Present Joys

Day 4: fri, 30 aug 2013. Brand planner/Canadian/art school wild card Brian Spain poses with a whole lotta pill cases.

Editor’s note: I’ve been keeping a usually-laconic digest of my schooltime activities since sophomore year. And now we’re back, for senior year!

• Had no monday classes at all, for the first time since starting college.
• Started out the school year tuesday morning with Intermediate jewelry, a class I am still slightly uncertain about keeping. It’s going to be a busy semester.
• Went straight from jewelry to friendship lunch, which we’ve tentatively moved from mondays to tuesdays.
• Started out wednesday with Brand and market development, the only class this semester where I get to see Jason and John, two of my favorite dudes. Our teacher, Jim Johnson, filled the entire three-hour class period with a lecture which he shared with a visiting professional.
• Met my dear friend Amanda for wednesday lunch. We have no classes together this semester. We spent time chatting outside while maintaining a safe distance from CCAD’s involvement fair thing. We even ran into Mr. Burleigh who, after I yelled to him, came over to visit. Very sweet.
• Finished wednesday by attending my only once-a-week class, History of cinema, which is held in the Canzani auditorium. I am reserving judgement for a few weeks; be sure to check back soon to see if my attitude has devolved into antipathy!
• Went back to Jewelry on thursday morning and worked the whole time to produce a very poor-quality married metal solder. At least the teacher is growing on me.
• While soldering, received a nice compliment on my trousers from Matt Flegle. I confess I was very excited.
• Drove off campus to have lunch with Jim Kucera, church pianist/friend/man of mystery. Had a nice time, got back to campus just in time to spend 15 minutes looking for a parking spot. There are going to be serious problems with parking this year.
• Finished off thursday with Ad, which was dismissed early due to wifi outage problems, but not before we’d done a very cute exercise
• Used my unexpected extra thursday afternoon time to go back to the jewelry lab to visit Chris Hill, former jewelry teacher/dear friend/excellent dancer. Then I went downstairs and got Dawson Kellogg to help me use the belt sander.
• Back to Portfolio and got to leave two hours early, again indirectly related to the school’s wifi outage. Get it together, CCAD.
• Hauled myself back to school on friday morning (a first for my time at college) for the second part of Brand and Market development; spent the whole class on a client briefing; received free pill containers. The visiting professional was back, and he is turning out to be quite a fun dude.

Day 3: thu, 29 aug 2013. It is easy to smile when the campus wi-fi is broken and classes only last 90 minutes.

Day 2: wed, 28 aug 2013. Hello, new “brand and market development” class. Hello, old, familiar seat in old, familiar classroom.

Today was my first day of school. My first day of senior year. To celebrate, and to appease my nostalgia-loving future self, I am trying something new. EVERY DAY of senior year, I will post one photographic snapshot from the day. That is my promise to you, internet.

Today’s senior snapshot: a spirited friendship lunch at the Hills Market.