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The semester IS OVER. LIFE BEGINS ANEW!!! –sorry, but this is an occasion that simply demands abuse of the capslock key and excessive punctuation.
I am so relieved!! I finished my last final a couple of hours ago, and it. Feels. Delightful. I can’t even tell you. Tomorrow I’m going to write (work on Owen’s Uncles–poor Owen’s been in a tight spot for ages now, I really need to get him outta there), watch a DVD (Star Wars? The Office? Who knows! anything’s possible, man!), drink coffee (yes, I do that everyday, but tomorrow it will just taste better), do Christmas cards…Oh, and I’ve got a really cool new book, “The Human Figure in Motion,” that I can’t wait to do some sketches from…
fig. 1. Cool new book, yay.
Eee! I can’t wait. I have school stuff I have to do over the break, but I absolutely *refuse* to think about it until Monday at the earliest. Nyaaah.
Yay, I survived! I am so looking forward to getting to do some creative stuff over the break, to make up for having to read, write, and think about management for the past four months. *shiver* I need a scary font for the word “management,” seriously. That was not a happy place for me, that’s all I can say…
Anyway, the second the semester started easing up in the last week, I got back to writing and drawing, at least a tiny bit. I’ve done a bit of sketching and little writing just about every day — better than nothing, right? It makes me feel like I’m not *totally* euthanizing the creative part of my brain, anyway, which is, unfortunately, how library school makes me feel sometimes.
So here’s a scan of a (very) quick sketch I did yesterday. It goes with a story that’s been at the back of my mind for a few months now which I hope to work on over the break — although, I gotta admit that as soon as I had a little time to really think about this so-called story idea, I realized that I basically have no idea what it’s about, what happens, who’s in it– you know, a few picky little details like that. It pretty much amounts to a bunch of random images in my head that lead nowhere. It’s like it…dissolves when I look closely at it… I really don’t know that it’s going to get any further than those pictures in my head, but here’s the sketch, anyway. :)
I haven’t mentioned it a whole lot here, but man, library school–wow. It’s, um, hard and stuff.
It keeps me from doing much else, which I have mentioned before, but it bears repeating because it is so, so true. At the end of the day I’m just so wiped out from it I usually don’t feel like doing much but going to sleep or zoning out with an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000…it gets kind of depressing sometimes. (Not the MST3K, that part’s awesome.)
I really get the impression that professors teaching online assign a whooole lotta reading just to make double sure that you’re not getting off lightly with an online degree. Which is good and all, don’t get me wrong — I mean, I’d feel weird if it DID seem like I was getting off easy this way (but it’s also kind of strange, maybe a smidge frustrating, to think that other people will not be aware of that at all, and likely will assume that you had it easy when they hear you got an online degree).
So, yeah, I guess I’m just saying that I think people need to be aware of what they’re getting into if they decide to do an online degree (because although I only have experience with library school, from what I’ve been reading, other people find that this is true of other degree programs as well). Expect to work your little bum off (or your not-so-little-bum, thanks to all the sitting-in-one-place-staring-at-a-computer-all-day you’ll be doing, ha). It’s just so much more reading than in a regular in-person class, since the lecture is generally a bunch more reading, on top of the usual textbook readings you’d be doing anyway…
I really *am* enjoying it, in a punishing kind of way, but it is definitely not as much fun as a degree in art was, put it that way!
