a life in the day...

I am writing this from my iPod so forgive any indiscrepencies before they happen. The auto-complete function is only so-so at best.

I went to class today grudgingly, and while I was there I was bored out of my mind. It's not that the subject matter is bad--how could it be? it's basic design for god sake. Now I'm not the only one who complains about the class. There are plenty of my colleagues who are in the same boat. The teacher has distilled the curriculum so much that it's kind of lost its meat. It has lost its luster and become something so rote that it has been abstracted from the real art world.

Well, it's not my classroom so I can't make changes, but at the end of each term we students have the opportunity to fill out a form stating whether or not we liked the professor and reasons for whatever we said. Let's just say ahead of time that she's not getting a good grade from me.

On a lighter note, Mom and I were driving to get her Burgerville and there was this super cute old beagle wandering around outside our apartment. He looked placid and sorta happy-go-lucky so we decided to go pick him up and see what his tags said. Well, it turned out he lived right down the street from us, but the complex where he was from was impossible to navigate from the street. We decided to load him up and take him (along with Cooper) to Burgerville. I have to say that for a nine-month-old puppy Cooper is doing great. He just sniffed the old dog--whom we lovingly called "Papa Smurf"--calmed the young one up quite a bit. Of course Cooper wanted to play with Papa Smurf and Papa Smurf wanted nothing to do with it, but it was interesting to see the pack dynamic with dogs first hand. Mom and I are the alphas but Cooper moved below Papa Smurf--puppy antics or no. Well at the end of our trip to Burgerville we got a return call from the dog's owner. And I think that Papa Smurf was as sad to leave us as we were to leave him. Have fun Papa Smurf! Perhaps we shall meet again...