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85 posts between September 2011 and May 2014

What I did this week (7 sep 2012)

  • 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.
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What I did this week (31 aug 2012)

  • Started out the week 8am monday morning in Web design I, which I wasn’t looking forward to. As expected, the course seemed like a real waste of time.
  • Had my first friendship lunch of the year, which was nearly perfect! It was good to see all my food-service friends.
  • Went to my second class of the week: Literary studies of graphic novels! Colleen and Dorian are also in the class! It looks like it’s going to be an amazing time.
  • Had a bunch of free time from 3:30pm to 6:45pm monday afternoon. Most of this time was spent in the library pretending to do homework but actually talking to Audrey K., Theresa, Amanda, and Evan.
  • Went to the first of my Marketing class in the auditorium that Artie Isaac guy. I was not as amused as my peers. On the bright side, it’ll be over in fifteen weeks.
  • Got to school extra-early tuesday morning for Ad concepts with Burleigh. I spilled darjeeling on his boot at 8:05am but it was ok because I think he was glad to see me.
  • Met with Mr. Lutz, the ad chair, to try to get out of Web I. He encouraged me to do an independent study project instead of Web I, which is exactly what I’m going to do! I wrote the Web I teacher a nice note and said goodbye.
  • Went to my first Copywriting class, which is during lunch on tuesday and thursday. I sat in the front of the class and ate a noisy lunch and felt quite self-conscious (but not too self-conscious to stop eating). The teacher, George Felton, is cool, but the other people in the class aren’t that exciting.
  • Went to my first Jewelry class, in the upstairs of Battelle Hall. I was ten minutes late because of my meeting with Lutz, but the teacher, Christine Hill, was absolutely charming and cool. Our first project was to cut Lincoln’s head out of a penny, an assignment I enjoyed on many levels. This is going to be a great class all semester!
  • Didn’t go to school at all on wednesday (since I got out of my web class!). I stayed home and did homework.
  • Had another meeting with Lutz on thursday; while doing so, Mr. Mohr came into the office and invited me to meet Stefan Sagmeister with a few students from his senior class. It was a hugely flattering offer.
  • Left my jewelry class early to go visit with Sagmeister in the Canzani gallery and watched him review senior portfolios. He gave very thoughtful, even-handed critiques. After that I got to ask him some questions about one of my favorite topics, the postmodernism love of novelty and gimmick in the arts. It was a very good, thought-provoking time.
  • Finally got all my independent study forms filled out and turned in! I also registered for the Package design class on monday mornings, which fills the hole left by Web I. So now my schedule is perfect!
  • Killed time at Amanda’s apartment while waiting for the Sagmeister talk on thursday night.
  • Went back to school to see Sagmeister give a talk in the Canzani auditorium. In a fluke turn of events, I was able to offer two adjacent empty seats to Lutz and Aschenbrand, who later thanked me for the “perfect seats”. So that was pretty great. All in all, it was a great week which exceeded my expectations on every level.
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What I did this week (10 may 2012)

  • Had a little end-of-semester portfolio review/meeting with Boryana. Conclusion: I am good at value and bad with line. And Boryana is spectacular.
  • Ate lunch in the cafeteria for the last time! I had one of those gross cheese quesadillas just for nostalgia’s sake.
  • Turned in my final interactive pdf for Worst class of the week. And then I was done with the worst class of the week forever.
  • Didn’t have any American lit class all week. Instead, I just spent time working on my final project.
  • Turned in my 19th century art history final (two essays) and spent the rest of my tuesday lunch break studying History of fashion notes with Amanda.
  • Had a glorious team class pizza party with M-Tabs. She brought Granville-made pizza, soda, and circus peanuts. We watched the movie Jumanji. We gave her a framed photo and she loved it. It was altogether one of the best things ever.
  • Went to History of fashion class and took a final exam. Our teacher brought us scones from Panera.
  • Went into my Illustration class at 12:30pm and picked up my work and said my goodbyes.
  • Had a very late wednesday lunch with Amanda, Jason, and Michelle at the Brown Bag Deli. I had a delicious sandwich with braunschweiger.
  • Went out to lunch on thursday with my 19th century art history teacher and her husband and some other class friends. We went to El Arepazol on Pearl Alley and had a lovely time. Dana drove all of us and I rode in the cargo area in the back of her Acura.
  • Showed up for Mr. Burleigh’s class, which actually consisted of milling around on the third floor of Crane to look at the walls and say goodbye to everyone. Mr. Burleigh was wearing a tool belt.
  • Walked with Colleen several blocks to the bank so she could pay me for our board game. It was a very nice sort of postmortem. And then we were done.
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What I did this week (3 may 2012)

  • Had the third and final crit of my figure drawing class with Boryana. I turned in three pieces that I’m pretty proud of. We drank apple juice and ate cookies and had a good time.
  • Went up to the fourth floor of AMF to visit Jason Clary (my freshman painting teacher), who was just as kind and wonderful as ever.
  • Had an off-site friendship lunch at The Warehouse Café, which is a cute little lunch place within walking distance from campus.
  • Went to visit my friend Carolyn in her millinery class and got to meet the teacher. I’m hoping this will pay dividends for me later!
  • Put the finishing touches on our board game; Met with my Kelsey and John for a last-minute team meeting.
  • Finished watching Vertigo in my American lit class on tuesday morning. And then I was done…
  • Had the last lecture of my 19th century art history class, which basically consisted of a ton of Rodin’s sculptures. It is sad to see it come to an end.
  • Had our game-playing day in team class! M-Tabs brought in candy for us to eat, and we played board games and filled out little questionnaires. Tons of fun.
  • Watched student presentations in my History of fashion class. Worked on my new fair isle sweater the whole time. It was quite a nice time.
  • Did the usual thing in Illustration class, except this week our teacher brought in chocolate-chip-cookie bars and chips and salsa for us to eat! I didn’t really do illustration work in class; instead, I agonized over my finals for Burleigh.
  • Spent all wednesday night doing more work on finals for Burleigh, despite the fact that they were due less than 24 hours later. This is not something I typically do, and it stressed me out a lot.
  • Had a very cursory “private meeting” with my American lit teacher regarding my final project, which I have yet to begin and which is due next thursday.
  • Printed, mounted, and wrapped my finals for Burleigh during my lunch break on thursday morning. I did all of this in the little couch area in Kinney where literally every other person at CCAD also had to print at the last minute.
  • Ran into my 19th-century teacher and Ian and Dorian on the quad and hung out with them for a while, which was really fun.
  • Had one last knit-n-crit with Burleigh. Finals turned out okay after all.
  • Took a bunch of photos with teachers, which I will definitely share later!
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What I did this week (26 apr 2012)

  • Completed the last figure drawing session of the semester. We drew Jeremy and I did not do a very good job, prompting Boryana to say all kinds of hilarious, unintentionally-harsh things about my work.
  • Went to see the “visiting artist”, Nalini Nadkarni, who seemed like a very kind but misguided person.
  • Looked at a lot of post-impressionistic paintings in 19th century art history class. We are getting very near the end of the century!
  • Did my “final presentation” for my History of fashion design class. It was a ten-minute talk on menswear between 1920–1940 and I think I bored the entire class to death.
  • Went to the sculpture lab with Amanda and Jason and helped make stuff with tools.
  • Spent the rest of wednesday in illustration working on my clay sculpture.
  • Worked in the woodshop on thursday morning and had a nice conversation about accordions with Mr. Laskowski!
  • Successfully used the scroll saw to cut out a bunch of things for our board game.
  • Watched Hitchcock’s Vertigo in my American lit class—a colossal waste of time but also a welcome diversion.
  • Had another one of those “sit at a table and crit your peers” in Burleigh’s class. It went ok.
  • Conducted several team meetings and stayed up very late and talked on the phone a lot and made many trips to various printers.
  • Worked hard on team stuff, all week, pretty much every waking minute of the day.
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