Present Joys

Day 56: thu, 12 dec 2013. Almost finished. Haley and Jen carry a stack of portfolios ready to be reviewed and graded one final time.

Day 55: wed, 11 dec 2013. Jim Johnson brings weird things into class, like these totally useless pointing sticks. They make for a good photo op, at least.

Day 54: tue, 10 dec 2013. Mr. Burleigh comes into our classroom with extra-long Twizzlers; Julia and Theresa resourcefully create mustaches.

• I spent all of tuesday morning’s jewelry class participating in long-winded, open-ended fine art critiques—a thing I am not accustomed to and do not enjoy.
• Went crazy trying to prepare my work to submit to the American Advertising Awards. Thankfully, Mr. Lutz left very detailed notes. Printing and organizing documents consumed most of Senior Ad.
• For my last class of tuesday, industry professionals visited our Portfolio class to review our books. I got some good advice from Aschenbrand, which was a great, exciting thing.
• Wednesday was long: I started out with Brand and Market Development: uneventful, long, dull. Then, I did a little homework in the library during my lunch break, followed by History of Cinema, where we watched The Hurt Locker. I did not enjoy the film, but this may be due to the fact that I had a rat’s nest of yarn on my lap which I was trying to untangle in the dark auditorium.
• After Cinema, I headed to the jewelry lab and worked on my tea infuser project for a few hours, injuring myself with a burr in the process. At least the first aid kit had bandages this time…
• I finished out wednesday with yet another portfolio review thing at 7pm. Illustration and photo majors were supposed to join us and mingle, but very few of them showed up, so I ended up hanging out with friends.
• Thursday morning in jewelry, I participated in a few more critiques, then just continued to work on my final project and chatted with friends.
• Went sheet music shopping during my lunch break, then had a short Senior Ad class.
• Drove back down to school at 9:30pm to hear Jeremy Slagle speak to the Christian group on campus. Didn’t get home until after midnight. This week, man!
• Friday, I wore pyjamas to school, because, at this point, why not? It was a raucous time.

Day 53: fri, 6 dec 2013. Cutting the stress with a pyjama party.