Today I had my last
midterm of the week....they were all crammed into the first two days of this
week and it was pretty awful. I had four
exams and a paper due in that short amount of time. And most of the exams...actually, ALL of
them, were essay exams that took an hour and a half each. I'm glad to be done.
After my last exam, I
had art class. And today I finally
understand what he's been talking about.
See, he'd been reciting these abstract phrases to us as if we'd talked
about them in class already and they were familiar to us, as in "remember
that class period when we learned about relationships?". Today the other art teacher, Alan Roberts was
there and he came over to me to talk about my painting. He told me about how painting is just like
drawing, where you put down the dark colors and the light colors just come off
of the page, and so (in very basic terms) you work the pages darks first before
moving onto the lighter tones. Otherwise
you try to paint a yellow pear and it doesn't look right and you keep trying to
fix it with highlights and paint, when all you really need to do is paint the
dark bowl around it and that will create the light itself. After he explained this, I felt dumb for not
understanding it earlier. But I also
think it merely takes this simple explanation for any of us students to
understand these abstract concepts and then John doesn't have to go around to
students in the class hopelessly trying to convince them to do something they
don't understand. I really like that
feeling of epiphany that comes with understanding something you've felt lost
at.
When I got home, I
fell asleep. I think I've just had too
much with all these midterms and with staying up late this weekend. Colette woke me up for dinner, and I fell
right back asleep afterwards.
I woke up the next
morning at 4, which was about right, so I stayed awake to write and do
homework, but I fell asleep again at 6 and didn't get up until 9. How can I need THAT much sleep? I'm starting to feel like I'm getting sick
again, actually. I hope that isn't the
case.
