I am still looking for the sheet of paper for that assignment. It could be fun to have people I know write down random words and then that is what I need to represent through pictures and create a story out of. I also saw a book about how beauty or design is in the little things in life or something to that effect. That could be fun to do something on as well. The photography would be interesting--to photograph something we're so used to seeing every day in a different way so that you don't recognize it at first. For some reason, I've been thinking about the imagery first for this project. Maybe I should focus on the other content, like what I'm going to write. I guess I could write about the things I just listed. Especially if I decided to make a story out of the pictures. I think it would've been fun to have written the mystery out about the project I did this summer. I had a continuous dialogue going in my head while I was drawing so that I was always thinking about how I wanted to convey the mystery through the drawing. We could also only use one spot color...I don't know if I would do that for this. I've always liked writing fiction, too. And I haven't done that in awhile. I was going to take one this year, but I decided to work more instead. The last time I wrote creatively was probably my senior year of high school. That's sad--I should just start writing again, but I feel sort of rusty now. Maybe if I find some old assignments I can try writing them again now.

Well I think the Blizzard is officially over. I was supposed to go home yesterday, but that didn't happen. Closing the highway kind of put a stop to it. I checked the Iowa Department of Transportation website and it basically said 'travel at your own peril.' So that is fine. I think I'll do laundry today. I should have enough quarters. I have a lot of laundry, though. I'm not very domestic at all. It's my hope that someday my domestic genes will kick in and I'll be able to cook and finish my laundry without it being a big ordeal. I know plenty of guys who cook better than I do. Or maybe it's just that they're willing to put more time into it. I get irritated when my TV dinner has to heat up for 5 minutes and 30 seconds with a cooling time of 2 minutes.

Lately I have had the weirdest cravings. The other day I really wanted some tomato soup. And now I've been craving scallops for at least two days. I have no idea why I am so hungry for scallops. My roommate has been wanting a BLT, so if we could find a restaurant that serves BLTs and scallops, we would probably be eating there right now.

My friend has random pictures that his sister took from the top of a touring bus hanging on his wall. That would be cool to create a collection of random shots from different things. In drawing class this summer, we had to take random shots representing different things and then put them in some sort of order to create a story out of them. That was really fun. Mine was a murder mystery involving my roommate. She was kind enough to help out with my project. That would be really fun to recreate somehow for this project...