What ever happens to you, we'll see
But it's not gonna happen with me

I guess
That this is where we've come to
If you don't want to
Then you don't have to believe me
But I won't be there when you go down
Just so you know now
You're on your own now, believe me



Ugh, crunch time. The last two weeks have involved both a lot of stress and a lot of photo sessions. And it's not even close to over. Here's an outlook on what my schedule looks like for next week.

Monday - Turn in final portfolio and final essay for Photo Practices B
Tuesday - Turn in final essay for Photo History and Crit
Friday - Turn in final prints for Photo Tech.

So now let's look at how much work I have left to do in these three papers...



Photo Practices - Staying with my subject tomorrow night (Friday) to photograph him and his kids who are visiting for his birthday. Then photograph him in the studio Sunday afternoon. Proceed to edit about 130 usable photos down to ~10, finalize color correction and print, then start and finish final essay.

Photo History and Crit - Start and finish essay. Yeah, that's right, I haven't done anything at all. In the words of Brian Regan, "Oh no! That's due today! I had nine months to work on it and I did nothing." And my essay indeed may not be much better than a cup of dirt. "It's a cup...with dirt in it. I call it cup of dirt. You should move on now."

Photo Tech - Photograph the final photo in a set of three on Sunday afternoon, then spend 8+ hours editing and manipulating in Photoshop. THEN print all three after color correcting, and find out how in God's name I'm going to present them...

I can tell you exactly what my parents are thinking as they are reading this post. "If you have so much work why are you sitting there writing instead of working?" I have no answer for you two, besides the fact I am a procrastinator. But I suppose at this point that sentence has the same effect as informing them the sky is blue... If all of a sudden it changed, they may think the world was ending.