Gosh, sorry for the long silence!
Added 2019-12-20 10:28:42 +0000 UTCI didn't even realise December is almost over. The dead giveaway is not even Christmas looming ever closer, but the fact we'll see Star Wars tonight. =P
The last two weeks were just too full. Apart from having to drive my son everywhere because of his broken arm (which is healing well - thank you for all the well wishes!), my two Year Tens at school kept me busy. Five people tried to cheat their way through a Latin exam by googling translations under their desks. Some were smart enough to try and pass off the results as their own work; some, hilariously, were not, faithfully copying Latin translations from the eighteenth century - in verse, to boot - into their exam papers and thinking I wouldn't notice all the forsooths. This meant that every exam took an hour to mark instead of twenty minutes, as I had to check every online text for matches. I only finished today. And had a lot of very unpleasant phonecalls with parents.
I will finally finish up the last of the calendars this weekend and start shipping the FIN prints - and finally finish the new pin designs! I'm looking forward to starting the New Year with a minimal backlog of work, and prettily arranged paints that beg to be used.
Since this is the time of year to look back in gratitude, I want to tell you all again what a precious bunch you are. A decade is drawing to its close, a decade in which I firmly found my artistic voice and was able to do a lot of projects, none of which would have been possible without you. <3 I feel truly blessed to have been given the chance to do, and succeed with, so many things. Thank you.
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Our students aren't even allowed to use the toilet unless the exam takes longer than 90 minutes! So some students actually took two phones with them - one to hand in, the other to google O_o
Jenny Dolfen
2019-12-21 08:21:00 +0000 UTCAs a former Latin student, I couldn't help but smile guiltily at your students' attempts at cheating. I didn't have a mobile to help, but I must have tried every other trick in the book, including hiding cheat sheets in the ladies' toilet and then asking to use it frequently during the exam - I feel so bad for my poor, long-suffering Latin teacher now! Thank you for yet another year's worth of amazing art and so many Tolkien feels - here's to another art-filled year.
Päivi Osmaja
2019-12-21 07:57:06 +0000 UTCBeing part of your Patreon has been a wonderful expirece, Jenny. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride.
Gwendolyn
2019-12-20 23:07:13 +0000 UTC
