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Finally finished the last painting for the semester, SUCCESS!

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:24:52 GMT

Being an art student RULES sometimes! Like, what do you mean while everyone else is doing multiple finals at a time we get hours of nonstop work per day for painting and drawing?

Anyways, here's the painting for our "in the style of" (image linked from my Tumblr so I don't use storage here)

It's done in Acrylic Liquidex Heavy Body paint on a stretched canvas; primed with gesso; I chose Slavador Dali

The challenge was mostly within the style itself. I tend to use a lot of colors and impressionist-esque application so doing something smooth ESPECIALLY in acrylic was difficult. The two figures I featured are part of some personal art stuff I do, featuring contorted human-like figures with smiles for heads.

Currently, I am typing from the room of my Web Design class. I still have to finish that final right after this post. My art history class will have a traditional final but I'm hardly concerned.

What sucks though is math is absolutely tanking things! I mean... I'm doing better than last year but statistics is hard, I'm barely passing as of right now and we haven't even done the final yet! It's the only class I'm worried about aside from my expository writing class which uses a group project as a final. (I'm going to wring the necks of my teammates btw)

Anyways, going to stop procrastinating and actually start doing my next final project.

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Looks like I'm updating my resume!

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:04:33 GMT

UGH! Change. (┬┬﹏┬┬)

It's something I can never get used to or anticipate. I mean, who would've thought that within a full year most of your coworkers at your workplace are just G.O.N.E. by the end of the upcoming summer?

Here's some context, I work at a reselling franchise and I've been here since the place opened a year ago. I can't name specifics for legality reasons, NDA and all that. We just had our first year anniversary and that's a HUGE achievement! :D

The boss? I like my boss. I like him a lot more than the other places I've worked, he actually tries to do the right thing and he's more than fair. Usually.

My coworkers? Love 'em to death! I can't name another job where I genuinely liked everyone I worked with.

So, when I heard the first notice that my favorite of them was looking for another job, it took a while before my emotions set in and even longer to grapple with the fact it's only a matter of time before she gets accepted to another job. She's talented and has a keen eye, of course she'd be hired immediately. Contrary to me, she disliked some of the things around this place; for very good reasons. Even if it's fine for me, it's not for her; it was getting to the point where she was coming home to drink frequently. I'll never forget sometimes checking up on her and hearing that she took the blame for something she never did, usually calling her fiance to prepare a drink when she gets home.

Maybe I just had rose-tinted glasses is all; meaning that I couldn't see the signs. One thing I did notice, however, was the "game of telephone" as she'd say. Boss-man has a habit of telling one person something and relying on said person to relay that info instead of using the chat we all have. Which, to some degree I understand. Things happen sometimes and you forget to put the thing down in the first place, I do that sometimes too and that was prevalent in every interaction with another person I've had, never had a single moment where something was accurately echoed.

Another thing was the lack of procedure following on the boss' end. Which, granted, he's trying to get better at from what I've seen and he gets corrected by the manager sometimes and takes it in stride. For some reason he seems to get hostile at this coworker in particular, though. I only work on the weekends during school semesters and each time I return it's like some new feud between the two. For her mental health's sake, I'm glad she found greener pastures.

As for the other two that are leaving, one's going to college and the other needs more hours (my boss is allergic to scheduling anyone over 6 hours a day or past 22hrs a week.) If the hours thing doesn't work out here for me either, I'll be on a search after I graduate anyhow. We barely have enough people on the team, I don't want to be the reason this place goes down under just by leaving but I'm keeping my plans open.

If we survive our second summer, I'll be likely to stay so long as we have no more incidents.

ie, we had a special-guest we were hosting and even he was getting concerned about boss-man's mental health and pulled aside a coworker for questioning (to which, she lied about for reputation's sake and not burning a bridge before she leaves).

Can things get better or worse? Let's put it to the test, I guess 🥳

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I used a typewriter for the first time yesterday

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:59:23 GMT

Thirteen years ago, I remember sitting in my elementary class with a comically thick pencil (as all the cool kids had 'em at the time) writing the alphabet and tiny, grade-schooler quality sentences by hand. A year or so later, it was entire essays. A year or so later, we were learning to type on computers and being rewarded with Kid Pix time. It used to be that I'd write pages upon pages by hand until my hands started cramping up each time, getting fast at typing to make up for lost time.

Now I'll be sitting in college, often accompanied by a laptop and using Microsoft Word, Google Doc or, heaven forbid, the dreaded adobe products. Now it's like working through the writing process is nonexistent in educational settings, it's just not as enjoyable anymore and don't even get me started on the researching process. I've never used AI for looking for answers as it's never thorough or thought provoking enough (and, most of the time dumb or misinformed about a lot of things) but when the majority around you is cutting corners for an easy grade and all the recent articles start to look the same, everything feels pointless and tasteless. No one's trying anymore and there's nothing to compete with because everyone is averaging their own writing now to a point that doing the bare minimum yourself looks like an achievement now!

As writing and collaborative tools, Microsoft Word and Google Docs have worked for a very long time, albeit a shadow of what it once was. There's some useful features that are made in buttons now instead of CSS, very user friendly compared to older software I remember using on older pcs. I just don't like that it has to be connected with everything all of the time so I often use Ellipsus or Open Office. Despite this, I just can't seem to get in the right workflow just staring at a screen with no physical papers in front of me. At least, not when writing from scratch.

Originally I was thinking about switching back to pen and paper so I'm not just staring at a screen all day but my handwriting is god-awful. So I tell my mom that I'm looking into typewriters and, turns out, she still has hers from when she was younger! Her typewriter is a small, light blue, manual Sears typewriter with a case around it and a handle. It's a little dirty on the outside but the inside is still intact. All the mechanisms inside are still nearly brand new, only problem was the ribbon on the inside dried out. Luckily, this model takes universal so we were able to order one online. The box came with two spools, one half of the ribbon red while the other half is black. My dad told me to just watch a video or something to put it in properly but the majority I found didn't really explain how the threading worked on a manual typewriter. I give up and ask my dad how it's done again and even he gets stumped for a bit. Turns out, we both threaded it wrong and had it backwards. Until we reload the ribbon, the red setting on the typewriter writes in black and the black setting types in red. As for the white? Never seen a ribbon with a white strip in the middle. Spent maybe three hours yesterday writing two pages, getting used to the pressure needed on a manual. I still instinctively keep trying to use it like I use a keyboard but that's a given having used them for the majority of my life. I'm currently using lined paper to write an outline for a book idea!

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