a pensive day today...more slush, more snow puts a damper on my enthusiasm. but for the first time in a week or so i feel extremely productive and thoughtful. the next couple weeks are going to be long and arduous, but good as it will force me into contemplation over design and stretch my mind a little more than i have been these past few weeks. spring break is approaching and everyone is travelling to far off places...sigh...i've made no such plans for myself as of the moment. school beckons me, but i might consider a weekend trip to someplace warm and sunny. this cold weather makes me long for the pink blossoms of the cherry trees even more --- a few more weeks and i will be basking in the sun, sketchbook in hand sitting on green grass. some quotes to keep me inspired till the sun arrives:

"For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this - a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create - to create - to create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of beauty and meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create. He must pour out creation. By some strange unknown pressing inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."
-- Pearl S. Buck

"When you find yourself in the middle of your life
and you're nowhere near where you were going,
how do you find a way from the person you've become,
to the one you know you could've been?"
-- Taken

"People move through their lives sometimes without really thinking about where they're going. The days pile up, and they get sadder and lonelier, without really knowing how they got so sad, or why they're so lonely. Then something happens... they meet someone who looks a certain way, or has something in their smile. Maybe that's all that falling in love is. Finding someone who makes you feel a little less alone."
-- Taken

"Sometimes people come to a moment, where they think they've found that one last chance to be someone else... and they go for it. When it doesn't work out, they spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulder at what might've been."
-- Taken