There's No Such Thing As a Day Off

Three days have past, that’s it, yet I have to say that 1) group work is horrible 2)there is no such thing as a day off.

So Monday started early as usual but after Concept the Design class was canceled since he was out of town and wanted us to rest. I went and took a nap.

Then there was Fine Arts where we were to have a sub while he does some installation. Half hour later there still is no teacher and we all leave. So much for approving our concepts for the next project.

Then Bio. This was just horrible. Our group had met on Wednesday last week and one girl said that she would take our information and make a video for it with a narrator and pictures. Since the presentation had to be 10 minutes one would think she would make a 10 minute video. You would think.

So I get to class early and happy after having my last 2 classes that day canceled. People start coming in, beginning of class rolls around, and the girl isn’t here. Not good. We email her and she sends back, “I’m not coming here’s the video.” I breath, look at the video and want to die. This girl only made it a minute long!

We had 20 minutes and I grabbed pictures for the others and threw them into the slid show I had made before on my information. The girl shows up and makes us go in the very beginning so no one but me knows the order of these slides. None of them even know their information!

I was ready to kill someone after that class and it was only Monday.

Tuesday was spent talking with my advisor for no real reason and going to animation class were I didn’t really pay attention and opted to draw instead.

I taught myself how to draw with my opposite hand over the summer
and it is better at drawing figures than my right hand is.

Finally it was Wednesday.

Now if you think that since I have Wednesdays off I can relax, think again. I spent the entire day today working on Design. Oh how I hate type.

We have been working with one phrase all year so far and manipulating the layout of the type to create new compositions. In the end we had over 80 different variations of the same line. We then had to pick out 23 of the to finalize and turn in to create a book.

Really it shouldn’t be too bad since our teacher wrote on every page saying what to fix, but it wasn’t that simple for me.

See we had to update our computers so we had CS6 as opposed to CS5.5 and our school does that by whipping you whole computer. So I had my external hard-drive and copied over everything, got it updated, and went to put it back. Of course the one file that didn’t copy was the Documents so I lost everything that was in there including all of these layouts.

So today on my ‘day off’ I had to not only recreate the 23 finals but also fix them and make them work in the new format our teacher gave us. 

If you don''t know, the line is from Winnie the Pooh

It took 8 hours.

On top of that the store didn’t have the thicker paper so I had to use only regular pages, then the color printer wasn’t - still isn’t - working, and I still had 2 more classes of work to finish.

Concept was one of the classes I also had to deal with since our teacher decided that we should do a presentation tomorrow suddenly. Great. I tossed some pictures together to show but I really don’t feel like doing it.

There was also some Fine Arts to do, though nothing is needed for tomorrow since the sub didn’t even show. 

I want a real day off.