four observations.

I was supposed to have my book arts project done and by I, I mean the class was supposed to have our projects done but it looked like I wasn't the only one who needed the rest of the class period to finish. This is not a typical Allison thing to do (that is, not have something in on time) but my project took so long to dry that I couldn't actually finish it. However, I also pulled a typical Allison move on this project and rather than doing the required two mono-prints I ended up doing 14 different prints and a cover printed on the letter press. Typical. I finally finished after class and I am really pleased with how it turned out. I am going to photograph it at our book arts show next tuesday and then I will post them.

I made four observations and realizations about my photog teacher today.
1. she has saggy boobs. I am really saggy one, do your boob hands low do the wobble to and fro boobs. You are probably wondering why in the world I know this but lets just say when your photo teacher uses her work as an example of the next project and her whoo ha's and private parts are the main focus of her work, you can't help but make these kind of observations. Don't worry I am already premaritally scarred and there is no therapy that can save me now. The Gorilla said she woke up from a nightmare about them.
2. She is not a lesbian. Not that I would of cared, but I just assumed she was because she seems like she would be. In her second demonstration today she showed a million and a half pictures of this man, and finally someone in my class goes, is that your lover?. And she replied that we would have to spend an entire semester going over that one. Weird.
3. Then I realized she was insane. She not only told us that she has conversations with her dead grandfather in her dreams and when he speaks to her, it is in English even though he didn't know a drop of English. When she was explaining the story she thought the weird part was that he spoke English to her but when I heard it, I thought the weird part was when she was saying that when her and I quote "dead grandfather comes and speaks to her in her dreams". Not to mention, she said he comes often. This story was told at the beginning of class and then at the end of class I also had another realization that she was insane when a kid in my class jokingly said that he would have to start either selling his body or selling drugs in order to have enough money to buy all of the photo supplies we needed for the next assignment and as a response to his comment she said that she would take him up on some crack.
4. She gets pleasure out of making us suffer. First she is always saying how she is trying to save us money when it seems that every second she is requiring us to drop 20 euro on some paper, some slide film and then she ends up making us do so many tests with it that we end up having to buy more of it. Second reason: we have a mini photo assignment over the weekend to make prints from our slide film. When slide film is processed it makes a positive image on the actual film, and then when you go to try to print the slide on a regular enlarger it makes a negative. She didn't tell us this, we figured it out on our own but in the end we had to make 6 prints (which for her means 12 because they have to so perfect) because we had to make 3 of the negative and 3 of the positive. She didn't tell us that slide film did this, but when I decided to stay after class to get it done before the weekend, she sat and laughed with a devilish joyful smile knowing that we had a lot of work to do.

Bottom line: she is a crazy, saggy boobed, hippie, communist who used to live on a commune who is not a lesbian and wants to buy crack from her students. and produces fairly poor work with beading all over it.

The Gorilla and I stayed up at the art school until close and then we came back home and did our typical Gorilla and sidekick evening routine of getting into our beds and typing our lives away until we get too tired. Tomorrow we are heading to Cinque Terre for a day of hiking. I sure hope the weather is nice. Cross your fingers.