It just kind of occured to me that I haven't really mentioned school or anything on here since I went back at the beginning of this month.

This year, I think I'm starting to break out of my shell a little bit more, probably because I'm more comfortable in the environment because it's my second year there.

I like all of my instructors. Of course, they haven't had many chances to upset me or make me not like them yet...The semester is young. My classes are going well too. Life Drawing for Illustrators is a lot more fun than just normal life drawing because we do these things called dictates where the instructor will tell us to draw a person doing something and we just draw it, without looking at photo references or anything, and we only have 15 minutes. Mine are definitely getting better. On Thursdays, we draw while looking at a model, though which is not as fun. I actually didn't want to take another life drawing class because I get so bored just sitting there on those awful bench thingies drawing, staring at the model. In this class, I mostly get to sit in a chair and draw at a desk.

Quantitative Literacy (aka Math) is an ok class. And yes, that is probably the only time you'll ever see or hear "math" and "ok class" coming from me. The teacher is very easy going. I wouldn't go so far as to call this a blow-off class. But, we have 10 homework assignments the entire semester, we usually get out early, and we can use a calculator to do everything. Wednesday, which was our first lecture day, we learned about the order of operations. YES, I REMEMBER HOW TO DO IT!

Watercolor is fun, but also challenging. Leave it to me to find one of the most complicated ways to paint so beautiful that I want to try it. Watercolor is not very forgiving, if you mess up, you have little chance to fix it. But so far, the instructor has been understanding. I heard that he is very tough on people in critiques. He could probably point out the problems in a Monet painting. But I'm experienced with critiques, I try not to let the harsh criticism get to me and try to focus on what I need to take from the critisism. That's how you get better, though experience. Sometimes trial and error. I just finished painting a drape yesterday...it looks ok...if you squint at it.

And yesterday it really started sinking in that I miss a lot of my friends. I just miss seeing them and talking to them. I have a few friends at school, but all of them are strange in some way...like they all go out and drink, or they smoke pot in a alley around the corner. I miss the Summer. I wish it would come back!