I'm writing my King Lear essay. Really, I am...
First:
Why doesn't LJ have a mood option "victorious"? Or "triumphant"? ...or "celebratory"? I know there's a mood-thingy doing a little victory dance somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it's called. I suppose if I really cared, I'd go through all of the options one by one and find the damn thing. But by the time I was done, I'd have to change my mood to either "dorky" or "frustrated", depending on whether I found it or not. So, really, it's not worth it.
Second, and the actual reason for the post:
I decided a few days ago that I'm going to make pictures for all my teachers last term, as a thank you. I don't remember what lead to this decision--or for that matter why I've never done this before, since it's such an obvious thing--but that's not really important. Anyway, I think it should be something related to, well, the class. Either the subject or something that happened in class or the teacher or like that. If I just do one of my normal drawings, I think it would be more like me bragging about my art than an actual "thank you". One little problem: my favorite class and by far the one most deserving of a thank you was statistics. The others were plenty good, but statistics was the best class I've ever had. Which leads to the question: How do you draw statistics?! Argh! I hate math. YOU CAN'T DRAW IT. Or at least, I can't. I can draw during math class, but the subject matter just...argh. Oceans? No problem. There are a million things to choose from: mollusks, fish, plankton, tide pools, deep sea vents.... And even without that, there are a bunch of pictures of the professor on the course website (okay, there's one picture, but that's all I need) that I could download to use as references for a portrait. No such luck for statistics. The course website has pictures of all the TAs, but not of the professor herself. Obviously, you're supposed to already know what she looks like from going to class. Ergh. I mean, I remember what she looks like. I'd certainly recognize her, no problem. But I don't have a clear enough image of her in my head to actually draw her.
So I was wracking my brains for something I could do statistics related and drawing a blank. Finally, I had a stroke of brilliance and tried *gasp* googling her name. Genius, I know. (In my defense, most of the time I was thinking about this, I didn't have a computer/internet access around.) And lo, there are exactly two photos of her easily available on the web. Which means that now all I have to figure out is if I want to do a group picture of her and all the TAs, how I want them positioned...that kind of thing. I'm so exicted I actually found a good picture of her! It all seems so much more do-able now. I have no idea what I would have done if I hadn't found a picture of her. Probably given her a picture of ... like ... a rabbit. Or something random like that. Which seems somehow better than a picture of some random, fictitious person.
All I have to figure out now is what to do for archaeology and psychology. Psychology should be easy, especially since the teachers were pretty laid back and casual, so I feel less weird giving them something totally random. Hey, it's a picture of... an Easter bunny! And a baby. Crying. Get it? (Yes, I'm evil.) Or a portrait of Philip Zimbardo. Dressed as a prison warden. (Philip Zimbardo did a bunch of videos that went along with our textbook, in which he invariably looked incredibly sketchy. This was a running joke during the class.)
Archaeology's a little harder. It shouldn't be, but all I can come up with is to draw a spear point or a pot or an atlatl. Maybe someone throwing an atlatl? I guess I feel uncomfortable imposing my own stereotyped interpretation of things, but I want something more involved than just an artifact. But what are they wearing? Who's doing what? What does this really look like? Okay, really what are they wearing and how have they done their hair? I'm probably overanalyzing. I guess I could draw people on a dig, but I don't really want to. I guess I'll go look through the pictures in my books and/or poke around the internet for inspiration.
Why doesn't LJ have a mood option "victorious"? Or "triumphant"? ...or "celebratory"? I know there's a mood-thingy doing a little victory dance somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it's called. I suppose if I really cared, I'd go through all of the options one by one and find the damn thing. But by the time I was done, I'd have to change my mood to either "dorky" or "frustrated", depending on whether I found it or not. So, really, it's not worth it.
Second, and the actual reason for the post:
I decided a few days ago that I'm going to make pictures for all my teachers last term, as a thank you. I don't remember what lead to this decision--or for that matter why I've never done this before, since it's such an obvious thing--but that's not really important. Anyway, I think it should be something related to, well, the class. Either the subject or something that happened in class or the teacher or like that. If I just do one of my normal drawings, I think it would be more like me bragging about my art than an actual "thank you". One little problem: my favorite class and by far the one most deserving of a thank you was statistics. The others were plenty good, but statistics was the best class I've ever had. Which leads to the question: How do you draw statistics?! Argh! I hate math. YOU CAN'T DRAW IT. Or at least, I can't. I can draw during math class, but the subject matter just...argh. Oceans? No problem. There are a million things to choose from: mollusks, fish, plankton, tide pools, deep sea vents.... And even without that, there are a bunch of pictures of the professor on the course website (okay, there's one picture, but that's all I need) that I could download to use as references for a portrait. No such luck for statistics. The course website has pictures of all the TAs, but not of the professor herself. Obviously, you're supposed to already know what she looks like from going to class. Ergh. I mean, I remember what she looks like. I'd certainly recognize her, no problem. But I don't have a clear enough image of her in my head to actually draw her.
So I was wracking my brains for something I could do statistics related and drawing a blank. Finally, I had a stroke of brilliance and tried *gasp* googling her name. Genius, I know. (In my defense, most of the time I was thinking about this, I didn't have a computer/internet access around.) And lo, there are exactly two photos of her easily available on the web. Which means that now all I have to figure out is if I want to do a group picture of her and all the TAs, how I want them positioned...that kind of thing. I'm so exicted I actually found a good picture of her! It all seems so much more do-able now. I have no idea what I would have done if I hadn't found a picture of her. Probably given her a picture of ... like ... a rabbit. Or something random like that. Which seems somehow better than a picture of some random, fictitious person.
All I have to figure out now is what to do for archaeology and psychology. Psychology should be easy, especially since the teachers were pretty laid back and casual, so I feel less weird giving them something totally random. Hey, it's a picture of... an Easter bunny! And a baby. Crying. Get it? (Yes, I'm evil.) Or a portrait of Philip Zimbardo. Dressed as a prison warden. (Philip Zimbardo did a bunch of videos that went along with our textbook, in which he invariably looked incredibly sketchy. This was a running joke during the class.)
Archaeology's a little harder. It shouldn't be, but all I can come up with is to draw a spear point or a pot or an atlatl. Maybe someone throwing an atlatl? I guess I feel uncomfortable imposing my own stereotyped interpretation of things, but I want something more involved than just an artifact. But what are they wearing? Who's doing what? What does this really look like? Okay, really what are they wearing and how have they done their hair? I'm probably overanalyzing. I guess I could draw people on a dig, but I don't really want to. I guess I'll go look through the pictures in my books and/or poke around the internet for inspiration.