Present Joys

• Had a very disappointing monday, consisting of an extremely dysfunctional package design class followed by an ill-planned friendship lunch. (Turns out the tiki bar on Grant is closed on mondays.)
• Managed to tweet about White Castle a whole lot, but didn’t do a whole lot of actual work. This project is shaping up to be quite challenging.
• Almost broke down into tears in Cheryl Steele’s class after realizing the true amount of work due. It doesn’t help that the class is full of fashion majors to whom I cannot relate on any level.
• Finished up my package design project in a hurry on wednesday night with copious amounts of glue gun, all so I could use the shrink-wrapping machine at school on thursday. You see, I have all these things planned out very carefully.
• Had some nice old-fashioned group critiques in Advanced Type both tuesday and thursday. It is nice to sit in a circle and talk about your work.
• Braunschweiger sandwiches.
• Worked on my final garment for Draping. Lots.
• Drove back to campus friday evening for the opening reception of the senior graphic design thesis show. Introduced myself to one of the senior ad teachers; ate cheese; awkwardly misunderstood sarcasm; criticized and lauded people’s work with A, my critique cohort.

I was wrong, guys. Apparently, people actually do scan QR codes.

• 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.

• 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.

• Received the welcome, unexpected news that our package design final is due the following monday. It’s about time.
• Got completely stood up for friendship lunch on monday. All my friends are way too busy this time of year.
• Put in a bunch of hours to finish my Big Cooking Project for Burleigh early.
• Presented my Big Cooking Project on tuesday morning, even though I wasn’t scheduled to present until thursday. It was nice to get it done ahead of time.
• Draped cowl-necked bodices and peg skirts with Cheryl Steele.
• Made some really really killer booklet mockup templates. (The drop shadows and gradients are top notch.)
• Used said booklet mockups to present yet another final project for yet another class (advanced type).
• Spent the majority of my free time constructing my knit dress project for Draping or working on my package design finals. No rest for the wicked.