Monday morning lecture and other miscellaneous school spaces

So much fun right? the content today wasn't very exciting, interesting, but not exciting, but I found it was mostly a repeat of what I had read in the textbook last nigh. It's still worth going to the lectures, cause it defiantly helps reiterate things I didn't understand, and I'm more likely to remember something the more times I see/hear it.

Don't hate the playa', hate the game

Before anyone gets all up and up about me blogging instead of paying attention I'd like to state that I'm not in the lecture anymore. I'm sitting in the "learning zone". It's kind of a weird place. Like it's a good place to between classes to hang out with friends. It's also pretty good for group projects, because it's a large area, with big tables, power bars for laptops and you don't have to be quite so group discussion is good. The only problem is that it's a large area, with big tables, power bars for laptops and you don't have to be quite so... it's hard to do work there. It tends to be loud, and way over crowded. You can eat in here, so people bring their lunch to have with their friends. Ya, but there isn't really anywhere better :-/ So i find the name very ironic. I can get some work done on occasion, if it's something that doesn't require a huge amount of contraction, but I can not get reading done. The library isn't a good option either, I had to do some reading there once and it's a tiny room, so if there is anyone talking at all, you can hear the whole conversation...

I've found that the best places to work - as long as your not afraid of looking weird - are in obscure hall ways and the stairway in the annex building. Not many people go by, and it's big enough that you can sit down and not be in the random persons way.

But anyway, the whole point of me ranting this morning is because in the lecture we talked about ideology and Karl Marx, and I'm have an existential crisis... as usual. It's about time I stopped fighting it and embrace my existentialism-ness.  We also talked about Justin Beiber in our lecture XD I think that part of the lecture was about how producers can attempt to create meaning, but they can't dictate to us what our reaction to the image will be. It was a good example, cause everyone in the theatre bust out laughing, and I'm pretty sure the director of that photo shot was not intending that reaction.

I think I'd be sent to jail if I had the same reaction to him as a 12 year old girl

Anywho, moving on. I should probably be doing work, but like I said earlier, It's so hard to concentrate here, and I'm not in the mood to find an obscure hallway (thanks Karl Marx).

~ashley
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Happy New Years!!!

2010 is over, and a new year is here. I would like to say that this year is going to be different. That I'm going to work harder, and that I'm going to be a better student and that I'm going to get back into shape... so on and so forth. But knowing me that wont happen.

I was excited, however, to the start of the new semester, I think it'll go a little smoother now that I know how the school works. I've had my first week of classes and as expected I'm already procrastinating on homework. But my schedule is pretty nice, I have 4 days off a week, :) Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday. The only problem with this is that now, Friday feels like another Monday -_-, so I now have 2 Mondays, a Tuesday, and 2 weekends... My sleep schedule is going to be so mess up unless I get my act together. Monday, Tuesday and Friday I wake up at 7 for my 8:30 classes, and the rest of the week I wake up at about noon or later.... D: I foresee I huge problem with this.

 My first week of classes went well. My first drawing class was a bit tedious though. It's been a while since I've drawn so I was having trouble with the in class exercise. To the right is some thumbnail sketches for the first project for that class. I have to get working on that, since it's due Tuesday. How quickly we forget that profs like to assign things due for the next week. It has to be a fully rendered 14"X10" drawing with a word written in 3D letters, and obviously it has to be conceptual. I'm not feeling confident enough to be able to render a drawing as nice as he expected it in time for next class. :-/

My essay class is also kind of insane, I have a lot of reading to do, I think she assigned 5 articles to be read for the next class. I don't really understand the point, cause we're going to be discussing these articles, but by the time I've read them all and get to class, I'm going to have all of them confused and mushed together in my head, :'( how am I supposed to discus them?

Surprisingly, I'm looking forward to the lecture. It's about current culture and about how we, as a mass society use and view images. One week we're discussing politics and propaganda, another we'll be looking at advertisement, we'll also being looking at the authenticity of art work since the digital age, and one topic that seems out of place, but dose fit is how images are used for science. If there's anything strikes me as particularly interesting, I might do a blog post about it.

Since I have big blocks of time free I'm going to work in recreation time, I'm hoping that if I have scheduled me time, then I will be less likely to procrastinate. With how my classes are set up, I really can't afford to let stuff go to the last minute, like last semester. For me time I'm going to get back into doing yoga every 2nd day, I also brought Dance Dance Revolution from home and I have a couple books I've been dying to read.







Thank you mom for sending me a copy of Eat, Pray, Love. :) I can't wait to read it.












I've got to get working on homework, tomorrow I'm going to busy - have to do groceries and meet up with someone - so no time tomorrow.
ttyl
~ashley
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