Let's pretend last week didn't happen . . .

What a ridiculous week it was!  To be honest, I didn't have a whole lot of time for life drawing.  The project for my ID class was due on thursday and there were not enough hours in the day!!  So after no sleep, I stumble into drawing class an hour late (-hang head in shame-), but I hope our professor wasn't too upset.  Honestly, I was converting my InDesign document to a PDF up until I left and was ready to apply myself as much as I could in the time remaining.  That day we were drawing with our arms outstretched so that we could use our whole arm to draw.  And if this new technique wasn't enough, we were encouraged to draw as light as possible.

I was not doing well to begin with.  I need to get a pencil because this chunk of conte is really cramping my style.  Or maybe I should just stop making excuses and learn how to draw with a delicate hand.  Thankfully my classmates were really helpful and near the end things were starting to look up.  I was standing an arm's length away, my drawings were getting lighter by the minute and my arm was CRAMPING SO BAD!!  It is bad enough that I feel I should get a gym pass for every other aspect of my life, but DRAWING CLASS!?!   . . . guess who will be holding pencils an arms length away during this week's Office episode. ("this guy!")

But in other exciting news, my ID presentation went super well.  We had to design coat hangers (the kind that go in your closet) and all in all I was pretty proud of mine.  AND my prof really liked the presentation so . . . woot woot!

And guess what happened Sunday!  I found a BLACK WIDOW SPIDER in a bunch of grapes I bought!!  It was basically dead, but that didn't stop me from running around the apartment flailing my arms and yelling like there was a murderer in my closet.  Now, we did a little research and black widows are the most poisonous spider in the US, but it is not very common to die from a bite because they do not release a lot of venom.  Well, this is all well and good, but when you are digging for some green grapes to snack on and discover one of these babies, the fact that less than 2% of bites are fatal is not very reassuring.

But no one had to be rushed to the hospital and after my roommate assured me that the spider was in no condition to leap across the room and plunge its fangs in to my neck I started to calm down.  But here she is in all her glory - PROOF!