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Thursday, August 30

10:49 PM
Some recent referrers from search engines on my counter have been the phrases "shaved her head", "the singer shaved her head", and "shaved her head at the party", over the course of about two weeks. Dunno how they got to me.

Wednesday, August 29

10:59 PM
Just got back from the debate among the candidates for mayor; I went with my Political Leadership class. It was televised live. The tv reporter, the guy who asked the questions, was the smarmiest person i've ever seen in person, probably.

There are six candidates: One democrat and five independents, with variations of left or right leanings. Most of them were adequate speakers, except this one crazy lady who apparently owned a pet store and has never held an office. Two others have never held office either: one, Grafing or something, owns a bar/restaurant, and I actually liked him. The other is the Green Party candidate, named Muhammad. He seemed more of a visionary, as the moderator called him, but I really liked him. It's good to see the local Greens, not just Nader. What's amazing is the guy is only 27 years old. He's got no chance, of course, but I'll vote for him in the primary just to support the Green Party. I wonder if I'm any more reasonable in my voting decisions than anybody else. Probably not, but I remember Erika Reiner's reasoning for disliking Clinton in the '96 election was that he had bad teeth and looked inbred (her father is a Republican, which may explain it). Shannon says that whenever I talk about Republicans, I'm always like "those Republicans!" I'm sarcastic about them or something. But I'm not a very political person, and they're a pretty easy target sometimes... but what do I know?

The only other class was Installation/Art of Place at 1:30. It's going to be a hard class, but everyone in for a BFA has to take it or Mixed Media, both taught by the same B. Miner. We looked at an installation in the CVA (art building), then looked at slides of Goldsworthy, Hesse, Christo, etc. and imitative projects thereof by former students. For Friday we have to have our own ideas to imitate these artists, which isn't particularly exciting but I guess we'll get a taste of what we're supposed to be doing. I hope I'll be able to come up with good ideas for this class - that's always been a problem of mine, having an empty head.

I met the new prints professor, Arturo ... Rodriguez, I think. He's Cuban and came from teaching at Savannah College of Art and Design. According to my fellow students, he couldn't be more different from Mr. Elloian. Apparently he's afraid to use more than a modicum of alcohol and mineral spirits when cleaning metal plates. I only talked to him for a minute and a half, but he's allowing me to take an independent study instead of Prints IV. I'll be doing it on Mondays, which I have free all day. I changed the writing class to an audit... so I'll have 18 hours for credit and 3 not. I'm meeting with Diana tomorrow to talk about what I'll be doing in drawing. (!)

(!!!)

This all has been fascinating, I know.

Tuesday, August 28

9:31 PM
Whoops. The second class today was Creative Writing, not Installation, which is tomorrow. So I just came from writing, and after sitting there for the first few minutes while the professor was talking, I was thinking of dropping the class. But she had us go around the room and introduce ourselves and tell something surprising, and some people seemed pretty interesting. I've found myself walking around these last couple days just thinking horrible thoughts about most of the people I see. I forget about how decent people can be if you give them a chance. One guy in the class studied abroad in Finland, even. Anyway, I think I might change the class to an audit, because I don't think I really need it for credit, and I was thinking about doing that anyway. And I'd like to have time for printmaking.

The Jasper Johns class was good too. I took a class with the professor, Mysoon, a year ago, in her first year of teaching here. It was on art since 1955 - I didn't do terribly well, but I'll try harder this year. There's a show of Johns' work at the museum, which we'll study, until November.

I said hi to some drawing chums, Danielle, Rebecca, and Zane. They showed me how the printmaking room has changed since our irreplaceable prints professor Mr. Elloian retired after last spring (and I missed it, though I knew about it). There's going to be silkscreen printing now, which there wasn't before. So intaglio and everything else is squashed into one relatively tiny room. I guess there'll also be a darkroom for photo etching. Che brutto.

And I bought groceries.

11:43 AM
Back at school. I moved into my apartment and now it's not nearly as empty.

Had one class yesterday evening, Political Leadership. We'll read books and also follow the Toledo mayoral election that takes place in November. The professor is a lawyer, Republican, and on the city council (also up for reelection this year). It could be an interesting class.

Two classes today, Jasper Johns and Installation. The first one is not until 4pm. I might need to rearrange my schedule somewhat.

Monday, August 20

8:49 PM
Dad and I moved some big stuff up to my apartment today, and signed the lease, so I officially have it now. I'm back in Columbus, gonna do a few things... We're going to Paducah for the weekend and then on Sunday I'll go back up to Toledo and start school the next day. I'm applying to get in the BFA program and am going to have to write a proposal for what I'm going to do in drawing. I have a lot of work for the next year. I'm not even sure I'll graduate in a year.

How dull. Nothing to write about.

Wednesday, August 15

11:14 PM
Watched Starship Troopers last night. Great movie if you love gallons of both satire and gore. Still, it's rather one-dimensional. Meant to watch Get On The Bus and Titus but ran out of time and had to return them to the library. And still all these books to get through (what a chore), and this is not even for school. I can't tell if I'll get out of this being tired of it. I wish the world could just slow down a little. More and more it seems things are changing very quickly while simultaneously nothing is happening.

Sunday, August 12

12:55 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.There is so much to consume and only a handful of waking hours in which to consume it. Music, books, movies. It seems kind of cruel... I'll either have to be busy for the rest of my life or renounce humanity, or continue half-way like I am right now, and be frustrated.

Not to mention contributing something to the world, but what?

Saturday, August 11

12:00 AM
So I'll have an apartment within two weeks. Tomorrow I'm going to a bunch of garage sales to find some furniture, and then I'll be all set. I've done nothing all summer and I'm trying to motivate myself to do something, even just drawing. I just can't get inspired to do much of anything. But sometimes doing something is inspiration itself to do something.

Sunday, August 5

5:34 AM
"Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance." - Jonathan Nolan, from "Memento Mori", the basis for Memento

Kate and I saw Memento tonight and I think we were both blown away by it. I've been awake for quite a while reading and thinking about it. I'm in the middle of the aforementioned story. Phil and Joy had already seen it and said it was great, and I quite agree. Wow. Yeah.