magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

class at eight monday morning. woo. ate breakfast on the way.

at lunch i talked with molly about our design project. we're both basically done with our assemblages (the clay things) but there are some people who spent large parts of the weekend and are still working away studiously at it. i think we're both feeling a little worried that we didn't put enough time/effort/thought into it, but at the same time you don't want to burn yrself out on yr first project. and only the first part of the first project at that.

i did go back to the studio after lunch to take some photos of my project. it's only clay and not all that permanent, so i figure i should chronicle it while i have the chance.

at 430 (which i almost forgot about) i had a safety training session in the model lab. it turns out that this goes on every monday at 430 for the rest of the semester. which of course we were never really told about. that takes a big chunk out of my possible work-study hours.

after dinner i attended the year's first mixed media meeting. mixed media is risd's bi-weekly newspaper. i almost missed this meeting too, but kris pointed out the flyer at dinner. (not because of the meeting, but because he thought the picture on it was funny.)

it's definitely something i want to get involved with. it broadens my risd experience, gives me the opportunity to meet new people, keeps me from getting sucked into a world of nothing but architecture, and lets me write things that will be read by 2k people. (my website has the potential for more, but not quite that actual circulation.)

and also, as the current editors are seniors, they are planning on turning it over to new management (as it were) sometime towards the middle of this year. which is also something i might be interested in.

and after that meeting i went outside and made a mess with charcoal. felt like summer foundation studies all over again. i figured that since my clay assemblage is made of haphazard, chaotic shapes, that my drawing of "the meeting of one element and another" would be best done in my haphazard, chaotic charcoal drawing style.

i threw a few purely abstracts into the mix too, to loosen myself up and to just have fun. i ended up with nineteen renditions of the meeting that i chose, i'll pull out the best ones tomorrow and then choose the one that i actually want to include with my project.

after cleaning up (as best i could, by hands are rather grey) i caught up on a backload of email that had been piling up since a couple of days before leaving for risd. and relatively early to bed again.