delirious

dear mom & dad,

i'm going to need a nap. let me explain.

it's 4:30 in the morning, which happens to be the time i was getting ready for bed yesterday.

last night i called the cab company expecting to, you know... get a call back confirming. so i stayed up until 11 waiting but didn't hear back so i called another one and requested a 4:45 am pick up because of snow etc. ended up not falling asleep until almost 1:30 am. set my alarm for 4:15 to allow for 30 minutes for whatever.

around 3:30 am my phone rings. when i say it rang. what it really did was scare the crap out of me. i literally jumped up because i thought it was my alarm. but apparently it was some number i didn't recognize so i didn't pick up. laid there for 5 minutes before they called back and i picked up.

conversation with the lady on the phone

her: "hello, so would you be ready in 15 minutes"

me: (still totally out of it) "uhmmm it's 3:30 in the morning, i requested a 4:45 pick up"

her: "yeah but i'll be there in 15 minutes, can you be ready"

me: "..."

so that, is how i ended up at the airport at 4 am long before i was even supposed to get up.

also, on the way over we were sitting at a red light and the cab driver was complaining about how long it was taking to switch. she kept telling me about those little poles that tell them when a car is on it but they weren't working today. uhmm, okay? just wait until it turns green. the lady turns to me and goes "do you think they'd care if i went on red??" hahahhah seriously?! what a fruitcake. she did go on red. and luckily did not get caught. probably because it was 4 am. but even if we did get caught, it would have been already because i probably still would have had a good 2 hour wait at the airport.

anyway, i'm here now. security was good too..and i guess i'm in a conversation mood this morning...

tsa: "do you have a shirt on?"

me: "uhmm yeah......"

tsa: would you mind taking that sweatshirt off?"

me: "okay.."

tsa: "that wouldn't be a hassle would it"

me: (thinking silently, no because traveling with no liquids, taking off my shoes, emptying my backpack of electronics and taking off my coat was not already enough of a hassle) "nope"

i have never ever once taken off my sweatshirt going through security. not even that time that i got caught with a box cutter by accident last year.

to make things better, i got to the gate and checked facebook & saw one of my friends status's said they were also in the rochester airport!! so i had someone to talk to for at least a while :)

now the debate on whether or not to get breakfast because my stomach is already growling and i'm not even taking off for another hour.

but see you soon!

love,

a soon to be delirious skeeter.

tweet tweet

new feature: twitter feed on the right column. i was really skeptical of this invention at first. who the heck cares what i am doing every second of my life but then i realized that i could talk about all of the hockey i wanted and no one could yell at me :) so, i've started updating more frequently ya know.. to test out the waters.

RIT game last night was excellent. they won 8-0 can't complain about a game like that! great goaltending and play all around. back at the rink tonight at 7:05 for another shot at canisius. watched miracle this morning. the USA Finland game yesterday. Canada game too. tomorrow is the USA Canada men's gold game. and next wednesday the Capitals are back at it playing the Sabres. yay hockey! it's been suggested that i get on a 12 step program to recovery... :) that won't be necessary! there is no such thing as too much hockey.

anyway, i'm all packed and ready to go. stayed up until 4 something in the morning last night so maybe we won't try that again because my flight is at 6:50 am :) looking forward to a week of break and hanging out.

i'm coming traveling buddyyyyy.

11 and counting

(taken around 2:30 this afternoon, 11 inches of snow)

(taken around 11 this morning, 7 inches of snow)

it's actually pretty hard to see in the pictures how snowy/windy it is and it actually looks like rain on the window but thats only because the heater is right below the frame. we went out last night and everyone on the road was driving superrr slow and it was slippery. there is a lot of wind and apparently we're getting 1-2 inches per hour. it's actually not as bad as they said, i think other cities are getting worse.

tonight is another RIT hockey game!! something to look forward to. glad i didn't fly home yesterday or today there is no way i would have gotten out everyone's flights are being delayed or canceled all together or just going out 3 days later. all of rochester schools (with the exception of RIT, of course) were canceled today... think they're turning into big softies up here. closing schools for 8 inches of snow?!

done done and done

i'm officially 100% done with winter quarter.

had two finals this morning from 8 until 11. the first one was super easy i just got to sit there and zone out (it was presentations but i gave mine last week) the second was an asl interview which was surprisingly nerve-wracking.. i'm perfectly okay with signing until apparently a one on one test but i passed the class with a 98 so i think everything is going to be alright :)

it's been snowing since i got up this morning around 6 and i guess is not going to stop until sunday morning? let's hope flights are on time.

tonight looks like movies, tv shows and hanging around.

tomorrow's schedule looks surprisingly similar with the exception of a hockey game tomorrow night.

saturday more hanging around and another hockey game.

yay spring break.

michelangelo buonarroti

no bugs.

homemade cookies.

studying my brains out for art history.

comfy bed with no little critters.

freshly cleaned clothes in my dresser.

snow falling outside.

jars of clay on pandora.

i'd say it's been a pretty decent day, wouldn't you?

art history final tomorrow at 12:30. pray for a miracle, i'm going to need it at this point.

michelangelo's sistine chapel. started in 1508 completed 4 years later in 1512. there are roughly 300 biblical figures throughout. originally he didn't want to complete the project because he claimed he "wasn't a good painter" uhmm, right. if i said i wasn't a good painter i would most definitely not be able to turn around and create the sistine chapel.

so there is your art history lesson for today. now i only have roughly 50 more images to memorize! then a typography project due tomorrow afternoon. few hours at work. and then i'm basically FREE! i do have two finals on thursday but they don't require studying :)

bugs be gone

don't have much time.

but they are GONE GONE GONE.

i'm so excited i can't even tell you.

now for much rearranging. but first work, studying and four finals.

backyard kickball games

do you ever have like literally every part of your life fall into place?

well, not every part but close enough. it's funny because it's never in the ways i would have imagined or wished for but even better. you can't even plan things like this.

i have a desire to work with children and families that are in need.

oh, so you mean i can go downtown and work with a refugee family with 5 kids? check.

if i wasn't a graphic design major, i'd major in social work. i'm not even entirely sure why i feel that way but i do.

the two people working with the family aren't even social workers, just two people with an incredible love and passion for helping people.

i love blogging.

the social workers that work with this family are looking for people to help blog for their project.

i'm interested in helping out more.

they have more families that need help and are desperately looking for more volunteers.

i'd love to mix graphic design with a non profit job once i graduate.

apparently there is a company looking for designers to help with adoption cases and marketing?

seriously?! this makes me wish i didn't require sleep. so much to do, no time to do it.

(this picture is from a few weeks ago when we went. and it's missing over half of the kids :) )

if you couldn't already tell from the beginning of this post, i went downtown to hang out with the refugee family again. this time, on top of their 5 kids, 3 more kids from downstairs came up to join us which meant one FULL house! but lots of fun. played kickball in the backyard until someone kicked the ball on the snow covered roof :) so we walked 5 or so blocks to the nearest sledding hill and went sledding! tons of fun, i even went down once. the hill was huge! it was so funny, they brought an inner tube that was so big for the kids so we had to squish about 5 of them on it. only downside of the experience was my COLD toes. seriously frozen! they are still defrosting.

now it's time to make some oatmeal cookies and get ready for the USA Canada hockey game! hooray for good weekends. i didn't update the past two days but it included much hanging out, hockey, late night Jay's diner runs and other fun things. oh, i did go to an art history review session so yes i did remember that this is finals week coming up! no finals tomorrow though :)

sometime this week i'll write up a post talking more about the ROW project when i have more time.

a thing called love

i think i'm in love with a thing called tweet deck. ya know, like twitter? someone in the admissions office introduced me to it this past week and it's fantastic. it's currently a beta version but i'm assuming it's here to stay. it's so organized and helpful. you can have all of your social networks mixed into one place that's in a separate application from your web browser. i love it because after you read something you can delete it, comment on it, "like" it all in one place as well as update your status for more than one thing at a time. uhm hello major time saver.


also on my list of love is google reader. i follow between 30 and 40 blogs on a regular basis. design blogs, food blogs, people blogs. you name it, i read it. some update everyday, some even multiple posts per day while some are more of a weekly thing. either way, google reader is amazing for combining this all into one location that i can star, unread, read, etc. just lovely.

continuing on the path of organization.. folders. i'm a huge fan of folders. one main followed by 480 subcategories to help sort my every need. with my recent recipe diving obsession, these things are a major plus to my daily life.

and while i'm glad that each of these entities exist and i love organization. i dont know what i would do if they all combined into one lovely box of yay. that would just be too much for one to take in.

got any other computer organizational tips for me?

bedtime: headphones required

on monday they installed a lovely bug counting device on the bedroom floor. good idea in theory. except when you factor in the loud beeping noise every 5 seconds. literally. every 5 seconds. all night.

it certainly does not make for ideal sleeping conditions. sure, it's fine once i've fallen asleep but getting to that point is not pleasant. which is why i've been starting to get in bed around 10 or 10:30 this week in anticipation of it taking forever. i've taken to listening to my ipod and putting a blanket and pillow over my head. last night took, oh.. maybe 3 hours. i eventually gave up and moved out to sleeping on the couch. much better plan. except then i woke up around 6:45 and couldn't fall back asleep. so here i am, watching gilmore girls until a more reasonable hour. going over to casey's in a while to work on some video editing and what not.

speaking of sleeping and all that.. yesterday i had an 8 am class. i have to leave at 7:30 or i won't make it on time because it's on the complete opposite side of campus. so i set my alarm for 6:30 to have enough time to get ready. well, go figure... alarm didn't go off yesterday. so i woke up on my own and was immediately surprised by how light 6:30 was... uhmm, that's because it was 7:26. so, grabbed some clothes, threw on shoes and ran off to class. the night before it had so nicely snowed 4 inches and they hadn't plowed anything which meant that i got to run through snow piles. but i made it to class on time! except class only lasted about 20 minutes (we only reviewed about 4 things...) which was super annoying because it took me longer to freak out and run over there than the actual time spent in class. but i got to go to work early and then leave an hour and a half before, so yay.

oh! good news. so next year i'm moving in with casey and two other girls into a UC apartment (the nicest ones on campus!). i'm so excited but yesterday got even more exciting when i found out that it is being renovated over the summer! which means an entirely new apartment and furniture. i'm thinking that this is some way of making up for the past year in housing :) i just wish it was next fall already!!

ash wednesday

spring break is tantalizingly close.

mycourses our online discussion and paper turn in site is not working which is quite frustrating but all that matters if that i am finished with my paper and presentation and aside from watching other people's presentations at 8 am in the morning next thursday, i am done. wow that was a long sentence, i got out of breath just typing it. oh! apparently in mentioning it in my blog post, it decided that it could cooperate and upload my document, hooray!

finished up my photography critique and final today. typography final critique was today as well although i have a few changes i need to make and reprint so i most likely will not finish that up until next tuesday.

week ten apparently makes me extremely ADD. shiny objects, the olympics, online recipes.. you name it, i've been distracted by it. everything imaginable seems better than finishing up projects which is funny because i don't even mind the projects. i just keep of thinking about so many other things i could be doing.

went to an interesting online blog thing today at the admissions office. when i say went to, it was just 3 counselors and me sitting in a room watching the computer. i think it's called a webinar? some guy that is really good in dealing with higher ed marketing and what not was running it. glad i went, now the only problem is i have so many ideas floating around my head and no real time to put them into action. we'll see.

dinners this week have been pretty relaxed. would have taken a picture of tonight's but my camera died right as i clicked in the button. oops. reheated some frozen chili from months ago and mixed in some of the pineapple rice that i made last week and am still working on finishing. seriously, i made enough rice for a small army, who would have thought. also, i've been eating canned peaches all week and i finally finished them up today so i had a little extra juice left which i mixed with some VG splash. good thinking. just ate some frozen raspberries and strawberries after class. i gave up chocolate for lent and luckily i gave away those oreo balls to my bible study group on monday so i don't have those taunting me.

now, it's bedtime. yes, that's right it's currently before 10:30. but 6:30 am always comes sooner than i think and i think after a day of finals and finishing a paper i deserve a good amount of sleep. my body will thank me tomorrow morning.