The walls are bleeding.

So I'm working at the Marjorie Barrick museum right now for my class and we are making a thing of twine and staples. I'll post pics when it is done. The way that it's made there are shadows on the wall that make interesting patterns. So my teacher decided that duplicating the effect with a drawing on another wall would be a great idea.

This he left up to me and another student and we set about making some pattern on the wall using a chalk-line filled with red chalk to create the effect. If you have ever had a cat scratch yourself and seen the after-effect the color is the same and since we only did it in lines to me it looks like the beginning of a b-movie special effect. The walls want to bleed. I didn't start it out to look like that but right now it's pretty cool.

It makes me think about what other things might look good in a dose of b-movie horror effect.

A warning for females wearing pants.

So here's the thing. I'm constantly in a place where people are active. At least right now. Artists seem to have an the problem of being attracted to shiny objects and getting interested in the weirdest things. And we are always trying to put things where they don't belong. So anyway people are moving about in random ways around me.

Which brings me to the point whenever a girl wears pants and bends down in to pick something up you know that almost fetal position bend to get close to the ground. Any time that happens there seems to be a design flaw in the pants and people's underwear show. Guys wear baggy clothes most of the time so I'm safe from their cracks.

However since most girls wear tight clothes I often get a view of their underwear. I'm not sure that people know this. I'll grant you I enjoy it but I feel bad that they don't seem to know it's happening. I'm just letting people know so that way I can enjoy the view having let people know that this happens.

Laterz.

Money

I don't understand why I should fear deflation. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/4-Reasons-To-Fear-usnews-2745725653.html?x=0 I have never understood why growth should continue indefinitely especially in a world like ours with limited resources. We've been in a growing economy for so long that I'm surprised that we haven't had a period of deflation long before.

Granted the article talks about deflation leading to unemployment. I'd like a job for sure but maybe since more and more people have no jobs and we can't find a thing for them to do that the unemployment means things must become cheaper so that people can afford them again.

The other thing the article says is that under normal conditions that debt becomes less over time in a normal economy while in a deflationary economy it grows. I call bull on that. Especially on interest rates that grow verses the inflation rate debt nearly always grows faster than inflation and when people have increased incentive not to fall into debt which I believe is a good trend then I can't think that deflation, at least deflation that reflects how the economy really is rather than where we think it ought to be is bad.

Group projects never go well

I think that my professor is in the business of making things difficult. With his constant interference in our group project nothing is getting done. If someone has an idea he seems to make sure that everyone disagrees on it. If everyone likes it he shoots it down. Groups are hard enough to handle without an outside "observer" who grades you and acts as if he doesn't understand the simplest drawings and concepts. Today is the middle of week three and he acts like we haven't done enough to work on our project when every step of the way he's alternately told us to do a project on our own, work together, take a week to look at the area we are working in, and baffling ability to change his mind ever 30 minutes I'm surprised anything gets done at all.

In the meantime we have group members who act helpful but aren't, and a another video project to work on that we have yet to begin.

When the group dynamic is constantly being destroyed by it's leader it's doomed to fail. In any case I've got until Aug 6 with this class. After which new and more interesting hurdles will have to be faced.

Cat people are crazy and I'm one of them so don't read this cat post.

So sometimes I figure that I should write what I know and since nobody ever has ideas for what I should talk about my ideas run along the lines of a day in the life of my cat. So here goes...

8:00 am:
Hungry, so very hungry... I wonder if I can wake the giant gently so it won't throw me against the wall and will get me some of that fooooood...

"Hey! You give me some chow!"

Bastard won't wake up and I"m bored maybe I'll stop his breathing holes that'll get em.

"Ahhh! That got him run!"

8:30 am

The giant has such wierd habits going in that room of wet wet torture. Why anyone would want to go in... there's a bug gotta chase it and show it who's boss of this place Me!

9:00 am

The giant's going back to sleep and locking me out! What diabolical things is he planning? I'll let him know I'm on to him.

Run! The giant is angry at me for no good reason I'm a good cat why's the giant so evil?

Noon

There he goes again giving himself the good food and giving me the crap! I've got to get the good stuff.

"Hey gimme that."

Wait a minute this stuff is all green where's the meat?!

Afternoon

House all to myself I'm gonna have a nap

6:00 pm

Giant's back let's see if I can get in good with him before I must fight the invisible goblins. He could be a great ally in the war.

7:00 pm

Goblins everywhere must run, fight jump and claw before my home is taken

8:00 pm

My poop is magic it disappears every night around this time. Maybe if I can poop now I can figure out where it all goes

8:15 pm

No clue where it all went but I'll find out eventually. I'm so awesome


Rest of night

Why does the giant always stare at the glowing rectangles they're so boring. Not like this lovely bit of string I've got. Oh string how I wish you'd move like you sometimes do I want to play tag.

Bed

fin

Spouting words every night for a year seems like a long goal right now.

Waking up is hard to do.

It was above 110 degrees Fahrenheit today. That's the kind of temperature that makes walking outside my air conditioned apartment stifling. And even thought I've got some temperature control it's easy to say that I'll be uncomfortable all day. Especially if I wake up and I'm sweating. Ugh.

Now as you may or may not know I have one class right now and the class isn't teaching me anything particularly important other than people can talk and talk all day about how helpful they're going to be and in the end turn out to be instead a pain in the ass. But I knew that already so I'm guaranteed not to want to go out but had to anyway.

In the meantime I also know that everything is expensive, I have no job and the gi-bill isn't enough to cover school and social life. Although I know that financial aid is one way to get through college getting that seems to be a series of jumping through as many hoops as one can especially if you're not from a poor family or you're a white man. Which might lead a person such as myself to start a "good ol boy" network that makes people hate white guys even more.

Anyway this is really just a rant to say that I can't wait to graduate and find myself a fulfilling job. I'm tired of being broke spending money on a piece of paper to prove that I can learn.

Time lapse blogography

Since I write my blog posts on a site other than Facebook, there's a gap between what I write about and what most people see. This has the interesting effect of aging my words so that when I see them next or more particularly when I hear people's reactions to them I'll have forgotten what I've written about and can revisit the subject.

In any case the lag isn't so bad that what I write about isn't still relevant and many times the time between allows for people to get some perspective on news items. But the issues that people like to comment on the most are the ones where you reveal a nitty gritty little item about yourself, like the number of Johny Cash songs you have on Itunes (21) despite not enjoying country music very much. I've also got a soft spot for girls who sing along with pianos.