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Saturday, January 25

4:47 PM
I hung out with Jody last night. We went to a sandwich place and met Deb, one of our professors (well, I've never had a class with her), and had some good discussion about various things including art. Later, Jody and I went to a bar for a little bit.

A couple people have told me I should make a lithographic version of my ink drawing, because so many people like it and want to buy it. I'm getting a big ego about that drawing.

Wednesday, January 22

4:49 PM
Both of my drawings got into the show. I am quite pleased.

I could barely sleep last night, worrying about grad school applications. It's taking longer than I thought it would to get them all done. I think I can get most of the stuff taken care of today, but I still want to shoot some more slides of my prints.

Saturday, January 18

12:01 PM
Yesterday I drove around town getting materials to frame two drawings to enter into the student show. (I used this drawing and this one.) I was the last one to enter, I guess. There was some good work, and some really awful work, but it has the potential to be a good show.

Today I had History of Jazz, which is the class everybody takes for their multicultural appreciation credit. The professor is like Tom Green without a beard, but not as crazy (unfortunately. I would enjoy a Jazz class taught by Tom Green.) He tells some ok professor-type jokes, which would make the class tolerable, but I was sitting in the back next to these guys who wouldn't shut up, so it left me in a bad mood aside from being awake on Saturday morning. I guess I'll just sit in the front next time so I can't hear the commentary.

Tuesday, January 14

4:30 PM
Final semester. Lots of work to do, and I'm already behind. I guess I'm not in a good mood about anything yet.

Christmas was good. My parents and sisters and I went to Paducah, and Ted and Lorri met us there. Lorri met everybody, showed them her engagement ring. I saw Catch Me If You Can on Christmas Day. The next day, we drove back toward home but I was dropped off in Louisville to fly to Dubuque, where Shannon picked me up. She had scratched her eyes so her sister had to drive us back to their house in Arlington. (Weird, yes, that she is from Arlington and I'm from Upper Arlington, hundreds of miles apart). I can't remember what all we did for the 10 days I was there, but some of it was going to movies and some shopping and going to her cousin's wedding. She gave me the 'Tis audiobook for Christmas and we listened to it in the car on the way to and from her math class in Dubuque (sucks, she had to take it over her break).

I never know what to say about what has happened over several weeks. It always gets glossed over and sounds boring... or maybe just because I'm bored and/or worried right now. Argh.

Saturday, January 11

1:49 AM
I saw Interpol again tonight downtown. Kate went with me. We were supposed to meet Connie and her friends there, but we were near the front and never saw them. The band was just as good as in Detroit, and it seemed like a bigger crowd. They played one new unrecorded song, but the rest were from the album. Here's the setlist:

Untitled
Roland
Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down
Length of Love [new song]
Say Hello to the Angels
Hands Away
NYC
Obstacle 1
Leif Erikson
PDA
encore
The New
Obstacle 2

A rather awful band called Parker and Lily opened, and the situation was only made worse by bad sound and a pissed-off-waiting audience, who made fun of them the whole time they were on.


I'll write about my Christmas break a little later.