Frustrations

Hello all,

I need to vent and no one is home to listen so the world is the unlucky one. or perhaps my computer is more unlucky to be the one I'm pounding away my frustrations at. *sigh*

So for my Visualizing Physics class our final is to break out into groups of three and chose one of four topics, Quantum Mechanics, Theory of Relativity, Dark Matter and Energy and String Theory. My group went with String Theory, which is awesome. Even better, we decided to make a children's book explaining it! and as if it couldn't get any better it did when we decided to give it an Alice in Wonderland theme...pretty darn awesome up to this point... My first mistake was volunteering to be the project manager... I personally love this job, but not with who I'm working with. Well, there's a ton of other BS that I'm not going to get into because it's just drama and only raises my blood pressure because I let someone get to me...

The issue I'm having today is that no one did what they were supposed to do...well, I did, but partner #1 was supposed to do character sketches for Alice, the Red Queen, the Caterpillar and the White Rabbit while I did sketches of Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter and March Hare. Partner #2 was going to write up the rough draft of the story based on the outline I wrote last week...she didn't even show up to class...so I have nothing to go on for the Illustrations I'm supposed to be starting over break...then to add to that, Partner #1 was going to be the character artist while I did the backgrounds, then today she's like, "I think I'll just do the layouts when the drawings are done"...oh really? huh, thanks for the heads up...Now I get to do both...ack...well, that's fine for the most part anyway since apparently she can't physically draw to begin with...good to know...

This is why I hate group work...no one follows through. We aren't in high school anymore, people should care and grow up and get their stuff done! When do I get to work with people who care about the good of their group and actually want to succeed in the goals? ever? please?

At anyrate... I think I'm going to unwind by drawing a lot of character sketches since as of now we're behind. Later tonight is the Creating Context Bachelor of Science Visualization Gallery Opening shindig that I have work up in. I'm excited. I hope boyfriend get's home in time to go with me...

*dies*

new work!

So for Experience Frameworks we were supposed to "Hack" something and re-purpose it. I dug into some old car cd players I had tucked away from my car and my boyfriend's car. These three items were the result.









The Happy Button is an inside joke between me and Bryce. I constantly draw happy faces on him and poke them, calling them happy buttons to which he smiles wildly and if I poke him enough he tickles me. So now he has a real happy button. It used to be the on/off/volume for my car. the cherry blossom pin was the treble/bass button, also from my car and the necklace pendant was my car's cd laser. I didn't have to do anything to it because it was so pretty to begin with, it was made to be a necklace! Happy day! let me know what you think!

Spring Cleaning!

Okay, I just want to sit here and say how awesome I am. Yesterday and today I have just been a power cleaner. I cleaned and semi-organized my studio, cleaned and re-organized our bedroom, totally cleaned the bathroom and the Kitchen as well as the Living room, I even went so far to do both mine and the boyfriend's laundry! Not to gloat or anything but I am awesome! My feet are killing me but I got a darn good work out from all that work! Now just to keep it that way...I should totally confront the roommate and tell him to respect the cleanness... grrr...

Tonight, boyfriend, Tim and I are going to go to MCAD and enjoy Miyazaki Night with Anime Club. It will be soooo nice to just kick back and relax.

Well, I still have some last minute touches to put on the house before the boys come home. toodle!

Beautiful Short Story

I found this on my friend Sam's blog and thought it was quite awesome. It's a beautiful short story, about ten minutes long. watch it...

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Midterms

It's hard to believe but I'm already half way through the semester. Crazy! I'm almost a senior! Luckily this semester is going remarkably smoothly with no real hick-ups. All I have to do is hunker down and focus for the last stretch. My biggest goals right now are to locate and nail an internship for the summer, apply for and sort out funding for studying in Denmark in the fall and up my project quality for the last half of the semester to make sure all my grades are up where I want them. My grade goal this semester is all A's. I think I can do it.

At any rate, I just finished with my Media Analysis midterm, had my Cultural Anthropology midterm yesterday and my Visualizing Physics midterm last Thursday, that leaves Reading for Ideas midterm tomorrow and Experience Frameworks project Thursday morning. All in all very confident. I can feel myself starting to lose focus of what's important in favor of the fun and the relaxing. I need to jolt myself back into awareness of my priorities.

Bryce will be gone this weekend for Guard so perhaps that will give me some time and space to clean my studio and review what all I need to do without the much to welcomed distraction of the boyfriend. I also need to post some pictures for you of the paintings I'm working on, that's right, now there's two and soon to be three! I just can't seem to finish one before I start the other. Technically I have quite a few more than two going right now...some are just quite a bit older...*sigh*

Anyway, I think I'm done ranting for now. toodles!

Some art for you!

As promised, although a little late I know, I have some pictures for you of some recent art work. The two water colors are from when Boyfriend and I went to the Arboretum about two weeks ago. I'm rather happy with how they turned out!

The painting is still a work in progress but I'm really happy with it so far. It's a painting that's based on a collage I made from magazine clippings. the fire wasn't going to be fire at first since the original picture is of air turbulence, but the fire just kinda happened and I like where it's going... so :P







I also have a ton of pictures of the Orchids that are up at the Arboretum but I don't really have the time to prep the images for the blog...(make them smaller and rename them) so that will have to wait...or just not happen.

Oh and another thing...I started a new blog for something different. My personal fitness. so I don't think it will be an interesting read it will just be a good way to keep track of my progress. Perhaps if I find other people using blogs to keep track of themselves we can cheer each other on or something...*shrug*

okay, no more avoiding homework! back to work!

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