Present Joys
“We thank the Lord of heaven and earth
who hath preserved us from our birth
for present joys, for blessings past,
and for the hope of heaven at last.”

What I did this week (22 nov 2013)

  • Tuesday morning in jewelry, I delivered a half-hour-long presentation on enamel—the culmination of weeks spent practicing and studying the technique. After presentations, I frantically attempted to sprue and invest my wax-covered knitting in time for thursday casting.
  • Worked through lunch and was late to my next class (Senior ad). I don’t think anyone missed me, though. Once I made it over to Crane for Ad, I promptly left to get some lunch. It was my first time visiting the CCAD cafeteria all semester; my foodservice friends were happy to see me and gave a ton of food. Then I went back to class and ate my lunch. By this point, it was already around 3pm.
  • During my 3:30pm class (Portfolio), I did the work I ought to have done in my 12:30pm class. Julia and Anna were gone, so I actually got work done.
  • Wednesday morning, we had presentations in Branding which lasted all three hours of class. It was pretty boring, but thankfully snapchat exists.
  • Ate my lunch in the library, then headed to History of Cinema. We watched the 2002 film City of God. I was hoping it’d relate to Augustine somehow…)
  • Thursday morning, we had more presentations in Jewelry followed by casting. Lots to do. I skipped lunch again.
  • Enjoyed a visit from George Felton in Portfolio. He kept the class engaged for the whole three-hour period with scintillating remarks about résumés and cover letters.
  • Friday morning during Branding, we gave a progress presentation to the Thurber House people. It went pretty well. There is a lot to do everywhere I look, but I’m staying on top of things and they’re turning out pretty good, so that’s good.
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I saw Dan Bejar play a solo Destroyer show at the Wexner Center last thursday night (21 nov 2013). It was austere: one guitar, hardly any banter. Presumably because of this, he only played two songs from Kaputt. Most of the set was old songs I wasn’t familiar with. But it was a trip to see Bejar in real life—he is such a weird, intriguing dude. It was a nice musical diversion from life’s present insanity.

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