let's get crackin'

First week down. Nothing of interest happened. My first class passed pleasantly, and without fuss. Ironically, I began my scholastic year with Lessons from The Holocaust. My morbid sense of humor prevented me from seeing it as a bad omen.

Now things should begin to pick up. This will be my first full week of classes. Print 3, Math, Senior Studio, and my Holocaust class. I feel at ease, comfortable, and relaxed. Isn't that the way it should be? Confidence is defined in one way as "a feeling of self-assurance rising from one's appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities". I am learning to appreciate my own abilities and my qualities, and so I suppose it really makes this entire year about gaining confidence. Confidence that, after leaving my alma mater, that I will be able to go out into the world and not only appreciate my own abilities and qualities, but be able to convince someone else to appreciate (hopefully in the form of payment) my abilities and qualities. But for now, I will be content with letting my creativity brew and steep until the fruits of my labors burst forth and I create art. Or at least try to!