Day 1

My name is Drew Linne, and I was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, which is the first suburb to the west of Chicago. I grew up with my older brother and sister (who just got engaged last week! Yay!!) and we had a dog named Augie since I was a year old. But she died a few years ago and now we have a new dog named Radley who is on Prozac. Hurray for medication! I come from a family of artists: my dad is a graphic designer, my mom owned a ceramics studio for several years and now teaches preschool art classes, my sister is an elementary school art teacher, and my brother just graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in film. As for myself, I've been interested in animation for as long as I can remember, although I wasn't always considering it for a career. But in the past several years I've kinda gotten obsessed, I watch a ridiculous number of movies and read tons of books to fuel my inspiration, and I've finally started with some experimenting on my own. I can't wait for next year when I will actually be majoring in it!

Ok so, my goals for this semester are... well, for one, I want to do better in the class than I did last semester in Western Thought II (like writing my papers ahead of time, and actually remembering the days we have labs). I also want to bring a little more to the table when it comes to discussions, and I'm going to try really hard to get through ALL of the readings and try to find a way of seeing things in a more interesting light. But we'll just have to see what happens.