RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH. My animation professor is officially the most frustrating person on the planet. Last Thursday at our critique, he originally said that because he was leaving town Wednesday (tomorrow), he wanted everything in by Tuesday (today) at 9AM. Then he changed tacks and asked his TA what his schedule looked like, and he said that he wouldn't be able to get to anything until Friday. My professor then told us that we could turn our stuff in by Thursday at noon.

At least, that's what I so vividly remember. I just got an email from him asking why I didn't turn in my final project tape, as apparently it was still due this morning. I've emailed him back, explaining my story. There's no way I can be the only one with this misconception.

I'm particularly upset because if I'd understood that everything was to be due today, I would have had no problem whatsoever in having it done in time. However, because I thought it wasn't due until Thursday, I've been working on stuff for other classes, and I haven't worked on my animation since the day of our critique.

I don't get why my professor and I seem to have such a communication block. I feel like I can never fully grasp what he says in class, whether it's a technique that the entire class seems to have learned in lecture that I completely fail to recall, or stuff like this. I'm paying rapt attention in class, but sometimes it seems like it's in one ear and out the other.

"What we have is a failure to communicate," I suggest to myself, then am promptly shot.