Present Joys

valerie2776:

i keep having a thing that is me watching a million videos of people on waterslides. this is the third time it has happened in the past couple months and i’m confused and worried

• Had a very very good independent study meeting with Mr. Lutz, during which he also helped me brainstorm for my ad project.
• Passed the midterm point in Marketing, which means the lectures are shorter and more laid-back. That is nice.
• Spent a highly unnecessary amount of time discussing résumés.
• Finished the planar ring I was making, polished it one more time for good measure, and turned it in!
• Worked at Sew to Speak on wednesday afternoon, which was kinda weird to do in the middle of the week. (But it was very nice, too!)
• Combined our ad class with Mr. Lutz’ next-door class. Lutz and Burleigh both drew on the board at once and we generated a giant mind map about Coleman camping gear. It was extremely fun to be with a bunch of people I enjoy and to do mind mapping like old times.
• Saw Jason Clary teaching perspective drawing on the quad. He has an even bigger beard than he used to, and he is as great as ever.
• Experimented with different copper patinas. None of them worked satisfactorily. I’ll polish instead.
• Did lots of homework. I am very busy.

I just got home from singing with the Columbus Sacred Harp group. This is one of the songs we did. Our version didn’t sound nearly as nice as this one, but that’s ok.

• Started our second project in package design. We are designing a bar of soap and its packaging.
• Received a guided tour of Mr. Hazlerig’s soap collection, which is expansive and very smelly.
• Got confused about an assignment and wrote a four-page paper monday morning in my package design class.
• Narrowly made it through a “feminism and gender stereotypes” lecture in my comics class. That is all I will say about that.
• Took home the marketing midterm, completed most of it on monday night, and turned it in tuesday afternoon.
• Had a woman from Career Services come talk to our ad class about the Internship Fair next month. She tried to be relevant by calling herself a geek and making annoyingly-contrived self-deprecating jokes.
• Wrote 40 company slogans for copywriting. Spent both classes talking about slogans. My head is spinning.
• Picked up a piece of molten copper and burned the fingertips on my left hand. Ouch.
• Got to school early to pick up a drawing from last year that Boryana had been storing in AMF.
• Had major chill time in Burleigh’s class. Spent pretty much the whole time doing homework and chatting. It’s nice to have a little break after all the frenzy of last week’s finals.
• Finished socks I was making for my jewelry teacher and delivered themto her. She was quite pleased!
• Finished making my first ring. And I used the polishing machine with no major injuries!
• Started thinking about registration, which is stressing me out a lot.