April 8, 2007. 5:40 p.m.
Location: apartment
Music: Seu Jorge - Oh! You Pretty Things
Mood: bored
Today is Easter. My first Easter away from home. My parents came up here for the weekend and we went to the Blue Man Group concert. It was pretty fun. Matt's parents came up today and we all ate lunch together. It was a lot of food and good times.
The Juried Student Art Show is up, and both of my pieces got accepted. That's exciting. A lot of the Drawing Guild members (almost all of them who submitted) got accepted, so it's a D.G. victory in my book. The awards ceremony is next week, and hopefully I'll win something. I won the Viewer's Choice award for one of my paintings last year, which was really exciting and unexpected.
Next weekend is the Mandan Art Show, which should be fun.
I am procrastinating doing my homework for a while. I had the motivation for a couple of minutes, but that was spent gathering all of my supplies from my studio, and by the time I got back to my apartment, I didn't really want to do anything, so I played with my cats and am sitting here.
I've been starting my search for the perfect grad school. I thought I should start early so i don't have to freak out later, but the more I look at it now, the scarier it seems to me. The classes sound really intimidating and intense. I know that once I'm actually there doing the work, it won't be nearly as bad as I think, but thinking is the worst part. I've gotten some information from a few schools in San Fransisco, Chicago and Minneapolis. My aunt just emailed me a few websites for ones in Kansas (she offered me a room in her house if I went to Wichita State). It's a lot to think about, and I have no idea how to make a decision. I never really thought about where I wanted to go to college; I always thought I'd just go to MSUM. I didn't really have an interest in any other colleges, and I think I made a pretty good choice. But I still have a little under two years to ponder grad school before I really have to start worrying about it.
Classes are all registered for the fall. I decided not to take any summer school just because a) I don't have to, and b) I can't really afford it at the moment and would rather save up for other things like renting a house this summer.
On other notes, I'm starting to feel the inkling of sickness creeping in on me. I definitely do not need any of that. I've been sick enough this year. I don't need any more, thankyouverymuch.