Frazzled

Thursday was an okay day. I spent the most of my morning and early afternoon in the studio trying to get a negative developed. Long story short, I had a detrimental brain fart and took the lid off my film canister while I was mixing some chemicals, completely blowing out the negative and ruining about 4 hours worth of work. Let's just say I wasn't the happiest of campers. My finance workshop was equally frustrating; we're starting to put together cash flow statements for businesses. This would normally all be fine and dandy because I've already taken an accounting class so I have some background in it, except we're reporting everything by UK standards so I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing. The lecturer isn't the best either, so it looks like I'll be teaching myself a lot about financial reporting this semester. Oh joy!

Yesterday's classes were somewhat better; I really like my management workshop tutor. He's a really sweet old man, and he really wants me to do well in the class and enjoy my stay here. We only meet once a week but it's surprisingly the one class I look forward to. After workshop I spent another 3 hours in the studio getting frustrated with myself (who knew that taking a picture of a rotten apple could be so time-consuming and difficult?), but I managed to shoot some film. I haven't developed it yet because the studio closed early, so we'll see how it turned out on Monday. Taking this film class is really making me start to hate photography -- well, kind of. I think the most aggravating thing is that for our first assignment, we have to replicate two photos by two photographers. Being the perfectionist I am, I'm never pleased with any of the negatives that come out so I keep reshooting and reshooting the exact same setup for days on end. I'll just be glad when this assignment is done and we can move on to other, more creativity-centered projects. Needless to say I was frazzled, and going to CU on Friday night was much-needed. There weren't a lot of people there because most of them were away at a leader's conference, but Ash and I led worship and everything went smoothly. The speaker was really good, and afterwards all of us grabbed dinner at a nearby pub. Then I came home to a lovely Skype date with Steven (our official 5 months, woot woot!). It was a nice way to start the weekend.

My day thus far has been extremely uneventful; I watched about 5 episodes of New Girl on Hulu since I was all caught up on Glee, spent too much time on Pinterest, and jammed out for a while on Becky's guitar. Tomorrow I'll go to Citylife church in the morning, do some laundry, and maybe do a little homework. Some of my friends have started planning a weekend trip to Edinburgh in a few weeks, so I'm getting pumped about that! We'll spend a day in Edinburgh, then another day on a bus tour of some cool places around Scotland -- maybe even spotting Nessie along the way. It's gonna be super fun and I cannot wait for all the photo ops that will come out of it!