10-20-01

I had quite a day. We got up early for our figure drawing class this morning. I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but we've been taking a drawing class for 5 weeks now; there's one more class before the session is up. It's long form; we did one pose for three classes, 3 hours per class. We're now in the middle of the second three days pose. It's quite challenging - it's a private school called The School of Representation Art, where they teach old school painting like Michelangelo, Raphael or early Flemish realists. I never feel like I'm good enough at it - I always try so hard, but feel I'm just not a natural draw-er. My drawing is much more stiff than I'd like to be, and I don't instinctively get proportions and shapes correct. But I'm not doing too badly.

Anyway, this week he asked us to start class ˝ hour early! It's sure damn hard to get yourself up for a class at 8:30am on a Saturday. I had a good class then had to go in to work. I was there for 2 ˝ hours which sucked ass. We came home, and I worked out at the gym; I haven't done that in a long time on account of my bad back; for almost two months now the only exercise I've been getting is stretching.

After working out, in the evening, a couple of my good friends came over and they brought over a friend of there's who I've met twice before. We hung out for about 3 hours and had a riotous time.

I'd like to pause here to mention a couple friends of mine who have been very depressed lately. I guess it's going around. One of them doesn't read my Thoughts column (not enough time and also not really his thing...reading), but I wanted to wish them both well in these pages…I hope they feel better soon. My good energy out to RS and the other who knows who he is. (That sounds really cheesy and new-agey. I don't believe in that crap, but it's the thought that counts. Fuck it.)

I also watched episode 1 of Farscape on DVD tonight. It's at least the third time I've seen it. I may be a geek, but I think that show is genius. A work of art. And I really love to watch it sans commercials.

Repeated booming sounds are coming from downtown as I write this.

That just freaked me out enough to get up and switch on the news channel, but I think it's just a Halloween parade. It's creepy to have fireworks going on so soon after 911.

That's about it for my day. A personal, this-is-what-happened-to-me-today kind of journal entry. Rather atypical for me. I hope that's not too boring.

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