Last night I had my second 2d design critique. The 2d design professor liked my Gary Oldman design. ( will post picture later…)
“The piece definitely gets an A.”-2d professor
I better… The guy giving me a B for my last project because it was too “symmetrical”. Plus, even though it took about a total of 2 hours to make, it was a pain to get it printed and glued to the board. [the reason why i wrote the previous entry]

Anyway, he made a girl cry during the critique. The girl’s print was computer printed and painted. Not a good idea if the assignment is supposed to be monochromatic. Her blue paint looked purple next to the really blue and turquoise computer-printed stuff. Then, her palm tree in the middle looked yellowish-grey. He was trying to tell us this, and kind of suggested that it was almost as if she’s colorblind. She freaked out and screamed, “I’M NOT COLORBLIND!!!” At first, it was awesome because she definitely looks like one of those vapid girls in high school who only cared about make-up, boys, and making other girls cry. [see: Mean Girls] Then she went out of the room crying… and then I felt kinda bad… because I don’t really know her and she could be really nice. What the professor wanted to say really wasn’t that mean… I just think the way he said it was insulting. He even added, “Not to insult her, but…”. That little phrase just makes it even more insulting… [see: #99 on this list ]

134 more songs and my iPod will have 1,000 songs on it. my dad was right. the 4GB ‘Pod is definitely not enough for me and my crazy music collection.

some of the best crap that i’ve got on “Guildenstern”:
- Homer Simpson singing Steve Miller Band’s “The Joker”
- Keith Richards singing “Run Rudolph Run”
- Dave Grohl singing funny version of Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open”
- The “Star Wars Cantina” ( a parody of Barry Manilow’s “copacabana” )
- like.. 5 different versions of “Kick Out the Jams”
- Barry from High Fidelity (Jack Black) singing “Let’s Get It On”
- Gary Oldman, playing Sid Vicious, and singing “My Way”
- george clinton
- and an embarassing amount of Journey songs

I should be getting my absentee ballot in the mail soon. There are just a couple of problems: I don’t remember my mailbox combination, I’m too lazy to ask the dude who works at the window for it, and I never ever pass by that part of the school anymore.

Would anyone like to send me stuff in the mail? (Encourage me to go to my school mailbox! send me postcards! send me buttons! send me straw wrappers**!) If so, comment and i will might most likely will give you the address.

**I have this weird habit of peeling straw wrappers apart and then folding them into things. I’ve been doing it since the sixth grade.

A couple of months ago, I bought the Velvet Revolver album. I got home and put it in my laptop and opened up winamp to play it. The songs were all garbled! It turns out that you can only play it if you have their little device open. If you want to play it in Windows Media ( which I hate ), you have to copy the album to the computer and then Windows Media plays it as a protected file.

Anyway, the album went missing for about 5 months. I found it yesterday and I tried to put the album on my iPod.

OH. MY. GOD.

I curse the person who came up with this copyright protection feature. ( It’s not like I’m going to share the album with the entire world… I’m just putting it on the ‘Pod and making a copy for my roommate!!!! ) I try to copy the CD as .wmv and import it into iTunes. Totally doesn’t work. ( so the only way I can get the songs onto my iPod is if I buy the album AGAIN from iTunes?! … I don’t think so. ) I search the internet a while for a solution and, apparently, when you put the VR album – or any album with this feature – in your computer, it automatically installs this driver that protects the songs. [ insert growl here ] It took a while for me to disable the driver. It’s not that hard to do it, but it required me to look at the drivers and all the weird “sb8gy2h” files that keep the computer from going BOOM.

Unfortunately, I lost the link that gave me all the specific instructions, but this site told me what I basically needed to do.

I have to lose weight. This is not one of those “oh boo hoo, i think i’m so fat even though my height and weight are actually average” rants. During the two weeks I was away from home, I passed the average barrier and I am now floating in Overweight-Land.
My weight has fluctuated so much over the past 3 years. It started when my mom died. I was about 118 – 123 for most of my sophmore year and a little into my junior year. When she died, I dropped from 120 to something like 111 in a month. When I graduated, I was around 124. So that means from starting college to where I am now, I gained about 16 pounds.
So yeah my goal is to get myself back to the 120s.

Too bad I don’t know how to go about this since I hate running and love food.
And too bad that this was the weekend that my dad decided to move the treadmill AWAY from the TV. ( TV is, sadly, the only way you’ll get me on that thing. attention towards TV while i’m running = attention away from “pain” in legs, knees, and feet while running. )

Update on classes:
I have a Chinese Culture exam tomorrow. I’m pretty scared. I take terrible notes and I hate essay exams. Ah well.

Art history is dull ( it is mostly egyptian and greek art… not exactly my cup of tea. ), but the teacher makes up for it. She’s completely eccentric and let us have a class out in the art and sciences building courtyard. That was a good day… the annoying girl in class didn’t get her way, killed a bee, and had a swarm of bees buzzing around her afterwards.

The art classes are going pretty well. I think I’m getting better at drawing still life. It doesn’t take me 3 hours to draw a couple of bottles ( it’s more like 1 now.) The 2d design professor seems to like what I’ve been making lately. One day in September, we had this assignment I really didn’t like and I just.. urgjrrg… I ended up buying a giant cookie and chocolate from the Lakeside store that day.
Anyway, 2d design professor showed us a couple of works from the Tuesday/Thursday class. I’m pretty terrified that my project is crap compared to the rest of the class. I liked my idea, but I think I need to add more. The assignment: create a design out of 3 targets ( you can’t see the third in this scan.. it’s underneath the dripping target), checkerboard, at least 4 cow spots, and 5 – 11 pretzel shapes.
mine so far:
any suggestions? what should I take out? what should I add in? I can’t think of anything else…

Roommate thinks that it’s fine, but I think that there is too much empty space at the bottom… and, actually, the whole thing is starting to remind me of a diagram of the female reproductive system.

Website News: There is a new layout, but nothing is organized. One day I’ll get it together.
Yesterday was Homecoming. Lots of free stuff and pictures of us sitting on bales of hay and big chairs.
Around 7, the four of us walked to the school area for the homecoming concert. (MJ12, Amfibian, Ben Kweller) It was supposed to be in Big Blue (the sports center), but when we got there, all the lights were off. Turns out they moved it into the Performing Arts Center. Of course, they don’t put any signs on Big Blue or make ANY announcements about the change at all.
When we got there someone recognized Apartment-Mate.L and we got to go into the pit. As each band played, more and more people figured out how to get into the pit and it became crowded. Many crazy “hippies” and frat boys who wanted to look up the skirt of one of the singers for amfibian. Eventually, I figured I’d just sit on the edge of the stage to see the last band. Of course, I pick the spot next to the speaker. I couldn’t hear anything out of my right ear for about half an hour after the show. After the show, the ravenous fangirls started climbing on the stage for setlists. Since I was a few feet away, I grabbed the one under the keyboard and heard one fan make a disappointed sound. I love upsetting other girls. … then she spotted the bottle of water that was half full (i’m not even sure if Ben drank out of it), grabbed it, and triumphantly raised it in the air.
it reminded me of this:

“we should play a presidential debate drinking game.”
“oh.my.god”
“a shot every time the words ‘freedom’, ‘war on terror’, and ’saddam’ are mentioned. a shot whenever kerry makes a fist or does the ‘air-traffic controller’ move.”

i was trying to count how many times bush says “freedom” and “free” ( i got 25, but i know i missed some. ) and i drew these on some scrap paper. there’s more to it in the pencil drawing.