Today was the first day of classes at ASU and it was pretty crazy on campus… This being my third year here, I think this was by far the weirdest first day of classes so far. First off, it was HOT and HUMID today - hot is normal, humid makes suck. Everyone was shweaty and it was overall total grossness.
My first class was a lot of fun, my professor is pretty wacky and the class (Race/Gender issues in Science Fiction) is going to be a lot of fun I think. My second class was cancelled because the professor was in a wreck of some sort, which left a gaping hole of three hours needing to be filled. Sigma Phi Beta was tabling today trying to recruit the young gays for our fraternity so I went to join them only to find that the table was in complete sunlight and after about 5 minutes I just couldn’t take the heat and told them that while I loved them, I would die if I stayed out there any longer. I think they eventually pooled money and bought a tent/awning from Ace Hardware to provide shade, which was a very good idea.
My third class today was the Painting II class I signed up for, but the teacher is no longer at ASU so it was a new teacher.. while the class sounds like a lot of fun, I’m going to drop it and add Photogravure which I was fortunate enough to get an over-ride and permission to enroll in! This pleased me greatly… it will be a lot of work but ASU is one of a handful of schools that teach the process and ASU is the ONLY school in the US that teaches both photogravure and colloytype, which are both older processes. I’m really interested in these two processes as well as daguerreotypes… I’m not sure any school teaches daguerreotypes because the process is pretty cumbersome, expensive and damn toxic - you use mercury vapors to develop the latent image on a pure silver surface. Cha-ching!
Tomorrow is Advanced Photos and Understanding Photographs.
I’m also really kinda screwed this week because my car has decided, quite timely, to break down on me. Currently it is sitting in a parking lot about a mile from my house because I couldn’t shift it into gear whilst driving on my way from dinner to a meeting last night. You can’t get it towed from point A to point B without giving the key over to the tow truck driver, which means I have to be WITH the car when the tow truck arrives. With today being the first day of classes and timing being off every attempt to move my car failed miserably. So hopefully I’ll get it taken care of tomorrow, and hopefully I’ll get a nice rental to drive while they fix my car.
Stupid car.
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