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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
12:27 am	Ani Difranco Concert = A-Maz-Ing!! I so loves me some Ani. Wonderful Wonderful times to be had by all (all the lesbians who took over the symphony hall that is. Haha.) (Comment on this)
Monday, October 15th, 2007
9:17 pm	Michael's pictures of Celine (Comment on this)
Friday, October 5th, 2007
9:13 pm	omg new toy! This is my shiny new cock! I love far too much. Current Mood: horny Current Music: Vivaldi's Four Seasons (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
10:26 am	Today's word of the day on Dictionary.com factotum \fak-TOH-tuhm\, noun: A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. This so describes me recently. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
6:18 am	Oh what a world I've had one hell of a time this last week or so.  First, my flex account wasn't working.  Not such a big crisis by itself, except I had to do laundry (badly enough that I had no towels, which meant no shower, so it was actually dire).  Had to go to Student Accounts 2 times to have my card re-activated, then I went to the bookstore and it still wasn't working so they called and the dude in accounts says "Oh we haven't put any money on it yet" and I was like "there's supposed to be money, rar" and so they transfered what I was owed and I thought life was good.  Turns out, it took like a day to actually kick in, and by the time managed to do laundry, I was also doing like 4 other things at once because I had time earlier that week but not when I got to do laundry. And then  I got to payrole to double check my direct deposit address and they're like "you're not in the system, go see HR" so I did and HR is like, "we need you to fill out this stack of tax forms" and I was like "WTF I ALREADY DID THIS" and they were like, "A whole bunch of DA's papers got lost,  you're not the only one" and i was like "RAWR" and had to spend forever figuring them out and then running around to get all the necessary info, only to find that I couldn't do the last one without my boss who was going to have us fil it out at the mass DA meeting (last night).  This was Tuesday, I think, and I'd been counting on that paycheck for supplies.  So, $100 something dollars short, I ordered that much money in books online and then had to go shopping for all my sculpture supplies adn almost maxed out my account (but luckly mom stepped in and saved me or I would have had $8 in my checking and then they would have charged me like $35 which would have sucked).  But I've been trying to live without any sort of money since then, not cash not my debit card, since friday.  Somewhere along the line, the stress caused me to gain weight (that and the fact that I'm not walking/exercising as much as I was during the summer) even though my eating habits haven't changed much.  (It doesn't look bad It's just a little frustrating to bounce around like this.)  Add to all of this starting a club and nobody makes it easy on you.  Add to this around 600 pages of reading due this week to be completed in 3 days (because I procrastinated.  And It wasn't always the most pleasant reading- My intro to Sculpture class has a text book on Deconstructionist theory in Sculpture...)  Add to this the boredom/lonliness of having all your friends busy/already doing things and you couldn't go hang out anyway because you've got reading to do.  Add to this Carrie being back in NY and having to deal with all the stress her parents cause her (and no sex to aleviate my stress).  Add to this not being able to get ahold of Michelle to get some work done.  Add meetings and Late DA's and nasty hot weather and catipillars and Michael listening to the same 3 albums all week. Add to this no time to get more than 5-6 hrs of sleep a night, even on weekends. This week is better so far.  Got the DA shifts I wanted.  Learned to Weld.  But it's going to get worse before it gets to be easy again.  I know this for a fact.  Why can't everything just run smoothly sometimes? Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: The Sneaker Pimps- Bloodsport (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
4:55 pm	My emphasis this year should be on Isolation.... X_x Why is it that, whenever I have free time I want to be doing something and when I have no freetime all I want to do is lay back and relax?  I mean, don't get me wrong, hanging out this week has been nice and the weather is perfect.  But is it too much to ask to have somebody to hang out with?  Everybody I seem to know is an OL or an RCA and are therefore unavailable until Monday of classes.  It's so frustrating.  So when Michael walks in this afternoon with Cate, I was like YAY!  but then they run out the door after a very quick hello and a survey of the apartment.  Ajakfodsjflkdsjflkdjslkfjdj.....  And Carrie doesn't get her until around 6 this evening so she's going to be unpacking, which is cool, but I asked her what she was doing for dinner (thinking her parents might be going out for something and maybe I could go with to hang out with her a little) but she said she didn't know and she was probably on her own.  So I won't be seeing her until after Bellydancing this evening.  And I've got 2 hours until I need to even THINK about leaving for bellydancing.... So far today I've slept in, finished unpacking in my room, made the bed, swept and mopped the appartment, did all the dishes in the sink, exercised, practiced piano (alot of practicing piano), mailed my netflix, worked for an hours doing orientation set-up, sewing (I cut up my housecoat and started getting my "batman curtains" turned back into usable fabric).  I've cooked and made alot of tea.  I've explored the lay-out of the new 2nd floor of Bunting.  I turned down Another job.  I've tried contacting Michelle (she's so hard to get ahold of sometimes!!).   I've hung out in my comfy new chair. This is very similar to the very productive day I had yesterday.  I'm getting tired of being alone and productive.  Rar. Current Music: Freezepop (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
11:49 pm	MistaMarf: oh i got to tell amy maskeddevil02: you did maskeddevil02: ?? maskeddevil02: what'd she say MistaMarf: yup yup MistaMarf: she said MistaMarf: "i leave you alone and you turn into a lady on me" maskeddevil02: ahhahahhhaha maskeddevil02: that is so ehme MistaMarf: lol (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, July 30th, 2007
8:34 pm	sigur ros played by the kronos quartet:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZHpckYExUc (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
11:34 pm	2 half-days Harry Potter didn't end like I'd predicted...  And I was doing so well for a bit there. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
7:00 pm	I ache and I'd like today to be over now.... I'm excited for artscape tomorrow.  After my car window gets fixed (finally...), I'm off to the ceramics studio to finish things and then i'm off for the day to browse whatever's going on at artscape.  Josepha's having a dinner party tomorrow evening that I'm invited to and then off to see music and pick up Carrie from the train station!!!  (She's coming back early due to lack of projects at the print studio) so I'll have her to explore with next week!!  Yay! I should really get back to work, but I'd like my hands to stop cramping up thankyou. (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
12:28 am	Friday So, let me tell you briefly about Friday.  I don't remember precisely what I did all day Friday, just that I woke up later than I'd antisipated and made a red collage in my sketchbook during breakfast.  I wasn't feeling particularly social, which was a good thing as everybody I know here already had things to do.  I wanted to do something, however, so I headed down to Read Street to this little coffee shop Carrie found the other day-- they advertised live music on Friday nights.  It was free so I figured I'd go check it out.  I drove down and parked in the Rite Aid parking lot, even though I wasn't supposed to, because there was no parking anywhere else (parking in Baltimore sucks, that's one reason I try to walk everywhere). When I got to the coffee shop/bookstore, I was greeted with a conversation about linguistics and the metaphysical.  Then one of the figure models from my figure sculpture class walks in the door with her guitar and complains to her girlfriend, one of the women I'd been talking to, that she couldn't find her guitar amp. (Let me pause here to mention that the shop is owned by an aging lesbian couple with a pretty dog.)  When Tina started her set, it was me, her girlfriend, some of Tina's family, the two lesbian shop owners and two of the artists who'd been drawing her at a figure secession the night before. (This was funny because she kept making cracks about how hot it was on stage and maybe she should just take off her clothes as we'd all seen her naked anyway.)  A few gay couples came and went, as well as a lesbian couple, before the night was over.  (Fascinating the places you find on the side streets in Baltimore...)  When Tina was done, the whole lot decided hanging out and talking was in order.  Somehow we got on the topic of four hand paino pieces and I demonstrated my half of the one I'd done during some of my practice secessions with Julianne, my teacher at the time.  I could only remember part of it, but they really liked what I played and they had me play something else.  When the shop owner overheard Tina suggest we should play together, she came over with a notepad and a pen and had us swap contact info.  Then she drug us to the register so she could book us (July 14th is the date, to be exact).  I think I'm now considered a regular.  ^_^ Tina and her girlfriend (whose name I don't remember.  oops) walked me to my car and when we got within sight of where I'd left it, I was like "where'd it go?"  Then I looked a little farther and saw two men securing it to a tow truck.  Aparently parking "semi-illegally" is still illegal....  I had to run down two men who were about to get into their truck and cart off my car.  I'm sure I was a sight, running down the street in a cute black dress and polka-dotted rain boots, waving my green scarf and my bag in the air and shouting "That's my car! Noooooo!!  Stop!  That's my Car!!!"  I ended up having to pay the $120 drop fee, even though they hadn't towed it (and now I am so very poor).  After they drove off, I looked around and found that there were something like 10 tow trucks surrounding the 24hr Rite Aid.  Aparently they come and cart off whatever they can find at 11pm every night (everybody be forewarned!!) so I won't be driving again if I can help it. The lesson(s) in all this?  Walk where you can and save the environment!  Don't park where you shouldn't!  There really is such a thing as balance in this world... Current Mood: amused Current Music: Garbage- The World is Not Enough (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
1:06 am	today and the time i went missing No I will not tell you about all the sex I had while Carrie was here. It was 5 days and I really don't want to try and condense that kind of lavaciousness into paragraph form. Let me just say that it was wonderful and I'm going to miss her terribly now that she's back in New York. Today was my first day as Michelle's studio assistant. We began with cleaning her studio (a daunting task) and only got about half finished. Whenever I'm around Michelle, I'm always so inspired. I came home (having snagged a few magazines she was getting rid of), finished my Ceramics project and spent something like 3 hours making collages in my sketchbook. I met up with Celine after dinner and we went to bellydancing. Got cheesecake from XS on the way back to her house. Watched Tideland. It's a Terry Gilliam movie told from the perspective of an 7-9 year old girl, his "inner child." He completely captured her pov. What's more is the movie is like taking Andrew Wyeth and smashing it head first into Through the Looking Glass, then adding Lewis Carol's drug and pedophilia habits and then adding taxedermy. At that point, you're just starting to get a gilmpse of it. So hard to wrap your mind around. So psychologically frightening. By the end of the movie, you are really seeing from the child's pov and the adult in the back of your head is screaming "Oh no no no no no...." and rocking back and forth. Aside from this, it was visually stunning. I don't think Celine liked it at all. I should go to bed. I have class at 9am tomorrow. I want to pick out a new book first-- I don't want to read Slaughter House Five right now. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, June 18th, 2007
3:39 pm	1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions. 5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest. 6. Tag five people. ( To the excerpt ) I tag xevv and hockeyduck. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Wig in a Box (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
12:03 am	my first pride parade Pride parade today. In exchange for sweeping the stairway, I got to leave at 4 instead of 7, so I got to go. We got there around 4:30 and had already missed some of the floats (over-estimated the length of the parade route). It was fun none the less. I went with Celine and her friend Megan, as well as Celine's bird, Lucien. All the gay boys around us loved Lucien. It was very cute. It was pretty crowded-- Baltimore has a pretty large gay community. Saw lots of aging dinosaurs and assorted people in leather. Some of the groups had their kids helping them pass stuff out (best group that did this had 10 or so year old girls with painted on moustaches handing out candy). Got some candy and condoms and more lube than I know what to do with (It was the same color as the candy....). Didn't stick around too long after the parade finished. We didn't want Lucien trying to escape if he got startled by the crowds. Went back to Celine's house and had food and watched the original (French) version of "The Bird Cage," which was alot of fun. We hung out for the rest of the evening in her room talking and what-not and going through all the stuff we'd gotten and eating candy. (Comment on this)
Monday, June 11th, 2007
10:21 pm	Took a walk to the Enoch Pratt main branch today. On the way back, I decided to stop and read for a bit in the park on Monument. As soon as I sat down, this gay man with a small puff-ball dog on a hot pink leash came bounding onto the green in front of me. The man let go of the leash and started trying to make the small creature chase him. Instead of doing what he wanted, the small puffball would bounce two steps, lay down, and starte eating grass instead. Then he'd try going to other way or he'd walk off a little ways, trying to get the puffy dog to follow him. As it did the first time, it'd bounce a few steps and stop and eat grass rather than following. This went on for a good 15 minutes. It was deffinately more amusing than reading my book. In other news, I got paid today! I'm not so poor anymore! Yay! Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: The Dandy Warhols (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 10th, 2007
9:25 pm	Home and Garden Show Today was the second day of the Home and Garden Show. Got off working around 2pm and went down to help out on the first floor. Today I got to hang out with three teachers from inner city schools down near the inner harbor. One was a retired art teacher who taught Jr. High. The other two teach middle schoolers. Some of the stories they told! I can't believe... The one, Josepha, she lives right across the street at the other end of the block. She invited me over for tea, saying I should call after Friday, when school gets out. She could be alot of fun to visit off and on this summer. The other person who was hanging out and helping was the Event Coordinator at the Lyric Opera in Baltimore. She's supposed to be getting me some literature on student and discount tickets, etc. as it is "appaling" that I've never been to a full opera. Note to self: Get recepies for punch and tea (Clelia had out Peruvian Tea and Punch!! Soooooo Good!!!). After, I helped clean up around the house, took a walk, read my book, made steak and a spinach salad for dinner, watched Mad Hot Ballroom (watch out Carrie, I want ballroom dancing lessons!!!). My plans for the rest of the evening are to dance around my room listening to Frank Sinatra. Oh yea. Current Mood: jubilant Current Music: Frank Sinatra!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 9th, 2007
8:48 pm	Home and Garden Show in Resivoir Hill today. Lots of nicely restored houses in the area. Some pretty gardens too. I'd never been to something like this before so it was interesting. Got to explore the area, so that's always a plus. And there was food- that's always good. Got to meet lots of random people too: The Curator of the BMA and a whole bunch of people from the pentagon (they were hanging out in our living room) were the highlights. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 8th, 2007
12:49 pm	Time to start updating again Now that monoprinting is over, I'm finding life is going at a fast/slow pace. Some days I have so much to do! Others (like today) I have very little that I need to do or even feel like doing. Today the only thing I need to do is clean the appartment living room. In order to finish this task, however, Clelia needs to get home so she can unlock the basement door and I can put things away. Eh... Whatever. On the plus side, having nothing to do today made me decide to try washing my hair and letting it dry down. It is big and curlier than I remembered. I love it! My new class, Stone Carving, is wonderful. We began learning to use our chisles last night and I had pretty decent success. I'm looking at doing a mixed media piece for my final, combining the stone and either wood or paper mache. The idea in my head is that I'll have a abstracted figurative base and will construct traditional venetian masks to fit over the blank space where the face would be. Originally I was thinking something like a medico mask or a cassinova mask, but now I'm looking at the simple oval masks- completely blank and expressionless- that many of the women wore. This came about yesterday when I was sculpting a model in clay and put the masculine mask on the figure and wend "damn it's feminine." Maybe the tension between the masculine and feminine is a good thing. I've always favored the masks with long noses myself, but the simplicity of the female mask could lend more mystery and power to the piece. Maybe I'll make both and see which I like better (It's too bad that they won't fit me... Maybe I'll make some for myself while I'm at it?). My plans for the rest of the day include Sodoku, reading "The City of Falling Angels," watching "Something about my Mother" and possibly "Mad Hot Ballroom," dinner with Rebecca, browsing through the kama sutra, and messing with the playlists on my iPod. I'd like to go outside but it's Sooooooooo hot. And it was so nice yesterday... ughn. Current Mood: calm Current Music: Ladytron- Fire (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
11:01 pm	Found a new outlet for boredom. It's called Flipbook (flip.com) and it's basically online powerpoint for those who like to think they're creative. Actually, I like the idea behind it, but it's sooooo basic that it really does remind me of power point (which is evil). I got myself one anyway (me = Joan_the_Mad). We'll see how long before I get bored with it. (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
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