littlestar

it's not mono. they poked me twice, drew some blood with the second, smaller needle and told me a few hours later.

it's probably a viral infection that will go out of my system, come back if it persists for another week = they don't know what it is.

oh well.

as far as schoolwork goes.... i felt too guilty about resting t home, so i damned my health to hell and went to school yesterday. i felt pain and fatigue, but i worked till 11pm and i'm happy to say that i don't feel slaughtered today. :)

my back still hurts though. :T

but it was worth it to go. not just because of my animation (which honestly, i just don't like animating that much) or because i got to pitch my 20 second film idea to other people (and came back with good insight) but also because i found that i'm not the only person who hates this man so much.

one person, someone i miss having classes with since art 28 (so long ago, spring 2004) even ran away to non-him classes (which is hard, there are 3 minimally that are required, people usually take the last one twice) for a whole semester because she couldn't handle another class with him so soon after this class. another guy, who's generally quiet and stoic, quietly and stoically indicated to me that he's been pretty angry too... just his wife has been hearing about it and no one else.

i have company. which is good. :) now... to figure out how best to tackle all this. i'm having a hard time justifying 3 semesters of animation and 3 semesters of digital animation when i don't want to animate or work in a studio. so far, the one accurate and helpful thing i can come up with is that animation teaches a lot of concepts that can be used in other fields, so as long as i try to focus on learning the other stuff, i would still be coming out with a lot of education that would be hard to get elsewhere.

rumors of the digital animation classes and exposures to the man makes me want to run away, but i suppose i don't have much choice but to just run headlong into it all and still make my life my own. sitting in on john's class has really helped with reminding me that i am interested in all this.

wish me luck and wellness. :)