J'aime boire trop de caffeine

Sorry for the hiatus. I'm coming out of midterm week barely coherent. Earlier today I spelled "you're" when it should have been spelled "your". Capital offense. In fact, this isn't even the end of midterm week, it's only Tuesday, but now that two of my midterms are over and done with I can rest a little easier. I spent a good portion of Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the photography darkroom. It's full of scary chemicals with names like developer, stop bath, hydroclear, and fixer. I rubbed some accidentally in my eye and it turned bright red for two straight days. Don't mess with the chemicals! I also spent about 50 hours inhaling it into my lungs. I don't know what the effects are, but if it's anything like black lung that the coal miners face, I don't want any part of it. I suppose everything was worth it though because I had a wonderful critique yesterday. Everyone seemed to catch on to my meaning right away and I didn't get a single negative comment, even though a lot of other people did. I was a little nervous cuz I was called on to go first, but I actually kind of like critiques because as my photo teacher put it, how often do you get to have 19 people in a room stare at and analyze your work? It's apparently really tough in the professional world. So I was very happy with the outcome and am looking forward to my next project which is "documentary." I decided I am doing mine on religious practices and the people involved in them, so I'm probably going to be hitting up the local catholic and jewish centers, along with my brother's evangelical church and those crazy unitarians. Hopefully the leaders will be accomodating and will let me shoot at their services. I haven't blatantly taken pictures of people before, mainly just environments and structures, so this will be interesting for me.

I'm always amazed seeing people in a context that I don't expect them to be in. The other night I was at a party and saw this kid from one of my classes. He seems really quiet and shy normally, but here he was at this party talking to people and kinda bopping along to the music. Guess it goes to show there are a bunch of facets to people. Here's to two completed midterms, a finished art project, a progressively relaxing weekend, and to a spring break that is just around the corner (spent at home relaxing, not in Mexico. You crazy crazy kids.)