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I'm not really supposed to be online right now.

What I'm actually supposed to be doing is drawing thumbnails for my Two-Dimensional Design project on Adobe Illustrator, but since I'm nearly done anyway, I'm sneaking around online, listening to the teacher's lecture as I type.

Right now, she's stressing the virtues of sharp X-acto blades when cutting paper (complete with visual aids), and why a circle cutter works way better than scissors. I've never seen a circle cutter before, but I know the rest of the lecture, so I'm half listening and typing at the same time.

Thanks to an ill-fated 2D design class I took last semester, I already have a good deal of the materials needed for both this class and my perspective drawing class, but I'm going to have to get some more black Canson paper and bristol board for my first project.

I don't understand why art supplies are so darned expensive. I spend a very large amount of my small balance just to keep on top of my art classes, because of course I have to spring for my own materials.

I just had a thought- maybe the stereotype of the starving artist surfaced because art stuff costs too darn much. Oh well. At least I can still use them after the class is done. Not like textbooks.

Ah, textbooks. The pain! Those books cost like what, ten dollars to make? And they sell them for 80 to 200 bucks each- not even the hardback editions- to underpaid college students with little enough income as it is!

And of course the teachers don't want us to get the much cheaper black and white versions, because "the color teaches better". Yeah right! And then the textbook companies always come out with "improved" versions of their books, therefore forcing students to "upgrade" to the new edition by making them shell out another hundred bucks. And thanks to the new book, the old book is now worthless and the school won't buy them back. Believe me, I've been stuck with that trick for years.

I've got to move on to something else now because I'm depressed.