There's been a lack of visuals lately...

the current state of my dining room table. no eating allowed! it's production time! if you look closely you can actually see 5 different types of adhesives in this one photo.



although i've been frantic lately, i still manage to take a few pics every now and again.

(this was taken awhile ago) I asked Meg* to wake me up and she thought it was hilarious when she found me sleeping on my sketchbook. so, she took a photo ;)

I've been so caught up in work lately. I eat, sleep and breath with my dayplanner on one side and my sketchbook on the other. ARgh. I hate that I feel like I'm missing so many other opportunities because I'm consumed with design, but I comfort myself with the fact that it is going to be over soon. I have less than 2 weeks to finish my portfolio now. Today in office hours, Bob looked me in the eyes and asked, "You're getting stuff done, right? You're going to finish right?" I muttered yes, yes but did not look him back in the eyes. I am scared that I won't finish everything. But then again, there hasn't been a semester yet that I haven't been scared that I won't finish everything.

A friend had this quote in their IM profile for awhile and I liked it. I haven't been one for quotes lately, (I was in high school, Andrea knows that...) but this one has sort of been helping me to keep things in perspective:

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Funny stuff

I had this as an away message:

"I've decided this design stuff is a sham so I'm going to drop out of school and become a bare-knuckle boxer"

And I came back to this (see below). Made me laugh so hard, hope it has the same effect on someone else.
(Names are omitted to protect the innocent ;) )


M: you need a NAME, that's the ticket
M: like...Krazy Knuckles KAT
M: Smashin' Sampson
M: .....the Towering Typographer
M: "Serifin' up some PAIN!"
M: haha..okay..."the TOWERING TYPOGRAPHER...I'm gonna go comic SANS on your ass" (someone in the audience : 'ooo, that's ugly')
M: the PENSYLVANIAN
M: ...time to go Dutch-Colonial on your ass
M: haha..."I'm the horse...YOU're the BUGGY....and I'm gonna take you to town BITCH!"

HAHA.... oh boy. Humor is necessary at this point. Humor and coffee. Yes, that's it.

None of this is new

Saw a little worm on the sidewalk outside my apartment today and I picked it up to put it in the soil. Not a big deal, helps the little guy/gal/both simultaneously out and I get bonus karma points along w/ a little worm goo. But long after I'd held the worm in my fingers, I could still feel the energy of its wiggling in my fingertips. That feeling is really awe-inspiring. The worm and I are filled with this same life force, or whatever the fuck you want to call it. We're made from the same sorts of cells. The magical mechanization of it all... We sort of take that for granted when we touch another human being, but because this worm was such a simple being, it really struck me. He is alive.

googlin'

I think this is pretty funny. (Don't ask my why I was searching for "names of small towns," it was something for the writing piece I'm working on now.) It makes me think of some random magazine article (or short story or blog entry or something) where a father was describing how he and his daughter were trying to find the most disgusting thing where the google side bar would read: Find what you're looking for on ebay! They found that they could "Find 'rotting corpses' on ebay!" Bill, my current design professor, mentioned in class this week that there are people who, as a hobby, try to type in two unrelated words into google and get just *one* hit. I casually tried it myself, couldn't find anything of course.

I've had many thoughts in the past week or so that I'd love to go on and on about, but I've got many miles to go... On the up side, this will all be over with very soon.