varying degrees of light

10 43 AM - Meet with Pip and Todd Montsma about potential Signet design ideas. Wonder, again, how Pip and I both managed to take on another task for the year. Leaf through and discuss design magazines and portfolios. Get excited.

11 24 AM - Back at the apartment. Shower, brush, deodorant, q-tip. Read and return emails. Sit and calm down for a few minutes, focusing on the day. Make lunch and eat silently, focusing on the day. Use a bell pepper that is losing its crunch, but not its flavor.

1 07 PM - See Jake, Dee, Joel P. and, again, Pip at the Grille area. Sit and congregate calmly, which is nice. Laugh, with Dee, at how cute Jake and Piper are. Todd stops by to hand us two design magazines that he wanted to show us earlier. Decide which one is cooler and which one, though more sleek, is less exciting. Piper takes the cooler one. Curse the power of girls and their puppy dog eyes. Sit with Dee for a few minutes.

1 33 PM - Lumber up the stairs in the campus center to the President's office. Inform the nice receptionist lady that I have a meeting with Provost Hoekstra. Feel important. She allows me in and I pull out my camera. Make small talk with Provost Hoekstra. Feel important. Snap action/mid-work photos of Provost for Diamond. Work to find interesting angles. Overhear a phone conversation where Provost makes fun of my going barefoot for the day. Plot revenge on Provost.

2 13 PM - Read more, respond to emails. Say to self, "Caffeine would be nice." Notice cute girl looking at me like I am an insane boy.

2 16 PM - Sit with Paul, Mark, Jessica and Becca at Grille. Try out Paul's stalker lens and feel like a creep. Notice discoloration on someone's neck and almost lose it. Write down someone's social security number.

2 21 PM - The Bean is open and Carmela is brewing a pot of coffee. Locate mug, sit down and pull one of seven magazines out of bag (PASTE). Continue with the visual design, composition thoughts - read about violence and Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

2 23 PM - Curse self for not including Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in this semester's Faith and Film roster.

2 24 PM - Curse self for not making any progress for this semester's Faith and Film roster card.

2 26 PM - Emily Stam gets all up in my business (a good thing) and talks about the kids she TAs. Listen and advise her to get them in trouble. Realize that I should never be a teacher, but that it would be really fun.

2 42 PM - Walk to Mac Lab in the most beautiful weather imaginable. Linger out, in the sun, before having to enter the cold, sterile Mac Lab.

2 45 PM - Curse self for having forgotten the card reader for digital camera and not being able to unload photos from full card. Write up quick blog entry explaining how to upload photos on Photo III class blog.

2 52 PM - Back to Bean, more people; Voss, Scott, Jenny, Piper (yes, again). Ask Voss, "If I get fries from the Grille, will you have some?" Laugh at his enthusiastic response.

2 54 PM - Yell at Evan to audition for film. Start indoor hackey-sack with Scott.

3 11 PM - Begin outdoor hackey-sack with Scott, Dee and (surprise!) Nathan Smith. Almost face-plant on pavement.

3 16 PM - Social Work major extraordinaires Renae and Lisa pull up and we head to have conversations with elderly people in nursing home. Car ride with Iron & Wine.

3 32 PM - Listen to a sweet, old lady say some startling things. Wonder about potential photo assignment. Wonder what it's like to live in a nursing home.

4 54 PM - Back to campus, head to Philippines over Christmas Break meeting for video production. See everyone from previous video classes (reunion!) and some underclassmen. Get excited for traveling to capture video footage and eat. Yes, Piper is there.

5 28 PM - Run, with Pip, to Justice Matters potluck. Pip informs me that she sees me more than Jake does. Feel grateful that Jake is a gentle soul and not a violent one. Feel envious of Jake's gentle soul and of Piper's fiance. Meet people, lots of people I don't see enough. Feel vindictive and, later, petty for not going over to say hi to friend. Attempt to defend own asshole behavior by citing business and not wanting to interrupt conversation. Feel like a complete jackass. Meet Jess. Piper and I realize we don't have our scripts with us.

5 29 PM - Pip and I ride the most daring bike ride of our lives to retrieve our scripts and a fork.

5 31 PM - Roll back in, eat and fellowship and congregate and man, these are good beans.

6 05 PM - Move on to conference room with video team. Read through scripts. Laugh and cry at how depressing the film ends. Prep. for auditions tomorrow. Begin to feel wear on mind.

7 16 PM - Take break from script editing. More caffeine.

7 31 PM - Sit at balcony with Jeremy at Mike Haley talk in Beej. Struggle to stay awake/attentive.

7 51 PM - Move to lower level, with camera and snap photos for Diamond. Get to sitting right up front center, with Linsay V., several rows ahead of everyone else.

8 46 PM - Shake speaker's hand. Thank him for coming. Ask if I can take some close-up photos. He asks if he has to look at the camera. Resist the initial impulse to say, "Hell no!" See, up close, how ragged and tired he is.

9 03 PM - See Piper, for the seventeenth time, on the way back to the Campus Center.
Goodnight Piper and Jake! Big hug and manly handshake. Student Symposium with Robert Taylor about club funding distribution.

9 24 PM - Ask, midway through working out the numbers, what Dordt clubs are, officially, supposed to exist for.

Midnight - Having have divided up clubs into categories (secret categories) leave meeting feeling good and productive and ambitious about Student Symposium with Jess and Dave, though we have not finished the task.

12 07 AM - See Mark Bylenga in Bean. Ask to speak with him sometime about Comedy League (for business purposes). Feel important. Wonder how Mark's day went. Wave to Robin in the corner. Slap roommate extraordinaire Matty's hand. Wonder how his day went.

12 29 AM - Work through another load of emails. Answer questions Kyla is asking for Diamond article about feature film.

1 16 AM - Read boggling Econ. assignment about probability and likelihood.

1 54 AM - Reply to email and do best not to be a lecturing prick to someone who happens to be younger than I, but is likely much smarter than I. And stronger.

2 01 AM - Door to lab locks and scares the shit out of my ears.

2 03 AM - Write up and print out audition sheets for actors to fill out.

2 09 AM - Realize that I'm majoring in Writing and decide to log on blog. Say "log on blog" out loud and cackle like a psychopath. Begin to lose feeling in left leg.