Recovering
My body is awesome! I am getting better! Much faster than I thought I would actually. I mean, I’m still very much sick, but I feel fine enough to get out and do things for a couple of hours, even if it means I have to sleep for a few when I get home. I can breathe through my nose again! although ironicly taking anything bigger than a half breath makes me cough.
But yeah, I think body just gets very bored laying around. I try to tell it that it should stay asleep for longer, but it doesn’t really want to. And I have lots of orange juice. And Flintstones vitamins. And I seriously think that the smoothie I had on Friday played a big part in kicking my mono’s ass, so I’m looking forward to another one tomorrow morning. There is WAY too much bubble tea in the U-district, and not nearly enough smoothies. Apparently when I’m sick my body just craves fruit and soy milk and other healthy things. it doesn’t seem to like meat
I am very very behind in school though = ( My Textbook Cover project is….sucking a lot. I was so excited for it but I’m super behind. I feel really terrible not really having anything decent to show at crit tomorrow, but I think he’ll understand that I’ve been pretty much a zombie the entire weekend. At least it’s nice to know my genetics class in highschool is sort of coming in handy now.
I’m excited for Halloween tomorrow. Paris Combo at the Triple Door should be pretty sweet.
The VCD picnic on Friday was pretty cool. Also, I won a full version of the Adobe Creative Suite 2! (not from the picnic, but the same day). It’s pretty neat, cause it’s worth like $400 and it’s like the first legit copy of any Adobe stuff I’ve ever owned. Of course I’ve been too lazy to actually install it… but I’m happy it’s there for me.
ok. Sleep. Design can wait for the morning. I’ve been putting it off all weekend, might as well continue.
BLARG! Mono Sucks.
Life would be so much better if my nose was happy instead of stuffy. Or if my throat was all swollen and covered in nasty. Or if I could swallow anything without hurting. Or if the taste buds on my tounge weren’t mysteriously getting messed up. Or if my head didn’t feel like it was being squeezed in all the time. Or if I just had the energy to get things done. Arg! It’s so frustrating!
Sorry, I just need to bitch about it cause it’s driving me crazy. Half the day I spend thinking “OMG life sucks. I hate everyone. I wish I was dead.” Which is probably a little melodramatic. Of course the other half of the day is more like “gosh, this is awfuly inconvenient.” I hate not being able to do things.
I think it’s the whole throat/nose area that drives me up the wall. Because generally I enjoy eating and breathing at the same time, but maybe that’s asking too much. I also like being able to eat happily.
I remember when I was younger, and quite a bit chunkier, I heard people lost lots of weight when they had mono. At the time I thought, “Hmm. That’d almost be nice, you don’t even have to do anything.” But you know, screw that.
I want to be able to eat voraciously, live actively, and make out passionately. It makes me sad that I won’t be doing any of those for quite a while.
sickly
I have mono. This fuckin sucks.
zombie fight
Inspired by the Normal Life comic, I’m doing quasi-daily (ie, whenever I feel like it) comics again, as if I don’t already have a ton of other things to do. I dunno, I just felt like trying out a new format and using color and stuff. Color is sorta weird on this one, i like the bottom half, but not so much the top half. I also figure if I do all of it with pen from the start ( instead of pencil first ) it should go faster, although end up crappier. I dunno, just trying it out. Click it to read the little stuff.
in other news, my body hates me. The perpetual non-wellness continues.
squirrel poke
Squirrels have to be like the cutest damn rodents ever. I’ve been kinda frustrated tonight working on my school stuff, but this picture just makes me so happy. I don’t know what it is, but the idea of just poking a squirrel in the side makes me smile. Especially when they just sort of sit there like this fellow. I wish I could poke a squirrel. The only rodents I get to poke are gerbils.
yay for screen printing
Oh internet. So terribly life sucking. I swear the second I get home I’m a slave to the machine. I’m working on weening myself off of it… Damn you Boing Boing and your never ending supply of cool random stuff.
In other news, screenprinting is exciting!! Well, I like it. I don’t know. Something about making tons of prints of things that are the same but different is just neat. I just love the way the ink sits on top of the other ink. The way it feels when printed on nice paper. The way I can never get things to register correctly, which is both frustrating and awesome ( the design side of me wants to be anal, the real side of me loves the proof of human error and variations ). And I love that you can pretty much screen print onto anything! And at so many sizes. It just occured to me this morning that I could screen print directly onto blank cds! Such a better alternative to those stupid paper labels. And it’s relatively fast, at least compared to painting, etching, etc… And T-Shirts! I WILL print T-shirts, I swear.
and Typography is boring. Well, not really boring so much as so much less interesting than screen printing right now. It’s odd cause we’re making cut & paste collages, which has always been my thing, so it should be fun. But I can’t seem to get into it right now.
And once again I feel lame cause it seems like I have no life outside of school. But then again, it’s all art & design stuff, which is all I really want to be doing right now anyways so I guess it’s actually pretty cool. Actually I pretty much have all I could really ask for right now. Good friends, a sweet boy, a cushy job, enjoyable classes, and lots of new music to listen to. Life is pretty good. All that’s missing right now is more food in this place.
frustration haiku
Internet is slow!
Project idea really sucks!
Computer is slow!
ARG! I hate frustring sundays.
going broke
Geeeez. I just looked at my bank account. I am spending WAY too much money lately, and on things I really don’t need AT ALL. I need to stop. Granted, a good deal of it this past month has gone towards art supplies and such ( $200 worth of paper for printmaking?!)… but still..
recent additions to my crap:
•The Complete Calvin & Hobbes. Hardbound 3 book box set. I’ve never really been into box set things and such, but it’s Calvin & Hobbes! Bill Watterson is like my hero.
•Blankets by Craig Thompson. Only like my favorite graphic novel EVER. I’ve been meaning to get it all year. Also picked up another one of his comics.
•Black iPod nano. Yeah, I did it. I sold Midori to Peter last night and today I felt a 4gb void in my life. I feel really bad about buying it for some reason, maybe because this is the 3rd iPod I’ve had in the past like month. But I am going to sell the 20gig as well. If anyone wants it, let me know. But damn, the nano is soooo sexy. I don’t care what Neal thinks. For some reason I want to give the nano a guy’s name. the other two have been girls ( the new 20gig is unnamed)… Hmm.. YES! His name shall be Mulder.
I feel so fuckin materialistic and dumb. I’m going to go donate a bunch of my things to the church thrift store tomorrow.
smashing good time
I am always amazed how little I seem to get done. I don’t know how people (like p.) can work 30-40 hours a week on top of school. I feel like I always have something I need to be working on. I suppose it’s nice to keep busy, but I dunno, I feel like I get drained a lot easier than most people.
The Wallace & Gromit movie is fun. And once again I say to myself, why am I not doing animation? At least I get to destroy tvs for design.
The Go! Team is apparently my new artist of the week. The monthly makes me sluggish.
my education
I am currently looking for books about crows, the circus, accordians, and burlesque. I need magazines to cut up to shreds. I need a tv I can smash in and submerge in water. I need a bigger saw blade. I need to figure out a way to make typography erotic, minimal, and squiggly. And this is all just for this week.
