• listened to The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell (2000)

• read Black English Vernacular (From "Ain't" to "Yo Mama") by Monica Frazier Anderson (1994)


• read Color Theory by Jose M. Parramon (1989)
  
  
  
  • RGB -- primary colors, additive synthesis; CMYK -- secondary light colors, subtractive synthesis
  
  
  • Local color: color of the object itself; tonal color: color variations resulting from light and shadow; reflective color -- reflected by other objects, environment
  
  
  • Color brighter and contrast greater in foreground v. background (condition of atmosphere)
  
  
  • Adding white to a color turns it gray
  
  
  • Never make a color lighter or darker by using white or black; use other colors, complimentary colors to darken, create contrast (e.g. yellow and violet)
  
  
  • Shadows are blue, contain darker tones of the object's color, and complimentary colors (e.g. red apple: blue, dark red, green shadow
  
  
  • Melodic range = monochromatic; harmonic range = complimentary
  
  
  • Color contrast comes from juxtaposing complimentary colors (fauvists)
  
  
  • A color throws it's compliment onto neighboring colors (e.g. lemon makes gray background seem blue)
  
  

• listened to Marriage Made in Heaven--Or Too Tired to Have an Affair written and read by Erma Bombeck (1993)

• listened to The Vision of Emma Blau written and read by Ursula Hegi (2000)

• listened to Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee Mysteries) by John D. Macdonald, read by Michael Prichard (2001)

• listened to Dirty Work by Stuart Woods (2003)

• watched Return of the Jedi : Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition) on DVD (2004) -- don't like Anakin's face change. Why does Lucas keep tweaking?

• listened to Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Abridged edition) written and read by Rebecca Wells (2004)

• listened to Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland (2001) -- like The Red Violin for a Vermeer painting


• watched Christmas in Connecticut (1945) -- before Martha Stewart, there was Elizabeth Lane


• watched The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

• watched An Everlasting Piece (2000)

• rewatched The Turning Point (1977)


• watched Max Dugan Returns (1983)

• read Millionaire Real Estate Mentor : Investing in Real Estate: A Comprehensive and Detailed Guide to Financial Freedom for Everyone by Russ Whitney (2003) -- finally finished! An excellent, one-stop manual for real estate investment.

• listened to The Dance of Intimacy written and read by Harriet Lerner (1997)