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Apr. 10th, 2006 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
korafoxMaking myself get up and go to class this morning was probably the most difficult thing I've done in the past week. X ( But at least I can take the high ground in that I finally did decide to go instead of making the excuse that I deserve an absence like everyone else has taken at least once.
As I have the rest of the day at my disposal, I think I'll take a trip around campus this afternoon and take pictures of all the flowers and such coming into bloom. Although I seem to remember a lot more things blooming in unison last year...but then, it's been pretty chill for april so far.
Had an epiphany earlier about why I've got so little motivation when it comes to most of my art projects. I think that if I know what something is going to look like before it's done (i.e. having it completely planned in my head), I just lose interest. I'm doing a painting right now that I'm kind of making up as I'm going along, and I actually want to work on it rather than just feeling like I should be working on it. So maybe I'll try doing more things along this vein from now on.
Well, and despite the fact that my weekend was completely unproductive in terms of schoolwork, I managed to finish both Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse Five. (Just in time for that library due-date, phew!) So I've been inundated with all manner of wartime imagery and existentialist thinking these past few days. And it reminds me just how wrong war is...life is too precious to throw it away in that manner, to take it so forcibly from other people. As well, thinking about all the civilian casualties of war makes me despise it even more, especially when I consider that most wars are started and managed by people who see only the numbers of it and not the far-reaching implications.
Ah, and I feel so useless...too much a coward to do anything real and helpful about it. But at least I can keep my eyes open and my mind sharp...and not be blind to the suffering of other people.
Well, off to obtain some lunch now. Hopefully the day will be a productive one.
As I have the rest of the day at my disposal, I think I'll take a trip around campus this afternoon and take pictures of all the flowers and such coming into bloom. Although I seem to remember a lot more things blooming in unison last year...but then, it's been pretty chill for april so far.
Had an epiphany earlier about why I've got so little motivation when it comes to most of my art projects. I think that if I know what something is going to look like before it's done (i.e. having it completely planned in my head), I just lose interest. I'm doing a painting right now that I'm kind of making up as I'm going along, and I actually want to work on it rather than just feeling like I should be working on it. So maybe I'll try doing more things along this vein from now on.
Well, and despite the fact that my weekend was completely unproductive in terms of schoolwork, I managed to finish both Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse Five. (Just in time for that library due-date, phew!) So I've been inundated with all manner of wartime imagery and existentialist thinking these past few days. And it reminds me just how wrong war is...life is too precious to throw it away in that manner, to take it so forcibly from other people. As well, thinking about all the civilian casualties of war makes me despise it even more, especially when I consider that most wars are started and managed by people who see only the numbers of it and not the far-reaching implications.
Ah, and I feel so useless...too much a coward to do anything real and helpful about it. But at least I can keep my eyes open and my mind sharp...and not be blind to the suffering of other people.
Well, off to obtain some lunch now. Hopefully the day will be a productive one.
