Blog Post #2 (VISU 1100)

Part 1: Time Tracker!

(Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future…)

Use of time for one week (9/7/15)-(9/13/15):

	Monday(Labor Day!)9/7/15	Tuesday 9/8/15	Wednesday 9/9/15	Thursday 9/10/15	Friday 9/11/15	Saturday 9/12/15	Sunday 9/13/15
7:00	Sleeping	7:45- wake up, get dressed and ready for class	7:50- wake up, get dressed and ready for class	7:50ish-wake up, lay in bed	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping
8:00	Sleeping	8:15- make peanut butter and jelly sandwich (“breakfast”)8:45- leave for class (Fine Arts Building) from East Hall	8:10– eat breakfast granola bar in dorm8:40– go to class (Fine Arts Building) from East Hall	8:00– get up and dressed, ready for the day8:15– eat granola bar, check social media 8:40– leave for class (Fine Arts Building)	8:45- wake up, change and get ready for the day	Sleeping	Sleeping
9:00	Sleeping	9:00- Foundations in Art and Design class	9:00– Visual Studies (Lab)	9:00– Foundations in Art and Design class	9:00ish– take shower	9:15ish-Wake up, check phone9:30-back to sleep	Set alarms for waking up (9:45, 10:40, 11:00, etc.), then go back to sleep
10:00	Sleeping	10:40- Class dismissed, walk to Main Building	10:45– End of class,	10:30– class ends, speed-walk to drop off art supplies in dorm (East Hall)10:40– arrive in dorm room, rest on bed and phone for a little 10:50– walk to library in order for Professional Speaking and Communications class (Library Presentation day)	10:	Sleeping10:30ish– wake up, but lay in bed for a little bit 10:50– get up, restroom, check phone	Set alarms, go back to sleep
11:00	11:00– wake up, talk with roommate!Look through social media11:35– Phone call with mom, grandma (ends at ~12 pm)	11:00- Professional Speaking and Communications class		11:00– beginning of Library Presentation11:40- end of presentation, conversation with professor about outline	11:50– Applied Piano Lessons	11:15ish– take shower	11:15– Wake up (finally!)
12:00	12:01-read through email12:30– prepare and eat peanut butter and jelly sandwich, plus Goldfish (yum), while checking social media	12:10– End of class, walk to Ragsdale Center for lunch12:40– finish lunch, walk to poster sale outside Ragsdale		12:00– go to lunch at Ragsdale center	12:15– End of Piano Lessons, walk to Ragsdale Center12:20– go to poster sale (upstairs Ragsdale in ballroom) 12:40ish– pick out posters to buy,checkout 12:50– walk to LBJ South for Rhet. and Comp. II class
1:00	1:30-Read through email (Zimbra), Facebook1:40– decide to take shower, take shower		1:00– Rhetoric and Composition II Class1:50– End of Rhetoric and Composition II class, walk to Ragsdale Center for lecture		1:00– Rhetoric and Composition class1:50– End of class, to Hunt Hall Cafe for lunch
2:00	2:00-Work on outline for Speech		2:00– Sex, Drugs, and Counterculture lecture/class			2:00– begin shift as desk hall worker;distribute mail, read Just Mercy
3:00	3:00– Work on Foundations in Art and Design Contour Line Sculpture		3:15– end of class,walk to East Hall			Listen to music, draw, read
4:00	4:30-Finish sculpture, begin to watch The Office (Netflix)					Listen to music (switch to classical in order to “focus”)
5:00	5:15– Hunt Hall Café for dinner (to go) with roommate	5:00– Arrive to work study job (Front Desk of East Hall)	5:00– Jazz Band class/rehearsal		5:25: walk with roommate to Hunt Hall Cafe (in the rain…)5:30- Hunt Hall Café, special dinner with hall floor	5:00-end of desk worker shift
6:00	6:30– Back in East Hall; eat dinner in dorm room while watching TV	Read Chapters for English (Just Mercy) while working	6:30ish– end of Jazz band practice, walk to		6:15– head back to East Hall (dorm)
7:00	7:47– Walk to Desk Worker Training session in Ragsdale Center from East Hall	Also work on Foundations in Art and Design homework/drawings; take breaks to doodle
8:00	8:00– Desk Worker Training session	8:00-End of Desk Worker Shift8:05– talk with roommate while organizing
9:00	Training SessionContinues		9:00– Desk Worker East Hall shift beginsRead chapters of Just Mercy while working, listen to music, draw in “One Sketch a Day” journal		9:00– dust off shelves, sweep floors (spur of the moment cleaning of room)
10:00	10:00– Training Session ends, walk back to East Hall10:10– Arrive back in dorm, talk to roommate, read for English (The Bluest Eye), change into pajamas
11:00	11:30ish– last scroll through phone, set alarms for morning, wash face/brush teeth, go to sleep
12:00	Sleeping		12:00– end of Desk Hall worker shift12:05– head to dorm, wash face and brush teeth, pajamas
1:00	Sleeping		1:00– lay in bed, read, go on phone1:30ish– fall asleep
2:00	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping
3:00	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping
4:00	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping	Sleeping

Through the purposeful examination of the hours in the day and how I spend them, I realized just how much potential time has for me to utilize it. I spend a lot of time thinking of what I need to do, rather than actually doing what I need to do (I procrastinate, with fears of not accomplishing, when this makes it even worse!!).

“Floating Mask”

Part 2:
My senior exhibition in high school incorporated two years worth of self-motivated work. Through these years I picked up inspirations from nature, emotions, childhood experiences, dreams, and I really enjoyed working to create grotesque, haunting, yet beautiful and intriguing creatures and forms.

I worked with different materials (papier mache, graphite, acrylic on wood, clay, leaves, and others). I noticed that I incorporated a lot of my interest in theatre arts (for example, the puppets and masks), which helped me play even more into the human emotion aspect of art.