Marie picked me up yesterday afternoon to go paper shopping with her. She’s starting a little invitations/baby announcments company out of her home and needed to find paper for her samples. So, with Cole in tow, we stopped at one place and it was shut down. Then we went to this other place in Irvine and it was so awesome! While Marie browsed the paper section, I took Cole around through the rest of the store. There were two aisles where every imaginable marker could be found. Do you need a Pentel marker in fine point in Burnt Sienna? They’ve got it. Need a permanent Sharpie-brand oil-based poster marker in baby pink? Yep, got that too. It definitely is an art student’s place to be. I so wish that I had the time and motivation to take some classes or just dabble in something. I suppose this website and my photography projects are enough for now. I’ve been wanting to sign up for a Chinese brush-painting class for over a year now but haven’t made the commitment. I’ve been thinking of taking a darkroom refresher course for two years now…still haven’t. I don’t get it. I guess by the time I’m done with work, I’m ready to just go home. Going to a 3-hour night class twice per week just doesn’t seem very appealing to me at the moment. Maybe I’ll take a short class next August when I won’t be working and won’t be at camp. That’s it…that’s what I’ll do.