Mynsips ::: snips of life

Sean let me browse his extensive movie and sitcom collections and take some for myself. Which is, you know, pretty cool. Except now I have over 60GB of shows to watch, and a school life that is slowly taking up more of my 'free' time. I'm pretty excited though. Just watched Die Hard. Oh, Alan Rickman, how I love you so...

Had a drawing midterm this afternoon. It's a pretty heavy purchasing-load for that class. I keep spending money. See, you don't go to school to learn how to do art. You go to school to learn how to survive being an artist. To learn the true meaning of 'starving artist'. Oh yes, because I live that life every day. You know how much I spend on paper? At least 10 bucks a week for cheapo stuff, and then over $20 sometimes getting 4 sheets of the good stuff. Then I have to buy $4 micron pens, six tubes of $9 acrylic paints, a $10 set of charcoal, $20 pastel kit, ETC. All the goddamn time.

I bought paper today for my midterm, instead of feeding myself for 2 days. The real cost of art, my friends. Starvation.

BUT IT MAKES ME HAPPY! :D (the art part. not the non-eating part). And I so suffer (almost) gladly. <3

The midterm pretty close to killed me. It was 4 hours of intensely boring assignments. I decided about an hour in to, as I continuously say, 'just fuck it', and finger-paint and scribble and scratch and whatever. And so I did. Not my best work. But it's decent and acceptable and follows the guidelines, and I managed to stay awake. Yay me. 'A' for aggravatingly innacurate.

~~(someday I'll get around to finishing this blog layout...)~~
Edit: Finished my layout! I think. It might still be fiddled with as we go.

Pissed off at my blogskin now. CHANGING IT.

Oh life. How spirited thou art.

I am very sick right now. On the upswing, thank goodness. It's been over a week now. UGH. I think God must have invented Advil Cold and Flu, because it is my savior. Seriously, sick people, buy it. Thou shalt be saved.

So, the last few months I have been single, and I have been mostly glad for it. There are times I crave a snuggle, but those pass. However, once again, I'm swept into the awkward throws of a budding relationship. This time, though, I don't know what to do about it. The man is very sweet, and I'm not doing anything to dissuade his advances. He is not the type of man I can just date for a few months then toss off. The bloody male has a good heart, and I don't want to be the one to break it.
Yet, I do not want a relationship. I want... I don't know what I want. Casual? Friends with benefits, I suppose? I want to be with someone who doesn't give a fuck. Whatever that means.
Even though I like him, I can't date this guy. He's so young. I'm so goddamn vain. I can't be in a serious relationship. Maybe 3 years down the road. But not now. Should I tell him no, straight off the bat? Can I? Holding hands can be so comforting.
But no. I'll tell him. I think that would be for the best. I don't want to hurt him any more than I have to.

Well, hi there. It's 1:04am, and -what I am doing, you ask? Oh, I'm just completely re-organizing my dorm room, drinking coffee, skyping my most-awesome friend Kris and doing art homework. No biggie. And yes, I'll be up for another 2 hours.
I think I'm starting to collect blood in my caffeine system. Go go gadget Starbucks!

2D Art is by far the best class I have ever had. It almost trumps Creative Writing in Grade 12 high school... almost. Not quite. That was a fucking great year. But this is a sure-fire runner-up. I am having a blast. Just finished our printmaking section, and on to the cyanotype and etching.
I think this is what I want to do for the rest of my life - or a version of it. I look forward to this class the very second it's done, and when I'm there, I feel comfortable and capable and content. Tripple C's. I suppose that must be a sign, right? Plus my teacher fucking loves me, and my 2 buddies are a art-genius dreadhead-dude and a mind-gasm talented Asian hipster. Win.

Classes I don't like: [F]Art History, Introduction to [never writing] Prose Fiction, and ["Not allowed to 'DRAW'!"] Drawing 101. ie. all the other class i have.

I missed a class of the 'not-drawing' drawing class, and now I have to draw like, a billion things to make up for it. I mean, I get it, it's a 4-hour class, so a lot of shit was 'covered', but honestly, it's all a joke, and the proposed homework is for 5th-graders. Come on- a flipbook? make a line by pouring gravy in the snow/creating a spaghetti drawing/spill coffee on a piece of paper? Draw with a blindfold on for 10 minutes. LAME-O. I think I'll go art-attack style and make a 5-foot 'greyscale' image from coffee beans, whole-wheat rice and sugar... I better get an A.

My iTunes has been on shuffle for the last 6 hours. Only... 3 and 3/4 days of music left. It doesn't all fit on my iPod anymore. I guess it's time to upgrade!
I usually put it on shuffle, listen to a song, then manually shuffle with the arrow keys until I get so pissed off with the proposed choices that I just choose something. I might as well just take it off shuffle, but that takes so much effort to constantly think of songs.
ADDICTED TO ARTISTS: Ed Sheeran, The Script, Graham Colton
ADDICTED TO SONG: "Somebody that I Used to Know", Gotye ft. Kimbra

WHAT ELSE IS NEW? Hmmmm, let me think.
I have no money. Oh, well, that's not so new. But yeah. Broke. SO broke. Bought my last chocolate bar for like, a month, and savored it for an hour. That's a record for me. So pretty much I'm going to live on soup and granola bars, rice, noodles, oatmeal, eggs and corn for the next month. Blech. UNLESS I find a job. And that's... a whole 'nother story.

Made a pact to not smoke weed for...well, as long as possible. My heart condition doesn't like it. Derp.

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I should get started on my other homework. It's due tomorrow at lunch, after-all, and it hasn't even been DESIGNED yet. HAHAHA. oops.
Aufedersein, bitches.

I never thought I'd miss Gerry's more than my own home. I've been back in Invermere for 2 weeks and I'm getting sick of my family again, which is a good thing (I have to return to Uni again sometime), but it is completely unexpected to me how much I miss our little town ice-cream shop. It seems all I can think about every day is "I wish I had money so I could go to Gerris", "Why don't we meet at Gerry's?", "Remember that time at Gerry's?".

I guess that last phrase is the kicker. There are so many good memories and thoughts associated with this place. I get nostalgic when I think of it, really. It had been a gathering place for family and friends - especially friends - during high school. Back in the early days of the shop, when Gerry kept it open until whenver he felt like it, I used to come and stay here until 11pm or 1am or even 3am sometimes and talk to the artsy students who had lives that revolved around coffee. Then later, when the hours changed, and the students graduated, I came to Gerry's with my friends, sometimes every day, and it was wonderful. We'd drink coffee and eat cartons of ice-cream, creamsicles, paninis, and chat about life.

There were some great conversations here. We used to talk about school, and what we wanted or didn't want to do with our lives after it. Books, music, movies, boys, girls. Didn't matter. It was a place to spill your guts about anything. We'd spend hours and hours just sitting, often in comfortable silence, enjoying the shared atmosphere. I loved it. And even though the chances of us all being together again at this place is slim, being here, right now, makes me smile. I hope it stays open forever, so other people can enjoy it like we once did.

Anime just takes over, you know? I've tried to stop, I really have, but no matter what I do, I can't stop. However, as of yet I have never dressed as a character for Halloween, no have I ever attended Comicon or Sakura-con or anything remotely similar to those, so I am fairly safe, right? I don't think that makes me addicted. Thank god. No Anime Anonymous for me. I'm not that far gone.
I am finishing the 2nd to last episode of Guilty Crown right now. It's amazing. The plot is not genius, but it's fascinating, the characters are quirky and lifelike, and the art is extremely well-drawn and animated. I am impressed. And sad, because I'm sure that it ends after the 12th episode, which is in January 2012. As if I have to wait that long. NOOOO.
And now I have to find something to take it's place until then. Hm, what anime shall I watch in a week? Fairy Tale? Code Geass? Soul Eater? So many options. Maybe I'll just catch up on my BLEACH.