It's November already

Quote of the day: "There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting." (Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery)

The vesica piscis is down to an eyelash over two ounces. Without sprue and button, so more carving is in my future. Arrgh, arrgh, arrgh.

And repair. It's cracked, broken into four? pieces or so. No problem that, though, just need to filch Pat's wax pen and do some seriously melting.

I should repair the scallop. Authenticity be damned, I think I'll leave it naturalistic looking. But it's well under the dreaded two ounces, so sprue and button should not pose any problem. I could actually get it cast.

The boy, Jacob, has not come into class for the last two weeks or so. The girls are still fairly inane at times but not so bad as long as he's not there. I got the feeling that he had offended the one, extremely talkative girl, Hannah and is making himself scarce.

Thank God.

We're in for a real cold-ish front, down into the mid-thirties, perhaps for the Thursday and Friday nights, perhaps just Thursday. I will be tres popular with the fur-bearing ones.

Milkshake coffee doesn't taste too terribly awful. I'm making headway.

Tea is still better.

Big Brother and Sister-in-law own a house in New Hampshire. Big Brother has moved a couple of U-Haul truckloads up there, was scheduled to get a trailer hitch on the Honda Pilot (the Odyssey died a sudden death, needed a complete, expensive tranny rebuild) to pull a trailer up, perhaps this weekend. They might get all moved up in time for Thanksgiving and to be snowed in 'til spring.

Sometimes I think I'm a good artist. Some of my sketches are pretty okay. Wow. If I put more effort in, I'd get really good. How about four hours a week instead of the two on Monday? I'd get good twice as fast.

I'm not sure if I'm trying to talk myself into taking Painting I this Spring or trying to talk myself out of it. Dan Stepp is teaching it (as is Malinowski, but I've learned that lesson). He's also teaching his portraiture/life painting class again but I think I'd be less daunted if I learned something about painting before I tackled live models. Still lifes seem challenging enough.

Color! Am I mad? I can barely manage pencils.

I think I'm talking myself into it, aren't I?