Present Joys

L–R: George Felton, copywriting teacher extraordinaire; opaque projector; Nigel. As you can see, we were just casually high-fiving. (Thanks to Amanda for the photo.)

• Left my knitting at home monday morning. Had to spend all day monday with no knitting!
• Continued to feel very behind in my monday morning package design class.
• Had friendship lunch as usual except for the charming addition of Colleen Clark!
• Had an abbreviated independent study meeting with Mr. Lutz, then did work on a picnic table outside the library and did homework.
• Had a class-swap crit in tuesday morning’s ad class; I got to show my work to some kids from Lutz’ next-door class, then I got to sit with John and Carly for the rest of class time. It was very nice!
• Got into a mini-argument with Amanda about lots of things.
• Broke about 20 saw blades trying to cut metal in jewelry.
• Ran into Ann Shifflet in the lobby of Kinney Hall where she gave me a donut.
• Danced with my jewelry teacher, who is inexpressibly cool.
• Soldered three thick pieces of metal together at the very last minute on thursday afternoon. Huzzah—progress!

Earlier today in jewelry class: it’s every kid’s dream to have a teacher who spontaneously dances along with him.

• Went to my package design class monday at 8am. (It was the second time the class met, but I wasn’t there the first week.) I felt very out of the loop. Thankfully I’ve got this nut in there with me to help figure things out.
• Had our second friendship lunch of the year. Dana (who is taking a semester off) joined us! It was a lovely lovely time.
• Talked about Maus and Understanding Comics in my graphic novels class.
• Had my first-ever independent study meeting with Mr. Lutz. He gave me “something cold to drink” from his secret mini-fridge and we went overtime talking about my project.
• Hung out with Audrey K. in the library before marketing on monday night. I have a feeling this will be a regular thing, which is great.
• Went to Marketing. I remain antipathetic.
• Tuesday morning class with Burleigh. This project is moving slo-o-o-o-ow.
• Had a funny conversation in my lunchtime copywriting class about buying habits that somehow turned into an almost-argument about free ownership of firearms.
• Watched a soldering demonstration in my tuesday afternoon jewelry class. I had a lot of fun soldering and apparently I did a pretty good job!
• Went on jewelry-class break with Amanda. Mr. Burleigh sat on the quad with us and talked for a few minutes. A very sweet memory.
• Did some one-on-one peer crits in thursday morning’s ad class. Got some very incongruent advice from various people.
• Had some small-group meetings in thursday’s copywriting class and did most of the talking.
• Made a chipboard model of a ring I designed. Managed to get a ring-size gauge stuck on my finger and it wouldn’t come off for what felt like eternity.

• Had Labor Day off. Spent the day on homework and knitting.
• Spent most of tuesday morning’s ad class brainstorming words.
• Had very laid-back time in Felton’s copywriting class during lunch. Watched tv ads by Levi’s, P&G, Apple, and Volvo.
• Cut a little keychain out of brass in my jewelry class. Broke a lot of saw blades in the process.
• Got to school late on thursday because of a nearby stabbing which I only learned about later. It was a pretty good excuse for being tardy, I guess.
• Spent all of thursday’s ad class talking with my table and loafing around and knitting. Burleigh was doing individual meetings with the whole class and didn’t get around to me. That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
• Ran into Ann Shifflet, my old art history teacher, and got a chance to chat! That was lots of fun.
• Cut a bunch of little squares of copper. We’re going to weld next tuesday.
• Got to visit a top-secret closet in Battelle Hall where my teacher demonstrated the polishing machine to us.