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This time last year I was working in the rainy (and wonderful) city of Seattle at Noah's Bagels. I was making far too many "sample bagels" (mainly so that we could eat them all ourselves---MISS YOU BRENT!) and gorging myself with pumpkin shmear (and pumpkin bagels--how I worked there without gaining the dreaded "freshman 15" I'll never know).
It was a field trip day for the photo 2 class at MHS. We traveled via gold line and red line throughout Los Angeles-our first stop at Highland Park and our last stop at Sunset in Hollywood. The students captured the graffiti and signage of Highland Park (the above photo was taken by the photo teacher Brenda Schlenker--I only had my film camera with me), the wonderful cultures of Olvera Street and China Town and the art gallery at Freestyle Photographic Supplies in Hollywood. It was a fun, yet tiring, day as we traveled like tourists through the city most of us have lived in our whole lives.
After spending 4 hours in the darkroom I finally completed (or atleast I think I completed) my assignment for Wednesday (we will see when the prints finally dry). The assignment was to double expose a roll of film (shoot a roll and then run it through the camera again and shoot on top of what was already photographed) so printing has become increasingly more difficult (or atleast it feels that way) with every photo. I printed with a friend from my class, Christian, so luckily having company made the time go by faster (and made it a lot easier having an extra eye to tell me when to call it quits and stop wasting paper on impossible photos)
Today was a day of adventures. It began with a photography hunt at these train tracks with a friend from class and ended with a Target/Jamba run with my roommates. I need to fit homework in at some point...
My day started at 4:30 AM when I had to drive to San Diego (USD) for an Angelman Syndrome workshop. I'm starting the training process to be an ABC Therapist for kids in the LA area with Angelmans, and this workshop was the first step. After the workshop and the 2 hr drive back to Pasadena, Matt and I went to Marie Calendars (which made me miss my dad and Hunter since it was a favorite weekend for us when we were younger). My camera battery is dead and of course I can't find the charger so these (and probably future photos) were taken with my phone..hence the gross quality.
Why has it been 2 years since I've been to the Getty? I asked myself that as I read an email from my photography professor telling us about the "College Night" that the gorgeous museum was having tonight. A friend from my class and I decided that it had been too long since either of us had been to the museum and therefore we must go and see what the "College Night" had to offer (and of course I forget my camera so the graphic to the left is all I got). It turned out to be a fun filled night of viewing many exhibits, including a photography exhibit about the gold rush, embarking on an exhibit scavenger hunt and sitting in on a panel with Dan Savage, artist Robbie Conal, and moderator Liz Warner (from Indie 103).
I was finally well enough to drive back to Northridge today. My bed isn't as comfy as Kate's, but its nice being back at school, surprisingly. I spent my night catching up with my roommate Manal and friend Carly from across the hall :)
so its day 3 of having strep and I'm getting bored. I can tell that the antibiotics are kicking in because my fever has been down all day, but I still haven't had a whole lot of energy to leave Katelyn's wonderfully comfortable bed. Tonight I was looking at Hunter's new Homecoming photos on facebook when I saw the picture to the right (minus me in it). Since I had nothing else to do with my night (besides study for a bio test, but who really wants to do that when you're sick?) I decided to add myself in it and make it our family's newest family photo. :) It might be a little narcissistic of me, but seeing the picture made me miss my family and miss being apart of events like these. I decided this was the perfect "picture of the day" because as I was photoshopping it, I got a facebook chat request from Rodrigo, the foreign exchange student that my family is going to be hosting for 2 months. It was really special to get to know him a little bit over the interweb since I won't be able to meet him in person.
My "best school friend" Mary (or "shmary" as we used to call her for a reason I'm not quite remembering) came home this weekend from TCU. Since we made plans to see each other but never confirmed them (sounds like us) I decided to surprise her. I caught her right as she was walking out the door to get her hair done. We spent the rest of the afternoon catching up in the company of her hairstylist.
After an afternoon of watching the Food Network with Ben and Abby (they couldn't get enough of the home cooking shows!) I gave them a bath at 3:00 which they thought was hilarious given the fact that it was still "day" outside.
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I can hardly believe that it's been 2 years since I started dating Matt. I feel like we were just celebrating our 1 year anniversary; me in Seattle and him in California.
My Great Grandma (or better known as "Grandma Grandma" by me and "Old Grandma" by Austen) has been in the hospital for the past week. My aunt drove the great grandkids to Lancaster today to visit her, only to find out that she was well enough to go home! She couldn't sit still while we were visiting (partly from the drugs, and partly from her anticipation to go home) and when she stood we asked her where she was going and she said, "My feet want to run!"
Thursdays= Roadtrip to Pasadena so that Fridays can = Working at MHS and babysitting my favorite Griffith babies.
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