counting sheep

Okay, so this blogging thing has gotten few and far between. Life has finally slowed down and I think I should be all caught up on sleep (ie. 12 hours a night over the past week).

Sarah is all finished up with high school sans the official graduation shenanigans that are occurring next Wednesday.

Been spending lots of time lounging around making up for the lack of free time throughout the quarter of course. But one week of that is about enough so now onto actually being productive and things... while still sitting in my PJ's, of course.

patience, gungor & milkshakes

almost finished! final presentation for a client in marketing at noon and a final for calligraphy at 7 then i'm done! not heading home until this coming saturday though, i need a little time to SLEEP. plus this week went from being relatively open to having lots of meeting and such.

last night i went to a gungor concert at church -- so good! they're a band from denver and just happened to be playing a free concert at church, really glad i went. i don't really pretend to know that much about music but the guitar playing was fantastic. afterwards a couple of us went to jay's to get milkshakes -- which happened to be my dinner, oh hey 5 food groups. dairy?! i think it counts.

wee bit of stuff to wrap up before saturday. still not entirely sure what this summer is looking like-- learning patience!

elephants

Hard to believe there are only 2.5 weeks of school left (+ another one week of finals). But still. That's so SOON. I still have yet to figure out what I'm doing this summer. I did get two freelance offers within the last 4 days or so, so I think I might be alright. Plus admissions. Or perhaps I will go exploring around the US again. So many options, so little time to figure it out.

This weekend is a full day of work on Saturday (we're interviewing 82 new people for spots in admissions. yikes.). Sunday is a potential dodgeball tournament (RIT is trying to set a world record) and an end of the year honors picnic. Weekend after is Imagine RIT. Family is coming up in less than 2 weeks. Yay!

Lots of projects lately.. signage system for a cemetery, personal portfolio website, video for marketing, website for a charter school in rochester, screenprint of peanut butter & jelly, poster for an event, logo for a company, etc... keeps me busy & out of trouble :)

The picture at the top of this post? Elephant animal cracker & iced coffee. What keeps me going during 6 hour homework sessions at Javas. Which has been happening more and more lately.

RIT, early thoughts

Don't ask what odd sequence events led to finding this... but I located a blog post I did way back July 24th, 2007 right after my first visit to RIT...

"RIT was rather excellent. A little nerdy, but I guess that is why they call it the "rochester institute of technology" They have a fairly large graphic design/art department and the computer to student ratio might be close to 2:1. It's an engineering and computer science school too so they have these labs called fishbowls and one side of them is completely glass (they claim it's because the computer geeks need some sunlight once in a while). I think the thing I loved most was the scheduling. For graphic design majors you take almost only art classes-- with some core requirements-- but then you get these PE credits where you can take random stuff like ice fishing, canoe tipping, volleyball or whatever. Random, I know. Only down side is it snows almost constantly-- but they have underground tunnels so it's not that bad-- and it's kind of far away."

So amusing. A long ago.

In other news, I register for senior year classes in about 6 hours. How weird.

spring!

Been a wee bit on the busy side lately.

Spring means everything from internship searching to classes to LOTS and lots of admissions events. We had 1,000 accepted students come on campus yesterday (plus their parents) which makes for a rather busy campus and day. There is an event nearly every Friday from the end of March until May.

In my spare time I have been, well... sleeping! Or trying to anyway.

For some reason despite the craziness of this quarter I haven't been running around going insane too much and I might even get a chance to run around outside today for a bit. 50 degrees & sunny today! Love spring.

I suppose these posts are going to continue to be few and far between but that's called priorities. I've been trying to work on another website/blog for more professional viewing. Ya know, probably don't want to hire me for my dinner-making abilities. Although that would be fantastic.

Mt Hope Cemetery

Went exploring at Mt Hope Cemetery today in Rochester. I'm doing an environmental design project that requires us to redesign the signage for the cemetery so I wanted to go and get a feel for the place & what was already there. It was way more extensive than I anticipated and the signage is currently rather lacking.







Even though the pictures don't accurately depict it, it's surprisingly nice in Rochester. Sunny & light sweater weather which is fantastic because bulky winter coats were getting a tad bit old.

It's actually a really interesting place to walk around, there are random hills & plots tucked in corners as well as numerous stairs that lead to no where.

Just a suggestion.

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More work coming soon (hopefully!)

busy

Life is ridiculous busy right now.

Not spending very much time in my apartment at all. In short, between 2 jobs & 6 classes I've been rather swamped with work.

Got a chance to go to some hockey games though. (ie. i'm never too busy for hockey). Unfortunately both the men's and women's teams lost Saturday night (women ended up 2nd in the nation for d3).

Rochester has been extra kind lately and produced some lovely sunny weather (except for today) to make up for the extra snowy winter.

Next blog post: round up of classes for this quarter (which somehow we are already in week 3 of, not quite sure how that one happened...)

seattle

Seattle came next. We ended up having to take a bus due to a mudslide but we got there safe and sound so everything was okay.

Seattle is definitely a larger more happening city-- and slightly less on the crunchy granola hippy side. I think personally I preferred Portland a little more because it was a wee bit smaller & easy to get from one point to another quickly. Plus they had fantastic transportation. And the world's largest bookstore.

However, Seattle had a pretty neat Library. And it just so happened that the twice a year window washers were there. If I ever want to get into extreme sports, I'll just try that.

Plus we finally got to enjoy some vitamin D so what's not to like?

We checked out the skylines.

and the Seattle Aquarium!

Seattle has an awesome waterfront. It was decided that if you smooshed together Portland along with Seattle's market & waterfront it would be the best city ever.

We also posed in some elevators...

And drank our weight in coffee.

Seattle had some rather hilly streets.

Which just made me think about how cool it would be to roll bouncy balls down them. Like so...

It should also be noted that I tried meat. I believe it looked something like this. But luckily slightly less cute.

next up: the companies! and more pictures probably. because everyone likes parfaits... i mean.. pictures

portland: part one

Overall great trip to the northwest. I've been distracted all day thinking about ways to hop a plane back there.

We drank some coffee and posed on street corners.

Took turns giving piggyback rides to the 8 year old that came on the trip.

Saw awesome views of the city.

Visited the Columbia River Gorge & Multanoma Falls

Ate some doughnuts from the famous Voodoo doughnuts-- vegan coconut, yum!

And posed on every available park bench (I believe we hit over 20 of them)

And that was Portland... stay tuned for some Seattle pics & details of company visits.