Wednesday, January 31, 2018

January

1: New Year's Day feast (or, a more proper karamu)
2: adding more words to my Spanish vocabulary through reading a novel in the language
3: spying on a nub-nub nibbling the plants in our yard
4: jeering and laughing at daytime soap operas
5: listening to Monstercat hate-lists while stuck awake at 3 a.m.
6: positively devouring the audiobook of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
7: taking breakfast in a booth seat
8: drawing homework for the first time in a long time
9: "Journey" by Jim Yosef
10: working together on our chair ("sitting plus...")
11: hilarious short films showing rage to the extent of insanity
12: my excitement, after so long, at finally hearing the entirety of Rogue's "Fortress"
13: snapping pics of and with our chair
14: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
15: ingenious, innovative sitting+ ideas
16: when sketching something produces a better result (and is more satisfying) than photographing it
17: Spanish House event - making gazpacho
18: class tour of the all-solar-powered houses on campus
19: inviting a friend over to bake brownies for my vegan birthday
20: walking together under starlight
21: shadowed sliver of an orange crescent moon
22: a challenge to be more poetic in my design
23: playing some paddle tennis
24: dreams of simple gestures filled with tenderness
25: 3-D modeling my tiny house design (by hand and through SketchUp)
26: laughs at language tables
27: reading an entire book in a few hours while on my shift
28: going up on the fire escape to sketch and soak in the winter sun
29: a DROELOE kind of mood
30: seeing classmates' tiny house ideas and drawings
31: the calming, repetitive act of slicing through pages with a paper cutter