family circus

SNOW

IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!!!!

I ran around outside in a t-shirt. It was fantastic.

Now back to our regular scheduled programming...

You may call me V.

Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

What a good movie. It makes me want to watch it again.

Tomorrow is Friday! Which means that next week is week TEN?! This is getting ridiculous. This week has seemed rather long. Sore throat and other sick like feelings. I skipped one class on Tuesday-- which happens like... never. Unfortunately, I couldn't even fall asleep so that was annoying but it was a nice break anyway. I'm surprisingly on top of the work I need to do.

Sorry i'm using this as my online to do list.

Read Chapters 10,11,12,13 (with notes/notecards for 30 words) for Survey

Finalize poster design with feedback for Typography

1 18x24 sheet full of calligraphy words

2 lined sheets for calligraphy

Read Chapters 6, 7, 8 for Political Science-- take tests.

Imagery sketches into final poster design

Finish reading Batman

Start sketching for final graphic novel. NEED IDEA.

Redo stamp design

Journal for GN

Lots to do. Roughly 360 hours to do that all in.

Two finals during finals week-- Wednesday and Thursday. Along with projects due next Thursday, Wednesday of finals week, Thursday of finals week and 2 due Friday. Should be lovely.

Hockey game tomorrow night. I'm working Saturday morning. Saturday night is another hockey game. Sunday is homework. And then the following weekend we have Open House Saturday morning and then we're going to Erie PA!!

So much to do!

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!

how to have fun

it's "friday" night and what else is there to do? draw and paint, of course! as if i needed more work to do i decided to start some projects of my own. keep in mind its my first time painting in photoshop & its far from being done. the sketch is just for lining up purposes.

ill scan in project number 2 tomorrow.

i think it's bedtime now, waking up at 8 to head over to the lab tomorrow.

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.

when the stove starts smoking...

this is how my dinner ended up, the stove was smoking so i opted for a cook-free dinner. tasty and bright.

ashley and i invited about 10 people over on saturday for a rockband/apple crisp/apples to apples party

but in order to make apple crisp, we ventured downtown through the fall colors in search of some apples..

rochester public market where we scored over 60 apples for 10 bucks

there are lots of graveyards along the way, with super nice bright trees.

shot of the erie canal on the way past

pumpkins from parents weekend
chili i made a while back, i feel like i already posted a picture of this but it looks tasty so here it is again.

check it out.

if you have a chance, look at some of his other stuff. a whole new world was amazing as well. crazy good singer.

the road ahead

the copy still needs some tweaking but you get the idea. it's for an environmental poster for my imagery in design class. due thursday.