spring break. woo. hoo.

So.

Winter quarter is over. No more art history at least, which is a relief.

My Sweethearts candies box designs went over very well and are getting showcased. My photobook on the other hand…well, I’m not finished with it, but I got enough completed to turn in…however, my final assessment of what I have done so far is that it came out okay. I saw a few of the other completed designs and they were lovely, really lovely. I think that the combination of my lack of strong layout and typography skills and OH YEAH, having to rework my whole design last minute, might just have worked against me a bit. On the positive side, as my new partner in the project is a graduate and therefore has no deadline looming, I can finish it at my leisure, and after getting the chance to look at some other people’s work, maybe I’ll have a few ideas of how to refine what I have into something better.

I’m a little depressed and annoyed by the fact that spring break is only a week long. Not long enough to recharge and certainly not long enough to complete the giant list of Stuff To Get Done during this time off. I’m also a little depressed by the realization I had last night that the usual end of the quarter freedom I enjoy so much isn’t available this time around — that sudden awareness that my work for the the quarter past is done, for better or for worse, that I’m free for a brief time to pursue my own desires with no one else’s artistic demands weighing upon me. This break, instead, I still have a half-completed photobook to attend to, as well as promised illustrations for the children’s book a friend (not in art school) is writing for a class. *sigh* Both projects I’m happy to be a part of, of course…just spring break continuing to disappoint me with it’s brevity and I have a million things of my own I would like to work on as well.

On a more happy note, my tablet should be arriving in just about 2 weeks. I’m massively excited. Of course, I’ll be back in school by the time it gets here and won’t have my break to spend goofing around and getting used to it, but still…I’m getting my tablet. Last night Briggs had me watch a video review on it, and now I’m more excited than before.

Other than that…

The weather is grey and drizzly, but definitely spring. I’m hoping to find time to plant some of my perennial wildflower mix this week.

I’ve been rewatching the utter lack of any redeeming quality that is Smallville. I’m mid-Season 1 and have decided that Lex is totally gay for Clark. Also that some third-graders have a better grasp of writing and character development. Oh, right. I already knew that.

Briggs and I have been watching Caprica, and have been quite pleasantly surprised. If you are a Battlestar fan and haven’t checked it out yet, I recommend doing so. Honestly, even if you haven’t seen Battlestar – there ae plenty of easter-eggs for fans of the series, but I think it’s totally watchable without prior knowledge of the world. Caprica also isn’t quite as heavy and inaccessible as Battlestar could be from time to time…a bit brighter and flashier, but still well-written with good acting and character development (take a hint, Smallville!)

I watched this week’s episode of Chuck last night, and I’m wondering if they might actually let the show and the character evolve, or if they’ll find a way to put everything right back how it was again next week.

I have been reading a bunch of random stuff, as usual, and enjoying some of my choices more than others. If you are interested in actual literature, both Things Fall Apart and July’s People (books from my World Lit class) are excellent choices. Oh, and I suppose that Heart of Darkness is pretty good too… RE my recreational reading, Beauty Sleep, a YA retelling of Sleeping Beauty, really surprised me. Very fast read, but very fun, well written and hard to put down. Most recently, I finished Malice…not great, but interesting enough that I’m thinking of finding the second book in the series…I suspect that it would be quite enthralling to it’s intended age group. Not a lot else that really grabbed me, except the weighty Tawny Man trilogy, the third trilogy of Robin Hobb’s series in the Six Duchies world–a story that excited and annoyed me by turns, largely because, yet again, the ever-irritating Fitz was the central character and narrator again.

As usual, not a lot else in my life is noteworthy. School, blah blah blah, I love my cats. As the first day of my break — official decompression day — I have spent the afternoon so far goofing off on the internet, drinking coffee, finishing my book and writing a blog.