*sick again*

[secondlina]

Ah, yes, back home, back to work and back with the flue of doom!
For some reason, it seems I always fall ill the week after I return to montréal (and no, i'm not lovesick you romantic saps. I know one of you was gonna make that pun.) I was supposed to go to a art contest evening on thursday, but while coming down the building stairs, I became very dizzy and almost tripped over. I decided it would be wise to go home. 

I gotta admit i've been pretty busy. I started my job at the bookstore, now that MASC is over. I have a lot of homework still ,as per usual. I'm also kept pretty busy by all the graduation exhibit business. It's in about a month in a half, so stuff is hitting overdrive. I'm in the space allocation and exposition organisation comittee as well as in the catalogue building comittee (since our exhibit, as any exhibit, comes with a professionnal catalogue!) For some reason, I seem to be coordinating the catalogue thing (I have no idea how that happened, but what the hell. I like coordinating things) so things are going well. We got Jonathan Shaugnessy, contemporary art assistant director at the National Gallery, to write a text for our catalogue, so that's also pretty cool. 

People's project ideas are awesome! Someone in our class is building a giant shark plushie by hand. Someone else created a sculpture of a shipping box that's going to be part of an installation ment to have people believe a wild animal is loose in the school. And of course, all the paintings look stupendous! Makes me wish I could paint!!!!

I other news; I have contracts that might allow me to have some of my drawings ACTUALLY PUBLISHED. That's a great way to make a fresh-out-of school student portefoilio look amazing. One contract is just for a few cartoons to illustrate a business book. The other is a wonderful 16e century epic tale of thieves in old england that i'm doing for Adira Rostein, a pretty talented scenarist currently studying in the university's education department. Adira caught me while I was drawing some of my class drawings on the department's light tale. So, right now i'm making her 12 pages in order to propose the project to an editor. The story is good, and drawing it is fun, so what the heck, might as well try something new heh? Not to mention it's always fun to draw someone else's idea. Gives you perspective (and money).

Aside from that, I hurt one of my hands in montréal (fortunatly the left one!) I,m amaze by how much of a wuss I am for someone that waxes her legs.... anyways....







-Secondlina

Comments

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're feeling so sick. Ugh, no fun.

And good luck with the exhibit and the illustrations! I hope this leads to something good!!

Eww, cut! I cut myself once with a Widget (basically a straight edge set in a handle thingy for scrapping sticky stuff), and it was pretty nasty. I was about six at the time too. I still have the scar. Remind me to show you some time if we meet up when you're down this way.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

ouh. Must hurt!

Thanks for the love!

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I don't even remember it all that well. All I have to show for it is the scar on my left pointer finger.

*shrugs*

And my love is yours!!! *mwah*

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Illness knows no borders! Something nasty has been going around down here as well, so I feel like I'm dodging bullets every time someone coughs. I don't want to get sick... I sure hope you recover from your illness quickly. What with graduation approaching, and the projects to be completed, there's no time to be ill!

I think it would be absolutely fantastic if you become a published artist. I could say, "I knew her when!"

(And Link's definitely a keeper. It's good to have people around who are handy with a bandage. I tend not to buy band-aids anyway, so I'm always making my own bandages. That said...never ever use a knife to cut anything open! - It's far better to use an X-Acto knife that is pointed down and away from you on a hard surface. Sharper blade, but more efficient.)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Well, the comics for the university book is a 100% sure of beng published but you know...it's not really comics. But it's fantastic to have in a portefolio.

Yeah I know, I,m a moron. If I waited a second more, Link would have handed me scissors when he got back from outside. I,m just not patient! But it was fun to get pampered. Even with the cut, I had a great time!

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

One need not draw comics to be a published artist. Bill Watterson, for instance, can draw and paint gorgeous realistic drawings, but since his more comic works sold, he used his more cartoony style more. (I always did love the few strips where Calvin and perhaps Susie were drawn as realistic looking adults acting very childish. Man, why did he have to retire...)

I wouldn't say you were a moron, but you definitely weren't thinking. I'm not one to talk though, since I used to always use my teeth to open packaging, which is truly idiotic. (Thanks to being born with weak teeth, using them to open things caused more than a few of them to chip. Fingers heal. Teeth won't grow back.)

...and you are weird. ^_- Then again, most people enjoy the pampering that goes with being injured, so maybe you're perfectly normal after all.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

*squish* Actually, I wasn't thinking that you were lovesick at all. I bet the air in Montreal is a whole lot more polluted than where you live, so it's your body probably reacting to that somehow.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Huh...maybe.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Being sick is not fun. Back in my first year of university, I got really sick. I hope you feel better.

That's cool that some of your drawings might be published! That thieves story sounds interesting to me too. I think you'll have fun with it. ^_~

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I think you'd like the thieve story! I should post some of the drawings up for you guys...

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Oh yes please!

As weird as this sounds, I've always enjoyed stories about thieves. ^_^;

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

Once, I turned to tell my fiancee a joke while I was trimming mats for an art show... I got to learn how awesome she'll be when our kids do equally stupid things.

I'm still jealous of the duct tape.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Urgh, if Link has kids, he'll be great with them. I,m sure it's due to his own experience with opening every inch of his hands. He showed me most of his scars while building the duct tape bandage. My hand are really delicate and never really get hurt (I look after them- they are how I get money!) so I'm a real wuss when it comes to hand wounds.

[anna-nimmie-tee.livejournal.com]

Your illustrations made me wince as they dredged up a memory from childhood. My left hand's index finger in particular has a long memory. When I was a nine year old, I tested out my brand new Girl Scout knife with carving a wooden stick and nicked myself. I marched into the house and kitchen and found the bandaids. My mom walked in and asked what happened. I calmly turned to her and said "I cut myself" and passed completely out. It was such a tiny cut, no stitches needed or scar. Now that's a wuss!

Flu is smiting people left and right at work. I hope you get well soon!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Hahahah! cute! Alright, I feel like les sof a wuss now XD