So here it is the end of October... can anyone tell me where it went? I swear last Friday was September... jumpin' jesus on a pogo stick. Last night I slept in my bed for the first time in at lease 3 days... maybe more, not sure. I moved my studio space at school from the first floor with everyone else down to an empty room in the basement with one other guy. It's blissful. No one bothers coming down there to see me so I get alot done. It's made me a bit anti-social and I lose track of 12-hour stretches of time but hey, gotta make sacrifices, right? I don't like people that much anyway.
Speaking of not liking people, it looks like I'm not going to Switzerland because of one man's staggering incompetence combined with his glaring ego and self-concern. The prof putting the trip together was either too lazy or too unintelligent (I have my opinion which) to put together a system of admission for the program. By way of explanation, every study abroad program in the world requires you to at least show your portfolio. This time he took the first 16 names on the list (we put our names and email addresses on a list so he could get ahold of us... this magically turned into the actual "list") and my name was #18. I want to make that man bleed. Or at least some serious bruising. So no Switzerland for me. Instead I think I'm going to take the money I would have spent there and go to Europe for a month at the end of the summer. I'm going to try to get grant funding and make it a research trip for my Masters thesis (don't ask what it is... I have no idea yet).
We got our first snow a couple days ago. It didn't stick, of course, but it was coming down pretty steady for at least a couple of hours. Once it hit the ground it might as well have been rain but it was 32 degrees and snowing two days ago. Here it comes... winter's back!
Ok, I've got to go cram for a mid-term. I'm way overloaded and don't have internet in my new downstairs studio (another reason I get so much done). Also my internet is out at home so I can't make phone calls still. I will get it fixed soon but I am so caught up in school I can't waste the time. Ok, off to study. Hope everyone is doing well. Drop me a line and say hello...
