The "I don't post enough anymore" post

[transomwhiplass]

I pretty much haven't been updating for anything important. I blame being very busy and ridiculously important.

lol, I don't even think I wrote anything about Canada (good times, though). Oops. So let me see...

The last few weeks haven't been too bad. School has been going well so far. My media class (required for my major) is stupid central. When we get to Illustrator and Form-Z (3-D modeling), I'll be rather hopeless--my only advantage being years of computer saavy and the knack for teaching myself computer programs. Right now, however, we are in the Photoshop and web page portion of the curriculum, i.e. the most laughable topics, personally. I bootlegged Photoshop way back when (13-ish) and my dad had one of the first versions on our original old mac. Yes, while most sad hoi polloi were learning to illustrate in Paint, I was using Photoshop. Of course I moved on to Kid Pix (the creater actually teaches at UO, I need to find/meet my hero one of these days), but still.. it's the principle. Oh and seeing as I made my first website when I was about 10-11, I pretty much been using class time to brush up on PacMan.

Studio is not so bad. My professor had a us over for a potluck at which certain students of certain ages were possibly offered certain beverages in an act that may or may not be considered illegal depending on where you are in North America. Haha. I love it. I have the best studio: the studio that laughs together stays together. We pretty much just have a fun-for-all the entire time. It's hard to tell where the working ends and the laughing begins. So many good times, laugh-aches, and tears.

Today, Sarah (my long-lost counterpart, and the other half of Sarah^2), Erica, Leah & I went out for Leah's birthday. We went and got sushi (only my third time). I think I might be having a turning point with fish. Most people know I'm extremely fussy in this department and I usually only like calamari, shrimp (on most occasions), the very occasional piece of smoked salmon on bagels (woo! for lox), and, of course, tuna salad cos' it tastes like chicken. So, I think I actually like smoked salmon more than I thought. I had some tuna that was pretty good. However, the coup de grace that may have sent me over the edge was a blessed piece of heaven called a "green hornet." It was a "sushi shot" which means it's a gigantic piece of sushi that you eat in one bite. Seriously, huge. I was wary because it was going to be topped with a big honking piece of eel (my first piece of sushi was eel, and it wasn't bad but I wasn't too keen on it). It came out and it was beautiful: rice wrapped in seaweed, topped with avocado, a huge piece of eel, and topped with a large strip of smoked salmon. I had to ask again what was in it because the piece of eel looked like bacon. I'm serious. It even smelled like bacon. When I stuffed it my mouth, it tasted like bacon (though did not feel anything like bacon)! It was the most beautiful way to end the meal. Since when does fish taste like bacon/nature's candy? I am both shocked and delighted by this revelation. Probably a good thing it was frikkin' expensive..

Anyway, otherwise life is pretty good. Badminton Poona is the most intense PE class ever. I'm serious. It's 80% guys (I'm not used to ratios like this) and it's way more exercise than I thought possible. I'm shocked. Even though it started out as a joke, I'm starting to take it very seriously. My english class is pretty flippin' sweet. We are reading "Catch-22" before we move into some graphic novels. V. exciting. I was very amused today in class by this one guy's statement, he said something along the lines of "Yossarian can choose to take a stand and not be caught in a Catch-22: he could absolutely declare he wouldn't fly any more missions if was that afraid for his life or he could be all 'America! Fuck yeah!' and stop complaining." I loled. I mean obviously that would destroy the Catch-22. The comment had a hint of postmodernism (which I find very intriguing) in the reasoning: the sort of thinking that there is more than black/white, right/wrong, labels. But more than that, that dude had freaking balls and more than that, I just love college, in general.

Augh, I'm getting a headache. Badness! I've been staring at my compy screen most of the evening fiddling with a potential design for the University Day t-shirts. Apparently Dan hasn't been in contact recently and Heidi is getting a bit desperate. If this works out, 1000 people could be wearing this across their chest. How cool is that? Ah, god bless photoshop indeed...

Comments

[birdinablender.livejournal.com]

I've had that sushi before! I know, because I recognize the bacony-aroma/taste. I heard that smoked tuna sushi tastes the same way....

Hmmmmmm....

[unfj.livejournal.com]

1. Kid Pix > *. We've been over this before, and I only agree moreso.
2. WTF is with using Adobe Illustrator for architectural purposes? I just don't get it.
3. Hurray for agreeable classmates!
4. Ditto to alcohol-furnishing professors.
5. Finally, Sarah, you get with the freakin' program. We've gotta go to Sakura then. There's just an enormous amount of sushi you're missing out on if you go the way of the "sushi == sashimi" ideology: sushi just isn't simply sticky rice + raw fish. Oh, and all sushi in my experience have been "shots" in the sense you use the word. Maybe you have been doing otherwise--eating sushi in multiple bites is a bit awkward: accounts for your previous sushiangst?
6. Bagel + lox love triggered the kashrut-abiding Jew within me to yell in sync' with your glee. AHHHH. See?
7. Hah, you used "post-modern" in a sentence. Welcome to the world of intellectual elitism/pomposity. Would you care to join me for cloves at a Bohemian-type of coffee/cappucinno/absinthe bar littered with people with neat little berrets and goatees, and talk about the historical flaws of Pynchon's "Crying of Lot 49" and call Oscar Wilde a hack? :-P
8. In more seriousness--how is the first paper going? The larger of the Nate^2 got his hand [2nd degree] burned in an incident involving gin and a twelve foot-high bonfire and got out of it. Has this very same Nate used the phrase "___[blank] symbolizes the chaos of modern man" yet? It's his use-all end-all tagline!
9. The t-shirt design thing is badass. From the first paragraph of your boasting of being the Bobby Fischer of everything Adobe, making something neat can't be all that hard.
10. Finally, you stated early into the blog that you hadn't written anything about Canada...
...your audience is waiting.

--Jon

Re: Hmmmmmm....

[sammehtosh.livejournal.com]

2. Illustrator is vector-based and that's more important than you might think. It's a critical program for producing accurate and easily manipulated digital plands and sections.
5. I hear that Sakura isn't that good. Oh, and I know it's not just raw fish. Trust me, I've heard every argument in the book. Usually I find even the hint of fish revolting (seaweed is enough of a hint). Yeah, I don't know about the shot thing. That's just what the menu said. From what I could understand is it was just so obscenely large, that they had to communicate that it was a one bite thing (lest it fall apart).
7. Yes I did use postmodernism. However, it wasn't an attempt to flash ego and snobby intellectualism. I was merely trying to point out that some guy's comment actually got me thinking about an old favorite in a new way (that I couldn't have in high school).
8. She hasn't assigned the paper yet. Thanks for giving me a hear attack. I don't think stupidity should get you out of papers but Wheeler seems like a push over. Maybe I'll go get drunk and fall down my stairs so I don't have to do it.
9. Yeah, I think we decided today to do my design so you should volunteer for an hour(lots of frat boys do, you can fit right in :D) at U_day and get a free shirt.
10. Haha, audience? Not so much. It feels lame to write about something so far in retrospect. I can tell you about it sometime but I'd prefer not to commit the bad moments to eternal e*existence. I'm waiting for my post-traumatic amnesia to kick in and erase the less than awesome times.

[nikehness.livejournal.com]

I haven't read your journals in a long time! Did you read about Popinjay again? I was just telling someone that my friend and I wanted to create a band named the Pontormos once she got an electric violin and I got some sort of musical talent....

[sammehtosh.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've been thinking about you and Popinjay a lot. I hadn't actually (re)read that far but some guy was trying to make a point involving Popinjay and couldn't get the name right. I eventually helped him out with the name and it was kind of funny.

High school nostalgia...

OH! I was talking to some woman who used to play the violin but is now learning the mandolin. I think I'm going to change that to my instrument of choice so we can be cool like all of the latest hipster bands with mild, folky, throwback roots.