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i think i want to do my projects using stuff from my portfolio back in the day. i found a bunch of stuff that was originally on zip disk and put it on the web in a storage site thing that we set up two days ago. Later on today during my workshop, I'll make an image collage, ah yeah.

Braden's going to see Star Wars Episode III today (for the second time) while I'm at work. I told him to go ahead without me b/c I'm not up for seeing it a second time yet. More time needs to pass. We want to see Batman Begins like banshees...North Olmsted peeps: How about a matinee on Friday? We're probably going to come up to visit either Thursday night after my workshop (so we'd get there after 10pm) or Friday morning. Not sure yet, but the Friday morning thing probably would extend to Friday afternoon, since by the time we'd actually get on the road, it wouldn't be morning anymore. When I don't have to get up at 6:30-7am...I *don't*. :)

I found out yesterday that my workshop teacher is only going to grade us on our projects and not on whether we do the exercises from the book. HUGE RELIEF!!! Because essentially what happened with my workshop last semester was that I was rushing through all the exercises just to get them done and not learning them like I should. So now I can pace myself and not have to worry about it. Plus I know Photoshop well enough to do the projects without even going through the book at all...not that I'm not going to look at the book, b/c I will, but I'm not dependent on it, which is good.

So I sent off an email to my prof (who is my advisor for the case study) asking him whether a book I found would be good for the case study. It's a book written by a former mayor of a city near Barcelona, Spain (she's the vp of the Socialist Party and a member of the parliament...still very politically active), detailing her struggles with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Her story has a lot of similarities to Mom's; for example, she's a year younger than Mom, and they were both diagnosed in 1998. The book was published only a couple of months ago, which would be perfect for the case study, since it has to be relatively recent. I haven't read it yet, only an excerpt and a summary, but it looks really good. It won't be definite until after I read it and get approval from my prof. Cross your fingers!! :)