Roadbenders

Didn’t finish October’s cover, but did remake The Commuter web feature that I had done several years ago for Kenneth Tindall. I won’t be linking to it from Utopian.net, but you can view it here. Looks a little off because its meant to be a pop-up. One of my favourites of his poems – and
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Got a little tense this afternoon – fatigue and caffeine leftovers, plus I had a Krispy Kreme binge that sent me into sugar-space. So I went for a little teensy walk, and found an old stone wall that had been embraced by an enormous oak growing within it and around it. I brought home a
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J. mom brought us a shamrock seedling Saturday, and so far it’s Monday and I think I’ve almost killed it. It’s in the world’s tiniest flower pot, for transport, and it’s so delicate that I’ve been terrified to transplant it until it settles in a little better. Problem is, it holds next to no water,
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I’m about half done with this one. Not terribly thrilled with it, as it is just a damned painting of a coffee cup, but it did satisfy my need to make a sparkly art-nouveau poster style something or other. I will be adding a lot more shading and mood to it (though I think the
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I had some odd dreams last night. First dream was sort of fantasy weird, with scary evil overtones – there was a tree in a walled garden that people would sneak in to touch, and it was making them sick. If they were near it too long or touched it too long, it killed them.
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I’ve been enjoying Beethoven, coffee, web surfing, and thinking about painting today. A few moments of profundity, a few of curiousity, a generally good day.

Ah, delectable repast of saccharine wonderment – thy name is cake! CAKE! CAKE! Ahem. I have a lot of things to do, but this afternoon I am going to begin re-reading Ulysses. Ulysses is a book that has taught me many valuable lessons about my role as a reader and audience. There’s a punchline there
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Woke up this morning with the feeling that I need to be using this journal for morning pages, as it were. As much as I loathe “techniques” on being an “artist” gleaned from “books” (I loathe them almost as much as I like quotes) I am finding I need to write something everyday to get
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It’s been a good day for a birthday. I’ve eaten nothing but cake and bread all day. Still loving the World’s Best Bread Recipe. I just stopped painting for the evening. The muscles in my back are all knotted up. I’m going to take a notebook out to the couch and sit next to J.
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Today is J’s birthday. I picked a newspaper at random to use to wrap the largest of his gifts, and then ended up wrapping all of them with it. I lucked out and got the summer reading issue of the NYTimes Book Review magazine, which was full of these art deco inspired poster-type illustrations. Now
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I went to bed at seven thirty this morning for a four hour nap. Too much caffeine yesterday. It made for some very interesting dreams – in one, I was a member of a special super elite secret gummint fighting force. We had word that Florida and North Carolina were in threat of attack in
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Fabulous dinner tonight. Quite enjoyed it. Been playing with Illustrator since dinner, and am now getting back to coding. That’s all. Just wanted an entry to bump that last incredibly self-indulgent piece of sarcasm. :)

The worst part of living “simply” and frugally and “within my means” is when I run out of hot drinks, like tea, coffee or cocoa. With the library providing my books and movies for free, all I need to is to provide tea, coffee, or cocoa, and I’m living in the lap of luxury. Well,
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I birthdayed over to the twins’ house last night. They seemed fairly nonplussed with their handmade, handpainted cards, and I can’t blame them. I took three days to make them and still ended up finishing them hastily at the very last second before my ride arrived. One day, I will get my production skillz down.
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From the lovely sammyh- 1) How did you end up in Missouri? 2) Describe an influential moment from your childhood. 3) What are three things you find unconventionally beautiful? 4) What is your favourite comfort food, and do you have a recipe to share? 5) What are your top five favourite movies? 1) How did
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Up at Utopian.net right now I have a picture of the horse and carriage that magically appeared on my street a couple of days ago. And for LiveJournal, some pictures of my newly cleaned studio, in preparation for the redecorating challenge I have given myself. I have $20 to make my studio look like a
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Well, I’m discovering that decisions are easier to make when I flip a coin or pull a random tarot card. Keeps me open to different perspectives. I won’t be pursuing the contract. I’m on a good path. I went to the library today in the glorious chill rain and loaded up on books and movies,
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Reading being_homeless’ journal last night has given my brain some things to chew on. My kitty is chewing clear contact paper right now. He also likes to lick baseballs. We are right in the path of the monarch migration, and so two days ago the air was just filled with monarch butterflies. It was a
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Well, I worked on it for a bit, was dissatisfied with the results but plan to come back to it later from a fresh angle. Meanwhile, I went shopping at Michael’s to sooth my ills, but just got riled up all over again over their insane markup on paper products. Stocked up on some canvases,
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I’ve been pondering my methods of time management since I read this article. I’m definitely not a Franklin day planner convergent thinker type. Except lately, I have been. And as much as I love my tendency to just work in a burst of inspiration, my depressive tendencies tend to blunt my motivation a bit when
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