Gifts

Haven't done anything in my square yet. I've come the conclusion that I don't really like any of the ideas that I had previously, which is very useful. So I thought I'd have a ramble, and as no body follows or reads this yet (except for my mother) it's not going to bore too many people!
I think that I'm going to leave gifts for people in my square, though I don't know what they will be yet. I'm going to get some boxes, ribbons and stuff tomorrow. Maybe there will be nothing inside. Though I think that I'd like to get people to do a sort of gift swap. Maybe I'll start it off by giving... something... and ask others to replace the gift and pass it on.
The next question is, how do I know if this has happened? And do I need to know? I have lots of thinking to do; probably means that I should stop watching t.v and try to be productive. I wander where I can buy little cardboard boxes.

Visiting My Square

I end up going for an alcohol induced wander through a small part of my square on Monday night. Its not my fault if my square happens to contain a good selection of clubs, bars and pubs! As I said previously, all the squares were chosen at random from a box with no idea what or where we would be choosing. I can't say that I remember much about the walk back through my square, nor the walk there, niether were very eventful.
Yesterday I walked through my square again to go to the cinema which is just on the edge. It was evening so most of the shops were closed. I mentioned in my last blog about feeling bad about the homeless man that I didn't give any money too. There were a lot of homeless peope last night, and that made me think about it some more. So I think that I might go and investgate the 'friend's meeting house' which I assume is a Quaker meeting house, and see if they have a soup kitchen or something that I can volenteer at. With the selfish hope that this will also provide me with some inspiration as to what to do in my square.
I walked through the edge the of my square today, but nothing exciting happened, unfortunatly the bagel shop is just outside of my square, and that is where the exciting things happen.

First day back

First day back at uni so I thought that it would be a good time to start a blog. That and I want to make sure that my writing still makes some kind of sense after the four month break. That’s right, as a student I get four months off, FOUR months! I would like to point out at this point that I spent the four months working my butt off in the library to that I can afford to live whilst I’m accumulating a lot of debt. Yes, I know, the normal student rant about debt, and some would say that my degree won’t even be worth much. I am not included in said people.

                I’ve got a square, it’s mine to do what I want with. Well nearly, I can do what I want with the paper that shows where on the map the square that is to be the sight of some kind of amazing art work will take place. Its all to do with working out of the studio and place and stuff like that. So I thought that my blog could show the development of my square.

I just visited my square. Was hard at first to work out where the boundaries where in comparison to the map, I’m not very good at map reading.

                I’ve visited my square a lot, before it was my square, it’s one of those places that you feel you must show off to visitors. Come and have a look at my Square! Except that it only became mine today, yesterday it was just a place. But now it’s more than that, now it’s my square!

I just had a wander round today; I wasn’t there for more than ten minutes. And I didn’t talk to anyone, except to say sorry and smile pitifully at a tramp that I didn’t give any money. That always makes me feel bad, nobody else does so I don’t and it’s pretty terrible of me. I should really sort that out, but I’d rather give to a charity than an individual. Maybe I’ll try the Quaker Meeting House in my square, see if they run a soup kitchen and give them some money.

                I still don’t know what I’m going to do with my square, I want to think of something fun and original. I like to make things hard for myself, I don’t let things just happen, my ideas are always crap. I was thinking of selling it on ebay, but I want to do something there first. And I’d have to sell the piece of paper that represents my Square and not the square itself, I don’t own that. But does owning the paper mean that they can call it theirs even if by law it isn’t? Can a place still belong to you even if you don’t legally own it? We all started to describe our areas, as shown by our piece of paper, as our squares. I do feel a sort of possessiveness about my square already, its mine, not yours.

                I’m going to visit my square again tonight, I wander if my alcohol fuelled brain will think of something amazing to do there. It probably will but I will then be unable to remember in the morning or realise the idea itself was not really very good. I may even right a drunk blog about my alcohol induced wanderings in my square. Maybe there will even be pictures! Well we’ll find out later, I’m off to get dressed up and drunk!