I GRADUATED!

I'm so excited about the opportunities that will come and all the possibilities that lay before me. Ask me what I'm going to do next and I'll say, it's all a mystery, but I'll know it will all work out. :)

My new love....

Antonio Frasconi.

I've been working on some relief prints for my class and a week or so ago our class went to the Achenbach Gallery at the Legion and I saw a beauty. A beauty by the name of Frasconi. Antonio Frasconi.

It was a color block print of a hanging slab of beef. I know....beef how exciting (not) but if you have ever seen Rembrandt's "The Carcass of Beef" maybe you could understand. So although I can't for the life of me find this specific piece, you're just going to have to trust me....and check out these other prints.

the train

grey blue sky kind of day,
where nothing seems clear.
I fall asleep to the sweet voice singing

where the lyrics blend

like the graphite on paper

and the soundless waves

spread out onto my head

endless like the sea

I awake suddenly

eyes wide open

I am surrounded by my dream

the sea around me

a song on repeat

and everything for once

makes sense.

Vija Clemins, "Untitled (the Ocean)"

trying to capture a moment, a feeling, the things I was seeing. If you've every taken the train from San Francisco to Sacramento, maybe you know the beauty.

What doesn't kill us....

only makes us stronger.

It's the second week of school and I'm home on a Saturday doing homework. It's a lot of reading....and writing....and working, but so far, I'm not complaining. Despite the crazy schedule, things feel complete, complete in the sense that my classes are challenging but they all meld with each other. It's weird to think that this is my last semester and I just want to take advantage of that. Granted, if you were to talk to me on Wednesday, I would have said I wanted to drop out....and I'll probably say that every Wednesday. But at the end of the week, it all feels worth it. I couldn't imagine dropping a class because when I think about it, I think about all the things I could have learned, funny that I'm not that way when it comes to going to bar or something, I never feel left out that way, but thats just me.

no sleep.

It's been like this the last few nights....and I don't know why. Sometimes I get like this, but it's like there are to many things happening in my head. I just want to be like "sshhh brain! stop thinking" but it just keeps going. So here it goes, I translated my favorite Italian song, and the lyrics are kind of weird but I still love him. Especially the part about have vertigo...

Jovanotti "Mi Fido di Te" (I trust you)
Case di pane, riunioni di rane
Houses of bread, meetings of frogs
vecchie che ballano nelle cadillac
old ladies dancing in cadillacs
muscoli d'oro, corone d'alloro
golden muscles, laurel crowns
canzoni d'amore per bimbi col frack
love songs for children wearing a tuxedo
musica seria, luce che varia
serious music, varying light
pioggia che cade, vita che scorre
rain falling down, life elapsing
cani randagi, cammelli e re magi
stray dogs, camels and Magi

Chorus:
forse fa male eppure mi va
perhaps it hurts but I like
di stare collegato
to be connected
di vivere di un fiato
to live in a hurry
di stendermi sopra al burrone
to lay down on a ravine
di guardare giù
to look downwards
la vertigine non è
vertigo is not
paura di cadere
fearing to fall down
ma voglia di volare
but wishing to fly

mi fido di te {x4}
I trust you
io mi fido di te
I trust you
ehi mi fido di te
eh, I trust you
cosa sei disposto a perdere
what are you ready to loose

Lampi di luce, al collo una croce
flashing light, a cross hanging at the neck
la dea dell'amore si muove nei jeans
the goddess of love is moving in jeans
culi e catene, assassini per bene
"bottoms" and chains, well-behaved killers
la radio si accende su un pezzo funky
the radio turns on with a "funky" song
teste fasciate, ferite curate
bandaged heads, healed wounds
l'affitto del sole si paga in anticipo prego
you have to pay in advance the rent of the sun please
arcobaleno, più per meno meno
rainbow, "plus" multiplied "minus" yelds "minus" (algebra, + x - = - !!!)

Chorus

mi fido di te {x3}
I trust you
cosa sei disposto a perdere
what are you ready to loose
mi fido di te {x2}
I trust you
io mi fido di te
I trust you
cosa sei disposto a perdere
what are you ready to loose

rabbia, stupore, la parte, l'attore
anger, astonishment, the part (role), the actor
dottore che sintomi ha la felicità
doctor, what are the symptoms of happiness
evoluzione, il cielo in prigione
evolution, the sky in jail
questa non è un'esercitazione
this is not training
forza e coraggio
strength and courage
la sete, il miraggio
the thirst, the mirage
la luna nell'altra metà
the moon in the other half
lupi in agguato, il peggio è passato
wolves lying in wait, the worst is over now

Chorus

mi fido di te {x3}
I trust you
cosa sei disposto a perdere
what are you ready to loose
mi fido di te {x2}
I trust you
io mi fido di te
I trust you
cosa sei disposto a perdere
what are you ready to loose

missing in action

but I have a good excuse (I know I'm always making excuses...so maybe I just suck at blogging, what are you going to do?) Anyways, school has been keeping me busy and now...on my first free day, I had no idea what to do with myself. Ok, that's a lie too, I had to many things to do but limited myself to only the best...if only everyday was as tasty as today.

Morning/Afternoon
slept in, mmmmm tasty
panettone french toast and eggs, mmmmm more tasty

Later....
bus bus bus....miss my bus stop....bus bus bus
turn in library books, mmm the library....dusty.
grocery shopping
bus bus bus
BAKING, mmmmm.....triple ginger cookie.....mmmm triple tasty :)

(listen to Lucinda Williams, Fruits of my Labor....it was my theme song for the day)

DATE NIGHT with my BFF4FL

SO, I don't get to spend to much time with my best friend but I cherish the moments we do. Friday night was date night and we made our first stop at EROS, a wine bar somewhere off the N. Wine of course is always good, the food was very nice. They had a really good mushroom risotto (top ten on my list of food I love/last meal items) and then we made our way over to chachachas, how convenient it was just a few blocks away! So of course we HAD to have a small pitcher of sangeria and then we made our way by muni and got some cheesecake. I know....it sounded like a good idea BUT probably wasn't cause then we had to roll our ways back home. But of course, we met some very nice people on the Muni....sometimes I love the muni.

I love Glady, not only because she loves food almost as much as I do, but she's always there to dry my tears, lend an ear, make me laugh, (and trust me we did all of that in one night) but above all I know that she is always there for me. No matter how busy our life gets I know I give her a call. <3