Present Joys

• 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.

Day 48: fri, 22 nov 2013. John and Danielle sit in the very back of the classroom during Branding. Sometimes I go back there and bug them.

Day 47: thu, 21 nov 2013. George Felton crashes Portfolio, gives helpful advice about résumés and cover letters, kicks back with a cold brew seltzer water.

Day 46: wed, 20 nov 2013. Class presentation day. Audrey is a big fan of froyo.

• Had friendship lunch at Tip Top with Ian and Theresa. It was a cold, brisk walk there and back.
• Had a difficult time concentrating in Portfolio. I tried to sneak out halfway through but realized I’d get in trouble so instead I talked to Luke about relational database architecture. Very little actual work was done.
• Forgot my bag lunch on wednesday morning so I ended up fasting most of the day. Did unexciting, uneventful Thurber-House-related things in Branding on wednesday morning.
• Watched The Piano this week in History of Cinema. I’d have liked it better if the main character had been successful in killing herself.
• Wednesday night, I drove back downtown to go to dinner with Joe Finocchiaro, visiting lecturer on typography. We had a fancy dinner at Latitude 41 on the school’s dime (I had a delicious green salad and scallops and risotto and bread pudding), learned details about Mr. Mohr’s courtship, discussed senior thesis ideas, and pretended the CCAD short bus were a limousine. Joe and I bonded over a mutual admiration for Meryl Streep. I got a speeding ticket on my way home at 11pm. What a school night!
• Thursday was a long, delightful jumble. I got a loaf of bread from Kate in Jewelry, then I did enamel stuff for the rest of class. I spent lunch at the sink polishing enamel with an alundum stone under running water.
• Had one of those beautiful afternoons of six-hour, back-to-back Senior Ad and Portfolio where I didn’t get anything done. I am basically incapable of doing work in-class when I am surrounded by friends to talk to.
• Finished thursday with Joe Finocchiaro’s lecture at 7pm. It was another good, long day.
• Ate too many Lemonheads in Branding friday morning. (Jim Johnson ate some Lemonheads, too.)
• On saturday: worked at Saturday Morning Art Classes as usual, then I hung around for Anna and Julia’s Thanksgiving feast.
• Used every spare minute to work on big brand, an expansive graphic design project for Senior Ad. It is consuming most of my waking hours, and a lot of my sleeping hours, too!