Sundays are Poisoned

A wave of crap that needs to be done tonight just hit me smack in the face. What have I been doing this whole time? Where did the time go?! :(

I WANT TO GO HOME. 

I don't like school anymore. 

I Want to Stay Home

My laziness has seriously reached an all time high. I don't even want to upload pictures because I'm so lazy. GUH. Home makes me lazy. But I'd rather be here than in my for-some-reason-cold apartment. :( I just want worries to be over with. I just want to eat food and be fat and happy. I just want time to be my friend. Can't we just be friends already! 

Jeez. I'm going crazy. Yesterday, I went clubbing. I actually don't normally go, but either way it was a great adventure again almost involving police and having my checking card swallowed by the atm machine.  Bah... It was still fun though. :)

Today, in celebration for my mom's birthday, we all went to a cheap massage place in San Gabriel. Lol. OMG... the guy who massaged me really had no mercy. I think my back is broken. My rock of a back has been broken in. He had a kick out of my pants. My pants are the kinds that can zip off in two places so it can be long shorts or shorter than long shorts. So when I started unzipping the first level, my massager was amused. I think my sister's massager was too. 

We decorated the Christmas tree today. :) I know its basically the same fake Christmas tree, with the same decorations...

But I absolutely love it. I love how epic it always looks and how Christmassy I feel after putting it up. I love that I can see it through the window when we pull into the drive way and how its always on. Bah, it's my favorite.

We also took our annual Christmas photo for the Costco Christmas Card that we send to families and what not. It's so funny. I feel like its a contest between all our relatives. We all send out family christmas cards to each other with (for some reason) just the kids on it. For some reason, our Christmas card always makes Yanna (my sister) and me look like a couple with our son... T___T; Whatever. We still have better photos. Ahaha.

I watched part of the movie 'Keeping the Faith' with Ben Stiller and Edward Norton. Guh. I loved the line Brian says to Anna

 in the confessional... "I'm the best version of myself when I'm with you." *dies* God, romantic comedies are just so darn great. 

Anyway... I've been procrastinating since Wednesday. :( I really need to get a move on my work... or I'll be in deep trouble. *Shudder* I can just feel it coming, the wave of horrible piles of stinky work. Huuu...

Hope all of your Thanksgivings were great. :)

My Thanksgiving basically was composed of this. A candy apple making session at a sleepover at my grandma's house. 

Why, yes! Hello there, I am Rosie the Riveter!

And this is what our Christmas card is going to look like.... kinda. 

I wonder if you noticed. Christian's face was so wacky in the actual photo... so i cut out a face from another photo and placed it on top. o_o;

Hu hu hu, Christmas is here. *u*

My dad and Christian helped put up decorations. :3 

Rocket Pubes

I'm done! And... I really REALLY probably shouldn't be taking the time to post right now... because I've basically decided to make my ceramics project... christmas presents... and I want to give many people christmas presents. SO! I better get started. Lol. I fail.

But... here's the progress!

Here's Mr. Projector. :) He's sweet. But with my luck, during the performance rehearsal his bulb went out. Horray me! At least it wasn't at the actual one. :)

Yup. 

That's a good 16 ft for you. Guh. a 16 ft x 10 in stencil... 

I never thought I'd make one of those. Lol.

Basically... I sketched out the whole thing before I started cutting. It helps me know where I am... and what my goal is...

This particular stencil involves dolls and birdcages and creepy things...  o_o;

Then you just robotically cut throughout the night, till your eyes start flashing and your brain melts. T__T; I want Turkey. I want home.

I actually don't know what I'm cutting... But I just keep goin.

Around this point, I think I started getting carpal tunnel. (sp?) My blunt blade was not being my friend. And the small table was my enemy.

On a happy note! We got this ghetto christmas tree! Its sooo darn sparkly. Man. It looks nothing like the picture.. The green leaves are soooo obviously fake. But how can you not love it. It's just calling for your love. 

I went to the fashion district today. :) And these are the goodies I bought, which I should be assembling and organizing for tomorrow's class that I soooo definitely want to ditch. Ugh. But I won't because I don't like the class very much.

Here's the end of it... for now. I just ended it here because at 5 in the morning your brain really does stop working... and so do your hands.

I really liked how the birdcage came out. :3

Here's the beginning as a shadow ^ ^

Here's my buddy. 

She folds up pretty well... 

Hope I can convince the teacher... 

Other then that, today was very fun. I have proved to myself that I am the ultimate creeper! I not only single-handedly solved the mystery of a creeper trying to be mysterious on my Deviantart account, I figured out that I actually have met him in real life before.  {Lol. Real life.. hu hu hu}

Someone on DA was trying to play mysterious games with me by hiding his identity and image and saying that he sees me on campus {which just irked me... I mean, doesn't it scare you knowing that someone is watching you... but you don't know who?}. So through my ultimate creeper skills! By using only his obsessive love for jeans, his screenname, and his initials... I was able to find his photobucket which revealed his face, and pin him to a faceless image on facebook. Man... I'm a creeper. 

Either way... serves them right to try and sneak about me. 

Other then that, I am soooo screwed. As usual. Time to crank out those ceramics! My brain is already mushy. Huuu... I hunger. 

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Aaaahh... The cutting begins. *dies*

Magic Lanterns and Golden Sarees

Through complete coincidence, I met a professor that took me to his office...
And in his office was an array of magical lanterns!



No joke! That's what it's called! They covered his room, filled shelves, and tables, in all different sizes. The other wall was just completely covered with books of all sorts. I spotted a tamagochi and a couple japanese toys amidst the display of treasures... and somewhere in the middle was his desk and computer, pilled with papers and completely enveloped with post-it notes that stuck to almost every part of this desk.



Ahhh! I'm in so much awe! He was such an amazingly cool teacher! How could I have not known?! It just astounds me how there exist magic rooms in these bleak buildings!

I'm kinda a little down in the dumps though... :T

So, yesterday, I headed off to the debut performance I costume designed for. She asked me to fix some minor details on her accessories and help her with her costumes and so I did. I had come with another teacher, so we picked up our tickets and sat down in the audience.

My teacher says to me: "You don't have a bio, like last performance..."

I had noticed that... and usually I get at least a sentence, but really the only thing running in my mind was, "How come she didn't thank me in her statement?" I could see our friend the music designer and other collaborators... but I was a little sad that she didn't mention me.

And I know. GOD, I know! That I should be happy enough with just my name in there, but I really did put a lot of effort and work into her performance. :( Its already one thing that I'm not getting paid, but its really the fact that this isn't a job! It isn't a profession... it's my time and I'm doing it because I'm her friend, because I want to help her.

Sometimes I think... is it really worth it to be working on these things? She told me that its real experience as a costume designer... but really, am I getting any experience out of it that I wouldn't be getting if I decided to use that time to work on my own show and make a name for myself? I really don't know. Gah. I don't want to sound so stubborn and naive. But I guess, all I wanted was that thank you.

Either way... you just have to keep going huh? :) I just can't wait for this quarter to end. I just want Christmas time to come already... Lol. I want apple cider. I want to play. :3

Longer than my Eyelashes

Today, I got to catch up on a lot of going abouts with a friend that I used to hang out with often. I think its really weird how people move in and out of circles they're apart of. I've definitely become a hermit this quarter...

But enough of that, this morning I found myself hiding behind the wall infront of the shuttle stop. Some grad student that had the same morning bus schedule as me, whom I had the misfortune of giving my email to, was standing there and I was in no mood to play witty games. You see, we had a rally of emails... But he really had some nerve to say some things that he said! Ugh, sometimes I am surprised at how brave some people can be. After telling me I was a flake because it came with being an art major, precociously telling my how to reply to an email by pressing the reply button, and telling me that some of my hobbies don't attract real friends I wasn't feeling too cool with him. And I suppose after a sort of sassy email back about how actually, its not flakey to be so busy doing more important things that hanging out with you... I think he sort of got a little scared, for our short rally ended quickly and so did our coincidental bus meetings.

And though in my mind... I pictured myself, the next time I saw him, to be strong willed and as unafraid as my last email seemed, I found myself gingerly holding the edge of the wall which hid me in hopes for that bus to leave and a second bus to pick me up. *lesigh* Boys are scary sometimes.

Other then that, my hands seem to be aging faster than the rest of me. :) Because our Ceramics teacher wasn't in today... I snuck to the wheels and tried my luck at throwing. Hahaha, it IS definitely harder than it looks. Just getting the clay to center and trying to stop the wheel from turning with my heels was a ridiculous feat. After a good two hours, I succeeded in making two soy sauce containers... that are slightly tilted. I must admit though, it was a lot of fun. :) I wish I could be in the studio more often.

A good number of projects that are due are sneaking up on me... And as usual, it hasn't occurred to me at all, that maybe I should start on them... Hmmm...

Tomorrow is the debut of Sheetal's performance that I costume designed. :) On Saturday... though I probably should be doing my homework... I'm going to be making a costume for an online contest. *fail* On Sunday, I'm going to go fabric shopping with Anela and co. and hopefully Vivian will help me photograph my costume. :3

On a sad note... ants have officially raided our apartment. I pray their scouring searches lead them not to basically my-only-source-of-food-stash of cookies. :)

Root Beer Popsicles

I guess I just want to elaborate a little. :) There are all together 31 bells. They are made of Kai Porcelain and are strung with ribbon. I used a good number of my glass beads for the ringer and the wind catchers are photos from the summer. :3

Actually, I think I'm going to take them down tomorrow. >_<>

I strung them to the ceiling... with nylon thread, which mind you, is actually really thin. (maybe that's why a number of them dropped. :T)

Those are actually digital images... printed from Shutterfly. :)

Stay put you silly picture! Stop moving so much!

It was really fun, overall. I am given the next step, which is to basically expand the project... so I think I'll be making a bunch more... probably bigger too. :)

Other then that, I've completely wasted my day by loitering online. Haha... I didn't do an ounce of homework! Though, I did meet up with an elementary friend of mine. And that was nice. I treated myself to boba with Vivian... which didn't make my now-empty-pockets too happy. But it was really head-ache-relieving, so I guess it was worth its 2.95. Other then that, I found myself trying to remove this black gunk off of the bench next to my desk. And somehow in the process... All the black gunk ended up on my hands. 

I'm going to have to make a pair of shorts tomorrow. :T I'm not too confident in my lack of pattern making skills... but I'll just try. 

What else... I went grocery shopping today! It was really hard not to be tempted by the cookie dough ice cream and all the juices. *Swoon* Again... the same story with the empty pockets. I did manage to scramble change for rootbeer float popsicles though. :) And eggs. Which is basically what my diet is. Huuu...

 

Procrastination is the Key

I really ought to be doing something more important right now... like I don't know, MY RESEARCH PAPER. *dies* I really have no sense of crisis. Its almost five and I just started. :( What a pain, I am. 

Other then that, today was no good for Costume Design class. I sort of am so shy about presenting my work that I just don't... and I think I'm secretly getting docked off for that. Ugh... I want to hide sometimes. 

This week is going to be pretty hectic. Besides the research paper due tomorrow, I also have a ceramics project due, and an artist research in class presentation due tomorrow too. On Wednesday I have to come up with a stencil cut out that is equivalent to 3 minutes of a show... If it were 8 ft tall... it would have to be 20 ft wide. :( But! The scale is going to be a lot smaller and projected..  Either way, I haven't started and I'm basically screwed. 

Sheetal's performance is this Friday.

On Wednesday I'm also going to be putting up posters and flyers for the upcoming puppet show thats going to be shown in Little Tokyo, called Pink Dress. :D It'll be on December 6th and 7th. :)

Guh, my gosh, I really need to get working. Why, brain? Must you fall sleepy when it comes to school work?

Pull Through!

It has occurred to me that I now uncomfortable writing in my other blogs. Livejournal has made me accutely sensitive to one particular viewer. Thus, my blogging has been hindered and not as detailed as they usually are. I suppose I should be on a search for a new blog location for now. 

I've made a tumblr account and have been trying to get used to that one... however because it doesn't really allow comments from other viewers I sort am not so interested. 

Of all the blogs I have, I think I am going to try and settle here. At least for now... Though as to why I am up at this ungodly hour is something even I'd like to know. I really should have been more keen on doing my homework before 1 am. Oh well. 

Other then that... I suppose I can gladly admit that this week I have proved to be the most lazy fart. Compared to other days, I at least know when I should feel a crisis of work load... yet I haven't and I've been paying for it dearly. :T

In the end, I know I'll pull through, even if it means sleeping with my eyes open tomorrow.