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I have a feeling I won't be around much this year :( Here's why: As well as working 20 hours a week for the paper (I'm still working there, yay!), I have full-time school. It's my last year, and also the heaviest. Due to the main clothing design teacher being on sabbatical last year, I have to take about four classes I should have taken last year, this year. In addition to three VERY VERY DIFFICULT (or so they tell me) senior classes. To quote the current design teacher I have now, "You can't have a life when you're in design." And given how I won't be able to go home or anywhere else on a weekend the entire year (most likely) because I have huge, time-sucking projects due all the time, I'm not happy. I spent the first two weekends of school, and I mean every waking moment, doing stuff for class. I'm a big walking stressball of cranky every class day, snarling at the teacher for seven hours of class (two 3 1/2 hour ones a day). Not only did I realize that working full time at the paper was infinitely more fun than school, this year is particularly not fun. I have a full-blown clothing project due every two weeks (it usually takes me a month). I have to spend the entire year dyeing fabric, which is quite tedious. And I just start getting annoyed at how my "education" consists of "Make a pair of shoes you can't wear, make a headdress that will disintegrate in a few days, let's go on a field trip to the dump!" As for the shoe project, I got a lower grade just because she didn't like the color of the wings I put on the heels. Which she'd ok'd the class before the due date, but completely forgot about ok'ing them when it came time to turn them in. ARGH.As for my other two classes, one has a teacher that is unfortunately rather full of himself, and the other class we might as well rename "Whores and Rapists of the 18th Century." It's a cheery quarter. When mentioning I was doing this post, EDM said he could use a week off because school was getting rough. I said, "You know, it terrifies me that you're in law school and still have time to post, whereas I'm a frigging undergrad and don't seem to have a minute to do anything non-school-related..." So if I post infrequently, that would be why. On a cheerier note, I recently reconnected with an ex-friend of mine who I hadn't spoken to in most of a year. Which is weird for me, as in my past experience once someone either breaks it off with you or drifts away or moves, you can never really be friends with them again. I'd try, and usually felt like I was getting the "ok, now go away now, I don't give a crap about you any more" vibe. Plus we just couldn't come up with anything to talk about. But in this case, it pretty much went like back to normal again. I'm not sure how this will work out. The issue we ended up not being friends over is still an issue *sigh*, but presumably she doesn't have as much of a problem with it as she used to. Hopefully things will improve. |
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