Assignment #44: Part III

Choose A Word And Translate It

Truly

Dutch: Echt
French: Vraiment
Spanish: Verdad
Portuguese: Verdadeiramente
Italian: Allineare
Greek: αληθινά

Assignment #44: Part II

Describe What Happens Outside Your Window

1. What i guessed

There's a big tree that's just beginning to get leaves again. A white Honda across the street. A white house that's hidden by a huge Doug Fir and a couple bushes and a red spikey plant. There's red Christmas lights in the living room. A purple house that has orange and green accents and a staircase to their porch and a garden. Daffodils. A stop sign and a street sign that reads "SE 30th" and the other reads "SE Main St." Some telephone lines and a streetlight. Maybe a stray cat or a biker going down 30th. Maybe a squirrel. An off-white house covered in vines. A car with a University of Arizona sticker across the back windshield.

2. After looking through my window

I forgot the Cartridge World Scion and the big white Van. The tree in front of Ross and Tina's that has moss all over it and kind of smells like fish. It's nighttime and i can see the moon. The house across the way that has a blue tarp covered Camper in their lawn. Our recycling bins.

Assignment #44: Part I

List 100 Of Your Favorite Things

1. Lavender honey steamers
2. Bike rides
3. Raspberries
4. Bee pollen
5. Kittens
6. Red Pandas
7. Spring
8. Having sock choices
9. Tom Kha
10. Embroidering
11. The bros
12. Roller coasters
13. Trinkets
14. A good day at The Bins
15. Warmth
16. Trampolines
17. Receiving packages and letters
18. Sending packages and letters
19. Singing
20. Baking
21. Sewing
22. Foreign currency
23. Forts
24. Gardens
25. Joey Moran
26. Anna Wolfe-Pauly
27. The Main House
28. The idea of riding a horse
29. Hikes
30. Staying up too late
31. New things made out of old or broken things
32. Free things
33. Nanette Lepore
34. Cute, new underwear
36. Meteor showers
37. The music my friends make
38. Bro puns
39. 90s pop culture
40. Coffee
41. Cupcakes
42. Long walks
43. Miguel's and Mose's messages i have saved on my phone
44. Old pictures of my family
45. Pastels
46. Nice pencils and pens
47. Maps
48. Redwoods
49. Fresh laundry
50. High-fives
51. Black currant tea
52. Eating grapefruits like oranges
53. Ladybugs
54. Swimming in the ocean at night
55. The Oregon coast
56. Clean teeth
57. Mountains
58. My dad's old guitar
59. My mom's pasta
60. Missed connections
61. Class crushes
62. Having every possible color of thread
63. Softball in the summer
64. Constellations
65. Pumpkin patches
66. Laughing so much it hurts
67. Learning
68. Spooning
69. Napping
70. Skeleton keys
71. Wikipedia
72. Skateboarders
73. The Golden Time
74. Feeding the ducks at Laurelhurst park
75. Dreams
76. Murray Baumgarten
77. Sleeping in
78. Having neighbor friends
79. Pink Lady apples
80. Raw corn on the cob
81. Riding the bus
82. Daffodils
83. Italo Calvino
84. Joan Didion
85. Mason jars
86. To-do lists
87. Being inside on a rainy day
88. Being outside on a sunny day
89. Dr. Finger
90. Greg Davis for when it's time to sleep
91. Kitchen appliances
92. Seasonal fruits and veggies
93. Deep sea animals
94. Back scratches
95. Homemade ice cream
96. Being too excited to go to sleep
97. Secret spots
98. My idea of Norway
99. Sharing
100. Dresses

Assignment #35

Ask Your Family To Describe What You Do

From Aubree (age 22), my sister:

Currenty, I believe you are taking three classes that probably fill about 10 hours in your week in actual class time+traveling to school+homework+time in between class. So I figure you spend about 15-20 hours of your week doing school related things.
I think you probably sleep in and go to bed sort of late, maybe you go to bed around midnight and wake up at around 9-10.
You also have to spend some time per week running errands...groceries, laundry, etc. I'll give that about 5 hours of your time.
Other than that I think you spend a lot of time reading, drawing, painting, and creating. You probably do some of these activities in coffee shops and a lot of them at home, particularly baking. Also, you probably do some shopping...clothing, antiques, and thrift.
Besides that I would say you spend a substantial amount of your time with friends. Maybe rolling in the grass, driving to the coast, going on hikes, etc.

From Bethany (age 24), my sister:

i think that you sleep in every day, then get up and have some coffee or tea or something and probably sit around for a while. then go to school or whatever for like a couple of hours or just sit around in your room and play guitar, go on the internet, or make art or something. or hang out with friends and do random stuff. then you probably make some sort of food for dinner. have something to eat, hang out with friends some more and then go to bed really late and do the same thing over again. except not the school thing, since you probably only go twice a week. i think you live in a general state of relaxation, creativity and lack of urgency, possibly with the influence of alcohol, and/or drugs. sounds pretty ideal to me.

i hope this helps and doesnt sound negative, because its not. i wish i could do what i just described every day. bye for now. ps i got to pet a penguin again. you missed out.

From Jamie (age 50), my mom:

Presently, Carly is usually doing something creative. You can find her
sewing, cooking, print making, designing a business plan or playing the
guitar.

Carly's motto could easily be, "Do something creative everyday". She will
get right to her creativity once she has had a much relished good night's
sleep. Of course, her "good night's sleep" often includes a greater portion
of the morning!

Once up, or perhaps before bed the night before, she will have made a list
of her goals for the day. She will aspire to achieve these goals, but will
not be entirely disappointed with herself if she falls a little short.

Her day will start with a healthy vegan breakfast, that she will gladly
share with the others in her household. Next. a long, leisurely shower will
follow filled with plenty of singing. Depending on the day, she will
prepare for her classes, go hiking, sew or haunt an establishment known for
it's tea and atmosphere. Carly's day will end by creating a great dinner
with friends, some singing and dancing (especially while she cooks), and, if
a venue for great music can be found, she'll be there!

Assignment #34

Make A Protest Sign And Protest



"C'mon Spring!"

Assignment #9

Draw A Constellation In Someone's Freckles


The Cat Constellation, recently found on the arm of Grant McGavin.

Assignment #8

Curate An Artist's Retrospective In A Public Place



Laminated and nailed on four different telephone poles around the Hawthorne area.

Assignment #11

Photograph A Scar And Write About It


Under the right knee, the closest to my foot

Closer up & a little blurry

There was one day when only Lana and i were home and we both decided to take naps. You know when you take a nap at around 4 or 5 and it's confusing because you wake up and it's dark but when you went to sleep it was light? That happened. When i woke up i walked down the stairs and because it was pitch black i thought there were three fewer stairs than there actually were. I had a pretty clean fall, three feet down and three feet across, right onto my knee. Lana was napping on the couch so she laughed at me a little.

Assignment #18

Recreate A Poster You Had As A Teenager


From Mount Eerie's "No Flashlight" album. It used to be Chris's and it has a decent sized rip in the bottom left corner.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2lcm5ynimex
And a nice compliment of Mount Eerie's "It's Not the Hunting"

Assignment #37

Write Down A Recent Argument

Me: Yeah, a group of four bros moved in across the street but they're so rad

Ben: Seriously? Four bros? (raises eyebrow)

Me: Yeah! But they're the kindest bros and they're going to let us garden in their yard and we're going to have summer barbeques and they get drunk and Razor scooter and they let us borrow movies and DUDE, we're starting a garden in their backyard! (motions excitedly)

Ben: Oh yeah, i wonder why they're so nice. Four attractive girls live across the street and want to hang out. Be careful with that.

Me: No! Seriously! They mean so well! They would never do that! The bros would do anything for us! (leaning in, really trying to be convincing)

Ben: Uh huh, they just want to see you all bending over, sweaty, digging in the dirt.