can't sleep thoughts

Actually sitting down thinking about this semester, it's blown my mind how much we've all learned. Of course with every class you learn something new but this semester i feel like so much stuff has been jammed into my head. All of it hasn't even caught up... lists help:

-Raising 

-sinking (taken further than the tea infuser)

- bouging/ planishing

-soldering large forms together

-alittle bit of polishing

-tapering

-stretching

-making utensils

-patinas -> torch, immersion, saw dust, cotton 

-HINGES

-clasps

-etching! yay

-die forming

-some stone setting

-decking

-internal/ external framing

-outsourcing

-2nd life

-illustrator (seems like an easy, simple thing but it took HOURS for me to learn it and do it somewhat well)

-photoshop (alittle)

-blurb

etc, etc. I'm sure there are things that i'm missing but those are off the top of my head. I still feel like i've only had a taste of these things and i definitely need more practice in all of them but it's cool to think that i did all of that. 

This is the first time that i haven't had things done on their due dates in school (going back to elementary school!) I was always the freak out person that had to have things done on time. I still am like that but somehow things got away from me this semester. I was constantly working but somehow got way behind. It makes me feel bad enough disappointing myself but i never want teachers to think that i'm slacking off or don't care. I think everyone has sort of felt this way this semester... completely overwhelmed BUT if you just take a step back and look at all we have accomplished, it's pretty impressive. We are down to the last week of classes then finals but I think we will all be fine. I have definitely turned in projects that I would have liked to have been better but I also turned in some that i'm pretty proud of. Not everyone can be a Taylor and turn in portfolio pieces every time. :)

To all my fellow classmates, i pat you on the back and say "good job! you worked hard!" We can all sometimes feel bad about projects and cry about school but in the end we did our best. So let's finish out the semester still working just as hard and feel good about it.