This is my entry - I'm five today - Mummy never got me anything though - Grandad bought me some boneos!! I got one card! Hmmm life's tough being a dog you know! I still got the same old toy Ive had for 4 years! Mummy just stuck tapping on that computer - five minutes she played with me today. Still going out with my Mummy and Daddy at lunch time for my birthday! They both so busy they need a break.
Love to all my lovely furs
Oscar xxxxxxxxxx
Why is it when you want to find something you can't. And, why is it because I want to get on with my work I just have to find the paper Im looking for!!!
Why am I not more organised!!
My own fault!
Got council tax bill this morning and John cross with me coz I should have sent off my exemption certificate for discount and I havent and now I cant find it and now I cant concentrate and now IM fed up!!!!
And, also not many alerts and dont think people getting alerted about my entries - oh well.
Oh, and Stuart your comment was so encouraging thanks - can you find my certificate too for me LOL Laine xxxxxxx
Got to make an effort and get on with my dissertation - I've only got three weeks left - I feel that I need to rewrite what I've done already - it really isnt good enough what I have already done! What a time to change it!! But I really want to dowell so its best I get it right.
My thesis is:
Artists who collect, are they collecting in the traditional sense or are they collecting to purposefully form a piece of art.
I am going to be writing about Mark Dion and his 'Cabinet of Curiosities' and Candy Jernigan and perhaps Joseph Cornell. I will let you know how I get on. I actually wrote three paragraphs today LOL
Infact here is the start of my dissertation - wont make much sense to you though not yet.........
Thesis
Artists who collect, are they collecting in the traditional sense or are they collecting to purposefully form a piece of art.
Mark Dion
What is it that makes ‘The Thames Dig’ a piece of art rather than a social history exhibit? Gilda Williams, art critic and editor at Phaidon Press writes; ‘Dion’s work is certainly about the obsessive act of collecting, whether by a naturalist or a shopaholic, but collaterally it is about the act of looking: what artists traditionally do best.’
Onecould argue with this statement by saying its just a lot of junk put together in the cabinet of curiosities to make us believe the artefacts have some value just because they aredisplayed into a beautiful cabinet and placed in an art gallery. ‘The cabinets of curiosity he uses were a phenomenon of wealthy collectors, typically from the 17th to the 19th century. The cabinets demonstrated the owners’ status as the collector of the rare and wonderful but also their standing as a semi-professional, or ‘gentleman scientist’. (www.firstsite.uk.net)
See told you it wouldnt make much sense, I have a lot of work to do!! Got to write 5,000 words!!!
Well I will work at it all day tomorrow!!! Then got governor training tomorrow night, then work placement on Thursday, then I can work again on dissertation on Friday.
Anyway, take care y'alls!!
By the way I miss New york! Boo Hoo!!!!
Thanks Diama for my lovely tag.
I loved New York!! Here are some of my pics - I didnt put them all!! LOL Anyway, I haven't captioned them as AOL didnt like it last time and they disappeared.
So I'll leave you to look through and if you have any questions ask away!!
By the way Teddy is Hilary's bear and he sat looking out of the window whilst we went out for the day and we bought him a jumper one day whilst we were out shopping he shows it off!! LOL
Also Teddy didnt tell us that the office block he was looking at all week was only the Chrysler Building!!! We didnt realise this til Thursday how funny is that!!!
Sorry Ive not been round to your journals yet - Im still trying to wake up!
Love Laine xx
Hello peeps!!!
I'm back!!! Not a long entry as Im very very tired still! Got back yesterday morning but missed out on Friday night sleep! I went to bed at 8pm last night and didnt wake up til 1pm today!!! Still feel like Im in New York time!!!
Had a fantastic time! I love New York and I love Americans! Want to go again - so much to see and do - was very very cold - got to minus 10 one day!!! thats cold!!! Anyway I will update you all as soon as I feel up to it and post all my pics too!!!
Love to you all and hope you are well.
Laine xxxxxxx
Just to say see you all in a week's time. I'm signing off now for a week - I've got to get ready for my trip to New York - so probably won't have time to add entries and visit you all. So I will turn off my alerts for now.
Look after yourselves and take care - I want to know all your gossip when I get back.
Love Laine xxx
Tired today.
Hope rats dont make noise tonight - takes 4 days to kill them.
Keep having nightmares about them!
Wanted to do lots of work today - didnt get much done.
Bought flower Rescue remedy to help my nerves for the plane - hate flying - really scared - always think its gonna be my plane that crashes - its the turbulence I hate. But then I have had bad experiences on planes so that dont help.
Bought myself new straighteners today in Boots - they were reduced from £50.00 to £25.00 - so hair looking nice and straight and smooth!
Zoe and I found out a friend of ours was ok that we were worried about so that made us feel better!
Still not got into dissertation - got it out today and looked at it - thats a start - new deadline date 26th March - thats only 26 days away.
Not even started packing for New York yet - not sure if I have enough clothes - sposed to be cold there - so prob take my big coat. Gonna buy jeans there and converse hopefully.
Me and John had talk this morning, I thought he wasnt supporting me, he thought I wasnt supporting him. Had talk and a good cuddle - decided we both been distant with each other and now we cleared the air its better. We always got to talk otherwise we will drift apart - probably be good for us to be apart next week.
Got Seminar at college tomorrow - not got any work ready for it! Also got to have interview with my tutor see how Im getting on.
Wonder why Oscar doesnt bark at the rats!
Going to have pancakes again tonight! Loved them so much the other night - want them again!! Naughty but nice. Really don't know what to feed the kids.
Think we should share dinner ideas - what to give the kids - I keep running out of ideas!!!
I'll tell you one thing my kids love and they are fussy!! They like mince cooked in gravy (Bisto Best, has to be!!) and tomato ketchup (yes ketchup!) then with mash potatoe on top - yes just like cottage pie!! Coz it doesnt have any onions or chunks of tomato they love it!! Might do that tonight. Otherwise, all Joe eats is rubbish - wish he would eat better.
Right I've gone on long enough!
Better go and cook tea - when am I ever going to get time to do this dissertation - keep putting it off! that's because I got a phobia about it - scared of it - feel I cant do it!
New York next week!!!!
Love Laine xxxxxxxx
I was going to put in pictures but file manager wouldnt load - what a surprise!!! Oh and Sam just said he dont want cottage pie!!! Oh well.
