving girl damn it. But I'm not sure I can go back out into public until his smouldering tempting and devastatingly handsome face has been taken off the newstands (thanks GQ). Seriously. I saw Twilight months ago when it came out and was tempted to dump my boyfriend and move to hollywood to find this dreamboat. I just finished reading the book and all I can see is his heartbreaking face on every page. In response to my recent joblessness I haven't bought the movie - yet. Instead I sat down with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last night while I painted (STOP JUDGING ME!) and found to some amusement that I didn't find him SO attractive. Just kind of attractive. But seriously, he's still gorgeous. Point of all of this is, this infatuation needs to be over. I haven't been hit this hard with a celeb crush since Taylor Hanson. Okay, you can judge me just a little bit.
So in more legitimate news. I was very excited to join up with the Wes Anderson, Writers, and Crafty groups this afternoon. For starters, Wes Anderson IS my Rushmore - and who doesn't love a little trivia. My plan during this unemployment is also to do a good bit of writing and crafting, so hopefully that will be super informative as well, seeing as to how I have no formal training in either. WooT!
So in more legitimate news. I was very excited to join up with the Wes Anderson, Writers, and Crafty groups this afternoon. For starters, Wes Anderson IS my Rushmore - and who doesn't love a little trivia. My plan during this unemployment is also to do a good bit of writing and crafting, so hopefully that will be super informative as well, seeing as to how I have no formal training in either. WooT!
Well, hello. And a big thank you to whoever decided to anonomously rejuvenate my account. It's been a while eh?
The rundown:
Since Nov. 2007 I have gotten a job at a great architecture firm only be laid off a year and 3 months later (actually - yesterday - no joke.) I acquired a boyfriend in Nov. of 2007, which I've managed to hold on to without watching it dissolve between my fingers. I've explored areas of my creativity that have pointed me in new directions concerning my future, my interests, and possibly even my work. I was able to move from a house overflowing with 5-6 people to an amazing downtown apartment all my own. I've also followed my curisority for Buddhism and found a small group of practicing Tibetian Buddhists here in Philly to meet with. I've made a couple of new friends and watched others move farther away, but see now that that's just how things work. Things have been mostly great! Well, you know - except for the whole "I'm suddenly out looking for work again" thing, which honestly - I'm not too broken up about.
So, here I am again for 3 more months - at least. Thank you again to the kind person who made it possible.
The rundown:
Since Nov. 2007 I have gotten a job at a great architecture firm only be laid off a year and 3 months later (actually - yesterday - no joke.) I acquired a boyfriend in Nov. of 2007, which I've managed to hold on to without watching it dissolve between my fingers. I've explored areas of my creativity that have pointed me in new directions concerning my future, my interests, and possibly even my work. I was able to move from a house overflowing with 5-6 people to an amazing downtown apartment all my own. I've also followed my curisority for Buddhism and found a small group of practicing Tibetian Buddhists here in Philly to meet with. I've made a couple of new friends and watched others move farther away, but see now that that's just how things work. Things have been mostly great! Well, you know - except for the whole "I'm suddenly out looking for work again" thing, which honestly - I'm not too broken up about.
So, here I am again for 3 more months - at least. Thank you again to the kind person who made it possible.
