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85 posts between September 2011 and May 2014

What I did this week (15 nov 2013)

  • 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!
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What I did this week (8 nov 2013)

  • Using a very tiny kiln, I began experimenting with enameling in jewelry class on tuesday morning. There were lots of samples and lots of failures.
  • Walked to J. Gumbo’s for tuesday’s friendship lunch. I was not terribly impressed. After lunch, I had an uneventful tuesday. Our big brand project is due in two weeks and we are still working on logo concepts! That seems unwise to me.
  • Had a pretty dreadful wednesday morning in Brand and Market Development, where I inadvertently got caught in the middle of a meltdown.
  • Watched Swoon in History of Cinema, which accidentally ran overtime and had to be stopped ten minutes before the ending. (I wasn’t upset about it—the film was profoundly unappealing.) History of Cinema is the longest free-knitting time I have all week, so that always palliates bad movie choices.
  • Thursday morning in jewelry, I tried more enameling, still to no great success. My teacher felt sorry for me and offered to make the assignment less challenging. I am dissatisfied.
  • After a nice lunch at the Hills with an old friend, Evan picked me up and drove Theresa, Anna, Julia, and me to the North Market. We “had class” on the second floor of the Market, which consisted of a mostly-inattentive discussion about branding. We also did other fun things, including teaching Mr. Mohr about Snapchat and eating samples of belgian waffles.
  • We finished class early, so Evan, Theresa, Karl and I went to El Camino for a quick drink before heading back to class. (#senioryear?)
  • Tried to maintain my cool in Brand and Market Development friday morning. Took a break from class to take photos at the Thurber House.
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What I did this week (1 nov 2013)

  • Started the week with a Thurber House client meeting on monday afternoon. It was nice and productive; we toured the house and learned about the organization’s programs.
  • Tuesday morning, spent my morning in jewelry sprung little swatches of knitting. I’m going to cast knitting in bronze!
  • Turned in 100 logos on tuesday afternoon in Mohr’s class; had a very productive crit. Too bad! Our teacher didn’t like what we brought and assigned 100 more logos for next tuesday. You have got to be kidding me!
  • Wednesday morning, I met my Brand and Market Development class once again in CCAD’s MindMarket for presentation day. The usual foolishness abounded, but we made it through safely. This marks the end of a long project about medication.
  • Had a nice lunch with Amanda on one of the picnic tables outside the library. After that, I raced to History of Cinema where we watched Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. At least I completed a good chunk of knitting…
  • My jewelry teacher overslept on thursday morning and was late to class; most people left, but I stayed and casted my knit swatches.
  • After jewelry, I went to lunch with Dana at Portia’s Café for a belated birthday lunch. The food was good and an anonymous do-gooder paid for our meal. Can’t beat it with a stick.
  • Following lunch, I went back to school and changed into a really embarrassing outfit in time for my afternoon ad classes. It was a great, surreal afternoon. Mr. Mohr and various classmates brought sweet treats—I ate approximately 100 candy corns. After a short presentation by Theresa, the rest of senior ad was full of pure shenanigans. We took group photos in our halloween finery.
  • By the time Portfolio started at 3:30, only about ten people stuck around and I was experiencing a massive sugar rush. We had trouble concentrating while listening to great, loud music while trying to have a critique while still dressed in halloween costumes while still eating a bunch of sugary snacks. It was a glorious time.
  • Enjoyed a typically relaxed friday morning.
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What I did this week (25 oct 2013)

  • Had a long tuesday. Enjoyed caramel apple suckers and sent approximately 1,000 clever pun-themed Snapchats to Julia during class. Truly, a worthwhile use of time.
  • Celebrated my birthday on wednesday! Left the house extra-early and drove in the freezing rain to meet John at the DK Diner, where I put birthday candles on our breakfast food.
  • Then, we went to Jim Johnson’s class and started work on a new project. Brian Spain was there. During class, I walked over to the Thurber House with Alix and Josh, where we had a lovely little meeting with the executive director.
  • Lunch with Jason at Hubert’s Polish Kitchen (a tradition)! Then, back to school for History of Cinema where we watched Blue Velvet together, which was exactly as uncomfortable as you’d expect.
  • Endured brutally cold weather on thursday. I am doing an intensive technique study on enameling, so I spent most of the morning in jewelry reading heavy enameling books.
  • Walked over to the Grass Skirt for another nice lunch with friends. It was warm and dark and cozy—the absolute perfect place for a wintry lunch with good friends. Anna gave me an amazing mixtape.
  • Began working on a new senior ad project. I am doing a hypothetical rebrand for my favorite tea company. While doing research, I called them up and talked to the company’s owner for a half hour!
  • Slept through my alarm on friday morning and woke up fifteen minutes into my only class. When I apologized to my friends for being late, they made fun of me for caring. We are struggling to stay engaged.
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What I did this week (18 oct 2013)

  • Experienced a little bit of culture shock after being away last week. I was pretty out of it on tuesday morning. Spent most of jewelry class this week listening to presentations about new project. Tried to do some caning which ended up really poorly.
  • Upon returning to Senior Ad after lunch on tuesday, Mr. Mohr asked us to give an impromptu presentation on our 14minnikids trip. (This seemed to be in poor taste. Coming back to school is hard.)
  • Had a very dysfunctional wednesday morning in Branding. We are technically starting a new project but we aren’t finished with the first one and no one is making any good work.
  • Ate wednesday lunch alone in the library while studying for a History of Cinema midterm (for which I was woefully underprepared). Then, I went to class, took the test, and went back to the library to get some more work done.
  • Had a few hours of free time late wednesday afternoon and spent it with Andrew and Max figuring out drum parts for my band’s new album. Then, I drove straight back to school for a Portfolio Social, where the entire senior ad class squeezed into two small classrooms and reviewed each other’s portfolios. Chaos.
  • Had presentation-filled jewelry class, ate lunch alone. In Senior Ad, started working on new project and chatted with friends.
  • Skipped class on friday morning to record with my band. Well, I technically didn’t even skip because Jim Johnson ended up canceling class!
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