Archive: School daze
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Aug 13, 2010
5 CommentsDay 1/4745
I know now why I was so upset over sending my kids back to school. It is just as quiet and strange here as I imagined it would be. Of course, since this only affects me, it isn’t really a good reason to keep them home. Bright loves school. She was so excited to go...
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Aug 09, 2010
12 CommentsCan we postpone this for another ten years?
I had pretty much convinced myself that this was going to be so easy. I mean, I’ve already sent a kid to Kindergarten, right? I know what I’m doing. I’ve sent Bright to Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. I’m practically a professional at sending a kid to school. I was worried about sending Bright....
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Aug 06, 2010
10 CommentsCoherent as I’m going to get
I’ve been back home since Sunday but it has taken me this long to get comfortable again and be able to string together a coherent sentence of any type. That’s what happens when you leave your Husband home alone for 8 days. You get home and the house smells weird and there is laundry that...
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Mar 21, 2010
2 CommentsRandom Sunday
I’ve been on Spring Break this week. It gives me plenty of time to think and do things other than school work. Turns out? My life is pretty boring without school. I spent six hours yesterday putting away tools and nails and screws and random bits of drywall. Our house is not a construction zone...
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Mar 12, 2010
5 CommentsFriday Freebie: Practice makes progress
I need more practice. I’ve spent the last year and a half working on illustrations and web design. I’ve got a fairly decent sized portfolio going but I still need practice. So, I’ve decided to make up my own assignments. Right now I’m focused on Adobe Illustrator. I want to be able to create illustrations...
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Nov 16, 2009
4 CommentsNew Horizons
I’m not sure why my professor thought it would be funny to make me illustrate a report cover with Photoshop when I have a perfectly good copy of Illustrator just waiting to be used. But he did. So I did. Because I follow the rules. Damn I hate that about myself. I should be a...
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Nov 04, 2009
2 CommentsBecause someone asked and I have no shame…
An assignment for my theory and history of visual design class. Also? My copy of Adobe creative suite 4 arrived today and I start my illustration class next week. SQueeeEEE! Ummm…I’m a little excited to learn this...
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Nov 02, 2009
7 CommentsHeader!
Even though I’m majoring in web design, most of what I’ve been doing in school involves learning how to create images and logos. I don’t get to do any actual programming type stuff for another couple of classes. Until then, I’m having fun learning how to use CorelDrawX4. It’s much harder than I expected to...
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Oct 09, 2008
3 CommentsSometimes you need to make your own
I’m not sure that I’ve ever mentioned this before but I didn’t actually graduate from highschool. Well- technically I graduated, just in an unconventional way. I completed the California High School Equivelency Exam so I wouldn’t have to finish my senior year. I think I actually attended two full weeks and a couple of random days of...
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Sep 21, 2008
10 CommentsThis may not have been a good idea
It’s been a while since I decided I should go back to school. Like six years. I kept saying I would get around to signing up at the local Junior College but I knew the truth. I was never going back to school. I’m a full time working mama. I spend way too much time away from...
