Year Two

Hey folks, just checking in from the land of biking through 36 degrees Fahrenheit, 100 percent humidity at 9:30pm. The second year of LISPA has started, and I am immersed in a schedule of going to school anywhere from 12:30 to 4:45pm and leaving school anywhere from 8:30 to 10pm. It's a perfect schedule for night owls such as myself, but the early birds among us are suffering quite a bit.

We've dived right into classes and creation, and while this year it feels like we actually know what's going on, that certainly doesn't make it any easier to get stuff done.

Current list of assignments:

-Creation project: tell an epic story on a 6x3ft platform with five other people. My group is doing The Princess Bride.

-Make a Commedia dell'Arte style half mask.

-Make a "dynamic mask" based on a Commedia dell'Arte character

-Write about my definition of an artist and my dream life as an artist.

That might not sound like a lot, but it sure feels like it, especially when you don't really know how to do it (ie mask-making). It's also interesting to see the first-years getting accustomed to LISPA, and remembering this time last year when I was as thoroughly confused as they seem to be. Good times...

On the non-school front, things are quite happily domestic. I've been enjoying cooking as much as ever (beef stew and turkey pie have been on the menu lately, with roast chicken to come), working a shift or two at the Picturehouse on Sundays, our only class-less day, and knitting fingerless gloves for my classmates. I really do enjoy this life, and it's a good thing too, 'cause with this kind of weather, anything less than a thoroughly fulfilling pursuit would be rather torturous, and I'd be tempted to just pack up and go home. You know how they say it's not the heat, it's the humidity? Well, that principle works for cold too. Just so you know. :)