April 13: Daily Reflection

My blogging schedule has suddenly taken a sharp left turn, and by left I mean late. I never really understood the whole alliteration/onomatopoeia thing to begin with. Regardless, I intend to return my blogging to a time closer to daylight hours. I digress.

Today was the most efficient day thus far of the project. I had uninterrupted work time from 8am-noon, so I was really able to crank out layers like they were going out of style. I finished half of a layer from yesterday in five minutes, and then I proceeded to cut 5 and a half more in 4 hours, so by the time biochem rolled around, I had added 6 layers to the mountain AND cut half of a seventh! I must say I reveled in my efficiency. I came back during lunch to finish the seventh layer for the day, which ran out my stock of chipboard I had purchased earlier! And adding the fact that I had to cut a new map again, (ugh) I'd say I did pretty well.

I have been much more efficient with my X-Acto blades as well, and today I used 4 X-Acto blades for 7 layers, which is a huge change from 13 X-Acto blades on the first layer alone. I have developed strength in my hands to cut the chipboard easier and make the knife hurt less. I drew blood for the third time of the whole project, but I can almost anticipate all potentially bloody situations and avoid them as much as possible. I started a new can of spray tack today; see below how the first one finished.

SE kills the can

As I mentioned earlier, I ran out my stock of chipboard, so I had to stop by Binders and get more. It's really nice to see my progress immediately every time I look across my desk at the growing mountain, but I also get satisfaction from buying more chipboard. It's like the chipboard is saying "Look Samuel, look how fast you work. Look how you can't get enough chipboard. You're addicted." No, chipboard, I am not addicted to you, I just like spending time with you. And cutting you forcefully. But that's a wee bit grim so let's not go any farther down that path.

I think the highlight of my day was when Señora Mitchell came in to meet with Mr. Reynolds about something having to do with Siempre Verde. She walked strutted through the door in her energetic gait and smiled at me, then proceeded to sit down with Mr. Reynolds. A tornado of Spanish ensued. Dorothy may or may not have landed near the south end of Siempre Verde. Bambi is worried that Kermit will take an interest in her so Bambi is doing everything in her power to keep Dorothy's promiscuous tricks off Kermit. Bambi is currently taking lessons from Elin Nordegren in this area of expertise.

Picture time!



The mountain with 24 layers.



Here's the part of the map with exposed contours. I think the light looks really cool on this one.

Tomorrow I have lots of other things going so I'm not sure how many layers I will get done. I'm shooting for at least 3. My sister is a track phenom. That's all folks!