Day #21

Woot! Thursday already!

Crazy ass day with teaching a two-hour workshop (quite enjoyed that one actually — the kids were lively enough without being obnoxiously rowdy), going through a fire drill (student: "Saving my work is more important than saving my life."), then giving a library tour to new (non-library) staff — back to back, in the span of four hours.

Having a hard time deciding the next book to read. I brought Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects home with me and so far have only read the first couple of pages ... which failed to get my attention. Didn't want to start on Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman because I don't want to get into a certain mood that Murakami's tales always bring — not that it's unpleasant (I like it actually, but only when I'm in the mood for it), I just don't want to feel that way for now.

So. Sleepy. -_-^zzz

Day #20

Gave Stretch & Core a miss today cuz the bus was late. LATE. Yeah ... I'd rather miss the whole class than part of the class — wonder what that says about me. The whole cake or nothing at all.

Book read for the month of April: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

So far so good when it comes to my resolution of trying to read at least a (new) book a month — although I did binge on the Thursday Next series earlier in the year. Can't wait to read The Woman Who Died A Lot and can't wait for the next book in the Shades of Gray series to come out!

Day #19

It wasn't that I forgot an entry last night — I remembered but decided against a posting.

Note to self: First day of school is a FUCKING MADHOUSE. Tertiary students move so sluggishly and are always fucking distracted, either by their friends, their crushes, their phones, or something — anything.

Finally made it to Yin last night cuz I figured I needed to unwind after a crazy day at work: best choice I made all day ...

Day #18

Yesterday's doodles — still practising (copying) bird shapes and playing around with the idea of the geometric pattern with a word or words:

It's prolly not obvious, but the word in the box is amaze.

Today, testing out the alternative idea for Emily's cutting. Drew on a marbled A3 sheet and started cutting. I'm thinking of keeping keeping the fan/shell-like shapes uncut. Haven't figured out a quote yet — maybe something from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (just saw Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland on Friday and yesterday; cable repeats). I love love love the idea of an Alice-at-Wonderland-Night-Circus theme. LOVE.

Day #17

Ah ha! Didn't forget the entry before bed tonight!

So, I've been thinking of the new cutting for Emily (I already have one idea; this is an alternative): I'm thinking of doing a cutting of a geometric pattern like one of those I did yesterday (and today too, for that matter; pics to be posted tomorrow) with words. I'll draw directly on an A3 paper tomorrow to see whether it'll be cut-able for me or not ... if I've the time after cooking my week's lunches.

In other news, I've an embarrassing crush on Sue Perkins (embarrassing only because of my low self-esteem). Oh my, she's utterly scrumptious ...

Day #16

Got to spend a bit of time today doodling — which is excellent because Emily dropped by and lent me three lovely books last night. My favorite is Naive (going to grab a copy of my own). Also, I borrowed Typography Sketchbooks yesterday; should've brought it home (it was too heavy and unwieldy and I didn't go straight home after work).

Anyway — doodling. I practised on bird shapes from Naive and a lovely geometric pattern I saw on YouTube. Totally love how easy the geometric shapes ones are (I tried triangles, quadrilaterals, and five-/six-/eight-sided shapes) and how great they look! I'm redoing Emily's papercutting so I might just try a cutting of that pattern.

Yeah, my birds suck. Gonna practise more, try harder.

Day #15

Not that the day's been fantastic, but it was still a pretty decent — albeit busy — one. On reflection, it was decent because:

• my manager is on leave (therefore no emails/requests/tasks from her);
• I got to do different things (did video recordings for an online class I'm suppose to tutor, sat in a meeting for a vanity book project — or, as I call it: the Circle Jerk, worked on a new webpage for another section), but unfortunately didn't have time to finish my web banner or start on the other design-related tasks sitting in my inbox or set up my book display;
• it's the last day of work before a long weekend — FUCK YEAH!

(But I think it's mainly because my manager wasn't in the office.)

Boy, I hope I can sleep the hell out of this long weekend ...