December 2011
I can tell when my dad has been listening to...
because he starts using really random and clunky phraseology (calling George H.W. George W.’s “daddy,” saying things like “reading the tea leaves.”)
PLAY WITH LANGUAGE MORE, POLITICAL PUNDITS.
2011 much more briefly
Worked in the clinic. Petted puppies. Applied for grad school. Felt nervous. Watched a shit-ton of movies but didn’t read so many books. Went to London, worked in Kyoto, studied in France, came back to Iowa. Fell in love with all of the above for various reasons. Did a reasonable amount of art. Did a reasonable amount of writing. Felt more nervous. Had famblies. Things were interesting.
2011 in review →
A personal list-style retrospective.
I dunno, this was an interesting year, and pretty even. I think when I look back on it it’s going to look like a pretty good year altogether, once I shake the general sense of feeling like an unproductive bum.
trying to write a 2011 retrospective
It’s long.
weird things I have done
I remembered my tea but forgot my tea strainer, so I poured the powdered not-so-tasty tea out of a Lipton bag and replaced it with my tastier whole-leaf tea.
my body is being stupid
BODY: Here, have a somewhat sore throat and a slightly runny nose!
ME: OH NOES AM I SICK?
BODY: Haha, psych!
ME: WHAT.
Also my sister-in-law has the first confirmed case of true influenza in Iowa this year. Yikes.
fun fact
I have never done anything on New Year’s Eve besides play Trivial Pursuit with my parents and eat cheese and crackers. I think last year I had a glass of wine with my trivia.
I need to find a way to block certain sites for a...
Because I have a terrible habit of wasting time reading other people’s comment drama. ‘Tis neither becoming nor productive.
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on a different note
I am very repressed.
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so basically
I don’t think about death, because it freaks me out.
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h-may replied to your quote: Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie…
Why, I don’t think that’s stupid. As long as you’re old and withered, you’re conscious. Consciousness is a real blessing, even a miracle, and we’re within our rights to fear its loss.
I feel like the idea of not being afraid to die is ingrained as a virtue in so many cultural narratives about heroism, power,...
“Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction, and to...”
– Claudio, Act III, Scene i, Measure for Measure, Shakespeare.
Someone once tried to prove the pointlessness of my anxiety to me by extrapolating from the fact that I am afraid to die — because, based on his logic, death is unavoidable and therefore no sensible person would be afraid of it....
upsetting
When someone on Facebook posts an article about a college classmate who was killed in a traffic accident, and even though I didn’t know him, I know a bunch of people he used to hang out with. :(
attempting to humidify my room using an actual...
Hmmm.
contemplating chicken: various thoughts: 2011: An... →
ecrivaine:
contemplatingchicken:
gingerhaze:
A lot of awesome things happened in my life in 2011! I also drew a lot this year. I was going through my Doodles folder today, and I think it tells the story of my year better than I can. So I decided to compile them into a little backwards look at 2011.
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I love…
I love this. I don’t draw, but I want to do a year in review thing is...
verdict on vinegar boiling
It sort of helped loosen the black crust but still required 5-7 minutes of scrubbing. Still, better than 15-20 minutes of scrubbing, I guess?
2011: An Illustrated Review
gingerhaze:
A lot of awesome things happened in my life in 2011! I also drew a lot this year. I was going through my Doodles folder today, and I think it tells the story of my year better than I can. So I decided to compile them into a little backwards look at 2011.
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I love this so much. I was only to have one resolution, but now I want to make another one about drawing personal...
greenrevolution replied to your post: the Shakespeare lectures aren’t working
Wait, does boiling vinegar remove those annoying burn marks in pans?! I never knew there was a way to do that without scrubbing mercilessly with a brillo pad! Mind. Blown.
Don’t get excited yet! I actually was not making any progress with comet and scrubbing furiously, so I decided to ask the internet...
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yesssss it's at least partially back online
The video isn’t going but the sound is so good enough.
the Shakespeare lectures aren't working
and also I burnt my pot so now I have to boil vinegar in it.
Hmph hmph hmph.
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(more) reasons I am a terrible person
I am currently boiling a pot of water because I don’t want to look for the humidifier.
thekeri replied to your post: desalmada replied to your link: Harney & Sons…
Not their green teas.
Good to know… I ordered a 4 oz tin of Earl Grey Supreme, and samplers of Paris Tea, Hot Cinnamon Spice Tea, and Temi Sikkim Darjeeling for now, and may get more samplers later. I am usually more of a black tea than a green tea person anyway … I drank green tea in Japan some,...
desalmada replied to your link: Harney & Sons Tea
get the paris tea from harney & sons. A lovely alternative to earl grey!
Hey, awesome. I got the little sampler of Paris tea, so I’ll be trying it to see if I like it. Are there any other teas from H&S you recommend?
whoops maybe the burning was just because I inhaled a piece of donut.
am feeling more and more questionable
Burn-y sinuses. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm very suspicious.
Oh well. I have tea. And projects. And Mr. Stubbs.
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also
Plain Lipton tea is kind of nasty.
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Harney & Sons Tea →
My Early Grey container is only half-full, which is upsetting. Therefore I ordered more tea (also several samples!) I have not gotten this brand of tea before, so I shall report on its quality and whether I shall be ordering more of it or returning to Tealuxe (which will always hold a warm and snuggly place in my heart.)
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half-pan watercolor boxes: upsettingly expensive. →
ABout $60 for a box that holds 48 half-pans. Things to save up for, I guess.
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I think I'm sick
which pisses me right off.
tea ducky rides again!
or rather, floats.
So I ordered 12 8” x 10” pieces of linoleum to start doing the dress prints, which means I am going make a fun test print with the three 6” x 8” pieces I bought in the store today.
:D
you know how
you have a plan and list of art supplies you want
and then somehow you end up spending $30 more than you intended.
whoops…
oh Coriolanus
you and your darling love-hate homoeroticism.
nothing2c said: yeah. :( *hug* aw, aging pets.
Thanks. :) Stubby is actually still in the “eccentric old man” stage — he sleeps in weird places, goes in the wrong direction when we call him (for instance, frequently if I call him from the kitchen, he’ll go into my room, presumably because it’s the last place he saw me?), follows six inches behind our feet, and...
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problems you have if you are me, PART TWO
My dog is sort of going deaf and just a touch senile, so sometimes he will wander off into parts of the yard (we have a big yard with an invisible fence) where we can’t see him (like OH MY GOSH HE’S DISAPPEARED oh wait he just went under the pine trees.) We generally let him out and watch him and call for him as soon as he’s done with his jobs and a bit of sniffing around so that...
current plan
Spend $50-60 on watercolors
Purchase linoleum printing goods, $30-40
Acquire other inks, nibs, and such, $10-$20
Inquire about ordering a metal watercolor box
I’m debating with myself, but I think it might be cool/kill two birds with one stone (i.e. experimentation with printing methods and doing the dress project) to make three-color prints of the historic dresses; I would then be...
huh
MAYBE I WILL DO LINOLEUM PRINTING INSTEAD OF SCREENPRINTING.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
trying to decide what watercolors to order
This is rather difficult.
deploy the tea duckies!
He is floating happily around in a Santa mug, bringing chai goodness to the masses, also known as me.
Working in the clinic today… hopefully will finish off the last $50 of my credit card debt, as well as the $30 (art books!) I unwittingly charged to said credit card rather than my gift card (drat it. Didn’t realize I had to type it in every time for paper purchases.)
have some animation and illustration! →
From the website of Lilli Carré, which I have slowly been working my way through. She has a lot of very curious and fascinating animations. Hrmmmm hmmmm.
so I guess I'm coming up on the edge of the...
but only if you count the silly books I read too. Otherwise I’m stuck at 10.
I think I am going to make one resolution for next year, and one only (other things are just going to be everyday goals and dealt with on an everyday basis): Read a book a week. THERE ARE SO MANY TO DEAL WITH.
ETA: The study I read (which I probably am totally misremembering) said that most Americans who do read...
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just going to say it
The recent “accountability” thread on Feministe lately has gone way, way south.
LOTS of dreams about zombies coming to get me last...
what?????????????
iamwrappedupinbooks replied to your post: boooooks
Feminism is for Everybody is a great intro to bell hooks. And you’re going to love Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit—it’s amazing!
Miserable lazy person though it reveals me to be, I am probably going to purchase one of the bell hooks books available on Nook already, which narrows my choices to about five. As for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit...
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boooooks
So far, I have chosen the following as my Christmas splurge books:
Dynamic Hands, by Burne Hogarth
Dynamic Figure Drawing, by Burne Hogarth
Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery, by Burne Hogarth
The Vintage Didion Reader, by (who else) Joan Didion
The Complete Fairy Books, by Andrew Land
In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
Mastiff, by Tamora Pierce
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar...