Well that's the end of term 2. It's so frightening! Time just flys in. I was reading an article by Tony Parsons and he was saying how when your 10 a year is a massive amount of time because you've only lived for ten years but as you get older you've lived for so many years that comparitivley it seems like a smaller amount of time and continues to do so the older you get. How depressing. I think I might be suffering from a mid 20's crisis! Anyway I guess I better make effort to give a decent comment on the past term seeing as this is my last blog of Term 2.
We had the class meeting on Thursday and I was quite aprehensive about it as I felt if we all were in the room together that things were A: going to become quite heated and B: descend into everyone having a go at one person. However some people didn't bother to turn up and a situation like that was avoided. I don't think that was a good thing particulary because it meant that the problems that do exist weren't able to be properly adressed. Six of us did attend and I think we did manage to sort out a lot of things and hopefully there will be noticeable difference in the class in the third term. A lot of the problems discussed regarding attendance and attitude in the class where things that I felt weren't having a massive how I got on with the course. If people don't come in I don't feel like that it makes it more difficult for me to work than if they do but I do like the atmosphere when we're all in working togther. In the week leading up to the presentations i felt like there was a good, focused buzz about the place which isn't there always. Sadly there were problems that we weren't able to resolve and so although we can try and make a fresh start, in reality, if things aren't addressed and dealt with it will is going to have a negative effect on doing so and on the whole class. Maybe I'm being a big woman and making too much of a deal out things but I feel there are times in class when I have been lied to and I then feel angry, uncomfortable and have had to walk out of the room. Since the meeting the situation with the lies has continued exactly as it has done, it appears, since day 1 back in October so I don't see any sign that this will change, making a fresh start difficult. One suggestion that has come up is that the class might be rearranged. Obviously I don't want to move as I have personalised it and am comfortable working there however Jamie was right when he said it's not fair that some people have big desks and others don't. Moving desks is fair enough if it brings an improvment to the class but if it an effort isn't made to actually improve and if the space isn't used properly then it will have been for nothing. However if I have to switch desks then I can try and make the most of wherever I end up and bring in stuff from outside that will help me utilize the space I have been given to work in. This is such a negative post to end the term on and it shouldn't be because I've really enjoyed working on the design project and feel like I got something out of Term 2. Everything I've been moaning about are issues that, naturally, have arisen but I don't feel like anything is having a major impact on how I feel about the work we're doing. I'm enjoying it and feel positive about the work coming up in Term 3. Over the holidays financial problems will probably limit what I get up to but I can't complain because I'm having a lap top bought for me which is so good. If I get one during the holidays I''ll be able to spend time working on it and using photoshop etc. I'm also going up to Skye for a week which is going to be good. We go up every year but it's good the way it's come about just as we've completed our projects. Being up there will give me a lot of time to work on stuff because the nearest pub or shop is miles away, hence the detox! I think I'm going to do some work on costumes as I am starting to enjoy the costume design side of things and I realise you don't have to be a fashion guru to design costumes, as any visit to the costume department makes clear! Ha ha sorry couldn't resist a wee bit of end of term bitchiness. I need to do some research into Opera as well because I'm totally ignorant of this area. Right well I been typing this for ages and think I've said everything I wanted to say so that's me. Sianorra!