Today I had my first photography and the book critique, which went well. I am going to improve my book for Thursday, but I am generally happy with its reception, etc. I worked pretty hard on it but could have worked harder and that is what I will do for thursday. The assignment was to make a book using only one photograph. So what I did was to make pages with text that got progressively smaller so that by the end the whole picture was revealed. The picture was that one from a few weeks ago of the chicago theater. The cover of my book was just some pieces of the bike map of Chicago. I'm going to re-do it to a) reprint the picture because this one got a smudge on it, b) type and print instead of hand-writing the pages and c) make a cloth/cardboard cover with the maps as an inner lining. Voila. Fabulous.

Today was also Plan intro critique, which also went fine. Someone in the class said they "hated" the pictures I threw in (just snapshots that I had on my hard drive which were in no way formal or anything other than some stuff I had lying around, my feelings were not hurt) but people whose opinions I value more said they really liked the pictures. Everyone pretty much liked the writing though... their problems with it were the same as my problems with it. Like, I don't have a thesis. I keep waiting for the thesis to reveal itself and it's like just not. I'm worried.

Then Dan and I sort of wasted the afternoon playing scrabble at the tea lounge in town. I say sort of wasted because it was really nice and I feel like I sort of deserved it. Why? See the first two paragraphs. He beat me. At scrabble.

And I had my first social committee meeting tonight, which was very productive. I'm quite optimistic that we are going to be a really good social committee. Plus, we allocated funds for "senior cocktail hour" which is a tradition begun by last year's seniors, wherein once a week we and our Plan sponsors get to chill out and have a few on the school's dime. Again, we basically deserve that. I volunteered to do all the shopping for "apple days" next week, which is a pretty sweet marlboro tradition. It should really be called "apple hours," but it's a fun fall festival with fallish activities like apple bobbing, donuts on strings, cider from the old press, hard cider from the store, and an apple pie bake-off. It's next week on WEDNESDAY which is ALSO THE PREMIER OF LOST! That is going to be SUCH an awesome day!!

And, finally, now I am at work. I am monitoring the computer lab. Lab status: three or four phantom paper jams which I was able to clear basically just by touching the thing, and pretty much nothing else. It is shockingly quiet. AWESOME.