17th
this could be boring for you
or is it ‘to you?’
here, i’ll just toss some boring at you.
to sum up my classes so far, my History of Science [yeah, s’wut i said. ‘science’ is used pretty loosely. more or less it’s a history of how people interpreted and interacted with their natural surroundings. natural philosophies, he says. we talked about ma-gic] class is small and awesome. my teacher sounds like a cross of christopher walken and woody allen and looks like one of the bald guess who characters with a dark brown beard.
my philosophy class is small too and full of curious people and swivel chairs. it will be great as long as i don’t philosophail. this one reminds me of a strong mix of dr. house and wilson, only aided by the fact that we meet in a conference room [no whiteboard, unfortunately] and that he’s young but uses a cane. these two classes together already make me feel like my soul is fatter.
my other noteworthy course, and definitely the one i’m anticipating most, is with my favorite advisor mary k. she was the head of my writing tutorial and when i came to her to get out of my [extremely slow moving] spanish class, she hooked it up with an independent option. i got to pick anything, but i knew i wanted to keep it english in some way, because none of my other classes allow that type creativity. the first time i was introduced to the perry bible fellowship i immediately set it as a bookmark and visit the site regularly. i lovelovelove the variety of his strips and it seems really rare to see a person so consistently unveil such creative and unique concepts. this is one of my favorites [though i love magic eyes, hug bot, kitty stuck i could go on…] just in the flow of the words and it’s slightly seedy premise. i decided to take up the challenge to see if i could be an absentee apprentice to the man. i love how unexpected a lot of his last frames are, like magic eyes, and i’m hoping through exercising my own ideas i can develop a way of thinking where not only do i not settle for what’s expected [even if it is still funny] but my natural train of thought instinctively finds a bizarre outcome. i plan to draw them myself, hopefully developing yet another skill, but if along the way i decide it’s better left to someone else, i can delegate that and it’s school-legal.
there are other more appealing things i could be sharing, like the everpresent and always dynamic lawrence characters i run in to [the peace sign guy who wanted to give me his sunset/manatee t-shirt, off his back, after i told him it was beautiful] or the antics of my aging senile dog [text from mom: …i won’t be home when you get here but ruby can’t be alone downstairs because she’s biting pieces of carpet..] or my hopefullypleasepossible job at the most amazing ice cream shop downtown. what gives?
