A brilliant and busy day today. Woke up early but lamped in bed for 24, 25 minutes. Skipped breakfast. Did a little bit of Spanish homework while waiting for 11:30. Made coffee around 11:10, still with the Brown roasters coffee, 21/350. Brought my Tele 6. Drove to campus. A bit of traffic 3/4ths in, and some wad almost completely blocked me off from merging into Stevens Creek Blvd when I had clearly set my turn signals right for over 10 seconds. I got so frustrated I braked 15 MPH below speed just to have that person pass, and I made it in. Helped set up the developing line a few minutes before class and we were off. I made my final enlarged print, 25 magenta for 6 seconds on f/8 of my negative of my house, and I thought I would have to burn in the sky but it melted into a brilliant white glow that Prof. Teng thought was actually quite nice. While waiting in line for feedback from Prof. Teng the guy behind me commented on me doxxing my address, and I talked a bit with him. He also showed me his picture, an open alleyway with plenty of lines and ladders, which was really quite nice. Made another enlargement, this one of my fragmented shot of the fountain through my door, and skipped feedback and relied on my own judgement. I think this one turned out alright, though my focus was really falling apart by this point for whatever reason -- I took out my test strip 30 seconds early (indistinguishable, as I would later find) and forgot to reset the magenta filter on the enlarger back to 0, but again, it seemed to have worked out. I washed and dried some prints, scampered back and forth between the darkroom and the classroom and the developing area, but eventually around 2:35 I handed in my envelope of my 3 enlarged prints and headed out. Incidentally I had some envelopes to spare so I gave a couple classmates in need them -- one was the guy earlier -- forgot to mention he was the cute one who also forgot the prints those 4 or 5 weeks ago -- and a young woman though I didn't really get her name this quarter. Headed out, took a couple photos on the way to the dining hall in the bright sun, got a burger and fries, headed back out and dug in over an episode of The Golden Girls. Walked around campus a little more, took 4 or 5 extra photos. Half-frame feels like it lasts forever! Headed back home, did a little more Spanish homework but didn't do any history homework. Left thumb middle joint (not base) seems to be getting more bony, just like my right thumb middle joint had become back in August or September. A bit worrisome as my left hand and joints had been totally normal up until February this year.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391