Just one more week to go. The first wave of deadlines have come and gone, and the second is just upon us. I’m quite pleased with myself for having completed those projects and managing to sneak in a few hours of sleep here and there.
Yesterday, it was my turn at collecting cans around campus to fundraise. It was probably the nastiest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life. It was wet, and sticky, and it smelled like garbage. My partners in crime, Jojo and Mondo were a big help. And I really have to give props to Jo for her relentless bare-handed tactics, and her suck-it-up attitude. It would’ve taken Mondo and I the whole night to maneuver all the cans with our paper towel-padded hands. In the end we collected 4 huge garbage bags full of beverage containers, and our grad fund is $18.50 richer.
At least now I know I’ll never make it on the streets by collecting cans. I guess there’s always prostitution.
Afterwards, we had dinner and did what we do best: hang out at Jo’s, watch a sad movie, and eat popcorn. It was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.
Days until deadline are dwindling down, and I really should be sleeping right now, but I feel like I haven’t done anything I wanted to do all day, except maybe for my totally unnecessary Glee break in between my 25 page essay writing marathon.
I think that Finn Hudson is a pretty cute boy. And while I’ve been feeling guilty about being a pedo and wanting to do bad things to this supposed 16 year-old, I find out he’s 27! He’s older than me! (And that’s hard to come by these days.)
To be honest, Glee is like this really drawn out and cliched after-school special. Everyone has their own voice-overs. Story-line is predictable. And Mr. Schue’s attempt at dancing is horrendous. I really don’t know why I keep watching it.
Oh right.
Driving home from school today at 5:30pm, it was cold, and rainy, and the sky was dark. It made me think of better days, when you could go for a stroll in your shorts after dinner.
I miss those days.
I miss shorts, and tank tops, and sunglasses, and flip flops.
I miss not having to think about projects.
Filed under: Graphic Design, My Friends, School Life, Triumphs & Heartbreaks | Tags: school, friendship
It is at this critical time in the 4th and final year of my educational career that I’ve decided to pick up my blog again. Life has been incredibly insane, incredibly busy. I’m constantly in a state of medium to high stress. But after a 3 hour nostalgia-fest over sushi with my best pals in the program, we were just astonished at how time had flew by. And pretty soon, the one thing that brought us together, and defined so much of our friendship, will be no more.
I want to archive this feeling somewhere, somehow. And this blog will have to do. Mixed in with excitement and wonder is a tiny, but unmistakable, fear and sadness. For the past 3.5 years, I know who I am; what my role is. My life is school. But in 5 months, I will have to figure everything out once again.
And I guess that’s just how life is. You get comfortable, and it’s time to move on.
I want to make a point of savouring and making the most out of this last little stretch of my 4-year program.
And in 5 months, or 5 years, I can look back and decide it was all worth it.
Filed under: Graphic Design, My Friends, School Life, Triumphs & Heartbreaks | Tags: agenda, fundraising, Graphic Design, school
The first week of the last year of my schooling career has come and gone. The workload seems impossibly heavy combined with fundraising for the grad show. I’m already overwhelmed and a little bit scared. But as is with anything that scares me is I avoid it as much as I can until I absolutely cannot avoid it any longer. And then I plunge into it.
And I guess this is as good a time as any.
Like so many years before, I promised myself to be more assertive this year. Except this time, I will be.
Babies for Sale
The Jo and I have been siamese twins for the past 2 weeks trying to construct as many agendas as we can. It’s been tedious work, but at the end of the morning, I couldn’t have asked for a better teammate. It helps that we like each other.
This is probably one of the most extensive and real design projects that I’ve ever done. It was nothing short of a miracle for us to be able to make just about every design decision together.
If Joann and I had a baby, this is what it would look like:
Our babies are 20 bucks a pop. Beatrice not included. Buy them! And do what you will with them. We don’t judge.
Filed under: Graphic Design, My Friends, School Life | Tags: agenda, design, fundraising
School is starting again in 2 weeks, and the first deadline of the year is looming over us in the form of me and Joann’s little agenda fundraising project.
Joann and I are hoping to have some agendas done by the first week of school. It seemed like a daunting task, but it looks like we might just be able to meet the deadline.
For the last 2 months Jo and I have been working tirelessly on the agenda. It’s been quite tedious as a lot of the agenda consists of placing the dates. I just hope to any god that’ll listen that we haven’t made any mistakes.
This project has gone from being a humble spiral bound planner to a fabric hard-covered, 5 signature, coptic bound agenda with a colour-coordinated ribbon. And it has been no more than just an ambitious concept up until a few days ago when we finally chose a fabric pattern and started wrapping our cardboard covers. Today we made further progress when we printing out our first mock-up.
It was a good feeling when we had that first copy in our hands. Finally, our hard work has come to some tangible form of fruition.
I can’t wait to get started on the sewing!
Filed under: Doses of Cynicism, Graphic Design, My Friends, My Weekend Pillows, Photography, School Life | Tags: DTE, Photography, selfishness, summer, Vancouver
It is made even more apparent that people are selfish and they mostly just look out for themselves when a large group of people congregate.
On Saturday, Pillz, his friends, and I went to the Jazz Festival. It got more crowded as it got later in the afternoon.
I sat on the edge of a narrow pathway that kept getting narrower with more and more people standing in front of it. And I was forced to witness the ugliness of human inconsideration.
People whizzing by clearing the way with their strollers. People stopping abruptly in the middle of the pathway to chat with their friends and effectively blocking anyone else from passing through.
I gritted my teeth the whole way through.
On Sunday, Pillz and I went on a nice stroll down the DTE. And I thought I’d haul out my camera from the very back of my closet and make some use of it.
The sunny weather yesterday prompted Joann and I to head out to the beach. However, the slight breeze felt more like the arctic freeze when we got to the beach. We wrapped ourselves in our beach blankets, ate our sandwiches from the Safeway Deli and left.
We then went to Calhouns and further discussed our summer project – the G DM A agenda. It is going to be an agenda tailor designed to the G DM A program. It is becoming more apparent to us that it is going to be a lot of work, but I think we’re up for the challenge.
Filed under: Books, Glitter & Sparkles, School Life | Tags: Boys in the Trees, gay, gym, James Purefoy, Kevin McKidd, Mary Swan, Rome
So apparently people come to my blog to see Kevin McKidd and James Purefoy naked alone/together. I’m sorry to disappoint, but I have no access to such pictures. I have only caught glimpses of James Purefoy’s dink in some episodes of Rome.
It was a marvelous… show. It was.
Anyhow, life has been pretty good without the stress of school. I’m still just getting used to going about my days without momentary bouts of anxiety attacks.
I have started going back to the gym in hopes of getting some man-cleavage for my Bali trip in a couple weeks. It has been about an 8-month lapse, and I’ve become a frail child.
On an unrelated note, I’ve been mistaken for a girl twice in 2 days. Awkward.
I have started a new book, Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan. It was a little bit abstract in the beginning, and a little bit too 19th century for my liking, but it’s starting to grow on me.
I missed reading.
Today marks the end of my 3rd year graphic design degree program. It has been 1 fiery hell of a week. The things I’ve had to do, the things I’ve seen – I don’t think I will ever be the same again. Yes, if sodomy hadn’t kill my innocence, the 4 major projects have certainly done it.
The Men’s Room Apparel Packaging
Self Promo Press Kit
Radio station project is done, and only 3 more final projects remain. I was somewhat, but not completely, satisfied with the result of my radio project. And I think it has to do with my reluctance to work with Photoshop. It is such a powerful and complicated application that require a certain amount of dedication to fully be able to utilize to your advantage.
I lack that dedication.
This is some of the promotional items for my concept radio station: Rare 88.9FM.
Bus Shelter Ads
Mail-out Coupon
