Last week of classes, etc
So this is my last week of classes. Next week is finals, then I'm done for the semester. Yesterday I had my final review in painting. The teacher pretty much had negative things to say about all of my work. His biggest criticism was that all of my work was "took dark" and "dull" but whatever. My sense of aesthetics tends toward overall dark images with concentrated, small areas of brighter light. That's what I like. That's not what he likes. We're going to have to agree to disagree. It would be one thing if his criticism served as a guide to help me become a better painter of the style I want to paint, but everything he says is either so vague as to be worthless, or is an attempt to change my style to something he likes. Not helpful. I'm new to painting. I have a lot to learn. I'd love to have a mentor who could truly help me become better. But what I have, essentially, is someone who says "I don't lilke your painting of a starscape, because there isn't enough sunlight in it" or "I don't like your landscape painting because it needs more sofas" or "I don't like your portrait because you haven't painted in a refrigerator"... it's pointless.
Anyway, this weekend Dan came home from his month-long internship in Arizona. He drove for four days, with the last day being Sunday. Dominic and I left Sunday morning to drive 3+ hours to Dayton, where we met Dan coming the other way. We arrived within minutes of each other. Can we plan or what? Anyway we did that so that we could see the musical Spamalot (the Monty Python thing). It was hilarious. There were one or two numbers that I didn't care for (the 'not dead yet' part dragged on a bit long, for example) but overall it was really well done and very funny. We had a great time, then drove home caravan style. We stopped at a very strange Thai restaurant in Columbus for dinner. The tofu looked like little slices of bread. It had the weirdest texture I've ever seen. It tasted good, though.
I put in my petition for residency last week but I'm extremely nervous. There is a thing that says that some types of financial aid awarded in one state will make you ineligible to be a resident in another state for that time period. I was living in Cleveland last summer and fall, but my classes last fall were online from a school in Georgia, and so my financial aid was from Georgia. That may mean that I can't be considered a resident until next spring. Which will essentially mean that I can't go to school again until next spring. The tuition alone comes to about a thousand dollars more than my Pell grant, subsidized loans, and unsubsidized loans combined. Which means that I'd still have to come up with money for tuition, plus have no money at all for things like...oh...rent, food, gas, bills, etc. My mom's not in a position to help much with school right now because the roof came off of the cottage in NH during a wind storm and she's having to spend a crapload of money on fixing that, and things were tight with her to begin with.
So that's fairly scary. It also means that if I can't go to school in the fall, I forfeit the art merit scholarship that I won, because you have to take 12 credits in the fall and 12 in the spring to qualify for it.
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