Thursday
Hanging out with ADD people makes everything feel slow and dreamlike. Like you're wafting through life and theyre buzzing around and bouncing off walls and babbling, while you just quietly, slowly, watch.
My superpower of matching things together super accurately has kicked in again. I was wondering why Victoria reminded me so much of Erin... Well, its confirmed. She has ADD too! So shes on meds that make her act just like Erin. It all makes sense now.
Its also been confirmed that Nate's not gay. We were talking about safe sex (because of Ron, the black, homeless, AIDS man we met on the way home from school) and he was like, "Still a virgin! Waiting for the right girl someday!" So there you go. He just wears a lot of tie-dye.
Today was so busy! I was super late to school, and had Printmaking first thing until 11:20. Then Still Life Painting from 1:00 to 3:50, and then Art History from 4:00 to 5:30 and then I stayed extra late for a figure drawing thing from 6:30 to 8:00. PHEW! I didnt do ANYTHING today except MAKE ART. And thats how its supposed to be, but PHEW. Thatsa lotta art.
Printmaking was okay, except that I came super late and only made one crappy print. Boo. Then I had egg rolls and bell peppers for lunch, and ate it in the lounge on the eleventh floor (my new favorite place) with Victoria, while we both did our homework for Still Life Painting. That class is okay I guess, but we're NOT PAINTING, and it get can get pretty boring. The teacher is nice. Then was Art History, which is... the craziest class I've ever had.
The teacher is this young, Russian guy, with a totally unpronouncable name, who looks just like the main character in The Corpse Bride. He's kind of odd, and he talks real fast, and every now and then he says something weird that you miss if you arent really listening. (Like that guy who came to Dillard and would be talking and then suddenly say, "Thats a fact, Jack." and everyones like, ...wait what!?) Theres a lot of kids in the class, and these two girls with real loud voices that are know-it-alls, and answer all his questions as loudly and know-it-all-y as possible. The class is like... a big art history discussion group. I'm guessing that the teacher is less concerned with us memorizing dates and names, and instead wants us discussing the philosophical sides of the art. Suddenly the conversation was on Obama and socialism, and I was like, this is the craziest class I've ever had.
After Art History, me and Victoria had some time to kill before the figure drawing thing, so we went off in search of a pet store. Shes got this thing shes obsessing over, about how she wants to "rent a bird" to draw. Like, she doesnt want to BUY a bird, and have to take care of it and stuff, she just wants to borrow one until shes done drawing it. And somehow she thinks that the pound will let her rent a bird. I dont know. She also think that shes going to foster kittens in her dorm. Yep.
Anyway, so we went on an adventure to find this pet store, which she had the directions to on her iPhone, which was magically leading us to it, but she wasnt really in the mood for adventuring because it was really friggin cold and she didnt have a jacket or anything. I, on the other hand, was well prepared with sweater, jacket, scarf, and christmas music. I am so prepared. For. This. Weather. BRING IT. (I've got a temperature thing on my computer right now... it says 61. SIXTY ONE DEGREEEEEESSSS.) Anyway, we found the store, but it turned out to just be a store selling like, doggie clothes and beds and stuff. No actual dogs. On the way, I saw a Macy's and a Quizno's, and lots of grocery stores, and a stationary store, and lots of flower shops, and really cool looking buildings, and cool old bars. I love this city.
Then I went to the figure drawing thing with Victoria and Nate (I guess I mainly hang out with them). The class is like... every Thursday, you can come draw models with no instructors, and you can draw with whatever you like, and do anything you want, and you just have to pay $2 for the models. Some of the people were really creepy looking, and I dont know why, but I thought we were going to draw the models clothed, and I got so freaked out when they took their clothes off. Why!? I've been drawing nude models for two weeks now! Idk, just... the way they did it. Like, we were all just standing around talking, and then suddenly they just took their clothes off and continued talking. Idk why I found it so crazy.
The school is pretty creepy at night, with all its flourescent lighting and spooky art kids peeking out of their studios. I think it would be a hundred times less creepy if there was normal lighting. Me and Victoria and Nate decided to be brave and take the subway home together, and it turned out alright. The city is so beautiful at night! It had just rained, and there were a million rainbows reflected in all of the puddles! All three of us took lots of pictures. William Penn looked really cool! Underneath him was all lit up, but he wasnt, and he looked very Batman. Standing up there, all dark and huge. I really need to make up a Philly superhero. (Trust me, I've been working on it since I got here.)
Anyway, what else. I want to go to bed early tonight because last night I went to bed at 4 in the morning. I got two hours of sleep and was late for school. Oh, also last night, I was just about to go take a shower so I took my shirt off, and suddenly... everything was perfect. The lighting in my room was amazing, and making my nekkid body look amazing, and I had to take advantage of it. So I took as many pictures as I could before my camera ran out of battery. Now I've got these amazing pictures! And no one to show! Who am I supposed to show!? Nate!? My mom!? I actually worked up the courage to show Victoria, and she didnt think it was weird or anything, she actually thought they were just as beautiful as I do. (Phew) But I'm still itching to show someone. I fixed em all up on Photoshop, and theyre just sitting on my computer, waiting to be unveiled to the internet... but I'm still on the fence about actually doing it. Part of me says, just fuck it, put 'em on there, theyre art. Its not weird at all, its just a human torso, we've all got one. Plus I dont really consider bewbs to be all that risque, even though... they totally are... And the other half of me says, oh my god, way to be a skanky skank, skanking yourself all over the internet, way to get STALKED and RAPED. GHrghrejgj.
[Edit:] Okay so I posed the question of whether I should upload them or not on deviantart, and JOSUE answered and now i'm like FJFGHGJ JOSUE SEEING MY NAKED BODY FHGHJG. Yeeaaaahhh, no.
My superpower of matching things together super accurately has kicked in again. I was wondering why Victoria reminded me so much of Erin... Well, its confirmed. She has ADD too! So shes on meds that make her act just like Erin. It all makes sense now.
Its also been confirmed that Nate's not gay. We were talking about safe sex (because of Ron, the black, homeless, AIDS man we met on the way home from school) and he was like, "Still a virgin! Waiting for the right girl someday!" So there you go. He just wears a lot of tie-dye.
Today was so busy! I was super late to school, and had Printmaking first thing until 11:20. Then Still Life Painting from 1:00 to 3:50, and then Art History from 4:00 to 5:30 and then I stayed extra late for a figure drawing thing from 6:30 to 8:00. PHEW! I didnt do ANYTHING today except MAKE ART. And thats how its supposed to be, but PHEW. Thatsa lotta art.
Printmaking was okay, except that I came super late and only made one crappy print. Boo. Then I had egg rolls and bell peppers for lunch, and ate it in the lounge on the eleventh floor (my new favorite place) with Victoria, while we both did our homework for Still Life Painting. That class is okay I guess, but we're NOT PAINTING, and it get can get pretty boring. The teacher is nice. Then was Art History, which is... the craziest class I've ever had.
The teacher is this young, Russian guy, with a totally unpronouncable name, who looks just like the main character in The Corpse Bride. He's kind of odd, and he talks real fast, and every now and then he says something weird that you miss if you arent really listening. (Like that guy who came to Dillard and would be talking and then suddenly say, "Thats a fact, Jack." and everyones like, ...wait what!?) Theres a lot of kids in the class, and these two girls with real loud voices that are know-it-alls, and answer all his questions as loudly and know-it-all-y as possible. The class is like... a big art history discussion group. I'm guessing that the teacher is less concerned with us memorizing dates and names, and instead wants us discussing the philosophical sides of the art. Suddenly the conversation was on Obama and socialism, and I was like, this is the craziest class I've ever had.
After Art History, me and Victoria had some time to kill before the figure drawing thing, so we went off in search of a pet store. Shes got this thing shes obsessing over, about how she wants to "rent a bird" to draw. Like, she doesnt want to BUY a bird, and have to take care of it and stuff, she just wants to borrow one until shes done drawing it. And somehow she thinks that the pound will let her rent a bird. I dont know. She also think that shes going to foster kittens in her dorm. Yep.
Anyway, so we went on an adventure to find this pet store, which she had the directions to on her iPhone, which was magically leading us to it, but she wasnt really in the mood for adventuring because it was really friggin cold and she didnt have a jacket or anything. I, on the other hand, was well prepared with sweater, jacket, scarf, and christmas music. I am so prepared. For. This. Weather. BRING IT. (I've got a temperature thing on my computer right now... it says 61. SIXTY ONE DEGREEEEEESSSS.) Anyway, we found the store, but it turned out to just be a store selling like, doggie clothes and beds and stuff. No actual dogs. On the way, I saw a Macy's and a Quizno's, and lots of grocery stores, and a stationary store, and lots of flower shops, and really cool looking buildings, and cool old bars. I love this city.
Then I went to the figure drawing thing with Victoria and Nate (I guess I mainly hang out with them). The class is like... every Thursday, you can come draw models with no instructors, and you can draw with whatever you like, and do anything you want, and you just have to pay $2 for the models. Some of the people were really creepy looking, and I dont know why, but I thought we were going to draw the models clothed, and I got so freaked out when they took their clothes off. Why!? I've been drawing nude models for two weeks now! Idk, just... the way they did it. Like, we were all just standing around talking, and then suddenly they just took their clothes off and continued talking. Idk why I found it so crazy.
The school is pretty creepy at night, with all its flourescent lighting and spooky art kids peeking out of their studios. I think it would be a hundred times less creepy if there was normal lighting. Me and Victoria and Nate decided to be brave and take the subway home together, and it turned out alright. The city is so beautiful at night! It had just rained, and there were a million rainbows reflected in all of the puddles! All three of us took lots of pictures. William Penn looked really cool! Underneath him was all lit up, but he wasnt, and he looked very Batman. Standing up there, all dark and huge. I really need to make up a Philly superhero. (Trust me, I've been working on it since I got here.)
Anyway, what else. I want to go to bed early tonight because last night I went to bed at 4 in the morning. I got two hours of sleep and was late for school. Oh, also last night, I was just about to go take a shower so I took my shirt off, and suddenly... everything was perfect. The lighting in my room was amazing, and making my nekkid body look amazing, and I had to take advantage of it. So I took as many pictures as I could before my camera ran out of battery. Now I've got these amazing pictures! And no one to show! Who am I supposed to show!? Nate!? My mom!? I actually worked up the courage to show Victoria, and she didnt think it was weird or anything, she actually thought they were just as beautiful as I do. (Phew) But I'm still itching to show someone. I fixed em all up on Photoshop, and theyre just sitting on my computer, waiting to be unveiled to the internet... but I'm still on the fence about actually doing it. Part of me says, just fuck it, put 'em on there, theyre art. Its not weird at all, its just a human torso, we've all got one. Plus I dont really consider bewbs to be all that risque, even though... they totally are... And the other half of me says, oh my god, way to be a skanky skank, skanking yourself all over the internet, way to get STALKED and RAPED. GHrghrejgj.
[Edit:] Okay so I posed the question of whether I should upload them or not on deviantart, and JOSUE answered and now i'm like FJFGHGJ JOSUE SEEING MY NAKED BODY FHGHJG. Yeeaaaahhh, no.