12 posts tagged “ap art”

I ran into Teresa today, and we decided that we're going to have an AP Art lunch sometime, probably this weekend. Of course Jenny can't be in on it 'cause she's far away. ;_;

But still, lots of fun. I'm excited!

And also:

[13:36] CalmsongNC: So, I'm friends with my college's undisputed beerpong champion, right?
[13:36] CalmsongNC: He's been here next to me for the last two hours
[13:36] CalmsongNC: he left to go to class, said he was tired, and I told him to get a coffee on the way to class
[13:37] CalmsongNC: he's like "I don't drink coffee, caffeine is bad for you"
[13:37] CalmsongNC: ...what.

I got a 2 on my AP Art portfolio.
I feel like complete shit today because of that.

The last week or so has been really fun, though. I invaded the Harry Potter movie with some friends yesterday and got to hang out with Nikita a little. That makes me happy. :)

But yeah, other than that, I feel really ignored by everyone but Brad and Nikita. No one's made any effort to even talk to me around here in a looooong time. It's pretty lame. I honestly feel like this summer parallels the summer after 10th grade almost exactly. It's scary.

You need to take a hint. Get it through your head that there's a reason why I'm doing this. You're annoying, back the fuck off for a while.

Now then, today was kind of lame. I was basically forced to spend a few hours with my class, most of whom absolutely disgust me. Jared time is always fun, though. The first month of summer is going to be Jaredtastic, because I'm pretty much not going to see him again after that. I'm trying to get as much time in with him as I can. It's really sad though, since we're just starting to become really close friends.

The art show had a really good turnout, to the point that we ran out of food and drinks in like an hour and a half, something like that. Not too many people really went down my little aisle thing I had going on, but those who did were extremely impressed. I had three of my favorite Apophysis pieces up there, and those were everyone's favorites. It was really cool that Hannah came, I wasn't expecting her to come. Also, I finally got to really meet the Henrys' parents, as well as Cecile's parents. Some nice folks, there. Also, Mrs. Duran stopped by to see my art! :D I had her in 1st semester and I'd always pull out my artwork to do in the middle of her class and she'd always be really interested in it, so she came by to see my finished stuff. So yeah, the show was a fun experience. :)

Also, people really said nice things in their yearbook signings. I mean, I know a lot of it is just writing the same nice thing over and over, but a lot of them were like an instant esteem boost.

And also, I feel bad because I'm meeting a lot of really cool people now who I won't really get to see again. This sucks. I want these people in my life!!!

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Concentration #13 / 12. :D
It's only half done, but I'm calling it quits. This image is kind of a joke anyway.

And for the record, I have 17 pieces for breadth. I was only off by two. :p

I'm so proud of myself. This is something I just can't be humble about.

My first 9wks grade for AP Art is a 60.8. The goal is to get high enough on this current nine weeks to have a C for the first semester. A D isn't terrible either. I'm starting to get everything done very quickly, I've discovered my style, my favorite media, and the ideas keep flowing. I have 12 images to get done in about 16 days. Obviously, that isn't going to happen. I'm shooting to get four done this weekend, and at least two before the weekend. From that point, I should be set to take my goal seriously. Mrs. Coggins has really been liking what I've been showing her, I'm just struggling to get a certain one finished.

Sometime around this weekend, we haven't planned a date yet, but Kit and I are going Christmas shopping together for the old crew. Basically, all the ex-fencers and anyone strongly attached to them. I do not have much money so I really have to limit myself to that group and not spend too much on anyone. The list is basically Kit, Michaela, and Katie, as well as Rachel, who was a big help to us. We're not including Garrett, Chanelle, or Rudy (or at least I'm not) because I'm not on speaking terms with Rudy right now, and Garrett and Chanelle are removed from our group I guess. I'd also like to get stuff for Joe, Cecile', and Nikita. I figure seven people is more than enough.

I haven't really hung out with Kit outside of school activities, so this will be really interesting. I've suddenly realized that she does, in fact, respect me and wants to be my friend. I thought she hated me throughout last year, especially after the whole Nick drama, but that actually made our relationship better. I want to make the best of our shopping trip and hope we come out as good friends. We've only ever been on seriously good terms for like one week, ever.

So yeah, things are looking up.

Also, FF3 is a real wake-up to me. I'm not used to RPG's that don't give you second chances anymore. It's definitely harder than SMTDDS2, at least.

Yesterday, me and the parents hung out with Tiffany and the runts again. They're nice people. We're all really close family friends now, something we've never had to this extent before. I wonder how long things will stay this way.

So today, from about 1pm to now, 8:30pm, I've been working rather hard on a painting. I'd take a picture, but what I have going so far isn't really worth it. I do have a study of a wolf uplaoded here, just so I could get some help on it. The version that's on the canvas right now is a bit skinnier, just to make it not look as bear-ish as it does (to Alan). I have 3/4 of the canvas covered in paint, there's a section that I just cannot get into with the only brush I was able to find from two years ago. I need a much smaller one for details and I wasn't able to find any. Now that it's drying, I can see several areas that I can improve tonight. I feel horrible that I just cannot finish this picture tonight, even if I had everything I needed. Grr!

I'm getting FFXII tomorrow, or at least whenever Circuit City gets it in. It's $37 there. Thanks, Tony!

And I'm hitting a little weirdness in my Wii decision. I'm starting to think that I want an X360 instead. I feel like it's too much money for me to push it back. I could get just the system and a game between my birthday and Christmas, and then maybe buy another game and controller with the Christmas money and save the rest to buy the Wii by summer. That makes more sense to me.

I just don't know. The only game I want in 2006 for the Wii is Zelda, so I can wait. I just want to be sure I get it eventually, you know? I have a money-saving problem. XD

And that's all for now.

The past two days have been insane. Mostly a good thing. Man, what a great way to close such a shitty chapter in my life.

I have a real problem with just shutting down when I'm extremely stressed out. Some of you may remember that when I started my MyOtaku, I was suffering from random blackouts in school and emotional breakdowns at home. I had a horrid time in the first semester of 11th grade getting over her and school wasn't helping. Mrs. Bergman is still a fucking bitch, I ran into her yesterday and she didn't even remember me. I was the student who almost got her fire last year, and apparently she's still in hot water because of what I started.

Anyway, so I cried myself to sleep Thursday night, breakdown, whole bit. I woke up, promptly reminded myself of all the shit I had to accomplish and blacked out in the shower. Luckily, I wasn't hurt. Mom still didn't fucking wake up when I woke up an hour later. So I woke her up once I got clothes on to tell her I was running late and she'd need to drive me. I ended up getting to school just in time to run to US Hostory to take my exam. Then me and a friend walked out of guitar class to eat at McDonalds and came back and found out later that Mr. Chamis didn't even realize we left! :D It was relaxing. So I crept my way upstairs to Art class and stressed like crazy over my picture and basically REDID THE ENTIRE PICTURE and didn't finish. I was worried out of my fucking mind.

So, I went out to the trailers to breeze through the easiest Spanish exam I've ever taken in half an hour and rushed back into the art studio to finish the picture. Biggest success story ever. OMG. What a load off of my shoulders.

I got home, celebrated, and basically chatted with Rachel and then John online and drew little design ideas for my next picture. The idea is trash-burning. Ohhh yeah. :D

So todaaaay, I went out to lunch at The Loop really fast with a friend and then well, this next part requires some 'splaining. Basically, there's this girl named Tiffany who worked for my dad but she stopped receiving her paychques for some reason. So, she raised hell at the employment agency with rightful cause and got fired. She is nearly bankrupt with two kids, and now jobless. Some of her utilities have already been cut off because she cannot afford them. So yeah, her, her boyfriend, and her two daughters, one seven and one a young infant, came by to have dinner with us. Well, Rachel came over, and we went out to eat at Lubrano's Italian Restaurant. Then, me and Rachel got dropped off at home so we could watch Fight Club and the rest of the gang went to Chuck -E- Cheese so the tots could be entertained. Me and Rachel always have fun together. It's grand.

Also, we got in contact with Shane's mom and Shane's going to call us at some point. At least he has both of our numbers up there.

:D!

There could have been a better title for this post, I'm sure. I've just been re-obsessing over Daughters' new album all day and I found it somewhat suitable to title a post off of one of their songs. Yeah. They're so awesome. More shitty grindcore bands need to stop screaming and go for clean vocals, it's so much better. This is not to say that the Daughters sucked before or anything like that. But... yeah...

1. Shane got shipped to Idaho where his mother lives. I'm happy in a way.
2. His mom is nice.
3. She will most likely let Shane talk to his friends via phone.
4. Rachel is trying to get in contact with said mom.
5. The end... so far.

I'm going to fail my AP Art grade on the first report card. It's less of a deal than you'd think. The class average is a 40-something. I have somewhere in the 60 range. My parents are pissed, but mom sort of understands. She kind of knows that I have been slaving over this class like crazy on most nights and that there's no way the F could have been avoided. I mean, come on, NO ONE PASSED THIS CLASS.

Rachel's coming over sometime this weekend. I'm still trying to get a ride to Charlotte (two hours away) for the Hot Cross show. I so just bugged Elisa about it on MySpace. There is no not-rude way to ask someone for four hours total of driving to see three bands that they haven't heard of.

I keep getting caught in the middle of drama, and it keeps brining me down. I'm just glad I have somethign to look forward to, this weekend.

Joe's grounded, I don't know how I'm going to get a costume together.

So yeah.