I Can't Believe I'm Paying For This

I have to take a shit. Maybe if I do it on my drawing, I'll get that extra credit.

If I don't take a shit on it, I'm guaranteed to get a horrible grade. Not because the work is horrible (it's not), or because I didn't spend hours and hours on it (I did), but because I missed the deadline by a weekend (I didn't miss the critique, I missed the post-critique-time-to-effect-touch-ups deadline). The zero-tolerance late-work policy, dontcha know.

You know you've found a truly stupid person when you confront her about her unreasonable late-assignment policy and all she can think to do is repeat the policy over and over, even though you've given her at least an hour to rehearse her lines. She knew this conversation was coming.

The question is "Why?" And guess what, "it's in the syllabus" is the same as "because I said so," and that's not a good enough fucking answer. The real answer is "because I don't have the capacity to form an independent thought. Because I'm not rational. Because I'm not sympathetic. Because I needed some hard-ass policy to gain your respect, since I couldn't do it through my own skill and integrity." How weak.

If I've learned anything about deadlines in the "real world" (yes, my instructor used this line on me) it's that they are almost always negotiable, and you can usually push them a little bit. So don't give me that bullshit.

So I might be failing my foundations drawing course.

I feel like Dante from Clerks. I'm not even supposed to be in this class.

Shitty Project Attempt #2

Bas Relief

So, this is that shitty awful project I mentioned in the last post. The rules were that this thing had to be on a piece of cardboard (or similar substance) 2' by 2' square. It had to project at least an inch off the surface, and whatever you attached to it had to retain its original coloring (in other words, no painting). Lastly, it was supposed to be totally abstract. It was not supposed to resemble anything.

However, I found it interesting that I couldn't actually relate to the project until I had associated it with something in reality. Once I started to pretend that it was a big white yak from Mongolia, it was much easier to work on. I don't think I'm cut out for this abstract stuff.