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Art
No, i barely did any art this month. I did peck away at this, though. It’s not quite done but it’s getting there. Thanks to everyone on Cara.app who helped me!
News
- I was supposed to move away from Spokane in two days, but not only is everything running behind, someone here whom i love has cancer. So i’m going to stick around the area and see if she’ll get matching skull tattoos with me (because when this b.s. is over she will NEVER agree to shave her head, so this is my one chance!)
- My work was accepted into Paper Pushers popup shop in Seattle, put on by Seattle Printers Guild ❥
- We are getting a longer spring than we often get, and i managed to get out for a few walks and short hikes! Here’s evidence:
Pet Tax
Anecdote
I once forgot about a semester-long project in an AP English course until the day it was due. Another student asked me during first period which play my presentation was on, and i was like, “What presenta–oh shit.”
Past presentations included costumes, food, soliloquys… Someone even dollied in an old washing machine for some reason, i guess? (No videos though, because those weren’t easy for students to make yet. This was dinosaur times!) And here i hadn’t even finished reading the play.
I used the 5-10 minutes in between classes to make some notes based on 1/2 of King Lear (i still don’t know how it ends lol), then got up there and did what i believe the kids call “extemporizing.” Our teacher stood up, held her clipboard up, and graded me aloud in front of the whole class. As she reached each section, she asked things like whether it was engaging, relevant, well-researched, etc. She gave me full marks for everything.
Years later i was visiting my old school, and i dropped by to see her. When i shamefully+smugly (come on it’s both, it’s definitely both) admitted to her that i’d pulled the entire thing out of my butt, she wasn’t even mad. She said something to the tune of, “Those are exactly the skills you needed to learn for college,” and to some extent she was right. At the time, those skills were the only ones that would have gotten me through.
I’m glad i’ve grown enough that i care a lot more now about engaging with the material i’m supposed to be learning.
Get Goods
Newsletter Giveaway
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Here are the prizes from January, February, and March:
Merch
Going on a trip in the next couple of months? Bring some postcards with you. Yeah, some of your friends and family will like touristy landmark snapshots, but you know some of them are more likely to keep weird stuff like a drawing of crows being haunted by a ghost:
You can order these from me here! ❥
And of course if you know someone who finds beauty in the eerie dark, send them a link!
