Rawr!!!

I have a new musical obsession! Can you guess what it is?

Yes, I am most definitely talking about The Lion King (some costumes, huh?). I really love the music in this, and was kind of surprised by how much I don't know, and by the fact that Disney left some of the best songs out of the movie. :( Fortunately for me, I checked the touring schedule, and Lion King comes to SLC next summer! I just hope tickets don't sell out before I even know they're on sale like what happened with Wicked. How soon do they usually start selling tickets, anyway?

So, I don't really have much to report. I made some cheesecake-swirl brownies on Thursday, subsequently decided to go on a temporary no-sugar diet, and made Chris give away half a pan to the people he home teaches. I also made rye bread this week to use in sandwiches, though the loaves came out smaller than I thought they would, so they make kind of small sandwiches. I managed to score some King's Singers tickets for this Wednesday, so Chris and I are planning on going to that this week, and Jordan's coming down late on Halloween night to watch Sweeney Todd the Musical with me, which is playing in Provo this week. I've spent way too long sitting in the stupid HFAC this week, drawing the inside of the building. I don't have that picture to post yet--it's not done, and I can't bring myself to work on it right now. I think I'll just wake up early and do it tomorrow. The herb garden Chris gave me for our second monthiversary is thriving once more, after I almost destroyed it through lack of water, and the parsley's doing much better now that the basil and mint aren't completely blocking it out. The rosemary and oregano are pretty much toast, though. Chris has made the switch from contact lenses to glasses, so we're now the official "nerd" couple of our ward. I keep thinking about cutting my hair, but I'm continually talked out of it by Chris and my mom, so I'm thinking maybe I could dye it instead. Maybe something like blue? Or rainbow?

I think it could be cute, but maybe they'd rather I just went with a haircut instead ;)

And... that's about all of the random stuff I could think of to spew on this blog post. Oh yeah, I did finally finish the cover for my mom's book!

There might be some minor changes made, but this is pretty much it, and I'm super happy to finally have this done! And now I'm going to bed. Sure, this is kind of short, and very random, but at least I posted!

She's Coming...

I'm finding it a little hard to believe that I'm actually halfway through the semester. The weeks have just been passing by so fast... and yet, I just took a midterm, and my computer art class is almost over, so it must be so. Speaking of that class (which is on block schedule, so its last day is Monday), I must've spent over ten hours this weekend finishing up all of the assignments that are due. I mean, luckily it's a pretty fun class, so I didn't really mind doing those assignments, but it's still a lot of time, especially when I also have a large drawing due on Monday and a brochure and cover to design for my mom's book ASAP. At least I have some fun things to show for all that effort, though (or at least I think so). For example, a lovely self portrait:

Looks just like me, right? ;) I also have a very lovely room (and don't judge me--my professor told me to just let the chair float so it would fit in with the linear perspective, but I needed something to explain the floating chair, so...):

An extremely useful chart documenting my level of alertness everytime the snooze alarm goes off in the morning (notice how my level of alertness skyrockets the very last time it goes off when I realize that I only have 30 minutes to get to class):

And... this:

Apparently there was a reason I edited all those voodoo doll pictures, and this is it. I still don't completely know what to think about this... but it was lots of fun to make! I wish you could see it in all its glory, but I had to get it down to a pretty small file size to upload to Blogger, which involved a lot more work than I thought it would :P Rest assured that, viewed at its full size, it's very cool.

And... that's pretty much the gist of everything we did in my computer art class. Will I miss it? Well, it was a lot of fun, but it did start at 8 in the morning, and now that it's over school doesn't start until 11, so... I think I'll be okay ;)

Oh, and beware the Egyptian voodoo doll. She's coming...