The U of O

I just finished week three of my first quarter at the U of O! I can't believe how the time has flown. Things here are pretty good, but I'm still pretty poor and looking for work. I have a few leads in that department, but so far nothing has actually panned out. Classes are great. The drawing and painting class I'm taking is extremely challenging. Drawing is easier than I thought in some respects, but very much harder in others. My previous art training was not so in-depth and there wasn't much of it, so I'm really having to stretch myself in this class, but I've surprised myself a few times so far, and I hope to keep doing well. The coursework itself if pretty contained within the structure of the class, but this weekend we had a pretty significant homework assignment that I'm struggling with, but these are the challenges I wanted. I'm also taking a contemporary tragedy class, which is mostly reading and analysis. It's a big weekend for that class too, but I enjoy the reading and I really like the contemporary plays we've dealt with so far. The first was Mouthful of Birds by Caryl Churchill. I won't attempt to summarize or explain that one here. The second play was Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenburg and I loved it. The story was complex and moving, and really well put together. Of course, it's hard for me to read the plays and not design them as I go, but I try to at least get one reading in which I'm not trying to figure out what sort of space they're in. It's nice to be reminded that there are other reasons to read plays than to prep for a show.

This blog has been asleep for too long. I wish I were better at keeping up with it. Hopefully, I'll post some of my driving days on here. I'll probably pre-date them to line up with the dates of the days I drove, so they'll go up as if they were posted before this entry. I'll try to be a better blogger...