Progression of a Day with Cancelled Class, Part I

9:45 am: By pure unrelated luck, be notified that both classes for the day are cancelled. Huzzah!

9:46 am: Visualize how much work can get done now that class has been cancelled.

9:48 am: Create mental list of work that can, nay will, be done. Pretty much everything for the whole entire semester, ever. Imagine what will be done with free time for the rest of the semester.

9:56 am: Begin to look up random things online. But the whole day is free, right? It can't hurt to read some articles for just a little bit...

11:30 am: Realize that the mental list created earlier in the day hasn't been thought of since then.

11:33 am: Grab some lunch, convinced that procrastination will cease after hunger subsides.

12:33 pm: Sigh and begin work. Grudgingly.

1:14 pm: Realize need for coffee is imminent. Decide to take advantage of not needing to be in studio for once. Gather belongings to grab some Caribou and work in library. Everyone is productive in the library!

1:27 pm: Coffee in hand, remember why the library is so creepy. Proceed past masses of silent people also pretending to be studying, to the library cafe, where there is at least some semblance of noise.

2:11 pm: Get fed up with silence, head home where the TV can be on for background noise.

2:13 pm: Get to the bus stop at the exact time the bus is supposed to be there.

2:16 pm: Figure the bus came early, start walking home.

2:18 pm: Get passed on walk home by said bus. Two of them.

2:32 pm: Home procrastination begins.

3:06: Write blog post chronicling a day without class.

To be continued...

this pic summarizes my trip to Miami perfectly

More pics to come...once I can figure out how to get my computer to read my camera's new SD card...

How I Wish I Was Going Somewhere Warm...Oh Wait, I AM!!!

This is my view today...

And, once I get done with all of this...

This will be my view tomorrow!

5 Years

"The Great Christmas Snowstorm of '09"

...At least I think that's what they'll be referring to this one as. I was just on weather.com, and reading that this guy could be comparable to the Great Halloween Blizzard of 1991: cue memories of dad pulling me around on a sled in my snowsuit so I could still go trick-or-treating. At least getting goodies at Christmastime does not require setting a foot outside! It's just too bad church and Pa and Dava's house are too far away to be pulled there on a sled.

It has not started to snow here yet, but looking at the map, there are two storm systems-one from the north and one from the south-that look like they are getting ready to gobble us up.

Here's to being safe at home with a stockpile of coffee, a pile of presents under the tree (though even more still to wrap...), and yummy Christmas treats to keep our bellies full. Now if only our house had a fireplace...

ArtID 565 Project 3 Renderings

So these images actually did not scan very well, (they are kind of fuzzy and dark), but they are about as good as they are going to get with the COD scanners...and they don't look so bad at this size (just don't click on them). :)

Design Student Pet Peeve

These are the questions (or variations of) that I have been getting asked all week (usually from a non-design student):

"So, are you almost done with your project? How much longer until you are done?"

I usually just stare at them blankly for a moment, quite unsure of how to answer. See, a design project is never truly done. There are always little tweaks and fixes (if not big tweaks and fixes) that can be made to alter the project. Something can always look different, match better, be represented differently, made of a different material, expanded upon more, etc. etc. etc. It is not possible to answer this question in a quantity of minutes, hours, or days. And "almost done"...what does that mean? Obviously right now I am closer to being "almost done" with my project then I was yesterday. Even tomorrow, once this project is "complete" and presented, it will still only be "almost done".

So my answer to their question?

"Um...it's due on Monday?"

Hopefully that suffices.