First Week of Third Year

So the first week of classes has gone by and already I can see long nights in my future.

This term I couldn’t sign up for classes to take just for fun, it just wouldn’t fit into my schedule. Instead I’m taking my three core classes plus two classes that fulfill graduation requirements.

Let’s start at the beginning shall we?

First class that I go to is Animation 3 which is being taught by a teacher named Dante. He’s really fun and easy to learn from. He also loves Christmas music and Disney in general! Anyway, in his class we’re going to be learning how to use the compositing program Nuke. We’ve only done a small exploration and I already love it a thousand times more than After Effects.

Next on my schedule is History of Modern Architecture. I need to take 3 advanced Art Histories to graduate with completing my minor and this one sounded interesting. The class is okay. I’ve only had it once so far and we watched a documentary about a modern bridge being built... The teacher is old and likes her order in her classroom. Other than that I can’t say much, I need a few more classes.

Up next is Design 3 with Dorian again, he’s still as easy going as before. So far we have started on one of our first projects about branding and just finished up presentations about the companies we created to design for. My company is called Artillery Squid. I’ve changed my mind a few times so it is either a cookware company or a jewelry company that makes it’s stuff from shrapnel. I’m still debating.

After that comes Concept 3 and no Jill in sight! We have a newly hired teacher named Nora who is very organized. Again, we haven’t done much since it has only been one week but it does seem like the term will be spent more on finding new concepts rather than getting a style frame to look right.

Finally I have Phycology of the Arts with a teacher named Poppy. So far we have built small lego statue to introduce ourselves. It was really fun and a good way to remember who is in the class. We didn’t really get into what we will be doing for the term but it seems like it will be interesting.

Other things have been happening to as it was the first week back.

Everything with the Anime Club had to be signed and turned in to the new Organization Director. We have already met a few times since our club is so different and doesn’t want funding. We have a meeting this week to discuss it since she doesn’t really understand how we could be considered a club if we don’t fill out financial records, do fundraisers, go to leadership meetings, and attend SGA meetings ... all things you have to do to keep you club recognition up.

We have meet once so far though. On Saturday, after the club’s fair the night before, we had our first meeting and actually had 6 new people show up. I don’t know if they will all come back, but I hope at least one does.

We have also started Sunday Night Dinners again, though this year it will be at 6 pm instead of 7. For the first cooked meal I made a 3 cheese sauce from scratch witch was then combined with pasta an bits of ham and baked. I also made a quick tomato mozzarella salad and chocolate almond buttercream cupcakes (again from scratch). It was fun cooking again but the hours on my feet were long and painful.

Oh, my feet.

So you might remember the set back I had before with the stitch abscess. Well that area finally closed up and I just finished my antibiotics when another area got troublesome.

A bit further down the incision was a spot that early in the week was squeezing out some fluids. I kept a bandaid on it but on the day I got off my medicine it started squeezing out a thicker fluid that was no longer fairly clear. After pinching it to get it all out I found another stitch come out too.

Great.

I had to make sure that that was everything from the new hole before calling home. Needless to say that the next few hours were spent going back and forth between my Mom, Grandpa, and even my doctors father (who works with Grandpa).

In the end it was decided that these stitches were the ones that are left in to be absorbed. My foot didn’t like s few of them so decided to push them out rather than dissolve them. I now have to keep it bandaged as it heals over and have been put back on antibiotics again.

Fun.

Well, I think that’s about it. Not much else here is that interesting.