A 'Year' in Review

Sorry. Really I am. Yeah that doesn’t make up for leaving this alone for nearly a year, but would you believe me if I said things were crazy?

Well they were. And that’s my story. I’m sticking with it.

So lets try catching you up quickly, shall we?

Last log was about the 5 week project. Simply put, things only got worse with Lon. On the day of pitch he showed up almost 4 hours late, so I had to pitch alone. His storyboards made little scene but I did my best and the teachers were okay with it. My concept was chosen, (and actually picked as one of the top 3 presented.) Eventually though we changed it slightly to be all about how a made up TV show can influence the real world.

Case in point: Star Trek and the creation of cell phones

https://www.behance.net/gallery/14853579/Star-Trek-PSA

By the end of the 5 weeks I was so frustrated with Lon that I was bearly stopping myself from screaming at him. (I did snap my words a few times though.) The teachers were fine with it. They saw that I was trying, that he wasn’t showing up to our meetings, that he would disappear, and that he would try to blame me for his late arrivals.

But it is over now. And I haven’t had a class with him since - something I would love to keep up.

Christmas came and with it New Years. We aren’t a family big on the New Year parties so we went on a cruise to Jamaica. Much more fun.

Spring semester started up shortly after that. I had animation, concept, design but also Chinese Art and Culture, and my final sculpture studio class for my minor.

Now that was a fun class.

There were only 4 other people in the class - all of them seniors in sculpture majors working on their thesis shows. I came in the first day (had to take this class instead of a normal minor elective due to the department head) and the teacher said, “Yeah, so you aren’t a major in sculputure. Do what ever you want.”

Cool.

So I worked on making small figures. Originally they were all part of the same story, but time ran out so my last one was just a test for myself.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/18344149/Fairy-

....Nothing else really happened.

Now summer time.

Originally the idea was to get an internship. I applied to 25 places and did get past 3 interviews with the Disney Theatrical Group, but no. At least I tried.

First thing that happened was all my girlies from Moore were graduating. So I went to see their senior show (I missed the fashion show though because we went to see Aladdin.) I then attended the graduation with my old roommate’s family. There were 14 of them which was a lot considering that most of them came from Hong Kong. I spent the day with them and it was very fun.

My parents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They went down to the Florida Keys which is where they had gotten engaged and went for their honeymoon. While they were away we got our latest Seeing Eye Puppy named Pax. (Diehl went back for training the end of April). 

Pax being held my Michael

My Grandparents, my Mom’s parents, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary so we had a big party. For me it was big because it was the first time I got to ware heels since my surgeries. And for the first time ever I didn’t feel like someone was stabbing my feet after 5 minutes! I wore my heels for over 4 hours, even danced in them!

Kline 50 year Wedding Anniversary 

Oh yes, the party was good too.

Michael and Katie worked all summer on their play. Originally they were going to do a extremely low budget performance of it at the end of summer but changed plans. Instead they got kids together every-other-day for at least 5 hours to rehears. At the end of summer they went to a recording studio to record...everything. The idea is that they can send it to the proper people to get permission to perform it.

The rest of the summer was spent doing other things. Mini golfing, going to the beach, swimming in the pool, babysitting.

Then it was all over.

Now we get to this year.

Since it is senior year we are working hard on thesis. They changed the rules though and set it up so instead of doing one project for 2 semesters we are doing 2 projects, one each semester.

That is a LOT of work to get done in very little time.

So I have 2 classes where I work on thesis - with teachers Ron and David (he’s new to teaching). I am also taking Japanese Art and Culture (needed an extra history class to complete the minor) and I finally got into Costume Design. It is basically a class there you design a character’s outfit to tell their story.

So far we have done out Thesis Pitches, had my Japanese Mid-term (why they held it week 5 is beyond me), completed 1 project for Costume Design, as well as a project for TEDx Sarasota.

So there you go. A year-ish in review. I’ll try to get regular again with these posts and with that, make them shorter.