12-13-98 (51 more days): Today I learned that it is harder than you think to sabotage someone's food while they are not looking.
12-12-98 (52 more days): Today I learned that if you hit someone really hard, you can break your watch. *sniftles* my poor watch!
12-11-98 (53 more days): Today I learned that I have one last show ever at WBIM, and I learned that my intern works at a packy.
12-10-98 (54 more days): Today I learned that those luxury vans are a comfy ride, and that Michael Kivum (the dutch artist) is a sick puppy. Oh yea, and SOCKS SUCKS!
12-9-98 (55 more days): Today I learned that spending a day at the WBIM offices can be counter productive... I learned that www.rotton.com is a really warped sight. I learned that Reed will drop his pants just as often as Donovan, and I learned why they call it the gay bathroom.
12-8-98 (56 more days): Today I learned that if you drill a hole in a stone to make a loopy tail that sticks out, and you hit the end of the tail that is still attached to the stone with a chisel just right, it will break off and make you cry.
12-7-98 (57 more days): TOday I learned that heath services closes at 4, and I also learned that bruises can swell up enormously, but you should not put ice on for more than 20 minutes, because it cuts off the circulation.
12-6-98 (58 more days): Today I learned that my bestfriend got into a fight with her boyfriend.
12-5-98 (59 more days): Today I learned that little plastic trucks stink if you fill them with matches and light them on fire.
12-4-98 (60 more days): Today I learned that WBIM owns a copy of Master of Puppets ON VINAL.
12-3-98 (61 more days): Today I learned that stonecarving is not as easy as it looks, and that Michalengelo must have had forearms of steel.
12-2-98 (62 more days): Today I learned how to cut matt board to frame a print with.
12-1-98 (63 more days): Today I learned that my friend Dave will be getting married in a few years. :)
11-30-98 (64 more days): Today I learned that the dog is stopped up. eeewwwww...
11-29-98 (65 more days): Today I learned that my paper is due the 8th, and not the 3rd like I thought it was. *whew*
11-28-98 (66 more days): Today I learned who is and is not circumsized on the night crew.
11-27-98 (67 more days): Today I learned that mice are flammable.
11-26-98 (68 more days) (Thanksgiving): Today I learned how to make a pumkin pie, which will come in very handy, since it's my sweetie's fave. :)
11-25-98 (69 more days): Today I learned that I'm not working thursday, and it bites, cacuse I need the money. I also learned that 69 days is 9 weeks and 6 days.
11-24-98 (70 more days): Today I learned all about the tools I'll be using next week in my stone carving assignment. There's the big metal pointy thing (dance with it!) and a tooth chisel, and a regular chisel, and the big hammer that looks like a meat tenerizer, and the hammer that you hit the chisels with, and all that sand paper... I'd better get a dust mask.
11-23-98 (71 more days): Today I learned a really funny blonde joke. What do you call a bunch of blondes in the freezer? Frosted Flakes. *lol* I also learned what I'll have to do in order to restore my mom's stained glass peice... gonna be a lot of work... and now I'm all doped up on fumes from the copper foil glue burning off while I was taking it apart, you see, and it stinks, and it burns my throat and that can't be good...
11-22-98 (72 more days): Today I learned a lot of car stuph while checking out my sister's car with my dad. Like, I learned the proper way to jump a car, I learned that you should never smoke over the battery because it gives off fume, and I learned what wires not to touch. I learned not to touch the fan belt while the car is running. I learned how to take off and take apart and put back to gether and put back on the distrubuter cap in a 96 Dodge Shadow. I learned all about high pressure lines and how the engine works and my dad told me all sorts of stories about his various cars breaking down on him, and why it happened. It was a good day, because I spent quality time with my dad, and I learned all about engines.
11-21-98: Today I learned that I'm not working night crew, and it bites, cause I need the money. I also learned that I have only 73 more days till I see my honey again! I got plane tickets today!!!!
11-20-98: Today I learned that my sister's car is leaking trany fluid, that Wendy's makes a tasty burger, and that in an emergency, I can keep my cool pretty well.
11-19-98: Today I learned what was wrong with the hand on my painting, and I fixed it.
11-18-98: Dear Diary: Today I was very cranky at work. I pouted and sulked. And then I learned that at that moment there were probably fewer than 50 people in the whole universe that I didn't hate. Later that day I learned that I make a darned good tuna sandwich. Then I learned how to change the DNS number in my computer so that my server would work, and I was ungrumpy.
11-17-98: Today I learned that mermaids exist.
11-16-98: Today I learned that some people are taking advantage of Beanie Babies.
11-15-98: Today I learned that we of the Basket Night Crew are a perverted bunch of sexually deprived young people. Except maybe Leanne. I also learned that it's easy to slice your hand up with broken glass.
11-14-98: Today I learned that it is easy to injure yourself throwing carriges at people that are reclessly driving mart carts.
11-13-98: Today I learned that Friday the thirteenth isn't so bad after AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! NOOOOO PUT DOWN THAT BUTTER KNIFE!!!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! GET AWAY!!!!!!!
11-12-98: Today I learned that comencement is on the 29th of December, changing all my travel plans. *pout*
11-11-98: Today I learned that some cashiers at my work are very very stupid... like they don't know how paid holidays work. Then again, they're working tere for a living, rather than to get through school (in order to get a real job) what do I expect from them?
11-10-98: Today I learned how to aqua-tint in my printmaking class.
11-9-98: Today I learned that my dog needs a bath. Badly.
11-8-98: Today I learned what happens to a roll of caps when you hit it with a hammer. (Again, through obervation...)
11-7-98: Today I learned that it is possible to do weelies on the mart-carts at work (not through my own experimentation, merely through observation) Also if you pull back too far, they flip over.
11-6-98: Today I learned that when all is said and done, my interns really can handel things all on thier own with out me around.
11-5-98: Today I learned that Mellissa is a) married and b) 29. Gee, and I thought she was like 19... she looks GOOD for 29.
11-4-98: Today I learned that you can buy a mouse rug from Sharper Image.
11-3-98: Today I learned the diffrence between Cadnium Yellow and Cadmium Yellow Hue, which has been troubling me for some time. They look the same but "hue" is transparent, and the other is not. It seems that "hue" is made from a synthetic pigment (making it transparent), and Cadnium Yellow is natural, and that is why it is opaque.
11-2-98: Today I learned that breaking down the truck at work is a lot harder than it looks. It also hurts your back.
11-1-98: Today I learned that when he painted The Last Judgement in the Sistine chapel, Michelangelo used ground lapis lazuli instead of the blue he had been using for the rest of the chapel. This is because the Pope told him to spare no expense, ground lapis lazuli cost as much an ounce as gold.
10-31-98 (Halloween!): Today I learned that my dad looks really silly in a dress.
10-30-98: Today I learned all about Chuck and sex... not something I wanted to know about Chuck, but he made faces and noises to demonstrait anywaay. (He was drunk...)
10-29-98: Today I learned that me and Matt ARE going to finish our sculpture on time, wich we previously thought impossible.
10-28-98: Today I learned that sculpture papers assigned by Lonegran are HARD! Especially if you wait to the last minute!
10-27-98: Today I learned that my old friend Laura is engaged to be married, and she has a rock the size of a small dog on her hand to proove it.
10-26-98: Today I learned how the sandblaster in the art building works, and I sandblasted a peice of glass for my panel and everything. :)
10-25-98: Today I learned that Maggie Simpson is half alien. (GO TREEHOUSE OF HORRORS IX! YEAH!)
10-24-98: TOday I learned that the kid that does the floors at work on Saturday night hates my boyfriend for some unknown reason. But if I ever learn the reason, you can be sure I'll put it here.
10-23-98: Today I learned that the band KISS is from Brooklyn, NY.
10-22-98: Today I learned that the seemingly unleathal stuff I've been using to etch glass is really a volitile and deadly compound. Hydroflouric acid aparently passes through your skin and chemicly reacts with yout blood so that it starts to disolve you from the inside out. Exposing a patch of skin the size of the bottom of your foot could kill you, so needless to say, I'm glad I've been wearing gloves. I also learned that everytime you drink a diet soda, it takes 9 seconds off your life.
10-21-98: Today I learned how to print a linoleum cut print, that Market Basket (OBVIOUSLY) has reffers (TRUCKS, not some sick drug refrence), and that hummus is tasty.
10-20-98: Today I learned that George Washington stated in his will that the 125 slaves that he owned should be set free when Martha died. After George's death in 1799, Martha spent most of her days in a guest bedroom living in fear, knowing full well that there were 125 people waiting for her to die. After a year, she set the slaves free herself through the proper legal action.
10-19-98: Today I learned that not all sharks need to swim to breath. Some can rest on the bottom and push water past thier gills to keep breathing.
10-18-98: Today I learned a clever retort to the statement, "There is no such thing as vampires." You say, "Oh yeah, well then how do you explain Yoko Ono and Pricilla Presley living off the dead?" (thank you WB network)
10-17-98: Today I learned how to make papier mache.
10-16-98: Today I learned that I have no show because it's alumni weekend and I've been prempted. How ever there were free cookies and soda, so it was all good.
If you learned something today that you would like to share, please write to me at tscarlett@bridgew.edu and maybe I'll even post it and everything. And keep learning, it's good for you.
