I have this new tablet, which I have been wanting forever. Chuck got it for me, as a sort of 'Look at me! I have money! Take me back! ' sort of gift. I love to draw, as much as I love to write. maybe more so, since a drawing tablet is more portable than my computer spell check (hand write, are you nuts??). Although I think some skills improve with practice, I can't help but continue to peruse other artist works and envy their ability to draw things I'll never have a grasp on. Like backgrounds, foregrounds, detail work in clothing and jewelry. Then I get e-mails about going back to school online from the Art Institute Online. That would be awesome.. but even for online courses, when do I have the time? Let alone the money for enrollment fee's and gaining financial aide? If I did manage to cough up the dough and find the appropriate grants/scholarships, when would I have the time to even think about studying, or working? I get up at 7am, drop kids off at 8:00am, pick them up at 5:30, get home by 6pm, and dinner, baths, laundry, dishes.. that takes me well into 10-11pm.. by then I'm exhausted, and weekends are devoted to making up the time I didn't have during the week. Maybe one, or two classes.. to get me back to basics. Something that would look good on a resume at the same time build my artistic basics. Something that would only need 2-4 hours devotion a week. I like reading on my off time, so even then I can do homework or study.. I'd even like taking writing classes, and history.. so many things.
I loved school so much, not for the social interaction, and definitetly not for the math, but because of the gratitutious praise when I got something right, or the constant bombardment of new facts and pictures.
Sighs and continues to doodle in her worn out drawing pad.
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