Well, I’m done with my summer classes. I had my last exam in public speaking yesterday. The prof let us grade our own tests, so by my calculations I made about an 83 (he goes back and adjusts the score up or down). Not as good a grade as I wanted, but it’s pretty good considering how I bluffed my way through some of the answered. Honestly, who reads the textbook anyway?

For anyone who’s interested, I made an A- on my final project in 3D design. Hopefully I’ll make an A in that class, and raise my GPA a bit. It’s not really low in the first place, but I like to stay in range of the Dean’s List.

I had to work with my dad today, and it was absolutely exhausting. He does lawn maintenance and cuts down trees. After the first yard we did, I was ready to be through. See, he makes me edge around the yards, that where you used this machine–an edger, go figure–and you go and around where the grass meets the sidewalk and it trims it up all nice and pretty. However, it’s better if you have a lot of upper body strength, which I don’t. So I’m all achy and stuff, and my dad wants me to go back out working tomorrow. :/

I’ve drawn another self-portrait, but the concensus is that it doesn’t really look like me. It seems that when I actually try to draw someone that looks like me, it doesn’t, but when I draw, say, artgyrl, she looks more like me than my supposed self-portrait. . . hmm. . .

So, therein lies the dilemma. See, Artgyrl started as my online personality/avatar. Then she developed into a character of her own, with only a few of my character traits, such as artistic ability, intelligence. . . and hot looks (j/k). But you get the picture. Anyways, she’s not me, as a lot of people have come to believe. She’s her own person.

But anyway. . .here’s the pic. You be the judge of the actual resemblance. I’ll slap some colors on when pretty soon, so hopefully it’ll look more like myself after that. :/

Yesterday afternoon I went to see “Pirates of the Caribbean” with my older sister. It was a lot better than I thought it would be. Johnny Depp is great in practically any role, and Orlando Bloom was his usual hot self. Now that I think about it, the movie reminds me a bit of “The Three Musketeers.” You know, the one starring Keifer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Oliver Platt and Chris O’Donnell. . .? Well, Orlando Bloom’s character reminded me of Chris O’Donnell as he portrayed the young D’Artagnan. I guess it was the whole head-strong-young-lad-trying-to-prove-himself-andcome-into-his-own-while-at-the-same-time-trying-to-live-up-to-his-father’s-example thing.

Well kiddies, only one more week of school left. (woohooh!) Then I get a little break before school starts back in the fall. :( Oh well, you can’t have all fun. But I’ll finally be taking some major specific courses, such as Intro to Graphic Design and Typography.

Tomorrow I’ve got my final speech in public speaking. It’s supposed to be an entertaining “after dinner” speech, and I’ll be bringing my younger sisters in as visual aids. ; ) I’m just going to talk about the annoying and insane things that people say about us. For example, they think that my and my little sis, who is six years my junior is my twin. So that means I look like I’m 14, sixteen at the most. Yeah. It gets on my nerves just a bit.

I thought I’d clue you guys in on what I’ve been working on as of late.

First off, I’ve got my final project for 3D design. We have to make a self portrait up to 18” tall. So we’ve been working on miniature models of what we want to do.

I’m also working on a commission portrait of Stevie Nicks. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Oh, and here’s a drawing I did of my baby cousin for my aunt as a gift to my uncle. He was quite pleases with it. However, the photograph doesn’t to justice to the original piece.