Lisa's Day

Cult Graphic Artist Visits DC!!

So, I got my current issue of Artkrush: http://www.artkrush.com/current/

And there's this article link in it: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/arts/design/02fair.html?_r=1&ref=design&oref=slogin

Cool. Oh, this is the guy who did the Obama posters.

Then Sharon is driving me to U Street Metro Station one evening and I see two of the Obama posters on buildings. Cool! I decide to bring my camera. I take some photos Wednesday. First, the Progress. Then, walking up 14th, I see more on electrical boxes at street corners. Then I realize that "mural" on the side of Logan Hardware is another one of his! I recognize Gun Girl from the Slide Show in the NYT article. And when I step up the alley to get a better shot, I see more posters down the alley. Then, Thursday I see where the second Progress is - on the building by Whole Paycheck! If I go to the parking roof at WP I can get a shot of it. So I bring my camera again on Friday, and I walk up 14th on the other side of the street and see a Hope poster on an electrical box.

Like the shot through the fence?

Another Progress shot.

Here's a wider shot of the block.

Here's a shot where you can see the street signs at the corner - U St and 14th.

Obey Guns is on the walk up 14th. Going towards P Street, it's on the left. I usually walk on the left side of the street to keep me out of the sun. There is a Treasury poster on the side of this box.

However, I like this shot better, of two Treasury posters on the opposite side of the street.

And the Hope poster, which I would not have seen had I not decided to walk on the opposite side of the street to look for other posters!

Roses Girl is on a box at 14th and P Street. She's also on a box across P Street.

Here is a shot of Gun Girl on the wall by Logan Hardware, very close to 14th and P Street.

Closer shot of Gun Girl.

And a close-up of Gun Girl.

I walked up the alley and saw this - there's a guy in a gas mask on the left, lots of little stuff in the center, and Roses Girl again.

  I had to go to the parking roof at WP to get this shot. This is on P Street looking towards the corner of P and 14th. It's the side of the Logan Hardware building.

Closer shot of Progress. Like the bus in the shot?

Kind of a Non-Week Due to Lack of Sleep

10/19/08 7:32 pm We went to the zoo today. We got up at 7:00. Steve got up first and cleaned the iron skillet and iron grille for the sandwich. We put it together, and Steve wanted to grill it, wrapped in foil, per Emeril's recipe. Martha's presses it cold. [Martha Stewart's Brick Pressed Sandwich.]

10/19/08 Well, Steve had the grille a little too hot and we burned the sandwich. On both sides. He scraped off the burned part, mostly. We still ate them. They were good, if sooty. Plus potato salad. And Uh-Oh Oreos. The vanilla cookie ones.

10/19/08 It was a gorgeous day for the zoo. The lions were out! They were up and awake! The female and male. One Tiger was out. One Cheetah. And we couldn't tell which Panda was which. They were all in separate enclosures.

10/19/08 I'm tired.

10/20/08 7:50 pm I've been sleepy all day. I didn't sleep well Sat. night. Steve said I was tossing and kept him awake. Last night I thought I slept okay, but I've been so tired all day. Steve said I was tossing again. And I kept him awake again.

10/20/08 Crap. And I have been given the Blue Pill.

10/21/08 7:54 pm I guess I caught up on sleep. I know I slept soundly most of the night. I woke up a few times, but went right back to sleep. I was still kinda tired today.

10/22/08 7:45 pm My head hurts. I keep forgetting to write about drawing. I need a drg marathon.

10/22/08 We filled out our absentee ballots last night, and Steve drove them to the Election Board Office in Bowie. Obama! I also donated $25.00 to the Obama Campaign. Then I watched Pearl Harbor - well, the beginning. What I thought would only be 30 minutes. Ha!

10/22/08 Last week or weekend, I don't remember when - I got caught up watching Pearl Harbor right at the attack. So I wanted to watch the beginning to see what I missed. An hour and a half! Three hours on t.v. How long was it in the theater?! Um...cheesy.

10/22/08 Steve kept calling over from the computer: "Oh, come on!!" / 8:56 pm I think I need to go to bed. P.S. The credit card is up to $4000.00. How does that happen? Yes, I know how.

10/23/08 12:37 pm *Look, but don't replicate. *What is my "zone"? *I'm still bogged down in the details.

10/24/08 8:24 pm I'm tired. I've had a beer. I'm going to have another. Having carb cravings. Damn it.

10/25/08 10:36 pm Up kinda late. Watching last night's Clone Wars. Last week, after they showed the preview for this week, with Clone Troopers saying they were on the most boring outpost, I started doing Trooper Clerks: "What?! You took your Coke all the way to Dantooine before you drank it?!"

10/25/08 It cracked Steve up. And I forgot to write about the one amusing thing at the zoo. One Tiger was out. He had this skinny little butt, so we figured he was one of the cubs. He came over by the door and got in and out of the water. It must have been FRIGID!

10/25/08 But something got him all excited, because suddenly he RAN away. He got all excited! Just like a cat. And he moved fast. In one of the photos I took, his ears are swept back. I like the white spots on their ears.

10/25/08 We had Corey over today. We did our Star Wars roleplaying. We didn't need Mike's character. Well, our characters needed him, but we made due. Mike's at a gaming convention in Germany. Status for Tuesday unknown.

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Tiger! At the Zoo Last Sunday Oct 19th

  Pretty Tiger! He got into the water, which must have been frigid!

Sniffy-sniff.

Look at that skinny butt! We think he was one of the cubs.

Look at the water dripping from his tail.

I love this one because his ears are swept back. You can see the little white spots on his ears. (Unless she's a she.) (We couldn't get close enough to check.)

Zoo Trip Last Sunday Oct 19th

  Cheetah ignoring everyone, just like a Cat.

Lioness intently watching the door, expecting breakfast, maybe?

Lion just hanging out.

  Orangutan just hanging around.

Aw, little Meerkat.

Aw, little Armadillo.

Very active Tamarin. It's hard to get good photos inside.

  We don't know who this is. All Pandas were separated in their own enclosures and there weren't any zoo staff to ask. We're guessing this is Dad, Tian Tian, due to his showy behavior. Here he is walking out onto a limb.

Nearly falling off the limb.

And down he goes, with the limb...sorry for bad photo. We were in a big crowd.

Now he's happy, pulling the branch he just destroyed all apart.

Muffuletta Disaster from Last Sunday Oct 19th

So, I wanted to make a Muffuletta. We wanted it for a picnic at the zoo. 

I've had this recipe of Emeril's for awhile:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/muffuletta-for-a-crowd-recipe/index.html

We finally decided to try it. We didn't put quite as many ingredients in the Olive Salad. We got two different olives from the Olive Bar, plus a can of sliced black olives, roasted red peppers, and we carmelized some onion with garlic.

We got a small loaf of Sourdough at Panera Bread, and dug out some of the insides so we could fill it with the Olive Salad.

We used sliced Muenster, Salami,

and Ham.

Isn't it pretty?

  We wrapped it in foil, put it on the hot cast iron grille, and weighted it down with the Iron Skillet. We added two more pots for weight. Grilled it on both sides. Do I smell something burning?

Here's the grilled sammich.

UH-OH. Yes, we burned it. Heat was up too high. We tried to scrape off the burned bits. We still took it with us to the zoo. But we ended up digging out the innards because the bread was just too burned. Oh, WELL. We'll try it again.

BTW: For lunch one day, we had the rest of the Olive Salad, the rest of the cut-up Muenster, Salami and Ham, with the torn-up insides of the Sourdough loaf. Cold, like a Muffuletta Salad. Nothing else. That was so good!

On Through October - Some Drawings This Week

  10/11/08 7:48 pm Quiet Saturday. I worked out. I caught up scanning and blogging. That's about it. I'm going over some pencil drgs and trying to abstract them. [formerly used images - not what follows:]

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10/12/08 9:15 pm Quiet Sunday. Slept in. Worked out. We made Biscuit Pah. Steve made the chicken stew - lots of veggies, LOTS of gravy. It really was like a thick chicken stew. It wouldn't all fit in the glass pan, so we froze a container of it. Baked the stew with Biscuit on top.

10/12/08 We played a game of Starcraft. Steve kicked my ass. We made tofu with the rest of the mushroom/onion mixture (we made yesterday - half for black bean Quesadillas and half for tofu) - over soba noodles. Was that about it for today? I've been drawing this evening.

10/12/08 I got out this pack of photos from my "Woman" project for Nona's class in Grad School. (Group Project - paper & presentation based on a one-word concept). Anyway. Nona encouraged us to fill our folders full of stuff.

10/12/08 This was the semester of my three MFA Women drawings. So, I set up my camera with self-timer on tripod in my studio and took a series of photos of me - naked! - working on a big charcoal/gesso drg.

10/12/08 I made a note last week about 1996 Lisa vs. 2008 Lisa. I was just feeling particularly God-I-Haven't-Done-Anything-with-my-Life. Still. And I was thinking of my Self-Esteem level in 1996. vs. today. Soaring vs. In the Toilet. That's all.

10/12/08 I was having a hard time fitting the whole figure onto the small j. piece. I don't think I want the images cropped anymore. Bad idea. All of them anyway. / I also gessoed over the 18x24 with the Steve/Mooshie drg that got out of hand.

10/13/08 I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin 4:33 pm I scribbled that this morning during my workout. It was on a No Reservations in Tahiti episode. [Note: Columbus Day Holiday]

10/13/08 It was one of the cutaway to commercial quotes. I liked it. I need to shut my eyes more often, to see.

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10/13/08 8:26 pm I think I need to move on to bigger paper. I feel like I'm trying to squash the whole figure on these small j. pieces. / Forgotten tidbit: I looked online Friday to see where Georgetown Cupcake is. We walked right by it on M St. But missed it. It's right across from the mall we went into both times we went by. Doh!

10/14/08 12:44 pm Sleepy today. I took two Advil before bed, but didn't fall asleep for a long time. Sore muscles. The slow cadence wasn't working for my biceps, so Sunday I did curls. I tried to get to 50, but only got to 40.

10/14/08 Today, my muscles are still in the getting-sore phase. Ouch. And no Prison Break last night! A baseball game was on. Tonight we're going to Mike's, so no early bedtime for me.

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10/16/08 7:15 ish am. On the bus. I love the bus so much. I took two Pamprin last night to help me sleep, so I'm groggy this morning. Steve signed up with Manpower and they had a job for him today, so he has the car. Moving boxes. Near the Manpower office in Columbia. I'll have to ride the bus home, too. I hate riding the bus home.

10/16/08 Sunday we were watching the Planet Earth on Discovery with the Snow Leopards. (They are so pretty!) I told Steve I wanted to pet one - so big and fluffy. And huggable. Although I don't think the Snow Leopard would like that. Last night when I went to bed, Steve asked me what if we had a Snow Leopard as a pet.

10/16/08 I thought that was so funny. Having a cat as big as we are. Maybe it was the Pamprin. Yesterday I looked online to see which zoos have Snow Leopards. The Seattle Zoo breeds them, but I don't recall seeing any when we were there. I did find Snow Leopard Wallpaper at the World Wildlife Fund website.

  10/16/08 Odd Tidbit: On the way to Mike's Tuesday, there were two big abstract paintings leaning against each other over a mailbox. They were big, like 4'x6'. Colorful abstract paintings on stretched canvas. Oh, and we saw lots of deer again, both going there and back.

10/16/08 I have a funny story about Boss Man, who makes nearly a half a million dollars a year. He submitted his hotel bill from last weekend to be reimbursed for a phone call he made from his room, to Gary. Call: $3.45 Phone tax: $0.17 = $3.62 When I gave Darla the Petty Cash form, she just shook her head.

10/16/08 8:29 am Just got to work. A fucking bird pooped on my nose! On my nose! I was already not having a good walk up U Street because my knee still hurts - no idea why. But I'm hobbling up the street when: something hits my nose. It's wet. Shit. Literally.

10/16/08 I wipe it off: SHIT! So I'm fumbling in my backpack, on the sidewalk, one-handed, for Kleenex, then a Handi-Wipe. I clean my hand and my nose with both. After I got here I washed both with soap. Lots of soap. Shit! Does God hate me?

  10/17/08 7:15 ish am. On the bus again. Still sleepy. Steve got called back to the temp job. The other temp never showed. I only had enough iced coffee for a half cup. I dumped the change bowl into the outer pocket of my backpack. I'll see how many bottles of Honest Tea I can get.

10/17/08 We still want to own our own Snow Leopard. I figure we can just let him out to hunt all the deer here in MD. There's plenty!

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10/18/08 7:53 pm Saturday. I slept in, but I worked out. Then we went to Bowie for a change. We browsed Border's. I found a book on Rothko for only $9.99. Then we had lunch at Panera. Then browsed Barnes & Noble. I bought an art magazine. Then we shopped at Safeway.

10/18/08 Then ran back to Panera for bread for a "brick-pressed sandwich" I want to make. (Martha Stewart recipe.) (not that we are using a brick.) We're taking a picnic lunch to the zoo tomorrow. We made the olive salad today. Among other food prep stuff.

10/18/08 I'm tired. I had a beer - Troeg's - finally. But they were out of Dogfish Head Punkin Ale! (Yesterday.) We stopped on the way home.

10/18/08 Two Tidbits: I never had to ride the bus home. Steve got off his temp job at 5:00 and had enough time to come to Greenbelt to get me. And: Monday was a Holiday. That's why I was home. Short week, yet it went by SO SLOWLY. Time goes by. So slowly. [That's Madonna BTW. "Hung Up."]

Georgetown Photos

  At the Harbor.

By the fountain.

Me and my see-star.

Outside the Exorcist House.

It's not a very pretty house, kind of like a brick box.

  The steps:  LOOK OUT!!!!

Texas Sheet Cake

Mom’s Chocolate Cake aka Texas Sheet Cake

Recipe is from Texas, mid-1970s

Cake:

2 Cups flour

2 Cups sugar

½ tsp salt

2 sticks butter

1 Cup water

3 Tbsp cocoa

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

½ Cup buttermilk

Sift flour with sugar and salt. In saucepan, melt butter with water and cocoa. Bring to boil. Pour over flour mixture. Add eggs, vanilla, baking soda and buttermilk. Mix well. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 20 mins at 350 degrees.

(FYI: original recipe calls for 1 stick Oleo, an old term for margarine, and ½ cup shortening)

Frosting:

1 stick butter

3 Tbsp cocoa

¼ Cup milk

1 box powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

½ Cup pecans

Melt butter. Add cocoa, milk, vanilla, powdered sugar. When mixed smooth, add pecans. Pour over cake.

Texas Sheet Cake is not a very chocolaty chocolate cake. It is a light cake, very light on the chocolate. I had to bake it longer and turn up the temp, but that’s just my oven. I think the frosting is too sweet and definitely not chocolaty enough, and I used buttermilk in the frosting, not regular milk.  I would use the Hershey’s Cocoa frosting recipe. Just for comparison, my favorite chocolate cake/chocolate frosting recipes from the Hershey’s Cocoa tin (also my favorite cocoa) use this much cocoa: Cake = ¾ Cup Cocoa and Frosting = 2/3 Cup Cocoa.

My Dad used to tell a story about this chocolate cake, which Mom made often when we lived in Laredo, Texas 1971-1975. Mom would make the cake when Dad had guys from work over for dinner. Dad worked as an electrical engineer for a company across the border in Nuevo Laredo; he designed parts for the insides of televisions. As Dad tells the story, one day one of the guys was really late arriving for dinner, and when he did show up, he said he was driving around giving Mom time to make her chocolate cake. It’s probably just one of Dad’s usual made-up elaborations.

 

And I forgot to take any photos of our cake. Oh, well.

October: The Rest of My Week Off, and Last Week

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10/1/08 7:41 pm I've had two beers: a Dogfish Head Punkin Ale and a Boddingtons. And today was 5 days in a row of 1-hour workouts. Whew. Both High Intensity Lateral thigh trainer (Go!) and weight training. Whew! Advil and the next two days off.

10/1/08 I worked at the computer on a pencil drg from a reference photo. Had to keep erasing and redrawing and erasing and redrawing: getting rid of the correct "Life Drawing" quality and: saying more with fewer lines.

10/1/08 This evening (after a really big Panko chicken salad - Steve said I made too much salad and I said give me the rest of the salad) - I've been reworking the Steve/Mooshie drawing on the gessoed canvas scrap. I like it better. Just keep erasing and redrawing.

10/1/08 9:33 pm Well. After all that - I went back to my original drg of the cheesecake pose, and worked on it. And I like it. It's fine. What was that? A crisis of confidence? I seem to have those a lot.

  This is the original photo from 1996 in Memphis.

10/2/08 12:41 pm Georgetown: Baked & Wired. Texas Sheetcake Cupcake: Ohhhh  8:39 pm Exhausted! Walked all over Georgetown! Incl. Exorcist Steps. Ethiopian Dinner. More tomorrow. Exhausted!

10/3/08 2:06 pm We saw Congress in action. Or Congress inaction. More late. BJ & I are killing time at Union Station, waiting for Alan.  8:42 pm I drank a Punkin Ale too fast (at home) and am currently drunk.

10/4/08 8:07 pm A Not-Much-Happened-Saturday. Slept in. Went to the Mall. Grocery store. Made Texas Sheet Cake. Will explain when I catch up. About the sheet cake. Now I'm watching my taped premiere of Sanctuary.

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10/5/08 7:54 pm Quiet Sunday. Steve said I was tossing all night. I don't feel like I slept well. I've been sleepy all day. I scanned and posted the last few days of September. Other than that, I've been pretty useless all day. Useless. I think it was 3 pm when I showered.

10/5/08 BTW, I emailed Mike and Corey about the "Don't Make Me Roll For Initiative" bumper sticker. Corey said that's a D&D bumper sticker. / The browned cheese from the calzones reminded me of the BRD at Squash. [Squash Blossom Market in Memphis.] Bean & Rice Delight = Beans, rice & cheese, with a layer of cheese on top. If the cooks burned it, they peeled it off & redid the cheese. I ate a lot of burned cheese.

10/5/08 So, BJ and Alan arrived Thursday morning. Alan was attending a conference on Emotional Intelligence. BJ explored Georgetown with us - that's where their hotel was, and the conference was at Georgetown U. I wanted to find the Exorcist Steps. We walked a LOT. BJ wanted lunch with a view of the water.

10/5/08 We got a map and a guy at the Info Desk in a mall told us go to the Harbor. We found several restaurants. We picked one, but they opened at 11:30, and it was 11:15. We hung around outside on the boardwalk till they opened. Steve and I had mediocre crabcake sandwiches.

10/5/08 While walking back up to the main street, I realized we were at Baked & Wired - a cupcake bakery. We had to go in. I got a Texas Sheet Cake Cupcake. Yum. Steve got a cup of coffee, and got me an iced tea. He liked the cupcake so much he got his own. Very interesting - no paper liner.

10/5/08 I mean no traditional cupcake liner. They are lined with folded baking parchment paper. Very interesting - I have no idea how they do that. We went back to the hotel for awhile. Then met Alan for dinner. Steve spotted an Ethiopian restaurant earlier. Zed's? At the beginning of our walk.

10/5/08 I thought I spotted Newt Gingrich on a cell phone at the gas station/car repair across the street. Neither BJ nor Steve saw him. Oh, wait - I forgot the Exorcist steps. We walked up a street looking at shops, then walked parallel to M. All the way up to 36th. And we found the Exorcist house and steps.

10/5/08 We walked down the steps, then back up M St. Anyway, BJ suggested dinner at the Ethiopian restaurant. And she'd never had Ethiopian. It was SO GOOD. After dinner, Alan went to a conference reception, so we went home. We were exhausted. I couldn't stay up for the VP debate.

10/5/08 We taped it, but I decided later not to watch it. I got the highlights on the news. Steve's legs were aching - a lot, like more than just from walking. Maybe his cholesterol medicine again? Friday he got up with me, but at Greenbelt his knees hurt so much he went back to the car. 

10/5/08 So he went home and I went to meet BJ at the Capitol. We took the regular tour, but BJ wanted to go inside the House Chambers. They told us to go to any rep from our state across the street and get a pass. We ran over and found some guy from Georgia. Then more waiting -

10/5/08 We had to wait in line outside security, then right outside security checkpoint, then inside the building, then upstairs, then we had to check all our stuff - purses even, then had to wait outside the Chambers. Then we got in. After 20 minutes they kicked us out. We could have returned.

10/5/08 But we would have had to go back three lines before, and wait again. It was a lot of: "I yield to the gentleman who just yielded." Steve was home watching it on CSPAN - he texted me something like that. I'll look it up later when I turn my cell on. Most of them said they didn't want to vote for the Bailout Bill, but would. Steve texted: I'm yielding to the gentleman who yielded.

10/5/08 BJ and I walked to Union Station for lunch. Steve called at 2:30 to say the bill passed. We hung out at Union Station till Alan called, then went back to Georgetown. We took Metro. Then picked up their luggage, and took a cab to G'town U. to meet Alan. We had dinner in this cafeteria place with sushi.

10/5/08 Then I rode with them to Reagan airport, and took Metro home from there. And Steve came to get me. I was exhausted. Which is why the beer went right to my head. Also: I told Steve I had a recipe for Texas Sheet Cake from Texas. He demanded I make the cake for us. Which I did yesterday.

10/5/08 It's not a very chocolaty cake - only 3 Tbsp. cocoa in the cake and in the frosting. (3 Tbsp. each). Hershey's cake has 3/4 Cup cocoa, their frosting 2/3 Cup cocoa. Just for comparison. The frosting is a bit too sweet. But the cake is still good.

10/5/08 I gotta go to bed now.

10/6/08 7:02 pm I better draw/write something before it gets too late. We opened the bottle of Hogue Late Harvest Riesling (SOOOO Good) and it went right to my head. Nothing of consequence happened today except I could not have booze. [I didn't scan this, but my handwriting is all scribbly from being drunk.]

10/6/08 Leftover from a weekend wedding. Usually boring red wine, white wine & cheap beer, but today: TWO CASES OF Dogfish Head Punkin Ale TAUNTING ME IN THE BREAK ROOM. Damn it. I should have stolen some -

10/6/08 Look at Lisa trying to draw while drunk.....

10/6/08 8:37 pm -the one with stitched paper.

10/6/08 = eyes & nose closer together = head tossed back. Go back to this, too. Don't crop it. I can barely draw while buzzed.

10/6/08 Don't forget the Huggies. and Self-confidence like a plant: And the Smiley Face:

10/7/08 12:58 pm Lunch almost over, but who cares - Boss Man is out. Oh, and Darla left at 12:30, so there's no one to notice I'm late. Last night when we got home, there was an apartment's worth of stuff strewn on the grass next to the dumpsters - furniture, bins, bags, piles. Like an eviction. Depressing.

10/7/08 The Self-Esteem Like a Plant image.

10/8/08 7:49 pm I'm tired. Bah. We were at Mike's till 10. Saw LOTS of deer - on the way to and home.

10/9/08 8:05 am 1996 Lisa vs. 2008 Lisa / 8:33 pm My drawing got messy. I'm tired.

10/10/08 8:28 pm Wow, have I had a Non-Week. Going back to work always does that to me. -Bah.

The Rest of September

9/28/08 8:08 pm I've had an incredibly Lazy Sunday. All I got done was scanning & posting to my blog and working out. (High intensity!) That's it. Oh, and I dusted & vacuumed. Blah. Being a couch potato.

9/28/08 8:46 pm The drg I did on the 18x24 canvas got too dark. I need to watch the shadows. I really don't need them, and when the drg gets too dark, there's no taking it back. I need to stay with sketchy line.

[I'm not sure about the 18x24 size - it may be too big.]

9/28/08 Someone is playing their music too loud. I can hear the bass through the walls. That irritates me. We're watching the rebroadcast of Planet Earth. Mother Nature is a Bitch! / I have to abstract the figure more.

9/28/08 The face on the Steve/Mooshie drg looked like he could open his eyes at any minute. But overall it's not good. Bah. How do I get out of my own way?

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9/29/08 4:27 pm I can't seem to get that drg right. It doesn't look like I'm leaning forward.

9/29/08 I had to take off my shirt and lean over in front of the mirror.

9/29/08 Instead of a shape like this:  When leaning over, you see the tops of the shoulders as a flat shape: and there is a large space there.

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9/29/08 6:47 pm I took some nekkid reference photos. I cropped and drew one from the computer (so I don't waste ink - no need to print). I need to work on the tilt of the head. Then: abstract it. And I'm having wine with dinner.

9/29/08 I mean I'm sipping it while Steve finishes dinner - Panko chicken in the oven w/soba noodles. Yellow Tail Riesling isn't sweet enough.

9/29/08 Huh?

9/30/08 10:24 am Bumper sticker: Don't make me roll for initiative! 10:54 am We're at the Arundel Panera. 7:17 pm We ran around earlier today. I hadn't been out of the apt. in three days! It's Tuesday but no Mike's tonight, BTW. We ran to the ATM, then Starbucks. Then I wanted to go to the art supply store downtown Laurel.

9/30/08 I needed a new Masonite board. I forgot why I don't like that place. It has shit that's probably been there 30 years. The two women helping me didn't even know what Masonite is. They were showing me chipboard and cardboard, plus damaged old items. "We can order it." BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.

9/30/08 I found one at Michael's. We wandered the mall after lunch at Panera. Then shopped at Safeway. I did another long workout when we got home - taking advantage of my WEEK OFF. We had calzones for dinner again - filled with a spinach-mushroom-garlic-alfredo-goat cheese mixture.

9/30/08 Steve forgot to put the mozzarella inside. That turned out to be a good thing. Steve baked the calzones for 10 mins (400 [degrees] this time - 425 [degrees] was too high), then put cheese on top. Ohhh was that good, esp. the part that baked brown on the surface of the stone.

9/30/08 This morning, I called Target to see when my Rxs would be filled. They left a message that they would be ready this evening, so I ran out by myself. I browsed Party City just for the heck of it (Halloween stuff). Got beer and a bottle of Riesling at Corridor. Then to Target. [Dogfish Head Punkin Ale - mmmmmm the Best Pumpkin.  And Hogue Late Harvest Riesling.]

9/30/08 I think I got thrown off on my drg by SCREWING UP the drg on the 18x24 canvas. I'll get back to that tomorrow.