Since I haven’t posted a real blog since the beginning of last month, I figured I was probably about due. Or overdue.
I don’t have much of anything to share, however. The main reason I haven’t been offering daily glimpses behind the glamorous facade of my life is that there really hasn’t been much going on. I have a theory–or at least a sincere wish–that my life will be interesting again one day (I’m hoping for ‘good interesting’) and that I will once again have more thrilling tales to avail the world with than; “I went to school,” “I did some homework,” or “(something about) my cats.”
For right now, well…I’m almost at the end of my autumn quarter and the above pretty much describes my life…but I suppose I can supply a highlight or two:
I completed the main project for my Dimensional Design class. This is the class mentioned in an earlier post due to the very frustrating teacher. He hasn’t gotten any better yet — he remains inflexible, demanding and overall, kind of douchy. The week before our projects were due he told the class that we had (another) night of studio (see: he doesn’t feel inspired enough to bother with us so he’s just going to let us work on our projects or not, as we see fit) and that he wanted us to “work on our projects, not come ask him questions about our projects”. This has been his attitude for pretty much the whole quarter. His reasoning is that “when we have a job in the real world, our boss won’t hold our hand through our project–he’ll just expect us to do it.” I get what he’s saying, but I feel that before we are trusted on large independent design jobs we will work with other teams, and before that have internships to learn how the design world works, and before that, we are supposed to have teachers helping us learn how to design.
Well, despite my teacher’s inherent unhelpfulness, between the two of us, Briggs and I managed to pull together a project that looked pretty darn sweet and got me an ‘A’. Due to above mentioned inflexibility, however, anyone who wasn’t there on the dot of 6, project in hand, got–as far as I can tell–an auto-fail. Including, not only the people who skipped class that week in hopes of dodging the due date, but also the girl who got to class a mere half hour late in tears with a project she had experienced great difficulty fitting in her car.
My teacher’s attitude combined with the fact that I arrive at school at 1pm and then wait 5 hours for a class that more often than not consists of him calling roll and then telling us we have ‘studio time’ makes me glad I only have two more sessions of that class to sit through–in one of which we are supposed to actually be doing…something.
Other than that…my other two classes are going unexcitingly alright. I’m doing well enough, though not thrilling over every assignment. The final project for my Electronic Production class was creating a new package for something, so I made a circus tent-shaped box for the ever-famous ‘Barnum’s Animals Crackers’. It came out acceptably well. The box shape is nice, though I miscalculated end-size on a couple of the exterior elements and subsequently ended up with my informational blurb at a font-size that might require a magnifying glass to read…but it isn’t due until the end of class tomorrow so I can talk to my teacher and fix little issues like that.
The part of my week when I was not working on my circus box was spent planning on getting around to working on my Illustration final project, which I made very little headway on, cleaning the kitchen and making a pot of beef stew which I just now managed to burn while reheating by getting distracted writing a blog. I also tried parting my hair on the side I normal don’t, but I really didn’t like it and when I washed my hair tonight, I returned my locks to their normal arrangement.
Yesterday it snowed until about mid-afternoon…but it was light powdered-sugar snow that drifted down and just barely dusted everything in a sprinkle of white. Everywhere else seems to be getting more snow than we are.
This evening, Briggs and I went shopping and it was an overall annoying experience from the get-go, overflowing with us not finding what we were looking for and other people’s irritating children. But we did finally get a crock pot and I look forward to experimenting with cooking in it. Also, I finally purchased a lemon zester.
Robin Goodfellow has reached an age where he is causing trouble if he is awake…his latest favorites include:
stealing push-pins from the cork-board which results in a) all the stuff pinned to the cork-board not being pinned anymore, and b) me being constantly worried that he’s going to eat a push-pin and die.
stealing my makeup sponges, no matter how well tucked away they are.
climbing on the shelves over my fishtank and next to my desk and knocking everything down while I’m trying to sleep.
…soon we will neuter him, and it will be a joyful joyful day.
So, like I said: “I went to school”, “I did some homework” and “something about my cats”
Hey, only a year and a little to go before I might have real stuff to tell you.
