What's White and Fluffy?

Well, lemme tell ya'. It's my Winter Term 2009 Class Schedule. Still don't see it? Well, lemme explain myself.

First class of M/W: Drawing Class. I took this same class last term with the same teacher and I plan to take it again next term. (You can take the class up to 3 times for a credit). In short, I love the teacher and the atmosphere of the class. Music is constantly playing in the background so you really get to hear alot of different music; some good, some bad. This term focuses on faces, hands, and feet. I have finally mastered the hand drawing! Yay for me. The teacher mainly teaches about discovery, and teaches you how to see. She doesn't really teach you where to put the lines on your paper or go out and tell you how to draw a bike or a skate. I really like her style of teaching. She's great.
"No coloring book drawings."

Second class of M/W: Intro to Lit(Fiction). I love this class!! I hated Lit in highschool and hated reading all my life, but this class I love. The teacher says absolutely funny things and is really sarcastic and stuff. He really had a way to make the class open up, even on the first day of class.
Oh, and David said "Fuck" on the first day of class. Context: "He fucks her." Man I love this class.

Third class of M/W: Writing 122(writing with argumentation). It took me the first two weeks of class to decide whether or not I actually like this class and the teacher. And then the third week it hit me: I HATE THIS CLASS!!!!!! I wouldn't mind writing; but that's not the issue. What we do is read alot--ALOT--of articles that supposedly contain some type of argumentation. We are also supposed to look over a few chapters for homework. Then, when we get to class, we discuss these articles ad naseum about race, and stereotypes, and bias and the such like(which gets really old after about the second class). Then she shows a short power point slide show about the chapter we were supposed to have looked over briefly. The chapters actually tell us how to write an argument. She gives the least amount of time to talking about the chapters. Then she tells us to write a paper using such and such an argument form. But we have no clue what that is because we don't really go over that. We just read freakin' articles. You can see my frustration with this process. And she always ends her phrases with "...kind of a thing." Really annoying.

M/W is over. Then I have F.

Only class of F: Sculpture with Mixed Media. It's a 6 hour class, which seems long but it actually isn't when your working on something. (And it harder to take apart a piece of furniture than you may actually think. Try it some time). Some of the things we do in that class are technical, which I have absolutely no patience for. But maybe that class is good for me in that aspect. Confession: I'm afraid of the table saw. I vow not to use it. I will not use it. I hate the table saw. One thing I have noticed is that I see things entirely different now(the drawing class may have some influence in this too). I don't see something as what it actually is, I see what it could become or what it could be turned into.

Anyway, everything's amazing basically."Be illogical." Mastered that one.So, there you have it. I am taking art, drawing, reading, and writing. They're fluff classes, nothing with substance some would say. They are just fluff. And I love it.

Welcome to Winter Term.




S.s fratello