"i feel better today. this morning sucked cuz she gave us this new complex still life to do a tonal project with and i fucked it up so i have to start over. i had an interview today with my art teacher too, and it was really good. shes really good to talk to and she understands i have almost no background in art, and she said i've probably surprised myself with what i've been doing because she said i've been doing really well. i got a B on my art portfolio. so i got B in both Design and Art. its kind of frustrating though because our TA is this old lady named Edith and shes so critical of my work so when Lisa (my teacher) walks around, she tells me she likes the texture and the way i use the medium, and then Edith walks around and tells me i should remove the stuff Lisa told me was good. its so frustrating and i apparently Edith went to Emily Carr which is supposedly a topnotchsnobby art school and i can totally see where Edith's attitude comes from. i just want to bash her in the face sometimes because she puts her fingers all over my charcoal drawings and ruins the texture i spent 30 minutes trying to perfect. but she looks so sweet and old. like today we were working on our complex still life project and i was working on the table part of it and she walks up to me and says "christine, ok, you need to stop obsessing over the table and start working on the other objects in the composition." HFSUIBFSBUFBS i hate it. i accidentally skipped philosophy again. i am so not feeling that class. its a pain to have to pack up my stuff and leave the studio between art and design, i just wish i could stay in the studio the whole day. design was good, Greig showed us two films. one on Karel Appel, a co-founder of CoBrA, and one on sustainability created by Annie Leonard."

"and then we worked on project 5 which is two one-page magazine layouts and i chose to do it on Banksy because i think i could find some really effective images to use. i also had Dr Seuss, Andy Warhol (of course), Basquiat, Waldo (wheres waldo?) and Chris McCandless (into the wild) but i settled with Banksy. im so excited to get started on it. but i have an art history midterm tomorrow and i was at school til 7 30 with my art/design class, and we discussed the topics that will be on the test and it was fun and successful, probably the best study session i've ever had. and i'm starting to really like the people in my class, they're really cool people! this one guy Matt that i sit beside, is American, and he voted right beside me! it was so cool, he had all the voting papers and stuff and he voted for Obama! yay!"

i miss you Daniel