GhettoKitten: Zen In Chaos

#274 – To-Do Lists of Dooooom

GhettoKitten — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:10:12 +0000

Okay, for Drawing, I have several sketchbook entries to do – Draw three of the same item but in different mediums, draw a blind contour, do the cross contours from sheet, and do a landscape outside of sketchbook for class.

Computer Studio – Nashville skyline.

Art History – 4 journal entries.

Graphic Design – 100 frogs, finish frog grid on illustration board, research paper.

Wahhhh. I need to go start homework now. >_>

#273 – Wish my girlfriend could get health care…

GhettoKitten — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:42:00 +0000

I have disability insurance, but it was really hard to get, and my girlfriend seriously needs it. She has fibromyalgia, and her husband abandoned her just a few months before he would have to pay alimony in a divorce. So she doesn’t have any insurance or medications, and she’s sick… People are griping at her about everything, but she’s not getting any help from the SSI office, of course. I’m not even sure how I managed to finally get it, I do know that my friend and case worker had to fill out the paperwork and I was very paranoid about what they were saying. I just wish that my girlfriend could go to a doctor and get meds so that she didn’t feel so miserable all the time…

#272 – I have such a sucky attitude lately.

GhettoKitten — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:40:48 +0000

Ugggggh. Huge fight, and I don’t have a mouse. I bought the wrong kind and smashed it when I realized, since it did me no good. Stupid and childish, and I should control my temper, but I’ve been in tears or close to violence so many damn times these past few weeks…

Everything is upsetting to me. Mom’s sister died before she could reconcile with her, and mom is in the beginning stages of heart failure… I’ve been getting no sleep and can’t keep up with the schedule I’ve stuck myself in… It’s just a total mess. I don’t know how much more I can take before I just shut down. It would be great if I had a psychiatrist who actually cared about me, but I don’t. People like me are just considered disposable by the medical community, other than our value as test subjects. Grrrr. Anyhow, ignore my bad attitude…

#271 – My classes are too early in the morning. x_X

GhettoKitten — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:39:57 +0000

I really miss Online Schooling instead of going to campus classes, because jeez, I don’t like getting up at 6am, and I’m cranky or half asleep during all of my campus classes. When I went to online classes, I could work on my own schedule, which is great, considering I homeschool my son. The school was letting him do his work in the student center but now they’re forcing him to go to my classes with me, so we have no time away from each other, and I have to keep asking him to be quiet and not ask me for things in the class, since he’s not actually enrolled and doing what is taught there instead of his math or biology, etc. It’s just that I don’t understand how to do art classes online, you know? And I’m kind of in a situation where I’m stuck going to campus, at least for this semester… But I seriously miss doing my college online, it was a very pleasant experience. T_T

#270 – Kung-Fu Rank Up

GhettoKitten — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:55:54 +0000

I don’t really have any pictures, and only have a short video, but Gry is now a green sash. He ranked up at the recent belt test.

I seriously need new frames and some room to post all of this stuff up, but right now I don’t even have a room due to the damage from the flood, so doing any artwork is a struggle. It’s so hard to be motivated right now.

Anyhow, I am very proud of him for working so hard and catching up despite the two months he had to take off due to injury. Now he has to work very hard to get his brown belt but that is quite a bit in the future, since he can’t test immediately for that. He’s been learning his weapons and more advanced forms while still practicing his basic ones, and he’s doing so great. ^^

#269 – Rude World.

GhettoKitten — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:54:47 +0000

Does anyone actually send thank you cards anymore or has it died off? It would be really sad if it became a relic, especially considering how rude this world is these days. Several times a day I hear people threatening and cursing from cars, and you hardly ever hear any kind words. Even when given a gift, it seems rare these days for anyone to spend more than half a second acknowledging it, since we live in a society that encourages greed and an attitude of being owed everything or having a right to things that are actually luxuries, not rights.

I don’t know, it makes me sad. I’m not the best example, since I still need to have my son write a thank you note for the uniform his Sifu gave him for his birthday, two months early at that since he was outgrowing the other one that my friend Akasha gave him for his birthday a few years ago.

#268 – Landscape assignment.

GhettoKitten — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:44:07 +0000

Like I didn’t just do that skyline. @_@

I need to do a landscape for my drawing class. I was originally going to work from a photo that I took at Cheekwood during Chihuly Nights, but we didn’t get to go. We did go to the Frist last night, but they were total assholes there, and I forgot my sketchbook… Not that there’s really a way to do a landscape inside, but I would have liked to capture my feelings about the Sato photographs and the few glass sculptures that were there. Never go to a museum sans sketchbook, especially if you have a billion assignments to complete.

I wonder what people would think about me working from a photograph that has a country landscape and nothing but a porn shop in the middle of a dirt road… I guess that’s the one I’m working from since this is the next assignment that is due.

#267 – Wheee, Music.

GhettoKitten — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:41:53 +0000

I wish we had concert tickets for just about anything that included a mosh pit that Gryphon could go to. Maybe we’ll go to Rockettown again so that he can learn to skateboard, but I need a release from stressing out. I used to go to several concerts a month but that has died off due to other things in my life… Gryphon has never been to a large concert like Ozzfest or anything, so he definitely needs to find out what that’s like.

Lol, speaking of concerts, I wonder why they were giving out Garth Brooks t-shirts at Mental Health Cooperative for free with the price tags still attached. That was sort of odd, but, errr, I guess thank you, Garth? It so doesn’t fit with my other shirts like Otep, Cradle of Filth, Joey Ramone, Tokio Hotel, etc, but I do like country. It’s just a secret… That I just posted on the internet where anyone can see. XD

#266 – Outside Nashville City Limits

GhettoKitten — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:36:35 +0000

I’m still tired. x_X And stressed. And sick. But here is a pretty gay skyline for your viewing pleasure, anyhow -

Outside Nashville City Limits by =otak-us on deviant ART

#265 – Patterns… @_@

GhettoKitten — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:35:34 +0000

The scales of justice, the fish scales used by shamans in World of Warcraft, the digital scales used for auction sites like eBay… Grr, this frog assignment in Graphic Design is driving me insane. I’ve hit a wall on finding 100 ways to interpret frogs, and I only have 56. Now I’m starting to see patterns in every annoying thing and wishing I could somehow use it in this assignment. I’m telling you, it’s making me bonkers, and at first when I started the assignment, I swear I could have made 200 frog illustrations that were unique interpretations, but I was WRONG. Someone help me with ideas. T_T