As fast as Christmas came, it went. For me, it was like the blink of an eye. I was so engrossed in my classes that by the time I got done, it was already the 18th and the days after just flew by in all the preparations. Be that as it may, I had a very, very nice holiday. I not only got a lot of nice gifts, but I am proud to announce that I did not let my mother down. She boasted before I was even aware of the whole lot that I would "kick ass" at the Beatles Trivial Pursuit game that my uncle brought over. She claimed me for her team, which basically left me to answer all the questions on my own. I appointed her the dice thrower. She did well for a while. Then she got drunk and was even less help! I would say that out of all of the people playing, I answered more questions than everyone. We circled that board so many times because we just could not land on a blue! It was torture! But we won and so my life of reading books about the Beatles, watching their movies, and being generally obsessed was not an absolute waste! So, I did NOT kill myself for Christmas. Yay! Another successful holiday!
Obviously, I went to the zoo. The Philadelphia Zoo to be exact. Went with my Drawing and Anatomy class. Sketching live animals is hard. They move. Furthermore, it's not exactly fun to sketch in the zoo period. It's hard to find places to lean my pad on and there's a lot of nosy children. This one child liked my sketches so much she told me her phone number and told me to call her so I could give her art lessons. I don't know what was weirder; that this little child so freely gave out her cellphone number to a complete stranger or that she had a cellphone in the first place. She was pretty young. I'm a terrible judge of ages, but she seemed to be in the 7 to 9 age range. Well, just so you know, I turned her down. I'm an art STUDENT not an art TEACHER and my time ain't free! Time is money, honey! She should know that! She's got a cellphone!
