Just an Update
Today was good, but frustrating, too.
I registered for classes today, but I was only able to get 12 of the 15 hours I need. The other class I was planning on taking is telling me that I have to have departmental permission to enroll. (I emailed my departmental advisor, asked her “What do I need to do to get permission to take this course?,” and she replied, “What? There’s no permission needed to take that course. Oh, yes there is. I don’t really know who you need to talk to.” UGH! Those of you who know my chronically frustrating advisor know what I’m talking about.)
My anthropology class is canceled for the next week, which is nice and also annoying. (We didn’t have the class last week, either.) Our professor had “pre-made travel plans.” So, she puts us into groups of six, assigns us giant books to read, and we have to make presentations on the books sometime in the next two weeks. (But has she assigned us the dates to have our presentations ready by? NO!) Not to mention the fact that she only ordered 3 books for groups of 6.
Corby and I got to go climbing for the first time in 4 months. It felt great to get back on the wall… if by “great” I really mean, “painful and disappointing.” Not disappointing in a bad way, but it’s always hard to see how out of shape I’ve become after not climbing for a while. The last time we climbed, back in December, Corby and I were climbing routes that were ranked at 5.10b… now we’re back down to 5.7 and 5.8… but it was really fun to see Sari and to get to use my AMAZING harness that Corbs got me for Christmas! And it’ll be good to start climbing again before our trip to Last Chance Canyon later this month.
By far, the most frustrating part of my day was at work. I don’t have a lot to do in my office except answer the phone when it rings, so I do a lot of homework and a lot of surfing the web. Today, I didn’t feel like doing either of those things, so I brought up my paints and all my brushes and some watercolor paper. I have an art project due in a few weeks, and even though I have the general idea in mind, I still haven’t completely decided what medium I’m going to work in. I played with the watercolors today, and I really liked the way my painting was turning out. I had been working on it for almost 4 hours when the nice lady who helps with the orchestra came into the office… and spilled a whole glass of water all over my painting. It was one of those times when I wanted to be really pissed off, but I had to act polite. I was able to salvage most of the painting, even though it isn’t as vibrant as it was before it got bathed. It just felt terrible to see all my hours of work destroyed in half a second.
Oh well, I’ll get over it.
April is going to be a fun and busy month, methinks. I’m going to Ft. Davis over Easter weekend to hang out with Corby and his family. I have to learn the new AnyCast system that’s replacing my nice, easy Trinity system for Paradigm On-Air graphics. (But, dude, that AnyCast is INSANELY cool!) Corby and I are going rock climbing with the TTU Outdoor Pursuits Center later this month… and then I’ve got a huge paper due May 1st.
It amazes me how fast this year is speeding by!
