oh, sweet procrastination!

the days are getting warmer. and longer.
which means i am never ever in the mood for studying.

today after classes i sprawled out in the grass, fully intending to work on my american lit reading, and ended up looking at clouds with sarah and talking about life. then kate joined us, and keitha, and elyse and carly too. it was quite the party.

for some reason, this weather always makes me want to do "crafty stuff" for lack of better words. i guess it takes me back to the summer camp days of felt bracelets and paper mache masks. today i wore a shirt i altered last night when i should have been reading the communist manifesto. i chopped the neck and added buttons that i found in the bottom drawer of the cabinet that holds my art supplies. i didn't know i had buttons here. i was quite pleased.















i only had enough to make a cluster, which i like, but i may do the entire neckline later. what say you? (and by you i mean sharstacki, my fellow button lovers.)

i also decided to redecorate my room, aka change out the posters. sadly, capt jack sparrow is no more. in his place is a crazyawesomephotomontage poster i got in the mail from veer, and a yet-to-be-finished montage of images i hold near and dear to my heart. i enjoy looking at it. yet another distraction.















with that said, i am slowly compiling a summer to-do list. it's basically whole a lot of nothing, but consists of things i've always wanted to do and never have, or things i don't do as often as i like. for example, i want to sew more. possibly make a skirt and a few simple bags, alter more t-shirts, etc. i also want to learn how to screen print. i know you can buy kits at hobby lobby or michael's, but readymade has an article on making your own screens. or perhaps sharon knows how to? also on the list: read 25 novels known as "classics." have an extended TAWG once a week. write letters more often to my grandparents. finish redecorating my room, and help mom paint the family room wall burgundy. brush up on my limited knowledge of jazz music (with martin's help, of course.) devour an entire watermelon by myself. keep a sketch journal and draw in it at least an hour a day.

that's pretty much all i've thought of so far... any suggestions?

larsen en fuego!

it's eight o'clock.
thanks to daylight savings, it's still pretty dark.
eight o'clock. not quite an ungodly hour, but it's pretty close.

and i am awake. with no classes until 2. granted, i should be in drawing II right now, till 9:10. and after that is 3D design. both, at the moment, are cancelled. why? well, because larsen, our lovely fine arts building, is ablaze. i don't know the extent of the damage, but apparently 15 or so minutes ago there was some sort of electrical fire. they just sent over a few fire trucks... i can hear the siren now, actually.

everyone is out of the building and no one was hurt, thankfully, but.... need i mention the stuff? theatre costumes, band instruments and music, art students' work... not pretty.
i alone have about $100 in art supplies sitting in the studio.
not to mention my coat. phone. keys. frappichino.

dang. i hope, for the school's sake that there isn't much damage done to the building. or my stuff. i mean, i really want that frappichino.



this takes the charcoal portrait i worked on last night to entirely different levels.

the blizzard of SB2K7?

usually, when one imagines spring break, visions of icicles and scarves don't exactly come to mind. or anything sugarplum related, for that matter. yeesh. it has been snowing all day. it's pretty, but it's cold. my weather.com widget tells me that, though it's a whopping 21 degrees out, it actually feels like 9. aha.

that's what i get for living in indiana, i suppose.
snow, snow, and more snow.
in march.

and with that comes the beauty of being a spring break shut-in. i've been home since thursday evening, and have only ventured out once, yesterday, to meet jacki and jordan for coffee. which was a lovely time. we chatted, sipped our chai, and wasted time on youtube. (the educational sloth documentary that brad had shown me a while ago was of particular interest.) jacki is on break this week too, so i'm sure we will have plenty of time for more documentaries and coffee outings.

granted, since the coffee shop is next to the library, a trip was inevitable. which means reading material and movies. which means i am finally going to read the catcher in the rye and - ha - watch the matrix trilogy. i've been told many times to read the former, and as far as the latter... i've only seen the first movie, sophomore year. and it was all in spanish, with no subtitles. oh the fiestas of seniorita mrak. i'm not exactly sure why i feel the need to watch all three movies, but i have the time, i have the place, and now i have the dvds... why not?

i also found the theatrical translation of beowulf. beowulf and grendel: the hero, the monster, the myth. it's the thoroughly updated version of the seminal anglo saxon poem, or so the back cover tells me, which powerfully entwines themes of vengeance, loyalty and mercy, stripping away the mask of the hero myth, leaving a raw and tangled tale that rings true today. yes. it's AP english all over again.

granted, i do have about a hundred pages of early american literature to read. and two papers to write. and a charcoal portrait to draw. and a wood sculpture to carve. and my lectio divina for the week. oh yeah, and job applications to fill out for the summer. (oh, the summer! how i miss it.)

but all of that can wait... i've a whole week!
and, in case you couldn't hear, beowulf is calling.