Tuesday, April 06, 2004

King Triton must be in a friendly-type mood

I'm still sick and have been blowing my nose so much that most of my face has gotten red and blotchy and I didn't sleep well so there are these awful dark circles around my eyes. I look a bit like a zombie. Not a pretty sight, trust me. I could definitely use some of those soft tissues with the aloe vera....oooooh so nice. Anyways, not feeling up to doing much so the last two days have given me plenty of time to sit around and figure out my schedule for next semester and here's what I've come up with so far.

VISUAL CULTURE AND LITERACY: Exploration of visual thinking and communication in art and popular culture: interpretation of the personal and social context, function and lineage of the image. (It's one of my requirements for my art major and actually sounds like it has the potential to be interesting. You can never know too much about art)

DESIGN II: Exploration of essential elements of traditional and digital design, including color and image-text integration, editing information, typography and sequencing. (yay!! finally! It's about time to bring in some computer graphic design. Im very excited about getting away from these basic fundamental art classes and taking some graphics)

INTRO TO ADVERTISING: History and development of advertising; basic advertising campaigns showing relationships of marketing, creative, print and electronic media. (I'm pretty sure that advertising is going to be my minor, but I have very little experience with it so it'll be interesting to see if it's something Im actually good at)

French II: After I take French this summer, French II is the next class.

Anyways, I've been thinking of new hobbies to try and learn over the summer...in case I have extra time and am sitting around bored out of my mind. The more and more I think about it, I'd REALLY like to learn electric guitar. For some reason, I've always had it in my mind that when you get to this age, it's just too late to pick up a new talent. If you think about it, most people who become really good at something start when they are really little. As a little kid, I focused mainly on dancing and acting. Hours upon hours I spent at the dance studio (from age 3 to 16). I was a dancing fool. I did ballet, pointe (for some reason I really miss dancing until my feet were bleeding and shit), tap, jazz, hip hop, and even some traditional African and Salsa dancing. I worked for it and developed my talents as a dancer and even though I don't do it as much now, I still consider it one of my favorite hobbies. When I was little I used to play flute for a few years and took horseback riding lessons. Now it seems, at this age, that I'm supposed to be focusing mainly on things relating to my career, but that's not a very exciting way to live. Is it too late to learn something? I mean, I'm 19 years old and what do I do besides art stuff and the occasional dancing. Very little. I look at my brother who took up guitar only about 2 or 3 years ago and he's improved so much and is just amazing at it now so I guess you're never too old to learn something new. Matt and my dad offered to teach me some guitar over the summer and I'm thrilled. My dad used to be in a band for many years throughout college and he told me that he started learning when he was about my age. We'll see how it goes, but I'm actually starting to get excited about it.

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