Living With My Parents - Tumblr Posts
wallpaper
this is the wallpaper in the downstairs bathroom of my parent's house. I have always liked it. one thing always confused me:
the beaufort sea is always displayed this way. the "b" on the edge of one sheet and the "eaubord sea" on the edge of another. I never knew if they lined up like that on purpose or if was just the way the metaphorical cookie crumbled, the way the map unfurled, as it were.
granted, I was never so concerned that I looked it up. the question only occurred to me when I was in the bathroom. and considering that I have spent very little time at my parent's house the last 1-2 years, the quarry was virtually absent from my mind.
but recently I find myself under their roof once again for an extended period of time, an extended period of time which has brought this quarry once again into the glistening pools of questions in my brain. so I looked it up. indeed, the beaufort sea is real. according to wikipedia it is:
a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska and west of Canada's Arctic islands. The sea is named after hydrographer Sir Francis Beaufort. The major Mackenzie River empties into the Canadian part of the sea, west of Tuktoyaktuk, which is one of the few permanent settlements on the sea shores.
well, wasn't that interesting. another point of interest: my home town has signs warning drivings of possible turtle crossings.
current things
I got a job earlier this month. I'm working retail. It is interesting. One thing that is particularly interesting is how much more exhausting being on your feet for 5+ hours a day can be. I've been sleeping a lot more than I'm used to. I told my mom yesterday that I think I need more sleep working retail than I did being an art student. She told me that maybe I just have more opportunities to sleep than I did while in school. This makes sense.
At first I didn't think the long hours on my feet would be a particularly new thing for me. After all, some of my studio classes required me to stand for long periods of time. But I've come to realize that I was able to sit down much more than I realized. Also, the tasks I was completely whilst standing - such as inking a plate and printing said plate in printmaking, or carving a block of limestone or alabaster - proved to distract my mind and body from the exhaustion that standing and walking around for long periods at a time seemed to be causing. Unfortunately, folding clothes and the like has not proved to be quite as stimulating. Also, I was spoiled my last semester, completing the majority of my thesis sitting down - albeit hunched over, resulting in different problems. But the most crucial discovery I have made is that I need to find better shoes.
On an unrelated note, the keyboard problems I mentioned have disappeared. It seems the problems arose because of my computer's perception of the control key being engaged when it had not been. At the height of the problem my keyboard became utterly useless, as engaging the control key negates the ability to use the keyboard normally. However, I updated all my software - something I had been putting off as it required me to restart my computer - and everything seems to be behaving correctly. Except that the esc key still does not work, but that is very easy to work around.