Sundays, I like them. They are quiet and slow not like the mad pace the rest of the weeks always brings me. I’ve sat here today watching a movie and then buggered off with the little one for some mummy and kiddo time which involved me playing hopscotch and clambering all over the playground with him at school. Their slide is awesome! Big kid? Hell yes

Then home to settle into fucking about on illustrator for a while. This part of my course is a headache. At uni I’m on a Mac so I have to learn all the shortcuts for the programs which are different than the PC set up. Annoying but a good skill to pick up but it means lots of time spent in all the Adobe programs learning them inside and out. It leaves me little time for my own fun in them for the time being.

Oh yeahs and I watched Alice In Wonderland with the kiddo this weekend to…. most fucking excellent. Burton has yet again delivered a fantastic childhood story into something fantabulous

I’m sat here watching world war three slowly break out in the Kiwi Kink group I deal with. You see as kids and it’s still in schools here there is a compulsory aspect of learning some of the maori language and culture. I don’t have a problem with it. I love language and culture and that flows through into the art history I love to absorb. Culture and languages fascinate me. There is a huge spiritual aspect to many as well which also resonates. We can learn so much from other people and their cultures if only we open our hearts and ‘listen’.

Instead I sit here and watch people bicker and bitch  in an online forum about something as silly as a member writing in a language that is part of New Zealand culture.

I’m …  for want of a better word, disappointed.

Casts, creeds, race and religion,
Culture, scripture, pictorial mother nature are all the very similar
They are phonetics like alpha and awe caricature
That we are all the same red when scratched or when required:
They are all in the same plane of earth
Only dimensions and appearences differ

8.30am

Right now I’m scoffing toast and about to head out the door. Life lately has involved sleeping, eating and uni, a little bit of design work and lots of reading and spending time in the studio at uni or the computer lab or the library lol. I think I might need a bed there. Then I can have naps inbetween classes so I can come home and do all the things I need to do without sleeping. I have had to pull back on quite a few things of late and the one that irks me the most is blog reading, I’m lucky if I get one decent session of catch ups a week atm and it sucks

I’m also contemplating pulling back from HNT’s too. Let’s be honest it’s a huge link fest and I don’t have time to go commenting on thirty plus blogs every week, I just can’t.  I’m not out to get numbers I don’t give a shit about that, I figure if what I write is worth reading then people will read it no matter what I do. If it’s nekkid pictures well shit, they can get those anywhere on the interwebz. If I post images it’s because it’s going to be relevant from now on to what I am writing about, if I wanna share a bit of me then I’ll do it when I want to. So yeah that’s what is happening.

So uni, I’m slightly freaking out because we have a group seminar (a group of four of us) and one is a Japanese student bless her heart she is lovely, BUT she is very shy and her english is not so great. I found out that the only degree that isn’t literacy tested in the whole freekin uni is the one I am doing … I have no idea why the fuck they don’t because half of the damn degree is writing and speaking.  We had a meeting yesterday as we each have to talk for ten minutes on the topic we were given “The History of Photography up to the 1930’s”  … the meeting was to decide who was doing what (we’d all decided last week) and we have two meetings a week, we are going to be one of the last teams to speak which means we have to up our game. She didn’t turn up. So we’ve decided for her what part shes doing and tough biscuits if she doesn’t like it.

~Intermission … ride arrived~

11.30pm

Yup loooong day. Buggered off to sort some graphics work then headed off to uni. Then home around five to pick up the little one from after school care, home for dinner then homework and hang out time with the wee guy and the bedtime routine and then stuck into ‘homework’…..

I seriously never thought that I’d be using the term ‘doing my homework’ after I left school the first time haha.I also realised that after spending a whole day in a creative headzone that by the time I got home trying to string a coherent sentence wasn’t going to happen until I had sat down and had a coffee and just ’stopped’ for a minute. I was being talked to at the time and my brain went into total ‘fart’ mode. I had the blank stare going on then buggered off up to my room to just have 5 minutes of ‘nothingness’. Fuck it was good.

Oh and the chicka who didn’t turn up for the ‘group meeting yesterday’ … she caught up with a couple of us today and asked for notes and research on her part … I stood there with a ‘WTF’ look and promptly told her that was her part of the seminar so all the research she needs will be in the library. What the hell? Since when have grown adults doing a degree suppossed to be doing someone else’s work for them…?!?!?!  I think not. She can pull her head out of her ass and ‘work’ like the rest of us.

Have had an awesome day and am starting to realise I am doing really well. I even stumped my tutor today doing some critique work on an upcoming assignment that is due and he had nothing to say, he loved what I had done. I also had some awesome feedback from other students re a logo design I’ve done so it kinda made me feel good and that I wasn’t some old fart doing a uni degree with no talent lol. It’s kinda daunting when you are up against 130 other arty people, especially people who are all a good 10 years younger than you. The little voice in the back of my head always has a little self doubt. Part of the reason for me going to uni and doing this is to gain a little self confidence in my abilities as a designer. I need it, I’ve been holed up for far too long in my little studio space doing my own thing. Getting out and about and bouncing around with other like minded art obsessed people is doing wonders for my creativity. I’ve just finished doing a whole pile of drawing and I’ve had my head in a creative mode all day so trying to unwind atm and chill.

*sneezes* … that was weird.

Right now it’s getting closer to midnight I’m having an urge for a cup of tea and I still need to take my shoes off.

Yup that immersed in what I was doing I have just realised I still have my sneakers on. Doh.

So as usual impy is a brainless noggin and completely forgot what this month was …

ASK QUESTIONS MONTH THINGYMAJIGGY

Yes. That means you get to ask me obscure and random amusing questions. It’s kinda helpful atm as I am up to my eyeballs in assignments so poking my brain is a good thing rather than me trying to dream up interesting posts of deviancy to keep you all entertained. I’m going to start the ball rolling and answer subtle’s questions cause I luffs it when people do the ‘non-conformist thing’ … if you haven’t answered them you should because they rawk!

1. If you were Roman, what would your name be??

Quinctillia Lucretia Albina

2.  If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?

Dorkasaurus Green

3. Your house is on fire and you can only take three things. What would they be?

Hmmm I have a suitcase under my bed which I can chuck stuff in really fast .. sooI’m cheating. My suitcase crammed with as much geekenss as I can possibly carry, my son and my dogs ashes. Ironic really but can’t leave her behind.

4. What was your scariest experience?

Nearly losing my son at birth, that moment of not knowing which way it was going to go.

5. Something you’re proud of doing?

Acomplishing one of my goals and doing a Graphic Design degree. Always being determined to follow through of life choices when I’ve made my mind up, so far I’ve done okay and I’m still alive and smiling.

And I’m gonna add one too … (mebe you can add another?)

6. What’s the dumbest thing you have done lately? …

And please let me know you’ve done it or linkied so I can come and comment