First Day--- Semester Two

Well, the countdown for summer's beginning, haha!

It was nice not having to be at stupid school at 7:30 in the gosh-darn morning! Yay- no more early morning cranky Jeffrey!

After a nice breakfast of Cocoa Puffs mixed with the last of my Trix, I rambled on in to the school-building at 9:30 for a two-hour stint doing my work-study job in the Alternative Learning Division's testing center. Nothing to do, no one to take tests yet, so I started reading Book Two of Osamu Tezuka's "Buddha," called "The Four Encounters." It's part of an eight volume comic (manga) retelling of the Buddha. Quite enlightening! I'm looking forward to finishing it and reading the rest of the books in the series. (Note, world reknowned graphic designer Chip Kidd produced the covers for this group of books!)

After work I headed to Design Communications (In Architecture) where all the students were told to write our names on a folded sheet of paper, and then trace the backward image on the other side. After that we were supposed to open it up and try and create a design that said "something" about ourselves as part of our introduction to the other kids in the class. A bunch of guys drew rifles, pistols, or ray-guns somewhere in their masterpieces. Some guy drew a psycho murderer bunny- for real! I was feeling symbolic and such after reading some about Buddha:


When it was my turn to tell the class about "myself" all I could muster was something like, "I like Earth." Guess, I'll never be one of the Heathers!

Then I had Architectural Theory afterward and it looks INTENSE. I have the same instructor for this class and Design. I had him last semester too, and, boy does he like to hear himself talk! Yikes, and it's going to be heavy on the writing. I'll just have to pretend each 5000 word short essay and architectural analysis is a Bull-Roar blog-post!

After this class, I have the afternoon off for vittles and relaxation. Then off to stupid Trigonometry. WTF! The teacher is naming all these things off that we'll get points docked off for this semester. Man, you can't sleep in class! What???? Haha, anyway, then she's going on how this is a Tuesday-Thursday class and she's thinking about only making it a Tuesday class and leaving Thursdays open for dumb-fucks like me who'll have any questions or need help. I know I'm going to have issues with this class. She already made us 1.) get into GRRRRR-OUPS for GRRRRRRRR-OUP work, and 2.) making us do most of the questions in Appendix C of the textbook on FUNCTIONS. I haven't had this level of math since 1994, twelve years ago. Argh!!!! Luckily, I somehow remembered domains and ranges. How I did that, I can't explain---maybe all those drugs in Covance didn't destroy my algebra brain-cells...


Besides my daily work hours (two hours every weekday), Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays my schedule is slightly different. I have a part two to last semester's Architectural Graphics class and after a bite to eat at home, I get into a vehicle and drive to the college-town (note intense sarcasm) of WATERTOWN, WI. for College Physics. For some reason, Madison is a liberal haven of people who refuse to believe in PHYSICS, so I have to drive past about 400 cow-farms to learn about gravity and other "magical" things.

That's pretty much it, thanks for reading my latest "diary entry!"