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I am a little ball of cramps today... have been eating chocolate and alternating my heating pad between my lower back and my abs. Watched Tenchi and Weakest Link and Daria, and talked to Autumn for a few minutes earlier. I've knit more rows onto the fuzzy black scarf I'm doing. I hadn't done any knitting during most of last week. I also made some headway in The Magic Mountain.

FINALLY received a "request for further info" response card from the MFA School in Boston, which is affiliated with Tufts and trains ppl in studio art, design, art history, and so on. I doubt that my current grades are good enough to get into Tufts, though... how much more Wrong School purgatory am I going to go through? I've been at the same 2-year school since 1994 (1992 if you count dual-enrollment classes I took in high school). Now I am finally old enough to be an independent student financially, but I've been so miserable at my current school that my grades aren't what they could be. Sigh. I guess we'll see.

I started reading my friends' entries again last night. I'm not catching up - just picking a starting point and reading from there, and backtracking on a person-by-person basis if I seem to have wandered in during the middle of some major crisis.

My uncle's fiancee... who I usually like even tho her hijinks aggravate me... has decided to "go vegan". Is forcing her already malnutrition-suffering 7-yr-old son to join her. Of course they cheat a lot on social occasions. But I'm wondering who will develop bald spots and pernicious anemia first. (I'm not saying that everyone who is vegan has these problems, just that in this situation I think there's a good likelihood, for various reasons I won't go into here.) Hopefully the cheating will stop my small cousin from developing horrible diseases.

I'm hungry... I've eaten nothing but cookies and chocolates today. I'm going to eat some nice chicken and rice soup and bed up with my books and knitting. I situated my new shelf a few hours ago and have put some books on it already, so I think I will also do a little more in that direction, and drink some tea.

Comments

[aquagirl.livejournal.com]

hope your cramps alleviate, tea always helps me!

what are you interested in studying? i attend the art institute of boston, right around the corner from mfa. it's a small, friendly school that cares much more about talent than grades, and it's less than half the cost of the mfa! you can find out more here:

aiboston.edu

feel better!
: )

uh, yikes.

[jet.livejournal.com]

veganism at age 7 seems like unjust punishment if you ask me. virtually anything a 7 year old would like (and need, in my opinion) will wind up containing something with an animal based product in it.

poor guy.

my son decided to be vegetarian on his own recently, and he's six. he's stuck to his guns steadfastly, but i am requiring him to eat fish a few times a week because of protein etc. plus i dont fancy eating tofu, etc. on a nightly basis.

i can't imagine trying to arrange vegan meals with variety and enough of the essential nutrients for a growing kid. that would take alot of planning and research. and the kid would invariably wind up hating it.

so i hope little cousin winds up getting the proper nutrition. can you take him healthy little protein rich treats from time to time? or maybe talk mom into lightening up the restrictions? maybe just going vegetarian or something?

there are tons of great art schools that DONT use grades as a criteria for admission. which is nice for situations like yours. i would just do some major web searching and checking admissions requirements for anywhere that sounds interesting. also try emailing (or phoning) admissions advisers to find out how much they focus on GRADES... conversely, if you have your heart set on MFA, try to go to school for a couple terms and get your grades turned around, i'm talking notable improvement, lots of schools will be sympathetic. and take all your pre-req classes that you can ahead of time...i went to an intellectually snobby little tiny school for a time and enjoyed alot of things about it. now i go to a medium sized state school with all sorts of different types of people and study something entirely different. i thought i would hate the school full of "average" people, but i really don't. surprisingly, i like it. AND tuition is about a third of what i paid at the tiny school of my dreams. i like that aspect of it alot. and its much more relaxed academically. i can breathe and eat and do stuff which is really essential to daily life.

incidently, that private school didn't consider grades for admission purposes, and didn't give grades. interesting place.

so... good luck to you. post updates on the college thing, i like to know about schools and who goes where.