Friday, June 12, 2009

Silly facebook


I realized I haven't exactly posted my very end of the year late night projects. Someone asked me to post this on facebook, and everyone loves it. I'm ok with everything but the bottom half of my face. Am I just being overly critical? (I did love working with the Caran D'ache watercolor crayons though. I'm hooked!)

Penland update: I ended up not loving the Penland experience as much at the end as at the beginning. I'm questioning my ability to actually enjoy anything. It was mostly that I was "cooped up" with the same teachers/students for more than a week without really anywhere else to be or anything else to do since it's so remote. It didn't help that how the class was organized didn't really help me learn what I wanted to learn. So I ended up frustrated at the end since I felt I could have probably learned almost as much with a library book and my mom at home. But everyone else said how much they loved it, so again my questioning my ability to enjoy things. 

Also hard for me living 24/7 with the liberal art community. I don't necessarily mind it, just not all the time. Ironically I didn't feel I could totally be myself. Didn't realize how much I was feeling that way until I left. May also be the city girl in me didn't like being in the woods the who time also. So it was a learning experience in a lot of ways. I underestimated the impact the people around you have when you're in a secluded area. It was sort of like the opposite of the Concordia bubble. Don't take this the wrong way, Adel I think it would be absolutely perfect for you. 

Job search update: I applied and got what seems like a very positive response from a local spanish newspaper who needs a part time graphic designer. Part time not good for health insurance, but maybe enjoyable. I'm surely qualified since I speak spanish (and they just counted that as a plus) and right now their publication includes stretched pictures. HORRORS!
Haven't heard anything from CPH. I'm completely fine with that. 


1 comment:

  1. that's too bad that you didn't end up loving the art colony thing . . . haha, that's what i'm going to call it, because that's how i remember it . . .
    yay for maybe working at a newspaper! that'd be such a cool thing to do . . . esp. since it would involve the whole spanish thing . . . ha, which, of course i don't roll that way . . . the spanish way that is . . . as in speaking the language . . .ha.

    but yeah! love!

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