Sunday,  October 21, 2001  12:00 pm  <|>
<111> Learning to think like an artist: I should be working right now... I am constantly working, but is it paying off?  Apparently so because I've realized lately after a year at art school I am finally beginning to think like an artist without much effort.  I still have trouble accepting a lot of what I do as art, but it's getting a lot easier then it used to be.  Now the concepts and ideas I come up with have something to do with art rather then just random thoughts that turn into pages on the internet.  Although a lot of what I do is still triggered by my want to show information more so then abstract concepts, I'm beginning to allow myself to blur the two much more often then ever before.  Perhaps all this comes out of the crazy couple of weeks I've been going through.  It's midterm time, which equals projects, papers, etc... everything else gets neglected: job, friends, free time - what's that??  There is one project in particular, a interactive narrative for my core studio class, which I've basically been working on constantly.  As soon as I finish writing here I will be getting back to work on it and that is pretty much my whole day today no mater what.   I've gotten a bunch of work done on it already of course (I'd have to after spending so much time on it already), but I still feel like there is a lot left to do and so much more that I would really like to do with it.  I'm doing it in a way that I can get it finished and then ad more complexity to it time permitting... we shall see.   I went home for a little while on Friday.  The original plan was for me to stay over on Friday night, but with all this work I had to do I didn't think it was a good idea to do that plus my mom had to work on Saturday so getting back might have become a problem.  Anyhow, so I did go home for most of the day, then came back here at night.   I ended up going to see a movie with my roommate and another one of our friends even though I should have used that time to get work done too, but I'm such a flake sometimes when I know I still have a lot of time to get something done... plus I just felt I needed this little "girls night out" even if it was only for a couple of hours.  So we saw Riding in Cars with Boys... yes I know it's a chick flick... I usually don't like those kinds of movies, but I like Drew Barrymoore and the movie was decent.... though I think it's definitely a movie for girls.  Oh well.  Movies are expensive events around here too and I am poor, but since we only go to the movies a few times in the year I guess it's okay to splurge once in awhile.  We'd been planning to see it since the previews started being shown on tv anyway.  I did come home and work after the movie even though people came over.  I am always proud of myself when I can make myself anti-social enough to ignore my friends... a manageable distraction I suppose when people are usually over.  So then yesterday my best friend came down from here school for the day.  We went to the mall and South St.  I got to introduce her (finally) to some of my friends, though she didn't get to meet that many of them.   Her bus back was supposed to leave at 5:55pm, but we rushed to get there only to find out the last bus was at 4:30pm... she ended up staying the night, which we were actually prepared for because it was a possible option.  I still got some work done though last night and I am spending my day today doing it, so hopefully I'll get everything done and have a few friend hours tomorrow between my long day of class.   It's going to suck if I have to spend my break tomorrow working on this project... so I'm going to go get working on it more.