classes

last night i made a friend at the pub named Marion who is actually going to be leaving for UMBC in baltimore as an exchange student till sometime in the spring, and after she was going to new york for a little while so i told her when i come back she could come stay with me and we'd hang out. she was really sweet and i liked her a lot and the two guys she was with bought us a round of Bulmers (the irish cider) so that was fun. Dan walked me home also, which was nice of him, especially with the apparent cow invasion in full swing. -- when we left to go, kristin came in and said there was a pack of bulls milling around in front of our door. turned out they werent bulls, but there were 5 or 6 big tons of beef chewing the grass in front of our doorstep, so we gave them wide berth and luckily they were gone by the time i got home.

today i had photo classes. apparently we're going to have to give a 45 minutes presentation on a research or photo topic sometime in the semester for each of my photo classes. eek! not fun! but i'll survive i guess haha.

i finally think i got my schedule sorted out too. rebekah emailed me back and said that we could do an independent study with MICA faculty back home via email, so I am going to email kara since she said at the end of last semester she'd be willing to do an independent study with me. so i figure i will either find in Gort or order off of Amazon a text book or two and read them thoroughly and write a couple papers and research and all that. (no presentations though please!) So depending on how much or quality of books I can find i'll either do Celtic art, because of where I am, or Egyptian art, because I am fascinated with it haha.

so i'm not taking their art history any more (which would have also been another 45 min presentation haha) because it's too much like Modernism and After that i already took (it's surrealism and after). Instead I am going to do the ind. study and also I am adding Mixed Media because Jack said it could count as a photo elective as long as I am using photo. So I will have a full 15 credit course load and hopefully only need to take the Renaissance through 1855 class over the summer.

So, in case you're wondering, my schedule:

Tuesday: Independent Photo & Advanced Photo
Thursday: Mixed Media
Friday: Irish Studies
& Ind. Study Art History with Kara
on Wednesday we also have guest artists come to speak every week

Brian sent me another really nice email that made me happy and I was telling him how its hard to get photos done because it gets dark at 430 here and then theres also the rain on and off all day every day. hopefully i will get everything done.



Yep!
I have to go though because I have a meeting with Martina (photo teacher) at 2