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I assembled that thing THREE TIMES. The first two times I was using armature wire, but the structure was way too heavy for just that to hold it up. I ended up gluing a USPS poster tube, cut not quite in half, to a square of cardboard (you can see it in the pic, I haven't totally covered it up yet) and building it again from there. I'm not using cotton balls, but the stuff used to stuff quilts and things like that. At first couldn't stand it, but it's not so bad. The problem is actually keeping the fluff in place. I'm gluing it, but it's a bit annoying at times. I AM happy that the top of the cloud is staying in place, though. I think I should build up the ring some more. For my first foray into sculpture, especially with a material that isn't exactly solid, not bad. ^_^ I'm a little concerned with getting it to school. Mom's going to drive me back there, though. I can put it in the Blick shopping bags I got. Hopefully it'll hold up okay.

Printed out some stuff I'll be putting on the board. I looked on Wikipedia for Cold War info, and found the bit about Samantha Smith, a (then) ten-year-old that wrote a letter to the new prime minister of the Soviet Union worrying about nuclear war. Really liked her letter and his response, so I printed both letters and photos of each; I'm going to put them somewhere on the board near America and Russia. That's a bit of the canvas covered up. Still have LOTS to cover. Also debating whether or not to cover Israel on the map, because as Wiki puts it, it's speculated that they have nukes, but they don't acknowledge it, so who's to say they do?

I'm being really (stupidly?) ambitious with this project, so we'll see what happens. I don't have to do everything I was planning to do with the cloud--that's my 5" off the board element (and really it's closer to 20-something inches), so in that respect, I'm done... but I want the piece to be one that you can look at from above AND head-on, and see something different from both perspectives. I think that would be cool.

MICA's having an accepted student day a week from tomorrow. Excellent timing, because the following week is spring break! Mom said we could take a drive down there; she has a relative in Waldorf, MD that she could visit, especially since I don't have to go anywhere that Monday. Would mean that Craig would have to handle Oliver for a day or two; he'd go to school on Monday and Oliver would be home by himself, which he wouldn't like, but we can't really bring him with us.

I'm friggin' exhausted. I felt like I needed a nap like eight hours ago and didn't lay down because I wanted to get the cloud finished. I'm working on printing the other elements for the head-on view, but I might just stop for tonight and continue it tomorrow. I still have to figure out how I'm going to paint it.