Boodacious,

I love that one picture of the tree peeking over the bridge thing like "Oh, hi down there! I hope you are having a lovely time!"

I love all of your books though. I'm so excited about your learning and reading and adventuring and gelaato. And your coffee balance of life.


I HAVE HAD SOME SORT OF EPIPHANY TODAY 
(now yesterday).

I just suddenly started enjoying life. Like, what? I made Van Dykes and they make me happy because they're simple and pretty. I went to Italian and could understand what was being said without really thinking about it. My subconscious just took over and was like, you got this. I went to an artist lecture, and then I went to her preview reception at Candela (Gordon's gallery). I was social and talked to the artist and got excited about life and wouldn't shut up when I was explaining this all to Justin. 


I have ideas.
I realize that even though I thought my work wasn't connecting, I've done a project on Casey, I'm now doing a project on Mama, I'm shooting Mama, Casey, and Mosie together tomorrow, and I'm thinking these could all be natural segways into my deeper heritage project. It dawned on me that the heritage project could be what I do for my senior show. Hear that? I have an idea for my senior show. I have figured out the details of the concepts project, which I will share with you in detail later. I have even more Italian for you, but I'll wait to share. I didn't sleep much last night, but that's okay. I feel good at the moment. All of a sudden things are clicking and I'm feeling good.

I spoke to a random AFO student while she waited for the shuttle and I waited for Justin to get out of the class he's assisting with. It kind of made me think how I wish I at least had someone to tell me that things can get better and that there are people who've been through this nonsense, so I made a post to help fellow struggling art students. Granted, they may not read it, but I put it there. 

VISUAL PORTION:

Boosh In the Way: A Series by Whitney Cole

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 Van Dykes:

 The Gallery:

disposable wooden plates. WHAT.

Something crazy happened to this photo when saving it so I'm putting it up

art.

^ this blurry figure is Courtney Johnson (artist).

We like Sandy.

The artist's website: http://www.courtneyjohnson.net/series.html "Light Lure" is the one in the gallery now. She does some crazy alternative processing series though.

Dinner:

Accidental patterned stacking FTW

 Yay, I done.
Pooksy 

Whitney is bad at regular posting: Wednesday, September 4th!

I'm sorry it's taken so long Booboo. I have had little energy and too many things to try to make sure I'm doing. Let me try to recap:

My "classy" drinking look

I'm not entirely proud of this.

After my wine shenanigans Saturday night, I don't remember a whole lot. I tried to do Italian things and ended up waking up a bit confused. I don't recall Sunday being incredibly eventful. I had work at 12, and I don't think I really did anything productive up until that point. I haven't been sticking to my workout schedule well at all, but I think that's going to have to start happening again now that I'm getting used to the school schedule. Justin and I went to Belle Isle because I wanted to play with my camera. We ended up just barely outrunning an epic storm. I still got a couple pictures though.

Tell Justin he's pretty.

Monday was also not very productive, but Justin and I did go out for big kid drinks at The Daily (fancy place, fake trees). I started with a Baked Apple (amazing), Justin started with a Whiskey Sour. He liked mine so much that he had one next, and I had a Pomegranate Mojito. We also had macaroni and spinach & artichoke dip. Both yummy. We won't be doing that for a while, because those things cost money and we don't have that.














Monday night photos:

Round 1

 

Round 2

This.

Tuesday consisted of my frantic attempts to finish work and get to my 9:30 class, which ended up being pretty fun with the van Dyke- making. Then Italian happened, and I found out I didn't do so badly on my quiz (88). I have another lesson to teach you, which will follow the updates.


Tuesday photos:

Boosh being cute in my closet cubby.

Yumminess.

Me taking a picture of my picture developing outside.

Before the epic "wash"

Wednesday (today):

 

 

Yerp.

Italian, Concepts (we discussed artists and project ideas), and Digital Printing. Nothing epic or eventful. Spent the day doing homework. Just made some steamfresh mac and cheese with veggies in it. It's actually pretty good.
















My doodling has reached a ridiculous level (these are just from today):

Italian lesson time!

Whitney's Italian Lessons: Part 2

SOME MORE PHRASES/WORDS:

Non capisco I don't understand

Non lo so I don't know

Che [keh] significa / Che voldire? What does...mean?

Come si dice [dee-cheh]? How do you say...?

Come si pronuncia? How do you pronounce...?

Come si scrive? How do you write?

Ripeta, per favore. Repeat  (formal)

Ripeti, per favore. Repeat (informal)

Pronto hello (phone)

Responses:
Molto lieto/lieta delighted

No c'è male not too bad

1uno2due3tre4quattro5cinque6sei7sette8otto9nove10dieci 

11undici12dodici13tredici14quattordici15quindici16sedici 

17diciassette18diciotto19dicionnove20venti21ventiuno

22ventidue23ventitrè24ventiquattro25venticinque26ventisei

27ventisette28ventotto29ventinove30trenta31trentuno

LEARNIN' DEM VERBS

Singulare
io I

tu you

Lei you (formal)

lei she

lui he

Plurale

noi we (io e Maria)

voi y'all (tu e Maria)

Loro  you (formal)

loro they

STARE: to be (condition), to stay/remain

io sto

tu stai

Lei sta

lui/lei sta

noi stiamo

voi state

Loro stanno

loro stanno

 

That's about all I have for Italian for today. Maybe I'll start posting you little sentences to complete or something, I don't know. Spice things up a smidge.


I hope you Italian adventures are treating you well, and that your courseload/sheer need for books hasn't overcome you. You're pretty. Miss you friend.

Pooksington