Present Joys

It was a short, weird school week. Monday afternoon, I went to motion graphics and started working on a silly video based on a short quotation. It was good; we stayed occupied the whole time and didn’t even break out my knitting.

Classes were canceled on tuesday because of the cold, so I slept in, played accordion longer than usual, and worked from home. I took some time to write about my nascent senior thesis project. Though it was nice to have extra time to rest, my schedule was thrown totally out-of-whack.

Wednesday afternoon, I went back to motion graphics and kept working on the silly little project I started monday. Thursday was, thankfully, back to normal! Jewelry was spent critiquing the first major project (a weird bit of déjà vu from last semester) and researching for the next one. I had lunch alone in the library then went to Senior ad, where Mr. Mohr played us the Naked Brand, a short documentary on contemporary advertising. In History of 2-d. And then the school week was over. It started out pretty light but by now I’m feeling very busy.

Friday afternoon, I picked up and paid for my knitting machine. I’ll write more about that in a forthcoming thesis update!

• I spent all of tuesday morning’s jewelry class participating in long-winded, open-ended fine art critiques—a thing I am not accustomed to and do not enjoy.
• Went crazy trying to prepare my work to submit to the American Advertising Awards. Thankfully, Mr. Lutz left very detailed notes. Printing and organizing documents consumed most of Senior Ad.
• For my last class of tuesday, industry professionals visited our Portfolio class to review our books. I got some good advice from Aschenbrand, which was a great, exciting thing.
• Wednesday was long: I started out with Brand and Market Development: uneventful, long, dull. Then, I did a little homework in the library during my lunch break, followed by History of Cinema, where we watched The Hurt Locker. I did not enjoy the film, but this may be due to the fact that I had a rat’s nest of yarn on my lap which I was trying to untangle in the dark auditorium.
• After Cinema, I headed to the jewelry lab and worked on my tea infuser project for a few hours, injuring myself with a burr in the process. At least the first aid kit had bandages this time…
• I finished out wednesday with yet another portfolio review thing at 7pm. Illustration and photo majors were supposed to join us and mingle, but very few of them showed up, so I ended up hanging out with friends.
• Thursday morning in jewelry, I participated in a few more critiques, then just continued to work on my final project and chatted with friends.
• Went sheet music shopping during my lunch break, then had a short Senior Ad class.
• Drove back down to school at 9:30pm to hear Jeremy Slagle speak to the Christian group on campus. Didn’t get home until after midnight. This week, man!
• Friday, I wore pyjamas to school, because, at this point, why not? It was a raucous time.