Last time I posted a journal I got talked to (mostly becasue I begged) and now I don't feel as lonely (kinda) the last while has been frustrating with the university work load, and not havin photoshop as a fun distraction is frustrating. Since my last journal i had 3 mid terms and now I'm writing a paper about why the rocks in Vermont and New York are super awesome.... which would be fun... if it wasn't 20 pages and 20% of my grade.... So thats what I'm doing now and it is extrememyl dull, spending the whole day infront of the computer typing and reading my absolutly awful field note.

I realize that me and field trips don't mix well if I have to take notes. I get all hyper and start writing absolute geological garbage in my book that is only semi-relevant to what I NEED to know. Like "oldest reefs EVA" "magic reefs above crossbeds" "Dolomitization killed the fossils" "Super fault" "Graptolites died" and "Big fishy!!!" and "Magic Fossil Tree Feilds"....

Its just silly and on top of all that my hand writing is near impossible to read. So I've writen 6 of my 20 pages so far and it s due on wednesday.... *sigh*

Either way, the big news... ROCKS!!!! Yes... I have a problem... I can't stop buying rocks. Last week there was a rock sale in the Geology museum on campus and I went every day to buy stuff. The first day was the biggest day.. I spent $96 (Canadian) on some fun stuff like a Jurrasic sand dollar, a banded iron, some magnetite crystals, a peice of a kimberlite (diamond ore), pumice (floatable volcanic glass) and a clump of sulpher. Then I went back the next day ans spent $60 on a hexagonal ruby, some funky yellow cubic mineral called wulfenite, and some brachiopods.... but then I went back AGAIN and spent $80 on some native copper, a staulite (cross shaped crystal) and som funky green rocks.

I don't know why but I just can't stop spending money on them, I love them all so much that I just need more. Now I'm poor again but it doesn't mater since I don't use money for anything else anyway.

DA stuff.... well as I've said over and over... photoshop is dead. I've been taking this as a chance to get better with apo, but I'm short on success right now. I a just not impressed by what is comming out and recenty a few people have faved alot of the really old stuff in my galleryand I realize THATS what I want to make. Back then when I knew nothing about apo I made random fractals that looked more like abstract art than anything, but now that I have some mastery of the program I'm making things that look like objects and its klling my brain... I don't want every single fractal I mke to have a spiral and a sphere (as classically attractive as those are) it all statrs to look like space too me and I don't want that.

As a result I'm trying altering and playing with some random batches again in an attempt to bring back my ability to make some of my old favs like [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] yup, I no longer know how to make things like these so I'm going to "re-learn" everything I once knew

Wish me luck, lol