To be like Kristin

My first full week of school is over and now I sit at my computer, wishing that I could go to bed. But I'm not tired, for it isn't midnight yet. You see for the past 5 nights I have gone to bed late...very late and have gotten up very early. I get up at 5a.m so that by 6:15a.m I am ready to paint for 2 hours, then I eat breakfast and walk to my first class of the day which is painting on Monday/Wednesday and Medieval Art History on Tuesday/Thursday. I don't make it back to my apartment until 5:15pm (I actually have to eat lunch as I walk to work/class), at which point I decide to either eat or exercise (and then eat). I then spend the rest of my evening/night studying, pouring over the books, soaking in all the information that I can and generally exhausting myself...but yet finishing all of my studying. Which is a wonderful feeling of accomplishment, no matter how tired you might be, because I love to learn new things.

But the other night I remembered our little apartment of Redbud 1, with Mama Beth-Anne and Cousin Kristin (we had so much fun). I always went to bed early, no matter what...I was generally in bed by 9:30pm. Beth-Anne went to bed after check and Kristin (bless her heart) stayed up and studied away...into the early hours of the morning. So this week, as I sat wide awake in front of my computer, typing out notes or reading thick history books or drawing thumbnails, I thought about my housemates who actually made me want to strive to get A's in all of my classes (which is quite a hard thing to do with art), and I thought about Kristin and her early morning alarm clock...funny, now it is me...turning off my alarm and trying not to awake Sarah.

And so I have decided that I am exactly like Kristin and Beth-Anne too, we could be sisters actually, we strive to do our best, we want the grade that we have earned, and so we stay up late...striving to do better. I'm a small cut-out copy of Beth-Anne, for the desire to have the last word when it comes to our grades, drives us to try harder and since she graduated, that particular "duty" has been passed on to me.

Kristin was always the best nurse that she could be. Beth-Anne strived to be the best teacher that she could be. And now I must strive to be the best artist that I can be...which means that I will have to sacrifice my time to achieve that goal. But you know, that is fine with me...

I like the challenge.