done.

asian art history midterm round 2: done. mission accomplished. spent the whole day yesterday studying, making notecards, trying to tie artist's theories and connections. i spent the entire saturday doing my still life drawing on three pairs. i turned it in today. i didn't finish the light/shade and cross hatching until this morning at 7:45 am. i woke up around 5:00 am i believe. i'm so lucky that i have a two hour gap in between my first and second class on mondays and wednesdays. those two hours are so damn valuable for last minute cramming and memorizing identifications and ideas one last time before a midterm. exhaustion is the death of me.

right now, i'm going to go ahead and take a break. maybe i'll write a letter to one of my penpals or just simply lay down. i am also currently waiting for my trader joe's vegan pumpkin bars to finish baking in the oven. i can't believe halloween is this thursday! me and juan are going to carve our trader joe's pumpkins tonight. i think i may join in the queen mary festivity this thursday night with my roommates, boyfriend, and friends. geez, i need to find face paint soon. i'm going to be picasso. or at least i want to.

one day at a time

i want a solid one week break. they call that summer or spring break. but i seldom get proper ones. what do you mean it's only tuesday.

the serious yawns are coming in at this time of the night. let my art history notecards begin. going to attempt studying one week earlier for the midterm.

and my god, i am actually listening to the song "snake charmer" by adriana from 90210. so catchy. hmm no shame, no shame.

monday mornings

every monday morning, i rush out to the front of the gates to get to the bus stop to take the exact 8:16 am bus. every monday morning, i am always the second or third person sitting in the class while everyone shows up five minutes before the 9:00 am class. routines are hard to break. i like to be early. my mom is a 4:00 am yoga early bird. yogi. i don't know why i bother rushing, but there's something within me that tells me that i must not be late. thanks to my dad perhaps, growing up means being more and more on time (meaning at least half an hour early) to everything i do and plan.

i also quickly ran downstairs to get a new medium surface drawing pad at the art store. i even browsed this new section where they sold these "italian" colorful notebooks. when i got back, i was still the second to third person in the classroom. it had only been three minutes in the time being then again.

i had a really good weekend. i got mediterranean food with my boyfriend on friday afternoon for lunch and as usual, i ordered my favorite falafel plate. i'm really glad that he's giving the chance to try more cultural foods-to open the taste range. those batatas with lime and garlic were just delicious. i think i've ordered that appetizer at least six times in a row now. we also had a 90210 marathon that night i blogged about us watching 90210 and me eating a fudge brownie. it was really fun.

2:33 in the morning

and i'm asking my boyfriend to go to the fridge to get me a square piece of the vegan gluten free fudge brownie i made two nights ago. we're also in the middle of watching 90210 together. i can't believe i'm going back to it, but i realized that i never finished the fifth season. i changed my room layout. now my bed is facing the window directly. when i wake up, i can see plenty of green and blue sky. today, or yesterday i should say, i purchased the black mountain bag of clay. black mountain is for sure softer and more buttery to throw with on the wheel than the gritty long beach clay. i think it's possible that i didn't like going to class the first few weeks because the gritty long beach clay made all my nails chip off and my palms scratched. i was always left with an upside down frown. okay back to 90210 i get.

peace.

muscles

i feel so done with drawing the anterior, posterior, and lateral views of the skeleton.

it has been seven hours straight. i don't regret anything. but i am exhausted and i just want to cook my dinner but the kitchen is being occupied. so i must patiently wait. the good thing about being vegan is that i can control myself from going to in n out or any other fast food restaurant because there is simply nothing to my fitting. it's not being picky.

i purchased a vegan pumpkin spice cookie at the art store today because i thought i wanted it. i thought wrong. but i don't regret it. they rarely put the pumpkin spice one out. my favorite one is still the luscious lemon poppyseed cookie though.

anatomy for artists

my boyfriend has been having a hard time studying anatomy the past couple of weeks. meanwhile, i've been ignoring the anatomy terms i need to know on my own for successfully drawing the human figure. so yes, my midterm is tomorrow. i need to know the bony landmarks and the laws of figure drawing. good thing we did laundry already because that would probably be the last thing i would want to worry about. today, i successfully made two three pound bowls in ceramics. bad news- one of my firstly made five pound pots became bone-dry; so i can't trim that anymore. also, i will have to throw about two more bowls since there is also another bowl that is too small. good news-my nine convex and concave pots came out and none of them ran or stuck on the shelf. hooray for careful glazing. tonight, my boyfriend and i made a fancy italian dinner. really just spaghetti and sourdough bread with bruschetta spread on top with a side of trader joe's vegan friendly green fin red wine on the side. i started drinking wine for the first time this weekend, and i like it. my dad and i will get along with wine just fine in the days to come-once i fully turn 21. goodnight.

cheers to the end of a good weekend.

-jane

yesterday was nice. i went to dinner with my friend Brittany from ceramics. we went to get mediterrarean food at asha in downtown long beach. as usual, i ordered the falafel platter. but one exception from last night was the white rose tea from greenhouse cafe next door. so good.

now is good.

just finished a movie called now is good starring dakota fanning. she is all grown up now is more beautiful than ever.

today was a pretty good day. i glazed the last of the 3/9 pots for a couple hours and then met up with juan at the library. since then, i have been sitting here by the window- eating domino's pizza, watching a full movie, and downloading music.

i chilled like a villain today. i don't know if i should have, but i did. it was worth it.

-jane

Lucy Rose - Bikes

location right now: library

lucy rose's voice keeping me sane. there's so much love in her voice. it makes me want to make wishes off dandelions and run through tall fields of grass. i wouldn't mind the sun in this case, maybe.

i just finished my veggie pasta and chips. saving room for my homemade banana pudding. the ingredients literally consist : 1 whole banana, two tablespoons of chia seeds, and a half cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk. after you put your three ingredients in a jar or whatever container you put it in, you leave it in the fridge for at least four hours. and then viola, you get a delicious handcrafted banana chia pudding in front of you.

this morning in my life drawing class, while sitting on the horse, somehow, my finger caught a piece of wood and now i have a splinter in between my nail and my skin. it hurts a lot and uh, i guess i don't have a tweezer to get it out so i have to listen to lucy rose to calm myself down from the pain i feel.

frozen banana treats and vegan parfaits

indulge

just another ordinary day. i still have to go back to school later to glaze my new bisque-fired pots. there's nine instead of seven this time; so i think i'll just do a few today. i just want to relax. i watched kings of summer on my two hour break today. as usual, i sat on the ground in between aisles and aisles of books on the second floor in the library. it was quite nice, actually. i figured that i just watch the movie myself since everyone is always too busy or i am too busy and we can't work around each other's times. that's how college is. i'm probably going to help my friend with his film project in a bit and then try to tackle some glazing after before going to the gym. 

always have leftovers, my friends. makes life a lot easier when you want to eat dinner early and don't want to cook all over again until later, but for tomorrow's lunch. 

lately, the world around me has been quite to itself and quiet. i miss good company as much as i like being alone. 

currently listening to 17 by youth lagoon.

-jane