the sugar cookies I baked! Unfortunately they came out hard as rocks but once you broke off a piece and let it kind of break down a little in your mouth, they were really good. And they actually went very well with the champagne.
This is Ron and Virginia in the picture.
A couple of "cultured," wine tasting ladies...my friend Janis and I.
So first you look at the wine and determine it's color and "cloudiness" and transparency. The clearer the wine is the better the quality. Red wines have several different shades of color to determine the quality and type of wine you've got...ruby, rose, oranger red, crimson red (burgundy), etc.
I love this picture...Patrick looks like a priest at mass. hehehe.
THEN you smell, trying to decipher the layers of scents that compose the "body" of the wine. The longer the wine's scent remains the better the quality. You're supposed to be able to distinguish the secondary and tertiary scents...people were pulling out stuff like "wood" and "lavender" (???).
I would recommend you try fresh mozzarella cheese (the kind that's still in the water), it's a favorite around here and it's really very very yummy (Buffalo mozzarella is especially good). All in all it was a very lovely and most enjoyable evening...very deceiving, we should have known.
We knew that we were having a pin-up on the Wednesday before leaving that Thursday to go to Venice (a pin-up is just like a presentation of the projects' progress). Studio is from 1:30 to 5:30 on Wednesdays and so we were all preparing for the final push before our little mini-break travelling...we were to leave the Villa at 6:15 Thursday morning to catch our train to Venice.
Wednesday morning with 36 hours until departure time we received an email specifying the renderings and images we were to have ready for our pin-up which was re-scheduled for 6:00 am (that's IN THE MORNING) on Thursday before we leave. That is basically straight up, no beating around the bush "you will be pulling an all-nighter."
Around 1:30-2am I grabbed my camera in a sudden moment of brilliance and decided to capture and document everything from the maniacal freak-outs to the silent fuming frustration each student displays (everyone handles this stuff in different ways). This is the Daniel Center, about 4 hours to pin-up (you have to keep in mind many of us had been up either all night or really really late the night before as well).
This is what we do all day and night here...we build the models in 3D programs such as Rino and FormZ and then we render them and then we photoshop them.
We literally sit here all. day. long.
Virginia is demonstrating the classic case of deadened numbness...you just work, don't think just work. You are numb, except for your stomach which is in knots and your eyes which are burning and you JUST HATE LIFE...
Janis grabbing her hair and freaking out...
chomping on Tums and generally JUST HATING LIFE...
Who feels like crap?!?!?!
Poor Mark, all hunched over, developing future back and eye problems...he will stay in this position with those earphones blaring for hours on end.
It is absolute misery.
So we stayed up all night long...working and then taking a frantic 15 minute break to pack...we all had the most random crap in our bags for the trip because we were literally in a state of complete delirium and exhaustion. We had to run through the train station because we were late When we finally got on the train, our reserved seats were taken by some stubborn old Italian ladies and the only seat left when it came time for Sarah to sit down there were no seats left, so I just plopped down on Janis and we both (apparently) passed out.
For the first two days of our trip, we were recovering from this nightmare. We're used to pulling all nighters and we've pulled several this semester. But the whole 6 am thing was a bit ridiculous.
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