A Coherent Piece
I took a nap. From four until eight. It worked out all right, but I'm afraid I'll be up all night again. WIDE AWAKE! My parents are still around, although my dad spent all day in some hotel conference rooms for the Motorola thing. My mom, much cuter than I thought she was, braved the bus system and got from the airport to downtown, looked at the Smith Tower and walked around on the observation deck. She wandered the streets of Seattle and had a good time, I think. I'm impressed. I showed my parents the places I studied on Monday, as they tagged along as I studied until class at 3:45. I took them to the downtown library, my favorite coffee shop, and the SU library. It's nice to have them around for a couple days, and even nicer that I can say that. It's been a long fight and the culmination of it feels fantastic. The mark of an adult, I suppose.
Wrote a cool paper about how public transportation changed the lower classes in London during the nineteenth century. Forcing the upper classes to acknowledge their existence and how all classes react in similar ways to certain things. I liked it. That was for my history class. I've been taking photographs using long and short shutter speeds for my B&W class. So far, the most successful was the boiling teapot. If you haven't, experiencing the house teapot is a must. It represents our house very well. My history of photo and spanish art classes are both going well. I still don't have my history of photography book - most people don't because Carla failed to put it on a book list - so I fear being way behind, but I guess it's not our fault. I had a test in Spanish Art today, which went well, I think. I'm really excited about that exibit at the SAM - I'll be visiting it quite often. It's still really weird to have classes start at 3:45 pm - it throws off the schedule I've kept for years of getting up early to go to school and then work and study in the afternoon and evening. I definitely need to adjust a bit more. But I'm getting there...slow and steady.
The house is great. Very relaxing and I can't wait until I get to spend a bit more time here. Sam is coming up from Portland for his fall break this weekend and will be hanging out for a week. It's going to be nice to have him just hanging out. Since I have class and work, he'll probably just use the place as a base station, but I'm excited to spend some real time with him. I honestly haven't spent more than a couple hours with him for almost a year. We can hang out in Seattle, he can see his friends, we'll have to have a party or two at the house so he can meet all my friends. People tend to like Sam more than me, wait, that sounds wrong. Sam is just like me except a boy, in better shape and smarter. And when we're together we're funnier and tell great stories. I laugh a lot with him. It's nice to have him in the family, that's for sure. Nicer now that he lives closer. He's coming up with Jaime's sister which is weird, but great that he has a free ride up here. He also offered to pay for some groceries, which is nice because I don't get paid until the end of next week. I've never had a drink with my brother, and I guess it's time to do so.
I turned in my hours tonight for the SPMT job - should wrap that up in the next week or so, and then I don't work for them until next February. The Law School is going all right - they keep promising more exciting work, but we're waiting on some other people, so for now, same old, same old. I told them I couldn't work so much, which is good. After coming to the realization that I work too hard a month or two ago, I've had a hard time tapering things off. I guess I never gave much thought to the fact that I could work too hard. But I feel it now, right in my bones. So, other than those two jobs, everything else is wrapped up. I still have to finish my Pilgramage Documentary, but I think I'll just get that done on my own time. Hopefully before November though. We'll see. I'm glad to be tying up all these loose ends.
After having so many people over on Friday night, I'm excited to try it again. Making friends and reaffirming older friendships. That's what needs to keep happening.
Other than that, nothing. Just rocking through the days. Gathering information, storing, contemplating. It's a good life.
Wrote a cool paper about how public transportation changed the lower classes in London during the nineteenth century. Forcing the upper classes to acknowledge their existence and how all classes react in similar ways to certain things. I liked it. That was for my history class. I've been taking photographs using long and short shutter speeds for my B&W class. So far, the most successful was the boiling teapot. If you haven't, experiencing the house teapot is a must. It represents our house very well. My history of photo and spanish art classes are both going well. I still don't have my history of photography book - most people don't because Carla failed to put it on a book list - so I fear being way behind, but I guess it's not our fault. I had a test in Spanish Art today, which went well, I think. I'm really excited about that exibit at the SAM - I'll be visiting it quite often. It's still really weird to have classes start at 3:45 pm - it throws off the schedule I've kept for years of getting up early to go to school and then work and study in the afternoon and evening. I definitely need to adjust a bit more. But I'm getting there...slow and steady.
The house is great. Very relaxing and I can't wait until I get to spend a bit more time here. Sam is coming up from Portland for his fall break this weekend and will be hanging out for a week. It's going to be nice to have him just hanging out. Since I have class and work, he'll probably just use the place as a base station, but I'm excited to spend some real time with him. I honestly haven't spent more than a couple hours with him for almost a year. We can hang out in Seattle, he can see his friends, we'll have to have a party or two at the house so he can meet all my friends. People tend to like Sam more than me, wait, that sounds wrong. Sam is just like me except a boy, in better shape and smarter. And when we're together we're funnier and tell great stories. I laugh a lot with him. It's nice to have him in the family, that's for sure. Nicer now that he lives closer. He's coming up with Jaime's sister which is weird, but great that he has a free ride up here. He also offered to pay for some groceries, which is nice because I don't get paid until the end of next week. I've never had a drink with my brother, and I guess it's time to do so.
I turned in my hours tonight for the SPMT job - should wrap that up in the next week or so, and then I don't work for them until next February. The Law School is going all right - they keep promising more exciting work, but we're waiting on some other people, so for now, same old, same old. I told them I couldn't work so much, which is good. After coming to the realization that I work too hard a month or two ago, I've had a hard time tapering things off. I guess I never gave much thought to the fact that I could work too hard. But I feel it now, right in my bones. So, other than those two jobs, everything else is wrapped up. I still have to finish my Pilgramage Documentary, but I think I'll just get that done on my own time. Hopefully before November though. We'll see. I'm glad to be tying up all these loose ends.
After having so many people over on Friday night, I'm excited to try it again. Making friends and reaffirming older friendships. That's what needs to keep happening.
Other than that, nothing. Just rocking through the days. Gathering information, storing, contemplating. It's a good life.