I didn’t have a lot of time but I worked hard on keeping it nice and simple. I only wish I had more time to fix those atrocious hands. I was worried about not finishing everything in time, but I just spoke to a few buddies of mine who haven’t even started, so I’m feeling fairly confident.

Work is good, school is good life is good!

Today I hit a couple of thrift stores with my friend, in search of old children’s books and National Geographic. I find that they are the best for collages, especially nature books. We actually ended up finding a whole series of animal books, with really awesome vintage photos. I can’t wait to do something with them. I also found a really nice old copy of Aesop’s Tales for only 99 cents! I always loved those stories and I’m thinking that for one of my zines I’ll do a little accordion style book based on one of the stories. After we hit Deserres to get some cheap art supplies. They’re having a huge sale for Back to School so I wanted to stock up on spray varnish and little tiny cradle board that were only a $1. Good Day.

I’m geeking out a little bit because I just ordered my first business card. With rounded corners! I hope they’ll come in soon, I’m so excited. For now I got 500, I thought that was a decent amount. I didn’t out my address on them because who knows where I’ll be. I’m also geeking out about the fact that Apple finally came out with a 64GB iTouch. I want it so bad but honestly, I had my iPod for three years now and it works perfectly fine. Its filled to the brim with music, so maybe for now I’ll just have to uncheck some songs. I’m sure by the time my battery dies, the iTouch will be cheaper.

It always interests me how my digital designs differ from my hand-drawn drawings. I’m not sure if that is a good thing or not and I’m wondering if I should incorporate the same style throughout the different media I use? Hmm.

Last week I attended the Passion Pit show. They were pretty good, but the opening band, The Grates, stole the show in my opinion. Patience, the lead singer was smiling throughout the entire set and was bouncing along to every single song. She gave off such a great energy and you couldn’t help but smile back. After the show we actually go to meet them and take some pictures, but according to my sister, we all look like sweaty hell, so I will spare you hehe. Here’s a video for Aw Yeah, enjoy!

Yesterday I bought a camera, an Olympus e520. I’m not sure if I’m keeping it yet since I can’t really afford it.

I also went home to my parents for the weekend, meaning that all I have been doing is eating and playing Wii with my sister.

Still no job, just rejections.

Update:
Ok so I’ve registered all my GD classes and managed to snatch the coveted Anatomy class (ugh 8:30 on Fridays=fail!) and now I just have to wait until the 24th to register my Illustration classes. Oh and none of the alarms went off. I suck.

I talked to some head honchos from different offices at school and to my dismay, the deadline to switch faculties was in Feburary. The only way I am able to switch into Illustration is by applying again next year in Feburary. And then on top of that, I would basically have to re-do an extra year, something for which I have no money. I was pretty crushed and deflated.

Then I figured that since I’m doing two core courses during summer, that I’ll be able to fit in the required Illustration classes and I wouldn’t have to repeat anything. Then, I saw that there is a priority status put into place, meaning that as a GD student, I can’t enroll in Illustration classes until the ban is lifted. That means that I’ll probably end up with the worst professors, or there won’t be room for me at all.

This whole thing makes me want to scream into my pillow, but I guess it’s my fault for not making up my mind in February. I always make things way to complicated. I’m going to attempt to find out if there’s any chance in hell that I’ll be able to switch for 2nd semester but I doubt it. Damn my indecisiveness.