Will Be Beautiful

Multimedia is so pointless and aggrivating! Ohh, today I ended up with three whole layers on our current project, and omigosh we’re moving onto grey scaling tomorrow. I hate to say it, but things were better in grade ten when the teacher gave us instruction booklets and we could work through them at our own pace. At least then I could pick it up a bit.

I understand that there are people in that class who had previously never even heard of this “Photoshop” dealy, but I was admittedly pretty burned when the teacher looked at my finished project and said, ‘that’s very good, but you should play around with the filters a bit more. There are a lot of them, you might find one you like more…’ and skips away. I suppose that he could not have known that I’ve spent literally hours playing with filters at home… but still… I hate that patronizing tone he had. Probably know this damn program better than he does…

And as an afterthought, I’d like to add that most (or at least, a lot) of the filters look cheesy anyways.

In other news, my math teacher is so great. He has one of those plastic sheets you pull down and run the chalk brush over it so that it makes a pattern akin to graph paper. This morning he decided it would be faster if he used the big foam eraser instead of the regular one, to save time since it was bigger. So he finishes up and takes away the plastic to find the graph has turned out so faint that we can hardly see it. He stares in a stunned silence for a moment before he turns around a with a look of sheer epiphany on his face and exclaims, “It wasn’t dusty enough! I need more dust!” It was funny… and great because he definitely wasted a good five minutes of class just trying to make a clear graph.

I can’t decide if his whole ‘life is new and amazing everyday’ thing is genuine or just deeply rooted sarcasm. It seems genuine to me, and the only reason I’d suspect it not to be is just that such outlooks are so rare these days. I mean, he was graphing random ordered pairs on his (finally constructed) graph, saying, “Once we connect the points, I wonder what it will look like. Well, whatever it looks like, I’m sure it will be beautiful.”

I’ve never had a math teacher like him before.