Author: Teel

Last night, instead of doing my homework or ironing or watching my favorite shows or doing the dishes or … whatever else I might otherwise have been doing, I ended up reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I realize it’s been available for ages in hardback, but since my other Harry Potter books are all paperback, I wanted to try to get the whole set in matching volumes, and waited for the paperback release. Which was a month or two ago. Cover price of The Goblet of Fire: $8.99. ‘Everyday low price’ at Walmart: $5.97. So, I waited until I got to a Walmart to pick it up, which was Friday night. I started reading it Saturday afternoon and finished reading it last night.

Didn’t get much else done all weekend. Luckily, the next book isn’t coming out until… who knows? Last I heard, the author was more than a year late in delivering the title to her publisher. I may have to borrow a copy of that one from someone when it comes out instead of waiting an indefinite period of time befor eit also goes to paperback. Upon which time I will lose another weekend to Harry Potter.

I forgot my ironing. In addition to homework preventing me from posting more this weekend, I have just remembered that I have an immense amount of ironing left to do. Immense. And I’ve started working out on the Bowlflex finally, and hope to be able to do some of that right now, then work on my homework, then iron. Than maybe sleep!

I’ve felt this way for quite a long while, but that doesn’t make it any less true that I feel this way now: I feel like I’m on the verge of a shift in my attitudes about a lot of the things that have been troubling me lately. In the past what this feeling of being ‘on the verge’ of change has meant has been that I have already dropped over the edge into a knew way of thinking, but haven’t noticed it enough yet to stop thinking according to the old, tired ways. That I may already be past ‘the verge’ could be a good thing. The particular shift I have had in mind would be one that would make a lot of my life a lot easier to handle, and the only things that really get to me in an deeply emotional yet impossible to alter way would be lifted from my heart. I’ll keep you posted, perhaps.

An interesting thing I’ve noticed: neither I nor the other people who post on ME or its blogs seems to post on the weekends much. I’m trying to do something about that right now myself, and we’ll see what I come up with. I’ve got more homework to do though (Answer the following two questions: “What is drawing?” and “Is drawing relevant today, and if so how will you utilize drawing for your needs?”), including finishing that work on my laptop for 2D Design. I have some good ideas, and we’ll see how they come out.

If I come up with especially clever answers for my Drawing class, I’ll post them.

Finally, the opportunity to go to bed a little early. Most of today felt like it was leading into the weekend, simply because I knew I didn’t have to come home from class and do hours and hours of homework for the next day. I came home, checked my email, watched a bit of TV, and in a couple of minutes, I’m headed off to bed. To sleep. Hooray!

I think I’ve almost worked out when I’ll have time to work out on the Bowflex, and it isn’t pretty, since its mostly weekends. I’m going to see what I can do about getting ahead on assignments, even just a little, so that I won’t be completely out of time every M-Th, but I’m not sure the teachers want to reveal what we’re going to be doing before we do it. Still, I must do well in these classes. I’m in school because I choose to be, and I just have to remember that when it seems hard; this is what I want to be doing (or a pre-requisite to get to what I want). Like working out being a pre-requisite for the body I want to have.

I’m going to sleep now. I’ll try to post more tomorrow. Shouldn’t be hard. It’s only Friday. Just work! Easy!

Yes, I am aware that there is a problem with the site loading. No, I don’t know if/when it will be fixed. Last time this was happenning, my service provider said they couldn’t find anythign wrong. Of course, they did wait a week after I reported it, when the problem had resolved itself. Please be patient.

Here’s an interesting thing: How Compatible/Similar are You with/to me?

I’m interested to see what kind of scores people manage to earn. Link courtesy LiquidMercurial. If you ARE LiquidMercurial, I was going to post my results for you on your site, but can’t post comments since I don’t have a LiveJournal account. You can see my results if you click here.

What else… I’m really tired. That’s something. Classes are kicking my ass. Homework, really. Each class session is 3 hours, and because of problems obtaining materiels required for homework due tonight, I couldn’t even start until last night after class. So from 8 to 12 last night I managed to do 10 of the 12 drawings we’re supposed to have by class today at 4:40. If I get out of here on time (yesterday I had a call go 15 minutes late) I can get home by 3:20 or 3:30 and have about 1/2 an hour to try to pound out the two remaining drawings and eat supper. I stopped last night from sheer exhaustion. I should maybe have stopped sooner, since I was 1/2hr late for work this morning (I will be takign 1/2 my lunch hour to make it up, so I can leave on time).

I am so tired right now. Studio art classes are not like any other classes I have taken before. Instead of 50 minutes of lecture and/or discussion or even an hour of lecture and an hour of lab work, there is 3 hours of surprizingly exhausting and intense work. Homework isn’t rote memorization or working out equations or reading or developing intelligent essays or anything else that is primarily a mental exercize. Homework is 3+ hours of the same intense physical application of technique, exhausting me and swallowing up my time.

Not that I don’t appreciate what I’m working towards. If I understand this correctly, I am teaching myself a skill and building pathways in my brain and so on and so forth that will eventually allow me to express myself through drawing and painting with more skill and accuracy in the future. It’s just kicking my ass right now.