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hot again
Hanging out alone after so much Italian community.

Weather in Austin changed from rainy to normal summer hot. Deep watered young trees.

Finished reading assigned half of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Applied oil ground to three stretched linen pre paintings. Moved painting "finished" before summer onto the wall and moved a vertical on onto the easel.

Continued drawing on front deck in the shade.

Started doing some school business.

To Jerry's in the morning and then a swim.

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OK
got my tax refund
bought €66
bettered painting I think
made 4 more drawings for OKMT 7x7
read inheritance of loss

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Daylight saving sunday
Finally spring break!

Saturday I cleaned house, did laundry, deep watered front trees and sat on the front deck and finished The Bookseller of Kabul. Weather was clear and hot, 80ºF. No new video rentals so last night I watched Catwoman on satellite. Yes to cats and women.

Up early to a dark cloudy morning made even darker by DST. Back to working in studio. Small container of Galkyd Light had curdled. Cleaned that up laid out new paint on my circular palette and got back to two paintings. Yes to home computer and streaming music. Pledged another donation to WFMU. You can too.

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Going out to swim. Hope the lightning forecast won't be booming. On the way back will stop for two more dvds and some grocery shopping.

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Sunday
It's cold today outside. 75º F

Not use to this kind of weather

Friday saw two meetings, a swim, and then me collating equipment requests from my fellow print people. Then to Slugfest and talked to T&M about print stuff and stuff.
Saturday back to studio and did this and that to painting. Afternoon saw me reading the art history foundation reading material. da Vinci and Oscar Wilde. Game day, hot and humid but no swim. Matrix Reloaded on night time TV. Some how stayed up too late.

Painting this morning after sleeping in and being awakened by Dan who had today mixed up with next Sunday's chores of deinstallation of our faculty show works.

I think it's time I ate and then mowed the lawn. As I said it is cold out there after all the days of heat.

Then up to school to submit a proposal due on Monday and then head across campus to swim. Bet it won't be crowded.

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Rest
Walking Tall, the complete series last night on DVD was stupid. Watched two episodes. Need to get something else for tonight.

Sleeping in is easiest for me in the morning. Drinking lots of tea, juice and water. Pills making me dingy.

Missed my book club friends last night. Started the new book for next month: Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans

Apple is recalling the battery on the PowerBook G4 I use at home. Good thing I don't use it as a portable. I always thought it was running too warm.

Still doing work via email.

Drawing a bit.

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Current Music: WFMU - "Day In The Blue" by Jackson Sisters

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lost in translation
I watched some movie that I will leave nameless. It was Russian and almost all dialog. Subtitles came so fast I could not keep up with what was going on. Oh well.

Almost finished reading The Borderland with three weeks to spare and now a chance to read The Kite Runner before our next book gathering and before school starts up.

Painting getting near to an ending I think. Maybe not, we will see.



National Night Out tonight with a poll party at the aquatic center.

Need to bring back two dvds and choose four more on topher thuesday before heading to the poll.

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Books
Went to Dan's house for meeting of our reading group last night after class, swim and a short visit to the Donkey Show. Good to have two new members. Now we have three great females and three great male members. The voting was in and here are the books we will be reading together over the next months.
1. The Stone Diaries
By Corol Shields

2. The Borderland : A Novel of Texas
By Edwin Shrake

3. When We Were Orphans : A Novel
By Kazuo Ishiguro

4. Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
By Steven D. Levitt

5. March
By Geraldine Brooks

6. The Bright Forever : A Novel
By Lee Martin

In a call this morning Pepe chastised me for giving low rankings to The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. So now I've promised to read them as well.

Time to visit Amazon.

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May 4th
Thirty six years ago today, the Kent State Massacure took place. It was my first semester of my Junior year and one wondered, can it really happen here.

Four Dead in Ohio )


Been way busy as the semester comes to a close. Last organized classes, for me, ended yesterday. Individual drawing meeting, plus going over their final portfolios now done. Tomorrow morning is litho cleanup and then afternoon individual meetings with print students.

Catchup: Swam at Aquatic Center on Monday, Barton on Tuesday After leaving Zilker, dark clouds forming, wind picking up, headed to Central Market arriving the same time as a violent hail storm. Parked as well as possible under a small tree and ran into the store. Man, hail on the metal roof was deafening and lasted a good half hour while pouring ran. But when I got home, the sun was already out.

Painting in studio Tuesday morning and today.

Dug up a rhizome of black bamboo, for Penelope, that had been trying to sneak into my yard.

Time to go order party platters for school's out gathering I have planned for saturday.

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taxing
After a short bought in the studio I sat down to the yearly chore of getting everything together to send to my accountant. I usually wait until spring break to do this even though I know I will get a refund. Anyway, finished with that by 1PM. Good. It's a success if my art breaks even.

Yesterday Barton was open again, the clouds faded and it got hot out. Good to swim in that cool water again.

Coming home I lit the grill for chicken legs, read and drank beer in peace and contentment. That Thackeray book is slow going.

Cold front blew through last night, just a few sprinkles fell.

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Current Music: WFMU -Tony Coulter's show

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beat up
After a full week. Final oral exams went well I thought. Bill was funny in the photo one which of all the ones I went to was the strangest. Nice to able to swim right afterwards now that the pool is open extended hours. Dog and Duck before heading home. Arriving there I found package from Amazon that held Vitamin D.

Yesterday was the steam roller event. Good to see all the print people and printing and clean up went quite smoothly. Pretty sore at the end of the day, but 30 minutes of laps washed the aches away. Then again stopped at Dog and Duck, had two beers this time and read half of a book on Art Critique some publisher sent me.

Finally got a long studio morning today with painting moving along. Now with a exhibit scheduled I'll be keeping up my schedule as much as I can and job will allow. Hopes for summer stipend.

Pledged a bit more to FMU. But moving to archived programs.

Time for late brunch, Central Market to get fixings for soup and then back to reading.

Another busy week ahead, MWF, then spring break.

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***Tumblin’ Dice***

Women think I’m tasty, but they’re always tryin’ to waste me
And make me burn the candle right down,
But baby, baby, I don’t need no jewels in my crown.

’cause all you women is low down gamblers,
Cheatin’ like I don’t know how,
But baby, baby, there’s fever in the funk house now.
This low down bitchin’ got my poor feet a itchin’,
You know you know the duece is still wild.

Baby, I can’t stay, you got to roll me
And call me the tumblin’ dice.

Always in a hurry, I never stop to worry,
Don’t you see the time flashin’ by.
Honey, got no money,
I’m all sixes and sevens and nines.
Say now, baby, I’m the rank outsider,
You can be my partner in crime.

But baby, I can’t stay,
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin’,
Roll me and call me the tumblin’ dice.

Oh, my, my, my, I’m the lone crap shooter,
Playin’ the field ev’ry night.

Baby, can’t stay,
You got to roll me and call me the tumblin’ dice, (call me the tumblin’)
Got to roll me, got to roll me, got to roll me (oh yeah)
Got to roll me. got to roll me, got to roll me ( keep on rolling, keep on rolling)