Present Joys

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Simon de Myle, The Ark of Noah on Mount Ararat, 1570

• Worked on marble packaging in package design. Everything is due two mondays from now and it’s really starting to get tough.
• Skipped friendship lunch to hear Fran Yoshioka give a presentation about trend forecasting. Went home and wrote a two-page paper about the talk for Cheryl Steele, whose homework-assigning knows no limit.
• Stressed out in Draping trying to work on my final garment. It’s the most mentally taxing class I’m taking, and it’s an elective I had to get special permission to take. But it’s simultaneously so much fun!
• Got into a big argument about the color black with the fashion majors in my Draping class. (Because I think black is disgusting.)
• Had a very laid-back thursday morning. Jason was absent from our White Castle team, so me and Amanda talked for an hour and then she went home to work.
• Took thursday afternoon off of my internship to participate in a very worthless internship presentation thing. I sat in a room with eleven other random students who had also done internships; we all gave five-minute presentations about our experiences. At least it’s done.
• Spent two more hours in the fashion lab on thursday afternoon working on my final garment for Draping.

I listened to this band so much as a kid. In case you were curious how I ended up the way I did…

Opal is my stone, yes sir e bob.

• Turned in my ten-week package design project; had a crit. Received very high praise from my teacher: “Everyone look at this: this is what a ten-week project should look like! I’m giving Nigel an A+.”
• Ate lunch at the new Hills Market with Ian and Sarah (who both bought humongous Frostop drinks) and Don (who should have bought a giant Frostop if he wanted in on the photo).
• Started on new projects in tuesday morning in: in Ad Concepts, I started a new team project to re-position White Castle. (I’m working with Amanda and Jason, the usual suspects.) In Advanced Type, I started a new project to sell baby food to teenage girls.
• Continued to be very stressed in Cheryl Steele’s draping class. The latest little burden: I have to go watch a lecture monday morning and write a paper in time for next tuesday’s class.
• Almost forgot to take a test for my online Intro to Psych class. Phew—that was a close call!
• Made a ton of progress on my team project to re-position White Castle. So much progress, in fact, that we decided to take a field trip to White Castle during class.
• Got stuck in the elevator in Crane. It went up to the third floor, made a scary sound, and slowly sunk to the second floor. Scary! (I only use the elevator a few times a year. Go figure.)
• Had a bad attitude about the brand-new warm weather this week. Temperatures got into the high 70s! My body was not made for weather this warm.