HEY!

Merry Christmas!

(ps. Where is the snow?)

Not much is going on…

I think I have all of my presents. I plan on wrapping everything tonight. I have been doing a lot of reading and sleeping. I’d like to be doing more reading, but I keep falling asleep while reading… it’s a great book… I am just so tired. I actually have a goal to make it through the whole day without napping before Christmas.

So…I guess I was tired.

Last night I slept 12+ hours. And now I feel all groggy and out of it.

“We can always sleep when we go home…”

This week has been wonderful. I have spent a lot of time just hanging out with the wonderful group of friends that I have made this semester. A lot of them are the people I hung with all summer - just a great group of people. Friday night a few of us went to an all night dinner and had coffee (or hot chocolate) and witnessed a bunch of punk kids get kicked out of the place. It was very entertaining.

Saturday was graduation day for a lot of my friends. A few of them are already in the grad program here, but had finished their undergrad this summer and were just now going through the ceremony.

Last night started with coffee and just hanging out and enjoying lost moments. One of my friends is going to England for a semester, so we’re seriously going to miss her. Anyhow, we wanted to go have an adventure so we went downtown to the Green Mill, a wonderful old Jazz bar on the north side. It took us an hour to get a booth, but it was worth it. The music was heavenly. Experiencing live Jazz is something I hope to continue, but experiencing it with these friends was just wonderful.

As a result of these wonderful friend filled weekend I am a bit low on sleep, but our motto for the weekend seemed to be “We can always sleep when we go home…”

YEAH!

I am done with finals. I am also exhausted.

Oh, my church sent me a wonderful little box full of happiness (cookies, chocolates and other yummies) and my floor LOVES me more than ever because I can’t eat all of this food and I HAVE to share.

By the way, I have been getting some lovely cards in the mail and from people in general. Everyone is just so wonderful… I know Christmas has something to do with it… but still… it makes me happy.

Presenting . . .

PIECES / PARTS / PEOPLE
observing the beauty of every angle - every person

(Various works - Acrylic - Fall 2006)

I think I have survived…

I feel as though I am out of words. I have used up my quota for the time being and do not have any clear articulate way of expressing my current thoughts and emotions. Yesterday after I passed my last paper I was finally able to feel the true extent of my exhaustion.

Anyhow, the point of this post is to let you all know that I survived the major crunch. I have passed in all of my projects.

I only have finals left.

I have a few paintings that I want to finish up and I need to pick which pieces I’d like to present for the final presentation. I need to write up something short for that, but that is not something I consider work or stressful. Tuesday will be my heaviest day with three finals. The final one being my ceramics test (more like a short quiz from what I understand) and a display of what I have done the latter part of the semester. From then on I have test on Wednesday and another on Thursday.

All should go well.

I’ll be busy. I will have to check out a bunch of girls and do other RA type things, but I’ll have a lot of fun.

We’ll see…

School totally interferes with my free time.

The angle is relative… for now.

(Playing with Shadows - Acrylic - 10x10 in.)

Yeah! Yeah! *sighs* *sighs*

I have two out or three papers passed in!

But I also have to write like eight pages as part of a portfolio that I have to pass in on Thursday. We didn't get the details on that until last Thursday... and my last eight to ten page paper is due Friday. Oh, the joy.

I can't wait for finals week. It'll be so much easier than last week and this week.