15 days?!

i can't believe that it's already been that long since i last posted. good thing i already hit my quota for the year some time ago.

christmas was excellent. lots of family. lots of cookies. and TONS of card games (old maid, hearts, euchre, trash, etc). i'll have to dig up some pictures eventually. i tend to stop blogging when i come home because let's face it.. a good chunk of my daily readers are right here with me! ;) as for now, i've got some homework and admissions stuff to get working on. school seems pretty far away, it's a wonder i even remembered what homework i have.

sarah's getting her wisdom chompers out tomorrow morning so it looks like we'll be watching movies and making smoothies (ha! that kind of rhymes) for the next few days. no big plans for new years.

heading back to school on sunday night (late flight around 9 but tons cheaper than the earlier one) still have some friends to catch up with. things to do, people to see, sims lives to mess up (the sims is a computer game in case you didn't catch that).

check out [this] to read a cool hockey story

and [this] to see pictures of our 23 inches of snow!!

adventures

Life has been rather eventful lately (both good and bad). So much so that this blog post has been postponed a few days.

Last Thursday Rochester, like much of the rest of the country, got slammed with snow and wintery weather. It wasn't so much deep snow drifts but the ice that was created on top of the snow. Walking to class on Thursday proved to be quite the challenge... involving not one but two times when I totally wiped out. Luckily the first time no one was around to experience my awkward tumble as it was 7:30 in the morning. The second however was in a more populated space in the middle of the day. I felt a little better when I found out that I was not the only person this happened to. Both times were not particularly bad falls although my leg is still sore days later, but they did make me feel a little nervous for my tour Thursday afternoon! Which ended up going just fine and I didn't fall once walking backwards.. go figure! It was kind of fun to give a tour in the snow, it adds a level of excitement and I got to take some back routes to avoid the outdoors. Hopefully my tour group wasn't too cold!

Life event number two... Thursday after classes I was hanging around working on homework or something of the sort when all of a sudden the fire alarm goes off. Now ordinarily, not a problem. However, as mentioned above, it was snowing bucketloads and also about 25 degrees out so I was slightly less than excited to be standing outside. I had the sense to first put on sweatpants, a winter coat and grab a blanket before heading outdoors. Public Safety came after some time to figure out the problem (no actual fire or anything as far as I know). After about 45 minutes of cold we were allowed back in except the catch was the fire alarm had not yet been disabled so we stuffed a bunch of hats and sweatshirts on to mask the noise. Ironically when it finally turned off an hour and a half later I didn't even realize it because I had become so accustom to the obnoxious noise.

Moving on, Friday morning my roommate and I decided it would be a good idea to go out to lunch and do some Christmas shopping because we had some extra time on our hands. Ashley wanted to stop by Tim Horton's for a quick cup of coffee. That quickly turned into an hour and a half cup of coffee when we realized that she had left the keys in the ignition and the car was locked. Not to worry, my handy internet searching phone found us a locksmith and we were soon on our way.

Last night was the only RIT hockey game in the WHOLE month of December. I've been rather hockey deprived lately and I've had to resort to watching tons of NHL games. Anyway, after a long winning streak, the Tigers lost to Niagara. Our shots on goal were nearly double but their goalie was on all night and their shots looked a little stronger. Definitely a good game, just wished the Tigers could have pulled out another win! Now we'll have to wait until January for another game.

And the final event was our christmas party today! Last night after the hockey game we got back and immediately set to work decorating our entire apartment with those old school paper chains and snowflakes! It looked very festive along with all of our holiday lights and live christmas tree. This morning we woke up and got to work baking lots and lots of cookies! Chocolate chip, cranberry white chocolate, peanut butter with hershey kisses, and puppy chow. A bunch of people came over for dinner and a movie. We had spaghetti (minus the syrup) all inspired by Buddy the Elf, which was of course the movie choice of tonight.










All in all, a pretty decent weekend. The nice thing about these three weeks is that while there is still work to do, there is a good amount of time for hanging out before we all leave for the holidays. The good thing about blogging is that no matter how unfortunate the situation, the first thing I think about is what a good post it would make :)

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.

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!

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.

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 :)

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 :)

wings vs pens

my day did not begin until noon, it was fantastic.

watched the stanley cup final game tonight. wings unfortunately lost. apparently it's a very rare thing to lose a home game seven. that brings hockey season officially to an end. october 3rd is the beginning of RIT hockey season. woohoo, i think i can wait until then. it does seem a little silly to be watching a sport on ice when it's close to 85 outside.

tomorrow i'm doing some shenanigans with sarah in the morning and then alison's birthday party is in the afternoon. that about wraps up my splendidly long list of activities for this weekend. i did get around to doing a little bit of painting today in my sketchbook which was nice. i forgot how much i just like doodling whatever-- i haven't had any lecture classes in the past month to get my doodling fix in ;)

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.