Random Thoughts
Yes, here are some of the random thoughts that have flitted through my head in the past five minutes:
1) I'm sure this happens to everyone... do those of you who have cats or other animals come up with the most ridiculous nicknames? I have just christened Savannah my "Snuggle-muffin"... her other nicknames are Sav, Savvy, Savvy Lee, Savannah Lee (when naughty), Munchkin-Poop (don't ask), Snuggleplums.. the list could go on. Very odd!
2) Why do normal household chores escape my notice weeks in a row? We've needed to kick the dishwasher off for like 4 days (it's even loaded and ready to go!), and I have fogotten every single day. I'm usually quite happy in the Dreamworld I live in, but every once in a while, when I resurface, I note its distinct drawbacks. My father very clearly lives in This World, and he never would neglect to kick off the dishwasher. Another drawback of my Dreamworld: the distaste (and semi-horror) with which I contemplating getting another job in the Real World. I HATE the Real World. Bitchy bosses, having to go be somewhere else for hours on end, wishing the clock would hurry up... still, library jobs are better than most to me. Which does nothing to break the knot of dread in my stomach when I think about turning in a job application...
and leads me to my next point...
3) Is there a reason that artists, as a whole, tend to be both nocturnal and not fond of venturing outside the house/studio? An artist did a big post on that a while back (the second half, not the nocturnal part), and most artists responded that they are indeed uncomfortable when they have to venture outside. So, as a similarly home-preferred, nocturnal artist, I am quite afraid of/incompatible with the Real World.
So yeah. These thoughts should be motivation to get cracking on my paintings... I've been a bit sad the past few days, so I haven't gotten any painting done. I'm going to try and put a lot of hours in tonight, since school has started and my free time is going to decrease rapidly. Yikes though, I got feedback from my thesis advisor... she loves what I've written so far, which is great! But I have to come up with a stupid timeline for getting each chapter of the thesis done... um I SO don't write that way. I don't even know what the chapters will be at this point! Let alone when I could write each one. *sigh* The thesis isn't a pain because of the research or the 100 pages of writing, but because of the admin stuff like that. For an e-portfolio you only have to write around 30 pages I think... but it's 30 pages of total bullshit. No kidding. Stuff like "This project fulfilled the program competancy of cultural interaction with society by..." 30 pages of bull I can do, but not on stuff like that. *shudders*
1) I'm sure this happens to everyone... do those of you who have cats or other animals come up with the most ridiculous nicknames? I have just christened Savannah my "Snuggle-muffin"... her other nicknames are Sav, Savvy, Savvy Lee, Savannah Lee (when naughty), Munchkin-Poop (don't ask), Snuggleplums.. the list could go on. Very odd!
2) Why do normal household chores escape my notice weeks in a row? We've needed to kick the dishwasher off for like 4 days (it's even loaded and ready to go!), and I have fogotten every single day. I'm usually quite happy in the Dreamworld I live in, but every once in a while, when I resurface, I note its distinct drawbacks. My father very clearly lives in This World, and he never would neglect to kick off the dishwasher. Another drawback of my Dreamworld: the distaste (and semi-horror) with which I contemplating getting another job in the Real World. I HATE the Real World. Bitchy bosses, having to go be somewhere else for hours on end, wishing the clock would hurry up... still, library jobs are better than most to me. Which does nothing to break the knot of dread in my stomach when I think about turning in a job application...
and leads me to my next point...
3) Is there a reason that artists, as a whole, tend to be both nocturnal and not fond of venturing outside the house/studio? An artist did a big post on that a while back (the second half, not the nocturnal part), and most artists responded that they are indeed uncomfortable when they have to venture outside. So, as a similarly home-preferred, nocturnal artist, I am quite afraid of/incompatible with the Real World.
So yeah. These thoughts should be motivation to get cracking on my paintings... I've been a bit sad the past few days, so I haven't gotten any painting done. I'm going to try and put a lot of hours in tonight, since school has started and my free time is going to decrease rapidly. Yikes though, I got feedback from my thesis advisor... she loves what I've written so far, which is great! But I have to come up with a stupid timeline for getting each chapter of the thesis done... um I SO don't write that way. I don't even know what the chapters will be at this point! Let alone when I could write each one. *sigh* The thesis isn't a pain because of the research or the 100 pages of writing, but because of the admin stuff like that. For an e-portfolio you only have to write around 30 pages I think... but it's 30 pages of total bullshit. No kidding. Stuff like "This project fulfilled the program competancy of cultural interaction with society by..." 30 pages of bull I can do, but not on stuff like that. *shudders*