Yeah!

Hey guys!

Guess what's up?

Our video is pretty much done!!

I can hardly wait to see the finished product.

We saw a preview of it the other day when we got together.

It's an interesting little thing.

So interesting.

Thoughts

We are doing a video thing.

I don't want to go into too much detail about that...
But let it be said that I am realizing a couple shots I wish I had gotten.
Oh well, if it's too late, it's too late. We'll see!!

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I wish that Film Festival thing had happened last weekend. That was a shame.
I wonder if it is happening this weekend and we're just not going.

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I am listening to They Might Be Giants...
...that's what came up on random

"Why Must I Be Sad?"
From the album "John Henry"

A very great They Might Be Giants album.

I feel kind of bummed that I haven't been using the garage.
There are two very obvious reasons for that though.

1) I haven't been home almost at all in the last couple weeks.
2) It is friggin' COLD now and I haven't tackled that issue yet.

My room is still looking tidier though.

I think I am going to write a letter to Bob Dorough before I go to bed.

MORE LATER

Possibly the last blog on the topc of garage?

Here is the description/conclusion of my project:

My problem for this project was narrowed down to two related ideas. I was frustrated because I have trouble turning things I want to do into things I have to do, and I worried that I wasn’t doing enough artistic and musical things. I felt disorganized, and although I had plenty of time and space on my hands, I wasn’t using it in a way that would maximize my artistic output! I want to make music and take pictures and draw and DO things with my life.
I eventually decided to take advantage of some unused space out in my garage and make it livable for my purposes. I put a forlorn table back together. I moved my collection of papers and drawings out there. I stacked all the board games and puzzles neatly on the pre-made shelves and I made sure the space in the rubbermaids was being utilized.
I decided to get a bulletin board for one blank ugly wall, and I ended up making the whole thing, surrounding a (pre-owned but out of use) white board with boards for tacking stuff into. The whole thing looked very handsome once I had it put together, and I plan to continue tacking stuff up there as I see fit.
It's a work in progress, but I think I achieved my goal in really formulating a space, and an organization, that I understand and will continue to use and improve on. I feel good about it, and I feel like I can now count it among spaces that I use.
Throughout this project, and also in the documentation music video I put on youtube, I want to remind people, hey:
Maybe you have something in your life that you’re not taking advantage of.
In doing this project, I took advantage of two things:
1) The unused space in the garage, and
2) The open-ended nature of this design problem assignment.
In the ends, my needs were met. I feel happy and comfortable, and I feel like I acheived something. My bedroom looks better because of the changes made in the garage, and the garage looks better because of the changes made in it. Just using what was available to me, and making that bulletin board a reality, I have made this progress.
I am very privileged, I know, to have so much space in my house, and to be in college and have opportunities for inspiration, but even if a person’s circumstances are different, there is always something that eludes us, something that we haven't though of, that we can put to good use and improve our quality of life with! This stuff is all around us, it is the fabric of our existence, and we just need to remember that we have the power to access it.


AND

Here is the video.



or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUVjvRhtCA

Please please please watch it, cause it's much cuter with the music!
I didn't use it with music in class.
Good times.
Lots of love from Angelica

ACTUALLY a brief update.

It's late and I got all self conscious about hammering nails into the wall because of my neighbors. But tomorrow I'm going to get home around 6 pm, so I should be able to hammer all I want, then!!!

I got one up so you can see the direction it's going in.
...literally.




Keep in mind the image is reversed...
But not for long, because I'm gonna get a camera this weekend (I hope?)

Now I am off to do more productive things than blog about this.
-LAUNDRY
-DISHES
-BATTLE THE NEW ANTS IN MY BEDROOM
-MORE ORGANIZATION OF BOXES IN MY BEDROOM (this is project related, actually)

BRIEF UPDATE (I hope)

I don't want to ramble on about all the things i did today that didn't have to do with the project so I'll keep it short. ...but that's still what's going to happen, here.

1) Linguistics class
2) Blogged for this class
3) Choir
4) Work
5) Went to get new cel phone. Fail. Apparently my name isn't on my account anywhere.
6) Gospel Choir
7) Down time (finally!)

It was a very busy, tiring, frustrating day.

I did get some stuff going on my project this evening...I glued together the boards with the lighter stuff for the bulletin boards...



I did four of those. It will basically cover the whole wall, I think.
And I went into my bedroom closet and got the whiteboard out...




It was not clean at all, because I hadn't used it OR cleaned it off in years and everything was dried on...I think that's why it was in the back of my closet to begin with...so I got some cleaning stuff and I cleaned it. That actually took a surprisingly long time to do, but I was very satisfied when finished!



So then I had to do some socializing/dinner eating, and when I got back to work (around 9:30 pm?) I placed the whiteboard where I wanted it on the wall...I didn't hammer the nails in ALL the way because I didn't want to bother our neighbors, who might have been going to bed right above the garage. I did hammer them in though and I hung the whiteboard up so I could look at it. I think it looks fabulous.




I don't know how it will look once I nail up the boards (I'll do that tomorrow, when they are dry, and hopefully earlier in the day), but I imagine that it will look even better. I am excited about the wooden pieces. The ones in the foreground of that last picture are currently drying together to become one of those things to run under the whiteboard that will have pens on it, and there are pre made ridges so the pens won't roll away! See, that's why I bought those wooden pieces. Heh heh.

Anyway, that's more or less it for today.

I still really want to go to bring-recycling. Hopefully this weekend.
Also, my roommate helped me choose a new digital camera, and I should be able to go buy that this weekend as well. Also we are going to try and get a space heater for the garage. This should more or less round out my project, I think.

Anyway, I'm excited about it. I feel a lot more comfortable in the garage now than I did two weeks ago, and it will only get better from here.

We also hung up some halloweeny lights in our window today so people will sense that we are friendly!

THAT IS ALL FOR NOW! Goodbye.

Like wow.

Yesterday was surprisingly busy considering...everything.
I figure I might as well share what I DID get done, since i didn't get much done for my project.
That way you know I'm not just dinking around.

I ate some yummy lunch/dinner while going over my Art History notes.
I went to the choir I don't normally get to go to, because I am really falling behind in learning the extra songs...which meant I was in choir for a solid 2.5 hours yesterday. I think I coughed upwards of 100 times during that. I can hardly WAIT to be completely healthy again...

Anyway, by the time I got out of choir it was 7 pm. (Jeeze...)

I decided to get my car and take it home, which was a terrifying experience because the windows were fogged up in a mysterious and upsetting way, and my brakes were making a scary noise. I actually didn't crash and die.
I then went to Jerry's to see if I could get some kind of bulletin board stuff...I ALMOST got off at the right exit but not quite...so close! Then I stopped really dangerously at a yellow light that I really should have just driven through, and my brakes did something even MORE terrifying, and I felt pretty sure I wasn't going to live to see Wednesday...then I got to Jerry's and parked.
...by this time it was about 8 pm, and they closed at 8, but they helped me out anyway, cause they were pretty cool.

I got some boards, and some backing, and it ended up being more expensive than I wanted but at this point I really didn't care much about that, I just wanted to make it happen.
I also got some wood glue (might be helpful for other things as well!!) and when I was standing outside by the wood cutting dock, I saw these bundles of wood on the clearance rack, and they just happen to be exactly what I had been wanting for something else in this project! YES!

Ok, so by the time I got home, it was closer to 9, and I decided to check my email.
My sister had emailed me. She's not going to be mad at me anymore! YAY!
So I talked to her on IM about that, and then expressed that I needed to go glue pieces of wood together, and she was all confused and needed me to stay and talk to her about her audition for Midsummer Night's Dream instead, and I haven't talked to her in a week, so I did that...
Meanwhile, my boy finally emailed me (my phone is still dead) and said I could stay with him if I wanted (since we both have lots of homework and studying to do in the next few days) so I did that, but I had to do it very promptly because I felt too scared to drive again, which meant I had to take the bus at 10:10 pm...

So that was the end of my day yesterday. A very full day, no?
I was really irritated with myself that I didn't get started on the boards that i bought, but I took some pictures. Tonight I can do the actual labor involved! I'm excited.

Wow.
Things are progressing slowly.
Partly because I am still coughing and feeling tired.
Partly because my attention is pulled so many ways.

I don't THINK this "project" is the most important thing in my life right now...
But I am turning it into such a hopefully-good cleaning thing that it has a fair amount of importance.

I was going to work on it more tonight but I think I will mostly begin studying for my History of photography midterm. I might do a little more work on this though. We'll see.

I tried to battle the garage spiders today. They won.
This was somewhat surprising, but after we tried to get the Mama Long Legs to fall off the ceiling so we could send her outside, and she heartily resisted, I began to feel bad for her and decided she could stay on the ceiling...until I get the guts to attack her more vehemently.

What else...

I put the green legs back on the green-legged table. That was productive.
I cleaned some of the shelves and re-arranged a good amount of stuff so that's looking a lot better.

I'm going to talk to my room mate about definitely getting a Space Heater in there...maybe on Wednesday I will drive to Bring Recycling and see if there is anything else that jumps out at me, perhaps a lamp or a small chair or easel. I am thinking of making or getting a small easel that one would sit at a small chair to use.
I am also strongly considering/planning to make a bulletin board for that hideously ugly wall.
Then I could easily plan up art, photos, magazine clippings, AND ideas/notes/thoughts.

I think this will be a good idea. I just need to decide how I want it to be.
I don't think I want it to be in a silly shape, but possibly a circle, or an arrangement of squares.
It depends on how much bulletin stuff (cork?) I can get...I have enough wall space.

I think I will also hang the whiteboard up if I can find it.

I put some duct tape on that chair, but it's not sturdy enough to sit in...I wonder what else I can do to it.

MEANWHILE,
I am now healthy enough to sing in choir, but not healthy enough to sing Alto 1. So that's pretty sad.

ALSO:
My life is really nice right now, except that this project is making me feel like an idiot and a jerk, and, more importantly, that my sister is really mad at me, maybe even more than she has ever been, and it's pretty upsetting.