Seeking

Week 2's goal? Working on my Peace Corp app. So I can take over, I mean..save the world.

I did at least look at and admire my application. It is an on-line app.
I made a small start on the 10-year job history section. The Peace Corps wants you to tell them exactly what you have done for the past 10 years as well as compensate for any not working/not schooling time. Wow. Part of me wants to refer to that 6 months living in the half-way house as "volunteer work with recovering addicts and alcoholics." Which is only sort of dishonest. The app. itself is so cumbersome. Even your personal and work references actually need to type up some sort of (also cumbersome) report on you and then e-mail it to the site. Luckily, a super awesome lady agreed to spend her free time doing my very first one.

Remember Week 1? I haven't forgotten my little art project. I am waiting for pay day so I can go to Pearl (greatest art supply store ever) and get some ribbon, paint and wire to finish off the series and make it hangable.

On this whole creative tip, I started another project. I recently got a digital camera for my birthday. I love it. I take it everywhere. Anyway, everyday when I walk home from work, I have to walk over this bridge. The bridge has tremendously intricate graffiti and art pasted on the side. I took pictures all the way home yesterday. As soon as I move into my new pad and my internet is in order again, I am going to start a photo blog so you guys don't get bored. I also promised my grandparents that I would post a picture of myself in this fantastic tribal-like beaded outfit, an artifact (probably belongs in a museum), that my gran passed on to me.

Anyway, here is an old fashioned postmodern link:
Liquid Sculpture

Last week I sought to have a visit with my creative side:

The re-cap: I made a lot of movement on those wood blocks I told you guys about. As of now there are three small blocks with drawings from a brochure of Harper's Ferry during the civil war modge podged like crazy to them (Julie was triggered last week by the modge podge flash back and had this idea of doing a craft party like back in the 70's...Jul I would be so into that!)

Anyway, I think I am going to arrange the blocks vertically and hang them together by a wire. My fiance suggested we put them in our bathroom or some where in our new place when they are done. (I am moving in with the fiance btw)...well when they are done, I will post a picture.

So, in keeping with my new blog theme did this help improve myself or the world in anyway?

Well, I really enjoy creative projects. Now that I have been working full-time for half a year, I have felt pretty removed from my film school funk days. I miss story boarding, making props and taking electives like ceramics or photography. So, I think that working on a little project like this is was a great way to revive that part of myself again. Although, it was as simple as buying a paint brush from the dollar store and digging up that modge podge..it did the trick. Of course the part of me that loathes the idea of staying in a non-artsy fartsy job just craved getting out every time I thought about those blocks. So I guess, yes, this did help nurture my soul, so to speak! As for the world...

This week I will be seeking to do something positive for the world at large (so dramatic) by attempting to do some more work on my peace corps application.

This will bring me closer to being prepared for my application in Feburary (my fiance and I were told to wait to apply until then to get the timing right for when we would be prepared to leave for our "host country") Anyway, it is time to get back to that application so I can do my part in contributing to the improvement of this world we call home. I'll keep every one posted!!

Honestly, I am just over it. Plus I needed a new look-like everyone else! So, I decided that I need a whole new agenda as well. I also decided that when I get bored I am going to attempt to redo the whole theme and feel of my blog. Inconsistency is more interesting anyway.

This is the new plan:

Every week I will seek to improve myself or the world in some way. It may be a tiny/ silly way or it may be a long term plan for personal change, or I may even fail to do much other then smile more at people I pass by on the street. I guess it is a personal experiment and way to motivate change within myself.

I will write about the plan and then the following week re-cap and seek another new “do good (kind of) goal.

This week I will seek to improve myself by developing my creativity and by re-opening my playful curious side.

It will be a short week. But I kind of already started last night by beginning a small craft project:

I have had these (3 inch” by 3 inch” 1 centimeter thick) wood block cut outs for about 3 years.
I have six of them.
3 of them are shaped like squares and three like hearts. I bought them at a craft store thinking they would make for a really great base for mini-pictures or paintings or something and hoped they would become a series of miniature portraits.

So, I found these blocks last night and then went perusing around some papers I saved. I found this funny brochure/timeline of the history of Harper'’s Ferry, from a little tourist welcome center I went to while I was there. The timeline includes a small glossy sketch picture of Harper'’s Ferry as it looked years ago, during the civil war. I knew this image would look cool on one of my wood blocks. I think each block will be some image from a place I have been. This being the first of the series. I am going to use a glue called Modge Podge and layer it on the Harper's Ferry image until I have a thick coat. Then I will cut out the image so it fits on the block. That is about as far as I have gotten in terms of what the first block will look like. Anyway, that is how I am seeking creativity so far this week!

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hang on i am planning an overhaul...

New Version

Some things that happened on October 2nd:
History Channel Version
Baseball Library
Mathematicians
The Library of Congress
African American History
Weather
Famous People
Wikipedia (my fav)


a little self absorbed but fun