brrrrr...

So the heat in my house isn't working. Right now I'm attempting to do something to get me to that stage of sleepiness where cold doesn't matter. I would study, but my brain cannot absorb any more. Seriously. I haven't put down THAT book in the past 10 days and I feel like I still don't know anything. The test is Friday and I probably won't learn any more. Every time I take a practice test I do worse and worse. I think (hope) it's because I am getting nerves-y about it. Grrrr... Well at least I have been glass blowing. Actually, I've gone down to the studios for the past three weekends. Kinda awesome. Maybe if I don't get into grad school I can become a gaffer...

Maybe I'll post some pictures for you guys. Actually, I have one ready on my desktop. It's not of me, instead it's of one of my instructors, but I can pretend I'm some middle-aged guy who is a master of the art of glass and can make anything out of it.


Check out the pattern in the glass, kinda like fishnets. Very cool, and hard to do. And look at the size of that. That is basically the preliminary size, what you get after the 2nd gather and shaping. That means that is solid glass. You can blow that up to about 4 or 5 times the size it is now. That requires a ton of technical ability.


Okay and now it's time to sleep. The plus side about being so cold is that it freezes all the bugs. No mosquitoes to zip around my ears as I try to sleep.