044. pick-me-ups

what makes me feel better is making someone else feel better, like writing bryant a note that make him go "aww" and smile and come over and hug me. or just a good conversation with a friend, or getting a letter or an email or a phonecall.. driving around helps clear my head too. showers. hearing that you girls have had good days. and food. :) yum..

today was both good and bad. i woke up and was totally out of it. checked my email and the table/chair lady didn't answer, then i called the other full-bed girl and she answered, but i couldn't remember for the life of me what she said. i had the memory span of a goldfish! i had to call her about 3-4 times just to find where she was. i thought she said 319, then 390, but it was actually 393. went there, the bed was nice enough but we told her to let other people take the bed if they wanted to because we weren't sure if we had a place.. left. ended up not having class (our teacher is sick) so we had free time. went to go see some places and ended up getting an application for one, 2 bedroom 1.5 bath (link). reminds me of a hotel set up, all of these rooms surrounding a pool.. oh well. good enough. paid washer/dryer but good enough, cheaper than the one that bryant is near, and i go home enough to just take mine home. filled out the application.. sat around and watched some HOUSE MD and then darren came over to shoot bryant for some of his term project shots (jumpology-- look up halsmann). then we headed over to drop off the applications, ended up finding out that we're 95% sure that we're going to get the place. the guy was very straight forward, pro-rates the rooms so we got a discount on the first amount we have to pay, and he gave us the amount that we have to pay.. turn it in asap, etc. YAY! then we had to rush over to studio 'cause it was 6pm and my studio started at 6pm :( but luckily there's a 15 min grace period, plus there was a line. i don't think they care too much as long as it's not too late. anyways.. got into studio and that's when things got weird. my brain died.

first, i didn't have a seamless. more like, it was off the hooks and in the corner, so i had to call and get that fixed.. then later as i was setting up my lights, i had gotten a speed ring for both the white lighting and the hensel.. and they were both weird from the normal ones that i get for each lighting head. so i put the hensel on the white lighting and got it stuck somehow. then while bryant was trying to get it out for me, i tried putting the white lighting speed ring on the hensel and found out that it didn't fit, so i went downstairs and traded it. then i got up and found out that bryant had given up trying to get it unstuck so i tried it and got it out, then found out that it was actually a hensel speed ring and so i had to go downstairs and trade it again. basically, i had the right equipment, but i messed it up in my head. then i couldn't get the speed ring onto the head (the right ones this time) for some reason and.. it was just bad. bryant ended up doing it for me. and he helped me position the key light and.. ugh. it was just bad.

shots came out well, it was really fun talking to darren. we get along really well. might post up some pictures later, maybe. he helped me break down 'cause bryant had helped him, which was cool. got back home and reverse psychology-d bryant into getting pizza instead of chipotle, mwahaha. i feel the girl power! currently waiting for pizza to come. hungry :(

coming home tonight.. but only for tonight and wednesday. i realize that graduation is tomorrow but i think i'll be busy shooting :\ plus i don't have a graduation ticket. more important to get my stuff done than to watch people graduate then hope that i get pictures of them (or can even find them).. though i'd really want to go. aw, my juniors are graduating. how sad. i feel old. hahha.

we're done with our first year in college. well, you gals are almost there. i'm.. not. crazy that things are so condensed.. i won't be done with a full year until the end of july!

food's here!! love you gals x3 my head's staying up. thanks for all of your comments! lovelove x0xo