My Last Musings From The Fine Arts Library
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

Well Dudes and Dolls, the day has finally come; I am writing my last blog from FAL.  Yes, it is a quiet, disgusting, dreary, rainy day...what a perfect last day to work in front of the giant window I have waisted many-o-hours staring out of over the last 2.5 years (and gotten paid for it).  No more sorting books, shifting shelves, processing materials, or putting up other people's bull.  When someone asks me "can you help me find a book on _(insert horrible mispronounciation of well-known artist here)_" I can just look at them, laugh in their faces and say "no, you damn fool."  Freedom, complete freedom.

Also, I'm looking forward to the coming week because I'll only be working three days at Hastings!  I'll have time to work on some paintings, get sketches ready for an upcoming project, and hopefully assist with some drawings for the comic my brother and Gabe are working on.  Oh, and to sleep late, jesus, I almost forgot what those words even really meant.

Love, Love, Love,

Katie

I'm going to miss this window.

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Reading myself to sleep

At work, unenthused.

      This is a day to sit next to a big window, quietly reminding you that you are indeed inside and not out.  Thank heavens for windows; they constantly remind us to be grateful for what we don't have to endure.  Window or no window, it will be impossible to force myself to go to class.  Scratch that:  It will be difficult to force myself to go to class, it will be impossible to stay awake if I succeed in attendance.   Weather like this is only good for sitting on a squishy couch and flipping through magazines while drinking tea until you fall asleep to the quietness.  All I can think about is a blanket made of purple yarn (every cool, rainy day should be dedicated to old lady's who knit) and the solitary yellow glow of a lamp near the sofa.  I'd give anything to escape this incandescent lighting.

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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Current mood: optimistic
Category: Life

-Douglas Adams

It's true.

Xoxoxo,

Kt

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ika-blabla-dingo-slurge.
Current mood: aggravated

You ever have those days where you try to be in a good mood but everybody/thing pisses you off?  Well today is that day for me.  Usually I have good days, not just alright or "ehh" days, but good days, however today is just not going in that direction.  I can't say it's a truly bad day, I reserve that for when something truly bad happens.  Everyone I love is doing as well as can be expected and I am not dead broke for the first time in a long time, so why do I still feel so unsatisfied?  It's not even stress right now, because w/out classes for the first time in almost three years strait, I'm quite comfortable with my work schedule and the amount of hours I work right now (40+ hours a week seems like a lot to people who haven't been going to school for 3 yrs strait w/out a break and 2 years with summer breaks between, but trust me, it's nothing compared to homework).

So what's with today?  It's the sort of day where every person that looks at me seems to be somehow nagging me and no matter who I talk I can't let myself be cheered up (infact my last attempt  at talking to someone that often cheers me up did the exact opposite and now I'm in an even worse mood than before)  I hate these days.  The worse part is that I'm completely aware of how unimportant the little things that are annoying me are, but I just can't shake them.  I'm sure tomorrow I'll be back to normal and hopefully annoyingly smiley.

xoxox,

Katie.

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Papa
Current mood: proud
Category: proud Life

It's been a while since I've written anything in these, so here we go, a blog:

All is well with summer, it started out pretty rocky but it's going well now. Finals were hectic w/major projects, papers, and tests being combined w/starting a second job and not going crazy but I made it through. Then dad decided it had been too long since he'd been in the hospital (we were going on over two years with nothing serious!) so he went and had himself a heart attack or two just for good measure. Then came the triple bypass surgery last month, but as usual my father isn't done giving this world hell and has ultimately decided to stick around a little longer by way of an amazing recovery, per usual. Now he gets to add open heart surgery to his nifty lists of ailments: back broken in two places and the doctors say he'll never walk again...HA! that's not my dad. Cancer and they said he had 1.5 yrs to live, yeah um Doc that was almost three years ago. And recently when they asked him to sign a living will before he went under the knife, he put the Pixi J. Doodle (the family cat) down as one of the people who could decide to "pull the plug" on him. That's my dad...guess he knew he'd be alright. I didn't intend to write about my dad in this blog, more about the cafe' job that's surprisingly working out well, or the Fal job that I still love, but my dad's been on my mind for most of the summer and I guess I'm pretty damn proud of him. He never gives up or lets anything get him down. He never loses his sense of humor or gets scared (at least not in front of me), and he never lets me forget what's important in life. And now I leave you with a conversation from the hospital, the third day of my father's stay when the doctor was going to pull out his tubes:

Dad-"Alright doc, I've been through this and I know it's going to hurt.."

Doctor-"Yeah Dale, I'm not gonna lie to you this isn't going to be your favorite part of this surgery"

Dad- "well then Doc I'll strike a deal with you, you go get me a big 'ole syringe of morphine and I'll let you take them out, other wise you can put your balls right here (holds out hand) and if you hurt me, I hurt you, and we can just go through this together."

Doctor-"morphine it is."

The man, the myth, the legend:

xoxo,

kt

Currently reading : Last Chance to See By Douglas Adams Release date: 13 October, 1992

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William Faulkner
Current mood: content
Category: Writing and Poetry

i read this and really liked it.  i think you probably have to read the whole story for it to make much sense...but i thought i'd post it none the less.

From William Faulkner's The Bear :
"...and a little dog, nameless and mongrel and many-fathered, grown yet weighing less than six pounds, who couldn't be dangerous because there was nothing anywhere much smaller, not fierce because that would have been called just noise, not humble because it was already too near the ground to genuflect, and not proud because it would not have been close enough for anyone to discern what was casting that shadow, and which didn't even know it was not going to heaven since they had already decided it had no immortal soul, so that all it could be was brave even though they would probably call that too just noise."

So go read The Bear...it's really good.


-kt

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white wine and bad audio (the story of my life)
Current mood: optimistic
Category: Life

So I'm home at my parents visiting while I have the free time to do so.  I sit drinking wine in a champagne flute (I happen to like them better than wine glasses) and listening to Ted Leo and the Pharmicists on a horrible stereo system.  My lovely parents, because they are parents, have long went to bed, and I; well, I'm going to write a blog.

 I've waited four days for this, but here it is:  the obligatory New Years blog.

So 2006, what is there to say...it's over, but it was good. In fact, it was pretty damn good. I made it through what was probably my most difficult semester of classes with no serious GPA indentions, made a lot of artistic progress, and even managed to build on my personal life.  (girls, when the cute ticket guy badgers you about the world cup, badger him right back, accept his tekken challenge, and pretend to have a vague interest in kung fu films...it works everytime).

Yes it has been a good year, this 2006.  I'm sorry to see it go (mainly b/c I'm not particularly fond of the number 7) but it is time to let go and waist many-o-checks by writing the wrong year for at least two months.

xoxoxo

Kt

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Wii Wii all over Walmart
Current mood: lazy
Category: Games

Well as many of you may know Linus and me waited 13 hours for the new Nintendo Wii at walmart on Saturday.  We camped out from 11am until 12:01 am and got our Wii's...actually Linus got one and i got one for Pernilla back in Gothenberge.  The Walmart staff was amazingly kind and professional (they were even letting the Wii folks order pizza and what not).  Here are some pics:


(the first twelve: a bunch of good hearted gamer peeps)


Me takin a little nappy nap after they moved us into the
cozy garden center.


The "camp" before we were so graciously moved in
out of the cold.


And of course the swede and me (nice
"up my nose shot" dont you think?)

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Fish
Current mood: amused
Category: Food and Restaurants

Tonight i walked  in the door:

Linus:    "i don't  know what the fish smell is but it smells like fish."

Me:  "but we didn't have fish.?."

Linus:  "i know."

We both frown.

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A gloomy Sunday < Happy Katie!
Current mood: happy
Category: Life

Ranty blog...not really..more like observation

*Dedicated to the happy, or atleast well adjusted, individuals that make me happy.*

I don't understand people...they's crazy.  People find a bit of happiness then they turn into mad dogs trying to defend it and forget what it really is to be happy and turn miserable.  People's so crazy.  I'm happy and I know it (*claps hands*) and a lucky lucky gal in general.  And I'm not gonna go crazy on someone b/c I think they might threaten my positivity.  Real happiness can't be tampered with by the mention of a name or something that happened a long time ago.  Why is it that nearly everyone I've come across today has been pretty upset about something going on with them that's got nothing to do with how they feel right now on this fine rainy day November 5th in the year of our lord 2006.  So just be happy you've got something good now.  Don't worry about not having it a year ago or two years ago or that it might be gone tomorrow...what a fool you are to lose something wonderful and not even have a day of glee to look back on. 

Happy Sunday Everyone! 

XOXOxoxoxo,

KT

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