big update since summertime
it's been forever and a day since i updated, mostly because i'm so lazy and don't really have the urge to sit down and type stuff. Co-op is going quite well, despite the desperate boredom that i feel whenever i step into that godforsaken library. ok well, it's not that bad, but it's definitely not a day at disney world.
i've been doing a lot of crafty things, working on my first sweater, (which by the way takes a long long time), rasterbating a pic for my wall, buying a very cool zebra lamp, and fixing up the shade. (it's my black and white and red all over lamp :))
jon and i are doing really really well. he is amazing.
i tried and failed to start a craft club... i'm pretty dissapointed about it, but i'm trying to think of better ways to get people to gain interest in something like that, and also kind of accepting that i'm not a super organizer.
i'm thinking, if i could actually make things that i'm not super attatched to (i'm guessing that this will happen once i've got a sewing machine) i would love to sell things on www.etsy.com not because i think i'd actually make all that much money, but because i love the idea that someone else would enjoy something i made enough to pay money for it.
there are lots of things i'd like to learn to make/do like, crocheting, origami, yarn dyeing, yarn spinning, glass etching, paper making, book binding... the list goes on and on, if you know how to do any of these things, you've got a willing pupil for sure
i've also been thinking a lot about what i want to do with myself once college is no longer the center of my life. i think i want to go to grad school, but i will need to get a full time job i'm sure after school, so i want to be sufficiently prepared to go into publishing with just my ba. so hopefully i'll learn quark and illustrator, take the publishing class next semester, ask at work before co-op is over about whether or not i could take a break from my work to see what they do to fix books up at the bindry, take type probably too. hopefully i'll be able to get a co-op job at a publishing company, i might even try at godine where jon worked even though some of the things he said about how they work scares me. makes me think i might need to grow a much thicker skin to make it in the real world. unfortunately that's what i like about myself, the thin skin. i don't want to be rough along the edges just so that i can make it. i think that would detract from my joy in my work. i wonder if there is a way to stay me and still be successful. it seems like my only option, so i'm going to have to try. anyway, i think i've rambled enough, i think pictures are a good idea now
this is the awesome lamp from goodwill (which makes me a little depressed, i'm not sure thrifting is for people who don't have to)i covered the shade with newspaper.
here it is lit up, it's cool because you can see the newspaper layers and stuff.
and this is what i put up on my wall, i'm amused greatly by it... can you guess which anime it's from?
i've been doing a lot of crafty things, working on my first sweater, (which by the way takes a long long time), rasterbating a pic for my wall, buying a very cool zebra lamp, and fixing up the shade. (it's my black and white and red all over lamp :))
jon and i are doing really really well. he is amazing.
i tried and failed to start a craft club... i'm pretty dissapointed about it, but i'm trying to think of better ways to get people to gain interest in something like that, and also kind of accepting that i'm not a super organizer.
i'm thinking, if i could actually make things that i'm not super attatched to (i'm guessing that this will happen once i've got a sewing machine) i would love to sell things on www.etsy.com not because i think i'd actually make all that much money, but because i love the idea that someone else would enjoy something i made enough to pay money for it.
there are lots of things i'd like to learn to make/do like, crocheting, origami, yarn dyeing, yarn spinning, glass etching, paper making, book binding... the list goes on and on, if you know how to do any of these things, you've got a willing pupil for sure
i've also been thinking a lot about what i want to do with myself once college is no longer the center of my life. i think i want to go to grad school, but i will need to get a full time job i'm sure after school, so i want to be sufficiently prepared to go into publishing with just my ba. so hopefully i'll learn quark and illustrator, take the publishing class next semester, ask at work before co-op is over about whether or not i could take a break from my work to see what they do to fix books up at the bindry, take type probably too. hopefully i'll be able to get a co-op job at a publishing company, i might even try at godine where jon worked even though some of the things he said about how they work scares me. makes me think i might need to grow a much thicker skin to make it in the real world. unfortunately that's what i like about myself, the thin skin. i don't want to be rough along the edges just so that i can make it. i think that would detract from my joy in my work. i wonder if there is a way to stay me and still be successful. it seems like my only option, so i'm going to have to try. anyway, i think i've rambled enough, i think pictures are a good idea now
this is the awesome lamp from goodwill (which makes me a little depressed, i'm not sure thrifting is for people who don't have to)i covered the shade with newspaper.
here it is lit up, it's cool because you can see the newspaper layers and stuff.
and this is what i put up on my wall, i'm amused greatly by it... can you guess which anime it's from?