Whoo!

I thought I'd have a ton of drawings up by now, what with my new tablet and all (WHOO NEW TABLET) but I've been too lazy to practice with it. I've been playing zoo tycoon and listening to Sims 2 podcasts instead of getting used to the new fangled tablet that's got that fancified pressure sensitivity and whatnot. XD

So...yeah, here's a belated merry christmas to everyone! Hopefully I'll start doodling again soon. Damn you, EA games! STOP BEING FUN.

A loooot of the stuff is just way too old, so I'm jumping a good 2/4's of my deviations into my scraps. Not sure that anyone cares, but I thought I'd let you know. XD

I have this essay due, see.

And I was actually really good about it...er, sort of. It's due tomorrow (well, today), so naturally I started on it today. But I worked on it from the time I got up till dinner, and was well into the 7th page by the time my self schedualed animation-work time came around. But After staying super late in the lab to work on my animation project, I decided I didn't want to attempt to finish the paper in a frenzy two hours before it was due.

So I stayed up all night, sure I wouldn't need to work THAT much more on the paper itself. I mostley was just going to stay up so I'd actually be /awake/ for my 9am animation class. I'm pretty sure I'd not have gotten up, if I went to bed at 4:30 or whatever.

Anyway.

I was sure I'd read over all the requirements closeley before I started bullshitting my way through the paper, but I JUST Looked over them again to make sure I had everything answered...

Turns out I somehow completely missed the 'what you must answer in this essay' section. I'm super glad that basically nothing in said section WAS answered during the course of my BS.

-headdesk-

A bit...well, boring?

I figure if you're watching me, you must like my stuff well enough. But lately when I look through it...I don't know, none of the pictures seem all that interesting. It's a lot of random headshots and mid shots with no backgrounds besides blobs of color. And I know a lot of artsists get away with stuff like that, but they're work tends to be better then mine. XD;

I don't know, I feel like I need to branch out in my poses and camera angles (and believe me, I'm practicing), because everything looks very...the same.

Have I mentioned to you guys how much I hate my writing teacher? I don't think I have, so get ready to either read through a long tirade, or delete this from your inbox.

I hate this woman, I hate her. She is SUCH a SNOT when it comes to just about everything.

The class is writing for Design, and she's not a designer, she thinks she's some kind of Yale English Lit prof. teaching English majors. She takes up all our time with stupid research for her stupid papers and gives us all terrible grades no matter what we do. And that's hardly an exaggeration, because I know one of the guys in class went to the school writing tutor FOUR times and got a D- on his paper. Another went twice and got a D+. ANYWAY. She assigns us all this shit to do with impossible standards, apparently not realizing that she's nothing more then a Gen ED class. If she's not a Design class, she's an afterthought! And how can you teach writing for Design without being a Designer? She gave someone the wrong definition once! He asked about some art movement, and she gave him the totally wrong explanation. (She explained Dadaism as Surrealism, if anyone out there had Art History) She even /told us/ she doesn't know anything about design, and she always has to ask us stupid questions about our major.

But my favorite is how open she is about what she hates, because apparently she hates Digital animation and has told me so quite a few times. I wrote some thesis statement about bringing back 2-D animation and she goes, "Oh, I SO agree, I can't STAND digital! It looks like a video game! Except Cars, I liked Cars." Great. My major is Digital animation, and I hate Cars. Another time she went on about how she thought Digital should be burned off the face of the planet because it's a waste of life. AWSOME. Oh! And we're supposed to be connecting the readings we do to our fields, and answer her questions with comparisons? Yeah, well, I do that, and she always treats me like an idiot for equating things to animation and cartoons. We were talking about Architecture and I used Sleeping Beauty Castle in some example, and you should have seen the 'WTF? No.' look she gave me, even though I still think the point was valid. I almost argued with her on it, but she just shot me down anyway.

And the other day she ripped into me for information SHE ASKED FOR. She was trying to explain some horrible group project we have to do, and no one was answering her when she was asking us what we've done in the past for group projects. So I told her about...you know, doing your PowerPoint slides and reading your information? And she goes off like, 'And you're Teacher LIKED it? You got a GOOD grade? WELL. That won't happen in THIS class. That is THE WORST thing you could EVER DO for a group presentation EVER. There's NOTHING more boring then THAT. If you do that in MY class, you're GARUNTEED to fail.' So I just stared at her and went 'Good to know.'

There was another time no one seemed to understand the assignment that was due, and she DESTROYED everyone. Except me because, horrifyingly enough, I think she likes me. I talk a lot and do the assignments right, but she still treats us all like crap anyway.

God. I can't wait to be done with her.