Feb 21 2024. Woke up decently early around 8:50 but lamped in bed for 25 minutes or so. Got ready as quick as I could and snapped 8 or so photos at home and the backyard for the About the Self project. Made some coffee, 21/350, Hario Switch, into the metal water bottle, packed up and drove off to campus. Drive was a flat 4.5/10. Lots of people were quite aggressive on the road which made me feel very unsafe. Arrived, parked on the second story by habit, exhaled, and then walked off to take another 4 shots on campus. In the span of 5 minutes as I trekked to the Kirsh Garden 2 people came up to me and I felt so out of it I couldn't quite pat down my politeness so I must've been a bit more aloof than normal. Got around to the Kirsh Garden, snapped my pics, and then headed to photography class. We reviewed dodging and burning -- an interestingly non-sophisticated technique, what with moving the mask around -- but the results Prof. Teng showed looked really quite nice. Prof. Teng did a bit of a demo which knocked out an hour or so of lab time which I keep forgetting about but I tried my best to do my enlargement quickly. This turned out much nicer than last week, and I had f/8 on my mind the entire time I made it:
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391