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[13 Sep 2009|06:29pm] |
It's been raining nonstop since Friday night and I'm just happy as a clam. It's 74 and will rain until Wednesday, and it feels like fall and I'm so eager and ready for it. I'm wearing tights in my apartment even though it's not even cool enough to warrant them. Steven and I watched the Cowboys game at Shawn & Nicole's house this afternoon, although I was just on the computer the whole time, and it felt so cozy and pleasant. Fall, I'm ready for you! Welcome!
Friday night I worked movie night with Jaclyn and for the first part it was super nice and we just sat in the back and ate pizza and drank hot chocolate and painted while it rained and the kids watched Bolt. on Thursday we went to Good Records and then to the museum at SMU to see the exhibition of Diego Rivera's cubist paintings. His early cubist pieces looked fluttery, like they were moving. They have some neat pieces there! even something by El Greco and by Goya, and a few prints by Picasso I learned about in my History of Prints class last semester. afterward we ate outside at Central Market and it was stormy and just totally uplifting after a couple of weeks of school-related disappointment.
my birthday is soon, Steven's birthday is soon, Alicia's birthday is soon, Jaclyn's birthday is soon, then comes Christi's birthday and Christmas. I always go broke at the end of the year, but I do love birthdays.
Beef weighs 13 pounds! He has to go on a diet, pobrecito. it's just because he was depressed all summer. He runs around all the time now, just like he did before. anyway, probably about 3 pounds is just fur. He's going to be a yip yip for halloween.
Steven's going to be Dr. Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park, and he wants me to be a t. rex so I can chase him, but I think I'm going to be Totoro. One day I'll be Sophie, when I can dye my hair grey :]
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[15 Aug 2009|09:41am] |
It rained yesterday for about 5 minutes. I am now much happier.
( gd gd baby baby baby )
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[30 Jun 2009|09:28pm] |
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Leave me a comment and I will give you a letter. Then, write 10 things that you love starting with that letter. Post the list in your journal. Give out letters to your commenters in return.
My letter is the lovely ~P!
peaches
my last name, Pankonien
"Place to Belong" by Little Dragon
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
pink
patterns and pottery and painting pottery
pop music
pandas
prints/printmaking
Joe Hisaishi's "Procession of the Spirits" from Spirited Away
Today I got the key to my apartment! it's qt. It's really small with fake wood floors and the roof is high and slanted. It's on the third floor and one of the windows has the best view just of treetops and a neat building and sky. I'm applying to Recycled Books, so maybe I'll be able to work in Denton. The application is kind of fun to fill out. It's a page of 30 questions to be answered on another sheet of paper, and you have to say what your ten favorite books are and describe your music taste and whatnot. It's like taking an essay test and I always win at essay tests.
Currently I am reading Color: a Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay and it's really cool. It talks about the history and origins of pigments used for dyes and paint and each chapter focuses on one color. Crimson originally comes from the blood of bugs called cochineals but now they just use the blood to dye things like hams, eye shadow, and cherry coke.
also, lately I'm totally obsessed with this video:
I still don't really like them very much but they're such good dancers imo. They're really fun to watch. Also I do actually like this song, even though it sounds tons like Love Like Oxygen, which is a cover.
and! I want to make cupcakes like this
bye bye ilu!
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[17 Apr 2009|09:24pm] |
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I can't stop playing Twilight Princess. It's amazing and it's also caused me to read more Zelda fanfics and wish I had a triforce tattoo on my hand and that I could name my first boy Link, when I have one. I'll tell him he's named after a great hero.
Greg turned 21 a couple days ago! he's so old. We went to J&J's for delicious pizza and watched movies at his apt and he drank sangria because he's a man now. I'm still a baby :[ but it was really fun. He's moving in with Steven! for his birthday present I gave him the 10 (which I honestly haven't seen) and the Economist and a mix and a card with a bunch of dancing monsters on it and a whole bunch of Mexican candy he likes but never gets to eat.
Steven had an interview for a job at the liberry yesterday! I really hope he gets it because he needs a job. Beef is sleeping next to me making owl ears and puffing up his neck furs.
Also, I've officially bought a kiln with Jaclyn. We still have to test it out but Steven's papa is letting us keep it at his workshop and I'm really excited and after we picked it up we got super cheap sushi and bubble tea and talked about ghosts and ghostly encounters.
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[05 Apr 2009|06:33pm] |
Jaclyn, Becca, and I might buy a kiln! Someone called the store the other day to say he wants to sell his but said he doesn't expect much for it because he just thinks it'd be a waste to throw it away. So why not! Steven said we could keep it in his dad's workshop. On Tuesday we three are going to go check it out and get bubble tea. Delish.
Tomorrow I'm going to buy a strawberry plant. So far I have succulents for Steven's house that have to live outside because Beef kept eating them, mint, lavender, and a basil plant that looks sad after we had a surprise freeze, and then yesterday I bought big white impatiens, and a bunch of other ones that are pretty but anonymous since I don't remember what they are.
Steven's neighbor had a yard sale yesterday and I bought some tapes and a troll with a mohawk and rainbow hair. he's a qt. we put out the huge thing of tapes Cara found and hasn't claimed, after we took out all the good ones. Ha!
also, the new DSi came out today. I want it so much :'[
It has bigger screens and a camera and you can play with the pictures and it does a bunch of other crazy things and it'll still play my DS games like Animal Crossing. So fabulous!
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[04 Mar 2009|10:14am] |
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I'm going to own a store that is a paint-your-own pottery studio/bookstore/flower shop all in one. Crazy moms and Audreys will not be allowed in. Voyager's Dream closed and is being replaced by a 24 hr. coffee shop, which is cool, but I mean Denton already has about five of those. It'll be nice to be able to walk there, though.
a couple weeks ago I had food poisoning or something resembling it, and this weekend I've had a cough and the sniffles and a fever. I usually never get sick! Maybe it's because I've been stressed out to the max lately. Maybe soon it'll be over. I really do want to be a good person :[
Children are neat before they grow up to be adult humans. I just want to be a hermit.
Roast Beef should go to a therapist or something. He has such an abrasive personality! It's like he doesn't know or care that I don't have sharp teeth and claws so I don't like that kind of play. He's curled up cute right now though and snoring and stretching his toes. He whistles when he sleeps. I'm really really in love with jasmine tea. I forgot how delicious it is! It smells good and tastes good at the same time. I think next semester I will take a studio art class and next summer I'll take summer classes.
( I've been looking at homey pictures again. )
My house will have a million windows and a window seat and pictures all over.
Things I'm excited about: this weekend, Audrey selling the store (in my dreams), spring storms
Other things: I miss San Francisco a lot lately, I want to go to Dallas lately, I miss you a lot, French is a weird language, we finally found the new Scott Pilgrim, my phone is broken, etc.
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[27 Jan 2009|09:11pm] |
Class was canceled today because it iced! at least one good thing about this area, even if it never snows, is it can be quick to ice over. Since so many people commute here they canceled before it was even bad and I got a call from the Eagle Alert thing at 5:00 in the morning about it. Tomorrow is canceled through noon! so I don't have to go to the class I don't want to do reading for :']
I hung out with Steven all day and we went to the Cupboard early to get a bunch of soups and canned Indian food and I bought grapefruit shampoo and conditioner. all I've done all day is read, watch Mushi-shi, and play Prince of Persia. ahhh so perfect. Nick works at the Cupboard now! He checked us out and only scanned some of our things and then bagged them, so it was a lot cheaper than I expected and I didn't even realize why until we left and Steven told me. He's going to apply there because he needs a job pronto.
Beef got neutered and we were so afraid he was going to be different and he's still just as bratty as before. When we give him his pain medicine his eyes get super dilated and the pupils aren't diamond-cat-eye shaped any more, but huge and round. it's kind of adorable. He doesn't even mind the E collar, but the first time we put it on him he kept trying to back out of it and he hated us. But we're forgiven. he sleeps on me and licks my arm and loves loves loves me, I know it.
btw, Mushi-shi is SO NEAT. I've only watched a few episodes and I already love it.
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[15 Jan 2009|08:21am] |
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I woke up immediately anxious this morning, thinking about not having money for presents for Steven in exactly a month today, not having any money in general, needing to work, and needing my car. I'm trying to convince my mom to let me take my car to school so I can work at AFTH during the week as well as on Saturdays.
I lost my wallet, but it didn't have my credit cards in it, then bought a new one for the cards and lost that one. I'd left it on my car when I was getting gas and Steven found it in the middle of the street, run over. I'm so lost lately! My room is a mess and I feel completely broke and like I don't belong or really live anywhere. Not my house, not my dorm, not Steven's house. I just want my own apartment so much so I can have all my things in one place. I'm really excited about school though. It really can't come soon enough. Clubs I want to join: FMLA, UNICEF, Art History Society, and Anthropology Student Association. I know I won't really join all those, though. But for one thing I won't have time! I'm going to try to start with AHS and FMLA or maybe ASA. It's so hard for me to go to the first meeting :l Every time I've ever tried, I make it to the doorway and then leave.
Work has been fun though. Who knew Yogurtland existed?! That place is amazing.
Haircut tomorrow! Like this.
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[29 Dec 2008|01:19pm] |
why so perfect?
Next up in the pottery shop! a tile for Christi, a box, a mug, and a double-decker tea pot!
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[26 Dec 2008|10:07am] |
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I'm so glad Christmas is over and now I can save all the money I make. I feel sick today. I'm supposed to hang out with Miranda and maybe with Greg and Maddie too and work and all I want to do is work and then come home and watch anime online. I'm pretty sure I get nerdier with every year. ~oh well~
Suggest some books for me! mmm reading reading reading. I got Steven's mom "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and a book of Pablo Nerudo poems in Spanish for Christmas because Steven said she wanted to start reading on her lunch break and she was really excited. She got me cute boots!! If I could redo my girl scout project I think I would do something pertaining to children's books and children reading. But I don't mind helping animals either.
Ah! Steven and I and Russ and Jordan saw Slumdog Millionaire last night and it was so good. I loved it. It really WAS much better than Sunshine. I want to see it again, preferably at a time when we're not in the second row and the fire alarm doesn't go off.
Edit for more!!!
Lately I keep thinking about having my own house. I always think about this, but more now than usual. It would be the nicest house ever. My external drive is broken. My uncle gave me and Steven the base for green chile stew because when we went to Brenham he'd made it and we were amazed by how delicious it is. We're going to cook it when we go back to school.
I like this song a lot:
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[06 Dec 2008|03:49pm] |
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It's terrible how interesting the internet becomes for me when I have studying to do. My finals are almost over though, and then it's just work work work movies painting knitting bff time. Steven and I just finished watching the anime Beck today. It was really good. It was all about the main character learning how amazing music can be with he was fourteen, then his first show, learning to play guitar, and joining the band Beck. Then it's just about his experiences in the band as they become increasingly well-known. It was neat and a lot of the parts in the beginning felt like my life. My flowers are all dying, admittedly because I've stopped watering them much, but it's really past their prime. The nursery was all ready to throw them away when we got them a few months ago anyway, and after this week I won't be here to take care of them anymore. I am taking my mint and lavender and a small potted ivy and the paper lantern flower plant we bought. I can't remember what it was exactly, but hopefully it'll bloom again in spring. An art history club was added! I'm going to join next semester. also, I signed up for classes but I don't think I've said what they are. So!
MW 8:30-9:50 - Topics in Pre-Columbian Art
MW 12:00-1:20 - History of Prints
MWF 2:00-2:50 - Language and Culture
MWF 11:00-11:50, Tu 11:00-11:50 - Elementary French I
Th 12:30 - 1:20 - French lab
TT 9:30-10:50 - American Government
tbh I'm not completely excited about the specific ah classes I'm taking but it was really all that was open when I got to register and I just have to take what I can get. Surely it will be interesting. I'm most excited about Language and Culture hooray! I've wanted to take a class like that for forever.
Roast Beef is building a clubhouse in the closet. Steven said he can stay at my house sometimes during winter break. I love that naughty cat to death. He is the mascot of my ~blog~
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[18 Oct 2008|09:48am] |
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It's hockey season again!! Hoo-ray. They've had about 4 games so far and they've only won one, but the one they won was amaaaaazing. We have a new player and he's an adorable 23-year old from Sweden named Fabian Brunnstrom and he had to play on last notice because Ott got hurt in the last game and it was Brunnstrom's very first game in the NHL ever. And he scored three goals. That's only the third time that's ever happened in NHL history and he was completely adorable every time, smiling like a little kid. I love him. Just look at this cutie!
One thing I appreciate about hockey is nearly everybody's a cute Scandinavian.
Also, Steven and I want to start watching soccer for real. We'll have to watch it on the computer, but I've picked three teams just to root for to start so it's more fun and easier to get into. I picked a Spanish team, a Portuguese team, and a Swedish team. I'm silly.
I'm reading a million books right now. Here is my short-term book list
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[30 Sep 2008|12:11pm] |
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I wish I could still play with American Girl dolls. Look at Kirsten's new baking outfit!!
All her dresses are cute. They should stop making 20th century dolls, though. Lame.
I'm supposed to be writing an exhibition review right now and I'm so distracted. It's super nice outside. My flowers are growing and getting new buds. They looked super dinky when we bought them because the nursery was about to throw them all away. All they need was some tlc! The mint is growing big leaves. I bought lavender so I could make lavender lemonade :]
On thursday we're watching the debate and making paella. delish
this album is the best
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[28 Sep 2008|10:17pm] |
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I want to be a superfemale who is the best at cooking gardening and making ma house look awesome, but also smart and knowledgeable and the best at art history and writing and at school. This is my official goal for this semester/year. I'm out of the music loop. It makes me feel weird and old. Also I've been extremely uninspired lately and am just entirely listless and lazy. I want to stop. But then usually when I get like that I need a chance to sit and think and organize my shit and plan my calendar and stuff to get back into the swing of things, and I haven't yet had time. I'll make time, though. I have a government test tomorrow and I'm going to pwn and I'm also going to stay up late tonight to finish my planner and work on my exhibition review for art history and to keep studying. Chris and Steven might watch 3:10 to Yuma if Chris doesn't get here too late. Steven and I went to Good Records yesterday and I bought The National's Alligator for him, as well as "When I Said I Wanted to be Your Dog" by Jens Lekman, Population by TMSR, What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, Ys by Joanna Newsom, and Karl Blau's new album Nature's Got Away, all on vinyl for my record player in Steven's house. I'm excited and happy about it.
Two other things:
1. KARA always puts me in a better mood than I'm generally in when I listen to them.
2. Tenniscoats is the best and the collaboration album with Tenniscoats and Secai is super cool. I have to keep listening to it/listen to it more.
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[25 Sep 2008|03:37pm] |
There's a boy here who looks like Yoni Wolf's teeny tiny, skinny doppelganger.
Lately I feel completely uninspired. I am listless and lazy.
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[20 Aug 2008|03:41pm] |
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School soon! I move in on Friday. My mom and I were going to take some of my stuff up there today but there were scary clouds so we stopped at Kroger and bought candy bars instead. I need to go to Ikea so I can get curtains for my room so it is less ugly and hotel-y. I think the plan is to move in on Friday, buy food and shampoo and school supplies and books and stuff on Saturday, and then just mentally prepare or w/e on Sunday. This way I can be up there for a couple nights before school starts to make sure I'm all situated. I'm only taking 12 hours which is super lazy of me. I really, honestly can't find anything to add to my schedule that isn't just superfluous though. :/ Plus I took two classes during the summer which eliminated even more required credits and I'm taking French which takes up a lot of space and I have to study for that test and a lot of things are full. Idk. I'm kind of embarrassed about it but oh well. I don't want to just waste credits on stuff to fill up my schedule. Taking AP tests was cool and all but it's kind of making it hard to figure out what to take before I have an official major and can work on my Art History hours.
So, the classes I'm taking are:
American Government with Greg and Steven
Elementary French II
Art Appreciation
Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890-1945
Who knows, maybe I'll still figure out something to take before Monday. We'll see.
I need a break from Art from the Heart so bad. Ever since Saturday. I have the most ridiculous stories about how fucking crazy people are. Now I see people in random places who look like they would come into the store, like moms and their daughters, and I hate them. Oi too much stress! I still like painting pottery though. It is genuinely addictive.
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[15 Jul 2008|07:32pm] |
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I feel like 19 is a really great age, like it reminds me of the mix you made me and how cute it is and how it reminds me of the color pink in a really good way. I'm really sort of disappointed with how I'm spending being 19, though. I don't think any age after this is very exciting in a young and hopeful and happy sort of way. Maybe 23. Not really, but it's the only one that has an interesting ring to it.
Anyway, today involved: lots of painting and not working at Art from the Heart, pop rocks, intense intense heavy rain, a mix I really like and drawing.
Things I'm looking forward to include: a Philly/bff trip and Bon Iver and Bowerbirds, and tomorrow.
Also, here is my aminal plate!
the only thing I've made at Art from the Heart that I really like a whole lot.
When I have a baby I'm going to play Lullabye (Mountain) for him or her all the time :')
p.s. when we watched Enchanted today in camp I gave the girl my Giselle doll to hold and she told me I looked like her and it was the best thing ever!
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[11 Jul 2008|11:54am] |
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I sort of like them a whole whole lot. ~.~
On the agenda for today: math midterm studying and making heart-shaped peanut butter & jelly sandwiches.
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[09 Jul 2008|09:51pm] |
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I am oh so frazzled! Apparently working almost every day + two summer classes means I am always busy. I like it, but it's like I never stop. It feels like I haven't really been on the computer in forever. I have to take my math midterm Friday or Saturday and I'm not ready. I'm pretty much hanging on by a thread in both my classes. They're not especially hard but it's still a class and there's still work to do every day and tests and studying and I'm like up to date enough in both classes to be turning in my assignments every day, but not enough to actually be learning everything on time.
things to do that aren't work or school related:
read all the stuff I stole from Steven's Denton house
finish gift
make another aminal plate
make crochet candy
get really awesome at my yoga and pilates videos
finish painting flower pot, owl magnet for Steven's mom, flower pot for mom, etc etc gifts for people etc
read the ethnography Christi gave me
okay, this is school related but study art history so I can be all ready for the entrance exam in October
watch all the movies and documentaries I have downloaded!
I downloaded Helvetica, which is apparently about graphic design and typefaces and whatnot and I'm super excited to watch it but I need to find a point in time in which I can be sitting, crafting, eating something pleasant, and paying attention. Which isn't now or any other time in the future other than possibly Monday after work. I've been reading Fables and I like it a lot. The illustration is awesome and it's my thing in that I'm into variations on fairy tales. The kids at the camp this week are nice but super quiet and it makes me nervous. I understand their position of course as I would be just as quiet, but sometimes it's awkward when we talk to them and they don't respond at all. I like getting everyone to come into the store to paint and visit me. Also, Ace of Cakes is too fab for life. I watched it last night and they went to Miami to make an official NFL Superbowl cake but also swam with dolphins, so one of the girls made herself a huge dolphin costume to wear. I wish we were friends. I could make dolphin costumes and fancy cakes, I think.
P.S. Steven got a cat! His name is Roast Beef in honor of Achewood and no one has seen him yet because he's just born but he gets him in six weeks. Steven's mom works with someone whose kitty had baby kitties.
Tomorrow I will show you a picture of the aminal plate I made that I like a lot a lot a lot! I was so eager to get it out of the kiln this morning that I burnt myself because it was still too hot. I'm like a child. :( Also, hooray for Impressionist art from the Art Institute of Chicago at the Kimbell! I vant to go.
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