An eventful day

I may or may not be writing today from the BYU Health center Urgent Care unit… it’s been a day.

My mission today didn’t start out too bad: 3 copies of my portfolio and resume due by 4PM so that my professor take them with when he flies out to New York tonight. Originally, this was only mildly complicated due the fact that I have class from 9:30-1 and Cameron has been feeling a little under the weather all weekend. Doable.

I woke up this morning at 6:30, and hurried to get ready so I could get everything printed this morning before class even started. Unfortunately, Cam’s “under the weather” had turned into “sick and pathetic” so he went out to go get some drugs, while I set up my document so it would be ready to print as soon as I got there. I got to Kinkos at 8, and dropped $57 so that they could color copy a 16 page portfolio on cardstock 3 times. By the time that was over, it was already 9, so I didn’t have time to cut it or bind it, just enough to drive home and run to class.

Finally, 3.5 dragging hours later I got out of class ran to work and started cutting out my pages out. Cam, although feeling sick was nice enough to drive out to school and pick me up. Back at Kinkos I dropped another $12 for binding, then drove back to work because I realized left my resume copies there. I parked and ran to work, on my way flipping through the pages to make sure everything turned out just right-dang it. In one of the books the middle section of pages were backwards.

I continued running to work to get my resumes, still trying to decided if I had time to get it fixed or not. The whole time I was in the office I kept going back and forth about whether it was worth it. Eventually I decided that I had already spent $23 on this book (57+12/3) and that was too much to send it off wrong. So I ran back to the car, drove back to Kinkos, we re-printed the off pages, re-cut them, and re-bound the book. The desk guy was nice/smart enough to not charge me saying it was probably his mistake (I would have probably cried and posted a mean tweet if they had charged me the extra $7).

I sped back to school, ran to class, and handed my portfolio to my professor at 3:45. I drove home to Cam who I had left to fend for himself all day, only to find he had gotten worse and now had a puss-filled eye infection to boot. Now we’re here waiting in the urgent care… at least it’s the first time all day I’ve been able to sit down.

I’ll post the portfolio pics in a few days when I can stand to think about it again.

Photography

So one of the classes I decided I should take before I graduate is photography. Someday I'll have to actually get a camera- my friend Lizzy was nice enough to let me borrow her camera for the class. It's been a ton of fun, but since it's only a block class, it's been a pretty steep learning curve.

Here are a couple of the class assignments I've done so far, the first one is from our assignment on architecture, the other two are from our assignment on abstraction.

Next week my assignment is going to be people... let me know if you want to help! (... and if anyone knows how to change the f-stop on a Nikon d40, please let me know! I've been functioning in S mode.)

Got Milk?

My co-worker just created a hilarious new website called whereismymilkfrom.com.

Seriously it's a crack-up. He found on a list that the FDA has about which codes on your milk belong to which dairy, and made a really slick website to showcase it. Here's where I come in: In efforts to make this the coolest website about milk you've ever been to, he wanted little icons to represent each of the products that a dairy produces. Since I happen to do icons, he asked me to design them. The outcome: Awesomeness.

So, to check out my latest artistic endeavors, and to find the answer to that question I know you've been asking... whereismymymilkfrom.com

Wordplay

So my co-worker sent this to me, and I thought it was very well done... I didn't even see the twist coming.

Half-Remembered

So one of the things Cameron has been having to get used to this last year is my mixed-up memory. It does funny things like when I have to remember a phone number, it can remember all the right numbers, but not necessarily in the right order. Often it remembers half an important piece of information... like the right street, but in the wrong city (true story). This is the kind of remembering I did today.

So my friends at work Spencer and Lizzy got married yesterday (Congrats) and we were planning on going to their wedding reception tonight. So we got all dressed up, got a present, and headed off to 116 W Center Street in Provo to the reception center. We found the reception center and hopped into the long reception line. The table for the presents was across the room, so I sent Cam over to put our present down while I waited. When he came back he pulled me out of line and had me look at the couple at the other end of the line... I didn't recognize either of them.

Whoops.

So turns out I had the place right on this one... I even knew it was Saturday from 6-9. Turns out the reception is next Saturday.

Survey Says...

The votes are in, here are the final numbers for the Cam facial hair poll:

Funny, no one voted for scruff...
Cam would like to let everyone know that the usual is probably sticking around for awhile (at least while we're at BYU).

Hilary&Brian's Wedding video

So my BFF Hilary got married just before Christmas. When I asked if she had anyone doing a wedding video and she said no, I volunteered! So here is a snippet of my first wedding video!

I checked out a camera from the library, and watched videos online so I would know what to do. Most of the day I was having a hard time getting shots because I was trying to stay out of the way of the photographer, but there was about an hour between the luncheon and the reception where not much was going on (and the photographer couldn't be in the dressing room) so I finally got some shots I wanted. The song is "We are One" by Kelly Sweet.