It’s really great to be back in school. The summer was beginning to feel pointless.
My e-commerce class cancelled (not enough enrollment) and my spanish class might, I’ll find out tomorrow. I think it’s too much of a beginner class for me anyway. but it might pick up. All the while I was sitting there in class thinking ‘I already know this stuff” I was telling myself that it always starts off slow, and don’t knock it. So I really put my espanol out there on this first assignment, used all that I’ve got. I’ll let the teacher be the judge.
I applied and interviewed for a work-study job at the student life center, I think it went pretty well. We’ll see in two days.
Tonite is my photoshopCS3 class, the one I came over to this campus for. Plus the campus is right across the street, which is sweet. I’m pretty excited about this class, it’s taught by this incredible teacher that I had last term for web design.
Humanities is going to be interesting, we get three social issue type books to read and do speaking presentations on. I hate speaking and it makes me puke from nerves, so this will be good for me. Maybe I can get past this. It’s stupid to not be able to make presentations just from cowardice. What’s there to be afraid of? I might bore people? They’ve been bored before. They might judge me unfavorably? It’s happened before and I survived.
I just keep pep-talking myself. Get myself pumped up. Wednesday is my first stand-up presentation.
The quilt……. I am plugging away on the back of it, it’s looking pretty cute.
Sammy brought her old quilt (that I made a couple of years ago) to get it repaired this weekend, I had forgotten how nice it turned out. She has Chinese decor in her room so I made her a simple bamboo
design. It feels just right, she says she loves it and she drags it around to watch TV with. The top black material is a cotton gabardine and the back is wheat-colored crinkle-cloth, a little heavier than the gauzy stuff you usually see with crinkle-cloth, with a linen-like texture. Single ply low-loft batting and it’s a small queen or large double size.
I replaced the top-stitched leaves which had been thin silk, but they wore off. so I put the same material as the backing on for the leaves. I did some straight lines to hold a place where I know the batting is seperated. Some top-stitching had come out. i used light thread. I’m not sure I like it, but
after I thought about it, I think I could make it better by curving the lines at the top and making them look like wheat. I told Sammy about that and if it bothers her, she can bring it back and I can easily update it.
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