Damn these naps! They’re like drugs. I nap all the time, and when I don’t I’m tired as crap, but when I do, it messes my sleeping time up. Bah!! I am addicted. Yes.

Another week has begun. Last week.. seemed like a month ago.. I can’t even remember much.

On Thursday evening, after class, roomies and I went to watch Avatar at The Bridge at Howard Hughes. It made me cry. It’s the only movie that has ever made me cry, except for 1Litre of Tears, but that’s a different story because it’s a drama, not a movie. Avatar made me really upset while watching. It’s a reality check for us. Yes, the plot may be simple, but the quintessential of the theme are able to come through with simplicity. I hope that after watching this movie that people have a greater appreciation for Mother Nature. We all are connected with nature, but some refuse to believe it or need to hold their pride. .

They had some pretty wonderful washroom interior going on.

Before picking up Theresa, Caroline and I went on another one of our interesting explore-Los-angeles trips. It involves driving to a destination we often don’t know. However, we had planned to go to Wal-mart this time.. except the GPS didn’t bring us to Wal-mart.. it brought us to Sams Club. It’s like Costco. We always end up in shady areas.. it’s a little scary actually. I’m always nervous as to which area we’re in, because it’s easy to end up somewhere you don’t want to be in L.A. The change from a good area to a bad area is very fast.. maybe even as simple as crossing a couple of streets could end you up in a dangerous zone.

I got  a chunk of  Montery jack cheese from Albertsons for $0.99 that night. Epic.

Friday night, I was out pretty late.. well not too late I guess. The school had  a Valentines day dance (9PM-1AM). It was the epitome of awkward. I had never been to such an awkward dance before. I guess the idea of going to a school dance in college is awkward in and of itself, yeah? Roxie, Caroline and I awkwardly walked into the dance hoping not to embarrass ourselves. It turned out to be not too horrible actually. I actually had fun as the night went on. It could be summed up with two words: awkwardly fun.

We decided to leave around 11:30PM I think.. I really can’t recall. The night was a blur. We ended up going to a party held by product design students.. which turned out to be really fun! I had gone the weekend before, but it sucked so much we ended up leaving early. This time they had a band just jamming and chilling in a little garage-shack-like thing where people danced and stuff.

Good times.

This week started off pretty well.. nothing to exciting, just school. My drawing and comp II teacher (the new one) is definitely not a positive change for me. Her teaching style is very strict and strategic.. one that I don’t work well under. I wish I had the previous teacher, as she was very.. free and liberal. This new teacher does not let us listen to music or talk. It’s quite dry when you’re drawing a still life.. there’s nothing extremely ‘exciting’ about sitting there, listening to your soft pastels scratch against the textured page. Nuh uh.

I scanned a few pages of my sketchbook. I never really had a habit of using my sketchbook for ideas or sketches………… but I am trying to use it more often, whether for sketches or just brain storming. I use to hate doing rough drawings of my ideas.. but I think it’s a good habit to start trying. The other reason is because the sketchbook was outrageously expensive, and if I don’t use it, my guilt will come alive.

Had a wonderful weekend

On Thursday afternoon, after Caroline’s class, I met her at the school library to borrow some books for inspiration. I was itching to just sketch. I haven’t really had time to do stuff that I want to do.. usually it’s homework 24/7, so there really is no time to sketch out ideas. I borrowed 4 books that are absolutely wonderful! There’s one I especially enjoy, which is called Girly Graphics. It’s a Japanese design book that is based on ‘Girly’ designs.

Friday we didn’t do too much. In the evening I went with Caroline to hang out with Sofia and Anika.. who are both Danish. It was slightly awkward being not able to understand, but it’s no biggy. We were suppose to head to a party.. well, we did, but at 10:45PM. Slightly late, but I’m sure that was when it began.. maybe? To sum it up, we barely stayed for an hour, shivering in the cold.

Yesterday, we said we wouldn’t do anything but bum around at home, and enjoying being at home, but Caroline and I ended up going out to City Walk with Chris, Chad, Paul, Ahndi and Kelly. City Walk is in Hollywood, a part of Universal City / Universal Studios. I had never been there so it was really nice to see and be a tourist ! While heading there, we made a pit stop and got In-N-Out Animal style fries, as I had been begging for them. Super yummy, but extremely heavy. The rest of the drive was a little frustrating. Los Angeles freeway entrances are really abrupt, and we kept missing them!

As we were driving near Hollywood, I noticed an adorable shop.. cute eh?!

We got there around 7:30-8PMish. The rest of them ate at Bubba Gump, which is the restaurant to go if you want shrimp. The waiter was a mean guy.. not cool! Especially when the tip is ridiculously 18%. After finishing eating, we walked around and looked at the shops. There were random ones, like Hot Topic, Chocolate shops, candy shops, Fossil.. etc. There’s actually not too much to it, unless you go into Universal Studios.

The rest of the night just consisted of walking around. The rest left early, as Caroline and I spent more time on the Walk. I didn’t want to leave!! It was so pretty with all the lights. It would be fun going on a date there

On Saturday afternoon, before heading to Universal City Walk, we were at the metal/wood shop and cut up some bamboo. Caroline had picked up a bunch at Laguna beach, so we used it to make jewelry. I think out of all the types of wood, bamboo is definitely the most beautiful! <3. Here’s my new ring. We had just cut it with a large mitre saw and sanded it. You could probably use the band saw.

I’m beginning to feel a little stress due to all the art supplies we have to buy. Ever since returning from Winter break, I have spent well over $150 just on art supplies. When you go to university, all you have to buy are your textbooks and scantrons occasionally, but when you go to art school, you have to buy the $300 initial supply kit, and ON TOP of that, you have to buy more supplies that you’ll be using in classes. I originally had budgeted out $150 on groceries per month, and an ‘x’ amount on art supplies, but I am thinking of cutting my grocery budget to supplement for the grand amount of art supplies, which.. yes means that I won’t have as much to eat! I don’t know.. :( I am not the one paying to tuition.. my parents are, and I am going to be thrifty, frugal, penny-pinching, coupon cutting, you name it, for as long as I am an art student and until I pay them back.

Total is about ~$160, then + tax and that fun jazz.

I don’t have too much food left to eat. I guess I’ll just have to clear out my freezer and fridge drawers until I have nothing

YES! NEW JEANS! I never understand why people buy $200 jeans, because my thrifty $30 jeans have lasted me years. For some reason, during the past week, I had a penchant for buying new jeans. It just felt like my old ones didn’t fit me nicely anymore. Maybe it’s because I threw them into the dryer for too long or too hot. I went to Marshalls to get jeans – It’s like Winners, but 10x better! 2 paris of skinny jeans for $30 I’m still getting use to skinny jeans, because I never really liked the tight feeling around my legs.

During my jean hunt on Saturday, we also did our errand day trip. We planned on going to Los Angeles County Museum (LACM), but Caroline had come home late the night before so we had a late start to our trip, and we did not end up going – which is perfectly fine, as we had planned it for next weekend.

We began the afternoon at Home Depot, which was.. an odd place to go.. but it seems like Home Depot is a popular hangout for people on Saturdays, as it was extremely busy! We bought supplies for our Form and Space class – needle nose pliers, and chicken fencing wire.. It was really awkward carrying the chicken fencing.

After that we went to the Dollar Tree and Westfield Mall. Caroline and Theresa were both starving so the first place we went, in the mall, was to the food court. The mall had finished building and it was absolutely gorgeous!

I had packed an apple pear and onigiri with me for lunch so I was ready to go.

From there, we went to Target to find my Dear John book, but I didn’t end up buying it. Maybe later on and then we went to F21, where I hoped to find jeans, but to my dismay their jeans were not appealing what so ever.

After the mall, we went to Marshalls, then another mall/thingy named “Howard Hughes Centre“. The main attraction there is the gorgeous movie theatre “The Bridge”, but there are cute shops and so we walked around. It was an exterior mall.. so it became chilly as the night approached, especially when drinking a frap.

Howard Hughes is located right by the freeway.

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