This is my last week of classes. My first final, for Experimental Microbiology, is tomorrow and this is the only final I’m sort of excited about. What? Do I sound insane? Did I just say I was looking forward to a final? Well, yes I did…and yes I think I am. This is the show and tell final–I show them that I know what I’m doing. I get to do Gram stains and hanging drops and streak dilutions and yadayada. I turn in my notebook and final reports and say adios to my lab! AHHHHH!!! I’m not really looking forward to a month of nothing but studying, but I have a strategy–I’m gonna study (go figure) and take lovely calm breaks.
This Sunday, I went to St. Kilda yet again–it is another weekly ritual of mine–and I sat on my rock and watched a man standing on a surf board paddle his way around the rocky area to the beach.
I saw a penguin.
And I was forced to stop writing poetry and evacuate early as a huge black raincloud stormed its way across the pier.   Everything was so beautiful; everything was drenched in anticipation. Forget the calm before the storm–the electricity that preceeds it is protokinetic.Â
On Saturday, I watched Pollock, a movie for which Ed Harris received an Oscar nomination for portraying Jackson Pollock. But it wasn’t Pollock’s work that caught my attention in the movie–it was Lee Krasner’s. She was his wife and she was a masterful artist as well. Anyway, I’ve had a blank canvas just pushed to the side in my room for the past month and a half and I decided that the time had come to actually paint something. Unfortunately I didn’t have any brushes. Not to worry; fingerpainting hasn’t gone out of style. Now the painting isn’t very good, but I still like it. I liked making it. I liked being a part of a process and, in a way, being a process myself.
Rainbow Man, painted by Jordan Trippeer
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Now, it is time to return to the academic life and plunge into this “very exciting” final.
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Jordan
Quote of the week:
“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
- Eckhart Tolle
