I got a good night's sleep last night and today was a better day. We continued on with the progressions. This one started with a simple configuration (two attached shapes) and then we added more as we worked from the smallest to the largest. We're being introduced to a whole new vocabulary: figure, configuration, complex configuration, figure/ground tension. The designing came more easily today, but the construction was murder. I don't know why it was so hard, but it took me about 3 hours to do the last, biggest one and still it didn't come out right.