Hi. My name is Stacey, but I don't like it much, and will answer to Skudge, Selly, Smudge, Skuffalump, and most anything else that starts with S.

Things about me:

• I am a college student—previously majoring in architecture, but now transitioning into English/creative writing.
  
• I like knitting, languages, good books, em-dashes, and learning new and random things.
  
• I am undecided as to whether or not coincidences exist.

My journal is mostly friends only, but I add most everyone who adds me and/or comments here. :)

This is probably a long shot, but is anyone on plurk? It looks interesting (more so than twitter), but it seems like it's not really that popular.

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Because when I get interested in a craft I have to do it until I get sick of it~

Made some polymer clay beads today. Tried the mokume gane clay technique for the first time. I dunno man. It looks good to me, but I'm not sure if it looks all that different than if I just swirled some clay together and made some beads. Of course, the mokume gane stuff took about five times longer than some swirly beads would take. I think next time I'll have to use some more contrasting colors, or a metallic that shows up better than this silver. Or more layers. Or something.

I really like them though! Not sure if it comes through in the picture, but in real life they really look layered and deep and lovely. Going to make more later. Not really sure what I'm going to do with a bunch of beads, but this is super fun.

The grapefruit meringue pie my sister made me as a belated birthday treat:



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We turned some stuff in for drawing class on Thursday, so here are some of the drawings I've done so far. We drew bones from dinosaurs and mammoths and stuff at the museum, using charcoal and conte crayon. The supposed intent was to get a sense of drawing organic shapes and how to make inferences about them even when you can't see them from every angle.



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Click each picture to see it bigger!

And then for yesterday's class we had our first actual figure drawing session. I love the professor so much; he's this energetic old guy who makes big gestures and sound effects when he explains things, and tells us funny stories about life. Yesterday, he was doing a demonstration, and his running commentary as he was drawing went a little like this:

"Now I'm drawing his torso...
And now I'm drawing his hip...
And now I'm drawing his—you know...
...his what-the-hell-is-THAT?!
Is a little big?
Oh well, it's good to be more complimentary."

Anyway it was a lot of fun—drawing class with that dude is usually a ton of fun anyway, but especially since we were all drawing together and he was going around giving critiques constantly, whereas he usually goes over work from the previous week at the beginning of class and then explains the assignment and we just go off and draw on our own.

I skipped class again today, by the way. Although I did better—I went to the first afternoon class. I meant to go to the other one too since I was there anyway, but Allison who is in both classes with me was like, "There's not really a point..." And she is the type who takes pages of notes and does all the work way ahead of time, so I was like, if someone like her isn't going then what am I doing? And went home instead. :)

I make icons sometimes, randomly, or when I need some to use on listography. Here are some knitting/yarn related ones that have been sitting around a while (even though they might not be of interest to anyone other than me):

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o1. Stripy hat, an attempt to use up some of my sock yarns.

o2-o3. And then I started knitting some actual socks. I just love this color, especially because it's called "Basil over Buttercup." Anything with Basil in the name will work for me.

o4. Another sock. I really wanted to try this yarn, so I got some...even though I'm trying to use up my sock yarns, damnit! But I love how the color is so...indescribable. Under different light it looks purplish.

Also, anyone else notice a recent influx of spam comments on livejournal? =/ Pisses me off. I get all excited when I get an email notification in my inbox, and I'm like, "Yay, LJ comment!" and then it's just some shit.

Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was walking home from campus and my roommate was coming on campus and saw me, and I didn't recognize her? Even though we were directly facing each other, and even though she was staring at me waiting for me to say something; I didn't realize it was her until she said, "Hey, are you ignoring me??" and I recognized her voice.

There's also this thing I do when I'm out shopping with my mom or my sister...if I wander off to look at something and then go back to get my mom's (or sister's) attention, I have to look at them from one side, then walk over to look at the other side, then lean over and look directly into their face, to make sure it's them before I start talking to them. Of course it's awkward anyway if it's not them, because I've been peering closely at some stranger's face for fifteen seconds.

Anyway, today in my psych class we were talking about face blindness (prosopagnosia), and the professor gave us this link to a face blindness test. So I took it... average score is 85%, and I got 40%. Awesome. And then I was googling to see if there was another test (there was another that the professor showed us screencaps of that looked more legit, but apparently it's gone now), and I found a bunch of people talking about having taken it, and saying stuff like, "OMG I GOT 70% I'M LIKE ALMOST FACE BLIND." Wow great, so what am I?

Well, it doesn't matter that much to me anyway. I'm not totally face blind, so I can still recognize people...sometimes. It helps if I've seen them a lot before, or if they don't have that many different facial expressions. And I usually make up a verbal list in my head of physical traits for each person—things like, wears glasses, scattered freckles, slanted eyes, wide nostrils, etc; I recognize people more by these trait lists and by voice than visually.

Yeeeeeah, anyway. Take the test! Tell me what you got. :D