Oi.

What a day. Certainly not the best or worst I've had, but it was out of the ordinary.

The day started out pretty well. In Yearbook I helped my editor with a layout she was stuck on, and she came out pretty happy with what I turned up. I think I understand artistic composition a bit better than she does, so I can make my page layouts look a little more balanced. But maybe I'm just vain like that.

Anywho, I'm going to jot down my ideas for next year, since I'm set up to be one of the two editors next year and I'll probably be the one with the most design power. For the theme, my ultimate favorite right now is Bingham 101 (my yearbook adviser would kill me if he knew I was writing all of this in my blog, but since there are really only two people that read it... "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."), seeing as this year is Bingham's centennial year, a.k.a., 100th year. I just thought it was clever. As far as the aesthetic, I want to go with something very hand made and thrown together looking. This year, the book is very preppy, frilly, colorful- and I really don't like it. It's all too much for me, and I really think it has too focused a target audience. The problem is, all of the staff are from the same clique so it's hard to break out of that and think how to please everyone. I think I'm the only one who doesn't really fit into that, therefore, I want to go out of the box a little.

Here's an example of the style I'm looking for: http://th57.deviantart.com/fs22/300W/f/2008/026/0/c/the_notebook_by_stopthissong_x.jpg

Not a real good representation of my thoughts, but it gives you the general impression. I want it to look like pictures have been taped and paper-clipped in. I want it to look messy, like it REALLY WAS made by a teenager. Quotes can be put in with a notebook paper graphic, like that person passed it to their friend through the notebook. Headings and subheadings can be hand-written with a tablet to get rid of that 'font' feel. We can even throw in a few doodles. My question is- what do you think? Do you like it? Do you think it will turn out well?

In English (I know- finally moving on with the day, right?) we had a big cumulative vocab test, but she surprised us by letting us pick testing partners to work with. Rachael is in that class with me, so naturally, that just made it fun.

Seminary was great, as always. I have an awesome teacher that always manages to a make a really poignant point, and I have a lot of respect for him for that. I'll bet that's hard to do as a teacher, even a seminary teacher.

History was pretty awesome, too. I had a review for a test next time, and it was a pretty massive assignment. About eighteen paragraph-answer questions, some even longer than that. I've been exhausted all day so I started falling asleep during the first question, so I asked the teacher if we could listen to iPods and he surprised me by saying that was completely fine. Following the activation of my mind-waking device, I enjoyed working on that review because my mind was stimulated and I was really able to get going on it. After about an hour of that assignment (which still isn't done, BTW) he turned on some PowerPoint Jeopardy and we had a fun little game with that.

Suffice to say, I was in a great mood heading to work. Bursting with sunshine, rainbows, and lollipops. However, when I got in there was a HUGE packing job that everyone was working on that I got to join in on. I'm not so great at packing, so it was hard. Especially the bubble wrap. I suck at wrapping stuff. In fact, my boss ended up re-wrapping half the stuff I did. :/ It wasn't too bad at first, but as time went on, the mood just seemed to deteriorate, and eventually, it felt like I was getting called out for a mistake on everything I'd done. Not exactly fun, and I wasn't quite cheerful by the time work was over, but it's alright now. I've already developed a great therapy for difficult days at work: come home, throw some cookies in the oven to bake, pop in an old movie, then cuddle up in a big warm blanket. Marvelous. Sabrina and chocolate chip cookies did wonders for my mood. As I said, however, I've been exhausted all day and I almost fell asleep in my movie. It's a wonder I'm even bothering to write this. I guess I just don't feel very happy with myself when I don't write all this stuff down.

Anywho. That's my day in a nutshell. Great start, cruddy middle, good recovery at the end. Now I just have to get through tomorrow morning alone with my boss. Dennis is hanging out with his mom while she's in town. I'm happy for him, just not so excited for myself.

Jeah.

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