Update no. 13

Hello Parents,

I’m sorry this letter is coming to you late. I have been having trouble adjusting to the new schedule and trying to get into a sleeping pattern that gives me the best kind of working time. I was going to send a report yesterday but I have been trying to figure out how to do deal with this first. But enough with the excuses. I do have a solution, which I will explain later.

First off, I’m sure you’ll be glad to know that I am at the top of my EKG class. I have been impressing the teacher with very thoughtful questions, which in turn have contributed to the lectures. I also received a perfect score at the quiz given last Saturday. It accounts for around 15-20% of the “grade.” The information overload has slowed down since we’re now looking at the basic arrhythmias. I have been practicing a bit here in there throughout the week. We have another quiz on Sunday.

Not much going on with the chorus and the internship. The chorus is going on tour for its first leg next Saturday. I wont be going because of class but I do have concerts starting on March and I will be going on tour throughout California on April. My internship tells me they’re trying to get me to have more responsibility just as soon as they’ve finished reorganizing from the post-auction work they have to do. I have decided to just stay along with the internship as much as I can until something more important comes up that conflicts with the schedule or the workflow. We have an event next Thursday promoting the organization at the Supperclub.

A lot of exciting things have been going on with my personal work. The commitment to design something everyday has gotten me a lot of talk and a lot of practice. More designs have been featured at that popular website and some of the people whose work I admire have become my contacts on flickr. I’m not going to do anything else about that right now because I’m still adjusting towards this new schedule and will have to again after class and I still believe that I need more work under my belt to have a good body of work.

Having said that, Dad talked to me a few days ago about sending 3 photographs for large order print a week and I don’t think I can make that commitment yet. However, I still am interested and I will most likely take that project on after I am done with the EKG class.

So, as for the solution to my little predicament, I have just decided to move around the workflow of things. The blog and the parent report will be updated on Wednesday instead of Sunday. Sundays after class is just brutal for me and throws me off just trying to design 3 things and write the letter. It unbalances all the work I have tried to do since Wednesday to get into a regular sleep schedule. So I’m just changing it so I can return to being a little more consistent.

Thank you for the payment of the class. The next payment due is on the 5th, which is also the due date of my rent. Thank you also for the extra money to print out all the music and some of the lecture slides and for food and allowance.

I would like to ask for food and allowance again because I used quite a lot of that money to buy new sweaters and an umbrella. I accidentally put the old sweaters in the wet wash so they all shrunk way too much. Only two survived.

Oh, and if you can also return the Netflix so I can have some DVD's to watch. I'm kind of researching old films so I can get a better perspective on their aesthetic for my work. Plus, it's kind of a very inexpensive way to be entertained.

Thank you,
D’ken