Of this and that - new term and the Games...

Summer Term's coming up this Monday. I've got a light schedule of Creative Writing, Art History (Midieval) and circuit training planned - and that's just classes. ^^
I'm looking forward to the 'major' classes, although one is, admittedly, mostly fluff, for me. *amused*

Summer plans outside of school involve the usual hanging about with friends, hitting the fairs and the Highland Games (that's a new one, admittedly) and generally getting into things that I've been interested in getting into for a while.
One of said things is hashing out clan membership - we used to be registered with the Hay Clan, back when Nanny and Poppa were still alive - and on and off, Mom has talked enough about it that I figure I may as well go ahead and roust out some paperwork.
This has very little to do with the kilt I asked Andi about getting for Christmas. *grin*
Okay, maybe it has a lot to do with it, but I've always wanted a kilt /anyway/. It's an excuse to wander around in a glorified blanket. What's not to like?
Of course, I can't find much on women wearing tartans - apparently, I'm supposed to settle for vague information.
... no, I don't think so. They won't give me the info I want, I'll just modify the men's version, sgian dubh and all (no, I don't care that the kilt is 'mens' clothes. So are jeans. Bite me).

In the hunt for information on traditional Scottish dress, I got Andi to track down what it would cost to kit him out in traditional Bavarian dress - and it would be cheaper to kit me out (black knife and all) than to kit him.... erk?
It's a nice mental image, though. Anyway...

So, I'm planning on hitting the Highland Games this year. Maybe with Mom, possibly with friends and probably with Andi. We'll make a hell of a party if /every/one goes... O.o

In other news, it's too hot to think and I am going to go look for an ice-bath now ....

Of a fraggin' /long/ silence....

This term /sucked/.
Thankfully, it's nearly over....

Basic Design class /is/ over, and Drawing might as well be (just have to pick up my portfolio this Saturday), and Pilates will see the last 'official' class today - everything else is due Wenesday.

For the record? Lifeguard Training is /not/ easy. I have pushed myself and pushed - and I am /still/ not certain that I will be certified. However, at this point, I don't even care about the /lifeguard/ part - I'm just in it for the First Aid cert and the CPR cert.... O.o
However, I have enjoyed the class, overall - most all the other students are interesting people and I've enjoyed my time in class with them. While there are definitely one or two I could cheerfully strangle, you get some of those in every batch, I think... ^^;

Drawing class was fun this term - we spent the majority of it out on site, drawing this and that and the other, and I really had a good time stretching my drawing eye. ^^
I'll post some of the images in the Vortex, when I have time to photograph and upload them.

BD - I have GOT to take some pics of the dragon I made for my Final project. We did several projects, including wire, clay, multiplicity (making a sculpture out of paperclips, for example) and foam carving. For my final project, I made a dragon out of sculpey, using clay over wire to make wings and glitter as a multiple (I was going to use sequins, originally, but I misjudged the size). The wings are membrane-type, with super-thin sections composed of ordinary sculpey mixed with translucent Fimo.
Of all the projects, I was really the most pleased with that last one. ^^

Of writing, the less said the better - I am /really/ not at all good at that kind of essay writing. I enjoyed the book (we have been working with The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck), and I've enjoyed some of the reading on the book, but writing an essay about it has really been a fight....

So, yeh. Glad that the term's nearly over. Looking forward to Summer term, in a way - I'm goin' half-time (three classes. *sigh*) for summer and I figure it's gonna be /fun/. Heh.
I've already got Fall scheduled.... Yah, already. ;p

It'll be nice to have so much less going on all at once....
I might even have time to actually maintain my website! *shock!*
Ahhh... it'd be nice....