So I am still doing pretty well in school. I really like the art class I am taking (and the cute teacher is an added bonus). We are drawing things in stages. The first two weeks we were doing line variations and drawing shapes and I really felt like I improved a lot - my mother and father were even impressed with where their money was being thrown. Now we are drawing line variations with values (i.e. a fancy schmancy term for shading). However, this involves drawing with charcoal and for the past two times, I have gone around half the day with charcoal all over my face and people snickering instead of letting me in on the "joke." I also hate drawing bed sheets, which is what our subject is cursed to be for the next week or two ("hell week with the sheets" as our instructor tells us). So after cursing at the first two "mistakes" as I like to call them and "attempts" as what my teacher calls it, I kinda got the hang of it and when my drawing was up for disection by the masses, my teacher told me he "really liked how I resolved the line issues in this piece" - whatever that means. My mother takes it to mean that it lives on the door of the fridge. So I signed it "Dawn Marie - age: 27". I thought it very appropriate.

The computer class is also as riveting - though not in the way that you think. Me and a few others are deriving our amusement from the same housewife I told you about in an earlier Moment. We had a pop quiz today - and anyone with a few brain cells and at least one working limb could finish this assignment in ten minutes. This woman was nearly crying over the fact that she couldn't find the ON button. I hate to make fun of her (yes, even I can see a poor wretched soul that needs no heckling from me), I know she knows that she is over her head. The teacher nearly bit her head off and I could see that she was trying her patience with this one. I just wish she would just drop the class and take a beginner course instead. I know they cover the ON button lessons in more detail. (smirk)

Lastly, we come to Art History - and i made yet another blonde mistake. I copied the wrong URL down and was about to embark on Art Appreciation (a course I don't need) when I noticed that my book that reads like a medical journal for last year students was too detailed for the book they had (equivalent to a pamphlet next to my book). So I emailed my teacher, he gave me the right url and I was back in business again. I struggled over the 10 questions assigned for that week for 4 hours. Ugh!! The book is terribly boring and I can only imagine the big F I would receive if this course weren't online. Thankfully, I can battle this one out at home and seem silly instead of opening my mouth in this class and removing all doubt of my stupidity of art.

Till next time---