I've been holding off on writing the post about graduation because I've been using the last week to relax and recharge. I got pretty stressed out the last few weeks of school with everything due. Graduation came quickly and slowly if that makes any sense. I wanted to be done with all the stress of finals but I wanted to hang on to the fun of college so time felt sped up in some regards and sluggish in others. The ceremony was pretty nice, except I wore new shoes that tore up my feet, my hair decided to rebel against me, and the padded shoulders of the graduation gown made me look like a linebacker. The main ceremony had Ted Kopple as a speaker, which was cool. At the end of the main ceremony they released doves (how fancy and slightly weird is that?) and made us sing the alma mater, which reminded me of high school graduation where we had to sing the alma mater and no one knew the words so everyone just hummed off key. Same thing this time. The smaller graduation was wonderful. We had a speaker who I thought was really inspiring and relevent to artists. Since there were about 100 people graduating, including MFA students, the dean talked about each of us and what we planned on doing, which I thought was nicely personal. After the ceremony, my family got to check out my photo exhibited in the undergraduate art show and then we went to dinner at Maggiano's. A very nice day. Packing up my apartment, however, was not as nice.
I've usurped the front room and it is still entirely filled with boxes of my stuff. I had to basically gut my room to be able to fit things back in, so I've got about 8 bags of clothes and other random things that have been hiding in my room since elementary school to donate to Goodwill. Now that I've made space, I need to paint my room. I decided to paint it a nice orange color and move all my furniture around to make space for the gigantic bookshelf I bought at IKEA (which is the best store in the world). Trying to make it as uncluttered as possible. Now that I'm home, I've found that living with my family is very nice and I'm enjoying the peace and quiet, but I wish it was somewhere other than Valencia. You have to drive at least 20 minutes to get out of the valley and I really don't like it here, but I think in the long run it'll help me get started saving up money. And I've lost 8 pounds since moving home, probably because I have time to make nice salads rather than buy whatever's in the vending machine outside the art building.
My goal in taking the summer off was to work on my portfolio, which I've started doing by making a list of projects for myself. Right now I'm working on a poster about fireflies; we'll have to wait and see how that one comes out. I'm starting classes in June, which include motion graphics at santa monica college, editing for film/tv at COC, and a photographing the downtown LA landscape which caught my eye. I guess all the planning helps me from going insane until august when I start applying for real jobs (eeek). I just don't want to feel like I wasted the last 4 years by being an unproductive bum, which is what I'm starting to feel like at the moment.
BEST GRADUATION PRESENT EVER: A 23" Mac Cinema Display screen!!! And also a USC alumni liscence plate holder from my brother that I've been holding out for.
And in a totally unrelated note I want to mention how much I enjoy the new Pirates of the Caribbean posters. At first I hated them because adding fog just seemed too easy, but the more I looked at them, the more I realized that, although they don't look like the first two, they're the perfect way to wrap up the trilogy in terms of the visual look.
And also notice how Kiera knightly is morphing from girly girl to grungy pirate.
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