More art from my past. This first one is Terry Nun from the 80’s New wave band “Berlin.” Done with pastels over water colors, in 1984. Next one is John Bulishi (sp?) done with quash or opaque watercolors. That was an assignment for my Advertising Design class in 1982, when things were still done by hand and not computers. (I actually saw his ‘grave site’ on Martha’s Vineyard in 1997) Today as I was leaving the YMCA, around 6:00AM, after lifting, someone commissioned me to do a drawing for them. They want daises. I am very flattered that they asked me and hey I might make a few bucks, but usually I do not make much on my art. I just sell it too cheap. Actually, I usually give it away. If I have shown someone in the past my work and they really like a certain piece, I have just gave it to them. Not my favorite stuff, though. One of the requirements for admission into grad school in the counseling program at UNC in Greeley, Colorado, is to take the MMPI II. That “personality inventory” is a joke! If any of you psych majors or any who have studied this test, you will know what I mean. Although they claim it is very accurate. The questions, all 531 of them, are true/false. Absurd method for a psych test. I can recall many of the question’s answers for me being both. One example is: “If you were an artist, would you like to paint flowers?” I am an artist and I hate painting flowers. I love flowers, but I am very bad at drawing and painting them. I can never get them to look like flowers. How do I answer that? Maybe that question is supposed to be an indication of gender roles, I do not know. There were other questions that directly asked about liking flowers and wanting to be an artist. Maybe that is a question designed to see if a person is “faking” as they say in the psych world. The very first question through me off. “Do you like to read mechanics magazines?” Well, I have never read one. How do I know? I work on my own cars and motorcycles, mostly because I like it and I can not afford paying someone else to fix them (I should say I used to not be able to, I can now). I have “looked” at car magazines, but just at the pictures of the cars. I have read articles about cars and instructions in repairs in books, but no mechanics magazines. No, I did not “like” reading the instructions, but they sure did help with the repair jobs. I just answered “true.” So, what were my results? They were looking to see if a person fit into their ideas of what a counselor should be, so they said, whatever that means. That was never explained. The person who told me about my results said I am ( or was at the time) “a person who is re-defining themselves.” She was right. So, maybe that test is a good one, what do I know? I knew that at the time and I did nto need an $85 test to tell me. I guess one is not supossed to be re-defining when appliying to grad school.