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Jun. 4th, 2008 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phthalombrageTalked to Jason Wolf today at work. I'm not sure what to call him because he is not a professor. I like him. I told him about how I just finished alphabetizing 2000-2009 theses, and he told me about a MechE he had as a workstudy. He always apologized to the kid when he didn't have much for him to do and just had him sweep or something, but he said the boy was glad, especially after an exam, to do work that didn't require thought. But it's not the kind of thing you want to do for your whole life. His own father was a mail carrier, and he didn't understand how one could be happy just delivering letters and parcels one's whole life, but the answer was simple and understandable. His dad was aiming for perfection; to deliver his mail the best and most efficiently he could. This resounds with me as I make tabs for hanging files that were only ordered today (the ones that arrived this morning were legal size instead of letter), feeling guilty for not having standardized the last name, first name, middle name? middle initial? formatting on the labels and for not having decided the scheme for orange folder-tabs until partway through the Bs. Anyway, he said he might have work for me, maybe not, and I said it was cool; that's how things seemed to be going anyway this summer, and my fall housing situation was kind of like that at the moment. He also asked if I wanted to work in the lab, what about during the school year. This is the part where Nicole is supposed to say, "Oh, golly, sir, would I?!" I think I muttered something about I don't know how the workload is next semester; I have experience with office work and applied for that because I thought I stood a chance. So next time I know what to say... Seriously, I am a spaz.
I remember what my brother said when I talked to him yesterday: "Who needs to go to college when I could just go start a couple businesses and make more than mom and dad combined? My ambition is pretty much shot to shit." First of all, it is not terrifically difficult to make more money than our parents. Second of all, who gives a shit how much money you make? I must shake my head at this boy.
I also collected signatures from two profs. I like Professor Rollett because he had a yellow and white polka-dotted tie and pinstripe pants and black sockfeet and talked to himself as he signed and sent me a nice email a while back. Really it was the tie. Damn. The other two were absent from their offices.
I updated the .plan, but hush, I did it in Windows and have to fix the line-breaks from the Cluster sometime. I have some scans as well. The first of each is a color scan, second greyscale. I can't decide which I like better. Greyscale looks a little funny and bluish to me, but I feel like it brings out more of the contrast present in the original drawings and catches a bit more of the details. Maybe. They are currently somewhat HUGE so you can pick at my drawings and tell me things to fix. Liz's could use more smoothness, especially in the background. Lots of dark coloring blunted my ebony pencil, heh.
I remember what my brother said when I talked to him yesterday: "Who needs to go to college when I could just go start a couple businesses and make more than mom and dad combined? My ambition is pretty much shot to shit." First of all, it is not terrifically difficult to make more money than our parents. Second of all, who gives a shit how much money you make? I must shake my head at this boy.
I also collected signatures from two profs. I like Professor Rollett because he had a yellow and white polka-dotted tie and pinstripe pants and black sockfeet and talked to himself as he signed and sent me a nice email a while back. Really it was the tie. Damn. The other two were absent from their offices.
I updated the .plan, but hush, I did it in Windows and have to fix the line-breaks from the Cluster sometime. I have some scans as well. The first of each is a color scan, second greyscale. I can't decide which I like better. Greyscale looks a little funny and bluish to me, but I feel like it brings out more of the contrast present in the original drawings and catches a bit more of the details. Maybe. They are currently somewhat HUGE so you can pick at my drawings and tell me things to fix. Liz's could use more smoothness, especially in the background. Lots of dark coloring blunted my ebony pencil, heh.
