Today is Week 5, Day 2 of the second term of the fall quarter. I have been flat out for ten weeks now, and MY BRAIN IS TIRED.
Classes are good this term. My Media Communications class is reading- and writing-intensive; but it's interesting and fun. I'm writing my final paper on television science fiction in the 1960s, mostly so I could write about The Twilight Zone and Star Trek. I've had some interesting conversations with my classmate, including a careful exchange with a woman talking about "reverse McCarthyism" citing an article in the Washington Times (a Sun Yung Moon paper) that used innuendo to suggest stars were afraid to come out as Republicans. My Digital Imaging class has thrown me head-first into Photoshop without a net. It's a lot of fun, but a little hair-raising. Photoshop skills vary throughout the class, and as usual I seem to fall about the middle of the pack. One of the people from my design class is in this class, and just as he was in the other he is creating really lovely, professional stuff. It's always a joy to see the work of someone who really knows what they're doing in Photoshop.
Oh, yeah, currently I've got an A in both classes. I could blow it, of course; but I will do my best not to.
One week from Saturday I'm done, and then I get three weeks off. Next classes are Information Design and Speech. I was going to buy a new iMac (which comes with a built-in web cam) for my Speech class; but given that I still haven't been motivated to finish up my office, I'll probably just buy a web cam for my laptop. (For now - that iMac is still in my future; and in the meantime I get to bank the interest on the money.) I'm a little curious how a speech class is going to work in this online environment. I am also not nearly as nervous as I probably should be!