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Went into the sculpture studio today to put the mother mold on my brick rubber molds. The process for the mother mold went something like this:

1. Draw a line down the ridge-line of your rubber mold in sharpie.

2. Drive nails in a line down one side of the drawn sharpie-line.

3. Roll out and build a clay wall, one inch high and half an inch wide to cover the nails.

4. Cut about nine thousand pieces of burlap with children's scissors.

5. Mix plaster.

6. Dip the strips of burlap in the plaster.

7. Apply plaster strips to one side of the clay wall, making sure not to go over the wall.

8. Fill any deeper areas with the now thicker-plaster.

9. Give it like, ten seconds to dry.

10. Pull the clay wall and the nails out. Go ahead and do it together though, because it doesn't matter whether or not there are rouge nails in the clay that is put into a bag to be reused.

11. Paint the plaster that was behind the clay wall with shellac and Vaseline.

12. Repeat steps 6-9.

Hooray! You've now made a rubber mold!

Right around step 3, I was pounding out the clay so I could fold it over the nails, and impaled my hand on a nail someone left in the clay. My appointment for my tetanus shot is tomorrow at 1:30.

Good news, the University has decided to give me an additional 500 in grants next semester, and because they always do it for both semesters of a term, they sent me a check for the fall's portion of it. So, all that not-sleeping and worrying I've been doing about money, and paying for next semester: over with. Awesome! It's such a load off of my mind.

Friday and Saturday morning and afternoon were lovely. Josh came up to see the closing of the into photography show and stayed until the next day. I already miss him. I don't like waking up alone.

Also, I had a potluck monopoly night today. I made the last two packs of my flavored rice and mixed them together. It was tasty. Also, I won at Monopoly. But then again, I always do. Because I'm the Champion.