So I've been working all day and am taking a break to update my life. There may or may not be pictures depending on how long this takes as I have to get back to work!

My past month(ish) in bullets:

• Went home for thanksgiving!! It was so so so nice to see some family! For pics of this go see Nino's blog!
  
• Came back to school
  
• Homework
  
• ....More homework
  
• Went to the market! Got fruit!
  
• Homework :(
  
• Can you guess what comes next?

....So that was less exciting than I was hoping. Essentially, I have less than a week left of this semester and I'm somewhere between panic, crisis, and inner peace. It's liberating to know I won't have any homework for three weeks, and terrifying that I have less than 6 days to complete everything I need to do which at this point consists of:

(more bullets)

• one final book, all content created by me including pictures, hand-bound.
• two process books, which have to be organized, cut and bound
  
• one logo project which has to be applied to a complete line of stationary with an extra application (a calendar in my case) all printed and mounted
  
• a working mobile app (working as in conceptually working interfaces in flash, not actually coded to work on a phone)
• two essays for history of modern design class as well as studying for a written exam
• final edited video of an interview for a mini-documentary
  

This list expands 10 fold with the details and process of each of these things to actually get them to be final which all in all just scares the shit out of me :)

In any case, this is the 4th night in a row of 5 hours of sleep or less and definitely will not be the last. However, despite how little sleep I get in the next 6 days, I will be able to sleep indefinitely on break and I have plans to freaking hibernate.

ANYWAY, now that I've thoroughly whined through this blog post, here are some pictures to lighten the mood (mostly taken between the hours of 3am-6am and at hyperactive states of sleep deprivation)

So I don't have too much time to really explain all that much but I know it's been ages since I blogged so I figured throwing some pictures up would be better than nothing at all :) This next week is Thanksgiving and I couldn't be happier for the break (not that I won't have work to do...but at least I will have some nice famjam time to de-stress to!)

Anyway, here's some highlights from the past few weeks....

Lots of nerdy geeks, a cat, god, a cat, luigi, weezy and a crayon!

Geeky crayon!

Yup. That's Patrick as God. His justification? "It's okay, I'm Catholic."

The rest of the crayons!!

Cute! :)

So Ryan, Phil and Phil's little brother (also a Ryan) came to visit!! We went to the Ben Folds concert, but earlier in the day we decided to go to Somerset (the mall that's really two malls with the super super nice side and the regular side) and Tim Gunn was there from Project Runway!!

They were having a fashion show at the mall. It was crazy! We were wondering why it was impossible to park haha

Waiting outside at the Ben Folds show :)

Inside the venue before the show :)

Dear Fam

You're my favorites. I love and miss you all so much you can't understand. I've been really, really sad I haven't been able to talk to everyone. I hope I will be able to call each of you by the end of this weekend.

love love love love love you guys. you're all what keep me going!

:)






<3

Belle Isle

If you've tried to get a hold of me this week, you probably either been ignored or have heard me apologize profusely for not being able to talk as soon as I pick up. This past week was pure insanity. While this doesn't seem to be my heaviest workload since I've been at CCS, it has been the most frustrating semester so far. I feel like I'm constantly doing, never producing much of anything and never having what I fully need when class comes. It's mind-boggling and extremely distressing. Oddly, it seems to be in the air as the majority of my (graphic design) classmates feel the same way. A lot of us have 4, even 5 studios and it seems to be clawing at our souls. In any case, today Stacey suggested that we take a break and go drive around for a bit because it was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day out and there really isn't anything more depressing than being cooped up on a gorgeous fall day. Sooooo we took a break and headed to Belle Isle to play in the leaves and sand. Hopefully if I didn't get a chance to call you back this week(end), this will tide you over for a bit because there is no true end in sight for this busyness!

ENJOY, cause we sure did! :)

A beautiful day on the CCS campus :)

On our way

Very typical Stacey face

Such a nice day!!!!

Gorgeous Detroit (betcha don't hear that one too often!)

We found an off-road woodsy area to play in!

My beautiful roomie!

We decided we could take senior pictures for a living if this graphic design thing falls through :P

She's SO CUTE!

So many pretty colors!

More shots of the Dtown skyline

Gorgeous

Weee!

My attempting to be straight-faced face :P

She was showing off her nails :)

We're going up, up, up....

So Friday night, I'm playing soccer in the gym with a bunch of friends. At some point, this conversation occurs:

Pat: "Oh did you know I'm going skydiving tomorrow?"
Me: "Uhhh..NO?!"
Pat: "Wanna come?"
Me: "....YES!"

Another one of our friends, Ian, also went with us. And the rest is history........

Driving there...

This is the place!

Cool signs and pics....

signing our lives away...

Pat getting all ready with his Santa Claus instructor :)

Ian and I ready to go!

The group :)

This is Dave. He was awesome!

On the plane...

Getting nervous!! Some guy did a low height jump and had just literally ran out of the plane.

I was too nervous to do anything but grin widely.

Patrick did not take my route, but let his fear show all over his face hahahaha

He jumped first!

Freefalling!

The wind is so epic


And the chute is released


safely on the ground :)

MY TURN!!!!


Weeeeeeee. This was the only part that I was truly scared. Just the initial reality of freefalling toward the earth. I "screamed" (you can't actually project any sound when you're falling that fast) for about 4 seconds before I realized how effing cool it was and began to enjoy myself :D

Smiling!


I'm flying!

Thumbs up!


This is SO COOL!!!


Weeeeeeeeeee!

Weeeeee! You can't tell but he started spinning us around and around...I got pretty nauseated but it was too cool to stop hahaha


Just chilling, no big deal ;)


look at the curve of the earth.....SO AMAZING!

How many people can say they high-fived their cameraman while freefalling 120mph+?
EPIC HIGH FIVE!!!!!!!


Last few seconds of freefall...


Letting the chute go!

Bye, bye cameraman :)

Coming in to land...

We're on the ground!

Woohoo!!!!!



Video of my jump!! First 2 minute are just their stock intro so you can skip it and get to the good stuff! :)