Present Joys

I interviewed with OhioHealth for an in-house graphic design internship last fall and started working there in january: downtown Columbus, a few blocks away from school, on the 30th floor. And today was my last day there! The people were, for the most part, kind and enjoyable. The whole experience was educational and edifying. I will miss it lots and lots.

To celebrate the end, I took lots of photographs. Also, I finally broke down and went out with fellow interns Lindsay and Audra for a delicious sushi lunch. A terrific ending.

So long, friends. I’ll be back to visit, hopefully! I still have my id badge. (don’t tell anyone!)

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.