New things I learned today:
1. Poetry workshops are uncomfortable and unproductive, but we all knew that. Well, unless you count "it's good! I like it!" as constructive. But let's be real here, those people are usually fibbing anyway.
2. After consulting both primary and secondary sources, I have come to this conclusion: tall, muscular rugby dudes do not, I repeat DO NOT, tend to go for similar-sized dudettes. Indeed, research proves that bouncy, pint-sized, dropkick poodle types are the preferred breed of the male rugby-playing population. Puzzling? Yes. Surprising? Not really. The wiseman Ben Davis once said "It's always the tiny chicks and the tall guys that get the girl" (or guy, as it were).
Anyhoo, more exciting (?) news:
Yesterdays 2K erg time: 8.10.5
Todays 2K erg time: 8.10.6
My best erg times are on the rowing machine with the lazy bungee (annoying on the recovery but weirdly smooth on the drive). Go figs. Also, the first 1000 meters are super easy to keep at a 2:00 split but halfway through I get spooked by the prospect of maintaining that pace for another 4ish minutes and slow to about a 2:06. I think it's mostly mental because when I'm done I huff and puff a little bit but I don't get that overwhelming "I think I'm going to expire" head rush that usually comes after a 2K erg piece. Maybe it's because I don't want to ruin my otherwise super breezy composure for which I am known throughout the greater YMCA community. I also don't want to ralph on the lycra-clad limbs of the recumbent bicyclists, as that would cause my social stock to plummet to submarine depths the likes of which have never been seen, not even by those ladies who pedal merrily in their pink bathrobes, fuzzy slippers, and skirted bathing costumes.
Maybe that's why I don't go for the gusto in its entirety?
I will leave you to chew a while on that while I go prepare for my French telephone interview on the morrow.
Trans-continentally yours,
Francoise
Friday, November 20, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
A Good Find
SUPER cool graphic design blog: Print & Pattern
Profiles on different designers and their work with a focus on the young and whimsical! Seriously, if you like to look at things half as much as I do you won't want to miss this blog.
My personal favorites from P+P:
Eleanor Grosch- childrens wall art
Paul Catherall- big into architectural prints (not usually my faves) but his colors are fantastic and these two are standouts:
Profiles on different designers and their work with a focus on the young and whimsical! Seriously, if you like to look at things half as much as I do you won't want to miss this blog.
My personal favorites from P+P:
Eleanor Grosch- childrens wall art
Paul Catherall- big into architectural prints (not usually my faves) but his colors are fantastic and these two are standouts:
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tres shwet, non?
Ze latest in color et design (CHYEA BOI for "+"s all around):
Assignment: I don't entirely remember but it involved abstract shapes (they always do) and complementary colors. I took the stencil approach.
Assignment: Start with a straight hue (green) and alter the value (horizontal stripe) and intensity (vertical stripe). On a separate stripe alter your hues intensity by mixing it with its complement.
Assignment: Color wheel with 12 hues. The diff between the violets is more apparent in person.
Bill Cosby got a +, too. Woo!
Assignment: I don't entirely remember but it involved abstract shapes (they always do) and complementary colors. I took the stencil approach.
Assignment: Start with a straight hue (green) and alter the value (horizontal stripe) and intensity (vertical stripe). On a separate stripe alter your hues intensity by mixing it with its complement.
Assignment: Color wheel with 12 hues. The diff between the violets is more apparent in person.Bill Cosby got a +, too. Woo!
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Gnocchi Gnight!
Gnocchi gnight was gnarly!
(Gnarly in this situation meaning a bit of a sweet potato-y, flour-y, sticky mess more worm-shaped than gnocchi-shaped, but tasty in the end and enjoyed by all)
I also ended up baking rockfish instead of searing halibut, and the green salad with pears and warm chevre toasts evolved into green salad minus pears and chevre minus toasts. The pears and chevre joined forces later in the game, though, and were SUPERB! Everyone felt very French.
In the end the moral of the story is that good beer + yummy food = difficult to mess up. One would have to be a black belt in spazznometry to goof that combo up.
In other news, here is the latest design projay:
Bill "The Incredible Hulk" Cosby!
He is going on our family portrait wall as soon as I get him back.
Okay. I am having trouble thinking clearly. I need to go suck fresh air through a straw or something. I love you all.
Francois
ps- House health care reform bill approved 220-215!
That is all.
(Gnarly in this situation meaning a bit of a sweet potato-y, flour-y, sticky mess more worm-shaped than gnocchi-shaped, but tasty in the end and enjoyed by all)
I also ended up baking rockfish instead of searing halibut, and the green salad with pears and warm chevre toasts evolved into green salad minus pears and chevre minus toasts. The pears and chevre joined forces later in the game, though, and were SUPERB! Everyone felt very French.
In the end the moral of the story is that good beer + yummy food = difficult to mess up. One would have to be a black belt in spazznometry to goof that combo up.
In other news, here is the latest design projay:
Bill "The Incredible Hulk" Cosby!He is going on our family portrait wall as soon as I get him back.
Okay. I am having trouble thinking clearly. I need to go suck fresh air through a straw or something. I love you all.
Francois
ps- House health care reform bill approved 220-215!
That is all.
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About Me
- Franny
- I was going to call this blob the Lonely Goatherd but thought that might be misleading because I am not, in fact, a very lonely person. The Loamly Goatherd works out quite nicely because loam rhymes with lone and also happens to be my favorite soil type. When I am not buzzing about being an agriculture and education student at Western Washington University, I am a cooker, a baker, an eater, a feeder of people, and a knitter-sewer-felter of all things soft and wooly.