A Sticky Situation

Yesterday was just one of those days that I should have stayed in bed... oh wait, I did sort of.

It all started out around 7:50 am when my first alarm went off.. I remember looking outside and thinking "oh pretty snow". Next thing I know it's 8:45 am and I'm leaping off my top bunk because I guess I forgot to get up the first time and I have a class that begins at 9:00. The nice thing about living in the dorms is that they're close to the academic side so that when stuff like this happens, I can literally throw on some clothes, get ready and be out the door in 8 minutes or less. Potentially, if I did this all correctly I could make it there by 9 am... however, yesterday's predicament was SNOW. I had read the forecast the day before alerting me of the foot of snow that was about to plop down on Rochester so I wasn't all that surprised that there were already two inches on the ground as I tried to "run" to class. Let's just say... you won't move very fast. Walking on lumpy snow is rather difficult because you go no where. I actually made it to class at 9:04 am -- impressive, huh? After all of these shenanigans it turns out that my professor didn't even show until nearly 10 am because of really heavy traffic. It turned out okay though because we're in the middle of working on a project so I was able to get started on that. Between the hours of 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm there weren't really any catastrophes so that was good. But then comes the real trouble.. I made it through class at 2:00 just fine, got to work more on a different project and we actually got out a tad early due to the snowfall. Walked over to the admissions office for Phone/Chat Power! During this whole thing I needed to find a pen so I reached in my bag only to have my hand completely covered in sticky goopy nonsense… rubber cement. I guess the top of the bottle was not completely closed so when I was walking it had turned upside-down and emptied into my bag which was holding my ipod, cell phone, sketchbook, color aid, etc. Fortunately the most important items were not covered but my phone was completely encrusted and my usb drive is dead due to massive exposure. It was okay though because I just through it all a plastic bag and went back to calling and chatting people which is super fun! Ashley did not seem to happy with me though for bringing a giant goopy mess of smelly glue back into our room but I think she got used to it after a while.

Anyway, I guess yesterday wasn’t as bad as I thought… the snow was really pretty, I got out of class early, there was chat power, and I was able to hang out with friends at night since I had already worked on my homework. Plus it’s almost the weekend! And that means, hockey game, two movie nights, little shop of horrors on Sunday, a superbowl party and lots of homework.

Ah, the weather...

Rochester: SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES DURING BURSTS OF HEAVIER SNOWFALL FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 8 TO 12 INCHES BY LATE WEDNESDAY EVENING.

--------------------> Recommendation: Wear some gloves and consider zipping up your coat when walking outdoors.

Clarksville: 

PRECIPITATION WILL BE MAINLY IN THE FORM OF SNOW AND SLEET LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING... BUT THEN CHANGE OVER TO FREEZING RAIN BEFORE MIDNIGHT. TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING WEDNESDAY MORNING... REACHING HIGHS AROUND 40 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THAT WILL ALLOW PRECIPITATION TO PHASE OVER TO RAIN AND SOME MELTING OF THE ICING.

ADDITIONAL SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING WILL BE 1 TO 3 INCHES. THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ICE ACCUMULATIONS OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY OF A TENTH TO AROUND A QUARTER OF AN INCH.

---------------------> Recommendation: Avoid the outdoors! Go immediately to your local grocery store and stock up on food for a good week, stay away from doors and windows... the inch of snow might collapse your house. 

Monday of Doom

6:35 Wake up & hit snooze.
6:45 Wake up & get ready.
7:20 Walk to Beanz to meet Amanda and Francesca for coffee!
7:45 Walk to class.
8:00 Design Survey.
9:00 3d, build chair.
10:20 Leave 3d briefly, get duct tape from room, stop at bank, talk to mom on the walk back.
10:40 More 3d, continue chair building.
11:55 Walk back to dorm.
12:15 Get lunch at Gracie's with Ashley... and more coffee!
12:45 Gather art stuffs for next class, read blogs for work, check email.
1:30 Walk to next class, stop in professors office for paper.
2:00 Class (2d), work on color aid project
4:27 Run over to work (got to leave class 20 minutes early, yay!)
4:30 Eat chinese food & listen to directions for chat power.
5:00 Begin calling tons of accepted students to congratulate them.
7:15 Wrap up calling and walk back to dorm.
7:30 Begin drawing.
12:21 Quit drawing.


Yeah, I really like to pack it all in there ;) Tomorrow is looking like more of the same with the addition of two volleyball games & a movie night. Yay coffee!

Don't get me wrong, this is not a complaint. I just felt like I was constantly moving today so I wanted to see what all I did!

Time for bed, goodnight all!

More Hockey!

Just when you thought there wouldn't be anymore hockey...

Woke up this morning around 11 and Ashley told me that the guys were bringing over breakfast (??) A few minutes later they showed up with coffee and breakfast-- thanks guys!! Got ready quickly and headed over to catch the bus to Buffalo (yet again) to see the men’s team play their second game of the weekend. A very generous person (whose name has slipped my mind) donated enough money so that RIT could provide lunch and buses for whoever wanted to go see the game. You can definitely feel the school spirit when 150 (?) people board three buses to drive an hour and a half away. Lots of orange, cheering, etc. It was a very exciting game.. Canisius scored the first goal of the game and RIT was down by either 1 or 2 goals for much of the game. With six minutes left in the game, RIT was down 3-1. Much to the excitement of the RIT fans, they came back with 2 minutes left in the 3rd period to win 4 – 3! They're on an 11 game winning streak and currently number 1 in the AHA (Atlantic Hockey Association) Go Tigers!

Next Friday, RIT is playing in the Blue Cross Arena. There are only a few games left in the season—I have no idea what I’m going to do until next October!! Maybe watch all of the taped games???


(this is actually a picture from Thursday's game...)

It's All Your Fault!

This week is the first time since I was 10 that a democrat has been in office and so far the only change I've noticed is the 5 foot snowpile that was dumped in the path on which I walk to class. But, I don't think that Obama had anything to do with that so I'll give him a break :)

It's been busy busy around here like always. It's been snowing constantly and then all of a sudden yesterday it got up to 40... springtime?? Two hours later a cold front blew through so we're back down to the 7 degrees where we belong.



I've been watching a TON of hockey. Two hockey games last weekend (already mentioned in posts below). Then on Thursday Ashley and I along with two of our friends left at 5 pm and drove an hour and a half to Buffalo to see the Tigers play! They won 5 -2 against the golden griffins -- ugliest mascot ever. A lot of the corner crew from RIT was there so there was lots and lots of cheering.. there were actually more RIT fans there than the other team and they kind of sucked at cheering. I do believe at one point the announcer threatened to kick us out for being obnoxious. Whoops. "It's all your fault... It's all your fault.." We got rather lost on the ride back but on the plus side we found the sketchy part of town! Not that we were looking for it ;) Eventually found the right road and we back it back around 11. Worked for a few hours Friday morning and then went to a minor and concentration fair with Ashley to figure out what the heck we want to do. After that we met up with the boys and went to lunch at Gracies. We decided a while back that we really needed orange jeans to wear to all of the games so we finally drove over to the mall to look. Unfortunately Rochester does not seem to like the color orange because there is NOTHING. Oh well, still walked around and just looked at stuff. Drove back and raced to get dinner before the Women's Hockey game at 7. We literally ate dinner while running down the quarter mile-- it would have made the best movie ever because it was so windy and really hard to eat while walking really fast. Made it to the game and luckily all the guys had gone ahead and saved us seats. The game was pretty good but no where near as fun as the men's games. They did go into over time which has never happened before. Sudden death in overtime when they're tied 1 to 1 is rather exciting. Walked back and we all hung out in our room for a while. The guys decided to go back to try to go to sleep because they have a LAN party tomorrow-- yeah, what losers :) Just kidding! Somehow we ended up going over to their floor after that and chilling in the hall until 3 am. Their floor is all male so since we're both girls (obviously...) everyone started coming out of their room going "omg girls!!" It was kind of amusing. Eventually went to bed and now i'm sitting here annoying Ashley because I'm typing this up and not going to eat lunch with her!!! Guess I should get out of the chair and go before she throws things at me =)

Later I'll put up some pictures from projects I've been working on as well as pictures from the hockey games! 

E to the X. D X D Y

Secant, Cosine, Tangent, Sine

3.14159, Pi, Pi times 3

Let's go! Let's go! RIT!

Yes, We Can!

We can now officially say that Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States!

Regardless of party lines, I think we can agree that today is one of those days that future generations will be reading about in history textbooks for years to come. The amount of change happening within the last 24 hours is indescribable. Much like everyone down in Washington waiting for the election, I awoke early this morning, however, I was awoken by fire alarm number two of this week and not the need to get on a 4 am bus to downtown DC. J What a great way to wake up; strobe lights and loud buzzing noises. Anyway, it didn’t much matter because I was able to fall back asleep and by the time I woke up at 8 the official festivities of inauguration day were just beginning on TV. By the looks of the TV coverage, there are a few million people on the mall. As I found out last night, not everyone here knows what the mall is? In case you fall into this category, the mall is an open space in Washington DC between the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol.

On campus are a number of student groups that have organized an inauguration party for the swearing in and speech at noon. I’m watching the speech from the comfort of my dorm room (while my roommate sleeps) so I can be somewhat productive since I’m missing a class today. Yeah, I know what a horrible student. But to tell the truth I’ve never skipped a class in over 12 years of school and I felt that this was one of those times that I just couldn’t miss out on.

Politics in Rochester are much different than in Washington. I’ve grown up in the DC metro area for my entire life (as mentioned in other posts). Politics are a huge deal in DC, not to say that every person is obsessed but definitely a large majority. In my neighborhood alone, it would be safe to say that over a third of adults work for the government. DC is roughly 40 minutes away by car or just a few metro stops away. Here in Rochester, I feel far removed from DC yet strangely close at the same time. It's so hard to wrap my mind around the idea that while I'm sitting here in my comfy dorm room watching history unfold on TV, this is actually happening just 7 hours away. Despite the distance, the excitement for Obama here is in no shortage. I'm remembering back to when he was officially announced as the democratic president elect in November when there was cheering in the quads and lounges. I can only imagine what the next four years will bring.

On a completely unrelated note, Animal Collective’s new album Merriweather Post Pavillion comes out today! The extra neat thing about this is that the album is actually named after a pavilion about 10 minutes from my house in Maryland and it’s also the location where I graduated almost nine months ago. But you know, that’s such a small piece of news compared to Obama!

2 AM Firetrucks

So, after I posted last night I climbed into my toasty bed and fell asleep. An hour later (around 2 am) the entire room starts flashing with strobe lights and the fire alarm goes off. I'm on the top bunk and let's just say when you're woken abruptly in the middle of the night the first instinct is not to climb down the correct way. Basically, I just lept off the top. Of course, I happen to be sleeping in a tank top last night so I scrambled to find a coat and boots. I'm actually not entirely sure how we made it out the door because neither Ashley nor I were very awake and thinking correctly. But we walked downstairs and out into the lovely 2 degree Rochester weather. I guess I had enough smarts to grab a scarf on the way out so I was pretty toasty. We eventually got the idea to go in NRH and sit in the tunnels until the fire department had come and all that. To say the least, we were pretty annoyed because walking up and down 6 flights of stairs and outside wakes you up and makes it really hard to fall back asleep. Finally got let back in only to realize that the "fire" was on our floor and someone had burnt popcorn.. AGAIN. What the heck guys, stop eating popcorn at 2 am and for gosh sakes stand by the microwave and don't let it burn. 

I think they should ban popcorn in dorms, it's the only time our microwave ever catches on fire. 

I did get to sleep in until almost noon today so that was okay :) 

Ohhhh We're Halfway There

I have, in fact, made my way out of the snow bank. It's been rather snowy/icy/windy/cold here lately. Surprisingly yesterday when it hit a low of -7... I was really warm.

Anyway, sorry I keep posting about the weather. Today was excellent!! I love Fridays for so many reasons. Woke up late (yay #1). Sleeping in until 9 feels wonderful after a whole week of 6:50 alarms. Worked from 10 until 4pm with meetings at noon and three. Came back to meet Ashley for dinner-- french toast at Gracie's (yay # 2). Plus they had kiwi tonight which is my absolute favorite fruit-- although, i'm finding that if i eat too much my mouth feels funny. I really hope I don't develop some weird allergy to that, I think I'd cry. Walked over to Ritter Arena after dinner for the HOCKEY GAME. Seriously, we've been waiting all week for this. I never thought i'd become such a sports fanatic! We even sat right next to the band this time so we could cheer loudly! Some of the guys came with us which made it more fun because guys are always crazy cheerers for some reason. The game was spectacularly awesome.. really. Down by 1 point in the third period with 3 minutes 52 seconds left. Came back to tie it 3-3 a minute and a half later. Then scored again in the last 10 seconds of the 3rd period. Yay Tigers!! They're currently on an eight-game winning streak. Hopefully that will be a nine-game winning streak after tomorrow night! 

Guess it's bed time soon. After the hockey game we went to the ritz to see Open Mic night. A friend of mine was performing so that was pretty neat. Sleeping in tomorrow!! Brunch at the commons. Working on my 2d project and other random homework assignments in the studio. then HOCKEY GAME number two. We're also going to some comedy show on Saturday night. Ice skating and brunch on Sunday with some friends.

I love weekends :) 

On a side note, I'm officially halfway done with freshman year as of today. How scary is that???? 

Four

Why yes, if you so happened to be so bored this morning that you were looking up the current weather for Rochester, New York you would have found that it was a whopping 4 degrees. Luckily, my 8 am class was cancelled because we have a paper due today but I did have to get my butt out of bed for a 9 am. Our room feels like a sauna so I couldn't really judge today's temperature based off of that. I piled on some clothes and headed off to class. I was pleasantly surprised to find that 4 degrees is actually not that cold-- if you are dressed correctly. I think it's gotten up to 8 degrees now which is okay by me, it feels nice outside. Think that I've become used to cold weather? Yep. This is my kind of weather. Blue skys, piles of fresh snow and COLD. Mmmm. The only unfortunate thing is that when I walk to class or anywhere really, I listen to my ipod. However, when it is this cold there is lots of static which means those little electronic things in your ears shock you. Not very pleasant. 

Well, Ashley's back now which means breakfast time! Then class, then homework. I think we might be going to an acoustic concert tonight at Java Wally's. 

Snow Wonder & Hair

It's 'snow' wonder it's so busy around here! haha, sorry just had to do that. The snow and the homework have been pounding down by the bucketload. The picture with snow in it below is  from before we got the 6+ inches this weekend. It's actually been pretty warm-- around 28! But we have massive piles of snow, seriously like 2 times bigger than a decent size car.  On the academic side of things, it's week 5. Midterm week, ahhhhh. Design majors don't have "midterms" but we certainly have tons of projects. In all three of my studio classes I have large projects due within the next few days. The picture below the snow one is of a drawing I've been working on for a few weeks now. I've actually worked on it since that picture but ya know, I'm lazy and don't feel like updating anything. Also, I accidentally knocked it right before I took the picture so some of the contents are uhm, not in the right place. 

In other news, I cut my hair. Ashley and I were out at Wegman’s getting some stuff for my 2d design project (details on that to come) and I suddenly felt a wave of spontaneity come upon me. I told her that if for some reason we saw a haircutter on the way back to campus, I’d get at least my bangs cut. Well, as fate would have it, there was one almost right next door.   So I walked in and said CUT THEM NOW BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND. I'm not entirely sure if I like it yet, but we'll see! 

It's BEDTIME! Hopefully I'll get more sleep than last night. For some reason my body kept waking itself up (at 2 freaking am) thinking it was time for class. I guess I was really excited for chai tea Mondays? Work, paper writing,