So, my camera didn’t die, after all.

Is it completely fixed? I just don’t know. My father had the bright idea (no sarcasm) of putting the camera in the oven and presto!, even the flash works again. It’s overexposing some photos with it, so it’s a good thing that I avoid it.

Now, college … while the What Goes Up poster thing has brought me joy, college adds far more weight to the other side of the scale.

Three classes a week. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I can’t decide which of the three classes is the least exciting, and I don’t know how well I’m doing in any of them, as I have done so little since this term began that it seems I’m just going there to wait until it’s time to come home. The lack of excitement in college scares me a little, because I might be getting a sample of what might be the rest of my life if I don’t work hard for what I really want.

The finish line. Graduation. Diploma. They’re so very close, calendar-wise, but the days are endless. The weekends are supposedly long, but they seem to fly by without me doing anything. That Blender idea I had earlier in the week has faded away. Not completely, but I’ve only got a vague image of what I originally wanted to do. That’s what I get for not sketching last Saturday, when I woke up early thinking about it, and spent the better part of the day picturing the final render.

I don’t know whether to go for a thesis next term, or wait until January to do a monograph (which is apparently much easier, but I’d have to wait). We’re being taught how to make a thesis in that seminar class, sure, but it seems there’s quite a lot of research and formality involved. And research, in this country where so much of it is forgotten or seemingly thrown away, doesn’t really spark my interest. I wonder if one does a thesis for a degree in animation? That’s gotta be fun.

Anyway, weekend has finally come for me. I was given the assignment of designing the signage for the Plaza del Conservatorio. Yes, that place. It was I who picked it, actually, because this assignment is for next week and other choices were much farther than I’d like to go. I probably won’t have to go anywhere, though, as I know the place well, and I’ve got more than enough photos to create a virtual tour of the place (hopefully that won’t be an assignment).

While college has been rather disappointing thus far since the term began, and while I’ve been thinking that I haven’t actually done anything worth any points, I hope to finish this one with decent grades. I just want to be done with it! I also have to do a couple of additional courses elsewhere, in order to complete sixty hours of “professional aptitude” needed for graduation. I’ve got about twenty of them covered by that encounter from last year and some free talks that I’ve attended. I was hoping I’d cover the remaining hours doing free stuff, but they’re too few and far between. Older students (those who entered before the 2004 changes) don’t have to do this, so it’s relatively new annoyance.

Again, the weekend is ahead of me. It should be better than the last one, given that I kickstarted it with a nice pancake dinner. I also made pancakes a couple of nights ago, but I had to use honey instead of syrup (thinking that it had been thrown away), but it didn’t taste bad. I reminded me a bit of honey biscuits. Just a while later, my brother found an unopened bottle of syrup that I had been searching for. Argh!

So, I gave pancakes another try. Now, the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Maple syrup may have expired in 2008 (that’s why I thought they threw it away), but I didn’t mind. Being unopened and all, and being full of preservatives, it doesn’t seem to be affected by time. It could probably stay “fresh” for much longer. I should buy a bottle and throw it in a time capsule to see how long it will last.

Okay, enough randomness from me. I’ve got a weekend to sleep through of work to think about. Enjoy some virtual pancakes:

And enjoy your weekend, whenever it may start for you.