Chapter IV - Who Has Won To Mastership

• celerity (n.) - swiftness of movement
• "pepper-boxes" - little boxes with holes in the top, a pepper shaker!

Chapter V - The Toil of Trace and Trail

• malinger (v.) - exaggerating or feign illness in order to escape work of duty
• salient (adj.) - most noticeable or important
• callow (adj.) - (esp. of a young person) ( Read more... )

Chapter XVI - The Ship

• sagacity (n.) - the quality of being sagacious
• sagacious (adj.) - having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement, shrewd
• "XXXIX Articles" - a jab at the Church of England, used ironically to shadow doubt on Queequeg's decision to let Ishmael choose the ship.
• Lugger - a small type of sailing vessel
• Junk - a large ( Read more... )

I've been steadily keeping up with my art work, so instead of one big rush and then dying back it's just sort of a constant thing. 
The day before yesterday I went to the studio and started the forging on my new project.
Yesterday I entered one of my pieces into a competition for the new 500 Necklace book. 
Today I've been working on my website, I ( Read more... )

Last night I watched all of Black Lagoon season 1, fell in love with Revy, and made a ton of patches. Way more patches than I need. Because I only wanted 1 for me and I made 1 for sen (cause I had space on the screen and I figured "why not?")

So if anyone wants some feel free to let me know! I'm totally willing to trade for shit like other patches, ( Read more... )

I want to sit in the sun in my sun dress. Drink water and eat watermelon. I want to feel he uncut grass against my hands and the stream of water between my toes. I don't want to wear shoes and I want to listen to the noises of the world. I don't need much in life, I just want to be able to experience it without care.

I've been going to the beach a ( Read more... )

Most of my posts are depressing so here's some semi-positive stuff.

I'm getting another shot at finishing up my incomplete for the metals classes. My assignment is to make a minimum of 15 rings in 2 weeks. I'm really going to have to bust my ass but nothing feels as good as being productive.... except maybe playing xbox for an entire day (man, I ( Read more... )

The government has attacked my family business. We probably won't make it out of this one and we'll be forced to close our doors after 35 years. If we do make it out of this we'll be struggling for years afterwards ( Read more... )

I had a wretched dream last night that I had a baby..... something had gone wrong and I was in the hospital for like a year and when I came home the baby was already toddler age and Zach had given it a stupid fucking hair cut..... ugh ( Read more... )

I'm nervous and excited all at once. I'm going to be leaving for the Society of North American Goldsmiths conference in three days! My business cards came in the mail yesterday and they look pretty good! (If anyone wants one let me know ;P ( Read more... )

For those times when you feel like you cannot say something out loud but you cannot keep it to yourself....
( Oh not again! )