Helloooo!

Ah, the first post in a long time. Well, I kinda knew that this blog would be a sporadic one...

I had a very nice, very short, relaxing break. Unfortunately, so short it was that I have unintentionally taken it upon myself to drag it into the first semester, reading my fill of smut and sleeping more than my share of unconscious hours when I should be getting back to work.

About that: I'm currently taking Printmaking: Figure Ground, Painting: Structure and Transformation, Women's Choir, and continuing with the second semester of Advanced Drawing. I can already see how these classes are going to pan out, as I am in the third week and copped a good feel on each of them (that doesn't make sense, but I really wanted to write it). Painting is a killer. I have my first project due next week, and I don't like it. I'm really not into it. It's this bizarre abstract crap that I just can't force myself to be interested in, much worse, actually do. It's something I know I won't be proud of when I finish it, and it's definitely not something I'll feel comfortable defending. Worse still, it's with my favorite professor, and I really don't want to disappoint him. Not that he has any personal investment in me or my future; I doubt he'd care if I didn't do anything at all--but I really want him to see me doing well.

And I can't even drop the class if it comes to that point. I have to take a 3000-level studio course, and that was the only one for which I had the pre-req.s and the time.

Printmaking is going to be my time-hogging class; the one where I get so wrapped up in doing it more than others that I devote too much more of my time to it than I do to either Painting or Drawing. Which isn't necessarily a good thing; I don't particularly need this 2000-level course, I just took it for fun and experience. And I really need to distribute my focus on other things.

Women's Choir is the stress reliever. I'm not too sure I've taken one of those before, except of course when I took Women's Choir freshman year. Either way, I'm glad I'm in it, and I'm having fun.

Advanced Drawing...is Advanced Drawing. But turbo-time. We have a new teacher, and she's very nice to talk to, but she is a hard-ass when it comes to work and extra stuff...can't say I'm too enthused to be writing an 8 page paper and preparing a 15-minute presentation in a class for DRAWING. Not to mention all the reading we're supposed to do....UGHHHHH

And she hates the drawings I did last semester (basically, all I worked on last semester) and wants me to draw them over again. (There are no emoticons sad enough to express my reaction.)

But I'll do it! I'm desperate to seek her approval. She's just playing hard-to-get, and I will win.

On a bright note, I made it into the Juried Show!