I need to be more serious about my art. I have been slacking.  I love all of it, I need to take the dive to the bottom and fully emerse.  This summer, that is my time.  I want to be a Printmaking Master!  Maybe not a Master, but a resource in my own light.  I love my art, I have a hard time selling it. 

I need to develope!  I have a lot of artistic growing to do, the hardest and where my attitude is not the most chipper towards is Drawing, a step I've tried dancing around.  I need to get more technical in order to explode in Printmaking.  I haven't painted in awhile, a problem with being busy and not having my own space.  I need to branch out.

123 Go! It's going up from here.  I will explode while at Iowa and around those who will challenge me into lasting nights of pure art-ness.  I cannot wait.  I like being in the zone, and haven't been there for awhile. 

I have the problem with carving out a future.  Though I like my plan of teaching college art, and will probably go that route, I'm afraid of my failure.  It's not really failure though, I need to get a show going, develope a collection.  I have that 'publish or perish" problem on my mind lately, though it's not something I will have to deal with for the next 6 years. My art means a lot to me, I'd rather create quality over quantity and hate the idea of my selling out at all anywhere.

I like combining my mediums, Printing and Photography, Foil Printing and Painting. Doug Hall is kind of my idol at the moment. I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to study with him.

I took my french placement exam the other day.
<175=Beginner FRENCH.
176-230=Intermed1
231-310=Intermed2
>311=3rd year French.

I got a 281! soooo I am proud of myself! as for not having taken a french class in a year! I know my speaking is my weaker skill, I can have simple convos of course, but my writing is sooo much better!!!! probably because I have a second to think about it instead.

I love grammar, I think I understood English grammar because I learned to speak French. There was this three day period in 3rd grade when we went over Nouns/Adjectives/Verbs/Etc...and I have NEVER really understood all of them completely until I took french and relearned them differently. Silly story, I know. ha.

Anyways, I just need an apt now!!! I kinda would just like a studio, to be honest, but roommates are okay.

I like pants.

Ahh, I have not posted in a long time. Woops!

Things are building, goodness!

I really need to prepare for my french proficiency exam! shoot!

Boys! Hate 'em!

Work! Blah!

I love David Sedaris, and his books.

Great Night.
Great Pictures.

 Tomorrow, I have a painting final....yeah, it's just a critique though, then it's MAJOR typing at the Allsop lab in Nielsen for my art history final, I'm excited for that one, I am TOTALLY going above and beyond here.

ps.
I love me, because SOMEBODY has to.

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so anyways...this weekend was fun...went to Iowa City with some friends...totally fun.  Next Friday is Salsa Dancing with Hannah....WAYYYY FUNNNN.

I have french class in an hour....scary.

I just made all of my past entries so that people other than my friends cannot read them because I think I STILL have a freaking stalker...who is really pathetic in every aspect.

I think some bad things happen so good things can....great. times. yes. ahh...I love it. haha.

anyways....did you know that it's actually a sin for women to wear men's clothing and men to wear women's??? it's actually writting in that bible book!!!!! --I laughed hard.

My contacts bother me....silly eye doctor not getting the shape of my eye correct.

it's odd, and doesn't seem quite possible, that we are in our last week of high school. awkward and amazing at the same time.

I have to give a fake speech on Wednesday.

today I joined the Lj Community: todayirealized...or something to that effect.

it seemed cool, but when I logged back on and checked my friends page...HOLY COW *gasp where?* there were like 4 pages of journal entries from that community, so I had to switch the filter. end story.

My parents are crazy, and NOT the good crazy, the BAD crazy. Meaning we don't get a long very often.

Tacos.

I might get a new car!!!!

So, I chose an apartment building>>The Courts, pretty cool.

I LOVE that we're going linguistics history in Sr.Eng.(which Michelle and I call Comp.2)

I need to go to the Y tonight.

I want some asian candy.

Time go to walk around at work and do nothing...

I have to choose between 2 apartments at Kirkwood> Village East and the Courts....either one.

The Courts have a little bit more room and a diff. set up. and 2 bed per apt.

Village East is CLOSER to school(two parking lots away), has free tanning, bball, vball, rec center, hangout place, washer/dryer in every apt., 4 bedrooms per apt., a little more bright, AND all the social activities go down at Village East.....


OH! SO since we've all taken MCC classes, I have like two classes I have to take each semester next year, granted I have to take more to be full time, which I will, but I get to pick the ones I want.

Kirkwood is huge and new, I love it, 12.000 students at the Cedar Rapids campus, 3,000 at the Iowa city one. supa.

now about those apartments(oh yeah, there are also ghetto ones, but I'm looking at ones where I don't have to drive to school)

today was snowy? awkward.

I'm watching a movie, I think it's called Volcado on AMC, it's about a Volcano and a city and stuff. Anne Haesch is in it(totally wrong spelling of her last name). okay, buhbye.

oh! Kelsey, should I bring a great 90's/skatetown cd on next wednesday?

My words are verbal cutlery and today is my birthday!

So basically I watch Top Design like all the time, haha. I've seen the same episode like every day that I watch--3 days till the big finale.

I think it would be fun to get a double major in architecture and interior design...then open my own business. Amazing. But I STILL want to teach, everything I want to do is still housed in the art major house, so it's all good. Interior design is offered at ILIS....hmmm....okay. maybe I'll take a course in interior design or architecture this summer...wait I'm WAY busy with work, FRANCE, and Nationals for FBLA, not to mention working out like everyday and yeah, oh wait, I need to do art stuff.

note to self: buy charcoals!!!!!!(drawing charcoals)

Katie, did you already go back home? bummer.

today, I was supposed to see GrindHouse...but alas, I didn't wake up until 9 and so that meant I didn't go to work early, so I'm at work 1-4:30 instead of 8:30-noon. whatever, I kinda wanted to see Grindhouse, but it's a double feature meaning 3hrs long.

okay, au revoir.

So basically I watch Top Design like all the time, haha. I've seen the same episode like every day that I watch--3 days till the big finale.

I think it would be fun to get a double major in architecture and interior design...then open my own business. Amazing. But I STILL want to teach, everything I want to do is still housed in the art major house, so it's all good. Interior design is offered at ILIS....hmmm....okay. maybe I'll take a course in interior design or architecture this summer...wait I'm WAY busy with work, FRANCE, and Nationals for FBLA, not to mention working out like everyday and yeah, oh wait, I need to do art stuff.

note to self: buy charcoals!!!!!!(drawing charcoals)

Katie, did you already go back home? bummer.

today, I was supposed to see GrindHouse...but alas, I didn't wake up until 9 and so that meant I didn't go to work early, so I'm at work 1-4:30 instead of 8:30-noon. whatever, I kinda wanted to see Grindhouse, but it's a double feature meaning 3hrs long.

okay, au revoir.