home, james.

i freaking love hockey. end of story. 

tigers lost tonight 1 3, which puts them at #2 in the AHA behind Air Force. it was a pretty intense game with lots of cheering and orange! 

headed home to maryland in the morning (with ashley! and amanda will be on the flight too!). we get to wake up bright and early at 4 am, woohoo. can't wait, see you all soon! 

strawberry shortcake, banana split

RIT TIGERS BEAT AIR FORCE 6 4!!!

cupcakes.

oh my goodness.

please take the time out of your day to look at this

NPR Cupcake Story

i'm a little jealous that i'm coming home a day after it is taken down. 

life feels good

finals are officially over. 

and apparently i lead an exciting life? 

i got stopped in the elevator today by someone i only kind of know who said "i hope this doesn't come off as creepy but i saw your pictures on facebook and it looks like you guys such cool stuff i'm really jealous i wish we could be friends" haha! 

yesterday ashley and i went on adventure to the end of nowhere. this week is pretty much do what you want, when you want so i woke up around 12:30(!), went to lunch and then we headed out to the car for our adventure. the stipulations of this "Grand Day Out" were that we were going to stop, turn or look at anything in our path that was cool and we would do everything without a map, gps, tracking device, sundial, compass, etc. we drove through downtown, stopped around at high falls, somehow ended up in charlotte, greece and ogden and the beach!! honestly, we don't really know which roads we took but we made it back in one piece with no maps! we fully intend on going on the adventure again, except next time to pittsford and fairport. 

there are pictures below as well as 185 if you click the album below.

Rochester Adventures

tonight is greys anatomy, tomorrow is a hockey game, saturday is a hockey game then home on sunday! oh yeah, and we moved our room around again!! pictures to come later, for now i need to go get my laundry before someone steals it-- there has been a run on machines today.... 

i feel icky

i feel ickyyyy oh so ickyyy i feel ickyy and stuffy and grosssss.

[sung to the tune of i feel pretty from anger management]

my allergies have decided to explode this week which has resulted in a yucky feeling me. it started out last friday when i felt a little funny and had a headache. since then every morning that i wake up (which is every morning :P) i feel progressively worse. it's wonderful!... not. i won't go into details of anything but basically it feels like someone has put wine corks in all of my airways and ears and then stuffed cotton balls in. it's a really great feeling that your head is going to explode. 

in non-gross news, i've been enjoying spring break week one here in rochester. we technically have finals this week but my artistic lifestyle just doesn't believe in those things so i get to relax. for all art classes we had "finals" last week which consisted of final projects and an in class critique. i've just been hanging around mostly, i'm currently working on a flash movie but it's teaching myself how to use it and making it at the same time so i can't promise any spectacular results. yesterday i ended up going to the gym at 8 in the morning. it was so cool to be working out and see a blizzard completely surrounding the building.. cools ya down :) after the gym i went out to lunch with dave and ashley before going to work. ended up working 2 hours longer than i thought because of all of the mail coming in but thats okay it means i dont have to go in today. yesterday after work ashley and i decided to go out to dinner to red robin! and see twilight at the dollar movie theater :) 

banff

woke up this morning feeling kind of yucky and we had already decided that today's goal was to do absolutely nothing! rolled out of bed around eleven, found saturday morning cartoons and a bowl of cereal and we were set. today was the first official day without any burden of classwork on our shoulders. last week was week ten and next week is finals so we didn't even feel guilty doing nothing. i kind of dozed in and out of sleep throughout the morning. my head is feeling really congested and yucky but i'm hoping that it's just allergies. 

went to gracies for dinner around 6 and then we went to a film festival. two of the guys who we're actually going to be sharing an apartment with next year are really into rock climbing and outdoor extreme sports in general. a while ago they had mentioned in passing this film festival and apparently we agreed, so tonight we went. i didn't really have any expectations, of course, i didn't even really know what it was. turns out it was the annual banff mountain film festival. and it was really, really cool! it was roughly 3 hours long and consisted of 6 short films (15 ish minutes long) and one long film (55 minutes). it was everything from extreme mountain biking and base jumping to extreme skiing.

in hockey news, the tigers tied tonight in their game against Army (1-1) in sudden death overtime. which puts them two points above Air Force in the AHA standings and guarantees at least a second place win. they won 3-2 in a close game last night also against Army. next friday and saturday is RIT vs Air Force which should be an awesome game. 

"...all the voices of the wind..."

i love the wind. i enjoy being blown from side to side and not being able to get to class in the ten minutes that it's supposed to take. i really like when my legs get so frozen that I can't even feel that they are attached to my body anymore. and i especially like when there is sleet involved and it hits my face straight on. it's such a good feeling!

[/sarcasm]

anyway! one class and one final to go then it's spring break! woohoo! that's a lot of exclamation points! 

i'll have some more work from this quarter to put up in a while, i have to get around to uploading it first. next week is looking like oodles of fun. movie night tonight. concert at the bugjar in downtown rochester tomorrow. some outdoor adventure movie thing on saturday. coffee downtown with art kids on sunday. work monday/tuesday. dollar movie theater tuesday night. strong museum of play for kids and lunch downtown? on wednesday. work and a final on thursday. hockey vs air force on friday/saturday. then flying home early sunday morning! 

(thanks mom for finding the comic!)

one of those days

toothpaste for dinner

Happy Valentine's Day (a day late..)

"Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up:

These are the best days of our lives.

The only thing that matters

Is just following your heart

And eventually you'll finally get it right."

[The Ataris- In This Diary]

(left to right: gage, me, ashley, dave, mark, julie, evan, trisha)

Went to Ihop for dinner yesterday with Dave and Gage, unfortunately we didn't think to take any pictures but it was delicious!! Yumm pancakes. We had a rather interesting waiter who did not appear to want to make anything that we ordered but that's okay we left her a tip in the shape of a heart. Came back and laid around to listen to the hockey game on the radio again. Tigers won 3 1!! Air force lost to Bentley last night too which means the tigers are # 1 in the AHA now! :) Another unfortunate event is that I just realized that I'm going to be in DC for the finals AHHHHHH not good. Oh well :\ After listening to the game we all headed over to Ritter for some Disco Ice Skating. As seen in the pictures above. Came back around 1 am to watch Dumb and Dumber! I'm so glad the weekend is two days long because we ended up sleeping in until 1:30 today to catch up! 

Tigers Win Again!

Although their 11 game winning streak was broken last Friday, the Tigers came back to win last Saturday and again last night! Unfortunately it was not a home game (they were playing in Massachusetts) so we couldn't attend despite our attempts to mapquest and plan out a trip. Week ten is just not a good time... Anyway, after dinner last night Dave and Gage came back to our room and we sat around listening to the game on the radio (yeah, old school ;) ). I have to say it's not quite as exciting but we still did some of the cheers anyway. They ended up winning 6 0!!! How's that for a good game? They scored two of the goals in the first minute and a half of the second period. 

In unrelated news, did you get a chance to read CNN, or really any other major news source yesterday? 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/13/missed.flight/index.html

That kind of hit a little too close to home.. I know a few people whose parents or siblings were supposed to be on that flight yesterday and weren't for whatever reason. Kind of scary to think about. It doesn't really make me want to fly on a plane anytime soon...