Dearest Kevin,
I'm back to annoy you with stuff that happened at uni~ hehe
this is the 'last week of the semester' edition!! can't get it through to myself that my first year of being in graphic design is done.. 17-19 year old Dar you've worked hard 🫳🏻🫳🏻 🥺 sending all good luck and best wishes to students who will be taking the entrance exams this year!!! non introvert thing to say, but can't wait to meet the next generation and help them as much as I helped the 04 gen <3 especially since it's my younger brother's generation this time around!
I feel that I'll get very emotional as soon as it hits me, but there's always a tiny voice reminding me that I have indeed worked veryvery hard to be where I am :,D doubt and guilt(?) can sometimes be very hard to cope with, but I guess this is a reminder that we are meant for good things <33
anyhow!!! I thought this week would be fine since the only thing I had to do was give in my CD & book cover for photography, give in my editions for printmaking and clean up the printmaking workshop... well.. kinda underestimated it
it wasn't really that hard tbh! however I'm literally running on 4h of sleep as I'm typing this LMAO
I stayed up until 2am with Mo while she was doing her animation stuff at the very last minute - she had 4 animations due today.. and only one partially done.. and she didn't sleep the night before because of another project that she also procrastinated on until the very last minute..... and their group project for typography was also procrastinated on and I don't even know if they sent it in?? keeping up with second years should be a reality show because I think if you could combine all of the sleep they had the past two or three nights it wouldn't even add up to 8h ToT
but yeah, I woke up at 6am to get to uni at 8:45 to redo an exam from Graphic Apps 2 (indesign is my arch nemesis ngl) which I hopefully did well?? I don't even need all the points, I'm just ashamed that I got 3/10 points on it even if it was the first exam we had.. still hate that class, and the main professor :D making a professor hate list as we're speaking like-- not even joking, I have to answer some end of semester question form for each class and the profs - you bet I'll be writing a small novel in there.
afterwards we cleaned a bit more around the workshop + I gave in the exhibition watch shift-schedule AND?? GOT PRAISED BY OUR PRINTMAKING PROFESSOR??
everyone calls her a witch btw LMAO which is why I was so shocked that they praised me for always volunteering to do stuff throughout the year- for more context, there was an empty watch shift while I already put everyone on it already, so I said I would do it with anyone else who would volunteer. I could've actually dragged in two second years who failed the class last year, but I was like nahh I know they're stressed - and after all I don't have much to do! why not help yknow?
and the professor just went "there you go - some people can do anything! even during the semester you always helped with anything and everything" 😗✌🏻️ hehehhe
tbf I often get yelled at by my classmates for wanting to do everything; I almost always stayed behind last to clean up, I don't really ask for help with carrying heavy stuff around (been told off so many times LMAO won't stop me~).. even while cleaning the classroom on wednesday when I only had one thing to do officially, but ended up doing everything at least once- I still don't see anything wrong with that because I just wanna do stuff ToT same thing happened when I worked in our k market last year - my boss and his wife would literally order me to take breaks and once got worried that I was open to working double time the entire week LMAO
.. maybe I should work on my overwork cues if I managed to shock even a Korean boss.....
어쩔어쩔~
anyways!! the tuesday cleaning was actually so much fun even if it had me out of home 8-18h! I can already show you the stuff we put up and then add new parts of the exhibition in another letter or two! I have three works displayed; a black linocut, etching+aquatint and another etching work! I think it turned out really nice ngl, our efforts paid off~ although the hardest part was fixing the paper sizes and crooked margins..
also next door to printmaking is calligraphy - and there's this one page on the wall in Korean??? however I don't know who did it, and I can't read it..? I'm confused af about it because it almost seems as if it's just 한글 thrown around without meaning, but I don't know if it's just my inability to read modern calligraphy (it's not like the traditional ones!) or if the artist did it like that... I'll send it to you since it does look very cool, but it might be just butchered.. funnily enough it's in the same classroom where I leave notes for Mo in Korean LMAO the last one was just "this is last one huh~ sleep well todayy~" she, in fact, didn't sleep
I feel so weird not having anything to worry about for next week... I mean I have to prepare some exams here and there, but it's not the same as when I had to think each weekend "ah how will I get (some number) of photos for monday.." or "what am I stressing over this time around?" - I actually spent like three hours dancing after arriving home today~
I do have to finish up a poster for graphic design by tonight.. but that professor is also around the top of the hate list. I never got around to ranting about him, but just know he hasn't taught us anything since arriving late last semester :I
on another note - I saw you're cooking stuff.. 😶😶 can't wait to see what amazing music you have in store~~ always looking forward to your art!!
since it's already quite late, I'll go finish the poster(s?) !! it's like what, 3am your time? I wish you an amazing weekend, and an amazing month ahead!! rest as much as you can and don't be like procrastinating students~ LMAo jk I can't speak on that for the life of me because I'm not better~
music recs!!:
We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives - Remastered - Los Campesinos!
Get Used to It - Ricky Montgomery
AMNESIA - Woodz (on repeat!!)
New Perspective - Panic! At the Disco (old p! stuff is so good a a aa)
No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand (been obsessed with this one!! 느낌이 좋아아)
Qué Más Quieres - The Warning
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5yBfFOMnZQbEIVh7bqlibU?si=cc453ff7387b4d97
Your Moon,
달야 ♡
[8:30pm CEST]
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