So. I am safely through and out the other side of Thanksgiving and my horrible, blood-sucking Thanksgiving deadlines, and my less horrible, but still sucking, Thanksgiving visitors. I drink from the hastily-assembled teapot of victory.

Also, you should look at this bar:


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I have a teapot and a relief mold and a coil project and clay stamps to make tomorrow before 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and damn it all to hell, I already promised my Creative Writing teacher I would be in class.  I have 22,000 words of novel written, which means I have to hit about 3,000 a day for the rest of the month in order to finish on time ( Read more... )

I am abysmal at Ceramics. If anyone would like a really unfortunate-looking pot for Christmas, be sure to drop me a line. I can also make unfortunate-looking vases and mugs. And plaques! Plaques and boxes are the loves of my life, because they are the only things I can actually, you know, assemble, not that plaques really require assembly.

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Let me just say that I am amazed at the huge role puppies seem to be playing in our Senatorial race.

( The puppy ISN'T EVEN HIS. Scandal! )

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Today at work I tried on a white liturgical dress and two bun-holders and made a rockin' Princess Leia until I got paranoid and had to put everything back ( Read more... )

So. I have new clothing and an iPod Nano (which I feel like I ought to name, but so far I have no good ideas. Hell, I can't even name characters, and they actually NEED names). This morning I woke up with a headache and unable to talk, and now I am passing a pleasantly unproductive Sunday drinking tea, being high on Tylenol Cold & Sinus, and ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I get to vote for the first time.

I am supposed to be writing crackfic about the personification of writer's block for Creative Writing. This is an actual assignment ( Read more... )

I am so not ready to go back to bathing regularly and being sociable and doing work. So great is the culture shock that tonight not only did I do all of my assigned reading, but I took detailed notes on it ( Read more... )