So did you miss me?
Come on now, not even just a little bit?
Well, see if i come to your birthday party then!
i was going to bring pin the tail!

I can not believe how into the whole pottery thing i am.  not because it's not cool but because i don't really get excited about things, well, not often anyways and it often surprises me when i do.
   so i knew that it was cool. i knew that i liked it. i knew that i was enthused.  but i did not know just how enthused i was until i started talking about it to someone at work the other day.  they asked a question or two and i could not be stopped, i jibbered and i jabbered about potting until they sent me back to my desk.  i hadn't realized how much i was carrying on.  i was gently prodded to go back to work.
   when was the last time i just lost myself in a subject like that?  hell, i don't remember when, is when. and it is true it is very cool.  here i am, finishing up my first class and i have stuff created. stuff i made with my own hands that looks like the stuff that you buy at crafts fairs and etc (well, maybe at the slightly cheap and crappy bench).  And it thrills me.  I guess i should be used to it because it is the same sort of thrill that i get from making jewelry.  But i guess that over time the thrill has worn a little so that it is not as vibrant anymore. 
   This pottery thing is like an all new high.  I want a new art...one that's not misunderstood...

   My first two pieces are of course at home at this point, as i think i have told you already.  this tuesday i put three pieces in to be glazed, i will get those back on tuesday.  sadly i only really love one of them but the other two could turn out to be really cool.  it's kind of neat how you can tell which ones are going to be beautiful and which ones are going to maybe become beautiful. perhaps it is like raising children, or raisons.  one of the two.

   but then the week after that, i get back about 6 things that i am pretty sure that i am going to love.  how cool is that?

   so there is only one more class left.  it was so short a time ago that i started this class.  i still don't think i am good at this pottery thing but that doesn't matter so much, cause i had a lot of fun and did get some (damn, there i go counting my chickens) great pieces out of it.  however, i am thinking about re-upping and taking the same class again.  because, in part, it was a lot of fun, but also because what i really need more than anything is practice and that is what doing the class again will give to me.  there is also a thing that you can't use the wheels unless you are a student or a club member and not only is being in the club prohibitively expensive unless you are making a lot of pieces that you are trying to sell but also it has a twenty person waiting list.  so by taking another course i will be ale to practice more, make more and have more fun.
   if only the class wasn't $180 for the next one.  of course this time it is longer but i seem to be choking on the price. we'll see.  we'll definitely see.

  If i had a million dollars, i'd probably want more.

   MP3 player update. i am still ecstatic, by my rule this makes it a very worthwhile purchase.  that's truly a cool thing.

   there's this girl, see, and i've been talking to her, see, and i might ask her out, see but i am trying to decide if i want to, see.  why is it so much easier for other people to ask people out and then decide if they want to see them anymore.  but for me i seem to have to decide if i want to before i can?

   i'm trying to decide what to do with my holidays for the first two weeks of september.  it would appear that so far, borrowing a car and tooling around the Okanogan is the plan...but i am still investigating. any ideas?

um, hi.

and bye.