But I did learn my senior year of high school, I learned to play the guitar. Someone from my church gave me some free lessons and I played throughout college, and that was the one I enjoyed the most because I like have written songs ever since I could write and to be able to write my own songs and then like actually play them, like come up with the music for them and everything was really satisfying. I just played for me. I didn't play in front of people or anything. I just played because I enjoyed it. And I still have my guitar which was my dad's old guitar and I hadn't played for years though, because once I got married and had kids it's like well, I don't really want to - part of it was something that I did for me and I couldn't with all those people around. So I dunno, maybe last year when I was alone for a weekend, I got out my guitar and I was like, "Maybe it'll be like riding a bike, you know?" It was not like riding a bike. I remember, you know, five or six chords, but after that I like had to look 'em up and it was like, "Oh man, I've really lost my skill here." But, still very fun, and I'm glad that I did it and that I could still sort of kinda do it.

And then he even had us do hands on projects. Like I will always remember this. So we were studying kind of like, I call it caveman stuff, but like, the Paleolithic and Neolithic type of stuff. And you know cave paintings, and so he had us, as a group, as a class, make a cave out of cardboard and make cave paintings and think about - like we each got to make one painting in it and you had to think about like why would you make that painting. And so I have - I had a cat at the time so I drew like an outline of her and that was gonna be my cave painting 'cause I really loved my cat. And I remember - and then like this one guy worked at a factory and he could get refrigerator size boxes, so he brought those in and we were all like, "Yeah, that's so awesome," you know? And so we all were in the art studio making the cave. And this one, she was kind of a more like liberal, smaller, soft spoken girl. Uh, lady, I should say. And this kind of like huskier, you know, huskier, commanding kinda guy were arguing because - I don't remember which one's which, but one of them wanted to put cardboard on top of our kind of like U-shaped cave to make it look more, feel more cave-like. And the other one's like, "No, that's gonna block the light or something, and we should have it open." And they were like - and everyone else in the room was quiet. It was just like a circle with them kinda in the middle and everyone's just like listening. So instead of it being like everyone's putting input in, it's more like there's these two people arguing with each other and then I guess whoever wins, we'll do whatever. So I tried to come up with the meet in the middle solution and like, you know, "Both ideas are good, why don't we do half of it with a covering to kinda get that feeling and then the other half is open to let the light in." But they were both so into the argument that I don't even know if I was like heard or you know or acknowledged or anything, but yeah. And I thought it was interesting…

When I took photography in college, the regular prof was on maternity leave and she's really awesome. I ended up taking another class with her later. But they had a retired prof fill in for her. And if I had not taken two years of photography classes in high school, I would've been completely lost. Because he had written his own textbook, but - and by textbook, I mean, you know, like it was written by hand on paper and he got it printed at printing services, you know, and bound. It's not like it was published. And it did not make sense to me, and the way he taught did not make sense to me, because with photography it's not just about like how to take pretty pictures. I mean, you actually have to learn how to use a camera and, you know, f-stops and shutter speeds, not to mention, you know, using chemicals and measurements and stuff and times to develop it, like there's a lot of technical aspects to it. And he was terrible at teaching that. And if I - again, if I didn't have some background, I would've been totally lost. And I remember he was really - he was a cyclist as well. And so he was constantly talking about bicycling and like a lot of the illustrations - he illustrated the textbook as well. And what I remember from the illustrations was a lot of bicycling and he was really into forests made of broccoli trees, like all the forests were broccoli. Why? I don't know. I'm like I could appreciate that kind of quirkiness, but not when it overtakes learning, you know? And he was very into - he made me hate the word "panache" and oh gosh, there was another one. And I just can't stand those words anymore because he ruined them, because it's like "Every picture has to have panache", you know. Jaunt! Was the other one. Every time, you know, it'd be like "You go on a jaunt to take photographs". Oh gosh. This man. It was the only time I ever argued with a prof about my final grade, because he wanted to give me a B and I was like "Absolutely not. I did every assignment, I did everything that I was asked of me just because you don't think - I mean art is very,…

How did I spend my Halloween? This was the first year since I was a teenager that I've been able to hand out candy 'cause I've lived in dorms and apartments for like several years. And of course, you know, you don't hand out candy in those situations. So this is the first year, and my boyfriend and I both dressed up. So that was a lot of fun, and - let's see. It sprinkled like a little bit, but other than that, it all worked out really well and I had like - it was so cute because I dressed up kind of like a queen because I was able to find, like, a Renaissance looking dress, and then like one of those prom or bridal tiaras, you know? That you get at like craft stores and stuff. One little girl was like, "Are those real jewels or fake?" So that was really cute, and then one kid - if it was just a few kids, we would let them like pick out their piece of candy from the bucket, and so one kid was like "KitKats! My favorite!" So it was a lot of fun.