so, how they hangin'?

I like to ask this question to random people. Sometimes they have good answers (low and to the left, for example) and sometimes they are completely befuddled and that's the fun part.
Well, here's how mine's hangin': close.
And now that we know THAT, let me tell you what I've been up to in classes.

 I had a presentation to do in Humanities. My project was "Exploring the Gilded Age Through Architecture and the Upper Class in America". I had an afternoon tea with Darjeeling, lemon water, cucumber sandwiches, scones, mushroom pate, and assorted additions. The culinary students really liked the scones, which I made from scratch. "You should be in Baking and Pastry with us!" That made me happy. My slide show was awesome and I had brochures and a diorama to accompany my presentation. Basically, I killed it. When the teacher asked who was going next, one guy said, "I'm not following that!" That made me happy, too.
In my typography class, we got to design our own font! We had to keep a doodle journal for five weeks and the class picked from that.
Here is a poster I'm doing in my font, the name of it, I'm calling Mahal Kita. It translates to "I love you" in Tagalog, the language of the Philippines. It's based on doodles I used to paint on my pants when I was a teenager.
So, what you think?

my diorama, it's the construction of The Breakers, a housethat the Vanderbilt family once used in the summers.

see!? my font is listed!

my font poster. I like it. All the required elements are included!

Things to do at a country music concert when you're not a country music fan...

So my friend, Marci, won two tickets to a country music concert and asked if I would go with her. I'm not a huge country music fan, but it was free and we got to take the train, so I said, "Sure, why not!"

I had never heard of these people but it turns out I actually had heard a few of the songs on the radio before. We walked around and hung out and goofed off before the music started, here are some pics and the list of things to do at a country music concert when you are not a country music fan:

* get attacked by vendors to sign up for "free" giveaways such as pick-up trucks, boots and guitars signed by a singer you don't know

* collect as many "gimmes" as you can; I got a bag from GMC, a boot shaped glass from Sheplers, a koozie from Sheplers and 2 hand fans, one of which is shaped like a cowboy boot from Justins

* spend $16 on 2 bottles of water and a small Pepsi

*bring back empty Pepsi cup for free ice

*empty ice into boot-shaped glass and give empty Pepsi cup to friend so she can get free ice, too

*eat tacos

*put a moustache sticker on the back of a concert chair

*take pictures of "cowgirls" wearing Daisy Dukes and boots

*sing along and dance to songs you don't know

*watch drunk hootchies try to dance

*walk 5 blocks to get to the bus stop so you can get to the train, change trains then get to your car and drive home to take aspirin for your headache

eating tacos

"cowgirls" in Daisy Dukes and boots

where a moustache sticker goes!

waiting on the train to take us to Fair Park

me and Marci with our gimmes 

concert goers on the lawn, the Texas State Fair ferris wheel in the back

well I WAS dancing!

Roger Creager singing the Everclear song

Montgomery Gentry singing "what do you thing about that"

how DOES paint taste?

I was sitting in the break room at work yesterday when I opened up the USA Today that was on the table. I saw a picture of a painting and thought "What the hell is that?"

Turns out, a chimpanzee painted it....with his tongue, and everyone was all excited about it.

The only words that would come to my mind were: "Are ya fuckin' kiddin' me??"

Yes, I am in art school and I'm an artist, but most of the time I don't understand what someone calls art. I am beginning to understand brush strokes and color choices and how an artist decided what to do with them and most of the time, I can see the emotion used to paint or draw something. That, to me is art.
But I don't like being duped. I'm not saying a chimp doesn't have feelings, but come on! This?
To top it off, he won a contest! WTF? I can't even get a scholarship and this furry sub-human is winning fucking painting contests!

The only way I can rationalize this to make myself feel better, is the fact that the money went to his Primate Sanctuary to help other chimps and apes.
FML...here is the whole story:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/29/chimp-paint-contest/2726163/

"Brent is a natural," said Cathy Willis Spraetz, president and CEO of Chimp Haven.