Spring 2015 - Day 14
Last night was terrible. I didn't sleep at all. And if I did manage to fall asleep I was woken up by the rocking almost immediately. It was severe. Things fell over, the drawers in our bedside tables would open and shut. The ship creaks and was so loud. At some points the whole ship would jump and then bang down. Those moments were a little scary but I never felt afraid. It was just impossible to sleep because of how much I was sliding around in my bed and how loud the creaking was.
I got up for my 8am class completely exhausted. In photojournalism we are learning about depth of field so she brought a bunch of candy to class and spread it out on the tables. We had to try and get one candy in focus and then one line of candy in focus and then all of it in focus. It is a very delicate procedure trying to manually focus on one tiny skittle. But it was fun!
Then I suffered through World Mythologies. And by suffered I mean that the material was interested but I felt so terrible that I needed to be anywhere else but there. It felt like the class went on forever. I was so restless and almost got up and left close to the end. The Union is just so much rockier than the rest of the ship. It was a struggle.
I forced myself to go to lunch. I ate some soup and I think a banana. It was rough. I just had no appetite. I left and went back to my room and took a nap. A long nap. A really, really long nap. Stephanie came in right as I was about to take a nap and said she was going to do the exact same thing. She has World Mythologies too and the Union also made her feel awful. So we napped together.
I got up at 2:15 because I had to finish my landscape before class. I just needed to put some detail on one tree. It didn't take me all that long, I think that part could have come out better but I really like it as a whole. I also slept off the sea-sickness headache I had so I took a sea sickness pill to hopefully keep it from coming back.
Right before my class I went and got a cup of noodles. The soup that I had eaten for lunch did not last very long and I was so hungry. I ate my noodles at the beginning of class and made everyone jealous.
In class we worked with color. We started doing a color study. Our professor brought a whole bunch of paint chips like you would get from Home Depot when you want to paint your house. We had to pick one color and then try to find two background colors to put it on so that they end up looking like two different colors. Then you had to choose two colors in the same family that were just a little different and find a background to put them on that would make them took exactly the same. It was challenging but interesting. After talking with Jon Goebel in the print making shop and seeing how he uses color theory to make his prints I think the concept is amazing. I have never really thought about how much you can manipulate color and get different results.
For our homework we had to take a bunch of paint chips in the same color family and try to color match them using either pastels or paints. Challenging, but really cool.
I went to bed so early. I forced myself to stay up because we go back another hour tonight and I would have been going to bed before 8pm. I stayed up till 10 so that when I put my clock back it was really 9. That felt reasonable.
I want to say that I did something between dinner and going to bed. But sitting here writing this, I can not remember what is was. Jessi and I were going to go to the gym but the ship was rocking so much it would not have been safe.
Oh! I remember! We went to Mama Shelley's flower arranging demonstration! It was really cool. She practices Ikebana, which a form of Japanese flower arranging. She goes to a school in Chicago and has a sensai and everything. It was really interesting. It is completely different from western style flower arranging. You are supposed to use your negative space, and make a-symmetrical pieces. Less is more and the plants are rarely clumped together tightly like in western flower arranging. She did a demonstration for us and it was beautiful. She had managed to go to a orchid greenhouse when we were in Hawaii and picked up a bunch of interesting plants. She had birds of paradise and this one flower with leaves so shiny they looked fake. I really enjoyed it.
So that is what we did. And then I read my book and went to bed. I was hoping for a better nights sleep. Perhaps the fact that I was so exhausted would work to my benefit. If the ship randomly becomes rockier at night, I am calling conspiracy!
I got up for my 8am class completely exhausted. In photojournalism we are learning about depth of field so she brought a bunch of candy to class and spread it out on the tables. We had to try and get one candy in focus and then one line of candy in focus and then all of it in focus. It is a very delicate procedure trying to manually focus on one tiny skittle. But it was fun!
Then I suffered through World Mythologies. And by suffered I mean that the material was interested but I felt so terrible that I needed to be anywhere else but there. It felt like the class went on forever. I was so restless and almost got up and left close to the end. The Union is just so much rockier than the rest of the ship. It was a struggle.
I forced myself to go to lunch. I ate some soup and I think a banana. It was rough. I just had no appetite. I left and went back to my room and took a nap. A long nap. A really, really long nap. Stephanie came in right as I was about to take a nap and said she was going to do the exact same thing. She has World Mythologies too and the Union also made her feel awful. So we napped together.
I got up at 2:15 because I had to finish my landscape before class. I just needed to put some detail on one tree. It didn't take me all that long, I think that part could have come out better but I really like it as a whole. I also slept off the sea-sickness headache I had so I took a sea sickness pill to hopefully keep it from coming back.
Right before my class I went and got a cup of noodles. The soup that I had eaten for lunch did not last very long and I was so hungry. I ate my noodles at the beginning of class and made everyone jealous.
In class we worked with color. We started doing a color study. Our professor brought a whole bunch of paint chips like you would get from Home Depot when you want to paint your house. We had to pick one color and then try to find two background colors to put it on so that they end up looking like two different colors. Then you had to choose two colors in the same family that were just a little different and find a background to put them on that would make them took exactly the same. It was challenging but interesting. After talking with Jon Goebel in the print making shop and seeing how he uses color theory to make his prints I think the concept is amazing. I have never really thought about how much you can manipulate color and get different results.
For our homework we had to take a bunch of paint chips in the same color family and try to color match them using either pastels or paints. Challenging, but really cool.
I went to bed so early. I forced myself to stay up because we go back another hour tonight and I would have been going to bed before 8pm. I stayed up till 10 so that when I put my clock back it was really 9. That felt reasonable.
I want to say that I did something between dinner and going to bed. But sitting here writing this, I can not remember what is was. Jessi and I were going to go to the gym but the ship was rocking so much it would not have been safe.
Oh! I remember! We went to Mama Shelley's flower arranging demonstration! It was really cool. She practices Ikebana, which a form of Japanese flower arranging. She goes to a school in Chicago and has a sensai and everything. It was really interesting. It is completely different from western style flower arranging. You are supposed to use your negative space, and make a-symmetrical pieces. Less is more and the plants are rarely clumped together tightly like in western flower arranging. She did a demonstration for us and it was beautiful. She had managed to go to a orchid greenhouse when we were in Hawaii and picked up a bunch of interesting plants. She had birds of paradise and this one flower with leaves so shiny they looked fake. I really enjoyed it.
So that is what we did. And then I read my book and went to bed. I was hoping for a better nights sleep. Perhaps the fact that I was so exhausted would work to my benefit. If the ship randomly becomes rockier at night, I am calling conspiracy!
