Here it is. The school post. You know, the usual. Just one of those topics you’ll see in every other blogger’s blogs. Or I like to call it: “weblogues”. Enough with the rambling. Here I gooo..

So on Tuesday, my school term started and in no apparent order, my subjects are: Applied Journalism; Media Arts (adobe photoshop, illustrator, etc.); Religion in the Arts; Biology; Math; Intro. to Anthropology, Sociology & Psychology; Visual Arts and English. Luckily for me, most of the teachers are nice and fun. Maybe except for my math teacher who, to put it bluntly, has eyebrows which resemble two very fat caterpillars and get very distracting.

It has only been the first week, but in terms of work load, there has definitely been an increase from last year. I don’t even think we had anything to do in the first week of last year! Nothing at all! But this year I actually had to make myself a homework to-do list, not only because I enjoy making lists, but because many of my assignments are due next week. This is new.

Then I remembered my school isn’t normal. It’s non-semestered, self-directed and requires us to wear uniforms. Meaning, I take all my subjects for the entire school year. All eight of them. EIGHT! As in, I have to suffer through math and caterpillar man for 10 months! You semestered-school students should think yourself lucky!

The self-directed part isn’t always a bad thing. We can schedule our days however we want, stay in art for three periods if we want, go to the loo without permission and we get good exercise from ‘hall-walking’, which is just walking down the halls all day with your friends instead of being in class. The only downside is that it’s really easy to procrastinate in my school. You only realize how bad you’ve been procrastinating at the end of the year when you’ve landed yourself in summer school (yet again!). I really don’t want that this year. That is my drive that is going to push me. It’s like The Little Engine That Could: NO SUMMER SCHOOL, NO SUMMER SCHOOL, NO SUMMER SCHOOL, CHOO CHOO!

So, yeah, I’m done. I really could have kept going on about school and classes and whatnot, but I didn’t want this to become an essay. That reminds me: I have an essay due next next Wednesday. Crap!

Next week will be the last week to hand in anything before it’s exam time. AHHH!!

I really have to work my butt off this weekend if I want to finish everything. Most of the work I have to complete are final projects and things like that. In one of my subjects, I have to design a CD cover using Photoshop, in another, I have to make some game on Flash. I really don’t feel like doing anything at the moment, but the amount of effort I put into these last few days of school will decide if I’m going to have to go to summer school or not.

Lately, I’ve just been feeling tired ALL THE TIME. I stayed up until 4AM yesterday to finish my math homework and I was so exhausted. I climbed in bed to catch some zzz’s, but somehow I couldn’t make myself fall asleep. It seemed like I was just fussing and turning in bed the whole night!

I should really hire a sleep therapist when I get older. Ever since I was about 10 years old, my sleeping pattern has just been totally screwed up. When I was younger I slept at around 12AM when other kids were snoozing away at 9. I’m so tired of being tired..

Anyways, I just hope you guys have a great weekend.. Don’t forget to catch the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday! I’m really excited to see the “never-before-seen” Harry Potter preview during the show. And don’t worry, I’ll watch it while I’m doing my homework. Hahaha~

Yesterday in art class, my art teacher gave us this seminar to prepare us for our ‘life drawing’ session next Tuesday. By ‘life drawing’, she meant that we would be drawing a nude person..in the middle of our classroom..surrounded by a group of students…who still act like 7-year-olds. She clarified that this lady we would be drawing wouldn’t ‘hot’ and that she wouldn’t pose as if she was going to be inside some adult magazine (collective sigh from the guys in the room).

We were told that students don’t usually get to do ‘life drawing’ during sophomore year, but they changed it the year before because of the amount of serious artists that year. She then walked us through the history of nude drawing and showed us some famous artwork from the past. Some guys in the seminar kept snickering and pointing at the nude pictures and others were obviously trying their hardest to avoid looking at the screen.

We were just observing this painting of a very large, nude lady, when my gym teacher walks in, evidently looking for an art teacher or something. He glances at the screen and does a quick double take. His whole face becomes red as a tomato then he makes a sort of nervous coughing noise, and then runs for it!

Everyone in the classroom laughed and it totally broke the awkwardness of the seminar. My teacher said that maybe he came in purposely because he had walked in on a ‘life drawing’ seminar the other day too. LOL!

Anyways, after the seminar was over, my art teacher told us that going to the ‘life drawing’ session wouldn’t be mandatory. She knew that some people weren’t ready for that yet and asked us to write yes or no on the paper bedside our names to indicate if we were going or not. I put yes because I wasn’t that uncomfortable with the idea of drawing nude people (I’ve already seen some in my art books). And I thought it would be a good learning experience since I can never draw bodies proportionately. 

The seminar was awkward, but I just know the real session would be even worse than awkward. I’ll blog about it next week. Wish me luck!