Events of a Tuesday

Today was fairly eventful!

First, I threw about four pieces on the wheel in pottery, and that's a very VERY good thing! After pottery I went with my advisor to observe an art teaching doing something fairly unique; teaching students how to animate using Ipads. This was so incredible! I can only imagine what students in high school might be able to do with an application like this (make a five minute movie, or stop motion would be awesome assignments). I just know that I want to have technology like this implemented in my own classroom someday.

What could possibly go wrong?

In other news, I'm looking forward to seeing a live-action Sleeping Beauty movie called Maleficent. Angelina Jolie is playing the role of Maleficent, which I believe will be perfect simply for the sake of my wife. She hates Angelina with a passion due to her home-wrecking-ness-ish-ful capabilities and obese kissing utensils. So, dear wife, you will at last see her die a gruesome dragon-filled death. Congratulations. :)

Also starring Brad Pitt as the horse.

Photography

Tonight was my first non-family/paid photography session!

Photographing for the most part is relaxing to me, but when you are being depended upon for the production of visual memories that will last a life-time, it begins to become stressful. Tonight was surprisingly easy, a few shots were difficult to gather, and the lighting made shooting a bit more challenging, but overall I feel good about the takes. Had the couple been higher strung I'm sure it would have been significantly more tedious and terrible.

Overall, as a photographer, (having done two sets of engagement photos, two sets of senior photos, a wedding, and a vowel renewal) I am beginning to feel much more confident in my abilities. Hopefully I'll be able to get the word out and people will like the work I have done!

Job situation is looking bleak... next semester is going to make working difficult to say the least. Here's to hoping I can find an on-campus job.

Life is hard.

I am at a place in my life that makes me feel stressed. Perhaps stressed isn't even strong enough of a word to use for how I truly feel right now. School, financial troubles, work, and family contribute to this stress. Not to say that my family is a causation of stress (though, sometimes it can be) the fact that my wife and daughter rely on me to be a loving father, good husband, and excellent role model is sometimes difficult to live up to.

College is a year and a half from being a thing of the past, yet it seems so far away. I can't express how excited I am to become an Art Teacher. Not only will I not have to work some mundane part-time job to afford to go to school, but I'll actually be getting paid for going! I'll have summers to take Anya to so many places (zoos! parks! museums!) and have family vacations, too!

It's weird to think that a time like that will ever arrive. Won't I screw something up before that, just like I've always done? Will I ever really graduate from college? I want to, more than anything, but it's so hard.

There seems to be a constant stream of questions, answers, ponderings, tidbits, etc floating around in my head. Just a few minutes ago I felt everything in my brain just go to mush. Have you ever gone completely blank like that? Nothing in there....just staring at the computer screen waiting for nothing to happen. That's why I eventually came here. Something had to give, I had to get my brain in a better place!

It's time to write again. I know it will help.