No seriously, I forget....
Trying to keep myself occupied while I re-import all my music to my laptop. Progress: 1.3 Gigs. Pretty sure I had like, 4-ish Gigs before.
.... I know, my music library is tiny compaired to most, but I prefer to spend my extra money on other things, like supplies! Speaking of which, I ordered just shy of 5 lbs of metal (and a bit of rubber) from The Ring Lord the other day. Getting that package is going to be like Christmas, pt 2 to me. <3 playing with new toys supplies.
Classes are okay so far. Rundown:
Japanese 110: larger class than I expected, with all the people who dropped/failed last semester. Suzuki-sensei is teaching all 3 sections and is infamous as the hardest sensei in the department, but so far she's been pretty good. She's real big on having us speak loudly in class. We also, finally, don't meet for class everyday! Which is both good (I GET TO SLEEP IN AGAIN!) and bad (no daily drills).
Art 446, Artist Book Making: I can see myself both loving and hating this class. Its mostly a "do your own thing" kind of set-up; the prof demos various book-making techniques, then we have to make one with that technique and somehow fill it (with something artistic/creative/worthy of a homemade book, not just random crap and sketches). I like all the freedom, but sometimes coming up with ideas out of the blue can be a challenge. I like to have that springboard of guidelines or themes or something.
Art 230, Beging Sculpture: Boy are we beginners. We aren't allowed access to ANYTHING, and its frustrating. If we want tools, we have to make sure the TA who has the key to the tool cabinet is around, but a different TA has the key to the tech/printing room, and the welding/metals room is Advanced students only :( (Miiiight be able to weasel around that if I explain that I took a year of Metals courses, but I'm not holding my breath)
European Art History: By a stroke of luck, we are focusing on one of my favorite time periods (Rococo/Revolutionary France) and reading lots of philosophy from the era. Score!
Colonial Urbanism in Asia: Okay, we're only focusing on the British Colonization of India, and that makes me a little bummed, but I'm out on whether or not to keep in this class. Its actually a graduate seminar :/ But all we have are some short reading responces and a big (not long, but 40% of our grade) final paper.
Still no word on when the defunct Metal Department will be getting their soldering station. Will have to email James at some point about that, along with other things (I can use hydrolic press?) before the month is out.
So.... other than that, I'm finally settled in after winter break + an amazing vacation, and ready to start the semester!.....
..... shit, what's due tomorrow?!?
.... I know, my music library is tiny compaired to most, but I prefer to spend my extra money on other things, like supplies! Speaking of which, I ordered just shy of 5 lbs of metal (and a bit of rubber) from The Ring Lord the other day. Getting that package is going to be like Christmas, pt 2 to me. <3 playing with new toys supplies.
Classes are okay so far. Rundown:
Japanese 110: larger class than I expected, with all the people who dropped/failed last semester. Suzuki-sensei is teaching all 3 sections and is infamous as the hardest sensei in the department, but so far she's been pretty good. She's real big on having us speak loudly in class. We also, finally, don't meet for class everyday! Which is both good (I GET TO SLEEP IN AGAIN!) and bad (no daily drills).
Art 446, Artist Book Making: I can see myself both loving and hating this class. Its mostly a "do your own thing" kind of set-up; the prof demos various book-making techniques, then we have to make one with that technique and somehow fill it (with something artistic/creative/worthy of a homemade book, not just random crap and sketches). I like all the freedom, but sometimes coming up with ideas out of the blue can be a challenge. I like to have that springboard of guidelines or themes or something.
Art 230, Beging Sculpture: Boy are we beginners. We aren't allowed access to ANYTHING, and its frustrating. If we want tools, we have to make sure the TA who has the key to the tool cabinet is around, but a different TA has the key to the tech/printing room, and the welding/metals room is Advanced students only :( (Miiiight be able to weasel around that if I explain that I took a year of Metals courses, but I'm not holding my breath)
European Art History: By a stroke of luck, we are focusing on one of my favorite time periods (Rococo/Revolutionary France) and reading lots of philosophy from the era. Score!
Colonial Urbanism in Asia: Okay, we're only focusing on the British Colonization of India, and that makes me a little bummed, but I'm out on whether or not to keep in this class. Its actually a graduate seminar :/ But all we have are some short reading responces and a big (not long, but 40% of our grade) final paper.
Still no word on when the defunct Metal Department will be getting their soldering station. Will have to email James at some point about that, along with other things (I can use hydrolic press?) before the month is out.
So.... other than that, I'm finally settled in after winter break + an amazing vacation, and ready to start the semester!.....
..... shit, what's due tomorrow?!?