i love fall.

hmm okay, so this morning was open house. actually back up, last night ash and i went to MCC for a hockey game. it was so ridiculously cold. like hockey rinks are cold but this was a whole new level of cold. on the way home we got slightly lost but luckily both of us have a pretty good sense of direction so we made it back sans maps/gps/etc. didn't get to bed until 1 am but oh my goodness was my bed comfortable last night, i think it was the sharp contrast from cold to that. i did not want to wake up at 6 am but walking the quarter mile that early with freezing air blowing in your face forces you to wake up. open house was more of the same, welcoming people to RIT. i did get to drive a golf cart though! after that i went down to the dorms for a review session with my professor for a test on tuesday which was pretty helpful.

one thing i learned today, never attempt to drink apple cider from a cup while speed walking, bad things happen.

time to go work on some homework before the hockey game at 4:45. next weekend is the start of RIT hockey yayyyyy



this is my favorite song as of right now.

i'm still working on getting the pictures up, i know it takes like 2 seconds but i have other things to do :)

i could see my breath last night.. how's that for september weather?

it feels like fall

today is friday. five days from my last post.

this blogging thing doesn't seem to be working so well this year. i was so good about it but somehow this year there is always something better to do. i think it might have something to do with the fact that i hardly spend anytime on the computer anymore-- shocking, i know. other than working on projects i dont spend too much time on it. yay me. actually i haven't really spent all that much time in our apartment lately either.

speaking of which, i'm leaving in 5 minutes.

i worked 28 hours last week, on top of classes, club meetings, hanging out and homework. i don't exactly know how that's possible but i fit it all in. and i get to bed at a semi reasonable hour.

went to pittsford today with ash. and grocery shopping. all we ever buy is soy milk, vg splash, cheese and apples. i mean food stuff too, but these are the most used. we had to do some pantry re-organization to fit it in.

tomorrow is admissions open house at 7:30 am. study session from 11-1 then a hockey game. club team, not the d1 one. im going to iv tonight 7-9 then a hockey game from 9- who knows when. lots of stuff to do tomorrow on the hw front.

more later. plus pictures.

its 57 degrees today.

midnight shoe excursions

broccoli with a peanut butter and soy sauce mix and rice!

fancy grilled cheese with 2 cheeses, mushrooms and spinach

midnight trip to walmart

i actually took this picture with the camera upside down so its correct

my shoe broke in the middle of the walmart parking lot...

new orange curtains. we can never seem to keep all of the pillows on the couch at once

soup i made for us for lunch...

cheesey crackers!

potato soup with corn and cheese and real potatoes, crackers and VG splash what a good sunday brunch

rice for breakfast

holy monkeys batman it's nice outside today.

62 degrees. clear blue sky with no clouds. can't get much better than this.

the slight cold feeling is only hinting towards one thing.. more SNOW. i'm not sure how i feel about this at the moment, i could go for a good 5 months of fall weather. apples, pumpkins, squash, etc.

worked for a 6 hours on admissions stuff yesterday. IV last night then some homework and hanging out. watched a bit of V for Vendetta. slept in. went grocery shopping. read some for political science and now i'm hanging out on a rather ugly yellow (technically goldenrod) couch in the library (idea factory) to work on a project. tonight looks like homework and hanging out. sensing a pattern? i have a lot of that stuff.

i can't believe there are only 3 weeks until brick city homecoming and monday is the beginning of week THREE. how in the world did that happen?? craziness i tell you. it's going to be midterms before i know it. uhoh, have some papers & studying to do before that.

next weekend is a dinner party friday, open house (7-9 am) on saturday, study group (11-1pm) then mini golfing? we'll see how that goes.

we've got this grocery shopping thing down to a science. it doesn't take very long and it appears to be getting cheaper and cheaper as the weeks go on. i've found my new favorite breakfast food....rice with cinnamon and a little bit of sugar and soy milk. soo tasty. i have more food pictures to share at a later date.

so cool

just thought i would share.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/16/liquid.glasses.self.refraction/index.html


what a genius idea.

in school news, today is my friday woohoo. well kind of. im working tomorrow from 8:30 am until some unknown time and then i have stuff pretty much all day/night but it'll be okay. this weekend is looking bussyyy. so much to do, so little time.

i'm mooching off of the RIT wireless on campus now, forgot how fast internet could be.

design meeting in 13 minutes. then dinner. then homework. then THE OFFICE season premiere! so excited.

that's about all for now, i have some design projects i'll be posting hopefully sooner rather than later so be on the look out. we're almost done about 3 projects already-- it's week two I KNOW. crazyyy.

oh right, ice skating is good. i'm learning how to hockey stop, some turns and backward crossovers. it's a little ridiculous but fun. i've been skating about 4 hours a week :) apparently we're going to be doing sycronized skating by the end of the quarter. we'll see about that. no jumps please.

orientation week pictures

all of these were stolen/errr borrowed from various people from orientation week, there are many more but i dont want to bore you.

setting up for meet your oa

meeting the freshman for the first time!

oa group ice breakers for cias

where's waldo? i'm in there.

where's waldo? part 2

where's waldo part 3

convocation

sea of people at convocation

lighting the way. where's waldo is easier this time..

cias early morning meetings at 6 am woohoo. i'm in the middle front.

uhh random gathering? i dont remember when this was

food

mac & cheese that ashley made

pancakes & hashbrowns

taco night with the guys, first sunday before classes started

some of the guys

intense uno games

watching fireworks on the hill

i made oatmeal for dinner one night with cinnamon and apples

it tasted better than it looked...

pb&j with apples, i've been eating this every morning for breakfast. i've gone through so many apples lately

my desk/bed/the only place we get internet

dresser

art history poster over my bed bc i have to live and breathe this stuff for 3 quarters

typography project, stage 1

grilled cheese, spinach, carrots and cucumbers.. see mom? i get my veggies

soup i made today for lunch. broccoli, onions, mushrooms, spinach, can of cream of mushroom soup, little bit of soy milk, salt, pepper and cheese.

it was goooooood. and there are leftovers! :)

09.11.01

eight years? i can't figure out if that feels like forever ago or just yesterday.

on a different note, today is the official start of my weekend. i went ice skating for two hours yesterday, went to lovin cup for a concert/art therapy benefit met some nice people, hung around at marcs apt watching them play nhl on the xbox. this morning i'm going to work for 2 hours i dont have to but i like it there, going ice skating for an hour or two, doing some homework and then IV tonight. i'm not sure what's going on this weekend, i'm sure i'll figure out something.

all for now.

look what you've done

made spaghetti with tomato sauce and spinach for dinner.

i have the hiccups.

i'm going to bed soon. 8 am class tomorrow-- it's friday for me!

tonight was the riverknoll apartment ice cream social. i met some rather interesting people.

this weekend is i'm not sure what. lots of relaxing. some homework? projects? etc? we'll see.

more pictures later. when i stop being lazy and actually pull out my camera cord.

kay thanks. goodnight.

tied together with a smile

Classes start today. So far I have..

Woken up at 7, decided it was too early.

Woken up at 8 and realized my alarm was going to go off soon.

Cancelled my alarm and enjoyed the warmness of my bed.

Did some sudoku, while still in bed, of course.

Finally got out of bed and did some random cleaning shenanigans.

Made myself the most delicious brunch including oatmeal, cinnamon and homemade applesauce. (pictures later)

Figured out more of my online class discussion board.

Taken a shower & gotten dressed.

AND it's only 11:45!!!! This is fantastic.

Class doesn't start until 1 pm and I should be done by about 4:30 or so.

Buying ice skates tonight, going with ashley so she can buy her books and then rush week info sessions (surprised? you should be).

Last night was oodles of fun, 6 of our friends came over for taco night! We figured we needed to celebrate the last night of freedom. Made delicious food, played some uno and other card games, ate frozen yogurt and watched pro wrestling. After they all left Ashley and I went outside to watch the day before class fireworks RIT puts on.

oodles of things

I can't believe classes start tomorrow! Eek. I think i'm ready for it though, even though I totally would not mind another whole week of orientation!

Let's see... Friday morning woke up around 6 am, got ready, had an OA meeting & then met my group so we could board the buses and drive into downtown rochester for artisan works! That place is seriously cool. If i had a car, i'd buy a year membership there and just camp out. I've been there 3 times now and met one of the artists as well as talked to the owner for a good long while. Apparently they do weddings there.. I told him to hold a spot, I'll find the guy asap ;) Just kidding. Came back around noon, went to admissions to hang out for a while & straighten out some things. Ended up going to lunch with a bunch of them =) Went grocery shopping with ashley and then we went over to check out the guys apartment. It ended up being 7 of us going to dinner at Five Guys just down jefferson, except i ran next door and got the best burrito ever from Moe's. Tofu burritos are delicious. Drove around for a bit exploring and then came back here for an early bedtime.

Saturday morning, woke up at 8... yay for sleeping in! OA meeting at 9, group meeting at 9:15. Two worlds together session, lunch at crossroads, group hanging out, connect and explore, tiger den kick off, IV get together, laundry, cleaning, figure out some class stuffs. Ashley made mac & cheese for dinner :) Hung around and then headed out to brick bash. except the music was horrible, it was jsut like a giant techno rave and the DJ refused to change the music for the entire night from 9-1 but it was cool because all of the OAs eventually wandered over to underneath the sentenial for some shenanigans. Got home around 12:30ish i think, watched some saturday night live and then fell asleep.

This morning i annoyingly woke up at 7;30 because i guess i'm so used to getting up early but i was determined to sleep in because this is the one chance that I get, so i ended up falling back asleep until 9. Got up and made ash and i breakfast.. pancakes & hashbrowns. Showered, got ready and now we're headed over to the club & activities fair from 1-4.

Woohoo. And that was only 3 days of this week.

Hope you all have a good labor day doing whatever is appropriate to do on that day.. I'll be in classes =) RIT apparently does not understand the word "holiday" at least the admissions office is giving us a day off. Even though I was looking forward to going back there.

cardinals

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/A34B97533108A7C786257627000A2C90?OpenDocument

apartment

pre packing

sarah being a goof

more packing

sarah the pooper scooper

funfetti birthday cake

oodles of things

oodles and oodles of noodles

my last night at home alison and i got chinese food and watched my big fat greek wedding

saying bye to ever and lux

awwwwww i love them

new york skies

our bedroom

duck bathroom

my dresser

our walk in closet

the couch

hockey wall

pb&j

pancakess

broccoli, egg, cheese and soy milk