Fuck Soup

[shanmonster]

What a shitty week this has been.

Today wasn't much help, either. It was just the corn on top of a steaming crap sundae. I had a silk screening workshop. I thought it would be fun. Instead, it was a whole lot of work with absolutely nothing worth showing. My hours of meticulous cutting and measuring went unrewarded when the ink refused to pass through the screen. And then, when it seemed I may be able to salvage something, after all, my stencil ripped.

To make matters worse, my screen, when set in the window sill to dry, suicided. It leaped out of the second story window to smash itself on the asphalt below.

At least it didn't hit anyone.

I'm at the Craft School, now. I ought to be working on my heaps and heaps of homework due on Monday, but the Fates are against me. Damn those sisters! They're out to get me. I can't get the wax injector to work. The pressure won't build up, and no one has shown me how to operate the machine. I've tried adjusting the temperature, but that doesn't seem to be doing the trick. I'll just keep checking on it, over the next few hours, and hope that if the heat builds, so might the pressure.

I can't work on my room-temperature moulds, because they need to set for another few hours. I won't be able to start stage two for about another two and a half hours.

The Christmas presents I'm trying to construct are not going well, either. I have a pendant for my sister, and am trying to set an amethyst into it. Unfortunately, the pendant has been cursed. I can't find a way to brace the pendant while setting the stone. The pitch keeps breaking away, no matter how deep I place the pendant. And the engraver's ball gouges the hell out of it, before spitting the pendant back into the air. Blargh!

And the pendant I'm trying to make for my mother-in-law is experiencing the usual soldering woes. I'll redo it. Again.

There sure are plenty of places I'd rather be than here. Baghdad is nice this time of year, right?

Blargh.

Comments

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

Oh hell, booper, that's terrible. :-( I wish I could help, but yesterday's wax extravaganza is about all I had time for. I'm rushed too. :-( :-( :-( :-(

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Ah well. Everything should start shaping up soon enough. Next weekend's kung fu sleepover should help remedy things.

Now, if I can just get anything going right tomorrow at the studio, I'll be partway set....

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

A Kung-fu sleepover?? Oh no. I'm getting a mental image: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" meets Annette Funacello pajama party movies of the 60's... hee hee It adds a whole new dimension to the sexy pillow fights!

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

I call it "Kung Fu Kamping". They drive out to the instructor's cabin, on the water (there's a small river or something, I know this because last time a couple of drukards went for a waltz), and do Kung Fu practise and lots of drinking.

Sort of lame-sounding, but they all love it, so it can't be *that* bad. =)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Instead, picture a room full of buff guys who've had a bit too much to drink and are determined to show off to one another. Add to that a few buff women in a similar frame of mind. Add karaoke and Hong Kong action flicks, and you're right on par. I won't dare bring a good pillow. I'm afraid someone may desecrate it.

[fourcorners.livejournal.com]

Sorry there's not much to be thankful for with all this stuff going on, but I hope things improve

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

Shan, I have no idea what you're talking about when you speak of silk-screening and jewelry-making (my artistic talents are limited to hammers, saws, and hardwoods), but I can assure you, having been there, that Baghdad is most unpleasant this time of year.

All creative endeavors (silly American, forgetting that elusive "u") are fraught with frustrations. Here's hoping the next week brings more success!

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

...the corn on the steaming crap sundae... OH! As Ren of Ren and Stimpy says, "Now that is truly disgusting!" (http://www.soundamerica.com/sounds/cartoons/Ren_and_Stimpy/A-F/disgust1.wav)

[zaki.livejournal.com]

Wow....nearly everyone I know is having a shitty week! (Just look at friends list...) Hang in there! And I hope your toe is feeling better now. I broke my little toe- twice- both times while doing the same thing (a spin in bare feet)- and it didn't take too long to heal either time, even walking around on it. Hopefully big toes aren't much different.