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Friday, August 29, 2014

Summer of Art, Summer of Book Reviews, and My Return to Blogging over the Summer of 2014

     Today is the last free day I have of summer and its raining. There is five days until school starts. Two of them I am working, One I am spending at a Con playing with a puppet I don't really know who it is... Monday I may or may not hang out with my dad and watch airplanes... and today.
     Today I am going to clean... because appartments always need to be cleaned... but I am also going to do one last Art Assignment of the summer. I don't mean that it will be the last one I do ever... just the last of I do this summer.
     My summer has been a lot like this weekend. 2/5ths of it has been working, 1/5 has been hanging with friends and family, 1/5 cleaning, and 1/5 has been both visual art and written art. This feels like its been a productive balance between the parts that feel like "real life" too me and the parts that feel "magical", the creative place that I am always wishing to be.
     This means that School is largely on my mind right now. How I plan to balance school, as well as how I plan to continue the life giving habits I have developed over the summer. The Art Assignment has been a lart help in this because the projects given are simple but can be made as complicated as you wish. This means that I should be able to continue with them as the summer moves into the fall.
     For writing this summer I have continued my long standing habit of posting book reviews of every book I read. This has been enhanced by the Review day Book Day challenge to post book reviews every tuesday... I am not that good at that because my reviews are generally kinda long... and I don't always finish a book a week.
     New projects that I am looking into for this fall outside of that are a Photo a Day Challenge for one month, provided by a Nerdfighter Group on facebook and Opening an Etsy store to sell clothing. I have also been editing the super long story I worked on all last year, and maybe I will do NaNoWriMo for real this year.
     This summer has been productive. I am where I want to be right now. I would definitely like to keep it this way.