we are zombies of expression
So this weekend was the 24 hour film making contest, which was fun. It sort of killed the weekend productivity wise for everyone involved, which is especially bad with midterms this week. But I think it was worth it ( at least right now, hope I still feel that way while trying to get things done tomorrow). I like being involved in random creative projects with other people, especially when we have something to show for it at the end. Riley did an awesome job with all the filming and editing, for about 18 hours straight. Heidi provided an awesome clarinet soundtrack. Zach was the co-star and tech master, which enabled us to turn in the thing on time (and in the right format this time!). I just had to dance around and change outfits a lot.We also went to see Tommy (the Who’s musical) on campus, which was really awesome. The set was neat and the whole thing was just really fun to watch.
I haven’t worked on any design stuff AT ALL this weekend, which worries me because this was the weekend when I was suppose to really get started on it and really get moving. Instead I worked on stuff for my music class, helped out with our video, and watched Tommy. But I sort of think it’s actually good I took a “break” from design stuff cause it’s all that stuff that happens ouside of design that inspires and influences my design. Plus it keeps me sane to surround myself by other forms of creativity, at least occasionally. So theoretically I’ll be oozing with ideas now. Or at least after I go to sleep and wake up tomorrow morning.
run jump dance be happy
A few days ago I had one of those random sad days where I was just really unbalenced, and I couldn’t figure out why. There was a trigger that sort of set me off, but I knew that wasn’t really the cause of the general blues. I know most of my issues are caused by myself. So I stayed awake thinking about it and trying to figure it out. Part of me really believes in the whole moon phases effecting people thing, cause I really do weird things during certain phases. But I also know that can’t be all. So I thought quite a while and came up with a small list of rather self inflicted factors, and then realized these same things are probably almost always the cause of my downish times:
- Lack of good food - Crappy food and/or an empty fridge always makes me really sad and frustrated.
- Lack of sleep - This one seems pretty obvious.
- Lack of exercise - I’ve never really exercised a whole lot but I’ve noticed that I always feel a lot better overall after doing something physical, so it makes sense that a lack of it would make me feel worse. People have been telling me this for years, but I never actually believed them.
- Poor time management - This has a big effect on a lot of different things, especially #2. It’s amazing how much better I feel when I plan things out better and actually get things done.
- Not being assertive - This one is kind of weird. It sort of has more do do with being able to actually tell people things when I’d really like to. This sort of affects #2 and #4 as well.
Looking at that top 5 again it seems really obvious that those would be the problem, but for some reason it took me a while to figure it out. They’re sort of just here to remind myself later on when I’ve forgotten and need to get myself out of a rut, it also just gives me things to work on in general I suppose.
So lately I’ve been eating good food, sleeping as well as I can, running, dancing, (and soon, climbing), reading, and working on things. I don’t know why I put off doing school stuff for so long when I’m actually really interested in it. Anyways, time to work on that whole “doing stuff” thing.
Samba!
I have discovered the “most intense, un-ambivalent joy” and it’s called The Samba. I actually made it to my Afro-Brazilian dance class today, and I’m really really glad I went. I felt like a dancing noob showing up in jeans and a t-shirt (I don’t know why it didn’t even occur to me to bring other clothes) but it didn’t really matter once the live band started to play. I don’t remember the last time I’ve had such a ridiculously good time. I don’t know how anyone couldn’t be ridiculously happy while dancing the Samba. I think I am very very addicted. It takes a long time to get there and back, but it’s so worth it. And it’s a really good workout dancing around for 2 straight hours. It also occured to me that you know, I really really like dancing. And it’s way more fun than working out. I should keep taking dance classes, cause they always make me really happy.
I seem to be having a very multi-cultural quarter. Studying a Swiss company (Nestle), Researching the Rwanda, Listening to and Learning about the influences of various immigrant cultures on American music, Learning to speak Italian, and Dancing to Afro-Brazilian music. It’s so awesome, I love the variety of this quarter. Now I just need to find the time to actually get all that studying, researching, and learning done.
Also, I had tasty Easter leftovers and a basket (from Zach’s parents) for dinner, and free tasty catered lunch at work. As Nestle says “good food, good life.”
lack of projects
It’s occurred to me recently that I don’t really DO a whole lot. I mean, I suppose I’ve been doing things like reading stuff and figuring out housing stuff, but I’m sort of at a loss as to what I’ve really been up to in my own spare time. Being the begining of the quarter I’m finding myself with a good deal of random extra time that I don’t know what to do with.
Trying to get back into old hobbies or habbits is hard cause they lose their novelty so quickly for me. I’m sort of in this weird slump of doing nothing very interesting in my own time lately. Doing artsy side projects is fun in theory but I feel like lately I haven’t had the energy to really get into anything outside of work or class…
I need to figure something out cause i’m driving myself crazy. It seems that when I have a hard time finding ways to entertain myself I have a harder time feeling comfortable in the company of others (and myself I suppose). Although that doesn’t make much sense cause I seem to be rather social lately. Oh I don’t know I’m confusing myself. I just know that I’m feeling sub-par because my Jayne time has been sub-par, which is my fault.
So I’m going to start working on a print.
hip hip horray for the house
We are going to be living in an awesome house next school year! It’s up in Maple Leaf, which is pretty close to Green Lake and easily bussable to school. We’re so excited for it. It’s like perfect for what we needed, and it’s really cute. We won’t be moving in until September, but it’s nice to have it worked out so I can stop looking at craigslist all the time and thinking about what ifs. I’m excited for the awesomeness that is living in a house and being out of the U-district but still close to the quirky urbanness of Green Lake, where apparently everyone is athletic, so maybe that will inspire me. I’m so excited for it!
Maybe this time we really will live there for more than a year. I know I said that about this apartment, but I think we’d be more likely to live in that house for longer, even though I’ll be graduating next year. It recently occured to me that if I was working in Seattle still I could still be living in a house with friends, even if I wasn’t a student any more. For some reason in my head I thought graduating would force me out to my own place or something. I suppose it all depends on where work ends up being, although theoretically I’ll have a car again by then so it wouldn’t be as bad anyways.
I’ve always wanted to live in a house with some friends (that’s not my parents’)! Especially one of the cool older quirky houses. I really like the older 1920’s houses around here. I wish people still built houses like that.
Ok. Time to start homework, seriously.
Luaka Bop Radio is awesome.
addict
I am so addicted to looking through classifieds. Seriously. I think anywhere that had a computer today I was looking through classifieds online. This is why I don’t check Craigslist very often, I just get sucked into the endless stream of ads, it seems like such a random thing to get addicted to.
The house was pretty nice and def. big enough for all of us. We want it but I don’t know if we’ll get it since there were people who filled out their app before us too, so I don’t wanna get my hopes up. It would be nice to have the roaming room and It’d be a nice place to have people over, not that it happens all that much with us, but occassionally. Apparently the people living there now are the top stars of our football team, who are leaving to join the NFL. Pretty crazy
The Italian prep class should be kinda fun. Its just us Rome kids and it’s taught by one of our design teachers’ Italian wife. We got Italian names, apparently mine is Giovanna. Wouldn’t it be great if that was my real name? Giovanna Vidheecharoen. So many letters!
I’m so excited for everything right now!
house
4 of us (maybe 5) are thinking about renting a house next year. I’m excited for house living but at the same time not totally sure yet.
+ Bigger space to run around in and make stuff in
+ Living with Zach
+ Living in a house (which is inherently cool, unless it’s just the parent’s)
+ Very Residential (No car racing or shouting bums outside my window at 2 am)
+ Free laundry
+ A yard
+ Free parking ( for you know.. my bike and wagon )
+ Group living ( I don’t want to live by myself )
+ Change
- Further from school and work, more bussing.
- Further from the livelier part of town and the vital busses.
- More expensive
- Very Residential (I am rather fond of living near the hubbub right now)
- Having to move all my crap again
So yeah, overall more + things, but I suppose it depends mostly on how awesome the house we find is. We are looking at one tomorrow that sounds really great, although a bit further than the ones we’re looking at on the weekend. But maybe we’ll fall in love with it. I wonder how much of my excitement is a product of house searching. I really like hunting for housing. I don’t really know why. I just get a strange joy out of searching through classifieds. We’ll see how tomorrow goes.
edacious
I recently started paying attention to all the crap I’ve been eating lately, mainly because I don’t like how my pants have been fitting and I had a convo about calorie counting and stuff a few nights ago. I’ve never been into that, nor do I really want to start or anything. It’s just so crazy how easy it is to eat like twice as much as I really need to. Maybe I should start paying more attention to food stuffs. I do love tasty treats though. Le sigh.
Zach’s friend was thinking about making a food review site for the ave, which I think would be fun to write for although probably for more than ave food, cause there’s only so much on the Ave, and there’s plenty of other tasty stuff just off the ave. Anyways, I doubt his friend would actually want me to write stuff for it, even though I told Zach to tell him that I wanted to play too. But it rekindled my interest in the fooding blog I had originally set up a few months ago and never actually did anything with. I too wanted to do local restraunt reviews, but didn’t really have the time. I am briefly re-interested in it, but I’m not sure how long this rekindled interest will last. Does anyone else want to help me write content for it anyways? I think it’d be fun to have an excuse to get to eat out.
Here’s where it is for now: Fooding Although there’s not really much there yet.
