Dec 19, 2013

This was my schedule for the day. That's right. Two classes with a three hour break in between. I took full advantage of this long break by going home, choosing and editing photos for Christmas present, buying new blank DVDs, buying frames at Michael's, and dropping off my photos to be printed. Then I came home and had lunch with my remaining hour. Quite a productive work day.

Right after work I met Ryan at the park for some outdoor workout since it was quite nice. We did hand stands in the grass, which was extremely cold, then we tried climbing up onto the bathroom building and over the wall. We also discovered our arms are not the same length, but then discovered the wall where we were measuring them was at an angle so when we switched positions it became clear that it wasn't the case at all. We did five sets of hill sprints with jumping jacks at the bottom and push ups at the top. That was a nice and exhausting exercise.

I had to go back to T&F to resolve a problem (that they could have resolved themselves) but it was alright because I ended up getting my prints done right then. I headed up to Rowan to meet Anjali in the book store and get a latte drink from Starbucks before heading out to the ice. The skates felt like toys, but they worked, and we skated around in circles for a while. The rink is really small so you can't get much speed going before running into someone who is even worse at skating.

It was fun, but I'd rather go to a bigger rink. We walked around the campus a little bit, and I ended up talking to Jan for a while at Westby and getting a copy of the recent Gallery publication. It was nice seeing her again. I came home and had some food and stayed up too late again watching Burn Notice. I want to finish the series now, but after enjoying something a lot I don't want it to end in a way. And enough talk about TV.

Feb 26, 2010

I worked at Lakeside as it snowed like crazy outside. There was a delay so it was nice to be able to sleep in before going to work. The day wasn't too bad. It was fairly lax since it was basically a snow day.

I picked up Joanna and went to see Cop Out after work. It was pretty hilarious, I'd watch it again. It was certainly not a Kevin Smith movie but it definitely had a different feel to it.

We came back to Rowan and after a while I headed to the Student Center for Frozen Friday. They had a heated tent and an ice skating rink.

I had some food with Andrew, Laura and Mike and then we tried out the "ice" skating. It was not easy.

The fake ice was hard to skate on. I couldn't glide and I almost fell a lot. I never actually fell but I didn't spend that much out there because it wasn't much fun.

The next activity was turkey bowling. It was exactly what it sounds like. We bowled with a frozen turkey in a bag. Not as easy as it sounds.

We entered the tournament later in the night and competed fiercely. Andy reluctantly bowled his turkey.

The final score ended with Andy ahead of me and the person I tied. He won the gift cards and got to take the turkey home!

I picked up the license plate that I made and came back to watch Weeds before sleeping time.

Feb 8, 2010

I had Art History in the morning time followed by my usual break, which I used to watch tv and then get blueberry pancakes and tater tots to eat whilst we wasted over two hours in Photojournalism. We actually learned a few things that were interesting but not before being subjected to the usual circus of our professor (unquote) figuring out the computer/projector.

We left right after class for Haverford College to see the exhibit of Chris Jordan's work. I've been a fan since a year or two ago when I found his work during a Color Theory project. He uses thousands of small items put together to create large images of mass consumption and waste in the U.S.

Skull with Cigarette is made of 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of people who die from cigarette smoking each year.

Paper Bags depicts 1.14 million paper bags, the number used each hour in the U.S.

Even I can't really tell that this is a photo of a photo, it's amazingly detailed and realistic. You get the full effect standing back and then really walking up close to it in the gallery.

Prison Uniforms is huge and takes up the whole wall.

It shows 2.3 million prison uniforms, the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005.

This is one of my three favorites of his, all hanging in the same room. It's amazingly detailed and just a great work on its own.

Plastic Cups shows one million plastic cups which is the number used every six hours on U.S. flights.

Cans Seurat is a contender for my favorite of all. It's an amazing replica of the original work and is strangely similar in design to the way Seurat worked.

106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the U.S. every thirty seconds. It's crazy to even think about that. That's the great thing about his work is the beauty of it catches you at first and then you realize the intricacy of how many little pieces are put together to make it and then you really stop to think about what it means: every thirty seconds this many cans are used and surely not all recycled. Just the tip of the iceberg.

Speaking of the tip of the Iceberg, Denali Denial is an awesome design made up of logos from GMC Denalis.

24,000 of them equal to six weeks of sales in 2004. Gas prices didn't slow down the sales at all it seems. I really love the word play that you hardly notice until you get close.

After the gallery, we stopped to see Jen and Micah for a short time since it had been a long time and we were right around the corner. It was good to see them again before we headed into the city for ice skating, finally! This is my big idea for our date.

It was hard at first but after doing a few laps and getting the right sized skates, I felt a little more confident. Not confident, but more so than before.

We skated around for an hour or so, holding each other up and listening to a lot of '80s music. It was a lot of fun and a little scary at the same time. I didn't fall though!

What somewhat cliche date would be complete without dinner? We went to Italian Affair, where we were seated in the indoor/outdoor area with a stream and a waterfall but it was too cold so we came back inside. I got the spinach gnocchi which was delicious as always and Joanna got spinach raviolis that were very good as well.

We came back and stayed up longer than we planned to but still got to bed pretty early compared to usual.