i don't have time to sleep

I'm supposed to be writing a manifesto for my critical gender studies class but I don't really feel like doing it so I thought I'd get started on this blog. i guess the main purpose of this blog is to explain what is going on in the State of Ashley so I can like go back and poke around and remember stuff. 

I tried doing a secret tumblr and a word document but they didn't really do it for me. I guess I just need something visually appealing but also super secret too. Like who is going to bother looking for this blogspot. and well if people do end up reading this, then I wouldn't mind all that much either.

And since I'm finally doing something that I've only been thinking of doing up until now, I should really get around to doing all the things I've wanted to do. I'll make a list:

• a gazillion diy projects like making knee socks, making those animal buttons for my San Diego Zoo denim button-up, bejeweling my tights, painting my shorts, painting everything
• do more personal art projects
• create a zine
• find new friends
• join an art collective
• get a tripod

I honestly wish I had someone to do all this stuff with... it sucks when all my friends are guys and when no one really does these things in this side of California. at least I think not.

I SHOULD REALLY GET BACK TO WORK *_________*;;

Oh yeah, I worked on a huge art project for VIS1 this Veteran's Day weekend and here is a photo of it in progress:

It's finished now but i haven't taken a photo of it yet and it's still hanging out in the back seat of Kyle's car. I got a lot of good reactions from it. I've gotten better at communicating things to other people and stuff. 

I also finished my deep address project for ICAM101. It's a choose-your-own-adventure game (kinda), and you can play it here. It takes place in a world where IPv6 addresses are allocated by population growth. When some people run out, they can buy an additional address from another person. 

Hopefully I'll have time to expand on it. I think it's a pretty cool idea and could definitely be fleshed out a bit more. 

The winter quarter's almost here, and I've already signed up for the two ICAM classes I'm taking next year. It's one art history class about computing in the arts, and the other is an introduction course to programming in the arts. I'm also going to take Introduction to Cognitive Science and a math class. I want to see if cog sci interests me and if I want to pick up a human-computer interaction major on top of my ICAM major and studio minor. 

Life is pretty much all up in the air now. I don't really have any plans. This weekend Kyle's playing hockey against some colleges and the hockey guys are throwing a HUGE PARTY so maybe I'll have pretty pictures to post on here (but probably not).

OK. Time to work.