I’ve posted a Gotye video before. I just don’t remember when. I looked a little, but realized it was taking too much time. I did use the (apparently useless) search function on my website and it was…apparently useless. Whoops…here it is. I searched for video instead of his name and it popped up (along with 20 other posts).

I post this because I liked the song (thanks Susan), but also because if you really want to know where my drawing ideas come from, this is a good example. I have a whopping big drawing in my head now with a whole ton of hands coming out of nowhere. I like how the heads and the hands don’t even seem to be connected. I mean, of course they are…but in my head, it all starts to blur and there are just hands and heads and they are wandering off. So if you see a drawing out of me in the next few weeks (I’m a little buried at the moment), and it has hands and heads wandering all over, now you’ll understand where my inspiration comes from…it’s not logical…I see something and it tickles my brain (must insert pictures of Mary’s nativities here…later…because right now I have to go grocery shopping and finish my lesson plans)…and then I draw something that is an offshoot of all that.

Simple, eh? Yeah. I know.

I went to a 12th-night party at a friend’s house and we flew the kings to the manger, but I was fascinated by all the color…

and the sorta pissed-off looking baby. Maybe he’s just resigned…not pissed off. I remember in art history classes talking about why many of the babies in Mary and Jesus paintings looked way older than they should. So that’s wandering around in my brain right now along with the hand video.

So the title of this post is just a note that I am still waiting for WordPress to respond to my query about why typing the password correctly doesn’t seem to work. I found something on the forums that told me to clear cache and cookies on MY end, and somehow that would magically fix it for all of you. I don’t know if that’s true, but it seems to be working now for the two guys who are willing to check it for me; plus, I’ve had no complaints from your end. If you do type in the password (which is in the right sidebar and is always the same) and it doesn’t work and you’re sure you typed it properly, just use the contact page and let me know. I don’t know what the deal is, but it seems to be OK today.

I go back to school today. In fact, I should be leaving in about 4 minutes. I’m not ready. Everything is physically ready, except for part of my room, but my brain is still wandering off and trying to get stuff done from the holiday. It’s always like that…I feel like I could have been MORE efficient, gotten MORE done. I realize that when school starts, there are so many things I have to do on a daily basis that a lot just falls by the wayside.

That part sucks.

I am mostly done with grading, though (although I’m assigning two things today that are due Friday, so the never-ending roller coaster starts again…plus I think progress report grades are due next week…bastards).

I started quilting on Saturday…

managed a whopping 25 minutes before I had to be somewhere about 15 times over. It was a busy day. I did start the new year with new Machingerererers.

OK. That’s not how you spell it. But this is what I use when I quilt to help me grip the fabric and move it around. I’ve tried other things, but these hurt my hands the least and work the best for me. I love it when they’re clean. I do sometimes wash them, but eventually the grippy part on the fingers wears off and I need new ones. Soon after I started, Kitten did this.

Grr. I need to clean off the table so she can jump off without knocking stuff down. Plus I need to find the lid. Although I was sitting right there sewing when she did it, and I’m unlikely to have the lid on while I’m sewing and pulling pins out, so that wouldn’t help. She was not sorry.