Currently Reading Running with Scissors: A Memoir By Augusten Burroughs see related

i thought i would hate my drawing class, but it turns out i love it. my teacher is kind of a hardass but i really like her and i feel like i'm going to learn so much this semester, and i feel like i already have learned a lot from this class even though it's only been three weeks. i finished my first self-portrait (the one above) and even though it's a contour portrait, which means only lines and no shading, i still think it's the best likeness i've done of anyone.

also, i want to own every book augusten burroughs has written. and i love that i currently still have time to read even though i'm three weeks into school. this probably won't last much longer so i'm enjoying it while i can.

in other news, i'm sick again, which is not surprising. but it's even ickier than usual because i'm going under anaesthesia next wednesday so i can't take anything for my cold and i just feel like crap. max is moving in with kyle today and i'm excited that he's going to be so close. i'm going to miss kat, though. i put money in savings this month so cash has been tight since then, but joel got a job, so he was able to help out with bills this month and that saved me like $125. i'm getting my hair cut tomorrow and i can't wait. i'm going in just for a trim and some layers and i hope i have the willpower to resist telling her to just cut it all off. i've been in a mental-health-haircut kind of mood lately. but i like my long hair and i think i'd miss it.

daddy called me the other day and told me that he's taking clarke and me to maine for the weekend in two weeks because gran is dying. it makes me really sad. i'm glad i get to go see her, though. but it's going to be hard because i'm going to know the entire time that it's very likely that it will be the last time i see her.