Archive for October, 2009
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Pumpkin Show, iMac innards, and the continuing Fashion drama
AMotD (Awesome Moment of the Day) Re-assembling a lab iMac and it didn’t go “bloop!” and let off a small cloud of smoke. Current main project: One Minute of Video and FASHION: glamour Had a mild panic attack during class Wednesday as yet another assignment was handed out and I realized I’m fairly well screwed [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Grad school by Mark Dawson
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Tryin’ to get from A to B can be tough
AMotD (Awesome Moment of the Day) Today was as good as yesterday was cruddy – tough to pick. Current main project: Publication Design, Fashion shoot, and picking final project ideas. Had a pretty great evening. Started off after work by helping one of the other students get some photos for her web design project. Actually [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Grad school by Mark Dawson
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Yahoo’s sense of humor (?), setting up camp, grades
AMotD (Awesome Moment of the Day) Umm… still waiting for it. Current main project: First video shoot, publication design project Aside from the ad Yahoo served up this morning with my email (see below), today got off to a decent start. Managed to get to the printer in time to run off some not-terrible prints [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Grad school by Mark Dawson
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Assignments Round 3: featuring Gary the Luthier
AMotD (Awesome Moment of the Day) Finishing the biggest project of the year (so far) Current main project: Getting home and getting more than 4 hours sleep. As usual it’s late and I’m not done and I want to get to bed, but the software is crunching the numbers to render my file, so I [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Grad school by Mark Dawson
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Grad Student Evicted!
HALLMARK ATHENS STUDENT HOUSING, LLC, PLAINTIFF: I’ve been served with an eviction notice for failure to pay rent. I don’t have time to fully explain how pissed off I am, but here’s a summary: rent is due on the 1st of the month (and not “before”, either). I handed a check to one of the [...]