artsiest award

i have been writing "blog" on my daily to-do lists for two weeks now. how did that much time pass!? well, i have several subjects to touch upon over the next few days. in honour of the official culmination of my advanced placement class career as it ended on friday afternoon with european history (how fitting), i thought i'd first post about being sickeningly artsy. i mean, not that i am. but i have a couple photos that constitute such a description & are almost ironically so. i mean, i took the ap art "exam" friday morning ALONE. (which was awkward, because proctors have to read aloud exam instructions, but it was just me & i am literate.)
aside from posting a stupidly artsy "about me" survey on the "get to know your classmates" discussion board of the hopkins enrolled students facebook group, what i mean by sickeningly artsy is:

1) this is the jean button-down that i gleaned from my mother's collection of clothes she wore @ one time in her life but has since retired to a large box in the attic. she tried to convince me i ought to wear her pair of abnormally oversized overalls to school. i declined the generous offer......... anyway, this shirt - circa 1991 - makes me feel like a 90's mother who is ready to pull her hair up with a scrunchie, run to the gym, stop @ the grocery store, & then paint a room of the house. so it is only appropriate that i wear it when i slave away over art homework. fyi, tj maxx sells shirts very similar. (you know who you are) i'd also like to take the time right now to point out my queens & kings of england chart hanging on my bedroom door, visible here next to the beanie baby cat that acted as crookshanks three years ago when i dressed as hermione for the borders midnight harry potter 7 release party.


2) when i went to visit hopkins for an accepted students open house, i brought an overnight bag, a purse, & my art board. this is beyond absurd. the absurdity ripened when i didn't get any work on the drawing done while we were there. i had brought pencils & tracing paper & my sharpener & everything! TOO ARTSY. the end.



oh! one more thing. because i had to digitize my entire portfolio of artwork in order to submit it to the college board, i decided to make a carbonmade. so if you're interested, i am posting the link here & in my personal information!
http://catluvandprosper.carbonmade.com/