I brought my camera to school to get some shots of my class doing their mural prints. Monday I did mine with the help of Eden, and today we did hers. I’m afraid of sounding like a huge wimp, but I have to admit to being sore all over from the whole process. It would probably help if both of us were more than a few inches taller than our actual prints! Luckily, we turned out to be major pros at the whole process.

Only a few people printed today, but it was all amazing. I can’t wait to see what everyone else is doing.

I also created a Flickr set for all the pictures I take on campus.

Tonight we did something very rare: we got into the holiday spirit and carved jack-o-lanterns! Well, I did, anyway– Chris carved a sandía-o-lantern :) Normally I’m a big scrooge when it comes to Halloween, but this was lots of fun.

The best part of all was getting to make agua de sandía with the leftover watermelon bits, and of course, roasted pumpkin seeds. Yum!

Going into the dark room this morning to make this print was a bit of a shock for me considering the extremely small format I usually print in. Normally, my photos are no bigger than 3×5″, but this one is a whopping 14×11″! I could barely fit it into the developing tray.

Anyway, this print is called The Glamorous Surgery. Lesa, the girl on the left holding the snoot like it was something important, was quite touched by the narration and asked for a signed copy from me. What a compliment!

On Monday we start mural printing, and after that we are doing an edition print for a class exchange. It dawned on me that this is the last photo I had to take for this semester. A bit sad, but also a huge relief! Now I can focus on my academic classes and take photos at my leisure.

Life is all about studying these days, er– weeks, I guess is more accurate. I look at my calendar and it’s just a string of events in one class after the other. The only difference between previous semesters is that I’m not necessarily complaining about the work so much as feeling a bit bogged down. But if I wasn’t busy with school, then what would be the point?

In my Psychology of Prejudice class we watched a powerful movie that was filmed here in Northern California called The Color of Fear. It was very charged and very honest, almost to the point of being hard to watch. If you’re interested in psychology, I highly recommend renting it!

Last night I realized we essentially have something like five weeks left to the semester, excluding Thanksgiving break. That’s just crazy! But I can’t wait to go home.

This change in weather calls for some serious stocking up on tea. I’ve been trying new flavors lately and they’re all delicious! My all-time favorite will always be regular old spearmint leaves and green tea, though.