shanmonster | I'd Like to Sleep Now, Please

I experienced a long, drawn-out modelling session tonight with MEK. Once again, we were working on the Leonardo da Vinci shoot, trying to recreate something along the same lines as the Cecilia Gallarani portrait. After a series of frustrating technical difficulties (including an exciting incident with cotton almost bursting into flame on a light to my rear), I think we finally got some good shots. And I even took a few portraits of MEK. A couple of them aren't too bad. I hope she lets me have copies of those, too. At the end of the shoot, I got her to take a picture of my bad side. You see, in order to get my hair looking as sleek and elegant as in the painting, I had to do a whole lot of duct tape and baling twine-esque work on the other side of my head. Hair is sticking up all over the place, and I looked like a total freak!

My back is sore from holding a stiffly-upright yet twisted pose for the past few hours, and I'm enjoying just slouching back in my comfy computer chair. I have to go to bed really soon, though. My morning comes extra early. I need to be at school a half hour early because my class is going on a field trip. We will be visiting Aitkens Pewter studio. Afterwards, we're having an exam (it'll be a breeze), and then we'll be getting instructions on beading from Trudy. That's an awful lot of stuff for one day.

But today was a lot of stuff for one day, too. I started off at school, went to Shirley Mellish's funeral, walked in the cold rain, spent the afternoon doing schoolwork, and modelled all evening. Talk about an emotional rollercoaster of a day....

Oh, and just because fourcorners seemed to want it so bad, I've added a new user icon. Whattya think?