"Life's Too Short for the Wrong Job" so true and these crack me up

Update on Disney

First night at the park, of course we go to Magic Kingdom! It felt so magical even though I had already seen the backstage. My first ever Disney ride was Space Mountain, which is awesome and I love it every time!

Chels isn't too happy about her costume lol

Went on Tower of Terror, as my first ride in Hollywood Studios. Terrifying, yet fun. 

Two of the roomies, Shari and Z, at Hollywood Studios.

The tree of Life at Animal Kingdom. This tree is something I would have dreamed up. I love it!

Me and Chels went on Safari.

This is how close to the animals you get on the safari!

Me and Em went to Typhoon Lagoon! So much fun, but the wave pool was for real intense. More horrific than being stuck out in the waves in the ocean lol.

I had wanted one of these giant turkey legs since the first week and we finally got one! They are delicious and juicy but way too big to finish. You feel like a barbarian eating it too lol. 

This would be my work location. We just sell sandwiches, fries, desserts, a couple kids meals, and drinks. And we have a bar on the side. It's been slow lately but as the holidays approach it's going to get hectic I hear. Last week it was so slow in the park that we shut down Studio Catering for 4 days lol. I was deployed and got to work the ice crem/soda cart in front of Jedi Training. Best job ever! So simple and I got entertainment at the same time.

Oh where to sit these days...

These are all so interesting ideas and constructions for public seating. Way better than the average boring bench, I say. It would definitely brighten my day to be able to sit on one of these while waiting for a bis to work or just while resting my feet.

Modern Day Adobe Houses

Long sandbags are filled on-site and arranged in layers or as compressed coils. Stabilizers such as cement, lime, or sodium carbonate may be added to an ideal mix of 70% sand, 30% clay. Straw may also be added. The earthbags are then plastered over with adobe.

The time consuming part, filling the bags. The bags are filled in place on the wall. The CalEarth site says that three reasonably-fit persons can lay 100 linear ft of bag per day.

  

Foundations differ as per site. Here, in a rainy locale, rocks were placed under the earthbags for drainage. Note the barbed wire which keeps the bags from slipping and creates an earthquake resistent structure.

Finished inside.

The aerodynamic forms resist hurricanes and the structures pass California’s earthquake codes. They are flood and fire resistant as well. A double eco-dome can be built (bagged) in 10 weeks.

Usually used as emergency shelters, like the above one. 

Finished inside of a vaulted earthbag home. 

I wouldn't mind living in one of these. I bet they are nice and cool inside especially if you went a step further and planted grass/plants on the outside roof and such, which was in their next plans for the earthbag construction. 

Skyping Star Wars Style

In case you were wondering...that would be Chelsea and Wesley in those helmets :)

Thoughts

I've been thinking alot lately about what I'm doing with my life. Do I really want to become an artist. What would I sell, how would I sell it. See here is the problem already. As an artist to live you must sell the work that you create or you must hold down several jobs while creating work. But if you don't sell it what do you do with it. Give it away? I can see selling my work if I just become a potter. Pottery is something people use, not necassarily something with deep meaning that the viewer has to understand to fully enjoy the piece. With pottery one only needs to enjoy the feel and use of the object to appreciate it. Honestly I can see myself specifically only working in pottery for the rest of my life but at the school I attend that would be impossible, to only take courses in. So the question is what next. I'm a sculpture major. Technically I would go on next semester to take more metals, woodshop, sculpture, and ceremics classes, along with some liberal studies. Do I want to keep going, finish school? That would be ideal seeing as I've already put so much money into it I might as well finish. I'm just not sure where I'm going when I finish. Maybe that's why I don't mind waisting a semester working at Disney World. I absolutely loved working at  the summer camp, teaching pottery. Don't get me wrong, some days it was a challenge and other days I just wanted to quit. But I loved those girls. No matter how much they drove me insane at the end of the day I just wanted them to be happy and safe. Teaching is not an easy task yet it is so rewarding. When a child gets that look in their eyes, that you recognize at once as understanding, you are so proud. While at camp I didn't just get that proud feeling in my classroom but also when my bunk girls played sports, were in the plays, helped out a friend, etc. Even when I was participating in other classes I felt proud of the campers as much as their teachers in that area were proud. One good thing about teaching pottery, or really art in general, is that there isn't too much of a language barrier. It didn't matter if my students spoke english or not, I could teach them just the same. I appreciated this fact, and I feel the international campers did too. The best job would be to just teach at a camp all year but that dream isn't really feasible. So here we go, oh what to do.