tea time

so of course the popular social question at this time of year is what one will be doing for New Year's Eve. Perhaps a wild party, or perhaps a quite night at home.
I know I'm rather excited this year. I was inspired by my friend who spent a semester in London, and my own personal love of England; to recreate the fashionable "high tea" party. I'm sure it won't really be anything like what they would have over the pond but we'll do our best. One major difference is that we'll be having cocoa rather than tea. We don't drink tea and frankly cocoa sounds infinitely better to me, but that might be a personal thing. Along with cocoa we'll be having my interpretation of tea dainties and all that sort of thing. We'll also be dressing up in our formal attire and if I can get everyone to do it (and if it's not too painful to listen to) using British accents.
It may not be the wild party that some are looking forward too but I'm excited. Happy New Year and all that. Don't drink and drive if you drink.

intenational pancake night

Tonight we had three types of pancakes. We had latka's potato pancakes, in honor of the approaching begging of Hanuka (they're quite good by the way). My little brother wanted German Pancakes, so we had those and to finish off the evening we had creeps, a French Pancake. It was fun and delicious.

Finals

...are OVER!!!!
It's rather exciting. This is my second to last finals. I will graduate in April. The good news, I don't think I failed the last two required classes I was taking. I even got a B- on a paper which was 500 words short and written very last minute. Life is very good.
I now need to get myself into a regime of working very hard on my art. Actually having said such, I think I will go work on that now as it's more important than posting on a blog that nobody reads...that's what journals are for.

books

So as you may know, or perhaps you don't, I have taken bookbinding for two semesters now and I really love it. I love books, and so I also love to make them.

I hadn't realized how many types of bindings there were, I just thought of paper backs and hardbacks. It turns out though that my favorite binding is one I'd never heard of called a Coptic binding, which is about the oldest binding there is...I think it looks like this:
If you want to learn more or see more, you should go to this site http://byubookbinding.blogspot.com

the homework is over

I started this blog as an assignment for my English class, but now class is over, just the final left, so if there's any more posting, it'll be for wanting to post

source for paper c

Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper: the Case of the Overturned Saltcellar

Audience: People interested in the Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci and it's restoration, specifically art historians.

WATCO: restoring/cleaning the Last Supper on it's integrity as a painting and on the art history community as a whole.

Enthymeme: Cleaning/restoring the Last Supper has had unfavorable results as concerns the painting and the academic community as a whole because of the doubt and confusion it has revealed in its scholars on accuracy and meaning.

E/L/P: Pathos: There is an appeal to Pathos in the very title,"the case of the overturned saltcellar" hearkens back to murder mysteries and the excitement that they infer. Logos: The research in the argument makes an appeal to logic because it shows that this is something that they didn't just make up. Ethos: There is an appeal made to ethos through the pictures of the Last Supper and various reproductions, the visual to go along with the written lends credibility.

STAR: Sufficient: I believe that the amount of research and logic put into this is sufficient, it's quite substantial.

Goal/Effective?: I think the goal was to convince the audience of their findings and that restorations/cleanings are a dangerous business and I believe they were effective at this.