Day in the Life

So i thought you guys might like to hear was its to be a 1st year grad student at UTK.

Typical Tuesday/Thursday (Class Days)
-7:15am -- Wake up, shower, dress
-7:45am -- Breakfast/email check
-8:15/8:30am -- Leave house and drive to school
-8:45am-9:25am -- park... and walk to Grad house
-9:30am-12:20pm --(class) 580 - Design- Tue. Present group projects Thurs. Individual projects
12:20-12:30pm -- Lunch/Walk to Theatre Light Lab (up the Hill mostly)
-12:40-1:55pm -- TA for Fundementals of Lighting Technology and Design
-1:55-2:10pm -- FIND COFFEE!!
-2:10-3:25pm -- (class) Introduction to Graduate Studies
-3:25-3:40pm -- walk back to Grad house (down Hill mostly)
-3:40-4:55pm -- (class) Elements of Design
-5:15pm -- Drive Home
-5:45pm -- Dinner and Relax
-6:45pm-? -- Homework
-? -- Bed

So that's a typical Tue/Thurs in the life of me. Mon, Wed, Fri have been pretty fluid up to now. But i will have CADdrafting Wed/Fri at 2pm and Lab Analysis Fri at 9:30am.

Mon./Wed./Fri. I work in the shop between anything else i have to do.

so yeah that it. it's wild.

Settling in and stuff

Life is starting to organize it's self out. I've got my house mostly set up. There are still a few things I want to get to make it completely functional, like a bench or something for the bedroom and some hangers or something for coats and scarves. Just stuff like that, but I think I need to get the important things out of the way before I spend any more money on things I don't really need. I love my apartment! It's very cute and small. It's just big enough for me and my stuff.

I've been trying to post pictures to Facebook but the wireless internet that I've been grabbing here and there is rather sketchy and if I loose connection for a minute or two then the whole load is messed up and I have to start over. SO look for an update sometime Wednesday evening. I should have internet set up at my apartment by then. :)

*EDIT* I fixed the upload problem so here is the link to pics http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2012052&l=e49e5&id=138400536


I've been in meeting for my first design "The Secret Rapture" which opens in October. I've had 3 meetings this week to catch me up and I have a full production meeting tomorrow. My design isn't due for another couple of weeks but I'm trying to catch up with everyone else and get ahead of the schedule they have set for me. I've met a 1st year design student (Mary) and a 4th year undergrad student (Amy) who are working on this project too. I'm really excited about meeting the other grad students. James, the other Lighting Grad, has just moved up and we're trying to get together sometime soon. Things just hasn't worked out yet for us to meet.

Monday is the big day of Meetings. Tuesday I think I start work. Wednesday classes start. Thursday I meet EVERYONE! :) and Grad kicks off with full force!

So right now I'm taking the time to find out where everything is, get everything I think I'll need, get use to living this far away from home and friends, and just be in the now of it all. I've been swimming and reading and watching the Olympics. Mostly I've been taking DEEP Breaths and reminding myself that It will all work out. *work that Larry Zen Mantra*

I've been writing down my thoughts on the different environments I've been in these last few days in the notebook that Heather gave me. I'm writing out what I see, hear, smell, feel, and how it affects my mood and the moods of those around me. Then at night I've been reading over then and seeing if I can recreate the way I felt at that moment. I'm trying to develop a bolder and more descriptive writing style. I don't know if this will actually help or not but it's been fun regardless. I remembered Stuart's idea of if you want to draw better then you have to draw. So I thought if I want to write better then I have to write. We'll see how the experiment turns out. I've been calling them "Contemplations" lol.

Here are the pics of the post!

it's me at the UT stadium. :)




and Kyle's Super Strong Bike that can BUST PAVEMENT!! :D

1 day in GA

So it's come to this, has it? It's my last day in GA and I'll spend it sitting here alone in contemplation. I have too much to do to run off and see people but not enough to do to keep me busy.

More over I don't really know WHAT I should be doing. One thing I do know is that my house is packed up and ready to be loaded on the truck. My car is clean ready to be filled.

and

I have WAY more Books than I thought. I had no idea that I had been reading THAT much! I must have 4 times more books now than I did this time last year. Well, they are packed. I guess I'll need to buy a book shelf.

My parents are coming with me on the move. They we're just going to spend one night and bail on me, but now they are staying 2 and helping me set up residency. I've been making maps of how to get everywhere (like UTK, Kroger, Target, etc.). Hopefully this will help me get acclimated quicker.

To all you GA buddies,

I will miss you DEEPLY!! I wish you could all come with me. PLEASE come visit or call or write (if you can). :)

Thanks for all the wonderful memories, laughs, shoulders, hugs, kisses, high fives, well wishes, and great amounts of love. I will always be in dept to you all.

<3 ALWAYS!!

Here's a Memory to Cherish Forever!

"It will all work out" ~ Larry Cook

The Cuteness

This is my super cute nephew. Sadly he lives in Nashville and I wont get to see him again until Thanksgiving or Christmas. Here he is 5 weeks old and just too adorable to deal with. :)

I have been spending the last few days packing my life away in boxes to move to Knoxville. I've been making list on list on list of things I need to do either now or as soon as I get settled. I'm having a hard time figuring out where to start on different projects. I have so much stuff that I want to keep but not take with me and no where to keep it. I wish I could just leave it the way it already is up at my house. I need to have a massive yard sale but I have no time. At least all my laundry is done and all the things I absolutely need to survive are packed.

I do have a really cool bedroom set that I'm really excited about taking. It's very pretty or at least it will be once it's out of the barn and cleaned up some. ;)

Well, I should get back to work. Lots to do...

Love to my internet friends!!

Packing

Photo of the Day "i call it art"... I kinda want it... :)



I'm packing up my life like CRAZY!! My car is full of things from the GA Shakes Mass Exodus. I'm making major lists of what I need to take and what I want to take after that.

Today, I measured out how big my apartment really is based on the size of the rooms i'm currently living in. I scaled out some drawing of what I want the rooms to look like so that things will fit properly (or at least fit hypothetically).

So here is what I would like to ask you Oh Wise Ones of Blogger.

What 1 thing do you think is the MOST important MISC item I should be sure to pack or take with me?

I have listed all the things I can think of but I would love to get some extra input.

arg

my friend took this picture of the sky in Mexico. i thought i'd start out this blog with a beautiful sunset as i feel like i'm at a sunset going into night waiting for the dawn. *not really in a bad way*
so i don't really like packing. i've discovered this because i've been pretty much packing since april. on and off. i've also discovered that i'm a nester. i get settled into my surroundings SOOO well that when it is time to pack up and move out, it is figuratively like picking out and sorting the twigs and pits of fluff in a birds nest. i've only been living in this current dorm room *phase 2; room 202* for a week and a half *see previous post for move details*. i have also completely spread out. i have stuff in the 3 rooms of the dorm. i've also accumulated so much stuff over the summer that i wont be able to fit it all into the few bags i brought.

i'm really starting to feel the freak out of the big move to TN building up inside me. i keep pushing it away again because i have so much going on with ending my time here at GA Shakespeare.

this has been a pretty extreme summer. lots of new stuff, lots of learning, lots of discovery. i'm excited about UTK but i'm really nervous about the getting to know you time.

lines from the 4 shows keep popping in my head when the back of my brain thinks they are relevant and right now the line "it is an art of discovery, love, and i should be obscure" just popped in randomly. but it also seems to make since to how i'm feeling and what's all going through my head.

well tonight is the last night with the whole gang. we're going to the bar to celibate the summer and one of the actor's birthday. it should be fun. i wonder if i'll have the nerve to tell one person something i've wanted to tell them all summer. i guess we'll have to wait and see. :)