goal*

I’m so close to being done with this ridiculousness. Just 3 more days… oh man, I’m so excited. I can’t wait till Friday, I don’t know what I’ll do but I’m definately celebrating somehow.

And then, to start running again. I haven’t gone since the 5k on the 4th of July, and I feel bad about it. But with a whole month between quarters this time, I think I should be able to do it more often. I had pretty lofty goals for the summer and I’m pretty sure I won’t be getting to quite a few like learning Adobe After Effects or screenprinting (but I’m taking screenprinting this fall anyways, so it’s okay) or painting that damn giagantic canvas. (I dunno, maybe I will. I really should cause the underpainting creeps me out everytime I look at it.)

I guess even though I won’t get to do everything on my list, I’ve done a lot and still have time to do quite a bit more before fall. But to make the most of my last month I’ll simplify my summer goals down to 3 main things:

• Draw: I will probably be doing a lot of this anyways, since I’ll be starting to illustrate a story for someone who is actually paying me. But I just feel like I’m loosing it or something. Too much Illustrator and mouse, not enough lead and paper.
• Practice: I’m going to try focusing on just Banji (the banjo) for now. The piano, guitar, and bongos will just have to wait till later. I want to master Banji cause I paid a lot for it.
• Run: I want to do the Dawg Dash this year. Apparently you can do either 5k or 10k. Now that I know I can do 5k i wanna shoot for the 10k, but I’m not sure… 6ish miles is a lot for me. I guess I have like 2 months work up to it.

So yeah, that’s what I’ll be focused on once class ends. I guess as crazy as the class has been, it is pretty much my style of doing things, quasi-intense but condensed. Like how I get really into an album, repeating it everyday for like a week or two then moving on. Probably because I know my attention span will get me.

It’s weird that I have to make these things goals though, cause they’re all things I actually like to do. It shouldn’t really be that hard to do things I like, but somehow I manage to just waste my time doing nothing. I don’t get it.

*for some reason I was really tempted to title this “goalnads and strife” but i didn’t.