Questing

Yah for friday!

Got to do lunch with my hubby at Einstein’s. yum!

There was a girl there who talked loudly about bikini waxing and playboy waxing the entire time… loudly. Most people go to eat at Einstein’s, but she seemed to be there to talk, loudly. Her friend hardly said a word, perhaps quietly eating both their lunches. Still it was funny. And educational…

When I got back from lunch my co-worker gave me a free lunch for Culver’s on Monday, he won some sort of drawing but got his own name, and gave the card to me. Some promotion for a new Culver’s on Hiway V. ooh!

Buffy tonight! at Jims! and hopefully off to the first weekend for the Farmer’s Market tomorrow morning. It means getting up early, but should be pleasant, plus, lots of things to photograph.

Last night of drawing class was wonderful, I was late, but apparently so was the model so I missed very little. I’ve begun posting some of my sketches up on metahari.com, but need to take pics from the last 3 weeks. I really understand why people say figure drawing is so good for you, you have to work quick, capture the essence of the pose, shadows, and it’s never ever ever the same twice. Good practice.

The model was a nice guy, seemed interested in art himself, said his wife does beady things and sells them at the Farmer’s market, and has a little art group, where people do different arty type things, including pottery. Sounds a bit like our art night, only, we rarely pot things, rather, sometimes Kim has been known to do a bit of gardening, but no clay has arrived to play. Plasticine though.

I would encourage anyone who hasn’t had the chance to take some mini-courses at the Union, they aren’t too expensive and have a lot of variety. I think Maciek and I are going to take another art course at MATC this fall, likely the design class I had some trouble with last fall. But at least I won’t be trying to take on two courses at the same time.

And from now till then, I just know it’s going to be a great summer inbetween.

Woo, last day of the work week.

Last night was so awesome, figure drawing with Maciek. (We got to draw a man! older gent) , then hung out with Kim and Maciek in the Rathskeller, talking about shojo and anime, and art, over woodchuck, popcorn and beer. It was a good time feeling, relaxing and fun.

Then the three of us , in a round about fashion, headed over to Ray’s place for a couple episodes of Azumanga Daioh, so cute and uplifting. I also learned that ibooks are far cheaper than I thought they were… oooh techno-lust.

and then a nice drive home, where I was met by a husband pricing out vaio’s, and later ibooks. wheee.

I did finish my book too, before getting to bed.

I am sooo tired. trying to compensate by drinking water…

2:04p

ah, yeah, forget the water, coffee coffee coffee

Einstein’s has much better coffee than here at work.
mmm vanilla hazelnut, and now i won’t be sleepy in my meeting.

I can feel a nap being scheduled for later.

mmmm want ibook.

I’ve been reading a whole lot, finished 4 books over the weekend, and another one last night.

yesterday felt like a Friday, must have been all that sunshine and 85 degree temp.

today feels like a Monday, and is gray and insulating.

Found out yesterday that I get Good Friday off, score! That means tomorrow will feel like Friday again.

Another Figure Drawing Course tonight. Looking forward to hanging with Maciek and Co. I think we only have one class left after tonight.

I feel better than last week, though still sleepy.

I really need to hire someone to make me go to bed at a decent time.

um. Madonna’s new song, American Life sucks. Doesn’t seem like a Madonna song at all. gah, pseudo rap.

Food, cruising about in our barracuda, the latest xbox magazine, sleep and a bright new day.

Feel better.

And, it’s Friday!

So I’m going to share these with you even though I’m not done with the pages.

Some of the figure drawing I’ve been doing

Some of the things I did in Drawing Class last semester

Connor was right, the highpass filter does help a great deal, as shown by the figure drawing page, though I may need to go over them again, and play with the settings, I just used the default and some of the bits are a bit brighter. Still, it’s worlds better than the dark edges. Have to go through some on the artclass page as well. So many things left to learn about Photoshop, and I’ve been using it since 96.

*giggles*

I went crazy on our linkcat, the online catalog of that connects our series of libraries last week before I went to the library.
now 4 of the books I had ..um cancel that, 6 of the books I had requested for hold have arrived at my library! heh Most of them were not even at my library and had to be moved there, and wow! that was quick!

I should go pick them up tonight, even though I still haven’t finished 4 of the 5 books from my last visit to the library last week. heh.

aii, I love reading…

Actually though, some of the books I just picked up aren’t all that long anyway… and the ones one hold are much longer, actually most of them sequels to books I grabbed a few weeks ago.

babbling I know, but it feels like I’ve somehow won a lottery, heh.

Lest you think I’m never ever frustrated…

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother caring for some people. I try to be nice, show them I miss them, that I notice when it seems like they are down, and I get labeled annoying. I try to be intrested in what they like, how they are doing.

It’s so frustrating that I’ve only ever tried to be nice to some people, and I get kicked to the curb for not being part of some ambigious group.

Damn me for me for being generally happy, damn you for being cynical. Obviously my friendship is just plain wasted on some people and it hurts only me, because I try to care, and be nice, and hold my tongue, and even defend these people.

and the worst part is, I still care, dammit, it’s like I have all the characteristics of being the woman who gets battered, and comes back for more. I’m so blessed that I ended up with a decent man, who doesn’t do those things to me, or I’d be in big trouble.

I don’t know what to say, I must just be in your way, I must just be some annoying bitch to you, and I totally don’t understand it. I just don’t get it at all.

I’m home sick today, still dizzy, have no clue where that came from, but it made it really hard to enjoy figure drawing class, glad maciek was there to help me focus, and make me drink water.