How much longer?...

WHEEWW... this first week of college wore my ass OUT! By Friday I was exhausted. Part of it may be mental exhaustion from the stress of the first week, but the other part is physical exhaustion. Back when I worked as a hotwalker at the track, hauling around 1000lb race horses all morning long was easier than what I'm doing now, hauling around 30lbs of books, art supplies, portfolio, etc, back and forth across the campus. Next week I'm going to try using a rolling carryon suitcase and see how that works out.

It would have been nice to leave my stuff in the car and only take what I need for each class, going back to the car in between classes, but that would take more time and effort than it's worth. The $180 that I paid for "Premium" parking gets me into a lot about 3 city blocks away from my classes. It's when I'm walking to my car that I think that maybe living on campus wouldn't be such a bad idea, lol.

Other notes:

• Why doesn't the Art building have automatic doors? Art students are constantly lugging huge portfolios in and out of the standard push/pull doors, along with boxes of supplies. Heck, even TCC had automatic doors on ALL buildings! Sure made life easier.
  
  
• I wish I had been warned about filling up my schedule with a bunch of lab classes. When I told my friend Erika that I'm taking Chemistry she about flipped with a doomsday prophesy, saying "oh you shouldn't have taken Chemistry with a full schedule!!!" As it turns out my Chemistry class doesn't look too bad, Prof is very entertaining and doesn't seem difficult, makes the labs sound easy as well (I'll let you know after the labs start!) What WILL be difficult is the other labs, Design and Drawing. Mucho homework so far.
  
  
• I'm learning about Teaching Assistants for the first time with my lab classes. One of my TAs is extremely annoying and condescending, and a dingbat on top of that. Unfortunately I don't have much faith in her as an instructor, but I'm stuck with her.
  
  
• The Beverage class that Hubby and I are taking together promises to be fun. Professor is very entertaining and comical, and says we'll have 4-6 tastings for each class. This week will be our first tasting, starting with vodka and gin. Good thing it's our last class of the day!
  
  
• Each day at school is hurry-up-and-wait. Many of my classes have at least an hour break in between... which is just long enough to walk to my next class and sit and munch on a snack... but not long enough to do anything else like go to the computer lab or library or bookstore, etc. Not without being in a rush anyway, and I don't like to rush. So, I use the time to read my textbook chapter for that next class.

That's it for now... I have a wire sculpture model that I have to do for Design class as homework. Then perspective drawings to do for Drawing class. Then..........