Read a book, read a book.

Today, someone in my CreativeDotComm group asked me if I knew if they had wireless internet in the library here at my school. Every time anyone asks me about something (anything, really) about the library, I tell them that I don't know.

This made utmost discord in my self-esteem. Why don't I come to the library more often? Why don't I read books more often? Why can't I just come to the library just to look around?

An few hours later, here I am in the library. Yes, they have wireless internet. Yes, they have books. Tons of books. Shelves and rows and tables of books. I think I might check one out today. I want to know about box turtles. I want to know about why Pluto isn't a planet anymore. And finally I want to know about tornadoes. I will find a book about each of those and study them and educate myself on information that most likely will only be used if I ever am a contestant on Jeopardy! Why is there an exclamation mark on the end of Jeopardy!'s logo, anyway? Maybe they have a book about the history of game shows. Let me look into that.

After CreativeDotComm class, we had a portfolio meeting with E-vannnn Ri-chaaards about what we need to have prepared by mid-term. Similar to Amy's latest blog entry, I am writing about how god damned scary this whole situation of getting an impressive graphics portfolio together in just a month or two is. She had samples layed out for us on what her previous Portfolio Design students did in previous semesters. These resumes/portfolios/gravity-defying pieces were too much for me to handle. There were fold-out envelopes and pockets and die-cut monstrosities on them. This leaves me to wonder: What the hell am I going to do to assure myself that a graphics firm would hire a freak like me? I need to start sketching and thumbnailing ideas on what I want mine to look like. I especially love portfolio meetings with E-vannn because it is the only opportunity that us graphic design students have with her and just her. She makes me feel validated and talented when she speaks about all the possibilities we have after we graduate from a community college with an AAS. Should I even go to Webster? Are the opportunities so abundant out there in the industry that an impressive portfolio from a community college is all one needs to go to an interview at a firm?

In conclusion, this library has magazines too. Not just Newsweek and Popular Science; but OK! and People. I am so dead. My school is so hood rich and I never want to graduate.

John