leave-behind

I've been thinking about what to make for a leave-behind at companies I will be applying to. Here are my thoughts on the matter:
No, my handwriting does not always look that wretched.
Yes, the "cupcake" looks more like a meteorite than food.
I don't know why I always capitalize "OR".

Other News:

Today felt a lot shorter than you'd think a day of normal length would feel.

Nolan got me into this book series by George R. R. Martin, starting with A Game Of Thrones. It's pretty darn epic. I'm only a hundred or so pages into it, but I can already tell it's going down on the ole list of great books. I just wish school would quit getting in the way of read time.

Also. I am deeply weary of the rain. Seriously. 5 out of the past 8 trips to campus i've made, it's been pouring rain. More also. Why do the birds wake up at 2:3o am? The little bastards start waking up just as i'm trying to go to sleep. They must have it out for me. Don't they know it's still pitch black outside that early? I wont shed a tear this Spring when I see pasty dead bird fetuses on the sidewalks. No, sir.

Listening to:
Yann Tiersen - Les jours tristes
Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'Un Autre
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter

foil in a hurry

I had to make the header for my DIY class blog this week. And this is what I came up with:
I'm working on THE CALENDAR. It's gonna be great, folks. The theme is pretty morbid. Every month, I'm illustrating the accidental or malicious death of a child and/or children. Yay! I think i'm going to call it "An Unfortunate Year"

Ran again today. My calves hurt pretty badly. I guess that means i'm improving because my heart and lungs aren't what's holding me back anymore. I ran to riteaid on my way home and bought some tin foil. The lady behind the counter said "You musta really needed foil in a hurry!"

Every day is better than the last.

Listening to:
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Beirut - After the Curtain

3 dimensional characters?!

I am making a clay, 3 dimensional sculpture of one of my little, stubby-legged characters. I'm planning on putting this character in a cigar box I built. The box is made out of translucent corrugated plastic. This is for my DIY class, but it's also for me. Exciting!
here's the rough prototype for the box:
and here's the in progress sculpture:
self-hardening clay smells incredibly bad.

In other news:
I went running today. It was the perfect temperature (65 degrees), but it was hellaciously windy. I actually felt like I was moving backwards when I was running up Bolton Street into the wind. I saw a lot of weird things on my trip... namely, a dead rat the size of a cat, a couple screaming at each other and threatening to kill one another with various kitchen appliances on North Avenue, an old man with wispy purple hair, and a whole bunch of smoking children. It was a friggin' freak show out there.
What a great run.

I went to Giant around 7 tonight. The lines were long. My check-out clerk almost gave me a hug for bagging my own groceries. I kind of assumed that was just something you do when there isn't a bagger working and the store is that crowded. Then, when I wheeled my purchases out into the parking lot, I discovered a creepy man leaning face first on my car. So, that was weird.

The end!

tomorrow is my Mom's birthday.

nobody should want my organs

embarrassing art

Yesterday was my 22nd birthday. It was pretty good as Baltimore birthdays go. I got some work done, did laundry. Jen brought over muffins in the morning and Erik came over in the pm. Not a bad way to get older.

In other news.... I made a little book about my relationship with deodorant. Then I printed 10 of them. Each one is 24 pages. I haven't included all the spreads. Maybe i'll do that later upon resquest! Here it is in all it's embarrassing glory:


THE STACK!

i swear i've been working

Hey.
So the last post I made had those colorful bugs as part of a hand scroll I was making. However, the paper I had to print it on for it to look decent was too thick to be rolled without making the whole scroll look like hell. That led me to make an entirely new scroll (hand done this time). It read left to right in the actual scroll, but I reversed it for you english speaking peeps. And this is what came of it:



I went running last night. Breathed well, ran fine. Hooooray for asthma drugs.
Then it started raining.
Then I went to a grand party hosted by the lovely Jen Brown.
Now I am eating animal crackers and wishing Tegan and Sara wrote better lyrics.

Listening to:
Tegan and Sara - Nineteen
Santigold - I'm A Lady
John Hiatt - Cry Love ((hahah!))

drinking too much water

This is a small part of 1 of the 2 hand scrolls I made.Things I realized today:
Honor Blackman played Pussy Galore from James Bond. Two great names, right?!!
I tend to forget my phone is on vibrate and leave it that way for days.
Flailing and squawking at seagulls on the corner of an intersection distracts drivers.

I AM FLYING HOME FRIDAY MORNING. WOOOOO

Listening to:
Meursault - Salt pt. 1
Joe Pug - Speak Plainly Diana