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Apr. 25th, 2003 08:43 pmYesterday's highlight (or lowlight) was going to get a haircut (the 6-monthly, 'take two inches off the end so that the straggly bits don't straggle so much' one). I am of the opinion that haircuts are too expensive, and I dislike hairdressers (mostly the places, and only occasionally the people). Having been informed in no uncertain terms that haircutting is an arcane science that I am most certainly not allowed to attempt to practice on myself or have anybody else who is not properly qualified practice on me, I feel entirely incapable of making suggestions, even when I think someone's doing it wrong, which doesn't help my mood. And I did some maths yesterday too, with moderate levels of success. I think that was about it.
On Wednesday I went driving instead of going to town. My driving instructor seems to be of the opinion I'm reasonably good at driving. I almost ran over a cyclist entering a roundabout, and hit the curb once. I do not feel that I am reasonably good at driving, or rather I don't feel I'm *very* good at driving, which is more to the point. Still, being told I'm reasonably good is encouraging. I seem to be having the same problem as with everything, though; I get all the complicated, big stuff right, and then screw up the little simple things. Hopefully I'll get the screwing-up down to acceptable levels with practice, though.
Something I failed to mention on Tuesday was the art exhibition; Braintree Town Hall hosts small art exhibitions, and the one being advertised that day had an intriegingly brightly coloured board, so I went and had a look. It was quite a mixture. There was some brightly coloured paint-spraying (or dropping-from-the-top-of-the-canvas, in this case) stuff that was pretty but not particularly indicitive of anything but playfulness on part of the creator, but then there was some *nice* abstract stuff (featuring the 'squircle', which was a shape of basically rectangular outline made of the space between four circles) which showed care and attention. The most fascinating bit to me was the 'curbscapes' - reproduced sections of kerb with carefully placed shoes, detritus and so forth moulded in plaster, which really did an amazingly good job of conveying moods and scenes. You probably have to have the fascination-with-the-mundane that keeps me glued to the windows when we drive through Mile End to really get the full effect, but given that it was particularly strong I think there was more to it than that. (The artist who produced all of this was a local artist, now sadly passed away; I brought away a leaflet about him, but it seems to have gone AWOL, and I can't remember his name. Online, there appear to be a lot of things called squircles, none of which can Google associate with Braintree. 'curbscape' also comes up blank, due to 'curbscaping' as in putting in curbing.)
I also failed to mention that I actually drove to and from the cinema on Monday, and to and from lunch at some-restaurant-we-go-to-that-I-forgot-the-name-of. I managed to stall once when panicking about a little birdie which wouldn't take off in time, but other than that it went pretty well.
Also in today's news, I got a newsletter from the LARP people. It's getting annoying now that I can't go back there (too far away) unless perhaps I go to York, and even then it'll be a bit of a hassle. Meh.
On Wednesday I went driving instead of going to town. My driving instructor seems to be of the opinion I'm reasonably good at driving. I almost ran over a cyclist entering a roundabout, and hit the curb once. I do not feel that I am reasonably good at driving, or rather I don't feel I'm *very* good at driving, which is more to the point. Still, being told I'm reasonably good is encouraging. I seem to be having the same problem as with everything, though; I get all the complicated, big stuff right, and then screw up the little simple things. Hopefully I'll get the screwing-up down to acceptable levels with practice, though.
Something I failed to mention on Tuesday was the art exhibition; Braintree Town Hall hosts small art exhibitions, and the one being advertised that day had an intriegingly brightly coloured board, so I went and had a look. It was quite a mixture. There was some brightly coloured paint-spraying (or dropping-from-the-top-of-the-canvas, in this case) stuff that was pretty but not particularly indicitive of anything but playfulness on part of the creator, but then there was some *nice* abstract stuff (featuring the 'squircle', which was a shape of basically rectangular outline made of the space between four circles) which showed care and attention. The most fascinating bit to me was the 'curbscapes' - reproduced sections of kerb with carefully placed shoes, detritus and so forth moulded in plaster, which really did an amazingly good job of conveying moods and scenes. You probably have to have the fascination-with-the-mundane that keeps me glued to the windows when we drive through Mile End to really get the full effect, but given that it was particularly strong I think there was more to it than that. (The artist who produced all of this was a local artist, now sadly passed away; I brought away a leaflet about him, but it seems to have gone AWOL, and I can't remember his name. Online, there appear to be a lot of things called squircles, none of which can Google associate with Braintree. 'curbscape' also comes up blank, due to 'curbscaping' as in putting in curbing.)
I also failed to mention that I actually drove to and from the cinema on Monday, and to and from lunch at some-restaurant-we-go-to-that-I-forgot-the-name-of. I managed to stall once when panicking about a little birdie which wouldn't take off in time, but other than that it went pretty well.
Also in today's news, I got a newsletter from the LARP people. It's getting annoying now that I can't go back there (too far away) unless perhaps I go to York, and even then it'll be a bit of a hassle. Meh.
