So this is a transfer of a photograph I did onto clay. I'm in love with this process. I'm going to do a whole project on it and I'm really really excited about it. I especially love the lines in this one, I don't know how it worked out so well. It was a happy accident, that's for sure.

I'm really frustrated right now. I was printing in the darkroom for hours and everything looked polarized and shitty which is not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to print normally, and well. Ughhhhhh. Zack will be in in an hourish so hopefully he will help me figure out what's wrong. It's going to be a total zoo because our project is due tomorrow. Why is nothing ever simple?? Ever.

I'm going to try to do more work. Hopefully this works and I don't get screwed (again).

I'm really flustered at the moment.

Essentially, there are only 4 weeks left before finals. Really though, there's 3 because next week we have off for Thanksgiving and I'm probably not going to get much project-wise done. So there's 3 weeks to complete everything and I'm overwhelmed.

For advanced, I've been working fairly regularly in taking slide photographs of belongings in people's rooms to paint a portrait of who they are. (Not actual paint obviously but to give an idea of who they are based on objects they own). It's a really great project idea, but I've run into a bunch of problems. First, slide film. It's not going well there, and everything is always very dark. I'm taking slide film so I can do polaroid transfers. I really love the process I've come up with, I'm printing things on fabric and I love the way it looks. But the pictures don't fit the process. So now I'm thinking I may do straight up portraits, but I don't know. I have to find people to shoot, shoot them, and it's just going to be a ton of work for a short amount of time. Not to mention that it takes about a week to get my slide film processed because the lab I use doesn't process it every day, just once a week. so I'm going to have to shoot it quickly to get it developed in time. Ughhhh!

There's a whole issue with my clay class too but I seriously don't want to get into it right now because it sucks and I don't really know what to do.

I'm not sure what to do with myself right now. I have more 4x5 film to develop from this weekend and I could also print for that class because we have stuff due on Thursday and I have nothing so far. But again, things are complicated and the photos I have I want to use for the final and not our last project before the final but that means I have to shoot a ton more and blah blah blah.

Printing the slides I do have on fabric is kind of stupid because none of them look really good. And I have clay class at 3.

What to do, what to do...

Last week I was sick, which totally sucked.

This week I'm playing catch up (again).

I hate when I forget to do a reading, then I go and look for it, and I can't find it. Obviously this is mostly my own fault because the class is in less then an hour, but still, it's annoying. I'm making the effort to do the reading (which I have a feeling most of the class didn't do because most of them are in the W section and have a paper due today so yeah).

I think I may have found it so I should go print it asap.

I love make up. I know it's superficial but there's something about putting make up on that just makes me feel better. More put together. I really love make up. and I kind of love doing everyone elses make up (though I'm not that great at it - minus giving people black eyes).

More later.

This is really strange. If I'm about to throw up, my mouth waters uncontrollably (I'm not really sure why this happens, but it's always been this way. It's not a pleasant mouth watering; it's not like when you really want to eat something - it's more of a sour taste and it's intense). A few minutes ago this just happened. My stomach felt really nauseous too. I went in the bathroom and leaned over to toilet, but didn't throw up.

I really hope I'm not coming down with something.

Sleepytime tea is wonderful.