Computer, Art House & Bike Riding

I got my computer back! Wooohoo. It's got a new battery, keyboard & side thingamabobs and it's doing just fine. I love that everytime I send it off it comes back with a clean screen :) How very thoughtful of them.

Anyway, just hung around today taking care of a bunch of little things. Contacted someone at RIT and found out that I can most likely be in the Art House next year! Yay. I originally thought I had missed the deadline (which i did) but I'm still able to be an off-floor member, which is what I wanted anyway. For those who don't know, the Art House is a special interest house that they have. It's just a group of people who are all interested in similar things, you dont even have to be an art major. They have weekly meetings and an annual trip to Toronto I believe. One of the benefits is that you get unlimited access to the stuff... meaning drawing rooms, printer, etc. It will be pretty spectacular in the winter when i have tons of drawing homework so I don't have to lug all my stuff across campus. So I hope everything works out with that.

Last night Alison and I got the idea that we wanted to go bike riding so we pulled out our old bikes... with REALLY flat tires and fixed them up. It was really dark by the time we got everything together so we ended up only riding around my street for about 20 minutes. Tonight my dad and I went on a bike ride/walk (i rode, he walked) around the neighborhood. I forgot how much I like flying down the hills... "We're at maximum speed, Grommit!"

Time to go read. I got a bunch of new books at the library this weekend. :)

The Big Bang

I was listening to music and I started to realize I had to keep turning it higher and higher to be able to hear it... oops, shoulda realized.. there are CHAINSAWS outside :) Guess that would be the problem. Anyway, there are a bunch of guys in bright yellow running around our backyard cutting down this large tree that fell in the storm. Of course, being me, I ran to grab my camera... sorry the pictures are a tad blurry, I was trying to be sneaky about them and it's through a screen.

Happy Birthday Carolyn!

Yesterday was Carolyn's 18th birthday so a few of us went over to her house for some shenanigans. She made pretty freaking amazing chocolate & carrot cakes :)

Happy Fourth of July

(float from our church)

(lawn chair dads, probably the best part of the parade)

(lawn chair dads in motion)

(crazy cartoon guy from the game stop)

(megan, me & sarah after the parade)

(on the way home this float pulled out of the fire station to let a fire truck out and it just kept going down the road, so we followed it home :) i thought it looked kind of silly)

1am Pancakes

Alison came over last night and we made some tasty pancakes at 1 in the morning. The pictures will pretty much speak for themselves.

Oh yeah and uhm... my parents were unaware of this situation so this will be the first they hear about it... sorry guys! :) I promise we cleaned up after ourselves & we were really, really quiet!



Then to top it all off, we made pancakes again this morning :) We're pancake making fools.

Declaration of Independence, Sushi & Comics

Unfortunately I did not tote around my camera when we went on our excursion to Giant tonight, if so I would of had a lovely photo opt of some middle schoolers from Clarksville reciting the Declaration of Independence RIGHT outside the grocery store. Oh man I love this town. I really need to keep my camera on hand at all times.

Anyway, went on a 5 mile walk around Centennial Park this morning with my mom instead of going to the gym which was nice for a change of pace. Cleaned pretty much everything in the house...yucky. Then SUSHI! for dinner mmmm. We're about to go watch Charlie Bartlett and then Alison is coming over around 10. Some midnight pancakes might be in order? :)

Thought this was cute...

Artist of the Day: Kevin Connolly

The Washington Post today had an interesting article on a photographer named Kevin Connolly that I'd heard about a while back. The thing that makes his work so interesting is the fact that he has no legs.. well that's not the part that makes it interesting but all of his photographs are based off a stare. Imagine living with no legs at all, you'd definitely get quite a few stares. He rides around on a skateboard and tries to hide a camera near his waist..this is so he can get a good picture of the people staring at him without making them feel uncomfortable and making them change their first reaction. His stuff is pretty awesome, you can look at it here:
The Rolling Exhibition

Headlines

Salad dressing floods basement

Now there's a headline that makes you wonder.

Computer Troubles

Dropped my computer off at the Mac Store today. =[

It's SUPPOSED to take 5 days. Last time they told me 2 days and it took over a week so let's all hope they're right for once.

My mom says I should threaten them by bringing a cot and camping out in the store until it comes back.. tehehe

New Blog

I've successfully switched over the majority of my blog posts from my other blog to this one for safe keeping. I decided that I liked this interface a lot better and it's SO MUCH easier to upload things/post quickly. Plus there is the advantage of being able to post from any computer anywhere in the world. If you haven't read my old blog then feel free to look back through the archives and if you already read them all well than just get an RSS feed and sit back and wait for some new posts :)

Some things of note:
-I will be able to give you easy access to my picsaweb account so you can see any pictures you want.
-You can comment anonymously so you don't even have to register!
-Along the side is something that allows you to read all of my posts from previous months.
-ALSO along the side will be links to blogs that I read (right now there is only one link and that is to Anna's blog which Joel kindly sent me the link yesterday)
-At the wayyyy bottom of this page is a thing that says Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).. if you click on that and add it to your bookmarks it will let you know everytime I update.