How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod?

Ever feel like just dropping everything and taking a full day break? Unfortunately that is not really possible around this place. 

It was so nice outside yesterday, hard to believe that 60 degrees can feel too warm for a jacket. Maybe i'm adjusting to this whole cold weather thing? I hope. Woke up around 9:30 and went to this FYE "coaching meeting" which basically just means I had to sit in my professors office for 45 minutes and talk to her about adjusting to college, it's some mandatory thing we have to do twice a year. After the meeting I went and got a wrap from gracie's and then took a walk around campus before picking out a spot under my favorite tree for lunch. 

Spent the rest of the morning/afternoon in the 3d studio working on my clay sculpture. Had class from 2 until 9. Except we got out early, yay! Drew models in drawing class, it was okay. He mostly just told us stories all class and then we worked for the last half hour. Next class were drawing for three straight hours. 100 gesture drawings, anyone? I actually really like that class. After that was 3D and since we just finished a project yesterday we had a whole class critique.. which went pretty well! My piece was picked top 2 in the class. Not to brag or anything, but it's kind of a big deal when something goes right around here because there really is not a lot of praise. College is a huge shot to your self-esteem (if you had any to begin with..). I actually like critiques a lot, except when they make you talk to the whole class about which piece you think is the crappiest and why. 

Pretty much just hung around the dorm room/hall  last night. Went to get frozen yogurt with Ashley! Yummm. Watched hour and a half of football with Drake in the lounge.  Hung out with Andrew and Ashley. Then, stupidly, we decided it would be a good idea to watch a 45 minute episode of the OC... at 3 in the morning... Whoops. Luckily, we got to sleep in until 9:45 today. Yay for Fridays! Just had my creative sources class which is a giant lecture for 50 minutes and then we have to write an essay about it. Really easy. In half an hour is my Raster Imaging class which is easy as well. I sit there and do work for another class or play around on the computers. It's kind of annoying because I already know how to use photoshop and last class we were learning how to zoom in and out of a document... for about 15 minutes. Oh well. One easy class every once in a while is not a bad thing when you have 6 other hard ones.. 

Tonight after class Ashley and I are going to the airport to drop someone off and then going to Red Robbin! Yayy. We decided it was a good Friday thing to do. Making, yet another, trip to the art store and then coming back here for an improv show in Ingle Aud. Yay for not doing homework on a Friday night! 

Firetrucks, Tinfoil and Uncle Plum

I've had far more adventures in this past two weeks than I have ever had before. Anyway, so yesterday morning I woke up around 7:30 and after a shower and breakfast I headed off to barnes and noble to pick up some clay. The store is only about 1/2 mile away so I just walked over. On the way down the elevator it started smelling really funny and I was on there alone so I pushed the nearest floor and got off and walked the rest of the way down. I was probably 200 feet from the building when I start to hear firetrucks and then 3 of them drive up and surround my dorm building. I was going to turn around and go back in (dumb, I know) but I just decided to keep on walking because I really needed that clay. I still have absolutely no idea what they were doing here-- but at least the building wasn't on fire :)

After coming back with the clay I headed over to the art building to go sculpt some clay for two hours. We have this project in 3D to make a banana out of clay (ironic? i think so). I went up to the professor and I was like dude uhmm, I'm not touching that. So he gave me a duck. Worked on the project for a while and then I had to go to Creative Sources. That class is basically just a lecture that happens once a week. They bring in some artist and they talk for an hour. Yesterday's artist just happened to be my drawing professor, Clifford Wun. It was pretty cool to see some of the stuff that he's done in the past. It's pretty nice to be able to bring your computer into that class-- i just recorded the entire lecture on it! I haven't checked to see if it worked yet though.

Last night Ashley, Drake and I went to a CCC meeting just to check it out. It was alright, we all agreed that we didn't really fit in all that well, although the people there were super nice and inviting. It wasn't really that overly pushy either which was good. Walking back from the meeting we came upon a concert, Uncle Plum. Ended up staying and watching that for over two hours and then watching the fireworks afterwards. Came back and watched a few episodes of the OC before people started bombarding our room. Talked with a few of the deaf guys on our floor which is kind of neat, it's a great way to pick up sign language quickly. They stayed until nearly 5 am, although I fell asleep at 3 so I missed most of it.. oops :P 

Woke up this morning at 8 and drew for a few hours. Waited for Ashley to get up and then we went out to breakfast/lunch around 1:30 with Andrew. Went to the art studio and worked on my clay duck for about 3 hours. Tried to do my 2D homework but the stupid printer in the lab wasn't working, oh well that's what tomorrow is for. Ashley and I went to dinner (at gracies...) and had some... SALAD! Who woulda thought. About halfway through two guys came up to us and asked if we wanted to come join them for dinner. It's college and we're supposed to be social so we accepted and it turns out that they were sitting at a table with 8 other guys (yeah, the ratio is obvious around here). After dinner two of them invited us to go back to their dorm and play wii and rockband with them. Hung out for a while and then we ended up going to the Gordon Field house and playing volleyball with 10 other guys. They all seem pretty cool and it was nice to play volleyball again. We played against some guys from the club team and almost beat them. Came back here, watched an episode of the OC and then we ended up just talking for the past two hours. I think it's bedtime though! Got a ton of work to do tomorrow. I'll try and post some pictures later of my project, I took some today but I'm too lazy to upload them at the moment.