You don't know what methodical, dpi, succinct, facade and sooo many other words mean. You're clueless, confooosed, weird, lazy, retarded, an idiot, a really bad speller, forgetful and nothing gets through to you.
And yet all that just makes me like you even more.
You said we were the complete opposites of each other after we had a random talk about how you pretty much only eat raw fish, and I only eat a selected few, fully cooked fish.
The only thing that was going through my mind was: "Why Daniel, that's coz opposites attract." :)
Today was the shoot, for my 2nd photo1 assignment task, and I met him at the seats in the tower building at around noon, and we walked to Broadway, for our shoot in Utopia. He asked if I needed help carrying anything, so I let him carry my acoustic guitar. So we got to Utopia only to find that the two men I asked last week weren't there, so I had to let the person in charge know that I already had permission from the boss last week to do a shoot for a uni assignment in here, and he gave us the OK.
Basically at first, it took me a while to think of ideas and ways to shoot my task. But once we got started, everything pretty much flowed. It was reeeally fun. Pretty much just being with him that closely was amazing. I was so happy. I was over the moon! Nothing was really awkward to be honest. I mean, everyone goes on about that whole "accidentally touching their hand, etc. etc", but really, we touched a few times and it was perfectly fine. Nothing awkward, just fun.
By the time the shoot was supposedly finished, I went to take out the film, only to realise that I was a complete idiot and had forgotten to wind the film first before opening it. So I quickly closed it up again and started winding, but it wasn't working, and I completely ruined the entire roll of film!
So of course, I had to re-shoot my entire task again, only twice as fast, since I didn't want to push the patience of the workers in Utopia. Just before we started again though, supposedly another boss came up to ask, saying "um, can I help you kids with anything?" and so of course, I told him what I told the other man, that I asked permission from the boss on Thursday if I could shoot in here for an assignment, and he said okay. Only, the man ended up replying with "Well that's funny, because I'm the boss.." Obviously, I panicked, and ended up telling him that well, I let an asian man know, along with another man who said he was the boss- slightly shorter, with shortish, grey hair, and thankfully, he let us continue.
Honestly, I was so worried, but during the whole thing, he just stayed calm, and even though everything was going so wrong, he made it feel like everything was just so right. So anyways, we went straight back to shooting for my task. I couldn't stop smiling on the inside, while I was taking photos of him. It was incredible. After we finished, I went to wind the film, this time remebering not to open it up before I was done. But yet again, everything went wrong, and I couldn't wind it back. I panicked, again, but decided to go to this camera shop in the city, hoping that they'd be able to fix the problem.
And so we ended up walking allllllll the way up to Museum Station, and even further, only to have the shopkeeper tell me that I'd forgotten to press the wind button at the bottom of the camera first! Ugh, I felt so stupid. But regardless, the long walk up there was fun. Painful because of everything I was carrying, but pretty damn good too, because he was there with me, perfectly calm.
After that, we probably had around 80 minutes left, so we walked to the bus stop and waited until the 555 free shuttle bus came, so we could head back to UTS. Everytime he looked to the side, I'd quickly look at him, just because I could. <3
By the time we got back, it was about 3.25, so we just sat down near building 2 where his next class was. I attempted to teach him some guitar, but he was too scared and didn't want to, so I ended up playing a little bit to him, and gave him a few tips on music in general. There were so many people watching, it was funny, haha.
I could go on, but I'll round it off soon.
Pretty much everytime we talked, and everything I looked at him, his eyes, his hair, listened to his voice, I just wanted to smile and give him a big hug.
Sure, being with him today made me more confident and daring, but I was still a bit shy when it came to anything non-surfaced. So I just stuck with the casual conversations and friendly goodbyes, so I wouldn't look too eager.
When mum picked me up, she kept asking questions about my 'friend' and whether or not they've got a tripod yet, etc. and I answered with no, because they don't do Photography. Then the questions kept coming. What's their name? Oh, it's a boy? How did you meet him? He's from Primary? How did you find him after primary? What course does he do? Muuuuuum, too many questions! >.<
But yeah, afterwards mum ended up saying 'oh, so you like him? he can be your boyfriend', etc. Of course, I replied with 'no mum' but secretly I was smiling.
Yep. So that's basically it for today. It was by far one of the best days I've had in years, literally. A friend of mine, Rob, told me earlier on this year, that 2010 was going to be 'our year', and that statement is slowly, well, faster than I thought it would, coming true.
Daniel Churches. (L)
:)
