dinner at prof's

Both studio crits, all students, several partners.

much much food.

I made my usual fruit salad and the usual thing happened: to start everyone spooned out their bits and pieces and then by the end of the night everyone was just taking pieces out with their fingers. I think that's a huge compliment that people keep picking away at the fruit, but it also says something really lovely about the comfort levels between people - high.

Also afterwards unrelated party at an amazing apartment - E: like yours at Anamoe, but super huger.

priority list: super secret project, then tech portfolio and hopefully something for world pinhole photography day.

peace.

review equals done!

My final review was yesterday and it was great!

We really set the mood by playing some music from the museum, serving tea and cookies, and fresh flowers.

I'm caught up on sleep, and wine!

Tomorrow I'm going to watch some reviews and then work on my portfolio and finish my schoolwork.

peace

another day without sunshine

10:30 pm coffee break:

guy in elevator: how's your project going?

Lori: awesomely?

gie: ha ha - (mixed horror and shocked laugh)

L: I just realized that I went another full day without seeing the sun. I think I'm getting scurvy or whatever lack of sun causes.

gie: what does cause scurvy? (obviously delirious)

later, in my brain: no I'm thinking of vampirism. I'm definitely getting that.

peace

CANcon

I was thinking last night about something I started a few years ago and haven't really continued. Several years I decided to eliminate all popular culture from my life. I decided to start with radio/music, then move to tv, then who knows... I don't think it ever occurred to me to eliminate films. I'm such a huge film junkie. I love seeing films!!!

I decided last night that I should continue what I started - keeping in mind I've only 99% scaled back on tv, but I still consider that a success. I'm giving up films. No, that's way too intense. I'll give up Hollywood films.

Canadian films only.

Should I include docs? Should I allow myself a periodic Hollywood film? Foreign language and zero budget films?

Canadian films and docs. I can do that. Paul Gross' Gunless is coming out in the next few weeks and so is the new April Mullen/Tim Doiron adventure called 'Gravytrain.' Bruce MacDonald is working on something. I saw the new Adam Egoyan and it was great. I've been watching a lot of RPS lately too.

I'll keep you posted on how this goes and in the meantime go see some can/con. There are lots of great homegrown films out there!

peace.

nothing to report

The other night someone systematically went through the 3rd floor of my building at school and stole cameras, compys, etc... everything that can be stolen for cash including one woman's compy, back up drive and her other backup drive that backs up the first drive. I totally get why she needs two backup drives, but why was she keeping them in the same place at the same time? Locks were cut off and drawers pried open. Moral: don't leave stuff at school, not even locked.

I'm on the 4th floor and none of stuff was taken or is missing. Good for me, but boo-urns for the others. It's a shitty thing to do and a shitty time to do it since we're at the end of the school year and now is when we all need our data hordes the most. The weird thing is that I was at school until 2am and the first person at school to notice the problem was there at 6am, so when did this happen? I'm surprised that there was enough time with literally no one on that floor to even pull this off.

Yes, school is a 24hr job in my building.

peace.

my date with RK

I'm working on a group project for my tech class and we were assigned a building at the Shilo military base. It's a building that is of a typical design for the architect that designed it and we were impressed by the structure and the tour we were given by the military personnel.

We've been making a scale model of the building at a 1:10 scale which is huge, but we were only required to do a section of the building, detailing construction and connections and whatever was relevant to the model. We also made a point of arranging a phone interview with the architect who is retired and lives in California.

We weren't as impressed after the conversation and I won't say the name of the architect because he probably googles himself regularly and I don't want him to think I'm even more of a hack after writing this, but I will say that he gave us one piece of advice: he could tell we lacked creative instincts and should therefore drop out and switch to dentistry or risk being stuck as uncreative managers all our working lives.

Sound advice form one generation to another. For those of you keeping score that's twice in two weeks that someone has told me to leave the profession.

peace.