02/03/2005 01:27:58 EST • tags: scintillating_bullshit
... and but so yeah, I did do these things today:
- made about 20000 tons of paper pulp, using both a "hollander beater" and a "whiz mixer". both of these machines were obviously cobbled together out of spare parts by enterprising handmade-paper afficionados who realized they could get grade-A markup selling their sketchily constructed homebrew equipment to schools like risd. the "whiz mixer" especially... it's basically a sump pump motor (which I know because it still has a sticker on it that says "sump pump motor") attached to a 3ft long rotor with a little 6inch propellor at the end. you jam it in a trash can full of water and pulp-to-be and it "whiz mixes" your shit all up. anyway I used them both to make prodigious amount of pulp, which I am very proud of, which is silly cuz if I take one step back and look at it w/ one ounce of perspective I see that what I made, and what I'm self-congradulatorily braying on about, is essentially 5 buckets of multicolor sludge. whooptie shit.
- spent 90 bucks on varnish, wire, sockets, bulbs, et cetera, so I can finish this esophagus-looking light. I have never made a light before, and it's quite fun. one fun thing about it is the fact that I have constructed it w/o attempting to impregnate it with any sort of "meaning" or "theoretical aim" or any of that nonsense. it's just a lamp, like the one the nerd kid in the breakfast club so poignantly failed to make.
- smoked 1/2 a pack of cigarettes
- listened to 3 Channel Metropolitan on loop for at least 80% of the time I was in my apartment after waking
- bought a coffee and drank it. this was a monumentous occasion worthy of mention as I've been broke for a week, since moving into my new digs, and I finally got some loot this morning at 8AM, which apparently was when the piece of software that controls my personal ID number deep within the Bank of America(tm) central command computing facility decided I was cool enough. the coffee had cream in it but no sugar. yes.
- checked email, flickr, delicious, bloglines etc. a bunch of times
- completely failed to make any progress in cleaning my shit up. I have resolved to deal with this after risd "winter session" is over. until then I will slink around in the alleys created by the mountains of my own posessions and not think about the problem at all whatsoever. yup.
- finished torrenting the first season of 24. this is not my fault. my dear friends kevin and jack coerced me into the vile trap that is this television show. now I must watch it. fuck.
- did absolutely zero work on rebuilding the clamshell box I egregiously fucked up the other day
yes. now shower. than wood staining. bad fumes and no cigs, for that, yes. then maybe sleep. some 24 first, tho, methinks. uuugggggghhhh. yar!
-fish
