the woes of being a minority art history student

of course i should be studying, but instead i'm messing around on the interweb with the nutcracker playing in the background because i'm lame like that.

here comes another bitching post:

attending a predominately white school (predominately =ing 90%) it's not surprising to find myself being the only Black student in class..especially once i get passed (past?) the huge, cattle-call lecture classes. after sophomore year of college i got kind of used to it even though it sucked. now moving on to my main point dealing with art history. it's really hard to be an art history major and take all these required classes and not see any Black or even African artists. we have classes in the following subject areas: greek.roman.islamic/byzantine.northern/italian renaissance.18/19th century europe.modern.american culture. the only time i learn about Black or African artists is for the 5 minutes in modern and american culture when my professors talked about the great migration and the harlem renaissance, because you know that was the only time when Black artists were making art. i took a world architecture class my sophomore year and it was AMAZING. we learned about architecture from all over africa, southeast asia, the middle east. i loved studying the structures of ancient African tribes. but alas that was it. so yesterday at the end of my american art and culture class my professor asked us to anonymously fill out a midterm "performance/evaluation/how's the class going so far" type thing. one of the questions is what would we change/improve or whatever. so i said i would like to study more Black artists, because they're a part of american culture too. after i turned it in i realized i'm the only Black student in the class...this should be interesting. but i'm glad i said something. we learn all about the european artists that came over to america and even the white artists that lived here, but not anything is said about the Black artists. idk if it'll change anything..still glad i said something ..

in other news it official, i will be in the great, sunny city of san diego for my spring break! i'm sooo excited. the only other time i've been to california was when i was a baby and my mom took me, but since i was way too young to remember the trip i don't count it.

i also have figured out tattoo #2: i want a kooky, fat looking owl (possibly wearing thick glasses, i haven't decided yet) with 2 small music notes near it so it looks like it's hooting; on my left wrist. one of my new favorite shirts has a huge, awesome looking owl on it so owls are starting to grow on me...also i found out they're one of athena's attributes which is perfect, because athena has always been my favorite greek deity.

enough chit chat i guess..time to make myself useful and start studying

"who dat ninja?"

yes yes that is another 30 rock quote..i couldn't help myself

so despite previous the post i had a pretty good day today,

was proud of myself because i was soo close to going back to sleep

this morning instead of going to class, BUT i got my butt up anyways

(glad i did, because my capstone professor only gives us one unexcused

absence for the whole semester and i figured if i'm going to use that free pass

it should be for a good reason ie hangover)

so i put some music on to help wake me up...that helped put me in a really

good mood which in turn made my class bearable.

i'll admit i still nodded off in my greek sculpture class..but i was a refreshing sleep.

listened to jazz while i had lunch..i felt like such a good grownup.

then! i talked to my mom and there's a very high chance i'll be

spending my spring break in san diego with her!! nothing is set

in stone so fingers crossed, but san diego?! soo excited!!!

(there would've been a youtube video of the clip from

anchorman when ron burgundy tells veronica corningstone

the meaning of the city's name which "is german

for a whale's vagina" lol but alas i could not find it)

had my weekly volunteering gig down at the Art League...it went

by pretty slowly because i was soo tired. was bad and got mcdonald's

for dinner again...have to admit it was soo good! but i was

kind of irritated with myself because when i

decided to get mcdonalds i had planned on getting a chocolate milkshake

but of course since i didn't write it down by the time i got there

i had forgotten until after i ordered..oh well the "chicken" nuggets

were still really delicioso.

i've come to the conclusion i have to marry

someone who is neat.

i am such a mess. there's currently a light yellow stain

on my sheets from when i was eating chips

and cheese dip in bed...i also have a bad habit of when

i'm done watching a dvd i just set it on top of the case instead

of just putting them back. sometimes i end up with 7 or 8 dvds

laid out around my tv...it's so sad. i think if i marry someone

who's neat their neatness will rub off on me. idk.

i should probably working on the bibliography and abstract of my

arts paper that's due tomorrow...i really don't want to.

i'm so glad i only have one more semester left, i'm so tired

of school...bad thing is i don't feel bad about failing at being a

good student. lord knows the last time i read for my greek

sculpture class...oh wells i guess.

i really want an owl tattoo...i'm thinking a small blue and

green on my left shoulder...idk..i want people to see

it though. but i definitely want an owl..possibly hooting

music notes..maybe i'll get a small

on my left wrist...or on my ankle. idk. guess i should

concentrate on getting the $ for it before anything else.

too bad i didn't have any pictures for this post

UPDATE: make that 2 cheese dip stains...lord help me.