I fail
Got home at 6 PM today after our algo presentation (which went kinda meh).
Thought to myself, “Hmm… I should make hot dogs.”
Put a pot of water on the stove, then wash dishes, and go to start working on homework.
Around 8:15 PM, I smell something burning, and think to myself, “Someone must be burning s… oh wait…. SHIT!”
Spent the next 3 hours out of my room as to not inhale the toxic burnt-teflon fumes filling the apartment. I kinda fail at life.
But yeah… now I can officially say I have burned water (and teflon).
Today’s platinum printing was kinda a failure. Things just stopped coming out completely after a while, even after 30 minute exposures. Meh. Given that the platinum stuff costs $150/bottle, I feel like I kinda wasted it on things that didn’t come out and ended up in the trash. Meh. Oh well.
Huge hugs to teh person who had a bad day today. If there’s anything I can do to make things better, please call me/IM me/contact me somehow. Seriously. I don’t care if it’s 4 AM and I’m asleep. Call me.
(This offer is actually open to anyone else who had a bad day too, except for the last part… please don’t call me at 4 AM :-P)
Meh, no pictar today.
Piecake piecake
Mmm…
Some people are full of thoughtful and awesome. Some people make me really happy. :)
Other people make me wish I didn’t care so much about other peoples’ problems. Mrr. People should be more trusting of friends/people wanting to listen and help with problems.
We made platinum prints today in alt. photo. Tried the same 6 minute exposures as Van Dyke… they turned out severely underexposed. Tried 10 minutes. Underexposed. Tried 15 minutes. Underexposed. Tried 30 minutes. Still underexposed.
I ended up setting one of my negatives for a 60 minute exposure and leaving for class. Came back afterwards, developed and fixed it, and still found it a little too underexposed.
*sigh*
On the plus side, you get amazing detail in these that you just completely lost in the Van Dyke process. Still, not sure if it’s worth the OMG DON’T GET THIS STUFF INSIDE YOU BECAUSE ITS A HEAVY METAL, the (extremely) long exposure times, the required developer bath, and the three fixer baths.
Today, as Keith and I were waiting at a light to cross the street for Joe Mamas, I was pulling my hair back to put into a ponytail… and this bum comes up behind me and puts a hand on my head/my hand and kinda runs his fingers through my hair. It was kinda a WTF EW moment…. and he smelled bad, and he was smoking, and he got my hand/hair all wet and sticky and oh god I don’t want to know what that was on his hands.
…
So um… apparently there’s more than one person that likes my hair… or something.
-_-
I can’t quite decide if this is worse than freshman year when I got harassed, chased, and pushed around/down by a guy after coming out of Blockbuster. Should have called the cops on him for assault. Meh.
Stupid bums.
*goes to wash hair with antibacterial wash*
Had the weirdest dream last night, but I can’t seem to remember it now. Rest assured that it was interesting and would have been a good read. Use your imagination.
Also thinking about dying my hair red again. I’m kinda fond of the current color (a mix of copper, light brown, golden brown, and faded maroon)… but I’m also getting bored of it. What I really want is purple dye… but purple dye is expensive and not worth the money. Thoughts?
Oh yeah, Ben, sorry I didn’t make ITG today :( Office hours took forever.
Updates
Haven’t been writing in here as often lately, and I think that’s working out better. I dunno… I don’t feel obligated to write here daily anymore, which was a stupid reason to keep writing here anyway.
So yeah.
A lot’s been happening lately, both academically and non. Academics have been okay, I guess. Not doing as well in classes as I’d like to be doing, but I’m also not stressing about them as much as I used to (I guess), so I don’t know… kinda balances out… maybe?
There’s just so much work I need to get done and so little time to do it all. Mrr.
As far as non-academics go, I’m really happy with where I am right now in life. More importantly, I think, I’m feeling again. It’s weird, because I’m a lot less social than I used to be, and I still feel highly uncomfortable in large groups of people (which is why I’ve been purposely avoiding the cluster and KGB/KGB events)… but it seems to work, you know?
Chris from before our photo field trip on Wednesday… I really like the photo, and I’m not sure why.
TOC foo
Today was teh TOC. Skipped two of my classes (couldn’t skip photo, we had a crit) to go. Handed out 15 resumes. Overall, didn’t manage to impress any companies.
*sigh*
I dunno… I just kinda fail at interview questions, even really informal ones that they ask while looking over your resume. IBM was all like, “You haven’t taken 410 (OS), so you don’t have what I’m looking for. Go away.” Bleh. I don’t want to work for them anyway.
Got something like 4 free t-shirts and a bunch of other free stuff. They just kept on handing me goodies… meh. I guess free stuff is always good, and I really like the color of the Microsoft one (that shade of green that I love to wear).
Apparently I look good clean-shaven and in a suit. Got something like 5 complements today.
My hair is crap in that pic (didn’t comb it first), but whatever.
Arr, ’twas talk like a pirate day. I didn’t participate, unfortunately.
I went crazy last night. Stressed out about my resume for the TOC and the fact that I had massive amounts of homework to finish up. Ended up going to bed around 3 AM, which was bad given that I woke up really early. Then, of course, had a long day after which I came home and still had homework to do.
I should sleep soon.