I had to make some sort of picture or I would die. Doesn’t this little Zenith radio look like an owl? OK, I promise I will study for the rest of the night. Pen drawing colorized in Adobe Photoshop CS2.

“art is a result. it is the record left by those who have truly lived their lives. those who have genuinely lived their lives will leave behind the stuff that is incontestably art.”~ Jane Urquhart

I heard from my editor yesterday that she expects my Photoshop book any day! Can you believe it?!? I’m already getting prematurely embarrassed at the annoying gloating and bragging that is sure to occur when I finally do get it. Tomorrow is the last of the big midterm tests. I’m cramming an entire semester’s worth…

Ideas for paintings by Jack Handey. clickity click me Thanks for the link, purchase Hildreth!

An old journal posting from 2002: “I’m astonished at just how much I’m loving painting. I always considered myself more a craftswoman or textile artist than a fine artist. I’ve held the attitude that art should be useful and I liked crafts becuse I seemed to enjoy the labor of production more than the creative…

Yesterday I studied from 9am til about 10pm with few interruptions. I was at maximum capacity when I finally gave in to the television. I got Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides on DVD yesterday. It was a little treat to myself from my tax return. I relaxed with a glass of sherry and glued my…

The more you feed it, search the more hungry it gets and the bigger it grows.

I hate to break it to you, but higher education is a privilege and a choice, not a right or requirement. I know, I’d change things if I could, but that’s just the way the cookie crumbles, at this point in our history anyway. So being that it’s a privilege and a choice, it means…

This weekend we played tourist. Friday night we ventured into Fisherman’s Warf. If you don’t like reading words, see pictures. I never, ever go to Fisherman’s Warf. Sure, I’ve been there a couple times since the In and Out Burger went in, one time I went to the Hyde Street Pier to look at the…

The braids are gone. I’m back to my flippy short hair. I will miss the braids but it was time.

Still no painting, still more studying. I have an astronomy homework due the same day that I have two papers due. Then two days later I have another test to fulfill a health class requirement so I can get my AA this semester. The test doesn’t sound hard but I need to review an entire…

Well, I wish I had something witty and insiteful to say, but I don’t. I feel better today. I slept most of the day yesterday. I honestly don’t know if it was an illness or stress. Could be the whole midterms thing. School was less stressful before I had a 4.0 GPA to measure up…

Now I know why I felt so terrible yesterday. I had evil demons in my digestive system. So either I had a stomach bug of some kind which would explain the sneezing, tiredness and fever that I had later on, or I had a violent case of “college stomach.” All I know is, I feel…

Clomp clomp clomp. I staggered home in the rain today, sore feet, cranky eyes and drooping arms. What I wouldn’t do for a few days rest. I keep dreaming about France. In my last dream, I had forgotten to pack my most essential item, my swimsuit. Nothing else that I had brought along seemed to…

“A body remains at rest, or moves in a straight line at a constant speed, unless acted upon by a net outside force.” This weekend has been a wonderful rest for me. Fun Friday night, lots of sleep saturday, and today we’ve just been cleaning, had some pork store breakfast and did all those things…