Busy Week

Monday :: Irritable.

Starting at 8 o'clock this morning, this ridiculously loud speaker (that I didn't even know we had in our room) started playing ridiculous music and then YELLING Chinese at me. Because my bed is next to the door, I was lucky enough to have the speaker right next to my head!! This went off every twenty minutes. 8:20...8:40...9:00...THEN it stops. I'm sleeping for the last glorious thirty minutes before my alarm goes off. THEN! At 9:27 there is a knock on the door with someone wanting me to sign a piece of paper that says that I promise to move out. K, I'm awake.

Needless to say, I was very VERY cranky when we got to Chinese class at 10.

I went to lunch with my group and then we talked to Tin-Man about our model plans, worked out some stuff, discussed with him again and then I went to metal class to finish my ring.

Dinner at 711 was sweet potato fries and snickers (HEALTHY!) and then Kenney and I were going to watch Toy Story 1, but QuickSilver lied and told us we'd already watched a movie today. I photographed metal projects and worked on reports. Then SLEPT.


Tuesday :: Beastin' On That Work

We met at 10 and got our CAD model approved by Tin-Man then started discussing materials and got busy! Our shop experience kind of slowed us down. We were going to use the lathe, but the 1/2 scale size of our foam made the model not fit on the machine. We went to ask Tin-Man if we could do 1/4 scale. Instead of saying yes, he suggested that we sand it by hand. Haha. We did a lot of sanding in hopes that getting rid of any "hard" edges with decrease failure and we will try the lathe again tomorrow.

I think Meuck's face is pretty hilarious here. He was wary on sanding the edges on the belt sander.
Nickie supporting the sanding.
TOWER OF SANDING PEOPLE!!!!!


I hurried to the dorm at 6 to rinse off because I was covered in foam. [By the way, in moving out, I think one of my roommates exposed something old and rotting that released a billion fruit flies. They are all over the room and all in the shower. I gotta say, it's hard to feel like you're getting clean when there's bugs flying all around you.] I quickly made a PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH! (I found bread and peanut butter at 711!!!) and then left for our make-up glass class at 6:30.

We pulled the clay out of the plaster molds and added glass. We also made glass necklace pendants. Neither were finished molding / melting by the time class was over.

There are all of my plaster molds.
You do some special measurements and then break glass like this to fill the molds with.
The SUPER KILN. The last one we used only got hot enough for the glass to melt a little. This kiln liquefies the glass into the molds.
In our hurried make-up class, we also made necklace pendants. These were the materials.
Once done, you simply place the pendants in a stryfoam/ceramic cannister and microwave it!
The colors will be very dull and off when they come out of the microwave because they are red hot from melting. Mine's the one in the center. When it cools, that yellow will be lime green, believe it or not.

We went to 711 with Tin-Man and I had some orange jello (with mandarin oranges in it!) then we returned to the dorms. I walked in to find that my one remaining roommate had invited her friend to stay for the night because she was in a room all alone after the other roommates had moved out. [Move out day only required Taiwanese to leave. International students can stay until July 7th.] This new friend had invited about 5 others to stay and they were all on their mattresses in the floor yelling in Chinese while I was trying to work on all of the reports that are due soon. I worked until 1 and then went to bed.

Wednesday :: Very Tired

My roommate and her friends didn't get quiet when I went to bed, and I ended up going to sleep in an empty bunk in the guys' dorm. Their AC was out, so I didn't sleep well, but at least it was quiet. 

I met my group at 10 and they whipped out this CRAZY SUPER GOOD hollowed out, lathed model. They had worked all night and didn't tell me! They'd snuck into glass class and then said BYE BYE! so I thought that they were going home for the night (It WAS understandable because we'd been there for almost 12 hours). Now I feel bad because I wasn't helping because I didn't know that I could be. Here is the crazy hollowed out model. Compare to the pictures above!


We worked ALL day and ALL night and accomplished a LOT. I gave them the rest of their gifts (Mickey/Minnie Mouse bouncey balls and Auburn keychains). They all yelled TOUCHDOWN! when they saw the football, haha.

We then proceeded to apply a Bondo like putty the the foam for the rest of the day. Their bondo is yellow instead of red.


Some finished pieces ...well closer to finished than the rest ::


While waiting on bondo to dry, I took some panoramas of the four trees courtyard, minus the trees.



I came home at 3:30 and am now getting in bed. There is no yelling going on, thank goodness.

Thursday :: Surprise Crunch Time

I woke up to find a note saying that we were going to meet at one instead of noon. ooootay! (I taught my group that. It's pretty hilarious when they all do it. I also taught them 'dude' and 'babe.' I couldn't accurately explain "That's what she said." but I tried.) Our plan was to finish the model completely today so that we can focus on the powerpoint and poster tomorrow and be DONE for the weekend.

I got to studio at 1, ran to get a cheeseburger literally 20 ft from studio and it took 30 minutes to get back. Slowww service.

When I returned I heard Melanie talking about how everything was due tomorrow. But that could not be right because Tin-Man SAID Monday, and even if he didn't, everyone coincidentally heard Monday. I went to talk to him about it and he said that yes, in fact, everything is due tomorrow. Stress. Three days for the model / presentation / poster that we THOUGHT we had were now gone.

We also found out that two different people had scooter accidents on their way home from studio the night before. Maybe the due-date should back off so tired people will stop crashing scooters.
I'm in studio finishing up this blog right now, and I'm posting this before the day is over. Therefore, if anything CRAAAAAZY happens, I'll let you know in the next post. Good day sir!