jayne

I think I’m already starting to feel the burnout, which is kinda sad considering it’s only the first week. It’s not even the fact that the class is long but the fact that it’s everyday and the fact that I have actual homework every night. I keep wanting a day of just down time to not do anything. So I guess it’s good I’m getting it all done in 9 weeks, cause I think taking the same class every day for 3 quarters would kill me. It might also just be cause sleep has been minimal and my food supply is pretty low. A tired and hungry Jayne is a grumpy Jayne. I may just get frustrated pretty easily, but I’m sure I’ll be fine once I get some rest.

I also still haven’t figured out how to fit in running during the week.

At least tomorrow is Friday, though weekend will probably be spent mostly doing more HW and massive cleaning cause we’re moving on Wednesday (and this place is getting really dirty). Crazy. Roomies are fun and all, but I’m excited to have my very own enclosed space. It’s also pride weekend though, so I think I’ll have to make time to check out some of the festivities.

Sleep.

Damn…this Xingolati cruise in October would kick so much ass! 4 days of musical debauchery with The Flaming Lips on the Pacific Ocean! Dude. Too bad it’s so damn expensive, from $600-$1000 per person. Yeah, as much as I love the Flaming Lips I really don’t think I could justify spending so much just to see them, although it would be more than just them, it’d be a whole experience.

Maybe I should start a pledge drive. All I’d need to fund the whole adventure is $20 from like 30-50 people, which really isn’t all that bad. Although I suppose I’d have a hard time making my case sound very worthy. Reminds me of the 5000 fans theory . It’s weird how breaking big chunks of money in to $20 units makes it seem a lot more reasonable.

Anyways, I’m taking donations. = )

I didn’t realize Basement Jaxx did so many of my favorite dancey songs. Gettin my groove on* all over the apartment. This is not conducive to learning Japanese vocabulary.

*of the dancing variety, I wish it was of the non dancing variety too.

man, I’m falling behind in my doodles… Anyways, some thoughts:

I think Japanese is going to be relatively fun. Somewhat intense, but that’s to be expected with a course title like “intensive japanese.” The people seem cool. Plus Enzo can help me out if I get too confused or something.

Mini-road trip to Portland to see Beck! July 16th! whee! I like musical adventures.

New G5 computers at work! cause our other G5’s weren’t new enough?

More music! 200+ gigs more! Oh man…major major audiogasm. In the words of ABBA: “Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singing/ Thanks for all the joy they’re bringing/ Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty/ What would life be?/ Without a song or a dance what are we?/ So I say thank you for the music/ For giving it to me.” Though I suppose it’s more of a temporary home, but whatever. I’m currently enjoying Papas Fritas.

I’ve actually managed to go a few days without posting, amazing. Been using these few days of my break pretty well (see previous doodle-posts) and I’m enjoying my free time.

So… when I said “running” before, I really meant jogging…very slowly. But at least I’m still doing it. After the feeble first day, I’ve been able to jog (once again, slowly) all the way down to Gasworks and back, starting at the trail & 7th, and with a little water & walking break at Gasworks. I think the trick is finding a good album to listen to that has a tempo sort of similar to my pace, cause I think what killed me the first day was trying to keep up with Daft Punk.

Anyways, this is pretty cool cause I’ve never been active at all or been able to stay jogging for any significant distance. I suppose the only time I’ve ever really tried before was when they made us do the mile run in gym. But I pretty much didn’t give a shit about running the mile for my teletubbie-crazy gym teachers. I suppose it helps that I’ve had to walk everywhere since I’ve been here too. But yeah, it’s kinda neat actually being able to feel my body getting used to it (ie. not feeling like my chest is going to implode, not being ridiculously sore afterwards, etc).

Using the chord from my headphones and the little scale thing on my map it looks like almost about a mile from my starting point on the trail to the park. I think it’s also almost about half a mile from my apartment to the trail. It’s probably about a bit under 3 miles all together. Probably quite a bit under actually, but it’s a nice rough estimate. Jogging 2 and walking 1 isn’t too bad. But like I said, I’m slow. I actually kinda timed myself today starting and ending at my apartment, took about 35-40 minutes. I don’t really care about speed cause my main goal is to just be able to do it and feel nice. But Zach’s dad gave me a brochure for this 5k midnight run that I actually kind of want to try just cause I’ve never done one before and it seems kinda neat. But it’s not that far from now and I’m really not if I’d be ready to by then. I dunno, I guess we’ll see. I have till the day before it to actually decide.

* Also a Pillows song from FLCL. Listen to it.

just when you thought it couldn’t get any dorkier, lego jedi masters peter and zach in color here.

pictures from the show here.

So, summer… we meet again. What should I do with you this time? I’m not going to let it suck like the first half of last summer sort of did. I’m really glad we won’t have a tv at the new apartment this summer, although I probably spend 10x more time infront of this computer than anything. Anyways, I don’t really have any excuse for this summer to suck though cause everything is pretty much peachy right now.

List time!

Things to do as-daily-as-possible this summer:
1. Draw: I think I hit a drawing plateau a while back, so I haven’t been improving at all, which makes me sad.
2. Eat better: This includes actually going to the grocery store and making food instead of always going out, cause I think I eat better (and I waste less) when I make myself real food.
3. Practice music stuff: Guitar, Piano, whatever. I’d like to not suck.
4. Physical activity: bike, run* whatever. I’d like to not suck at this either.
5. Have fun.

Things to do at-some-sporadic-intervals/throughout this summer:
1. Paint that massive canvas I got from the dumpster a while back.
2. Screen print! I’ve got all those blank bags waiting to be printed. T-shirt printing too, though I need ideas for things to print. I’m taking suggestions.
3. Go to more shows. I haven’t gone to nearly as many as I’d like.
4. Be outside more. via hiking or camping maybe? I haven’t done much of either ever.
5. Music video! Learn Adobe After Effects, make a video for one of my songs.

*Running, like communism, looks really good on paper (or in this case, the screen). But I pretty much always fail. My first attempt this morning was pretty sad, but I’ll keep at it…till I get bored of it.

k, now I’m like done for real.

The doodles have gone from being semi-daily to when-ever-the-hell-i-feel-like-it, which is good enough for me.

I actually got running shoes today. I guess this means I actually have to use them. I’m dreading it. Seriously, I’m so out of shape my right shoulder is sore from all the strumming I did yesterday. I mean, it was some pretty hard core strumming, but its still pretty sad.

read about the headless chicken.

I heart my new (well, used, but new to me) bike. I decided that it’s been too long since I’ve had a bike, so i got one yesterday. I think it’s a pretty good investment. Hopefully I’ll actually ride it and stuff this summer. Went out for quite a while today and now I’m all tired cause I’m terribly out of shape. I think I want to start running this summer. Well, I really don’t want to at all, but it sounds like it’d be a good thing to do. I don’t have much faith in my ability to stick to it… but we’ll see. I’m gonna try getting some runnin shoes tomorrow and start on Saturday. Star Wars last night, pretty intense and frustrating. Vader is cool, but such a dumbass sometimes.

(This next bit is unrelated to above, and probably only makes sense to me, but whatever)

I don’t really know what to think half the time because it’s so much different, things I’ve learned from semi-relevant past experiences aren’t really applicable now. I’m sorta trying to change my ways and restart my head, but the old me is putting up a pretty good fight to stay around. fighting myself is really hard, but at least it’s a worthy oppnent (and I suppose whatever happens I win).

Ahh! I’m so done! Well, I finished the book. I still have to walk to campus to turn it in on Friday… but otherwise I have nothing to worry about now. nothing I’m suppose to be doing. nothing I’m suppose to be working on. it’s fantastic. I feel like it’s been pretty much crazy busy all year, this feeling of extreme release is just the greatest thing ever. It’s hard to explain, but it makes it all worth it. The whole tedious and anal process of doing projects all quarter is sort of a killer, but at the end when it’s all finally done, it’s just… fantastic. I love holding a finished product in my hands and feeling so accomplished, even if it is just something dumb. But as much (little?) as I like design, it’ll be really nice to not think about it for 3 months. I’ve already started my for-jayne-projects.

I’m in such a ridiculously blissful state right now. All I really want to do is lay around and relax. I can feel my brain shutting down already, I’m sorry if I’m slower and mellower lately. I’m craving an end-of-school party at Chip’s. I sorta miss those. I mean I guess I could have my own party, but parties in apartments just aren’t nearly as cool as house parties with pools and trampolines and bbq. Plus I’d need to have people to invite who I wouldn’t feel awkward about having over. Sometimes I miss the suburbs. I dunno, but I’m going to find fun things to do this next week and a half. I sorta wish I wasn’t taking summer classes, but I think I’d go crazy if I had nothing to do for so long.

The BFA show is pretty cool. I’ll be doin mine in 2 years. crazy. The film club’s little movie was pretty funny too. Kinda funny how the design kids seem to group together. I mean, it makes sense but it’s just kinda weird cause it’s like it’s some sort of special club or something.

More like more crazy waiting fun time. I wish I could just buy one of these Then I wouldn’t have to sit around in the lab doing nothing all the time. At least it gives me an excuse to blog, cause what else could I be doing in the meantime?

I’ve decided that the “fun time” suffix is my new favorite thing to do. It makes everthing like 10x more fun. Like “super-wonderful crazy-fun time!*” or “happy flatmate fun time.” or “awesome bloggy fun time.”

Upon seeing Zach’s concert page yesterday I tried making a list of mine, which is a lot harder than I thought it’d be. It makes me sad kinda realizing that I’ve been to so few shows in the past two years that I’ve been here cause so many awesome people come through Seattle. I can’t wait till next summer when it’ll be happy 21 and up concert fun time. I already feel kinda old when I’m at shows with crazy youngins.

But it’s also pretty sad that I don’t remember all the bands I’ve seen, even though I don’t think I’ve seen that many. Apperently how ever fabulous I thought some shows might have been 4 years ago I guess they didn’t leave much of an impression on me, though I guess what’s important is that I had a good time then. I had to refer back to my old diaryland site (although that only covers junior and senior year of highschool) to refresh my memory. Like, apparently at the last Pointfest I went to I got one of the bands to sign my ticket, which I apparently got for free. I guess if I wrote it down it happened, but I don’t remember this at all, of course that was the year I wasn’t into like anyone there, but still.

It’s also kinda funny comparing the shows I went to in St.Louis and the ones I’ve been to here. I’d say that what I’m lacking in quantity I’m making up in quality. And hopefully I’ll be able to take advantage of Bumbershoot this year. Especially cause Jay is working on hooking me up with not only a press pass but also a photo pass so I can skip lines and get in the photographer’s pit, which would be cooler than skipping lines at Disneyland. It’s months away, but I’m already stoked. Oh! and Doves show this Saturday! so much excitement!

*from Red.

Yay! I’m all done with my paper! And because I don’t know where else to rant about this, random things I’ve been thinking about as I wrote my paper:

- I wish I had synesthesia. That would be weird but awesome. Unless good songs made me see ugly colors, then it would suck.

- It’s kinda ironic that I was listening to an all French mix while writing about how Thailand was never colonized and how Vietnam was colonized by France. I like the French a bit less when reading about colonizing people, but their music makes me like them way more. So, France is still cool with me.

- Thailand is super. I mean, I knew that before, but after this class it’s awesome points have gone up like 50%. I don’t know what’s up with people just being obsessed with China and Japan. Thailand is where it’s at, yo.

- I’m not too sure about communism. I guess I don’t think I really understand it or something. I mean, it sounds like a pretty good idea. Why does it always seem to fail? Is it just too idealistic? I read Animal Farm back in middle school, I think that’s about the extent of my understanding of it. Something about pigs named Napolean and Snowball and how 4 legs are better than 2. Like I always think I know what’s up with communism, but then I read things and get confused. I’m pretty sure I like the sound of socialism though. What is this line between socialism and communism? If someone would like to explain it to me, that’d be cool. It’s kinda weird but it bothers me that I don’t know if I’m suppose to think it’s good or bad. I obviously never payed much attention in my highschool history classes.

- I should probably learn my typefaces now.

Decadence isn’t really the right word, but I liked the sound of it…so yeah. The B-day went pretty well, aside from the fact that I spent 6 hours in the art building trying to finish up the typography stuff. It was a day of good eats and good company.

Royksopp is good paper wrtitin music.