it's that time again

I just keep comin with the
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Alright so today was the first real day of classes for me. Uni started on Tuesday but I only have on class on Tuesdays and Thrusdays. Today however I got hit with a blow of it being Wednesday-the day I'm on campus from 7:45 am to 8:05 pm...I was only there untill 6:30 due to first day though. Now if you know me you know I love school. I love school as much as regular people hate it. I love nothing more than sitting in class either listening to a good lecture or working on a project. Here's something I realized, now this is something I don't tell people, but I actually don't like taking classes with friends. Don't get me wrong it makes me happy to see familiar faces and know I can converse with someone about it...but it's the actual class time that I really could usually do without some people. Last semester there were a few exceptions to this. If my friend Megan had not been in my printmaking class I probably would have done very badly in it. I couldn't really focus in the class and I had troubles with alot of the types of printing we did. She also saved my sanity in Art 101 my first semester, she was the first McNeese friend I made. But Megan knows how to focus on her work when it's important...and she knows when I'm focusing. Basically I guess I'm saying she's the kind of person who can tell when I don't want to be bothered.
Unfortunately not alot of people know how that works. I'm not naming names and I'm not calling people out; I can't really think of anyone at the moment who is even guilty of the offense of interfering with my hard earned education. It's just one of those things I realized about myself today as I went through each class. Sure having friends in class ease tension and add a bit of informality and lighten the mood, but I'm not entirely sure I am the type of person who needs or wants that in my learning environment.
Ever seen the one Spongebob Squarepants episode where Patrick goes with him to school? No? Well there is an episode where Patrick goes with Spongebob to boating school because he misses Spongebob all day and Bob thinks it'll be fun to be classmates with his friend. The problem is Bob and Pat are very different about school. Bob is a brown-noser and Pat is uninterested. Pats goofs and tomfoolery get Bob in trouble and on the teachers bad side.
Well I'm a Spongebob.....and to me most everyone else is a Patrick. When I go into a classroom I go for a desk in the middle of the class, first desk in the row. Usually in front of the teacher...I can't help it that's how they usually put the desks! Not that I mind. I like it there, if I didn't I wouldn't always sit there.
Now what promted all this was today I walked into my first class, Classical Mythology. I am taking it with a Proff not many of the people I know know of, they usually all know the other mythology proff. I didn't expect to know anyone in the class, most of the people I know in the art dept. have finished their academics so I figured it'd be like all my other ones to this point. I walked in and made a B-line for the usual mid room first desk seat, head down, no eye contact, when I hear my name. Now I'm bad with voices=names so I wasn't sure who it was till I looked up and 4 seats down the row I was headed toward was Josh, not a close friend mind you but a cool guy I met through Megan. I kind of panicked. I knew a normal person would be friendly and go sit next to him....but I wanted my seat...the seat ahead of him was free so I did the math and figured 3rd seat down wasn't so bad, was it? I turned toward him and we talked until class started. Yay a victory for being social! that's 1 in what 3000000000000 now? not my best record but I'm trying. I didn't want to alienate him that's for sure. The whole time I kept wishing I had the 1st seat...mainly because the girl ahead of me kept blocking my view...I know "view of what" right? I don't know I'm weird I guess. Closer to professor, closer to god?

Maybe.

My next class went with no people I knew and I found myself feeling relieved. As I said I like Josh, he's a cool guy, but I guess I like a socially sterile learning environment.

The rest of the day was spent running from place to place trying to frame my pieces that made it into the Juried show. Both of the frame's I'd gotten were broken but not completely so I salvaged the good parts to frame one of them and luckily Wal*Mart let me exchange the other frame open with no receipt. Got both paintings framed and turned in. Got to work 2 hours today. That gave me lots of joy. My night class was nice but I was so exhausted from all the running I did today that I almost nodded off. I actually get to start making art tomorrow and Friday Mythology and my Lit class meet, so I'm sure that will be great :)

Good day I shall sleep well tonight.

Alright so today was the first real day of classes for me. Uni started on Tuesday but I only have on class on Tuesdays and Thrusdays. Today however I got hit with a blow of it being Wednesday-the day I'm on campus from 7:45 am to 8:05 pm...I was only there untill 6:30 due to first day though. Now if you know me you know I love school. I love school as much as regular people hate it. I love nothing more than sitting in class either listening to a good lecture or working on a project. Here's something I realized, now this is something I don't tell people, but I actually don't like taking classes with friends. Don't get me wrong it makes me happy to see familiar faces and know I can converse with someone about it...but it's the actual class time that I really could usually do without some people. Last semester there were a few exceptions to this. If my friend Megan had not been in my printmaking class I probably would have done very badly in it. I couldn't really focus in the class and I had troubles with alot of the types of printing we did. She also saved my sanity in Art 101 my first semester, she was the first McNeese friend I made. But Megan knows how to focus on her work when it's important...and she knows when I'm focusing. Basically I guess I'm saying she's the kind of person who can tell when I don't want to be bothered.
Unfortunately not alot of people know how that works. I'm not naming names and I'm not calling people out; I can't really think of anyone at the moment who is even guilty of the offense of interfering with my hard earned education. It's just one of those things I realized about myself today as I went through each class. Sure having friends in class ease tension and add a bit of informality and lighten the mood, but I'm not entirely sure I am the type of person who needs or wants that in my learning environment.
Ever seen the one Spongebob Squarepants episode where Patrick goes with him to school? No? Well there is an episode where Patrick goes with Spongebob to boating school because he misses Spongebob all day and Bob thinks it'll be fun to be classmates with his friend. The problem is Bob and Pat are very different about school. Bob is a brown-noser and Pat is uninterested. Pats goofs and tomfoolery get Bob in trouble and on the teachers bad side.
Well I'm a Spongebob.....and to me most everyone else is a Patrick. When I go into a classroom I go for a desk in the middle of the class, first desk in the row. Usually in front of the teacher...I can't help it that's how they usually put the desks! Not that I mind. I like it there, if I didn't I wouldn't always sit there.
Now what promted all this was today I walked into my first class, Classical Mythology. I am taking it with a Proff not many of the people I know know of, they usually all know the other mythology proff. I didn't expect to know anyone in the class, most of the people I know in the art dept. have finished their academics so I figured it'd be like all my other ones to this point. I walked in and made a B-line for the usual mid room first desk seat, head down, no eye contact, when I hear my name. Now I'm bad with voices=names so I wasn't sure who it was till I looked up and 4 seats down the row I was headed toward was Josh, not a close friend mind you but a cool guy I met through Megan. I kind of panicked. I knew a normal person would be friendly and go sit next to him....but I wanted my seat...the seat ahead of him was free so I did the math and figured 3rd seat down wasn't so bad, was it? I turned toward him and we talked until class started. Yay a victory for being social! that's 1 in what 3000000000000 now? not my best record but I'm trying. I didn't want to alienate him that's for sure. The whole time I kept wishing I had the 1st seat...mainly because the girl ahead of me kept blocking my view...I know "view of what" right? I don't know I'm weird I guess. Closer to professor, closer to god?

Maybe.

My next class went with no people I knew and I found myself feeling relieved. As I said I like Josh, he's a cool guy, but I guess I like a socially sterile learning environment.

The rest of the day was spent running from place to place trying to frame my pieces that made it into the Juried show. Both of the frame's I'd gotten were broken but not completely so I salvaged the good parts to frame one of them and luckily Wal*Mart let me exchange the other frame open with no receipt. Got both paintings framed and turned in. Got to work 2 hours today. That gave me lots of joy. My night class was nice but I was so exhausted from all the running I did today that I almost nodded off. I actually get to start making art tomorrow and Friday Mythology and my Lit class meet, so I'm sure that will be great :)

Good day I shall sleep well tonight.

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That's right

I went there

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Hopefully it will keep doing so on mondays

I just finished a rather quick FO. I didn't think something like this would be such a quick knit but it was! It's this cabled Hat from Lion Brand( yes you have to be logged in to see it but I mean it's free to sign up). The instructions call for 2 skeins of Wool Ease Chunky but I had recently bought quite a few skeins of Bernat's Softee Chunky and wanted to use them up ( they had been bought to make baby stuff for a pregnant co-worker but I ended up quitting that job just before Thanksgiving and I don't talk to any of my former co-workers). It only took less than one skein! I made a swatch for the first time ever(I know bad me you should always knit a swatch to check gauge and all that) and the gauge matched the one for the pattern, Happy me! So I used an off white color and casual knit it over my winter break(which still hasn't ended much to my dismay-I like school and miss it). It's a gift for the President of my Uni's Student Art club, she's a senior and will be moving to colder places soon and she is allergic to wool so since it's acrylic and chunky I thought it would be nice for her. Let me tell you it's better than I thought! It's warm and it covers your ears! I was nervous about how the flap in the back would look but it's so nice! I'm definitely going to make another of these for myself!

Here is an unused skein and what's left of a skein once I was done:


An artsy shot of the cables:


Hat off a person:

the colors are pretty accurate here

Hat in the front:


Hat to the side:


Hat in the back:

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