The Nancy Drew Club

I spent a wonderful evening catching up with old friends. It's odd how we all ending up pursueing creative careers even though we all sort of went seperate ways when we were about fourteen...it's only lately that I've started getting to know them again, and it's amazing how un-awkward it all is. And yeah, English and music and classics and art majors all. And since almost all my friends are at school, that leaves me constantly surrounded by creative people who actually (mostly) understand why I do what I do and what I'll face once I leave school. Except for Lynette who will probably use her english degree to teach, although I think she will be swept off her feet and get married and give piano lessons and she'll be happy and content while the rest of us disperse around the world trying desperately to get work and keep up with rent. 

And I love driving late at night when there is hardly any traffic...no headlights coming my way, but the streetlit freeway just stretching on ahead and I don't have any music playing and I could be anyway in the world right then. Unless it rains. There is nothing more dismal than driving in the rain in the dark....I'd rather have snow and ice any day.

All night I was writing things in my head. Even as I was brushing my teeth (during which I somehow got toothpaste on my nose) I was shuffling sentences around. But then sometimes I'll get a sentence stuck in my head, something about the sound of the words catches on my mind, and it's like my brain turns into a broken record. Literally. I cannot stop thinking the same set of words over and over...sometimes changing the inflection, but it's really, really hard to force myself out of that circle and start a new thought. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's sometimes a bit awkward when people ask me what I'm thinking because I am actually thinking the same thing over and over and over and it essentially becomes thinking about nothing. I do think it's possible to stop thinking.  

My nails are black again

I decided to accept this 100 picture challenge as a way to get me to actually have a purpose in creating all the art that is floating around in my head but somehow is evading cold, hard paper. So far it's working...I've had an idea for a painting ever since school let out the last week of April, and today after finding the challenge I finally sat down in front of the easel and did it. Not ALL of it naturally. I'm wating for the paint to dry right now so I can finish it tomorrow. So anyway, it should be fun, and will get me back in the swing of things for when school starts in a month. I can hardly believe it's rushing up so soon....this summer has been incredibly short, and there are so many things I want to do yet and I haven't even been to the beach!!! But things I MUST do in my last free month are as follows:
make The Doll
sew myself some clothes for fall....jacket, pants, etc.
finish paintings for Joseph and my Mom
at least TRY to finish the Violet skirt
make quickie ren faire dress for Rachel G.

Being realistic I don't think I could get any more than that done, and I have a sneaky sinky feeling that the V.B. dress will get the shaft again. I blame it on the fact that I'm a much slower sewing than painter.