paper craziness! :)

November 20, 2002

an update on my health: apparently something in my ear is out of whack (i actually learned that a part of your ear controls your sense of balance). so yeah, something unexplainable in my ear has gone weird and so my whole sense of my balance has been off for the past few days - which causes my dizzyness and fatigue. hopefully it's nothing. the doc said it should be gone by next week. but if it's not, then there could be some potential problems.

i'm actually doing okay in my type II class - it's like a miracle of miracles. i just got one of my projects back and i ended up with a 31/40 - that's like ALMOST an A! so cool! i thought that class was going to kill me, but by God's grace, i'm hanging in there. i just handed in my event mark (project 3) - that's the hand lettering project - i don't expect to do too well on that, but i think it'll be okay - i know God's with me, so it'll be fine!

david (my prof) actually liked my concept for project 4 (the chemise). i was really surprised. i just need to figure out how i'm going to go about accomplishing the concept.

i realize that i have this really huge inadequacy/inforority complex - i think that all the work i do is complete crap and not valid at all. so i'm basically ashamed to show anything that i do during critiques and stuff. i think this is one of satan's ways at getting at me, so i really need to just come around that God's given me ability in this program to produce DECENT work - it's not super amazing stuff, and it's not pure crap either! it's so easy to beat myself up on the fact that i suck - since i'm not a designer!

anyway, this is what really made my day. lily, this girl in 3rd year, who's a friend of andrew told us that there was FREE paper in the CFA. it was so jokes. man, they had like gloss, perferated, translucent paper, it was awesome. there were ever different weights for them!!! and it was FREEEEEEE! and they were HUGE too! like 20" x 40" or something. i initially took so much, i like almost fell over when i was trying to move it. lol. so i had to take some out. the challenge was, to get the paper we took and get it to our cars. me and andrew were like dying while we walked to our cars and stuff. we took a few breaks! haha, well just one, but it was hard to carry that stuff to our cars. by the time we got to our cars, our arms were dead! that just gives you an idea of how much paper we took. lol. it was so funny. :) we had to like wrap both our arms around our papers to hold it - basically everyone was staring at us struggle to get to our cars. but what's really silly about this, is that we were so happy about free PAPER! hahaha. it's paper!! most people wouldn't give a rip. but to a design student, it's like heaven on earth type idea - cuz we use paper like there's no tomorrow. i'm gonna go back tomorrow to get more.. hehehe :) man it was just great!

oh another thing that's really super cool. i got my psychology test back today. when my prof was talking to us about the tests and stuff, i thought it was all over - and you know what? i got 50/70! that's like a 69%. that's awesome. you know why? because i had only studied for that test 3 hours, the day of. because last week was so insane and i had all this other stuff to do. so i was just praying, trusting God that somehow i could past the test. and yeah, 69% that's actually BETTER than my first test that i STUDIED for (go figure, eh!? hhaha). i was so happy. just thanking God for being so merciful on me! i mean, He just totally helped me out with that test! :)

so what's in store for the weekend? CCC tomorrow night, and then basically, just finishing off my last few projects. i have a project due on tuesday, 2 on wednesday and an essay on wednesday - but i don't have to hand it in on wed if i can't finish it so it's all good! so i just need to figure out the details for my chemise, and that'll be that :)

Posted by Leo Chan at November 20, 2002 7:01 PM