sketches 'n' scribbles of an undercover hobag

i had a great week XD! my bday was on september the 13th and yes i had a full day of my most boring classes and i had work due for both classes T__T. i think once we move into october i'll be fully comfortable with the whole 'present to the class/critique' thing that OCAD's obsessed with heh. i mean every class we have a project due and we have to present/critique so it's impossible to be shy about it after a while XD. anyway lemme tell a lil' story about a girl who loves to party her rear off...

thursday the 14th: so this was the start of the celebration. me and mum went out for a nice dinner on wednesday the actual day though. went to a fancy boutique hotel restaurant and had martinis, awesome food, wine, and sinful desserts XD! 'twas nice! anyway so me and the cafe crepe crew (sasha, vanessa, joel & josee, and james) got together on thursday at the gladstone (an old seedy hotel/tavern in the artsy/trendy queen west area that's been completely renovated and is all the uber rage now XD! they have karaoke!). it was cool though 'cause my best friend lauren met up with us so it was like old school friends meet new school friends heh. i LOVE that! kristina was supposed to come too but she had a bad night with the dude she met up with for drinks and didn't feel like bringin' down the party so she never showed T__T. kinda disappointing but meh. so after hanging at the gladstone for a while we headed over to the social for some dancing. another bar in the same area same artsy trendy crowd that you usually just have to ignore to have a better time XD. music was great as always though they start off with really good house then move into like retro 80's synthesized dance crazyness. it rocks. only thing that sucked is everyone was broke and had things to do early in the morning so by the time last call rolled around everyone had jetted except me and vanessa and we were still lookin' for trouble at that point heh. especially me they'd all gotten me pretty trashed. so one of the insanely hot bartenders invites me to the hotel/bar next door called the drake (last call at 4am!!!) but it was still infested with film festival madness red carpets, velvet ropes and there was a big arse line up so that didn't happen. according to vanessa i bitched out this dude for trying to butt in front of us XD! i'm such a lush case. so we finally decided to just call it a night and i hop in a cab not even thinking about how much i had left in the bank. not enough. i get to the bank machine at the top of my street and i didn't have over $20 to take out T__T. so i was like $5 short for the ride and the driver was PISSED. i had to give him my ID (including my newly and painstakingly acquired student ID). i finally got it back on saturday but MAN. i swear i get into some kind of shit every time i go out XD.

friday the 15th: so i had class at noon which wasn't so bad. i actually don't mind going to class slightly hungover. i just drink tea after tea (irish breakfast, babeh!) raise my hand to babble every five minutes like i always do. had form and structure which is one of those classes where you're like 'why the fuck am i taking this? i'm a 2D design student and this is a flipping 3D design course! dooooood!'. but i'm actually kind of interested in working with crazy materials building funky 3Dish things heh. anyway after class i headed over to the cafe early 'cause i had nothing better to do. started at 3:30 instead of 4 and closed with sasha jane and vanessa. we whirlwind closed so we could still make the bars when we got out XD. went over to the black bull pub for pints and james met us there along with star and vanessa (servers take longer to close than baristas 'cause they gotta mop and do cutlery roll ups). hung out there then me and james headed up to our buddy santa's house around like 2:30 XD. she had a party that night but it was pretty mellow by the time we showed up. had a good night though i left way too late! i had to work again at 11am and i think i got home at like 6am. more of a laid back evening but still fun.

saturday the 16th: work was okay though september is insane busy time at the cafe so saturday and sunday days are like MADNESS. but we managed like always and i got home around 6 or so. hung out with mum and watch some t.v. project runway RULES and the new one's on tonight! after that we watched 21 grams from about half an hour to an hour in so i so need to watch that again heh. heavy movie. anyway we made plans to just go to our second neighborhood watering hole bar called wide open so that the people closing at the cafe could still make it in time. it's a teeny place with crazy drink deals every night. saturday is ladies drink all they can for $15 XD. i think it's a girls only thing 'cause if they let guys do that there would be serious ruckus. so i rounded up kelly & dave, jesse, sasha, jane, and vanessa, paul and some of his buddies were already there. good times! it was packed 'cause they somehow managed to fit a cover band in the back loungy couch area. it was crazy. i met a boy too hee hee. it was weird how we met 'cause sasha jane and i were at the bar doing shots when he came behind sasha and was all joking like 'you know you guys are taking up all the space at the bar! no one else can grab a drink.' kinda deal (the bar was packed and only two girls were bartending so it was hectic). then i, forever the antagonist, turn around all 'psssh whatever all these other people are taking up space too why bug us?!'. then we get to like flirty arguing then he leaned in told me i was gorgeous and kissed my hand. O___o? i was like dooood whoa. we hung out for the rest of the night though. totally cute but totally not my usual type. i tend to go for scruffier guys and j.p. is like mr. clean cut business boy. but yeah he was so sweet and gave me his number so we could meet up outside the bar scene which i thought was cool. i'd go into details but this journal is ridiculously long as is. sorry for that btw XD!

so that's it. soooo long omg. i had a fun birthday week XD. paid for it today though holy crap.

i need to take sundays off seriously. and not wait days between writing entries so that my daily events read like novels. i appologize again for the ridiculous length of the last one XD. hope i didn't bore anyone to tears and eventually death. ;)

so this is an art dump! woo! first piece of OCAD/real portfolio shiz that was such a bitch to do i almost cried this morning. starting off with the fact that i had to close last night 'cause i took a shift for sasha and coupled with the fact that i frigging partied like an animal all last week while working and going to class full time i left myself NO TIME to work on my projects and assignments. so i get home around midnight which is later than usual 'cause i had cash out problems of course and was all delirious and joking around with vanessa and my manager until late. i started on the project at probably around 1am XD. worked until like 5:30am, got to sleep around 6am, woke up at 8, got ready and called a cab (if i had rode my bike and got ready properly i would not have been able to sleep at all XD). our project was to pick one colour and represent it in a suitable design incorporating some kind of typeface into it. simple enough and i already had the general concept sketched out in my new mini sketchbook so i knew what i was doing at least. anyway got it done and when i woke up i was stumbling around trying to get ready and of course couldn't find the shirt i wanted to wear so i was TOTALLY raging and tossing my room upside down at one point i just sat on my couch and cried for a sec before i realized i had like 20 minutes to get to wait for a cab and drive to school in downtown rush hour traffic heh. so i finally get it together and get to class. about two minutes late or so.

the presentation wasn't as good as i would have liked. first of all he twisted it around and made it so that we presented another person's work instead of our own. so we had to go up and say what we liked and didn't like and make suggestions on other people's work, then he would ask 'who did this one?' and they'd stand up and give their reasons. i understand his angle i guess but since i was so snappy and emotionally wrecked at this point i wasn't too thrilled. the girl who presented mine had no idea what i was trying to "say", she said it was either a good thing or bad and couldn't read one of the words XD. i find the whole 'trying to say' thing really annoying though. the idea of the project was to represent a colour. so me and lots of others actually, just thought of all the things that came to mind for a particular colour and plotted them on the page in an appealing manor, no political/social/controversial message. also i picked purple and i find that it doesn't have an obvious and easy way to 'say something' with it like say red, blue, or green which is what like everyone else picked besides me and two other girls who did purple. and all three of us did the same thing in different ways. what's purple? hmm... grapes, the night sky, royalty, eggplants, purple haze XD etc. it was cool though 'cause after i explained myself (so not the way i wanted to and had jotted down on paper might i add T__T) one of the girls spoke up and said she thought it was really beautiful and i was all 'OMG thank youuu'. and another guy spoke up and said he thought the typeface worked really well with my idea. another chick (every class has one of these types who raises her hand to critique everyone like five times a piece XD) said she liked the composition! imagine that! me and good composition. i didn't think we really gelled. my prof said my composition was good too but that i had the emphasis in the wrong spot and i got what he meant totally when he pinned my illustration upside down and the dark purple was in the top left corner it was like one of those whooooa moments. 'twas cool. i got another compliment on it when we were outside having a smoke break too so that made me slightly less edgy. but i did skip the rest of my classes today 'cause well... i slept through them!!! *wails* it's art history too so i'm soooo fucked for notes and readings but she puts everything up on the class website so i should be semi-okay. plus one of the guys in my art history class applied and is now working at the cafe so i can totally bug him for notes ha ha. anyway on to the art! sorry another novel...

( colour and 2D design project #1: violet )