shine on

happy birthday alison

dear alison,

happy birthday goofball :) 

love,

em

freshman year

sophomore year

junior year

senior year

now

home for real

i'm home.

unpacking, reorganizing, hanging out with people, eating corn pudding, etc.

more blog posts & pictures to come once i locate my camera cord...

last day in rochester

it was another rather late night last night. ended up staying up until around 5 am. strangely enough, i woke up without an alarm around 8:30, took a shower, packed up a few things and then went upstairs to hang out. studied some for my last final (psychology), got lunch, watched the big bang theory (which by the way, is my new favorite tv show). dad came around 4:50 right as i was getting ready to head over to the final. i actually finished the test before it was supposed to even start. ive gotten in the habit of going to class at least 30 minutes before to look over stuff all quarter and so he let me take the exam early. went over to the ritz for dinner and then moved most of my stuff out to the car. wandered back upstairs and ended up going out to fridays with matt and ozzy for dinner except i didn't eat dinner twice so i played peggle instead which is a pretty awesome game with quite possibly the best sound effects ever especially when hooked up to a car stereo. came back here, hung around and such and now i'm just finishing pulling the last few things together before maybe hopefully going to bed at a semi decent hour? but it's already past 2 am so that's not really looking very likely anymore. as long as i'm not sleeping, i made it to stage 5-3 (only matt & ozzy will understand that if they ever run across this...).

mmm yeah, so bye bye rochester see you in a month or so :) 

because we just can't have it any other way

fire alarm went off at 3:40 in the morning that was a nice surprise... not. especially because i had just spent over 3.5 hours attempting to fall asleep and didn't succeed until a little after 3 am. woke up completely disoriented, somehow managed to find a sweatshirt i guess and went outside. came back in and proceeded to spend another hour trying to fall back asleep.

lovely. sleep is overrated apparently.

leaving on a jet plane

i'm pretty okay with life as it is. i'm not entirely sure about the whole packing up my life yet again and moving. guess we'll see when we get there. i'm really looking forward to getting home and relaxing for a while but at the same time everything seems to be falling into place here. that's just how it works sometimes.

anyway, it's around one in the morning now and i've been laying in bed for almost two hours unable to fall asleep. that's been happening an awful lot lately. yesterday i realized that i had only slept for around eight and a half hours in the past sixty. whoops. i'll wait until summer to catch up.

our room is so ridiculously depressing looking, there is nothing on the walls anymore, the desks are mostly empty and everything is packed up in bags. i've been spending as little time in here as possible.

tomorrow is my last day of work for the year. no finals tomorrow so the afternoon looks pretty open which is excellent for hanging out with people. done with three of my four finals, sunday was probably the most stressful day. mostly due to my enormously bad luck and getting locked out of our dorm room for 2 hours while we waited for public safety to come. of course, everything always turns out in the end and i managed to get everything done so no complaints there.

dear self

dear self,

it's okay to sleep past 6 am especially when you went to bed at 3 am and don't have a final until 9 am. apparently that's just not possible, is it? the sun doesn't always mean it's time to get up, listen to that handy dandy alarm clock. please and thank you. 

sincerely,

me

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dear weather,

33 degrees this morning? seriously. that's wonderful that you realize that i don't like heat but I already packed away my winter coat so could we perhaps keep it around 50 degrees? that seems rather reasonable.

sincerely,

the girl who doesn't feel like wearing a coat anymore

oy with the poodles already

don't take it personally if i haven't responded to emails, texts, phone calls, IMs, etc for the past week. it's been rather busy and to be honest i haven't really been around my computer that much. and when i am it's for like 2 seconds before i decide that i would rather sleep than check my email. 

i have 2 projects to get to the printer before they close tonight... due tomorrow at 9 am. 

tough

it's been kind of a rough quarter.

worth reading.

letters

seriously caps? what the heck is going on. 4-0 pens and it's only 5 minutes into the 2nd period. two goals in less than 8 seconds?

anyway, here's some of the project i'm working on for elements of graphic design.

what's a partridge and a pear tree?

the caps are losing already, five minutes into the first period. 

my action figure's hand and foot broke off this morning.

and i have two 30 in by 40 in drawings due tomorrow.

as well as 51 more sketchbook entries. 

i've been listening to christmas music all day. it has been excellent. 

mothers day

Happy Mother's Day!

I love you!! <3

learning

Things I've Learned Today: 

Don't watch sports games alone on TV, you will feel the tendency to scream at them and then realize that you're insane and pretty much just talking to yourself. Especially hockey games. 

Apparently it is extremely weird to only request cheese on bread. I cannot even count the number of times I have gotten weird looks for not wanting meat on my sandwich. Seriously guys, it's called being a VEGETARIAN. Sandwiches are not required to have meat on them, I promise they still taste good. In fact, if you want to be super awesome you can go ahead and put on extra cheese since I'm not eating meat. 

Work is excellent. Work becomes even more awesome when you can directly relate absolutely everything that happens to the show The Office. It gets infinitely more awesome when you write a reality TV series about it. 

5..4..3..2..1

3 tests left

5 projects

1 paper

AND THEN I'M DONE FOR THE QUARTER!

woohoo! slowly plodding along at work here. it's so hard to motivate myself to get work done that's due more than a day away so i'm pretty much just working on an as needed basis. seems to be working just fine and I appear to be getting more sleep than last week (i type this as i'm yawning... ironic). 

tonight is some "freshman celebration", they're bringing Jack's Swift and some other stuff on Greek Lawn for hanging out purposes. small group for IV is also tonight. this weekend, friday is the start of the Rochester Lilac Festival which is a two week music festival downtown, one of the local bands we've been following this year is playing on Friday for the opening so I think we're going to that. large group for IV friday night. the two day spring festival (it's basically just a carnival) is Friday and Saturday all day. Saturday night there is some christian band night for the festival, one of my friend's is playing in that so we're going, well i think i'd probably go anyway but it's just another reason to. sunday is church at the fathers house. and sprinkled throughout the entire weekend is HOMEWORK. yay? i have to finish two 30 in by 40 in drawings by Tuesday (we were told this yesterday). so yeah, i imagine that might take up a good chunk of the weekend. 

well, it's 8:32 which means i should probably be getting to class soon because we were warned that if we miss this class we'd pretty much be screwed for the rest of the quarter. uhoh. 

six song smash

Power Rangers

[checkout line of the target, i was trying to buy a power rangers action figure]

checkout man:  do you want a gift receipt for this? 

me: uhmm, actually it's for me.

awkward times ten. it was pretty funny though. i eventually told him that i don't sit around playing with action figures and it was actually for an art project. 

this weekend was Imagine RIT which is basically just a ginormous event on campus to showcase all of the work that everyone is doing. ash and i volunteered at a welcome table from 9 until 3. they gave us a short break in the middle and we wandered over to watch eight beat measure perform & eat dinosaur bbq (i just ate the roll and cucumbers haha they gave all of the volunteers lunch of course it had to be meat) after volunteering was over we just walked aimlessly around looking at the different exhibits. it was a tad overwhelming, i think they should have it over 2 days because there is just way too much to cover in one day. oh well. we were so incredibly exhausted after that. got dinner and then came back to work on homework. ashley actually ended up falling asleep around 7 and didn't wake up until 7 this morning! i went over to a friends room to work on homework with some people because our room was dark and i wasn't getting any work done here. for some reason just being in the same room as other people makes me work faster and not procrastinate. went to church this morning, got breakfast with ash, went to pittsford for some stuffs, bought an action figure, took almost a 4 hour nap... pretty  much the extent of my sunday. just working on some homework now, i have a paper due thursday which is half a page away from being finished. yay! finished all of my homework due tomorrow. have 80 some pages to read by Tuesday for a philosophy test. need to work on my drawing homework too. so, there's really no shortage of things to do. just packing the days full of stuff. 

it's so weird to think that i'm going to have to pack up all of my stuff in less than 3 weeks! i just found out that i actually have 4 finals instead of 2. lovely. it's alright though, shouldn't be too stressful. i think there will be a number of people around until the very end (may 22nd). then we get to go HOME. 

maybe i'll stop procrastinating and finish up some stuff before bed. of course, i did just wake up from a nap like 2 hours ago. oops.