week ten

dear week 10,

i win.

sincerely, me.

=======================

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.

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!

monsoon season

friday? well, sort of.

let's start off by describing yesterday morning. it was disgusting. not like, oh there is some rain disgusting.. we're talking full blown monsoon, turn your pants a different color, soak your raincoat, all the way through your backpack/art history book, mash your notecards together and make the ink bleed kind of rain. not only did i have the pleasure of experiencing this while carefully dodging worms that were being sucked into the drains but i remained wet from 9 am when i showed up for work ALL the way until my class ended at 5 (my jeans were just damp then) disgusting i tell you. my backpack is still wet and i had to find an alternative way to tote my nonsense to class today.

moving on.

art history midterm was yesterday. i went to work an hour early so that i could leave an hour early to review before the test. that lovely rain had mushed the notecards i spent like 3 hours finishing together so that was really no help. but i think the test went alright regardless.

last night i was watching harry potter thinking about how much i would love for my 8 am class to be cancelled and what do you know, a little notification pops up on my computer from my email saying "class cancelled tomorrow"! what are the chances. i'll have you know that i fully enjoyed my extra 2.5 hours of sleep and waking up at 8:30. fantastic.

worked for 2 hours this morning and i'm currently sitting in the ritz after my ice skating class waiting for imagery in design to start. then its the weekend! sort of kind of. i have so much work to finish this weekend between political science, the 3 page paper i need to write for graphic novel class, the 2 graphic novels i need to read, poster designs, imagery projects, a 3 page spread for a story and i believe that's it. i hope. there are also 2 hockey games this weekend, possible work tomorrow, a tailgating party before the games at Lovin Cup, halloween shenanigans on saturday, grocery shopping to do, and the list goes on.

next week is week NINE. WHAT?! how in the world did that happen. finals are soon. bad news bears.

when the stove starts smoking...

this is how my dinner ended up, the stove was smoking so i opted for a cook-free dinner. tasty and bright.

ashley and i invited about 10 people over on saturday for a rockband/apple crisp/apples to apples party

but in order to make apple crisp, we ventured downtown through the fall colors in search of some apples..

rochester public market where we scored over 60 apples for 10 bucks

there are lots of graveyards along the way, with super nice bright trees.

shot of the erie canal on the way past

pumpkins from parents weekend
chili i made a while back, i feel like i already posted a picture of this but it looks tasty so here it is again.

brick city homecoming 2009

the first 4 pictures are from a professional photographer for the RIT alumni website. it just gives a good look at how MANY fans were there. over 7,000!

homecoming weekend was this weekend. mom, dad and alison drove up friday morning and got here around 2 i think. i got... some... homework done before then. friday afternoon we went to Moe's for dinner and then to see Jim Gaffigan the comedian. saturday we woke up and got ready to go see Jimmy Wales (the founder of wikipedia). made a trip to wegmans for some lunch (pizza!) and then food shopping :) we even found some pumpkins on the way home. after that we got all dressed up in orange for the HOCKEY GAME! a new brick city homecoming tradition. it was awesome especially because it was so packed. we got seats right down on the ice which was excellent. after the game we were all starving so we went in search of some dinner. alison almost ate some small children she was so hungry, but not to worry we found her a sandwich so all of the kids are safe. just kidding ;) sunday morning we all went to jay's diner for some food before they headed off. excellent weekend :)

managing

yay family time tomorrow + alison :)

been kind of busy lately, of course it's midterm week so that makes sense. had enough time for movie nights, so i guess it's not that busy.

to do before then..

-read two chapters for art history with notes.

-10 concepts for imagery poster

-chapter 10/chapter 11 read and discussion board and take tests

-finalize photo shoot place for monday

-read watchmen

-journal topic 3

-study for typography quiz monday

-start on paper assignment two

think i can manage?

it might help if i actually left for my 8 am class now. good thinking.

goaaaallllll

doesn't that just make you want to come to a game?

just bought season tickets today. can't wait!

the nhl season starts tonight :)

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?

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.

Fall in Rochester

Well, the first prediction of snow for the year is for this week! (I'm not entirely sure if that is the appropriate moment to use a "!") According to our local weather station, there is supposed to be a "light snowfall" on Wednesday. Hard to believe that after looking at these pictures taken yesterday, huh? 

Anyways, for some reason Ashley and I stayed up until 4:45 am on Saturday night... not the best thinking on our part but we weren't tired and there was a police chase outside of our window, so we didn't want to miss that. Woke up at 8 in the morning to shower and get ready for our outing. Ash, Drake and I signed up to go to downtown Rochester to the public market they set up on weekends. The three of us were going to meet for breakfast at 9 and then the van was supposed to leave at 9;45 am. So, we show up at Gracie's at 9 and guess what? They were closed. I guess not one single person in a 14,000+ campus would want breakfast at this hour. We just decided we could wait until we got downtown and eat there so we chilled in Gracies (there were people sleeping in there?!??). 9:45 rolled around, no sign of anyone, then 10, 10:30. Seems a little odd because it was supposed to be a group of 15 or so. We had a brief moment of panic when Drake goes "uhm, guys is it day light savings??" but nope, not until November 2nd. We eventually just left and walked back to the dorms. Turns out it was on Saturday not Sunday. Yeah, we felt pretty stupid that out of three people we all managed to get the date wrong. Oops. 

Instead of going back to bed, Ash and I decided to run around and take pictures around campus because it was such a nice day. (Drake was grumpy and decided to go back to bed before lunch at 12:30) 

It's kind of nice to walk around early on a Sunday morning, there isn't anyone else around. Unfortunately it was Open House day so after about noon, the campus was swamped and getting a table for lunch was extremely difficult. 

Didn't really do much else yesterday other than homework. Oh, we did go with Drake, Greg and Zach to Wegman's just for the heck of it. Of course, yesterday was Sunday night football as well as one of the final games of the baseball season (what the heck has college done to me??! i've become a sports junkie) Just kidding =) I just pretend to watch. 

Brick City Homecoming

This weekend was Brick City Homecoming, RIT's fall event when a lot of parents, families and alumni come to visit for the first time. My parents came up on Thursday afternoon; it was really nice to see them after being away from home for so long. Fortunately, amidst all of our rainy-rochester weather, it was an unusually beautiful weekend. 

Thursday afternoon my class was cancelled so I met up with my mom, dad and Sarah for dinner before my 6pm class. Had an ice cream party at 9pm, Ash and I have been saving up ice cream from gracie's over the past week or so :) Andrew and Drake stopped by too as well as a couple people from down the hall.

Friday morning I had class from 12 until 4. After class my parents took me out shopping to get some art supplies and more winter clothes-- thanks guys! Also stopped at Wegmans, of course, for some food items. Drove into downtown Rochester afterwards to get some dinner from a cool pizza place. Sarah stayed in the dorms with me all weekend and thanks to some idiots on the 9th floor.. I was able to give her the full college experience. Around 2 am Friday night/Saturday morning the fire alarm went off... there ended up being an actual fire on the 9th floor (with smoke coming out the window and everything..) so we were outside until nearly 3 am... Sarah only had boxers and a sweatshirt on..  Welcome to RIT :)

Saturday morning we woke up and Sarah, Ash and I went and got smoothies and muffins from Beanz, a coffeeshop on campus. Met up with my parents before heading off to see Bill Nye the Science guy. After Bill, we went to see a concert on campus with a bunch of a cappella groups.. yay eight beat measure! 

This morning we woke up and went to breakfast with my parents at "Jay's Diner" before they headed back down the road to maryland. It was a pretty awesome weekend, however, now I have an overwhelming load of homework to do before Ashley and I go to a concert tonight. 

Say Something

Busy, busy, busy. That pretty much sums up my life lately. I'm finally not sick anymore! Yay. We just made it through week 5 which means there are only 4 weeks left until finals... what a weird thought?! I'm currently working on a giant 30 by 40 inch self-portrait of my face, writing a paper on the democratic plan for the environment, working on a 2d project, making apples out of everyday objects for 3d and trying to have a life in there somewhere. 

No really, I've been pretty good about setting aside certain time for homework and then making sure that i'm getting out too. It definitely helps that my floor is awesome so I can just walk right outside my room and find a ton of people to hang out with. Funny thing is that the other night when Ash and I were hanging out with a bunch of people we looked around and realized they were all deaf. It never occurred to me that the majority of my friends now are hard of hearing or completely deaf. I think it's kind of awesome, really. I've been picking up a lot more sign and I can actually hold an entire conversation without really awkward pauses. My finger spelling is still pretty slow but eh, that'll improve with time. 

greg and ash

drake dancing like always

he wanted me to teach him to draw so i said "here draw tigger" 

then he got frustrated so i just drew tigger... 

i got bored and drew on a bunch of people's whiteboards

Wednesday Drake, Ashley and I went to the girls volleyball game. Thursday after classes I met up with Ashley, Drake, Andrew and a couple of other people to see 21 at Ingle Aud. RIT has this thing Friday night after classes, I went to dinner with Ash and Drake (at Gracie's of course...). We came back to the dorms and ended up running around our floor until nearly 4 am. We did make an attempt to go out to Ritchie's, a free game room in the tunnels but the couches smelled really bad so we just came back here. Saturday morning we woke up around noon and then went out shopping. Ashley needed some ink for her printers and a couple of other things and I needed to pick up some board from Home Depot and some rag paper and more charcoal for my art project. It's super nice and super convenient that I have a roommate with a car :) Today looks like it's going to be very homework filled. I can't remember if there is anything else that needed to get done today. The huge, creepy drawing of my face needs to get done as well as the paper for writing. Since my parents are coming next weekend (well, thursday..) I'm trying to get as much done now as I can. 

We're going to be signing up for classes for winter quarter here in a few weeks (Oct 22nd). I met with my academic advisor the other day to go over which classes i'm going to be taking...  

Monday

8-10:50am ASL 1

2:00-4:50am 2d Design

Tuesday 

9:00-11:50am 3d design

12:00-1:00pm FYE

2:00-4:50pm drawing

Wednesday

8:00-10:00am ASL 1

2:00-4:50pm 2d Design

6:00-7:50pm Design Survey

Thursday 

9:00-11:50am 3d Design

2:00-4:50pm drawing

Friday

10:00-11:50am Vector Imaging 

So it'll be about the same course load as this quarter except slightly more challenging. We'll see how that goes, I'm taking the maximum number of credits they allow you to take without getting special permission. I've decided to "minor" or "concentrate" in american sign language. I'm still going to pick another thing to minor in but I'll probably wait to declare that until sophomore year. 

Maybe i'll see if I can get Ash out of bed now so we can go get some brunch :)