A Few Adventures Later

Hello!

Well, so a part of me hoped to keep better consistency of this blog thing, but the other knows that no harm is done in my persistent procrastination just as long as the project completed by the due date is awesome and I am not dead.
Sigh...yes, I have the 'project' mindset right now: just got off of a few of them!

Quick input on Halloween: it was fun! No, neither spectacular nor candy-filled, but we enjoyed dressing up for classes. I was my classic Captain Jack Sparrow (much to the awe of a lot of my classmates!) by day and then changed that evening to partner costume with a friend of mine: she was Christine and I was the Phantom of the Opera. Nothing more than a lot of pictures and a little bit of running around like silly people on All Hallows Even; the most fun was putting together the costumes together!

Anyway, as I was saying about the projects, I just turned in an art and an engineering project. The first was a kind of 'reaction' to something else I had done, only I wanted it to be more destructive and more chaotic. Here's the picture of the first one and the second, so you can see what I mean...

This is the first project, a giant puzzle that in the viewer's eye slowly and controlledly comes together to form a solid cube structure.

And here's the second! The opposing response, chaotic, explosive outward, but with a similar theme of the shapes and colors to connect it back to the original.













Both of these were done with wood in my 3D design class.






That took a lot of time in it's own right, but also this past weekend, we completed a month-long project in my engineering class to design and construct a scale model of our football stadium out of cake. Yes, it was an independent and original project, and it actually turned out pretty well! We spent the month testing cake recipes, figuring out dimensions, doing PR to get the word out so we could sell pieces for charity, the whole nine yards, and then this weekend we actually baked and built the whole thing. Granted, not a one of us has ever decorated a cake before (and all but one or two of us had never baked anything at all ever before) but it turned out alright. It was a job that you look at and say "Wow, these guys are completely inept at cake decorating, but they put so much into this that I kind of like it!"

Anyway, pictures of that too!

This took almost 12 hours straight of sculpting and icing... We never got a total cake weight, but it took no less than two people to move.



We decided on an apple-cinnamon spice cake recipe (an invention of our own culmination!) as the best in taste, structural integrity, and sculptability.




We were expected to have 2-3 hours to try to sell pieces to fans coming for the football game, but it was so popular and tasted so good, our poor cake barely lasted more than an hour!

We raised $500 for the food drive!




And now, I hardly have an off-week! The show choir performance is coming up at the end of the month, so we're all practicing hard for that, and I'm working hard to make sure that my grades are all superb. And then, like a doofus, I decided that this was going to be the year I actually participate in National Novel Writing Month. Not to mention I'm still working on that cure for cancer...

Sigh, busy month I guess. They happen!
Hahahahahahahaha ANYway, that's all for now, everything is going pretty mostly a whole lot of well. Got a few tests this week, but all should be well there too. Still looking off into the nether future to finals, but...you can only take so many scares at once. Matthew 6:34, ya know? If not, you should =]

I'm Jonathon, and this is my life.





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