Photography Class
July 26
Yes! Today's the last day...*Victory Dance*...She called us up one by one to grade our work. What a bitch! You know what she does? She makes us tell her what grade we think we should get. And that's what we get. Argh! Like a poor guy in my class said that he should get an A- (p.s. this guy is fuckin smart), and that's what she gave him. Argh! I feel sorry for the people who aren't very prideful in their work...LOL, Angelica pulled off a B-. Way to go girl. She was arguing with the teacher. Ms Romain's like I think you deserve a C. Angelica's like, "No, I deserve a B." And then Ms. Romain's like fine, a B-. Go Angelica.
July 25
Today was the second to last day of class. Thank God. We finished up the presentations in the morning and then she was going to post up our work for the show later on. It was really funny because she was like "Who's coming to the show tonight?" And no one - I swear not even a 'meep' was heard - responded. I have never heard the class quieter. I was listening to my earphones, and when it was so quiet, I was like whoa, what's happening, taking off my earphones. She was like, "Awww, come on guys! I have to be here all day so come out and visit me." We're like 'no thanks, I think I'll pass...'. She also made us watch these boring tapes...The ironic thing that shows how boring she is is that she told us how great the movies are...And how she enjoyed them so much. She'd like pull out this tape and go, "This is a really good video.." And then we'd watch it, half of the people leaving to go to the restroooms..Right when the credits started to play I exhaled ..a little too loud. Anyways she's telling us how good the movies are, but everyone's either listening to their CD players or sleeping...We had the show at 11:30 and I got to leave a half an hour early. Thank You Lord..
July 24
Haha, so today we had our finals in photography where we have to present a photographer and show a little picture that we took in the style of the photographer. So Nikki and Angelica didn't do them on purpose because they're hella pissed at her..[see July 23's entry]Anyways so they wanted to smart talk the teacher and this is how we practiced..."Ms Romain" is me, and Angelica and Nikki are themselves..this is how the convo went...
Ms Romain: Angelica, its your turn...
Angelica: I didn't do nothing...
Ms R: What?
A: You heard me..I didn't do nothing. Do I have to spell it out for you? N-O-T-H-I-N-G. Nothing. (shaking hands and making sign language imitations).
Ms R: You know what. I dont even want to talk to you. Nikki you're next.
Nikki: Oh, I burned my project. You know it was really cold last night and my group home doesn't have a heater.
Ms R: Stop trying to be funny.
N: I'm not trying to be funny. (sniffle) Do you think it's funny that my group home can't even afford to pay the heating bills??
Ms R: You know what? Talk to me after class.
N: I don't want to talk to you. The class needs to hear this. (turns to class) Class, last night it was really cold and I had to burn my photographs and a couple of clothes because I had to keep my toes nice n toasty. I had a couple of marshmallows too.
Ms R: Do you both want to get F's?
A: (gasp) You think i'm 'fantastic'?? Oh, I never knew that you felt that way about me! If you had told me that before I would have tried so much harder!
July 23
Today was so funny. Anyways Ms. Romain got the mount board that she's been dying to have for weeks. It's what we mount our photos onto. The photo show is on Thursday so she was stressin. Anyways she's mountin our pictures. And then Mark walks up to her and says, "I was using this one enlarger, and then when I came back, Angelica was using it...And now I can't find my negatives." Anyways she calls Angelica up and goes, "Where did you put Mark's negatives?"
"You must have taken them, he was using them and now they're gone..."
Meanwhile, Mark comes back and goes, "I found my negatives, they were on the floor."
So Angelica goes to Ms. Romain,"See, you better be sure before you start accusing people."
Ms. Romain goes, "I'm positive that when you took out the negative tray, the negative fell to the floor."
"There was nothing in there."
"Yes there was, I don't believe you."
"Did I ask whether or not the fuck you believe me??"
Go Angelica!! Haha, Ms. Romain walks away.
Later on in the day, Nikki and Angelica run outside to meet their friends. Remember, Angelica is still pissed about what happened earlier...
Ms. Romain yells, "ANGELICA! NIKKI! You guys only have two days left of this class and you're THIS MUCH CLOSE to getting kicked out.."
Angelica goes, "I'm shaking in my space boots."
Nikki says, "My knees are clanking.."
Anyways, Ms. Romain walks away...
July 19
Ugh...I don't think I can stand that smell of Ms. Romain anymore! She smells like a mix between photo chemicals, these pills old people take, and her dog Sasha. If you catch my drift. It's like pop a wintergreen fresh in your mouth lady..Anyways since yesterday everyone's been bringing their CD players. The dark room is so boring when you're processing your prints so you might as well listen to something. LOL Amar and I were listening to Hot In Herre, and he started singing to it...And then dancing to it, and we were using the same ear phones so he was dragging me everywhere - in the dark. Anyways, one more week of this shit. Sorry Kathleen...
July 17
OK So this is what happened today, 7/17...There's only about a week left, so everyone's trying to get their projects done...Ms. Romain is a bit more relaxed, not so cringy and everything. Today she brought in her dog, and boy is it so quiet. I didn't even know it was in the room until I was going to show her a pic and nearly toppled over that huge white german shephard. Gosh...And then in the dark room...today was scary. I mean there's this really big girl there. Her name is Sarah, she's pretty cool. It's just that she likes to poke people's stomachs. And the only problem is...she smells. Like cow manure. And she wears a cowboy bandana so I wouldn't be surprised if she's from the Funny Farm or something. Anyways, and then Amar is always singing that Lil Bow Wow song...basketball...it goes like this: "We're playing basketball, basketball, basketball, blah blah blah"..and then it goes "Yo basketball's my favorite sport, I love the way you dribble up and down the court." Haha, that song makes me laugh because it's so ...yeah...Anyways only a week more left of photo...I can make it...hopefully...
July 11
Here's the update on photo as of the 11th. OK The first couple of paragraphs will be dedicated to my awful bitchy teacher. I am not kidding. OK So we're developing prints and then someone put a tray dripping with water next to the paper cutter. Then someone with a tiny strip of paper went over to cut their paper and "duh" it got wet. So then she asked the teacher if the paper is ok being wet..And of course Ms. Romain starts yelling and nagging. Here are her words, "OMIGOSH. Who did that??? Whoever just put that tray next to the paper cutter just ruined someone's paper! Like OMIGOSH...OK Who just put that tray there??? [of course the whole time we're in a dark room so no one can see no one] If i ever find out who did that - no wait - Ashley [TA] if you see whoever did that tell me ok?" She then turns to the poor girl who's probably just thinking "it's just a tiny piece of paper sheesh" and says "OK I'm so sorry about that, but you know those types of things happen. Now you can see why I'm such a nag." Ofcourse you're such a nag you whore.
July 3
So on the 3rd...
Ms. Romain's teaching us how to develop film. And that room is so damn small only about three small kittens can fit in there let alone a whole class of 30 people. So some people are outside in the hallway and then there's the attentive people in the front. We were laughing our asses off in the back because Angelica and Nikki were having a cat fight. And then I don't remember what happened but then Stephanie got into the fight and they were all kicking and punching. And then someone must've really hit Stephanie because all of the sudden she's like "You motherfuckin bitch!" Well - very conveniently - that was in the middle of the teacher's sermon. Then a split second later Stephanie's like "Oops! Excuse my language." So here comes Ms. Romain, "No, I will not excuse my language. It is not ok to swear for no reason in this class [of course she had no idea of the bitch slapping in the back of the class]. If you mess up on a photo and say 'shit', that's ok. But no swearing for no reason." Then later in the day, someone's rolling film in the dark and then Ms. Romain opens the door. Well...anybody (brain or no brain) would know that film gets exposed when door's are open. So then she quickly closes the door, and then thinks for a moment of a plausible excuse. She then says, "Oh, I didn't know there was someone in there [That's why you knock]. You guys need to lock your doors." And then with a tinge or hope, she adds, "Did a lot of light come in? Because I didn't think there was a lot of light." Well the poor devastated girl says, "Yes, there was a lot of light." So finally Ms. Romain is quiet. Unfortunately for us, she's in a bad mood for the rest of the day. The next day she comes in and she gives us the swearing lecture again. She then says, "You know Stephanie, when you swore yesterday, it put me in a very bad mood. That's what caused me to do stupid things." Well I thought that if she slept on it, she'd come up with a better excuse...
July 2
As of the 2nd...
Haha, so we're getting reading to develop film, [minor note: the tanks come in pairs, and triples so everyone needs to find a partner or two] and everyone's getting partners. I already got Nikki this girl that sits next to me...She's really nice. Anyways Stephanie has been sick for about 2 days so she doesn't know anything. She was looking for a partner and everyone was looking either at their shoes or the ceiling...whistling...Finally she finds Amar Being the nice and somewhat shy guy that he is, he doesn't say no. So there's only three rooms so three groups go in and then everyone else waits outside. 45 minutes has now passed, and we've all gotten very tired of looking at those god awful magazines that have horrible pictures in them. So we're thinking what's Amar and Stephanie doing?? God they've been in there for so long. So Nikki and Angelica go up to the door and start banging, "Get out of there...this isn't make out corner...You could've at least pulled a quickie before class started..." Meanwhile the teacher is staring at us and smirking. God knows what she's thinking.
July 1
OK So here's what happened in photo on July 1st. I come in to class and before I can rest my head comfortably on the desk and fall asleep this girl named Stephanie says, "Hey I can speak Cantonese, but I can understand Mandarin." Ofcourse this seems a little random, but finally I remember that the day before I had asked her how to say 'bitch' in Chinese because someone was asking. So then the teacher is giving her god awful speech on pinhole cameras when she gets up and gives her photo album. I thought to myself, that's nice I get to see some hot chics in here. So I'm flipping through her album when the next thing I know she walks up to me and asks for my number. At first I was too out of it to comprehend, but finally I give it to her. Then Angelica [the cute hispanic chic] turns to me and says "Would you want to go out with Stephanie?" Well I just met this girl a couple of minutes ago, maybe not. Anyways later I find out she likes this Indian guy and me. And then later we were watching a movie and she asked for a hug. OK So i hugged her. When we left she said she needs a kiss. Before I could do anything she kissed me on the cheek. Talk about moving fast.