Ever since I posted that rather unprompted rant last night I’ve had the funniest thought running through my head; wouldn’t it be horribly ironic if throughout that entire blog last night I wrote one typo after another? If it was full of grammatical errors, and then there I go complaining about the state of our educational system’s English department. Haha. I’d rather just stick to the funny idea as a possibility, rather than reread the whole then and then have to confront a reality. I wrote it really late at night, so I’m expecting it to be a hideous example of Great American Writing.
I did more running around today to get ready for the design class that ‘went down’ tonight. I even went to the great lengths of getting my hair cut so the hair stylist lady would straighten my hair. I don’t know why I thought that would be so fun. It hurt like heck again, and then to add insult to injury, it didn’t last that long. It’s still somewhat straight, but because it’s so humid it’s wavy already.
Wavy hair and all, I think the design class went okay. They really enjoyed the video, but I kept thinking as I was talking that they were getting really bored. I don’t know why – they asked questions, participated, got into designing stuff. I think I’m just too overly critical of myself when I’m teaching people vocally. I always feel like I trip over my words when I’m confronted with a room full of faces, knowing I’m actually supposed to teach them something that I know and they don’t. It’s strange to me.
Of course, they got really excited as soon as they saw the design kits. They *loved* them. Teenage girls are so funny about free handbags. It’s like some sort of drug for them, a true fetish. They got so excited about it, and loved the stuff inside. The immediately pulled stuff out and went, “Oooooooo!” I guess it was an overall success, thanks to the handbags, but I still felt boring. Oh well, they survived. And so did I.
Except now I’m really tired. Not a Oh-I-want-to-sleep tired, more like time-to-shut-down-my-brain tired. I think I might go watch Ocean’s Eleven – rented it last week and still haven’t gotten to watch it. There’s always either something else on TV, or someone else wants to watch some other movie, or I’m stuck working on something. Now, I’m done with my assignment for today, and it’s time to veg.
But one more bit of really happy news before I quit – I got another entry in the IofY cover art contest! Wooo! And guess what?! It came all the way from Australia. 🙂 Don’t I feel all cool and international now.