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04:49 am
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Raging fire near my appartment
So i woke up to what i thought was pouring rain...And i remember worrying that not all the right windows were closed and hopeing that nothing got too wet....And then I herd sirens and thought wow that sounds REALLY close to our house....right outside infact....then I looked out the back porch and the entire back yard area is lit up from the fire in the back of a house (no rain at all) and the air is filled with smoke....then i got really scared because if the house between ours and thiers caught fire suddenly then ours was next so i woke up my roomates and we went outside where most kids from the surrounding houses had gathered....they broke the windows of the house right next to the burning one and there were fire tubes through our backyard...one firefighter had to go in a stretcher to the ambulence...there were news teams and lots of upset looking college guys wrapped in sheets....I herd something about how the guy who started the fire left quickly but i couldent hear how it happened....
SO now i don't know if i can sleep and I have this damned laryngitis so its hard to talk to people ....so i cant work for the next couple days ...I painted today and I will paint tomorrow.
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11:32 pm
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postgrad life
in the past ten weeks ive graduated from college...visited maine, connecticut, and NYC all to visit friends or family...Was invited to live with beautiful friends in NYC in the fall which i think i may take up....Lately ive grown a mossy life...I have become a secretary and cleaner assistant at my fundraising job at work (apparently no one else there is mildly competant)...painted in little bits...I bike fast everyday ...my pay did not increase with the extra responsibilities....today i slept in...cleaned my room and the kitchen...made bread maker bread...cancelled a check to invest in moving to colorado for three months...fell in love again with amy cutler who makes lovely paintings but they need backgrounds....i walked to JP to get a movie and was picked up in a car that is near death by my highschool crush and i bought "love liza" ... a gas sniffing philip semour hoffmann agonizes over when to read his wifes suiside letter and flies model air planes insted...the constant primary colors in the shots are beautiful. Ive been reading and agonizing over ways to invent a utopia in painting and also plan to set thousands of flashing ducks in bodies of water around boston...Not to mention glamourous people and settings of each evening most of which i forget about...So yes a wrap up I draw, read, bike, fundriase for gay rights and left wingers, cook fancy ultra healthy dinners and make sangria most days. I think im over due for some cloud watching...maybe saturday.
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10:56 pm
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COME TO OUR RICE BOWL GALLERY SHOW!
THE RICE BOWL
GALLERY
INAPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS
Paintings and sculptures
When:
Grand Opening
Thursday April 5th
Hours:
Thursday-Saturday 10am-5pm
Monday-Tuesday 10am-5pm
Closing Reception with food and things:
Thursday April 12th 6pm-9pm
(Closed Sunday and Wendsday)
Secret Location: 19 Vancouver St. Between Mass Art and the MFA on Huntington Avenue (3 min walk from Mass Art!) . It’s on the Right if you walk past the MFA towards Longwood/massart. You can get off the Greenline E train at the Museum of fine arts stop and walk for 3 minutes outbound along Huntington and you cant miss the BIG sign for THE RICE BOWL.
Bring friends and TELL PEOPLE about this underground student run gallery.
This show is only up for ONE WEEK so please don’t miss it.
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03:14 am
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non-politically correct and not even nice Olympics
-biggest hypocryate awards (the more confusion the better)
-professional and ameteur cuddeling.... Annie Sprinkle gets a 10 from me for having free cuddleing sessions with hundreds of strangers, with her and her lesbian lover.
-creative suiside attempt awards (with the least splash) ....awards granted posthumously in gold, silver, and bronze caskets
-splitting people into either "good" of "bad" catagories based on the least amount of information awards....true compeditors must be certified as borderline personality disorder/narrsisim....and maybe need at least one abusive parent to be in the running.
-procrastination races...must be at least accompoishing less than nothing or making a big mess to compete.
-road rage battels (the winner gets to take advantage of handicapp parking convienince for the rest of thier lives)
-best fake smile awards (the faker the better)
-races riding on the backs of someone much smaller than you are (the person being rode gets carrots and sugar cubes if their human rider wins and gets the millions of dollars in prizes)
-most mispesllings in one message awards
What other olympic sports could there be?
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02:01 am
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last semester
I went to cape cod 2 weeks ago to see my friend michaels amazing art show and the beach and the dump and it was the happiest ive been in a long time...
i found out today (although i shouldent already know) that i got a summer teaching job at mass art after i had an interview and such and im my friend michaels assistent for the summer for 2d studios....but if i get into skowhegan that would be a priority....so i hope i dont get in wich i probobly wont....my teacher stuart siad that he called this summer program and refered me and 2 grad painting students....and hes on one of the jurying committes so i might get in but mostly not.
Ive been working hard lately on my paintings did laundry and hung out with colleen and timothy and ken this weekend.
I bought tickets to go to portland oregon for spring break because oddly all of the sudden people keep telling me i would belong there and its wierd so me and my mom are going to visit and I know of an art show down there.
I made vegan muffins till 2 am.
Sometimes everything seems meaningless and It makes me sad ...but then im relived because I want to start life over.
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10:33 pm
[Link] | friday night i went to a party and played pretend piano on several peoples fingers, danced to live bands in a basement, new motto..."if you can learn to share for real....and evenly distribute a liver problem...then its not a problem....**passes forty** .......annnd i also made out with someone i used to write about having a crush on in my seventh grade diary.
Saturday i took a bus at 6 am to NYC and venessa and i ran around chelsie in the bitter coldness and saw a jenny savile painting, and a sculpture of two skinny-from-starvation monkeys choking a giant obese monkey. those were by tony mattelli who is excellent.
sunday i quit my telemarketing job....and then painted for 8 hours.
yeterday night i through my old tea at a shiney white hummer and the white men drove back to swear at me.
last night i dreamt that i was falling through the floore and woke up...there were two people in the hall with no heads and i knew i was dreaming....i was so scared, and then woke up.
today i collected hand made blue prints of mass art to bring to my teacher before they through them out.
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11:18 pm
[Link] | ok so finally im not that happy again.
i was so excited about school and now my recent paintings are all terrible and ive ruined lots of things....i spent 5 hours jerking at and tryng to shave a very small piece of 1x6 wood until it was very much smaller than its other half ....woodshop is so TEEEEEEEEEEEEEDIOUS. My slides with digital images 140 $ and 6+ hours later did not come to me in the correct file size....I have 5 days to figure someting drastically better out....
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09:35 pm
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today was an amazing day....i accompolished muchly
yesterday i worked 8 hours fundraising for the democrats and making fun tranni friends ..... after nine pm i went to school to bring stuff to my new studio and ran into my teacher ....he gave me 150 $ cash for my painting that i brought him wich was exciting.... he said would personally call the residency i want to get into (skowhegan) to tell them about me.. and he siad he new someone opening a sculputure gallery that he wanted me to possibly show in (he siad i shoudent tell people so im not telling people im just putting it in my lj)...... i hate how hes getting my hopes up ...i feel like a paranoid jenga magician.
today: new studio
UPS gave me hell about a paper cutter im having mailed because i lost bennys a LONG time ago
got concerta prescription filled
WHY I LOVE MASS ART: my friend proposed the amazing and ambitious idea to go IMMEDIATLY to home depot and buy wood to build canvases to make GIANT paintings with eventhough home depot is hard to get to....we discussed T switching busses and taxi fair....then
i thought we should try an outrageous request ....to ask mass art public saftey officers to drive us to home depot in thier van (they ussually use at night to drive scared students home in) and i asked the chief and there was disscussion and he, to my surprise, agreed and the driver waited patiently an hour for us outside home depot for us...a wonderful man named Isreil and he helped us pick up 50, 8 foot 3''X1'' boards and put them into the car and take them out....and to top it off he said we "made his day"....annnnd would not accept our tip....this is why i LOVE mass art.
Current Location: day of hope and accopolishment
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01:11 pm
[Link] | this morning bordom became cherries crafted out of yarn to pin to may bag because i love red and green. my parents wont let me into their room because they are wrapping my birthday presents the day after my birthday and it makes me giggle. today sushi with ricky and jessy bear and people....tommorrow jshyl time. monday doctors appointment (ADD meds would be super?) might meet up with etak.
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12:22 am
[Link] | yesterday i hung out with toby and his friends from 1:30 am to 4 am (cops came and yelled at tobys friend for throwing trash) and then I biked in the pouring rain and worked from 10:30 am until 5ish when the whole Trador joes team of coolidge corner went on a beautiful free cruise ship...It was fun on the crusie and the sun set over the horizen of the silloutted city and we all danced and ate vegan sandiwiches...I swear i saw a whale....then i went out to the mission bar with people from work who have grown on me a lot eventhough sometimes i hate my job and sadly i realised that at least three of the good ones are leaving for foriegn countires(hawaii/japan/greece....(trador joes is a good job to leave half a world away from and never look back to) ...and after this week is over i will be free to a vacation on the cape with le familie and then an uncles wedding with the benny....
So ive got a lot of groups of people I hang out with now...my family, work friends, school studio people, roomates, roomates freinds, and bennys gang, and kate, and home/worcester friends. i like people.
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01:16 am
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adventures and painting
monday i started an importnat painting with: a nude lindsey as a morphing bumble bee-sheep girl underneath a beach tree with chillike ice cream cones around= 6 hours
bombed the house again (flea bombed)
Wathed earaser head = pretty rediculous
tuesday: painted more all day
filled in for someone as the video tape recorder person at the Art Interactive Gallery space in cental sqaure for an artists lecture about "sigraph computer art projects"...i felt like a real good faker as though i was some behind the seens tech girl...thank god for taking video freshman year or i would never have gotten the blank tape in....
lecture taught me that search engines are looked at by 87% of americans but that search engines only hit upon 2% of whats acctually out there (given the fact that most people dont read past the first two answers provided by a search engine)
I also want to read up on what bions are now.
today i worked and
.... then biked to jamaica pond with linsey harry and nicole and went swimming there...and i saw a shooting star and harry saw it too so i wasnt just wishing it up or something.
anyone hava car and want to go hiking some time? Cuz i wanna go like soonish...
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11:35 pm
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i havent been bord much enough to sleep even
gotta paycheck
hada party ...accidental car damage due to a thrown 40...
cat has created flea infestation...ive done all my laundry and vacumed on my hands and knees every square inch of my room post flea bombing....i hope they all go away fast....
on 2 hours of sleep i painted from 4:30 am- 6:30 when i left for a bike adventure around the charles river to harvard square and past the childrens museum
painted in the studio from 8:28- 11:30ish
ate chips and salsa and salad ( i live on that right now)
i biked to bennys shop and bought a pink bike helmet to please a coworker mostly but i havent found any big strawberry shortcake stickers for it yet....
thennn lindsey, kayla, lindseys jon, and i went to our first "critical mass" bike trip which was so much fun....jesse and steve were there for the first time too....finally i could bike and not worry about being hit by cars !!!..there were about 200-300 people and theres no leader or anything ...but it was particualarily great because it pourrrrring rained on us and we were all soaking wet in a thunderstorm on this hottest of days and i watched hit the prudentail center....we lost lindsey in the downpour but her jon went to rescue her.
ate more salad w/ chips n salsa
so im very tired now and i think i will go take my blankets out of the dryer and go to bennies house.
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07:22 am
[Link] | lately
-got a .50$ raise at work ...woopdeedoo
-they let me make art at least 6 hours a week
-i painted some
-biked around the charles river bike path
-was approached by a monarch butterfly
-biked another bike path with my dad but his peddal kept falling off so we had to turn back...then i had lunch with my wonderful parents at the sano cafe which is the only place in worcester that has vegan stuff on the menu.
-was picked up by an awesome jess mcarthy monday night and gotta ricky and then walked to the top of bancroft tower and lied there watching stars and the veiw of the city which is much lovelier far away in the dark.
-went to a party with jim and drank a lot of gin
-resurected my old childerns drawings and laughed at how i spelled science... siyinse...brother...bruther...special...speshl...haha ive improved.
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12:41 pm
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the stars smell more sugary now
So benny and i are back together and a couple of weeks ago we went to NYC randomly and i bought him cd's he wanted for his 20th birthday that happened and we saw this eva hess drawing show that gave me chills and went all over looking for the ny biejing art gallery (turns out the show my teacher had emailed me about was actually in china NOT ny)annd took the last china town bus home.
so last week for the 4th of july i went to socco maine to visit the awesome colleen and it was so great to see her again and we watched fireworks from a ferry and flew in the back of a truck to a party on this small island which had a bon fire and fun kids. We took the ferry to portland and walked around and found a place that had vegan veggi cream cheese and it was awesome...the train stop in socco has little red tool sheds and is next to an abandoned blanket factory...
Ive also been working a lot and biking a lot and went to church once with meredith and painting more.
the past few days ive just been painting a lot.
I owe rent...it gives me nightmares.
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01:17 am
[Link] | today i won a raffel contest (i didnt even know my brothers awesome girlfriend lisa entered me and everyone she knew in at her acmoore job) for 250 dollares worth of art supplies...its wicked awesome and makes me really happy...honestly what are the chances?!?!
in the unperfect, my poor bikette has another flat tire...steeeve you said youd come over and fix it but then you forgot...sigh.
i hope A LOT that poor mike is not in jail in new jersey anymore...updates? anybody?
my new found allergies make my eyes itchy and causes a great pressure in the upper part of my face...i have almost forgotten what it was like to breath from my nose...but when i do it will be so glorious.
ive started to stretch and paint on canvases at school...the games have begun.
Some guy at work today asked me if i was an artist and asked me questions about it...i didnt even have paint on me...he siad it was because of my hair but its prectically normalized now...this is a strange world.
Current Mood:  confused
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12:44 am
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o got that appartment
yesterday and all week i worked...last night i stayed up until around 4 am stripping clean the refrigerator with jim (there was yogurt expired in feburary ew)...then at 730 am i went for a bike ride to central square and then around the charles river...i found a six foot strecher and canvas and took off the therrible painting...meredith and i finally were acctually finally granted this awesome apparment we wanted on darling street...because the other people never gave credit info and gigi wanted us to have it...im mostly excited about that...and then i was called and asked to work and stayed on the register for 4 hours straight and they were super happy i did that.... I knew when someone was hungry and also made a few people laugh...then i went to a strange gathering with jim, drank a bottle of wine, and kayla cooked me a smart burger on the grill...and now im still awake....yup.
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12:04 pm
[Link] | future:
Im VERY excited and cannot wait to live with meredith (my amazing and painter friend who i think is one of the nicest kindest people ive ever met) and annette (a sweet berkly student from norway) in a few months...weve put a down payment in the most awesome appartment unfortunately so has another group of people so our chances for this one arnt that great .... we shall keep looking....it will be so nice when we all clean up after ourselves and we can decorate our lovely sunfilled home together and i can learn to use my sewing machine and make curtains.
past/present:
-an awesome ryan fixed my flat bike tire
-ive been working almost 40 hours a week...often people laugh or at least smile before they leave my register and that makes me happy...i have lots of little cut and bruises but at least work is good excercize and im so glad i get paid to try and cheer up peoples rainy days
-i moved my stuff into a HUGE painting studio but havent painted anything as of yet....i cant wait for a non drousey morning or a day off of work
-im getting a cold cuz im all sniffley
-i wish the rain would stop
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11:58 am
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spinal cords and ten pm picnics
my uncle david got a cold and for some reason the virus it attacked his spinal cord and ate away at it ....and it paralyzed him from the waste down...they did surgery and siad that the firt 48 hours were the most telling and he still cannot feel anything after the 2 days so basically it looks not hopeful. I called him in the hospital and he said that he was trying to be positive and he laughed about something.... i just dont understand why and how these freek things happen.
i cannot wait to get back in the studio because i want to make huge paintings very badly.
I joined a late night picnic in the fens with my future roomate and some people and it was really fun....i brought wine and vegan icecream sandwiches ...and she made me this awesome tofu wrap and vodka shake.
annnd today i went running and then saw coleen (who has thankfully returned from france) on my way back and went for a walk with her....it was beautiful out and the birds were singing.
then i made coleen and timothy tacos and now its thundering outside.
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12:27 am
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, hung out drinking coworkers and with teachers all in one day, my life is surreal
OK :
tuesday: a tour and then we did a wine tasting (i can NOT belive i got paid to drink on the job my first day), watched silly safety movies, and met lots of people...biked home soaking in the rain...
went to school to set up for reviews, went out for drinks with elisa and who did we end up spending the evening with but my two teachers, and my color teacher who i idealize as a god because (hes been in painting shows next to mark rothko and philip guston: other gods) was wicked drunk and told me everything i would have wanted him to say sober and then some....I shouldent have been happy about it but people tell the 'truth' when they are drunk dont they? Anyways I had mixed feelings about it.
Came home...1 am making humus...jim and I at around 2 am were going to drunk drive to get some chick peas...but then we realised that his window had been broken into and his radio was torn out....so we decided not to go get chickpeas and to insted file a polic report.... the police showed up a little late as in
7am wendsday: amusing art crits (not mine yet) 9am-3pm and then I rushed to trador joes to work 4-11: I organized cheese into red skined wheel patterns, this adorable boy (one of the few i find attractive....who lied and told the managers he knew me so they would hire me) left me a silly mean note on my bag, someone also named matt gave me his name tag to wear, biggest mistake today: I accidentally mistook one asian customer for another...and someone bitched about whiteness strawberries....one can never be to Politically correct anymore.
Current Mood:  crazy
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12:48 pm
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yay im gunna work at the trador joes in brookline
Trador Joes hired me! i start tuesday and will hopefully get a lot of hours.
sooo i changed my mind about leaving our apt this summer cuz im too paranoid to be alone....and because its hard enough tryin to sublet colleens room let alone mine....o yeah anybody wanna live in colleens amazingly huge room for 600$? Or know anybody who wants to sublet?
Reviews are swiftly approaching. eep. I hope they dont tear me appart. Le sigh.
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