"peachy lips. i got me some peachy lips. yeah, yeah honey! uhuhuhuh. uhuh!!"

that is my new song for tonight. i just ate about 15 intense peach smints and my lips sure taste super peachy. i think peach smints might become the crack of the new millennium. they are just that good. try them. you'll become hooked just like me. then your silly ass can write dorky songs at 1am.

hi everyone.
yes.
i have been gone for a bit.
myself along with all my classmates have fallen into a dark, deep hole the past four weeks. we all worked ourselves to insanity on the pushcart class and most of have survived. we finished our carts last week and had the opening a week ago. it was rockin.

enough of my socializing. i will try and remember what has taken place over the past 30 days. some of the days will be spotty cuz the memory isn't what it used to be. plus, while working on pushcarts the days just tend to blur by.

monday, march 22: went to the nursing home to see gita. worked on book project. headed out to jake's house to work on my next motion graphics project. we each got a fortune cookie and now we have to make a 30sec short to express the fortune. jake is going to shoot it for me and then we are going to edit it together. we worked well together. talked about doing more stuff this summer. he taught me good things about editing.

tuesday, march 23: showed spots. everyone's was super good. worked on magazine.

wednesday, march 24: worked more on magazine. table of contents due. worked on cart at night.

thursday, march 25: worked in the woodshop on the cart. met with kevin on where we were at on stuff.

friday, march 26: worked at the times. crazy day. covered for john and we had to close three pages. much to do, but it was good. worked on website.

saturday, march 27: worked on cart and jake came into the city to meet me. we had dinner at molly's and then headed over to jonathan's house. it was his birthday today. we hung out and jake got to meet my friends in the program. also we got to meet jonathan's dog, izzy. he is a total cutie. he ate potato chips with us on the couch.

sunday, march 28: got up and had breakfast with jake's friends nicole and mark. headed back into the city because i had a photoshoot with rena. we did the cover of her magazine/booklet which is part of her thesis. she rented a photo studio for me at the 21st building and a friend of her modeled. we did naked girlie shots which were tasteful and sexy. (kinda like old pin up girl stuff.) it was a ton of fun. worked on projects and then headed back out to jake's cuz he cooked me dinner.

monday, march 29: did my internship. went to visit Gita at the nursing home. worked on my book project.

tuesday, march 30: went to the workshop at 1pm and worked on the cart until 9pm. went back to the studio and worked on the magazine.

wednesday, march 31: worked on the cart some more. probably did other things, but i can't remember. oh, hung out with jake at night. we both know this is the last time we'll see each other for a while. i have the crazy cart project and he is working on a video for the roots. i guess i should introduce jake. jake is my new boyfriend. we have been dating a little over a month and things are going well. jake is a motion graphics designer and helps run a small motion graphics company with three of his friends. other things to know about him: cute, sweet, owns two cats, makes music, lives in broolyn, grew up in minnesota, cooks me dinner and is just generally an all around awesome guy.

thursday, april 1:go meet paul, the illustrator whose work we are using to decorate the walls for the show. more work on the cart. i think they opened the workshop up this week most of the days so we could continually work on the cart. what was happening over these days for me was putting on mirrored tiles, trimming out the tiles and the windows, painting shit. try to get video off of dvds. successful on capturing video of ted nugent on tapeheads. getting dolly parton off of steel magnolias doesn't work. also order buttons for my cart. every good peepshow needs 1" indie rocker buttons to give out.

friday, april 2: more cart work i am sure. finally get the footage that i need of dolly parton off the dvd with a little help from my magic technical fairy. the nugent footage and the dolly footage will be used for my second tv spot. go to web class. work more on homework and other projects.

saturday, april 3: get up early and go to the silk-screening studio with jeffrey. i need photos for my silkscreen book and some packaging that i am working on. then jeffrey and i walk down to canal street so we can both pick up items that we need. go back to the workshop and work more on the cart.

sunday, april 4: get up and have a sore throat. i hope that i am not getting sick. that would suck. this is the last week before the cart is due and i have to get a shitload of stuff done and also get work done in my other classes. miss lunch. feel worse. work with thomas on the decorations for the walls of the show. can barely swallow any more. feel terrible. go get cold medicine and call jake and tell him that i can't hang over tonight. go back to the woodshop and work on the cart until 3am in the morning. my throat isn't any better and i feel like i am going to pass out.

monday, april 5: wake up at noon. didn't sleep too well. my throat is horrible. every time i swallow i feel like crying. it is just too painful. get up and shower. have to go back to bed cuz of feeling sick and dizziness. sleep until 1:30pm. get up and feel a bit better. go to the studio. look up symptoms of a strep throat. seems to match what i have. figure out where i can see a doctor. turns out my insurance is accepted at a walk in clinic on 23rd and 7ave. walk around the studio looking pathetic and miserable. talk to glen about my sickness and all my work. cry a bit because of the stress and the sickness. get my energy together and start to walk to the clinic.

it was the longest walk of my life. i should have taken a cab, but i couldn't deal with talking to people or the effort that it would take. walked forever and felt miserable. got to the clinic. they were super nice. waited a hour and a half. zoned out and tried not to swallow or cry. saw the doctor. got tested for strep. didn't have it. was told to just rest and take lots of advil. oh, and to gargle with salt water. walk back to studio to get stuff i left there. another long ass walk. to pathetic to take a cab. almost cry on the street cuz my throat feels so bad and there is no hope that this thing will go away soon.

get to the studio. bitch to other people about my sickness. more misery faces. go to CVS again for the third time today to get salt, water, advil, throat spray, zinc, etc. go home. sleep. drink lots of water. eat advil. get up at 7pm and feel better. my throat isn't as bad. i can actually eat food without wanting to cry out or scream. go back to my room. watch tv. sleep. watch more tv. sleep more.

tuesday, april 6: get up. i feel better, but i am not at a 100%, but i need to work on the cart. i have missed one day of running errands and working on stuff. go to studio and plan how to attack the day. drink lots of water and eat advil. go to vinyl letter place. order lettering. go to canal plastics and order my mirrored boarder for the bottom of the cart. go to a costume place to get a nurse's hat. need it for my sexual stereotype trading cards that i need to shoot. go home and sleep for an hour. eat dinner and head to the woodshop. work on cart until 10pm. go to studio and lauren shoots me in five different outfits for my trading cards. work until 3am getting stuff done on the trading cards for the cart.

wednesday, april 7: work in woodshop on the cart. have interview for a design job for the summer. seems to go well. go pick up vinyl lettering and the mirror for the cart. head back to the studio for magazine class. we meet, but don't have much done. go over to the woodshop. work until 11pm or so.

thurdsay, april 8: get up at 9:30 to get film for a 11am photoshoot at rina's house. rina is a second year student and i am taking the pictures for her dvd booklet for her thesis project. she is super wonderful to work with and this should be a good shoot. i wish i felt better though. get to apartment and realize that my friend greg live right above her. how weird is that? set up for shoot. all the models are funny and great to hang out with. eat lots of food. (rina saved me some of her matzah ball soup to help me fight my sickness.) shoot tons of film and get great shots. stayed until 6pm and then headed back to the studio in a hazy rain.

i have to move my cart today. it is load in day for the show. head over to the woodshop and see when i can move my stuff. not quite ready yet so i help others move pieces two blocks to the gallery. finally around 8pm we can move my piece. Jonathan, Chris and Chris come over and carry it two blocks. i help a bit, but i am not as strong as them. (thanks guys. you rock!) get it into place. head back to the studio to work on finishing up my products for the carts. the trading cards need to written and put together. the kitchen utensils are together, but they need branding. and the paper dolls are laid out, but they need a cover and to be put together. work until 1am.

friday, april 9: go into the times. john is out of town so i am covering for him. it is a crazy day. I get to assign an illustration, which takes a while since it is good friday. also all the layouts have changed so i get to do three new layouts. also two illustrations have been assigned, but need to overseen and finished. work on all of this until 3pm and then head out to school so i can see gary panter speak. gary panter is an illustrator, comic book artist and the man who designed all the sets for the pee-wee herman show. he is awesome!! great talk. funny, smart and strange. the perfect mix that gets me every time. worked a bit on the website. headed back over to the gallery cuz we are moving more carts in at 6pm. stay at gallery until 11pm and then come back and work on more products.

saturday, april 10: get up and go to gallery. we are getting our places today. work more on the cart and helping other people with their carts. also work on signage for the show. make the sign for the top of the cart. go back to the studio and work until 2am on products. almost all done.

sunday, april 11: we need all products done by 6pm so we can put them on the cart. i scramble and get most of mine done. walk them over by 6pm and find out kevin is not there. go back to studio and finish more products. not everything is done, but enough so you get the idea. work in the gallery moving people's carts around, working on the sign and getting the show in order until 2am. we put my neon on the cart around midnight and it looks beautiful. i am now a proud owner of a 2' x 3' neon naked pink lady who is bending over showing her ass for the world to see.

monday, april 12: go to my internship. super tired and beat so i head out around 1pm so i can get some sleep. (it is a chill day so steven lets me go.) sleep for an hour and then i head over to the studio to finish a couple more products. go to the gallery. final touches to cart. get dressed in my catholic school girl outfit after all i have to match my peepshow cart. show starts at 6pm and it is super crowded. everyone likes the carts. the show is a big hit. becky and steve stop by to see the cart. jake also takes time out from his crazy video work to come out and see it. it is awesome to see him. haven't seen him in two weeks. miss the boy. meet lauren's parents. meet chris john's girlfriend. after the show is over we all go to grand saloon and get dinner. we toast and drink and eat and feel generally good about what we just did. it has been a crazy, stressed month, but we did it. too bad we can't celebrate more, but we have tv class tomorrow and have to get our homework done for that. i can finish my spot tomorrow so i head out to brooklyn to see jake.

tuesday, april 6: head back into the manhattan from jake's. take a hour nap and then head into the studio to finish my spot. it looks pretty good. go over spots and i get a thumbs up on mine. talk to bonnie about my next spot. work until 2am on magazine layouts. have to get caught up in everything else since the cart is now over and we have two weeks before finals.

wednesday, april 7: work more on the layout. go to pentagram to hear michael beruit speak. great place and amazing work. michael is awesome and totally down to earth. head back to studio. meet as a class and go over everyone's magazines. meet with group after class and go over the magazine more. try and make it more cohesive. work on book stuff.

thursday, april 8: continue working on book stuff. then work on web stuff. get my home page and secondary page done.

friday, april 9: web class. continue working on web pages in class and until 10pm. get all pages built out in photoshop. now i just need to take them all into dreamweaver. fun. go out and get drinks with araba and her friend jeremy. hear lots of stories about araba from grammar school and high school. go to convience store and buy a zinger. then go to another bar where araba learns how to play cricket. (darts.) she almost kicks jeremy's ass. pretty good for a beginner.

saturday, april 10: sleep in until 2pm. my body is trying to catch up on all the sleep i missed during the cart class. it is a beautiful day out. around 70 or so. go to the studio. work on my next spot for bonnie. take a break and tooked natalie, thomas and jeffrey to gramercy park. we hang out and chris r. comes by. we let him in and talk and chill for an hour. we watch the people walk by and laugh at the squirrels and their silly antics. eat dinner and head back to the studio. work more and then go get ice cream with celia, thomas, natalie and araba. work until 12:30 am and then head back to my room. watch the end of ER and then i clean my room until 3am.

sunday, april 11: get up at noon. go into the studio. borrow jeffrey's camera and then head out to do photos for maira's class. i am taking photos of different areas of NY where my friend Gita lived. i am going to make a book of photos and her stories so she can remember some of her life and memories since her memories are kind of fuzzy. go and shoot gramercy park and the national arts building where she once worked. go up to 78th street and shoot the area where she lived as a child. go down to the west village and photograph a library she used to go to and her last apartment she lived in before going to the nursing home. it was awesome to get out on such a beautiful day and explore and shoot NY. but at the same time, i felt bad because i was out in places gita used to frequent all the time and now she is confined to a wheelchair in a nursing home. it was a bittersweet feeling. also it was interesting to see where she had been and what she may have seen.

headed back to the studio and worked on the magazine, tv spot and other work. talked to jake over email. they are pretty much done with the video. yea! now he can sleep.