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i took the dogs out at 7:45 this a.m. into a painfully cold wind. we walked halfway to the park before i decided my hands were actually in too much pain to continue. 'round we turned and came home (though they weren't complaining ~ dogs are made of sterner stuff apparently).
so i sit down and look at the weather online. with the wind chill it's -28° degrees. well. that explains that.
see, anything over 10 degrees feels just fine to me. it's when you drop into the single digits and the negative numbers that i actually start to feel it. apparently we're having a high of 2° today. sweet.
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thank you all for your suggestions and thoughts on my split-narrative problem. i re-read my 35 pages from the weekend and was very discouraged to find i must have been high while writing them: the chronology is so confusing, even i was baffled for a moment (and that's really bad when you're the one calling the shots).
i think it's all fixable, but i still haven't got Morse's voice "right". it falls out. the other two characters are so easy it's almost scary (i am sometimes disturbed at how easy it is for me to play a sociopathic 17 year-old boy). in spite of having models for Morse, however, finding the right combination of spare, poetic, and profound is not easy (especially if you yourself are not spare, poetic, or profound).
so instead of thinking about this last night (for fear of getting still more discouraged and depressed), i popped in the X-files and doodled.
see, i've got faces down pretty good, i think. for the most part anyway. but i'm still having problems with bodies. not in terms of proportion or anything like that. i can draw a body. i just can't seem to draw it in the same style as the head. so this is something i need to work on. since i've moved to a more cartoony style of face, i need to also make the bodies more cartoony. so far not too much luck. i'm hoping Griffo will help me out in this department. i'm looking for that middle ground between comic-style and animé that you often see in European comics. i got a lot of work to do yet.
if i draw anything really cool today, i'll try to post it later. i think i may venture forth and check out Dick Blick locally and maybe git myself some inspiration (without spending any money ~ it's like visiting the zoo: you get the pet all the art supplies, but don't take any home).
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so i sit down and look at the weather online. with the wind chill it's -28° degrees. well. that explains that.
see, anything over 10 degrees feels just fine to me. it's when you drop into the single digits and the negative numbers that i actually start to feel it. apparently we're having a high of 2° today. sweet.
~ * ~
thank you all for your suggestions and thoughts on my split-narrative problem. i re-read my 35 pages from the weekend and was very discouraged to find i must have been high while writing them: the chronology is so confusing, even i was baffled for a moment (and that's really bad when you're the one calling the shots).
i think it's all fixable, but i still haven't got Morse's voice "right". it falls out. the other two characters are so easy it's almost scary (i am sometimes disturbed at how easy it is for me to play a sociopathic 17 year-old boy). in spite of having models for Morse, however, finding the right combination of spare, poetic, and profound is not easy (especially if you yourself are not spare, poetic, or profound).
so instead of thinking about this last night (for fear of getting still more discouraged and depressed), i popped in the X-files and doodled.
see, i've got faces down pretty good, i think. for the most part anyway. but i'm still having problems with bodies. not in terms of proportion or anything like that. i can draw a body. i just can't seem to draw it in the same style as the head. so this is something i need to work on. since i've moved to a more cartoony style of face, i need to also make the bodies more cartoony. so far not too much luck. i'm hoping Griffo will help me out in this department. i'm looking for that middle ground between comic-style and animé that you often see in European comics. i got a lot of work to do yet.
if i draw anything really cool today, i'll try to post it later. i think i may venture forth and check out Dick Blick locally and maybe git myself some inspiration (without spending any money ~ it's like visiting the zoo: you get the pet all the art supplies, but don't take any home).
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i just had a question about narrative voice that i threw out there (in one of my previous posts).
i honestly don't think it's ready for eyes: it's that incoherent (because time is fluid and so far the "flow" has hit up against all manner of blockage ~ i must have beavers in my head) ~ ha!
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reasons why: snow, minnesota (always wanted to live here), it's a Catholic private college, it's the only LIS program in minnesota, it's heading toward accreditation (currently the degree is issued through Dominican U in illinois), so it being new there's a lot of opportunities, etc. Dominican U has a good reputation, they offer an archive specialization (which is what i want).
the top LIS program in the country (as i understand it) is at UT Austin (where i just came from). much as i love Austin, i didn't want to go to school there because: the u is so huge, texas is so hot, and if i was going to sell my house (which i had to), i didn't want to move to an apartment in Austin after being a homeowner there for five years). Austin is a wonderful amazing city. but it doesn't snow there. i'll never go back to texas or live in the desert again if i can help it.
the peeps at saint kate's are very approachable, very helpful. contact the department and get some info, check out the website ~ so far i'm enjoying the program and like the school.
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