gold egg, beg gold, boggled
i am: very tired
listening to: the science channel in the other room
drinking: nothing at the moment
i am so very tired, i probably shouldn't be attempting this but i've been meaning to update for awhile and i think i need to take advantage of the small measure of motivation i'm feeling right now to do so. i've also been meaning to respond to my deviantART messages; i'll try to take care of that tomorrow, rhett.
my brain is thoroughly and properly boggled. i can trace this boggledom directly to the source: it began on tuesday morning when daughter and i met with her guidance counselor to have her schedule fixed. she signed up for studio art, and they put her in multiculturalism. i mean, wtf? it took some doing, but we got it worked out, and then i asked the counselor if she thought daughter should take the SATs again. her score was okay, not great - but, you know, maybe she just froze a bit. (or so i told myself up until last night when daughter told me that she'd known all along that she was going to take it again, so she skipped a bunch of stuff she didn't feel like figuring out.) anyway, the guidance counselor said we can get the testing fee waived if her GPA is high enough. this i did not know, and i'm still not sure i believe it, because i've been all over the collegeboard.com website and can only find fee-waivers mentioned based on financial need, and no mention whatsoever of a fee-waiver based on GPA. regardless, what happened next is what sent my brain a-boggling.
as a bit more of a preface i should mention that i actually have seen all of daughter's report cards, so i was aware that her GPA was probably pretty high. none of us were prepared to learn that it's 4.2 though. at this point the guidance counselor started questioning us about daughter's thoughts about college. community college, or maybe ODU if we could swing financial aid was all that we'd considered. she's been unsure about what she wants to do - something to do with art, but what? she doesn't know. definitely studio/digital art; graphic design, maybe - not painting, sculpting or metalsmithing or any other crafty art, she's definitely not interesting in majoring in art education nor art history. the guidance counselor said that with a GPA like hers she's fairly certain daughter will have no problem getting scholarships and grants to cover everything for four years, just about anywhere she wants to go. well. another case of believing it when i see it, but it does open a lot of doors and windows for consideration.
so, after some rigorous research into many art programs at several colleges/universities, and lengthy conversations with daughter, we're looking at VPI, VCU, and possibly JMU (though after reading about the admission process into their art school, i think she'll most likely want to pass on applying there.) on top of this acronym filled whirlwind that's swirling between my ears, there's the fact that she'll need a car to get from point A to point B, and she'll need it sooner rather than later so she has time to get used to the car and driving around alone.
this all hurts my head. it also makes me want to take many - many! - of the courses i've seen scrolling past on my monitor. at least fantasizing about taking university level digital art courses has put an end to my fantasizing about going to nova scotia (which i have failed to mention - son's taking some much deserved leave and taking a road trip to nova scotia. after surfing the "visit nova scotia" website - i want to go. i want to go to the gaelic village. i want to go whale watching in the bay of fundy, and fossil hunting at the joggins fossil cliffs, and go to a ceilidh, and .. well.)
hopefully my brain will settle soon, because i've accomplished next to nothing in the past few days. i've been goofing around with some botanical images that nicely illustrate medical remedies, but i haven't been transcribing said medical remedies because my hands hurt. not sure what i did to them, but they've been very painful for about a week. i was even reduced to donning my darth vader brace for a couple of days.
and hmm. well, enough of a ramble. opinions on VPI and VCU, or firsthand knowledge of the art schools/programs at any other virginia colleges are welcome. art history, art education, and studio art that doesn't include graphic design or new media/digital concentrations are on daughter's "not interested" list. fact is, the local community college offers an AAS in graphic design, and the program looks excellent, with the bonus of the credits being fully transferable to both VPI and VCU. it's nice to have a fallback position if the guidance counselor's enthusiasm about scholarships and grants is misplaced. and how did i get back on this subject?
today's reading: since last updating i finished with no one as witness by elizabeth george. my amazon order of the next novel in the series didn't work out; i guess someone got to the third-party seller's copy before i did. so now i'm reading lord foul's bane the first book of the first trilogy of the chronicles of thomas covenant, the unbeliever fantasy series by stephen r. donaldson , which comes highly recommended by son. so highly recommended that he brought over the first six in the series. i haven't completely found my footing in the fantasy world just yet, but am finding it a good read.
listening to: the science channel in the other room
drinking: nothing at the moment
i am so very tired, i probably shouldn't be attempting this but i've been meaning to update for awhile and i think i need to take advantage of the small measure of motivation i'm feeling right now to do so. i've also been meaning to respond to my deviantART messages; i'll try to take care of that tomorrow, rhett.
my brain is thoroughly and properly boggled. i can trace this boggledom directly to the source: it began on tuesday morning when daughter and i met with her guidance counselor to have her schedule fixed. she signed up for studio art, and they put her in multiculturalism. i mean, wtf? it took some doing, but we got it worked out, and then i asked the counselor if she thought daughter should take the SATs again. her score was okay, not great - but, you know, maybe she just froze a bit. (or so i told myself up until last night when daughter told me that she'd known all along that she was going to take it again, so she skipped a bunch of stuff she didn't feel like figuring out.) anyway, the guidance counselor said we can get the testing fee waived if her GPA is high enough. this i did not know, and i'm still not sure i believe it, because i've been all over the collegeboard.com website and can only find fee-waivers mentioned based on financial need, and no mention whatsoever of a fee-waiver based on GPA. regardless, what happened next is what sent my brain a-boggling.
as a bit more of a preface i should mention that i actually have seen all of daughter's report cards, so i was aware that her GPA was probably pretty high. none of us were prepared to learn that it's 4.2 though. at this point the guidance counselor started questioning us about daughter's thoughts about college. community college, or maybe ODU if we could swing financial aid was all that we'd considered. she's been unsure about what she wants to do - something to do with art, but what? she doesn't know. definitely studio/digital art; graphic design, maybe - not painting, sculpting or metalsmithing or any other crafty art, she's definitely not interesting in majoring in art education nor art history. the guidance counselor said that with a GPA like hers she's fairly certain daughter will have no problem getting scholarships and grants to cover everything for four years, just about anywhere she wants to go. well. another case of believing it when i see it, but it does open a lot of doors and windows for consideration.
so, after some rigorous research into many art programs at several colleges/universities, and lengthy conversations with daughter, we're looking at VPI, VCU, and possibly JMU (though after reading about the admission process into their art school, i think she'll most likely want to pass on applying there.) on top of this acronym filled whirlwind that's swirling between my ears, there's the fact that she'll need a car to get from point A to point B, and she'll need it sooner rather than later so she has time to get used to the car and driving around alone.
this all hurts my head. it also makes me want to take many - many! - of the courses i've seen scrolling past on my monitor. at least fantasizing about taking university level digital art courses has put an end to my fantasizing about going to nova scotia (which i have failed to mention - son's taking some much deserved leave and taking a road trip to nova scotia. after surfing the "visit nova scotia" website - i want to go. i want to go to the gaelic village. i want to go whale watching in the bay of fundy, and fossil hunting at the joggins fossil cliffs, and go to a ceilidh, and .. well.)
hopefully my brain will settle soon, because i've accomplished next to nothing in the past few days. i've been goofing around with some botanical images that nicely illustrate medical remedies, but i haven't been transcribing said medical remedies because my hands hurt. not sure what i did to them, but they've been very painful for about a week. i was even reduced to donning my darth vader brace for a couple of days.
and hmm. well, enough of a ramble. opinions on VPI and VCU, or firsthand knowledge of the art schools/programs at any other virginia colleges are welcome. art history, art education, and studio art that doesn't include graphic design or new media/digital concentrations are on daughter's "not interested" list. fact is, the local community college offers an AAS in graphic design, and the program looks excellent, with the bonus of the credits being fully transferable to both VPI and VCU. it's nice to have a fallback position if the guidance counselor's enthusiasm about scholarships and grants is misplaced. and how did i get back on this subject?
today's reading: since last updating i finished with no one as witness by elizabeth george. my amazon order of the next novel in the series didn't work out; i guess someone got to the third-party seller's copy before i did. so now i'm reading lord foul's bane the first book of the first trilogy of the chronicles of thomas covenant, the unbeliever fantasy series by stephen r. donaldson , which comes highly recommended by son. so highly recommended that he brought over the first six in the series. i haven't completely found my footing in the fantasy world just yet, but am finding it a good read.