OH MAN IM DONE WITH SCHOOL FOR THE YEAR YAY. So happyyyyyy. And a little dead xD I pulled my last all nighter Monday night and turned in my biggest final design thinking project Tuesday morning. I've had three all nighters this past week, but luckily not in a row x) And actually I did sleep an hour Monday night so I could at least think straight. 

But OMG the BEST thing happened the day of the final. We had a "salon style" critique, which meant they had all the teaching assistants, the professor of the class, a few guest designers from Raleigh and the [i]Dean[/i] (aka god) walking around and stopping by our desks where each of us sat with our projects and our "manifestos" lol, which described our thought process, design process, personal characters, aspirations for the future - very personal stuff. I wrote a sort of poem for mine. We also had to make a 3d thought model that people could interact with. So for my project, I made a 18x18in square tray out of wood, white pine, with a smaller tray in the center and around the edges were small colored wooden cubes, that I painted with acrylic, and the idea was that the colored cubes are like past experiences, observations, emotions, studies, precedents from other artists, ideas, etc, that I've collected consciously and subconsciously over time. I draw from that pool to create art and design, so everything I make is a like a mosaic of this eclectic collection. The tray can be accessed from all four sides, so I can invite other people to sit down and add to the design or we can create something great together. So yeah, there I was sitting at my studio desk with my project and THE DEAN comes over to me and says, would you like a review of your project and I say, yes of course! He's incredible. He's the most well-spoken, influential, imaginative, clever, accomplished person I've ever had a class with (he and the professor took turns doing the lectures for the class), and now the pleasure of talking to. So he sat down and read my manifesto and then smiled and then said ok talk. And I'd already practiced how I would explain my project so many times that the words just flowed and I was able to express everything I wanted. He talked to me about the design process in general, about having filters for what comes in and what you choose to pull out to create things and it was a really interesting discussion. Then at the end he said I should be proud, I did a beautiful job, my craftsmanship was excellent, my ideas were clear and that what I had made had inspired a great conversation between us. [i]He[/i] called [i]great[/i]. I said thank you and had a huge smile I'm sure and on the inside I was thinking oh my god, I talked to the dean and he like my project, I can die happy now. And some of my classmates across the room were trying to catch my eye to see my reaction because they're all just as star struck by the dean as I am. I did like a fist-pump in the air and pretended to shout hooray and they laughed xD I was so happy. And now I'm done and can sleep again thank goodness. Phew. Wow, I didn't mean to write so much oops xD Anyways, can I send you a picture of my final project?? After getting praised by the dean, my ego has swollen to twice its size and I just want to show off now x) jk! ..well sort of xD

Thanks!! I'm telling you, I always look forward to your posts and don't ever want them to end either haha. I really liked that exchange between Charlie and Mitch. The part where you talked about him forever hitting on the next young pretty thing, about being doomed to that bar and that night, like Charlie, and like Mila - that was great, very poignant. 

What! Well maybe she'll come around once you actually start dissecting. We attached something to Wilbur's jaw and made him talk :D

Yeah, guess our charming personalities will just have to be enough x) Oh man, I watched that Molson Canadian beer commercial on youtube, late Tuesday night while I was working on my project, and it was hilarious!! I sent it to my roommate (Hey you're Canadian, do you know her? lol) and she loved it XD the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal xD but wait! Do you really say zed and not zee?? I didn't recognize what he said a couch and a hat were lol. Haha, you said some exchange students in your class read the rant too? xD That is too funny. Where are they from? 

Uh yes, same here. Creepy children must go x) Aw jeez, the Ring?? The Japanese version?? Do I have to?? x) Ok, ok, I'll see if my friends want to watch it tomorrow night, when we have that get together I told you about. We'll see lol. Somebody's bringing the game Cards Against Humanity, which is like a hilarious and slightly very inappropriate version of Apples to Apples x) I can't wait. 

A little jealous of you hanging out with his girlfriend? haha xD That's funny. I would to tease him to no end if I was in that kind of position heh heh >D Do you have slight crush on her? x) You don't have to say, I don't mean to be nosy, it's just that that's happened to me haha. But her boyfriend wasn't the jealous type and it wasn't a major crush, just a "wow I would totally date you if I could" kind of thing lol. Woo Game of Thrones! That reminds me, I still need to watch the last two episodes, I've been too busy to catch up.

I loved that song I Wanna Be Evil by the way! I went and listened to it and thought of Lisette. 

*receives the dirtiest look ever with surprise and mischievous delight* Hm~? You mean you [i]don't[/i] want me to complain about how toasty warm it is outside or the sun tan I got yesterday afternoon after finals? I have my air conditioning on high. I'm just [i]dying[/i] of heat over here >) lol it was actually really beautiful yesterday, but I woke up this morning to a downpour outside. It's still raining here right now. But since I'm done with school and don't work today, I don't mind spending a lazy day inside x) I did sit on my porch for like an hour earlier to listen to the rain, as cheesy as that sounds xD it was very relaxing! A good way to de-stress after final projects.