Day 23- Midterm

So my day started early, I woke up at 2am from my nap to head to the studio to work on my video assignment. So Lucca is pretty safe, nobody is really out at night, its very quite. So I'm walking, I see this black dog running, I'm not scared of dogs so it's cool. Then it starts barking and running straight for me. So now this dog is chasing me and I'm yelling. I see the owner, 2 guys and they are calling their damn dog, but it's not listening. So now I'm running down the street, thinking ain't this some shit!! I wasn't even fully woke up yet. All I could think was I'm going to get bit by this dog. So it finally backs away and I'm yelling at owners, asking them if they think it's funny? All they say is no, no, no. What would have been really funny was a law suit!!

So I get to the studio and start on my project. I did the filming earlier in the week , so now I was uploading to the computer to edit it down. We are using this program called Final Cut Pro, which I have no clue how to use. I felt bad, asking the girl in my class all these questions, but did get the hang of it and leave the studio at 7:30am. Then I wake up to rush back to the studio for 9am. So I'm walking by and my roommate is knocked out sleep. So I wake him and we make it a little late, but nothing had started yet.

For the midterm, we go into everybody studios, look at their work, then critique it. So this was going on until like 3pm, we had a lunch break. I took another allergy pill and was knocked out on the couch, I was late coming back from lunch...but it was ok. So for my video class, our professor showed the trailer for the movie we had been shooting. Then it was like umm...anybody have anything else to show. I'm so glad I had worked on my piece because our class really had nothing to show. It's also only four people in the class, so they were like ok what's going on. So I got good reviews on what I did so far on my footage of the church towers.

So later that night Kelly, the head of the program had a dinner at her house for the professors and the grad assistants. It was her way to review how the program was going and what was coming up next. So we talked about the work, they were really dishing the dirt on what they thought on some people's work. Everybody had lots of wine and wasn't holding it in. I guess they felt comfortable talking in front of Erte and I because we are only in the video and art seminar class. So before we know it, it's time to head back to our apartment for video night/the party house.

So my roommate has a bike, so he's like get on the back, so we can rush over. That was the most fun/worst bike ride ever. He's standing up peddling and I'm seating on the seat, getting bounced around. Luckily, there was a rack in the back because I definitely slide off the seat. Then Kelly is riding her bike with another professor in the back seat she has for her 5 year old son. It was hilarious seeing him squeeze into the seat. Then we are going through the crowd of people and making all these abrupt stops because people love to stop and look in the windows. So after like 5 minutes we back to our apartment, all so toasted and laughing hard.

Luckily, not that many people show up. A lot of people where up late doing work for the midterm. But for some reason, people started rolling in half way through he movie, after their naps. We watched some slow boring movie on this woman who finds out her husband is cheating and does nothing about it. Then she had issues with her sexuality and morals...it put me to sleep, especially with all that wine. Also the food was pretty good.