Back from break

Syracuse is sunny today. I looked out my window at the campus and thought that I might be able to get away with a spring/fall jacket. Wrong. It's 20 degrees outside. At least it's beautiful.



I've been out all morning giving tours and running errands for work. Lots of fresh air. I'll be around campus a lot more today too. I have a meeting with my writing professor and then I go out with a camera to try and find people to model for images to use in one of my CommDesign projects. That should be an adventure. If I get good enough images I can work straight on the work due on Thursday. If the images are not good then at least I'll figure that out early enough to go out and get better ones.



In addition to that project I'm also doing the initial research for my topic in a group project. We're working with the juniors on their community service project. They're using design to help revive a certain neighborhood in downtown Syracuse, and they've given my grade certain tasks to help them out. It's exciting to us because the work we're doing is really going to be used, and working with the juniors is also a really cool experience. We see the upperclassmen about the studios and talk to them about our projects or ask for advice, but we've never worked with them before like this.



In a couple days my boyfriend is coming up on his spring break to see me. I've used spring break to get some work done, and I'm trying hard to get as much as I can done now so that I'll be able to spend some quality time with him over the next week. It's hard because this major is really intense, but he's aware of this and very supportive and understanding. I'm even planning some of my work so that he can help me out. I've so excited to see him. I've been planning where to take him and what to feed him. We'll go to the Indian restaurant on Marshall Street. I love Indian food.



And that's my current CommDesign status. We'll just have to see how my work this week treats me. At this point in my education it tends to have a mind of its own. Sometimes it goes smoothly and sometimes it just won't cooperate. Either way I always pay attention so that the next project runs a bit more smoothly. It works!