the noble art of holiday card sketches

I decided to draw little festive doodles in my holiday cards after all. This is tedious and makes my hand hurt after a while, but dammit, I like making cute festive doodles so I will charge onward.

Also, after searching Google Images and making about a dozen practice sketches, I have finally developed a snowflake doodle that doesn't look like a collapsed souffle. \o/ This is good because I'm using it to replace the sleigh-with-packages doodle, since that one's really more aimed at little kids and all my cousins' children are teenagers now. (Where does the time go???)

Anyway, I'm all done with the family cards. Now it's on to friends, family friends, former coworkers, and current coworkers. (Ugh. Remind me why establishing and maintaining social bonds is a good thing...?)

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ETA: I have now developed a cardinal-on-branch doodle, because ambition is a good thing in moderation. :D

I have also finished everything except the cards for my current coworkers, which I will get back to work on in a few minutes. Tomorrow I will cart the whole bundle to the post office, buy some international stamps for the two cards going out of the USA, and drop everything into the mail.

one down, one to go

This morning I edited and turned in my final essay for my State and Local Government class. \o/

I am pretty sure I'm getting an A. I have gotten 100% on every assignment up to this point, and I followed the instructions just as thoroughly this time, so, you know, it would be pretty weird for the results to change at this late date. (Seriously, Prof. R lays out a list of things he wants to see in the essay, and if you include them all and can write grammatically correct sentences plus moderately coherent introduction and conclusion paragraphs, you're golden. I would be embarrassed at how easy the assignments are, except I have seen firsthand how bad a depressingly large percentage of the population is at writing grammatically correct sentences, let alone stringing them together into a coherent train of thought. *sigh*)

On the Spanish front, I still don't know when the written final will go live. Prof. G said it will be available for 24 hours, but she still hasn't fixed a date. My oral final is Tuesday at 7:00pm, and it will be a roughly 5-minute phone conversation in Spanish. I am not confident in my ability to decipher spoken Spanish and respond coherently off the top of my head, but Prof. G is a pretty forgiving grader so I'm not too worried.

And that's where I stand vis-à-vis college at the moment. :)