You know what's annoying? What's annoying is when the office phone rings at 8:01 a.m. Possibly an Actual Receptionist wouldn't mind that sort of thing but I do.

It doesn't make it better if it's a co-worker, either. Hmph. I'm the only person who shows up around here before 9:30 or 10:00. They're going to be sad when I'm gone. Not the least because the Tweenybopper, hired to be our receptionist, flat refuses to answer the phones.

I'll be sad when I'm gone, too, but I'd be less sad if I were going, going, gone right into a new job.

Coco! Why don't you call me? Please hire me and save me from the dark despair of months and months of job searching and rejection!

I have an Actual Work Project to do today. It's in the nature of a tedious one, trying to find all the invoices we've sent to one client since we started working with them three or four years ago, but at least it's a Thing To Do. to the best of my knowledge, no one has filed anything around here for at least a year, and Buehler has the charming habit of never keeping copies of anything, both of which will add to the excitement.

Yesterday's Big Excitement was printing 61 pages of mailing labels that Buehler said he desperately needed but that I'm not sure what to do with.

And I never should have played that stupid MYSA-AS game becaue now those characters have taken possession of my brain and there's no point in that. Real Fandom Guys should be living there!

Ooo! Ooo! And last night's Big Excitement was class!

Except that it wasn't, particularly. Exciting, I mean. I don't know why, but it really just wasn't this week.

Maybe because we were doing perspective, a thing that not only I but the other two students seemed reasonably familiar with already? Maybe because copying a sketch done by a previous student of hers, and one where they just stuck in trees to cover the trickier parts of perspective they'd ignored didn't thrill me?

Maybe because even if we do live in Colorado, I still think we should all learn to handle the horizon without sticking mountains into it? (Maybe because everyone else's sketches were so superior to mine. Sour grapes on a Thursday!)

Assignments for next week's class (which I will not be attending) include drawing our feet, looking down at them. Drawing stairs, looking up at them. Drawing an outdoor view of a door, hopefully with a bush or two and maybe a stair to fill out the view. (And I'm thinking...okay, if you want to teach us perspective, maybe we should have started with one door, or looking down at the floor, before we tackled an entire landscape?)

Maybe I'm just grouchy?

The only one of next week's assignments I'll probably do, is an outdoor perspective landscape from life. (The first time she's stipulated that we work from life. She got very sniffy when two of us admitted to working from photographs and gave half a very confused explanation of why photographs can be used for reference or inspiration but not as source material. I was curious but I never did figure out the 'why' of it.)

I can tell she's dying to have us all do downtown Denver, with the mountains in the background, based on the number of times she mentioned it. I don't intend to choose that scene. Nor am I going to do City Center Park. I can see why many artists do, it's a nice composition with some strong, focusing shapes, but I'm going to ignore her hints on that as well. (It's nice to be doing a class for fun and not for credit. You can blow off anything you're not interested in.)

Maybe I'm just aggravated because last night is really the first night that I didn't feel I actually learned anything from the class. And I discovered that they're going to work on figure drawing next week, the class I'm going to miss. Which annoys me because that's something I really, really need.

Anyhow. I do need to think about this and pick a view of something that has strong perspective. Me being me, and not being that talented, I'm going to need a lot of practice before I can produce anything resembling a finished drawing. (I could, of course, do the view looking down Broadway. It is, at least, a view that's constantly available to me for reference.)

Maybe I should eat my breakfast and go get some coffee.

(Dammit. Back from coffee...Buehler is here and I left this file open on my desktop.)

Update:

Breakfast: Eaten
Coffee: Procured
Work: Boring