Upside down bouncing off the ceiling

Inside out, stranger to this feeling- what? No that's not S Club 7 it's.... Neon Milk Collective duh.
(I just made that up)
But good news (depending on who/where you are/how much you care about me) I'M HOME FOR SUMMER BREAK!
Montclair, NJ the home of lots of trees and the guy that comes on after Jon Stewart and ran for president, and ME.

This is my(now my mom's) desk at home, a view out my bedroom window and my computer with WHAT'S THAT this blog post BEING WRITTEN. Congrats guys it's THE INTERNET.

Okay kids, a quick recap on finals for yours truly:

That's it, basically. No that's just Katherine's interpretation of her 10 page research paper on Primitivism. It was during our all-day writing sesh. At this time I was sitting across from her, beating Rothko to death (figuratively i'm sure) for my art history paper, but I thought this would express my sentiments about my academic classes.

Also I saw a show that my drawing teacher, the one the only Sarah Roche, curated which was really great. It was cool to see her work, other teacher's work, and up-and-comers who I hope to/will become. There was even an artist who graduated from Tyler and is going to go to Yale for her MFA = alkfbnfbkadlnabakjlgekbnldknb IT IS POSSIBLE.
p.s. to those who don't believe in dreams, that is my master plan because Yale has the best MFA program in the country. And then to teach art/have my own thriving painting, sculpture, video practice/be an internet superstar/live in Paris. See mom? Just like Martin Luther King.
And what does the Philadelphia Swing Dance Society have to do with this? Nothing really, we were just walking back from the exhibit and I thought it was a funny sign.

Additionally, before leaving Philly, we toured the Masonic Temple oOoOo

Number 1: I don't really understand Masons or whatever but apparently they control the world and DID YOU KNOW, Buzz Aldrin is a Mason, and so was my grandpa (I didn't know either of those things until yesterday)

Number 2: Very weird place, that's the ceiling of one of the hallways. Each hall was decorated in a different historic theme and was very strange and shiny like a casino.

I FAIL TO COMPREHEND.

Irregardless and to conclude a self-timed picture of my sister that she took on my camera and I'm sure thought would never see the light of day.

Well here it is.

You can go shave your back now.

Mean gurlz= my girls!
Okay so this week has been really hectic, which means I've been apartment hunting/seeing my parents/drawing final/quilting a 25 page book/do ANOTHER computers final/ making an inflatable vagina cave AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
So to destress and otherwise waste time I've been obsessively watching Freaks and Geeks AND NOONE CAN STOP ME.  It's an amazing show. Live it, Love it, Learn it. But seriously I wish I could go back and time and give the show to my middle school self, it would have helped me so much (because I was a FREAK)

Alright people (aka Katherine aka the only person who reads my blog aka my roommate and myself) here are some more drawing final pix!!!

This last one was me trying to take a picture of my final while I was working in the oh so narrow foundations hallway, but I'll get a real picture soon!

Oh and p.s. Colleen was working with me LOOK DOWN

This is her and her drawing final, isn't it good looking? Check yes for yes!

We were working in the painting studios with big gigantic windows I'M SO PSYCHED FOR NEXT YEAR!!

(when I will be painting in one of these rooms)

Alright, for some reason I'm the resident finals-in-progress fun time photographer SO HERE IT IS

Drunk and punk J-bird working on her heaven-and-hell drawing final (make of that moustache what you will!)

And sober Bissie holding up her Philadelphia quilt!

It looks real nice but Bissie looks crazy!
WHATTA BEAUTIFUL ENDING NOTE.

Let me tell you what I do when my day is over

I watch the last episode of Ugly Betty, and work on my drawing final.
cRaZy!!!
Okay another sad quick entry because the STUDIO IS CALLING MY NAME
but first:

I DIDN'T KNOW BENJAMIN RANKLIN WAS A CRAFTSMA

philly monument lolz

Katherine and I went to get my bike fixed ($55 what.) and discovered so many things about this great city #1 people poop in the subway... like everywhere. and it's creepy and scary in the middle of the day. OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO.

#2 payless is great, i got neutral sneakers for owl team leading? and 

#3 Benjamin Ranklin Craftsma

This week I:

did my last sketchbook!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Discovered THE MOST AMAZING BLOG EVERRr (read it. live it. lOvE iT.)

ADDITIONALLY

Today Colleen's little brother Gabe visited (with his Mom... calm down child protective services!) and did you want to see rapid fire pix of a little boy looking at rocks?!?!

and maybe some smile at the cameras?

TOO CUTE TO HANDLE!!!

I have chosen to end this segment of words to live by with Kate Speidel with a pun:

From some marine something at Penn's Landing (where my drawing class went today! <3 Field trips with Sarah Roche!!!)

You have to say it outloud a few times for the full effect.

I LIKE GIRLS!

the band you guys THE BAND
I just got the album from my friend Colleen and let me tell you I love every minute of it, Lust for Life is a real good song by them with a cool video! It's kind of hip BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO.
okay i have like 2 seconds because I'm meeting my gorl for life Katherine for lunch but WHAT TO SAY WHAT TO SAY.
Um finals...
Drawing: a film still from a movie - make it a big drawing with life size figures!

Here's the one I'm using. It's from The Virgin Suicides, it's in between frames GET IT?
I'm real excited about dis one!!!
2d: Personal Mythology book! 25 page minimum! WOAH
I'm doing my first kiss with alternating pages being little quilts displaying the scene going on and the facing pages being objects catalogued from that point in my life!
chika chika WHAT
3d: it's a fucking inflatable guys! Sheet plastic taped together with an air pump attached WHY? because.
It's a group proj and I'm working with my 2 favorite men Kyle and Lexi and it's going to be an amazing experiential environmental VAGINA. I'm so serious it's actually going to be really beautiful, me and Lexi were talking about it last night I'm super psyched! We're going to have music, and water, and COLORED LIGHTS.
mmmm mmm mmmmm
okay I have to go guys but it was good to talk to you!

Driving Ms. Crazie

I drove back to Temple today with Katherine and her dad and let me tell you IT WAS A LAUGH RIOT

No but her dad IS really funny and it was a lot of fun EXAMPLE: When describing how he was going to maneauver his way around this one building by saying something like "I need to come up around this beotch"   major traffic pattern lolz!
I finished this Mexican drug war photo edit for my computer class where I edited presents in the place of DRUG PACKAGES. I hate photoshop, so it's real bad, it's on my computer class blog if you want to look at it but I don't want to torture you with any more bad art so look at your own risk!
Remember when I said I didn't want to show you any more bad art? TOO BAD.

Alright, I know how this looks, but I built a "replica" of my body out of wooden discs that are in shapes to give the veil VOLUME and SHAPE. The veil looks more sheer in person JUST SO YA KNOW. It's for my 3D woodshop class and the assignment was to create a body extension. I did... literally extend my body to this other form and I wanted to create a sense of personal space/ thought interfacing with the outer dimension OR WHATEVER. To answer all of your questions, YES it's life size, which means AS BIG AS I AM (5' 6' give or take... mostly take). The more I look at it and think about it, the more pleased with it I am I think... but I'm not sure. But I'm never sure. I have until Tuesday so I might change it up BUT NOT NOW IT'S BEDTIME DUH.

I'll set you I'll set it off I'll set you I'll set it off!

CAN WE JUST SAY CONGRATS

To me of course for cultivating such a devoted following of readers... or something

It's small (5 is not that small, if there were FIVE elephants in your backyard, would you say that was a small amount of elephants?) because I'm very intelligent and exclusive DUH.

So spring break yadda yadda WELCOME TO MY HOME...

This is it (just like Michael Jackson or whatever) do you like the flowers my dad got for my mom for her birthday? I do. They're really nice, v colorful and pungent, everything a person could need or want in a bouquet! I mean they're alright but wait till you see the MUFFINS my mom got me for like a coming home (?) present!

Well, you don't have to wait because here they are! Isn't it funny with the different muffin types all on top of each other? I think that they are Blueberry Lemon Whole Grain muffins BUT IT JUST LOOKS LIKE A MUFFIN IDENTITY CRISIS TO ME. (would a muffin go all crazy and get icing or something for a mid-muffin-life crisis? or maybe go all out and become a cupcake? OH THE INTRICACIES)

Alright already! Pastries don't have separate, special lives... allegedly.

My roommate and myself went to American Apparel to get her bud a serious/joke gift of a fanny pack. I used to think (not like recently, when i was little) that it was named after a woman named Fanny... but it's not. But it was great and purple and we did some cracked out browsing while we were there, as evidenced below...

SCRUNCHIES DON'T GO ON YOUR EYES KATHERINE. Oh wow, what a card! Well anyway, we walked around the mall (mistake #1) and went into H&M which was actually kind of awesome except for the fact that I can never get anything for myself at real stores because I have a thrifting problem. I got some killer sunglasses there though for only $6, which isn't necessarily real shopping, BUT IT'S A SLIPPERY SLOPE OKAY. Alright so that was fine BUT THEN WE WENT TO JC PENNY'S (mistake #2). Please let me explain. As I'm Owl Team Leading over the summer, I'm going to be a PROFESSIONAL WOMAN and those need KHAKIS. And since it's over the summer, khaki shorts. I know, I know, this vision is getting uglier and uglier. So JC Penny's is a very large and confusing place, with a lot of loud and ugly clothes (NOT in a good way) and we found these hilarious weird let's golf khaki mom shorts (needless to say, DID NOT buy) and left exhausted and perturbed to go to Ikea. We were all strung out from our brief but terrifying mall experience and so we went to the Ikea cafeteria (which exists ?!?) and had french fries and LINGONBERRY (no lie) juice. When in Rome, go to Ikea and drink the weird pink juice guys.

We were browsing for furniture and stuff for our apartment and pretended to be in our homes AS SEEN BELOW:

Katherine, thinking deeply about the mysteries of life (undoubtedly) or about leaf patterns and inexpensive couches. I think it needs to be noted that I told her to look like it was her home... moving past that.

OH YOU WILL, trust me, I'm a doctor. For real, Ikea vocab is hilarious, just as all Eastern European things are. In every display bookcase, there were a million Swedish books AND THEY WERE ALL THE SAME. Swedish people must live really creepy, organized lives.

NOTE better comfortable posing. HOWEVER this is after we had reached the point of complete delirium after we already had pretend drinks at this fake dining room with fake exposed brick! Tres chic in pretendland no doubt!

Katherine trying to decide what to wear out of her fake wardrobe with a ridiculous amount of the same blouse and same skirt. OH SHE WON'T HAVE ANY TROUBLE GETTING READY.

Okay, needless to say, complete insanity has ensued out of intense and endless browsing and Katherine has become fascinated with fake technology which turns out to be hollow EVEN THOUGH it has like a type name and everything on it.

Alright so here's where it gets weird, not really but this happened 2 days ago and because I couldn't find my camera cord there was delay BUT TO UPDATE. Yesterday I drew a picture of Kathy Griffin running around in a bra and of the queen mum for my 2D humor sketchbook (all none of you vote for pictures? GOOD) and went on like a 45 minute bike ride I KNOW. It was really nice out and it was in the early afternoon and nobody was around it was amazing!

So today I went to Red, White, & Blue with Katherine and this is what happened to her:

Not really, but she was debating getting this little boy's fishie Hawaiian shirt and decided to try it on over her big girl flannel SUCH DRAMA. Regardless she did get it and may or may not be wearing it right now to help out your visual imagination. On this trip both Katherine and I found ourselves trying on dresses which WE THOUGHT were dresses but turned out to be ROMPERS.... so sneaky right? Mine was extra embarrassing because it totally didn't even look like a romper at all and I put it over my head BUT IT WAS ONE OF THE LEGS. All of the elderly Mexicans sure were entertained (or so I assume... I didn't ask them or anything).

Alright, wrapping this baby up with a weird wink from my sister. She said she was posing for a movie poster. Really Sarah? A ROM COM MOVIE POSTER! Additionally, she was labeling her folders for class, and somehow SOMEBODY (me) got the idea into her head that instead of the actual names of the classes (so pase) that she should write words that RHYMED with them. So she is now taking Path (math), Silence (science), Mystery (History) and Hamre. Okay so we couldn't find a rhyme for English and she wouldn't use MY suggestion Penguin Farts (as in Language Arts duh) and so she decided to use Grammar and I put it into the online rhyming dictionary and Hamre came up (it's like one of the most uncommon surnames in the US).

SO THAT'S MY LIFE you can go now.