That's kind of funny. Practicaly everyone at my school is from everywhere BUT here. Anyway, Portland's just my style. It's big enough to be interesting, and small enough that it doesn't feel like a big huge industrial city, which was what really turned me off about Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. It's also full of trees and parks and fountains, and I even enjoy the rain, because it's watering all the green stuff. After San Diego, I'm a little starved for green. It's spring now, and I still can't get over how EVERYTHING is poking out flowers and stuff. It's my first real-feeling spring since Springfield, really.
Sadly, I'm spending the summer back in San Diego. There's a drought going on there, and I hope the dry doesn't kill me.
My school's cool. I get to start taking classes for my major next semester, and I feel like drooling. This semester wasn't really too bad, though. I got to take 2D and we're making our own books, and Time arts, which got me a little addicted to Muybridge.
See, I would not be annoyed about spending the summer in San Diego. And I'd kind of like to live in Pittsburgh at some point--probably just because I love the writer Michael Chabon, who sets everything in Pittsburgh.
UMich is pretty much the biggest school ever. But the college town around it, Ann Arbor, is a cute quirky hippie city with a lot of art galleries and used bookstores, and I really love it. I'm spending the summer here, working at Borders. It gets awfully cold, but other than that it's a nice place to be. Something like 40% of the people over 25 in Ann Arbor have MAs or PhDs.
I haven't declared yet, but I'm planning to double major in Creative Writing and ACABS (Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies), focusing in Ancient Egypt. Next year I'm taking two semesters of Akkadian, an ancient Mesopotamian language, which means I get to learn cuneiform. For some reason I find this really exciting.
What are you actually majoring in? Would I understand it? And what's the name of your school, anyway?
My school's called PNCA-- pacific northwest college of art. I've started introducing it as 'the ninja art school', since the Art Institute is only a mile away, AND right next to a trolley stop, so when I tell people I go to the art school, they look blank, and then go, "...The AI?" and I have to explain that no, PNCA, the invisible hidden converted matress factory that is in fact much much cooler than AI. Of course, sometimes people had no idea that Portland HAS art schools
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I'll see if Amy (best friend from Portland) has heard of it.
It seems a little weird that we're both still interested in the things we were interested in when we were seven. I don't think that's true for everyone.
I'm going home to visit my family in a week, and there's this one photograph I want so badly to dig up: it's me, in the house in Springfield, dressed as a pharoah, false beard and all. I've decided that if I can find that picture, I definitely want to make it my author photo for my first book.
And I think a picture book in Akkadian would not find a wide audience. I like the idea, though!
Yeah.
Anyway, it sounds like you had a busy time since then. Catch up with me sometime?
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How's everything? You're going to school in Portland, right? My best friend is from there.
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Sadly, I'm spending the summer back in San Diego. There's a drought going on there, and I hope the dry doesn't kill me.
My school's cool. I get to start taking classes for my major next semester, and I feel like drooling. This semester wasn't really too bad, though. I got to take 2D and we're making our own books, and Time arts, which got me a little addicted to Muybridge.
So...yeah. You?
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UMich is pretty much the biggest school ever. But the college town around it, Ann Arbor, is a cute quirky hippie city with a lot of art galleries and used bookstores, and I really love it. I'm spending the summer here, working at Borders. It gets awfully cold, but other than that it's a nice place to be. Something like 40% of the people over 25 in Ann Arbor have MAs or PhDs.
I haven't declared yet, but I'm planning to double major in Creative Writing and ACABS (Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies), focusing in Ancient Egypt. Next year I'm taking two semesters of Akkadian, an ancient Mesopotamian language, which means I get to learn cuneiform. For some reason I find this really exciting.
What are you actually majoring in? Would I understand it? And what's the name of your school, anyway?
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It seems a little weird that we're both still interested in the things we were interested in when we were seven. I don't think that's true for everyone.
I'm going home to visit my family in a week, and there's this one photograph I want so badly to dig up: it's me, in the house in Springfield, dressed as a pharoah, false beard and all. I've decided that if I can find that picture, I definitely want to make it my author photo for my first book.
And I think a picture book in Akkadian would not find a wide audience. I like the idea, though!
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