what better way to show off your collection of freaky ugly Christmas kitchy things?

a little late for Halloween but holy crap this is so cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mscFpleo49o


oh! here's another trailer with slightly different footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70oVIphkXcw

Incidentally, vanilla and green tea cookies are actually good. i'd take a picture but my camera has died and gone to a not-so-better place (at the bottom of my closet)

it takes a really long time to illustrate something, as i'm finding out. it only slightly freaks me out that i need another seven before December 14 in addition to making ten books and two hardcore exams on the medieval and renaissance era. looking forward to next spring.
er, oh. yea this is only part of the illustration because of the huge size. crap, i've been busy.

*whew* been busy, two art history exams back to back and a bunch of projects due (why is it always in the same week or about? too busy!) so here's one project:

haha, fun huh? This is for Book Arts and its possibly the most interesting class EVER. by the end of the class in December we're going to be making our own books. you have no IDEA how much time goes into one of these things. i won't ever look at type pressing the same ever again. my partner's took about eight HOURS to put together. mine, with a large picture and large print, took less time at about four hours. i'm SO FRAMING them! the project is due next week and the really cool part is everybody get's everyone else's broadside (i mean, we print about fifteen of them) so it's like Christmas. i'll put up some others when i get them - the class did a super job with theirs.

off to the balloon races

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its my birthday present TO ME and because i can't afford the two-hundred dollar bag that Tokidoki just came out with (so i'll settle for the cute murderous cow thing)


so for all the fuss i did get an A for the class and get the fall schedule settled with (finally) all fun classes.
two art history classes
one book making class
and one independent study class in which my teacher wants me to illustrate a children's book. ^___^ sounds like fun.

it's still fun to tell people my real age and watch their eyes bug out. i guess i still look ten years younger than i really am. oh well.

ok, ew ew EW!!!

i don't have anything against spiders, except when for some reason they leave their newly born spider nest, strand, THING in the middle of the hallway and i walk into it.
just spent the last ten minutes brushing bitty little baby spiders from my hair and face and I THINK ONE WENT DOWN MY SHIRT.
seriously spiders, WHAT THE HELL!! don't go leaving your nest thing where i'm walking.

i wonder if there is something i can do about this.

situation: gender and society class - one last capstone class that i'm taking in order to graduate so i need it no matter what.

before this day we've explored feminism, gender, socialization and structure. sure, no problem.

today she shows us a video: Dreamworld 3
doesn't give any warning, doesn't say anything about the film and in fact says its a good film. the first thing on the screen is a warning of explicit material and disturbing images. so while i will fully admit some of it was educational and shows the serious results of objectifying women in the music video industry there were scenes that, had i known before hand, i would have chosen not to watch. i would have left the classroom. but wasn't really given the option as the teacher just said, 'watch this'


so AFTER we watch she says, so yea that was disturbing, what do you guys think?

does this sound like irresponsible teaching to you? i've never had a problem with any class or any teacher before. generally, going into the classroom you have the vague trust that whatever they show you it won't be harmful. but i don't mind admitting it was like having my mind raped watching that shit. it was seriously disturbing and she didn't give any warning.

already (obviously) I will complain at the end of the class when they hand those evaluation forms out. but right NOW, what is there to do? i don't think complaining to the teacher is an option; she MEANT for us to be shocked - as a form of teaching. shock value and all that but i don't think its right. it kind of pisses me off. two weeks left.

yay for ceramics! even if i sucked at it (hey, it was a beginning class)
my favorite pieces that have a happy home in my living room. as you can see i suck at glazing.

wow, this is not my week.
crash the computers
get an anxiety attack
and tonight my family learns that my brother is shipping out to Iraq for the FOURTH TIME.

ugh. wonderful me, i managed to infect two computers with a virus.
so that wonderful, life-changing post i was going to make? not going to happen until daddy fixes the computer (which involves buying a new hard drive, you can imagine how happy he is with me) i haven't the damndest idea how it happened. the only sites i went to were hotmail and youtube.
so until then i have to use the school's computers..

wwhhyyyy is it so busy? i'm taking a ceramics class and it takes up a LOOOOT of time (so far i've made some fantastically crappy things except for the giant slug, which i am proud of and will be taking a picture when its fired)

learning lots about Raku and glazing (complicated)

took Max the dog into the vet and was super super SUPER relieved to hear that we didn't have to put him down, and that if we gave him some pills he would get better. five days and he's already bouncing around again so whew.

the parents new back yard is fascinating. its like National Geographic back there. thus far have identified four different species of lizard, seen rabbits, quail, some bird that's bright yellow/orange and coyotes (which i heard at night)

its interesting not driving for a number of years then start driving again (epecially in a relatively big city) there are a lot of assholes out there.

Wal-Mart has FUN people. i'd take pictures if i weren't afraid of being beaten to death with a bag of hamburger buns and six pack of Budweiser

it makes me sad that i haven't had time to finish any drawings that i started, like two months ago. this ceramics class is just super busy. it starts at eight in the morning *gag* so i'm up around six-thirty or so and it lasts till about eleven but i've been staying longer because it takes so much time to create something, fire it and glaze it, glaze it again and let it sit.

its HARD taking care of a house, even a small one like this. dammit, i vacuume, do dishes, laundry, water the lawn (which insists on staying brown) cook dinner and it takes up a lot of time when its just ME living here. looking forward to getting a smaller apartment when i graduate. so! have some pictures.




my loverly guest bedroom which needs to be repainted.




the other side.




oh! this is my super happy fifties plant stand that i found for $9.00 that i plan on putting all my paperback books on. oh, speaking of books




i managed to get to Ikea after all and found out that even three bookcases weren't enough. sigh, too much crap.

when going downstairs to do the laundry for the past week i've noticed ...a smell from my basement. not dirty clothes smell but more like a rotting,pervasive stench that no matter where i looked i couldn't find it. after the parents came to visit today my mom makes the trip downstairs, stops and goes , 'what's that SMELL!? then says, 'how long have those sack of potatos been there?!'
ah ha.
so; lesson for today - DO NOT LEAVE FOOD IN THE BASEMENT FOR SIX MONTHS. its stinky.

hmmm, no more recent earthquakes; though China has my upmost sorrow.
Officially summer with 96 degrees on Sunday.
Three weeks to regain proficiency in mathmatics (after not studying math since...er... well, its been a long time)
House Dinner Party both good and bad. Friend brought a friend who is one of those people who lives in perpetual cynicism; as seen with her comments on the smallness of my house, the quality of my food, the fact my dog is 14 years old and can hardly stand up made him defective and a source of humor. makes for a fun dinner party.
errmmm, i have pictures somewhere but i'll have to wait.

you know, there should be a limit on how many bad things you can dream about in one night.
so after being woken up, again, by the (what number earthquake are we on for this weekend? four? five?) earthquake four something in the morning i went back to sleep to dream about:
1. being in class and not being prepared for a presentation
2. not having the right papers for presentation
3. farting in front of the entire class (that's a new one, usually its being
naked)
6. having classmates make fun of me
4. being unable to find my house when walking home
5. having my home being burnt to the ground when i finally did find it


seriously. this is going to be one of THOSE days.

!! uhhh, whoa. that was a big earthquake....yup and here's the aftershocks
second one i've felt today, and there's been hundreds of little earthquakes going on in Nevada/Reno...yup another aftershock. this is kinda freaky when your sitting alone in the house.... let me check the US geology website...

that was going up in scale...closer to a 5.0
...knocked the books off my shelves
huh.

dude, you know there's something wrong with the world when a twelve year old brat says 'WORK IT!!' to you when your walking along minding your own business.

oh, did it again. three weeks, one entry. i had an interesting happening tonight in life drawing class.
i know there is a rising percentage of overweight people and many overweight people (especially women)get beat over the head with the 'you must be rail thin and perfect' stick (thank you beauty magazines/hollywood)

but what was so fascinating tonight is that i find myself on the opposite end. by genetics (and for God's sake, it isn't even that great of a thing) i'm skinny. i'm hyperactive, i walk two miles a day, i have a fast metabolism, whatever. i've always been a stick and it isn't that great of a thing. i don't have giant breasts, i don't have an hour glass figure, i don't have curves and yet people (women) get angry at me for it.

so tonight in life drawing we had a female model, who is also a student. a young woman, maybe 21/22 years old who has a normal figure. she has hips, she has thighs, rounded breasts - what a woman should look like.
during a break after drawing her she walks around and comments on pictures. my friend who sits next to me only had time to get the upper body in and shade in part of her legs which ended up looking like she had chicken legs. so Geneva says , 'look, i made you super skinny!' and the model says
'no, that's her' and points at me.

interestingly enough this has happened to me quite a few times in the past - getting snarky comments on me being skinny. so told them excuuusee me for genetics and told them to guess how much i weigh (which is freaking hilarious because even though i look like a stick i weigh quite a bit)
I WEIGH ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE POUNDS
and i'm getting tired of other women getting pissed at me for being thin. as far as i can tell it hasn't given me any advantages --
current boyfriend - no
fabulous career as a model - no
oodles of money -- no
fame and fortune -- no
slavering hordes of admirers --mmmmm, lemme think ... no


so, another interesting commentary on our screwed up society.