Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat, otherwise we'd get along

Today was Thanksgiving and I survived. I normally don't care for Thanksgiving. There's always way too much food around which makes me incredibly nervous and the day is filled watching the Thanksgiving parade on tv and then numerous bad movies that are playing. I got some homework done which is nice, but I havent made a very big dent in the amount I have to get done for monday. I almost finished my essay on protest poster art of the 1960's though so that's one less thing to worry about. But overall it was a fairly nice day. After dinner, my family and I played Loaded Questions, my favorite board game, and then they all went out while I stayed in to do homework and watch Benny and Joon.

The other day, my design teacher brought all her sketchbooks in to class. She has kept one a year since graduating from pasadena art center, the school I probably should have gone to, so she brought them in a big cardboard box. It was fascinating to see. She encouraged us all to keep a sketchbook, even though we are design majors because it is supposed to help with the creative process. I feel like my drawings are like a five year old's compared to the stuff she showed us, but it might be nice to keep it just for me and whatever pops into my mind. She was telling us how she used to go sit in the local laundromat and sketch the people who would come in to do laundry and draw them as whatever time period she thought they looked like. I had a blank 11 x 14 inch one sitting in my room so I think Im gonna pick it up tonight and start drawing it in. Back in high school, my art teacher used to want us to turn in our sketchbook for a grade at certain times throughout the semester, and I'd never do it until an hour before class. I'd end up scribbling down anything I could think of. Started looking into internships for this upcoming summer and found some interesting ones. There are internships at Warner Brothers in the graphic design department which look amazing and I'm definitely going to apply for. Then there's one at 20th Century Fox as a designer for Fox Sports News and another one at Rhino Records. I'm going to keep looking, but i think the internship route is the way to go for this summer.

One of the movies that just happened to be on tv today was Runaway Bride with Richard Gear and Julia Roberts. In the movie, Julia Roberts character keeps running away from weddings and part of it is that she doesn't have a sense of self but becomes whatever the guy likes. For example, she kept changing her favorite type of eggs to whatever type of eggs her fiance liked: poached, scrambled, eggs benedict, etc. It made me think if I ever do that sort of thing and I think I might do that to an extent with music. I mean, I don't listen to things that I normally would never listen to, but I go through phases of music that I start listening to when I like different people. I won't say which musical phase I'm in now because it would probably give it away, but it reminds me of the High Fidelity quote, "Which came first, the music or the misery?"

Anyway, hope everyone reading this is having an excellent holiday. I'm definitely looking forward to the next few days because I've only seen a couple of people so far. Was a bit of a hermit today, but that'll change tomorrow.