AH! HOW DID I FORGET TO MENTION THIS?!

I just finished transcribing that interview so now I have a bit of time to think for myself at 6:04AM!

I was in thesis class earlier today (or yesterday now that it’s early morning…) having a very in depth discussion, probably the first time in MONTHS, about how my thesis was progressing. I was having a problem deciding between skipping inks altogether and heading straight to coloring, or if I should just ink very well. I felt like much of my character was lost in my inks that didn’t transfer from my pencils and it was upsetting to say the least. I expressed this to my professor and he urged me to do what made me happy. He said that my inking was really lovely, but that if I couldn’t put as much heart as I did into my pencils as I do my inks, I would throw myself out a window.

Accurate.

Long story short, after much discussion and voicing my one of my very first tentative decisions in months, my professor turned to me and said that if I could accomplish this the way I say I’m going to, I have a very good chance at making it into the big thesis show at the end of the semester.

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My heart just swelled. If I made it into the show… GOD I’d be making so many people proud, myself included. And I could care less months ago if you asked me about my feelings on the thesis show. Funny how things work isn’t it? Still, I won’t get my hopes up. It’s not so much the idea of being in the show that made me feel so great. It’s just that someone whose opinion I respect (eliminating friends and family from this equation) believes in me, and that alone is enough to make me happy.


This was the real boost I needed though. I’ve been renewed with that vigor that I came into this year with that I somehow lost along the way. I’m going to kick SO much butt during these last few weeks, my department head won’t know what hit him!

Thanks Bertozzi. I really… I needed that.