February 2012
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I finally feel somewhat oriented (I fell asleep while babysitting, because familyfriendson’s bedtime is at 9:30. So we read books and I sat/napped with him while he was falling asleep [which took kind of a long time; he seemed rather unusually anxious tonight] and then I went out and slept on the couch and then was totally startled and stumbling-around-confused when familyfriend and hubby...
thinking about the story I just finished
I always worry about writing sad stories, because I’m twenty-three and I’ve lived a pretty charmed life so far. How seriously can anyone take sadness coming from my mouth (ETA: or rather, my keyboard)?
I did not clean the bathroom today
so I shall have to do it tomorrow.
finished my first short story in. . . um. . . six...
Hells to the yeah, to use a puzzling phrase that I do not actually know the origin of. Now to edit and submit.
I gave Stubby a thumb-sized piece of chicken
from my lunch. Because I am a terrible owner. And also because I figure he’s old and deserves treats.
things to remember
Today:
1. Clean the bathroom
2. Babysitting at 6
3. Email to ask for more specifics about KCDW articles
In general:
1. Animation — first scene
2. Finish story (currently know as “house story.” must come up with more clever title.)
3. Start next story (book story, due March 31)
4. Fairy tale comic (by March 12)
5. Book — write to end of new outline bit
6. Dress...
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WatchSo, embarrassingly enough, this is as much of the animation as I have done. (Actually I have the background painted and the first few frames of the next scene, but it’s a longer scene so it probably won’t be ready for a while.)
Still, I like it.
[desc. an 11-second stop-motion animation of a hand dropping a seed into a stream and it floating away.]
today
1. Bought all the frames I needed
2. Wrote several pages of my story and maybe even am almost done with it
3. Outlined for the next scene of the book
4. Ascertained that I am going to Kansas City to cover Kansas City Design Week for an urbanism blog
What what, this was a good day.
OUT for writing and also buying frames
excitement!
more thoughts
I am not naturally a “tolerant” person. I was raised in a judge-y house and I remain judge-y to this day.
However, while I routinely judge other people’s choices (though I try very hard to not say that out loud, cough), I’m trying to not be un-thoughtful about how I do so. (Not saying other people are un-thoughtful, just that I have held a lot of opinions based on very...
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having a philosophical/moral quandary
It’s not related to anything specific in my life, just some things I’ve been reading.
But:
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to simultaneously … judge and not-judge, I guess? I’m reading a series of articles on Feministe (yeah, I need to branch out my blog reading, ugh, but right now about one SJ blog is as much as I can handle keeping up with, so if anyone has...
my ability to focus has sadly gone down the toilet...
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the other business. . . →
I have a couple new followers that I noticed! I just wanted to mention — this tumblr is a compilation of images that inspire me (mainly art and illustration right now, but also travel photos, architecture, and occasionally style or fashion photos), musings on my daily experience (cough, lots of those, cough), political and social opinions, thoughts of the books I’m reading and movies...
walked five and a half miles
I have done my duty to the lovely weather/my need for sunlight and now may resume other tasks.
there's a good chance
that by the end of this week I will have read more books in 2012 than I read in all of 2011.
Yikes.
“For a long time Pyrrha to me was a fortified city on the slopes of a bay, with...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Okay, I get why people make such a big deal about this book. It speaks SO DAMN STRONGLY to the traveler, to the lover of cities. There’s a lot here, but this so far is the thing that grabbed me like nothing else — because I remember so clearly that...
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fun times in the hometown
Hiding when the track team runs by because I haven’t run seriously in three years and my dedication to not feeling ashamed of where and how I’ve ended up is not quite up to the challenge of talking to the guy who coached me while I was the most physically fit I’ve ever been in my life (like when I ran a 4K in 18:00 or 18:30. Ugh. ETA: Whoops, that’s supposed to come out as...
throwing my numb face a pity party by eating a...
last dentist appointment done!
Hopefully my face regains feeling before 8 PM this time.
Hopefully I continue in my renewed dedication to flossing.
Marilyn's thoughts on hats
Marilyn: beret = like ze french
beanie = head condom
sending books away to friends
for some reason, this makes me feel anxious. It’s not the losing the books. I’m worried I’m doing it for the wrong reasons, or giving them the wrong books, or thinking it’s a more important thing than it is.
it's not that I feel disgruntled and lonely
it’s just that I feel disgruntled and lonely
Meet Me In St. Louis is kind of a boring movie?
I recall it being more interesting when we did the play in high school…
reading Fat!So? by Marilyn Wann
Well, edited by Marilyn Wann? It’s got a large collection of essays and stories by other people too.
It’s okay as an introductory book, but there are some rather cringe-worthy fails re: intersectionality…
so, sad face
I really, really cannot finish this animation today.
Thus, I will not be able to enter it in the Vimeo competition.
But that is okay.
That is okay.
I can just keep telling myself that.
going to try (though probably not going to...
so I can enter it in the Vimeo competition.
Sadly, the water rendering has taken a freaking ridiculous amount of time…
attempting to render running water in Blender
This is probably not the smartest thing I have ever done.
h-may replied to your post: thinking about myself in high school
Hahaha, I was so fucking weird in high school
The thing that never ceases to amaze me is how much damn effort I put into my schoolwork. I LOOKED FOR WAYS to make my projects more difficult, involved, and intense.
And I had so much damn time and so much damn energy.
Ugh.
thinking about myself in high school
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sufferable translation: I was stupid in high school, but it didn’t actually suck.