magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

drawing. the class is split up into three sections. and each section has each of three different teachers for four weeks a piece. chick teaching shade and shadow in drafting. and two risd grads, one teaching cad, and the other, who was an illustration major, teaching artistic architectural drawing. i have the artistic drawing part first, although i feel it would have been better at the end of the semester when we'll be completely overwhelmed in all our other work and could use a relaxing, not too mentally intensive class, and when it's warmer out, as we'll be doing some on-site drawing. but, it was fun. got to make a mess with charcoal. felt a bit like summer all over again.

looked at some more apartments this morning. i didn't really like them. they were far away. the only one i liked at all was the furthest away. i still like the small kitchen apartment that was the first one we saw. i really don't think i can talk chris and garth into it though. and it might very well be rented already.

talked with nikki very briefly online today. she's stressing about applying to risd, but i feel like she's got a whole lot of talent, and knows that art is what she wants to do, and shouldn't be worrying. talked with a few former li people later on.

spent friday night at home trying to find pirated mp3s of the new cure album online. and listening to a net broadcast of wfmu with stephin merritt as guest dj. chris and kate stopped by for a little while. it was nice not to be completely void of actual contact with real people for the evening.