I swear, things just aren't working out lately. I was hoping today would be the day things would turn around, but so far, it's not looking like that is going to happen. I mean, seriously, any day that starts out with you running up the stairs holding your bleeding crotch can't go well. It's like an unwritten rule, but more on that later.

This last week has been a bit of an adjustment for me. I spent two weeks house sitting for my parents, which meant I was close to all my friends and was able to go out and do stuff just about every day. It was fantastic. My only responsibility was to have fun.

Then, at the same time I came back out here to my house, where I'm about an hour away from all my favorite people, school started back up. I'm glad to be back in school, but the transition from being close to friends and having zero responsibility to being back in the boonies and focusing on school hasn't been easy.

I blame a lot of that on unexpected hormonal fluctuations, but again, more on that later.

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The Murder WeaponSo here I am, smack dab in the middle of another busy week. I should be working on a project for school at the moment, but I'm moving pretty slowly this morning. Coffee in hand, I figured I might as well have a little bitch and moan before I get to work.

The project we are currently working on in my design class is practically identical to the first project we did. And the second one. Oh, and the next one we're going to be working on too. All four projects are the same format, the same cutting and pasting, and the same gigantic headache. The only difference is which principle or element of design we're supposed to be demonstrating.

We've had two other projects that were completely different, and I enjoyed those. One was to demonstrate value, and the other was for texture. What I don't understand, though, is why four of the projects all have to be the same thing. Why can't we do different things for each? We're supposed to be building our portfolios, and these projects aren't exactly giving us an opportunity to fill our books with a diverse set of work.

Worst of all, the process for these projects is tedious and draining. I'm beginning to think the person that designed the workload for the class is secretly wishing for death by X-acto knife.

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