Entries from September 2006 ↓

Awesome? Stealing wireless internet from the comfort of my apartment. I am not wearing pants right now!

Anyway. Last night I went with Kristi to see the Wicker Man. Mostly okay as I have a strange appreciation for Nick Cage even though his acting skillz are declining with each movie he makes (I love, love, love him in Moonstruck). The only thing that I hope the producers regret is an unfortunate voice-over bit towards the end of the film. If you’ve seen it, you probably know what I’m talking about.

I slept in late this morning and shortly after waking received another call from Kristi to invite me to brunch. Indeed! It was like old times having Bloody Marys at the Spring Street Tavern. It might be one of my favorite places in the Twin Cities now. It’s great.

Afterwards we traveled to Roseville briefly… And I’ve been celebrating autumn by drinking hot chocolate and cross stitching since returning home in the early afternoon. I am working on something a bit more complicated and I’ve only used four of 26 colors so far. It doesn’t look like anything yet.

Oh, also, I guess my comments aren’t working here right now. I’m not sure what I’ll need to do to fix that, but I’ll get it done sometime soon. I’ll go work on that now.

On Tuesday I went to my web design class. My instructor is David Husom. I felt a little behind as most of the other students had taken semester one of the class (I am in semester two), but I think I will persevere. I was also distracted by the two or three other classes going in the lab and I was hungry. Tuesdays might be a weird day. Anyway, I made my first animated .gif:

Very exciting stuff.

I have an idea in my head of something even more spectacular and exciting for my class project.

On Wednesday I went to my digital photography class. My instructor there is Steve Stenzel (unfortunately he is already married). Steve seems really excited and the assignments sound awesome. One of the first assignments is to create a non-existant face from the face of five real people. I’m hoping my Photoshop skills become a million times more awesome this semester!

Yesterday I watched a whole lot of Medium (first two DVDs of Season 1 from Netflix arrived). I am very excited for the new season of this show and ER. Just so you know.

I am also working on a smallish sorta freelance project that I discovered through Ali. I have already increased my Photoshop skills by trying to find solutions for the project and I need to work more this weekend. I don’t want to reveal too much yet.

Today I gained access to the History of the Land website so that I can make changes for Barb Coffin, the executive director, in-house (at the Bell Museum) instead of sending small things to the design company that created the site.

In conclusion, it hasn’t been a terribly exciting week, but nice things are happening. And I still have time to watch my favorite TV shows.

I am nervous about starting school tonight.

I know exactly how it’ll be walking in to the classroom tonight: everyone will stare at each other. No one will say anything. It will be as if we all think we are invisible.

I have been feeling invisible for a while now, actually. On Saturday I was rudely slammed into by two different people (one was a tiny asian lady at the Farmers’ Market and the other was a woman’s large purse on the bus). Maybe I am invisible and this is why no one talks on the first day of class. My invisibility makes them uncomfortable.

Minneapolis is a hard city in which to make friends. Also I am stupidly shy most of the time.

I just uploaded photos of my recent cross stitch projects. Sorry, I didn’t censor anything. (Subversive Cross Stitch is not your average, boring cross stitch.)

(Pre-Ironing, Oops)

(Framed)

I also uploaded some embroidery I did last year:

3:30am is not the time I had in mind when I said I wanted to wake up earlier than usual to make it to the Farmers’ Market.