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Updating just did not happen, hehe. Four months of nothing. I didn't mean for that to happen.
Summer was completely uneventful, other than right at the end, when Mom had surgery on her arm to fix some issues she's been having since... um, a while ago. It was only exacerbated by a fall in a slippery bathtub at a hotel during a family gathering. (She didn't sue. She was impressed with the service and just told them she wasn't the judicious type, which she isn't... to a fault. She knows family members stole from her brother's apartment after he died, after altering legal documents and purposely taking my uncle out to eat at seafood restaurants KNOWING the seafood could kill him, and she didn't pursue it. Still don't know why.) Rooming with Heather now, on the other side of campus from Sophie and Kymberly... which is not fun. I hardly see them anymore. Despite a year of living on campus, I'm still very much me: I'm a homebody and I value the sacred space that is my room, so unless I've made plans or I'm invited to hang out, I tend to keep to myself. Heather's girlfriend Amberle is also in here all the time. I need to talk to Heather about that. I don't mind Amberle being here; it's more whether or not she wants to have time alone with Amberle for a while. I can sit outside or in the lounge or something and do homework or doodle, but she has to tell me, because I'm horrid at reading people.
Today's Lobsterfest, so all the clubs have tables set up for people to sign up. I'll be happy to start clubs again.
Classes I'm taking:
- Writing Across Media, in which we'll be doing projects related to social media, web design, and other stuff;
- Wine in a Vessel, in which we'll be learning about wine, how to make it, working in the school's vineyard, and making ceramic vessels to serve/store wine in;
- Digital Storytelling, in which we're going to be doing a LOT of writing, but of the creative sort, and translating that into animation/movies;
- Principles of IT Digital Media, in which we'll be learning the nuts and bolts to, well, digital media.
Next semester is up in the air: I changed my schedule around significantly this semester, and now I have the added problem of trying to fit in a bunch of classes before I graduate. I met with my two advisors to see about setting up an individualized POE, but I still have a lot of work to do in that department. I'm thinking I'm going to call it Multimedia Arts. I'm doing a lot of digital stuff and a lot of ceramics, and I don't want to drop either of the two, so I need something that lumps everything together. Plus I've done some video and want to take another sound production class if I can. One's offered next semester, but it's currently closed, so it might have to wait until next year. I'll ALSO have to do some kind of a capstone. A lot of work... but if I don't do this, I won't graduate on time. I'm supposed to get out in 2014. (That's another problem in itself since unemployment benefits will DEFINITELY run out for me; I'm pretty sure they're going to end in December 2013, so one semester will be up in the air money-wise.) Sticking with the designated studio art POE won't have me getting out until a semseter or a year afterwards, just because scheduling is so difficult. Classes you want tend to take place at the exact same time.
ANYWAY. I believe my roomie and her girlfriend went to Lobsterfest, so I'm gonna head out, too. I'm not getting any homework done today. It's basically all just reading, but my head is not in it.
Summer was completely uneventful, other than right at the end, when Mom had surgery on her arm to fix some issues she's been having since... um, a while ago. It was only exacerbated by a fall in a slippery bathtub at a hotel during a family gathering. (She didn't sue. She was impressed with the service and just told them she wasn't the judicious type, which she isn't... to a fault. She knows family members stole from her brother's apartment after he died, after altering legal documents and purposely taking my uncle out to eat at seafood restaurants KNOWING the seafood could kill him, and she didn't pursue it. Still don't know why.) Rooming with Heather now, on the other side of campus from Sophie and Kymberly... which is not fun. I hardly see them anymore. Despite a year of living on campus, I'm still very much me: I'm a homebody and I value the sacred space that is my room, so unless I've made plans or I'm invited to hang out, I tend to keep to myself. Heather's girlfriend Amberle is also in here all the time. I need to talk to Heather about that. I don't mind Amberle being here; it's more whether or not she wants to have time alone with Amberle for a while. I can sit outside or in the lounge or something and do homework or doodle, but she has to tell me, because I'm horrid at reading people.
Today's Lobsterfest, so all the clubs have tables set up for people to sign up. I'll be happy to start clubs again.
Classes I'm taking:
- Writing Across Media, in which we'll be doing projects related to social media, web design, and other stuff;
- Wine in a Vessel, in which we'll be learning about wine, how to make it, working in the school's vineyard, and making ceramic vessels to serve/store wine in;
- Digital Storytelling, in which we're going to be doing a LOT of writing, but of the creative sort, and translating that into animation/movies;
- Principles of IT Digital Media, in which we'll be learning the nuts and bolts to, well, digital media.
Next semester is up in the air: I changed my schedule around significantly this semester, and now I have the added problem of trying to fit in a bunch of classes before I graduate. I met with my two advisors to see about setting up an individualized POE, but I still have a lot of work to do in that department. I'm thinking I'm going to call it Multimedia Arts. I'm doing a lot of digital stuff and a lot of ceramics, and I don't want to drop either of the two, so I need something that lumps everything together. Plus I've done some video and want to take another sound production class if I can. One's offered next semester, but it's currently closed, so it might have to wait until next year. I'll ALSO have to do some kind of a capstone. A lot of work... but if I don't do this, I won't graduate on time. I'm supposed to get out in 2014. (That's another problem in itself since unemployment benefits will DEFINITELY run out for me; I'm pretty sure they're going to end in December 2013, so one semester will be up in the air money-wise.) Sticking with the designated studio art POE won't have me getting out until a semseter or a year afterwards, just because scheduling is so difficult. Classes you want tend to take place at the exact same time.
ANYWAY. I believe my roomie and her girlfriend went to Lobsterfest, so I'm gonna head out, too. I'm not getting any homework done today. It's basically all just reading, but my head is not in it.
