Saturday, October 21
9:00-11:00AM
- Took about 30 minutes to wake up, take any medications, get out of bed, change clothes and get prepped for the day by tidying my bedroom a bit
- Made my breakfast, loaded the dishwasher then reviewed my journal before meeting with my therapist
- Spent the second half of the hour discussing how school has been going and how my health has been impacting me with my therapist
11:00-11:45AM
- Had a 45-minute phone call with my uncle who is an alumni of the program and got to talk with him about how I’m feeling about it for the first time since the summer
12:00-3:00PM
- Started my work by looking at the recent feedback Jason sent me last night to refine my shapes in Illustrator for the Graphic Translation project
- Began mind-mapping and sketching out a couple ideas for Jill’s new project to create a Combination Mark for a company of our choice
- Took a break for a snack and to finish watching Jason’s Illustrator videos for the week
- Did a little bit of research for Jason’s next Stylized Design project
- Sketched out some slide & panel ideas for the group project in the AR Module
3:00-4:30 PM
- Meditated and then took a short nap
4:30-5:30 PM
- Unloaded the dishwasher, did some laundry and then cleaned my bathroom
5:30-7:00PM
- Went shopping for dinner and cooked
7:00-10:00PM
- Ate dinner
- Watched movies and spent some time with my girlfriend
10:30PM-9:30AM
- Sleeping
Sunday, October 22
10:00-11:30AM
- Spent some more time talking with my girlfriend after waking up before she went home
12:00-12:30PM
- Had homemade chicken noodle soup for lunch
12:30-2:30PM
- Look for inspiration for my project in Jill’s class
- Sketched out a ton of different concepts for the logo
2:30-2:45PM
- Sent Jason my object for the stylized design project for some feedback
- Turned in my final graphic translation project to Jason
3:00-4:00PM
- Put together my slide and panels for the group project in the AR Module of New Media
4:00-6:00PM
- Did a few chores around the house like cleaning the kitchen
6:00-6:45PM
- Helped another student with Jason’s graphic translation project
7:00-7:30PM
- Took my dog Zeus for a walk
7:30-8:30PM
- Did yoga by myself & then took a shower
8:30-11:00PM
- Watched a few episodes of Community
- Ate my dinner
- Journaled a little bit & read some of my book
- Fell asleep around 11-ish
Monday, October 23
10:00-11:00AM
- Slept in a little bit but I really enjoyed the sleep
- Scrolled Reddit for a few minutes watching highlights from last night’s playoff baseball game
- Got up and got ready for the day by changing
11:00-12:00PM
- Unloaded the dishwasher
- Loaded some of my bed laundry to be washed
- Wrote down a shopping list
- Spent the rest of the hour playing around with my cats & tidying my room
12:00-2:30PM
- Went shopping with my girlfriend Tia
- Started at Fred Meyer to get gas a couple things the other stores don’t have
- Next was Value Village where I needed to take a couple pictures there for the AR Panel project in New Media, I didn’t get anything but Tia found a few cute things she liked
- Finally we stopped at Trader Joe’s to stock up on the food we needed for the rest of the month
2:30-3:45PM
- Completed my part of the AR Panel project for Stephanie’s class in New Media
3:45-5:00PM
- Sketched out a few more ideas for Jill’s project
- Got a few things together to begin preparing for school tomorrow
5:00-6:00PM
- Watched a bit of the MLB playoff game
6:00-7:00PM
- Went on a walk with Zeus
- Took a shower
7:00-7:30PM
- Ate dinner while watching the game
7:30-8:30PM
- Watched some of Jason’s videos to prepare for tomorrows lecture
8:30-9:30PM
- Prepared for bed
- Did some yoga
- Meditated to sleep
Tuesday, October 24
6:30-6:50AM
- Wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast
6:50-7:15AM
- Drove to the Tukwila light rail station
7:15-8:00AM
- Meditated on the way to school on the light rail
8:00-9:00AM
- Got set up in class
- Printed out my final graphic translation project for class today
- Watched another one of Jason’s videos
9:00-10:30AM
- Class critique of the graphic translation project
10:30-11:30AM
- Jason’s lecture where he taught us about the curvature, width shape & rotate tools
11:30-12:15PM
- Ate lunch
12:15-1:20PM
- Jason taught us about the blend tool & showed us some examples of the project we’re doing
1:20-2:45PM
- Took the light rail back to Tukwila & drove home
2:45-3:45PM
- Rested after the school day
- Meditated for 20 minutes
- Ate a snack
3:45-4:45PM
- Chose a new object for Jason’s stylized design project & sent him my new sketches for feedback
4:45-5:30PM
- Spent some time sketching
5:30-6:30PM
- Got some things together for school
- Reviewed what assignments I have due this & next week
- Organized my notes a little bit neater
- Watched more playoff baseball
6:30-7:45PM
- Made & ate dinner
- More baseball
- More sketching
7:45-8:30PM
- Yoga
8:30-9:00PM
- Bedtime meditation
Wednesday, October 25
6:20-6:50AM
- Woke up
- Ate breakfast
- Got ready for school
6:50-8:00AM
- Drove to the Tukwila station
- Meditated & listened to music on the light rail on the way to school
8:00-9:00AM
- Set up my workspace for the day in the classroom
- Made a few finishing touches to my sketches due today
- Spent some time on the porch outside on the 5th floor
9:00-9:30AM
- Jill showed us a few more examples of student logos
- She printed out our sketches & broke us up into groups to give feedback
9:30-11:30AM
- Clayton & I gave each other feedback on our logo sketches and we decided which iteration we would use to take further & process into our final
- Using the feedback we did a couple 20-minute design sprints where we tried to find the heart-of-the-story in our logo
- Jill walked around and gave us each personal feedback where she told me to break my logo down & make it more simple
11:30AM-12:00PM
- We did a “hot potato” where we switched sketchbooks with our partners & made some changes or added some things we thought could help
12:00-1:00PM
- I spent my lunch finally making a breakthrough on Jason’s stylized design project and sketched out a few ideas to send to Jason
1:00-1:45PM
- Watched videos to help us with creating logos with grids
1:45-2:50PM
- Meditated the entire 35-minute light rail ride & then drove home
2:50-3:30PM
- Spent some time relaxing & unwinding after school with my cats
3:30-4:00PM
- Journaled about my day and a couple things I want to talk to some people about
4:00-4:30
- Added the finishing touches & recorded the animation for the AR Panel project
- Loaded my dirty laundry
4:30-5:00PM
- Reviewed the syllabus for Jill’s class and added every link to my Notion
5:00-5:30PM
- Loaded the dishwasher
- Put away clean laundry
5:30-5:50PM
- Went for a walk with Zeus
5:50-6:45PM
- Yoga & Meditation
6:45-9:30PM
- Spent the rest of the night with Tia
Thursday, October 26
9:30-11:45AM
- Spent some more time with Tia just talking & watching some Youtube videos
11:45AM-1:00PM
- We both sketched some stuff together, I did just some random things & expanded on my logo for Jill’s class a bit more
1:00-1:45PM
- Finally got dressed & cleaned up for the day
- Ate lunch & meditated
1:45-3:30PM
- Changed my object once again for Jason’s project after receiving feedback, I chose and sketched out 3 ideas so that hopefully one of them will work
- Helped a New Media classmate figure out Illustrator for the AR Panel project