Woke up earlyish but brother was in the bathroom for 10 minutes after 10 again. Got ready in a flash and drove to school. Brought my Canon Tele 6 to try and get the film out of but also completely forgot my photography binder :-/ AeroPressed my cold brew and topped off with a little oat milk.
Politics class was alright but I felt a little distracted so I didn't take as good notes as I normally would. Humanities class was fine, and a bit shorter, since we had an upcoming midterm. Took advantage of the extra time to grab a pastrami sandwich from the dining hall for lunch, had it over an episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show, the surprise episode.
Photography class felt a little more awkward than usual since Mr. Chai was out for the first half hour of class. Reloaded my HP5 24-exp roll into my camera, but flicked it to full frame and went out on something of my own "blindwalk" through campus, so I had an excuse to use the developing kit I was accidentally lent (lol). Well, I finished shooting but the camera gave three errors and stopped shooting so I had to turn off and on the camera a bit, but I wouldn't know until I saw the negatives themselves. So I waited and talked to some other classmates, and Adreina asked me tons of questions about my major and photo experience, and I learned that she's majoring in graphic design and really wants to go into web developing. Jyn came by and something about their (which I later found out to be "she") eyeliner was very eye-catching. After some time I headed into the darkroom and loaded my film onto my reel but the developing room was still packed like sardines so I and three or four others had to wait 10 or 15 minutes still. By the time we got to develop our film it was 2:40, so I tried to work fast. Lucky for us the water temperature was 72 F, which cut down developing time from 7 or so minutes to 5:12 minutes. I hung it up to dry, waited a little bit more, and chatted some more with Adreina and checked out her negatives! I liked her image of the nearby stone railing, and a group of people passing her by on her blindwalk. My negatives by now were dry, and she was gracious enough to lend me a spare film sleeve, and I found I was missing three frames -- conveniently in the spots where my camera gave up those three errors. The camera dating function did still seem to work however, and quite nicely, imprinting May 1st 2024 on all photos -- even the blank ones!
The drive back home was quiet, but there was quite a bit of traffic in the second half. I actually got a bit sleepy. Clearly waking up so early and bouncing around these three classes was catching up to me, even with my finishing my cold brew (which was really delicious and smooth). But I made it home and tried to unwind, and worked a little bit on my Humi midterm. Had some leftover pasta and Mongolian noodles, the latter of which my uncle got from the nearby mall, and then for dinner I made some sauced (drier) ramen and topped it off with some kimchi, a soy egg, and a plain wrapped dumpling.