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 :)

tornados

i decided against naptime yesterday to avoid getting completely off schedule. not to mention that there was a tornado watch and a fast moving thunderstorm so it was maybe best to stay alert. came back from work, grabbed a peach and bagel for dinner, watched some gilmore girls, talked to some people on the floor, and wandered about. 

we've been having some really weird weather lately, lots of really bad thunderstorms, tons of pouring rain, and weird 

anyway, on to college and careers the main topic of the weekend. it was busy, busy, busy. 

friday morning all of the admissions ambassadors & staff had breakfast together, we played some ice breakers ( there are a lot of new faces in the office). after that we started setting up the field house for check in. check in consisted of rebecca and i sitting under a large metal sundial until it started thunder storming and we realized that we were in quite possibly in the worst place to be. more moving boxes, directing traffic, etc. we all headed to dinner in gracie's. we had a student panel which was basically a bunch of us sitting on stage answering questions. that night there were a bunch of activities in the field house where we were supervising. emalee and i hung out around the photobooth mostly. i did get a tattoo-- pictures of that later. 

saturday morning i woke up around 6 and we all met at gracie's around 7 for breakfast. the morning included directing people down the quarter mile and handing a microphone around during a Q&A session. lunch time again at gracie's. wandered around more with ali, helped answer some questions and then it was time for yet another student panel. check out was around 3 so we just stood around and answered more questions. 

all in all a good, long weekend. one more college & careers in august. 

(all of the pictures were taken or scanned in by Amanda)

tough

it's been kind of a rough quarter.

worth reading.

Scheduling

http://schedule.csh.rit.edu/?s=mDJQzrI

It's rather hard to believe that it's already week NINE of winter quarter. That means one quarter and two weeks until the end of the year. Pretty crazy if you ask me.

Anyway, the link above is to my schedule for next quarter, it's the easiest way to see it. I'm taking 3d, drawing, elements of graphic design, vector imaging, intro to psychology and intro to philosophy. Should be a good quarter :) I'm going to be working Monday, Wednesday and Friday's too from 12-4. Yay packed schedules!

I'm almost positive that I'm declaring a minor in Psychology. I'm also pretty sure that I'm going to end up double minoring in Journalism and Psych. We'll see how that goes. I tried to fit in a double major with a minor but some advisors told me that I would need to stay for an extra year or so. I told them, only if you pay for it :)

Painting, Drawing and the likes..

So, I thought I'd give a little view of what i've been working on lately... Some of the stuff is work in progress, some is finished, some is photographed horribly and others are just test prints. 

First, the two eye drawings go together, I actually finished this like 5 minutes ago. It's for drawing, the second one is the final and it's supposed to show wrath. There's kind of an awkward shadow made by the flash on both, i apologize. The paint was mad fun to do but I kind of got a little on the carpet and a lot on me. Oops. 

This next is just an in class drawing, probably spent 50 minutes total on it. We were just experimenting with what would happen if we drew something, messed it up and then tried to fix it. By the way, all of these are 18 inches by 24 inches. 

Next is a 2d project done in color aid which is basically just itty bitty pieces of ccolored paper and you cut them up with an exacto knife and then glue them. We were supposed to turn one thing into another using a series of transitions so I changed a drop of water into a carrot. I have no idea why there are little pieces of white on the picture, you can't see them in person. And i don't know why this text is blue and underlined but it does not seem to want to change.

This is just another version of an in class drawing/painting. It's semi-hard to tell what it is because i painted over the entire thing with white paint. 

I'm also working on a cardboard chair which will be done by Wednesday, pictures to come later. 

We're done now..

Kay, guys.. that's enough. We'd like a break now...

As the quarter is winding down.. so are we. Tonight has shown that we're pretty much all ready for a 2 week breather. Not that everyone is sick of each other but it would be nice for a, you know, change of pace. I'm still really, really happy here but I'm looking forward to not having to deal with classes, homework, extra stress, etc. 

Guess it's bedtime now. 

comic from toothpastefordinner.com

Every Second Counts

Goodness gracious, time goes by quickly. 

The title of this post was inspired by the Plain White T's 2006 album called... well... "Every Second Counts" I've been listening this CD on repeat pretty much all week. 

I look once and it's Sunday night then the next thing I know, it's almost Friday! I guess that is a mix of good and bad. School is good, i'm actually enjoying my classes for the most part. I am kind of ready for a break though. I'd like to just have a minute to breathe and fortunately Thanksgiving is right around the corner. We are currently in the midst of week seven which means that we only have 3 weeks left until finals week. Art majors are faced with the burden of 7 classes a quarter with 3 of those being studio classes.. however, we seem to be pretty lucky come finals week. Yay for only having 2 finals! It would be nice if they were on say.. Monday instead of thursday, just because then I could go home earlier and not have to wait around for a week but hey, no complaints here. 

I should probably quit wasting my time before dinner and go work on some homework. I'm meeting Ashley and Drake for dinner, working on some homework, going to volleyball practice and then going out to see a movie with Ash, Drake and some other fun kids. 

As long as I'm procrastinating on my homework... I'd like to thank people for actually putting up with my nonsense and coming to read my blog! It's kind of awesome to look at the map and see where everyone is coming from. 

6 AM Dougnuts

Like the title suggests, I had doughnuts at 6 AM this morning. Alison and I have come up with a list of things we wanted to do before I leave for college and one of the things on the list was to get doughnuts from Krispy Kreme right when they opened before school. So we did just that. Seeing as it is located 20 minutes away, Alison decided to sleepover last night so we could get an early start. The alarm went off around 5:15 and we drove over. That place smells amazing.. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many doughnuts in one place. I’m not even that big of fan of doughnuts, they’re okay every once in a while on certain occasions but let me just tell you this was totally worth it. We brought large cups of milk and each got a doughnut (we also got some to bring back for sarah). We ended up getting to school around 6:50 a good 40 minutes before school actually starts so we situated ourselves in the hallway and played a few games of mastermind (for kids, of course, since the pieces are cuter).

Aside from the fact that we don’t do anything in school since we’re down to the final 12 days, a lot of the school is gone this week because of AP testing which reduces work even more. Anyway, in second period we were down to 5 people so Alison and I got the bright idea of bringing in a game. We spent 50 minutes playing A to Z (quite educational, i know). Too bad all classes couldn’t be like that.. by third period I was back to watching Hamlet and “interpreting his madness” through essays. I did spend some time in the darkroom and drawing for a bit though which was good.

Tonight is the chorus concert at school, I haven’t decided if I’m going to go yet. It’s either that or going to the gym so I’ll see which one sounds more appealing when the time comes.