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leaving on a jet plane

i decided at 11:30 last night that redoing two of my projects from the quarter would be a good idea. a few emails back and forth with my professor and a couple hours later, i finished! well sort of anyway. studied my butt off for art history yesterday.

couldn't really sleep much last night. finally gave up and got up a little before 7. got ready, backed up my harddrive (for the first time in about 3 months, i know i'm stupid) and then headed to the printers for what should have been a very short session. ended up taking over 45 minutes to print out 2 pieces of paper. apparently everytime i walk in there i cause "fatal errors". plus my print came out rasterized when its clearly a vector design. ah well, got a free print out of it. second time that's happened this week. got a smoothie to use up my extra debit and then walked over to building 7 to do some more studying before the exam. the actual test didnt take as long as i thought. didnt start until 10:20 or so and i was done by 10:45 i think. 60 questions. now i get to wait around in the lab until 12 when i can go over to java wallys and turn in my graphic novel final.

then i'm FLYING HOME!!! going to the airport at 1. flight leaves at 2:52 and i'm home by 4. i can't wait. in serious need of a break or i'm gonna crack.

leaving on a jet plane

stressed? maybe.

two finals in the morning. then flying home.

too much stuff going on right now, i'd really like a nap.

leonids

these days are getting longer and longer. luckily tomorrow is wednesday.

today looked a little like this...

3am: alarm goes off for the meteor shower

3:02am: alarm gets rejected.

7:00am: wake up

8:30am-1:00pm work

1:00-6pm lab working non stop on projects

6:00-6:30 printing

6:30-7:30 laundry

i have yet to stop moving today. tad exhausted. 8 am final tomorrow morning and then the rest of the day will be spent in the lab studying and finishing up projects. luckily i now have clean clothes to bring home.

after tomorrow morning with my crit i will be officially done with typography and political science. 3 classes left.

listened to the caps game on the radio tonight while i was working on stuff. they beat the devils 4-2 :) there was apparently lots of blood involved so i'm semi glad i was just listening and not watching.

watching the river hill volleyball game by text messages... 25-16, 25-27, 19-25 and they won the fourth. one more to go. maybe ill never watch sports again, just find out through text messages and the radio. keeps things more exciting :P

40 hours according to alison.

it's like my ipod's stuck on replay

monday is over. well, not technically. but close enough.

ashley and i decided this was the longest day ever.

i woke up around 7:30 (it was supposed to be 7 but i pushed snooze for that long). still made it to work by 8:30 which was earlier than planned. worked until 1:45. walked back with ash and then we decided to go to pickle nicks for lunch (this cute local sub place). we've been letting our food supply slowly deplete in preparation for break. did have to go buy more milk today, apparently we consume mass loads of dairy products around here. brought the subs back and watched some tv. worked on art history studying for a few hours and then we watched hockey! devils lost but it's alright brodeur was flopping around like a fish. been hanging around tonight. working tomorrow from 8 until 12:30 and then i'm working in the lab for the rest of tomorrow to finish imagery, art history essay and typography projects. wednesday morning i have a final critique at 8:30 and then i'm studying art history for the rest of eternity. thursday morning my art history final is from 10-12:15, running to Javas to turn in my graphic novel final and then hopefully making it to the airport in time for my 3pm flight home!

perhaps i should consider doing laundry and packing... maybe.

finally figured out my schedule for next quarter. unless something happens between now and then to switch it yet again. looks do-able. it'll be a lighter quarter than this one but i'll find enough to do.

caps & rangers tomorrow night, in case you're interested :) as well as river hill volleyball but i don't think they televise that in rochester. river hill better win though so i can go watch the game on saturday! i'm missing two hockey games this weekend, aren't you impressed that i'm not staying around for them?

adventures

Adventure Number 1

Classes were over on Thursday for me. I spent the majority of Friday in the lab working on various projects and what not. Around 3 Ashley asked if I would want to go adventuring. So we quick grabbed a few supplies and headed off.

The only deciding that we do is which way to turn out of RIT. Since most of our adventures so far have taken us North or West we decided to head East.

The thing about adventuring is that it involves no destination and NO maps what so ever. Not even pre trip map looking.

We ended up driving through Pittsford to Victor and almost Canadiagua Lake.

Drove through Honeoye Falls.Oops this next picture is out of order. Its actually right outside of the mall near Pittsford.

After all of our driving we ended up back in a circle in downtown Pittsford. We got out and walked around exploring the main street but didn't really find dinner. It was funny because we thought we saw a food place so we walked inside.. turns out it was a library :)

Got back in the car and drove to downtown Rochester in search of food. Everything was either sketchy or closed so we ended up at the Highland Park Diner. So good!
It was this super cute diner with surprisingly good food <--- Mom and Dad next time you come, we're going here... Ash and I played some uno while waiting for our food.

Adventure Number 2

Ashley and I decided a while back that we wanted to go to Erie PA to see RIT play mercyhurst. Turns out we convinced a lot of other people to come with us :)

Left around 3 pm on Saturday and made the mandatory stop at Mighty Taco for some food along the way.

There were 5 of us in Ashley's car and then another car was following us. The backseat was a tad smooshy with three of us but we played with dolls and were quite entertained the entire way. Especially with frequent "hot hot hot" calls and then the guys would quick roll down the windows so we wouldnt over heat. Im not sure why i look so uninterested in this picture. I didn't know Cory was taking it.

The game was pretty good, there were more RIT fans than mercyhurst fans. They started off playing not so well but came back and won 3 2

The campus was nice but the rink... not so much. we both decided that if we went there we probably would not have been so into hockey.

to be continued....

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details later :)

week ten

dear week 10,

i win.

sincerely, me.

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week 10 is officially over. no more classes.

passed the heck out last night. ashley and i went to watch greys anatomy around 9. i'd be surprised if i saw 5 minutes of it. woke up on the couch at midnight. walked over to bed, fell immediately asleep and didn't wake up this morning until 9:30. how's that for a good night of sleep? woke up this morning and i've been in the lab since 10:30ish working on stuff.

i just FINISHED everything for my political science class. i also emailed my typography professor my poster design and got the thumbs up so that is DONE. need to print it out, but that takes like 5 minutes and i can do that tomorrow.

still have a calligraphy project, redo for an imagery project, 4 chapters of art history and an essay to write. i should have a good chunk of this done this weekend. tomorrow is a review session so that will take care of some of that. i love lab time it works wonders.

anyway, im headed back home now so ashley and i can go on adventures! its a nice day out so we've decided to go exploring. we'll see where that takes us.

rounding up

okay, plan failed.

didn't make it to bed by 1:30 or 2 or 2:30.

finally fell asleep sometime after 3. at no fault of my own. for some reason, despite the five hours from the night before i was apparently not tired. go figure.

anyway, moving on. graphic novel is finished. waiting outside the printers at crossroads for them to open so i can print out my project before i run to the lab to print out my paper and make it to class at 8 (it's 7:22 now) think i can make it? don't worry i'm not wasting time, the lady at the hub refuses to open before 7:30 anyway.

chilly morning. earlier this week it was almost shorts weather-- like open the windows, tank top wearing weather. however, this morning i wake up to 25 degree weather and frost covering everything. crazy i tell you. it looks pretty but my face gets a wee bit cold. and, no, in case you were wondering i am not wearing my winter coat. why? because it's not after thanksgiving. yes, christmas music can be listened to year-round but when it comes to winter coats. only between thanksgiving break and spring break are these acceptable (some exceptions are made for the crazy rochester weather but no this is not one of them) oh would you look at that, dashboard just informed me that it dropped another degree. hmm....

gotten a ton of work done the past two nights. last night i started drawing and doing homework at 5pm and didn't stop until 12:45am i think. i mean obviously a few breaks i'm not some freak but relatively uninterrupted. after class tonight i'm hoping to finish up my last 2 quizzes for political science, work on notes for art history and come up with a stamp design concept. tomorrow will be spent entirely in the lab working on stuff for finals week. saturday morning is the open house. saturday afternoon is a review session for art history. saturday night is up in the air but most likely looking like a trip to erie. not to worry, homework WILL be brought on the car trip.

okay seriously, this place needs to open now. isn't 7:28 close enough? lets round up kids.

count

THREE CLASSES.

4 FINAL PROJECTS.

2 QUIZZES.

2 CRITIQUES

and 1 FINAL...

away from thanksgiving break.

however, it's 1:20 and I need to be up by 6. so goodnight for now.

week from today i'll be home :)

hop on pop

slowly knocking things off of my to-do list.

probably helps i skipped class and work this morning.

probably does not help that i've been sick for three days now.

no one ever told me how disgusting dayquil is. seriously nastiest stuff ever.

luckily alison had the idea to chase it down with some crackers.

in need of a new pair of lungs and more cough drops.

luckily walmart allowed me to fulfill the second wish. first, not so much.

imagery is driving me banana cakes.

this might look odd because it's a two page magazine spread.

this is what happens when i cannot come up with a concept for a project.

a collaborative piece full of nonsense.

sometimes we take trips to the vending machines in the middle of class.

not for food, but rather a much needed break.

plus it's fun to wonder who in the world would eat a vending machine hamburger.

what i've been up to

family circus

SNOW

IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!!!!

I ran around outside in a t-shirt. It was fantastic.

Now back to our regular scheduled programming...

You may call me V.

Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

What a good movie. It makes me want to watch it again.

Tomorrow is Friday! Which means that next week is week TEN?! This is getting ridiculous. This week has seemed rather long. Sore throat and other sick like feelings. I skipped one class on Tuesday-- which happens like... never. Unfortunately, I couldn't even fall asleep so that was annoying but it was a nice break anyway. I'm surprisingly on top of the work I need to do.

Sorry i'm using this as my online to do list.

Read Chapters 10,11,12,13 (with notes/notecards for 30 words) for Survey

Finalize poster design with feedback for Typography

1 18x24 sheet full of calligraphy words

2 lined sheets for calligraphy

Read Chapters 6, 7, 8 for Political Science-- take tests.

Imagery sketches into final poster design

Finish reading Batman

Start sketching for final graphic novel. NEED IDEA.

Redo stamp design

Journal for GN

Lots to do. Roughly 360 hours to do that all in.

Two finals during finals week-- Wednesday and Thursday. Along with projects due next Thursday, Wednesday of finals week, Thursday of finals week and 2 due Friday. Should be lovely.

Hockey game tomorrow night. I'm working Saturday morning. Saturday night is another hockey game. Sunday is homework. And then the following weekend we have Open House Saturday morning and then we're going to Erie PA!!

So much to do!

week nine of eleven.

well technically nine of thirteen, including orientation.

sleep is taking a little bit of a toll, but i just read a cnn article the other day about how too much sleep is bad for you. so i'm taking their advice a little too literally. not to worry it's quite alright.

woke up early today to head over to the lab and work on some homework and print stuff out. except i'm not getting too much done so i'm not sure what good this was. lots to do today/tonight.

guess i should go to work now. i just found out the caps are playing the penguins the first week of february. i got so excited until i realized that my spring break is not until the first week in march. little weekend get away in february?! sounds good. i think they're playing the islanders or thrashers in march, that's not as fun.

working saturday hours this weekend. hockey friday and saturday. other shenanigans. homework. final projects. tests to take. the usual. i feel like i'm leaving something out. guess that's why i keep about 4 different schedules.

i tried to put the milk in the freezer yesterday.

Hockey Sticks, Hat Tricks and Good Weekends

Copied over from my RIT blog, I figured it was easier to just describe it once.

After a disappointing six game losing streak the hockey team came and won both UConn games this weekend. While the Friday night game was exciting, last night’s win 7-0 was amazing! RIT scored 4 goals within the first period. As if that wasn’t enough, Dan Ringwald scored a natural hat trick (which means he scored three of those four goals in the first period with no one else scoring in between). They continued playing well throughout the entire night; the defenseman ironically scored most of the goals this weekend and the goalies were playing especially well. In fact, the RIT starting goalie had an assist for a goal, which was better stats than the entire UConn team. As much as I wanted RIT to win, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the UConn goalie because he had to put up with a ton of shenanigans from RIT’s corner crew (corner crew: the group of crazy passionate hockey fans that wear bright orange and stand in the northwest corner of the arena next to the pep band). The Saturday game was especially fun because a lot of people were dressed up for Halloween. Some of the pep band members dressed up as pac man and ran around the top tier of the arena. Another particularly amusing costume was a grim reaper who was wearing a cloak, goalie mask and carrying around a hockey stick.

Speaking of which, that reminds me about Friday. Sportszone is a student run organization that covers most of the athletic events on campus. During the hockey season, they will broadcast the game live as well as re-plays on Saturday and Sunday (in case you didn’t get enough hockey the first time around). Friday night before the game Sportzone put on a tailgate party over at Lovin’ Cup at Park Point. Unfortunately for them they didn’t get a large turn out, mostly due to the fact that there were two other competing tailgates. But it worked out rather excellently for us. We got FREE signed hockey sticks from the team! Both my roommate and I got one so now our apartment is officially covered in hockey stuff. I even got to play some hockey, there was a goalie there and they let us play outside on the patio. I think I got 8 goals, probably because the goalie would stand at one side of the net and “forget” to cover the other side J Definitely a fun night.

More on Halloween weekend shenanigans later.

Side note: Time changes and I apparently don't get along well. Stayed up until 6 am woke up at 8. I'm not exactly sure but I think they recommend getting more sleep than that!