Boom-de-ah-da, boom-de-ah-da, I love my life

Tomorrow, I begin my first day as an undergrad junior! Just Spanish and my Victorian English class, but English upper div after a whole summer of studio design classes! And lvl 3 Spanish after a whole summer of wholly English language!

*panics*

1. Starting the telemarketing job at the Annual Fund Oct 6, by which I need my SSN card. Which is at home, a 2.5 hour drive away. Parents gave me much grief for not thinking I might need it.

2. Cell phone not working due to old SIM being deactivated and new one not to be activated until Mom gets out of work and take a nap tomorrow.

3. Have to look for internship and choose English or Design, though I am totally leaning towards the latter.

4. Crossing fingers in hopes of getting into 2-unit freshmen seminar in which I will be reading and writing contemporary short stories. Waitlisted as #2 out of 15 capacity with one opening. Hopefully, a freshman will think the work too much and drop!

5. Should I go to my friend's birthday celeb this weekend? She and her boyfriend will be going with a whole bunch of other engineering friends. Essentially, I'll be in a group of people in which I only know two. But it's her 21st. Argh.

Current song obsession: Leona Lewis's Misses Glass and I CANNOT find a free download of it ANYWHERE. I swear, I go to sleep hearing it in my head. XD

:( Day started off nasty with a visit to the dentist to replace my fillings. Half my mouth was numb, making my speech slurred and forcing me to fast until 3 in the afternoon.

:) Then I got to eat the chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake I had gotten yesterday. Sweet Heaven!

:( Forgot to water the lawn. Had to put on my coat and do so at midnight. Brrrr!

:) Made plans to see two friends I haven't seen in about a year almost! Including watching The Dark Knight and/or Ironman on Friday if either or both are still in theaters.

:( Tried logging onto the university website to check whether my final grades were up or not and discovered that my username and password DID NOT WORK! *runs around like a headless chicken*

:) Decided upon my new phone--Sony Ericsson w580i, either urban gray or black.

:( Updated to Mozilla ver 3 and lost my delicious add-on.

:) Found out one of my requests (guardian angel!Draco) at slashfest actually got claimed!

Fluffy bunny hopped by: Doctor Rodney Mckay is to Clogsworth as Colonel John Shepherd is to Luminere! XDDDD

I have a new title.

DES 13 is owning me so badly right now. I've shot 7 rolls of 36-count film so far and only one of them had anything worth using. It didn't help that my themes for the final project were considered too weak by the professor. I'm at my wit's end and can only hope that my latest idea, where I get someone to stand in front of a plain wall and draw something to interact with them on said wall, might go over well with Prof. Molloy.

Still have that pop-up book to work on tonight, but snahjerblah went to Costco with her boyfriend and will be keeping an eye out for my favorite chocolate: those chocolate ball you crack into sections, like a deliciously solid orange.

On other news, my phone, or my phone's battery is dying at long last. I charged it last night, so made a two minute call an hour ago, after which it promptly died. That's only the battery, right? If I change that, the rest of the phone should continue to function as usual, right?

Today was NOT a fun day. Due to project deadlines and nerves left over from the hectic-ness of the entire week, I ended up getting two hours of sleep last night, if even that.

I dragged myself out of bed early to continue working on aforementioned projects and somehow, my sleep-deprived brain thought that the 7:40 bus that I usually took would arrive at 7:50. Needless to say, I was half an hour late to photo and missed the beginning of a critique. Not so late that I actually missed anything else or that I couldn't put up my own prints, but late enough to make my usually punctual self cringe.

This has been the first week I succumbed to buying over-priced coffee at the Silo for the fact that it contains caffeine. I spent the rest of the day suffering nausea, an inconsistent headache, and slightly unbalanced. I vow to get my full ten hours tonight. I was doing so poorly today that not only did I misremember the schedule of a bus I've been taking pretty much the entire summer, I couldn't do basic arithmetic, took a whole HOUR AND A HALF to measure out a mat and then wasted all that by cutting RIGHT THROUGH THOSE LINES. I swear I was nearly going to cry at that point. That makes twice in one week I've wanted to just drop everything, crawl into bed and have a good cry. Previously being when I ended up crossing campus twice just to print three color copies of a document for that group project. And in the morning, I completely forgot to sign the "Thank you" card Professor Molloy had gotten for us to send to the sacbee. *cringes in absolute shame*

On the up-side however, the euphoria from my almost perfect grade has not faded! There was another group presentation today, but when I asked the professor what she thought after everyone else had left, she said our's was still the best. >.< This was during the hour-long conversation I had with Professor Wood, centered almost entirely on design and college. It was INCREDIBLE. This is the first time I've felt so comfortable around another professor to babble so much. I learned loads from her and it was very, very cool. I usually can't get over my awe of my professors to talk to them so freely.

Continuation of the downside? TWO HUGE FINAL PROJECTS DUE FRIDAY NEXT WEEK. *runs around like headless chicken* It's a COMPLETELY HANDMADE POP-UP BOOK and FOUR SILVER PRINTS.

Than again, in the typical see-saw of moods today has put me through, I have happily submitted three prompts to slashfest! I only hope I don't scare authors away with the extensiveness of them. I got in the Harry Potter characters in James Bond 'verse prompt I was a minute too late to submit in the last fest and two more.

( The requests, should anyone be interested. )

So the powerpoint for that presentation was given to another girl's responsibility. I woke up early for some more pamphlet-work to find three e-mails from her reading, "I have been trying to send you this for the past hour. My laptop is crashing every 15 minutes. And the internet in my apartment has been canceled this month. My roommates just told me. I'm using my apartment's internet connection, but it's not that great. This is the farthest I could get to, before my lap top dies again." There is no attachment.

The most recent one is blank. I had no phone call to inform me of this so I couldn't even throw together a rough place-holder just in case. I can only hope she somehow managed to save a copy on a CD, her USB, or used the common sense God gave her and take that cursed laptop to the IT help center as soon as it opens later this morning.

On the bright side, I've tried some of the Sun Tropic Orange and Mango juice this fiiiinnnneeee morning and it's wonderful.

I've also been tagged by avalon13 with a meme eerily similar to one snahjerblah tagged me with last week.

( The questions that were different )


 

It's 11:40 pm and I just got home from school. I had caught the 1:25 bus to campus. I have not had anything to eat the entire time.

I have never stayed so long on campus yet and the entire time, I was working to 1.)finish and mount my past-and-present, black-and-white guache painting (1:45-4:30), 2.)develop two good silver prints (4:30-9:15), and 3.)window-mat the latter (9:15-11:10). I could have just taken the easy way out and Letratac-ed them, but the perfectionist in me demanded the more professional look.

So now I will eat a late (!) dinner and then brainstorm ideas/work on thumbnails for my next DES 15 project, due Friday.

Developing film is so cool.

Carrying around a camera bag, my portfolio carrier, and lunch at the same time is NOT.

On the other hand, my 100 pack film paper arrived! *cuddles* Now I can start on my first project in ernest!

Though I still have DES 15's stupid collage and guache versions of the same interior to do. T_T

It's heaven and hell. ON THE SAME DAY. *dies*

On a non-school related note, I'm currently listening to awesome Spanish pop at batanga.com. Candy for my ears! XD

Went to my DES 13 and 15 classes today--8 to 5 with an hour break at noon.

*IS DED*

The material costs! The hours of labor to be had! The levels I must aspire to! The agony! The AGONY!!!

My parents and sister are coming up on the twelfth so darkestnight12 could celebrate her b-day with cheap sushi (ARGH! I turn 20 in a month! And have yet to do something with my life! Argh!) and I'm just glad because then I can beg more cash off of them for those MATERIAL LEECHES!!!

Can you tell I'm sort of freaking out? ^^;; (I actually used multiple exclamation marks and ALL CAPS.)

Teehee. Talked to my professor. I think I got two solid As to my G.P.A. I'm am going to GET that 3.0.

Next summer session: Photography, where even the great get Bs, and a Color and Form class. The latter required $93 of supplies. *dies*

I've been back into the Clex fandom lately, after a brief, satisfying foray in Ocean's 11, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Angel, Jeeves & Wooster, and Heroes, and I've come up with a question.

If Superman's eye-lasers set things on fire, why are they red? The hottest flames in a fire are blue, and I think the most intense waves are the ultraviolet ones too.

On a work related note, the MacDonald's I work at recently has added the Iced Coffees to its menu. Did you guys know that every pot of coffee that goes into it was brewed using twice as much coffee grounds as the regular hot coffee? And for the Sweet Tea, the ratio of sugar to water in it is one pound for every gallon?

On a school related note, I totally pwned a charcoal self-portrait 18 by 25. It was one of the best in the class, in my not so humble opinion, and my exercise in draped clothe turned out more realistic and softer than I'd thought! Major win.

Then I find out my final project is an approximately 3 ft by 6 ft piece.

I want to do a combination of a portrait and landscape. Hopefully, I can get my roommate and/or her boyfriend to let me draw them while they're studying or something and then add an interesting background when they're not available. Problem is, the only paper that comes in that size is the smoother, Linux drawing paper and I plan to use black, soft pastels. I've been using them only on charcoal paper up until now, so I'm going to have to experiment and adjust myself to applying it to the different paper. XP

On a whining note, I WANT TO SEE THE DARK KNIGHT!!! My sister gets to lay around grandma's house all day, baking peach tarts and watching movies with my aunt at night while I'm pulling long hours in the lab or the studio. She never even went through the trials of a pounding out a proper personal statement for college apps, that brat! *mutter mutter*

... Yes, yes, it's time for me to break out the chocolate.