.nov 5.

it feels so good to have finished my masters degree after years of studying. much deserved break. yay!

.nov 4.

this is going to be the last night im going to stay up late working for very very long. last two reviews tomorrow. and what day this has been. i had to print 52 cards, cut them to size and then stamp the backs of the cards so that they seem appealing to kids. im finally done and i realise i need to work on my journal and get the cards laminated before the crit tomorrow. ugh. anyway, heres what the cards look like as of now,

i’m so exhausted its ridiculous. going out tomorrow once im done with the reviews. cant wait!

.nov 3.

Meet me on the Equinox
Meet me half way
When the sun is perched at it’s highest peek
In the middle of the day

Let me give my love to you
Let me take your hand
As we walk in the dimming light
Or darling understand

That everything, everything ends
That everything, everything ends

ah. death cab. dont you just love music that speaks to you. i lost someone very close to me  a year back and everything still reminds me of him and i dont think i want that feeling to go away.

 

with the final project, ive reached that stage where i know that im close to finishing it and so i begin putting it off unitl time runs out and im this complete freakshow with panic attacks.

tomorrow, ill be done.

.nov 2.

its 2.20 in the morning and im sitting in front of my laptop doing absolutely nothing. i was supposed to be fixing this flash game im creaing for my final studio project but i totally lucked out on the motivation. so here i am.

also, i got really confused after typing out the last sentence and had to find out what the phrase lucked out meant. apparently its a contronym of sorts where the same word or phrase can mean two completely opposite things. fascinating. i meant  knew the words existed but i didnt know theres a term for it. should have guessed as much though. everything falls under some category. even when they arent falling under a category, they are.

so, lucked out- apparently the americans use it to describe a person experiencing or having experienced great luck. and the british use it to describe a situation where one has run out of luck.  guess im more british than i am american. ah sweet colonisation. which reminds me, i read this really cute (cute really does seem the most appropriate word here) article by simon robinson in some old issue of TIME about the relatioship between india and britian in the 21st century.

our house in sydney now resembles an international boarding house and i love it. we have 4 french housemates, 2 chilean, 3 thai, 1 chinese, 2 korean and 2 indian. such fun. just wish people would keep the kitchen clean.

 

the yarra river in melbourne. have decided im going back to melb before i leave.

.nov 1.

went to maroubra beach for my mid semester break. its beautiful. i think im going to miss sydney when i leave it. miss the clean beaches if nothing else.

ive aslo decided that since i graduate  this wednesday and will be free for months after, with a masters in design and no job on the horizon, im going to take part in this months NaBloPoMo. i hope it lasts the whole month. will just have to wait and see. im also planning on giving away some of the earrings i made for the spring fair at the NaBloPoMo giveaway. will figure that bit out soon.

have been working a lot on my printmaking and im done!! finally. but i spent so much time on it, that i hardly got any work done for my final design project. :( havent taken any images of the final print but ill do that the moment i finish my review. for now, heres what the new plate(s) look like after the first acid dip.