Well, I am probably done doing ceramics or any other sculpture work for a long time or for good all together. I do not know because the future is uncertain. I am all done with taking classes at my local Junior College. I did just upload some photos of drawings done at work to try and fight off boredom. I might draw some more freehand and on MS Paint. I also might try painting too. I don’t know. Maybe my days doing art are at an end…

I am going to cut back on the power bill by unplugging my computer. So, I will not be logging into Deviant Art for some time to come. I guess it doesn’t really matter anyway since I am also not going to be doing any more art activities either for some time, or maybe ever again.

Well, I haven’t been making much of anything these days except Yule Candlesticks. I’m not feeling all that artistic because I’m mostly just making replicas. I think I have made too many of them just like the Star Trek Lazes and have to stop because the ceramics instructor is starting to get tired of them. I might make a few more this summer and get them fired elsewhere because I still have some casting slip left over. I have had a few ideas of things that I have wanted to make but have been making the Yule Candlesticks instead because someone will eventually buy them from me. I don’t think anybody would even want anything else I have made. I just like being able to work on making something but maybe my days at doing ceramics are almost at an end. My bronze Yule Candlestick had horrible casting flaws and I am very unhappy with it. I’m almost done at my JC as well, and I don’t know if I am going to try to get into a 4-year school. I’ve bothered to work on getting an AA and talked to school officials about transferring somewhere because I don’t want to have crappy low paying jobs for the rest of my life. I’m just feeling dissatisfied with life these days in general. I wish I had a job that gave me decent hours and paid a living wage so I can pay my bills and have extra money without having to sell stuff. My love life is, well I just won’t even talk about that.

I spent a few hours today investing my wax Julleuchter so it can get cast in the next bronze pour. I had to walk hella far through the grape vineyards at my local Junior College to get a bucket of sand to use for the investment. I managed to carry it back even though it was hella far to have to carry it. It was heavy too. I really hope the pour goes well and the lantern casts properly. I’ll have to scrounge up the money to pay for all that bronze. I also have some mugs to finish underglazing. I have been busy and haven’t made any new Julleuchters. I’ll try and start one tonight. I also got my second parking ticket at the school when I paid for parking. I had to go and fill out another form to dispute it. I also had an old janitor woman who is a real mean spiteful bitch, call the cops on my friend and I because she doesn’t want us playing Mtg cards there in the lounge that she has to clean. The cop talked to us and couldn’t do anything to us. We were not doing anything wrong and I was just killing time till the ceramics class started. The janitor woman lied to the cops and said we were making hella noise and harassing her. I just hate people that give you crap over nothing and have to be super controlling like that.

I’m in the ceramics and sculpture classes. I have a wax figure that I am going to get cast. It did not get done last semester and so I signed up for the class again to get it cast. I had the idea of making a bronze Julleuchter and now I have given in to my madness and made one out of wax. It will be expensive because I am making it full size. It will probably be $100 just for the bronze to get it cast. I destroyed one of my two slip molds in the process of making the wax Julleuchter. I was just going to make a small one but my sculpture friend Matt Picasso said to me,” You know you want a full sized one.” So I did what he said. I have made a few mugs on the potter’s wheel and that is about it. Just working on Julleuchters, which I haven’t made that many. I have other stuff to do. I am finishing up and getting an AA degree soon. Then who knows I might give up art for a while to go to a 4-year school for a BA.