College Days and Weekend Adventures

As per usual, it's been quite awhile since I last posted. School has started, and I find my new major to be infinitely preferrable to my previous one. Of course, I'm in all the intro classes, so it's not exactly exciting yet, but I decided today that if I would rather draw a crumpled up paper bag for ten hours than read a chapter on the immune system from my old textbook, then I'm probably in the right major.

In fact, I seem to recall promising somebody (can't remember who) that I'd put up some of my artwork on my blog. So here you go:

Voila! C'est magnifique, no?

No?

Yeah, that was the obligatory blind contour drawing that they for some reason must make us do at the start of every drawing class I've ever taken. The basic idea is that you're not allowed to look at your paper at all, so proportions and lines end up all messed up because you don't know where your hand is on the page in relationship to where you've just drawn. I've always pretty much hated it. Still, this should be the last basic drawing class I ever take, so this should be the last time I ever have to do this again. Should.

I have enjoyed my Intro. to Digital Processes class, though. You pretty much sit there for 3 hours and mess around on Photoshop, which is something I like to do in my free time anyway, so it's like play time for me.

Seriously, how is this even a class?

Ha ha, my Egyptian voodoo doll :) Yep, that class is a lot of fun.

I also like my 2D Design class. It's pretty easy and fun, and my teacher's a really nice guy. We spent the first little while inventing shapes, then we talked about unity in design, and we've started working on negative space (which reminds me, the FedEx logo has received over 40 awards worldwide. Can you guess why?)

Our last assignment was to design a personal logo using our initials. One of them had to be white, and you had to be able to tell what both letters were without it being too obvious. I really, really liked the first design I came up with, but to my dismay, a few too many people were unable to identify both letters. What do you think?

Anyway, I altered it just a little bit, and this is what I came up with:

I was kind of sad at first, but now I think I like the new one better (not that there's a world of difference between them). I think the white letter is more obviously an "S" now, too. It seemed pretty obvious to me, but I've gotten everything from an A to a lowercase D, and I guess since I was the one who made it, my perception's probably a little skewed.

In other, non-school related news, Chris and I went on a weekend adventure last week. His work was having a party in Park City, so we went up and got to go on the alpine slide.

It was fun, though I'd probably like to go faster next time.

While we were in Park City, we decided to stop by the World Market, since there isn't one anywhere near Provo. Let me tell you, that place is amazing! We definitely spent over an hour there, maybe two. They have all sorts of food from different countries, as well as jewelry, little statuettes, scarves, furniture, cooking tools, and lots of other stuff. We bought some fun flavors of Jones soda there, as well as two bottles of Torani's flavoring syrup which Chris says is all over the place in Oregon, but for some reason is very scarce in Utah. I also bought a cool soup cookbook, and coveted a cute little dessert cookbook.

Chris doesn't understand my obsessive love for cookbooks. Neither do I, really, but I definitely love 'em.

After getting a little lost on our way out of Park City and ending up in Salt Lake rather than Provo, we eventually made our way back and got some dinner at a little Chinese place on Provo Center Street. Turns out that good Chinese restaurants can be kind of hard to find in Provo, but this one was really good and relatively cheap. As we ate, we checked out the BYU game score on Chris's cell phone and became thoroughly depressed, and we got to have fun trying to back out of our parking spot into game day traffic when we were finished. Then we went home and made some Italian sodas from our newly bought Torani's syrup and played Guitar Hero 5 together. It was a good day :)

Life has definitely been a lot crazier since school started, but overall it's been fun. Things are a lot better now that they've hired a few new employees at Pita Pit and I'm not being overscheduled anymore. I even volunteered to make dinner this Wednesday for a girl in our ward who just had a baby, realizing to my delight that I would actually have time to do so. In fact, maybe I should try cooking more often--Chris is a little too happy that we're having "real" dinner this Wednesday, which is probably a sign that we've had too much Zatarains and Hamburger Helper in the recent past, but what can you do?