So Very Dark

As you all may know by my extensive bitching lately, I’ve been going through a couple of months filled with stress and getting sick a lot and lacking motivation to get my stuff taken care of…so I wanted to share with you all that I had a really good day yesterday.  Just so you don’t all begin thinking I’m a whiny teenager in disguise.

I didn’t expect it to be…I was up way too late (there were brownies in the oven and I’ll be darned if I was going to go to bed before I ate one!) and I had projects to do and it was raining…not lovely fluffy wonderland snow, wet, cold, drizzly sky-water that makes you damp and cold and I had a full day of school ahead of me and no coffee money.

But despite all that…it was just good.  It was pleasant.  I took care of some important things and got some unexpected good news that brightened my day.  I listened to an angstful playlist while drawing thumbnails for a final project, and it was just right for the day and the weather, the mournful and melodic songs harmonizing with the grey, leaking sky and giving me a sense of peace and mellowness without melancholy, and I got the requisite 20 concepts drawn out in less than 2 hours, content and immersed.  I even seem to be making some sort of progress on my final Illustrator project (3D modeling, which I do not have the right kind of brain for).  When I got home, I curled up on the couch and made necklaces of sparkly beads.

The best part, however, the tingly exciting happy moment of my day:

While I was sitting in my Design Principles class, sketching ideas, my teacher was visited by another professor.  He is one of the two teachers in the school who specialized in and have done and do illustration (which is, of course, what I hope to pursue).  The two of them chatted for a little while and then he came over to my desk and told me that he had seen some of my thumbnails (preliminary drawings) and they were really nice.

Yeah, okay…whatever.  Maybe you aren’t as excited by this as me.  I don’t care.  He isn’t a teacher I have had before.  It wasn’t like he was coming over to chat with an ex-student.  He is an illustrator and went out of his way to come talk to me and tell me that he liked my work!

Anyway…today is snowy.  I think this is the most snow we have had so far this winter…the grass is all covered with no dirty brown patches showing through where tree-cover prevented full distribution…outside of our house is all Winter Wonderland right now.  And despite Freeport’s shortcomings, it is pretty out here, and I get to see the changing seasons much more so than I did in town.

Now, I conclude with a link to a song about the internet being awesome.