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85 posts between September 2011 and May 2014

What I did this week (12 apr 2013)

  • Turned in my ten-week package design project; had a crit. Received very high praise from my teacher: “Everyone look at this: this is what a ten-week project should look like! I’m giving Nigel an A+.”
  • Ate lunch at the new Hills Market with Ian and Sarah (who both bought humongous Frostop drinks) and Don (who should have bought a giant Frostop if he wanted in on the photo).
  • Started on new projects in tuesday morning in: in Ad Concepts, I started a new team project to re-position White Castle. (I’m working with Amanda and Jason, the usual suspects.) In Advanced Type, I started a new project to sell baby food to teenage girls.
  • Continued to be very stressed in Cheryl Steele’s draping class. The latest little burden: I have to go watch a lecture monday morning and write a paper in time for next tuesday’s class.
  • Almost forgot to take a test for my online Intro to Psych class. Phew—that was a close call!
  • Made a ton of progress on my team project to re-position White Castle. So much progress, in fact, that we decided to take a field trip to White Castle during class.
  • Got stuck in the elevator in Crane. It went up to the third floor, made a scary sound, and slowly sunk to the second floor. Scary! (I only use the elevator a few times a year. Go figure.)
  • Had a bad attitude about the brand-new warm weather this week. Temperatures got into the high 70s! My body was not made for weather this warm.
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What I did this week (5 apr 2013)

  • Received the welcome, unexpected news that our package design final is due the following monday. It’s about time.
  • Got completely stood up for friendship lunch on monday. All my friends are way too busy this time of year.
  • Put in a bunch of hours to finish my Big Cooking Project for Burleigh early.
  • Presented my Big Cooking Project on tuesday morning, even though I wasn’t scheduled to present until thursday. It was nice to get it done ahead of time.
  • Draped cowl-necked bodices and peg skirts with Cheryl Steele.
  • Made some really really killer booklet mockup templates. (The drop shadows and gradients are top notch.)
  • Used said booklet mockups to present yet another final project for yet another class (advanced type).
  • Spent the majority of my free time constructing my knit dress project for Draping or working on my package design finals. No rest for the wicked.
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What I did this week (29 mar 2013)

  • Sunday night, happened to check the syllabus for my “internship class” and realized a heavily-weighted research paper was due the next day! So I stayed up late to write it. Late.
  • Dove downtown monday morning for package design at 8am, talked to my friends and realized that I had a ton of homework to do, and went back home at 9:20am. (Nobody minded.)
  • Did lots of homework for Burleigh. Lots and lots. Every waking minute.
  • Ran into Marcia Tabler on Cleveland Ave. Her bright red raincoat was the happiest chroma I saw all week.
  • In draping, had my first time back in the studio in three weeks. Started draping a dress of my own design out of cheapo knit fabric.
  • Stayed up until at least 1am every night this week working on my big cooking project for Burleigh. I have probably slept less this week than any other week of school, but it’s okay because I really am having fun with this stuff.
  • Matched Amanda, half-deliberately and half-accidentally; took lots of silly photos during class.
  • Went to CSCA to hear Stephen Coles give a talk about typography. It was my first time, and a very nice time indeed—schmoozy social-hour notwithstanding!
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What I did this week (15 mar 2013)

  • Endured a “you guys really need to start getting your crap together” lecture from Burleigh in Advanced Type. The one weekend I figured I could slide by without doing any homework…
  • Had a very normal wednesday at OhioHealth (those are the days I work from 8am–6pm), except for a little lunch outing with Amanda at Jack’s Diner, a very cute, very hidden downtown lunch place.
  • Didn’t have to go to my Draping class this week, because Cheryl Steele planned for us to do an offsite homework project (more on that later). Instead, I got in some extra internship hours.
  • Celebrated Jason’s birthday on thursday with cupcakes from Amanda and Jen!
  • Worked hard to have some actual progress for thursday’s advanced type. Lectures are no fun.
  • Celebrated Jason’s birthday (some more) by making our an annual trip to the North Market.
  • Took a nice photo of our food before eating it.
  • After lunch, drove to Easton to complete that offsite homework assignment for the always-tough Cheryl Steele. I examined dresses at Nordstrom and other stores.
  • Then: it was spring break.
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What I did this week (8 mar 2013)

  • Registered for the fall 2013 semester monday morning at midnight. Wow.
  • Had a pretty laid-back week. Killed more time in monday morning’s package design. Uneventful as always.
  • Didn’t have any normal classes on tuesday or wednesday because of sophomore review, which, thankfully, I didn’t have anything to do with this year.
  • Instead of going to class on tuesday, I worked a long day at OhioHealth and took wednesday off for homework.
  • Had a very fun thursday. Split a cheese danish with Amanda that Jason bought us.
  • Checked out some library books and was called “one of our best patrons” by the school librarian. Rock’n’roll.
  • Spent lots of time talking to my bff Amanda on the phone.
  • Got unnecessarily upset about a dumb flyer a fellow student had posted all over campus. But that’s ok, because if I didn’t get unnecessarily upset, I wouldn’t be myself!
  • Visited my jewelry teacher thursday afternoon and had a very nice time catching up.
  • Drove straight from school to Riverside Hospital, where I art-directed a photoshoot for a colorectal cancer awareness ad campaign I’m working on with my internship. What a weird week.
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