Sweater Season

Sweater season is my favorite. Mostly because i look amazing in sweaters. This year, however, Sweater Season isn't as fun because my favorite green sweater died in the middle. Now i am looking for a replacement favorite sweater. So far, nothing has come close. How could anything live up to the perfect weight, fit, and shade of green masterpiece?



I don't know if you are watching Studio 60, but if you are, this monday Bradley Whitford brought us the true display of sweater season spirit: the Black Sweater. Guys, listen up! You have an automatic 'In' with all girls if you take advantage of the Black Sweater. Below are some options. Mad props to JCrew for being our unfailing source of perfect sweaters.



Do you have a favorite sweater?

What a Difference 9 Months Make!

So it has been about 9 months since i have started loosing weight.
These pics are from Christmas last year and Halloween this year. tell me how great i look!

Halloween

So i decided to post a pic of my crew at halloween.


There is also one of me, in the best pic that i could find that showed off how much weight i've lost.

Enjoy!

Top 5 All-Time Best Memories of Halloween!

5. Mom's Halloween Cape! It glowed in the dark and was totally pimp! It will be missed!

4. Neewollah! Thanks for the memories SCCSM! Cold, smoky Hot Dogs, Poorly Haunted Hayrides, and the Pumpkin Catapult!

3. The A-tee Halloween, a.k.a, the Best Halloween Ever! I even remember the candy haul being good that year.

2. The Halloween spelling pictures. We would have to trace coloring book pictures of cats and pumpkins with our spelling words until the picture was complete!
Torture at the time, but I kind of miss them.

1. 5th grade Multiplication! The spooky house with the 12 times tables in the attic... Those bats were my enemies! It took me weeks to get through the second floor 7s and 9s. That remains the spookiest house I know!

Halloween also officially kicks of the Holiday pomp! I hereby begin the Super-month of Necuary, sometimes known as Thanksmas Year.

Semester-By-Numbers

There are sixty days left in the semester! It is going to fly by! Now for the Semester-By-Number approach to things. My applications for next semester are due in two weeks, and I am not sure where I am going. The play opens in three weeks, and I haven't even started on the costumes yet, but I have wanted to. Two of my papers are due in four weeks; I have started on those. Thanksgiving is in five weeks. In six weeks, I get to see my grandparents for the first time in six months. In seven weeks I die of excitement and exhaustion, and in eight weeks I take five finals and move out of Hall-Roland for good.

When you go through it in numerical order, picking everything apart, the semester flies by. When you look at the big picture, it still all adds up to sixty days.

Why what ever are you talking about?!?

So i am pretty sure this is a post of joy! It is about time! I have exciting news! The new amazingly beautiful, awesomely wonderful coffee shop, Besso's, opened in town. I have loged about 4 hours of table time in two days. It is so pretty: european themed, with wine cask tables, amazing home-roasted coffee, imported Junior's Cheesecake from NYC, and pastries (soon to come)! It has brick walls, a giant Parissian train station clock, and copper accents! I will post pictures soon.

Second piece of great news: Freed has the CW!!! We never had the WB, so i was convinced we didn't have the CW. tonight a girl was watching America's Next Top Model in the lobby, and i got very excited! So now i have to go back and find the new gilmore episodes online to catch up, but YAY for gilmore!!!

So this is my happy post. Other things have made me hapy later, but these two are very important to school life.

It is Wednesday

and today I am mad. I think I am just mad at the world, although it
may just be Henderson. I am not really sure why. I looked cute, stayed
awake in my classes, and actually enjoyed chapel, but i am just
generally pissed at the sight of this place. It is definitely a "dark
art kid" kind of day.
At least being a dark art kid explains my general displeasure with
this campus. Our Freed Magazine, Seasons, came out today. On the cover
was a girl who graduated, and inside was a story about the 60 Million
dollars milton sewell has raised for FHU. I just wonder where the 60
mil went to. I haven't seen a dime. The campus still looks like a hog
wallor. The one building that is actually costing us money is not
worth 60 mil, so i am just really unsure of where it is going to.
Probably the cabbages and possies they plant every two months. If so,
those mexicans are getting paid a lot more than they deserve.

People are irritating, too. even people i can tollerate are getting on
my nerves. They just don't know when to stop. They are those people
that think they can say anything to anyone, but in reality they can't.
I decided at lunch today, during my group's almost ritual-like rant,
that Freed is like Neverland. People come here or are sent here never
to grow up. There are people in their mid tweneties who act sixteen.
They spend every year trying to achieve the ultimate goal of finding a
wife by chasing freshman tail. keep in mind, Now the freshman, greener
than ever thanks to society's lack of upbringing, are about 10 years
younger than their immature persuers. Constant Immaturity is
encouraged. The Ideal is to stay in the status quo, because what can
be wrong with that.
It never changes and will always exist, to spite the efforts of those
who could make a difference. Everyone is the same. Even those who try
to be different fit into a category. Almost everyone is fake, and will
continue to be that way as long as they are here. They insist on
students having Pride in where they go, but where is that pride coming
from? It cannot come from our campus or our leaders. There isn't
enough self-esteem in the world to fix the social issues on this
campus.

Man, this place is bad!

Marc kidnapped me this weekend and took me home. I think this pic sums up everything!

My List

My Must Watch TV movie list just got a little longer.

I realized, after 3 viewings of both, BEACHES and WORKING GIRL have to be added to the list. Thanks to my limmited channels, and these two movies frequenting WE network, i have become hooked.

Tell me i am crazy!

Seriously??

So Freed has reached a new low. UPC, our actvities board, is now sponsoring Speed Dating.


Yea, I can't believe it either.

For My Sister

For my codependent sister, whom I love. I am on the right and she is on the left.

Love You Amy!

the little things in life

my towels smell like granny and poppie's house. this is odd because i haven't been there since may, a travesty. i like it. it made my night just a hint better.

Pets and movies don't mix!

Mom and I saw Snakes on a Plane before I came back to school. I LOVED it. It will not be nominated for any award ever, but oh well. I had fun at the movies for once, so there Holly & Hollywood!
I was working on a paper tonight, and my friend Megan was in my room watching tv. It just happened that she was watching Mars Attacks!

These two movies are proof that pets should never be in movies. They will always be run over, eaten, terrorized, or otherwise destroyed. These poor pets can barely make it through the opening credits. The screen writers typically give us a chance at least to try and hate the little yippy dogs, but I still get attached.
For instance, In Snakes, the Chihuahua named Mary-Kate was fed to the python to save the jerk, who later died. In Mars Attacks!, the Chihuahua is decapitated and Sarah Jessica Parker's head is put on in its place. Nothing lived through Dante's Peak, and even my Latin 3 text book killed the dog in the 3rd chapter.

I guess it is difficult to run from snakes, fight aliens, and flee from lava and ash with something you have to carry.

Aeri-woes

I cannot wait for a city with public transportation! Even with all its faults, it is better than driving. Case in point: My Past week as a driver.

Monday, July 17, 2006: I was pulling out of a parking space, and a car, that had passed me, backed into me. Confused? Clarification: While backing out of a parking space, I was rear-ended/ side-swiped.
Friday, July 21, 2006: Took a 3/4 of a day off of work to attend to the car. Included: Tire rotation and purchase of two new tires, an unplanned purchase. A trip to the Dealer for an air conditioner fix, Just two weeks they had "fixed it" the first time. They got it working, but not to my satisfaction, I would have to come back for a third time in two and a half weeks.
(The man who helped me looked exasperated when I was through with him. I was not happy, as I was hot, because in the hottest week of the year, my air wasn't working, and I was missing out on $8/hour every time I had to see these people again.)
Continued on to Price's collision center. A quality experience filled with charming mechanics.
Saturday, July 22, 2006: First day of vacation. Lovely trip down to Brunswick, Georgia. All was going so well until my cousin rear-ended me, compressing everything, to a foot behind the back window, but everything is still drivable. My cousin was driving her mothers new Chevy Equinox. The entire front end came off. Everything is cheap and plastic. Ecclesiasties is making a lot more sense nowadays.


I hope you now see my disdain for private transportation as it is expensive and time consuming.

Working 9 to 5

I work. I work at an online christian university. It's big in Africa. We have over 2,000 students (more than Freed) in more than 105 countries. I like my job. I answer phones, grade exams, take tests, and whatever else needs to be done. It isn't difficult. The only slightly challenging part is trying to work slower.
I work with some characters. More on them in later posts (when i am not blogging from my desk!)
I took my first international phone call on monday. it was cool. the man on the other end of the phone was in Ghana. That is on the bottom of western africa.
I also get to work with students and proctors in Nigeria, Kenya, Camaroon, Niger, China, the United States Prison system, and South Africa.
to close, I love my job. it is great, and you all will come to know and love it too.

Addiction

I have a new addiction. I am addicted to designing shirts, shot glasses, tote bags, etc. On CustomInk.com. You can choose the item you would like to personalize, the color, the fonts, the layout, everything. I love it. So far, I have made a track jacket, and two shirts for my club, a shirt for my extended family reunion, and a shot glass. If you need anything made or have a silly idea you wouldn't mind seeing, let me know. I am up to the challenge.

This is my current favorite underrated movie. It is hilarious. The creatures are marvelously odd and a little creepy.
give me your favorite underrated movies of the moment.

So this is my new peice. i haven't named it yet. it was supposed to be surrealist. keep in mind, it looks better in person. tell me what you think.

Congrats

Congrats to my beautiful sister on making agent! We always knew you would make it! Congrats to all my college and high school homies who will graduate.

:(

I am sad. i feel alone. I feel beaten. i feel sick. I feel self-centered. i need a hug.

Lets Givem' Something to Blog About

I have nothing really to blog about. I am between paintings. I am happy, so i can't rant. I am devoid of postable events. Which
leads me to: What makes something Bloggable?
One man runs a MySpace for his dog. Some have blogs where they simply post links news stories. Others are temporary, to chronicle a specific event.
Is there any Unbloggable terain?

My latest Art project



And my hair.

i think it looks exactly the same as before.
Before
After

Which side of Susan?

Recently I have had the desire to dye my hair.
So tell me this:
a lighter, Honey color or
a darker, almost black color.

Put your thoughts in the comment section, please.

Fairy Tales

Seven Reasons Snow White is my favorite Disney Princess:

1. She prays.
2. You cannot beat the original.
3. First Sopranos are the best
4. She proves wishing wells work.
5. Her prince is the cutest.
6. She gets to sleep and be awoken with a kiss (the best way).
7. She is treated well by seven cool guys.

Art

my first art project. tell me about it.

Break: Break, Break-up, and Teeth

So Christmas break went pretty well. I really enjoyed being home, and the journey I took to get there. I did break-up with Jeremy over the break. I wasn't being fair to him. Everything is okay now, and we are going to be friends. I did get my wisdom teeth cut out. Above are three pictures: one of me before i got my teeth out, one after, while i was swollen, and one after a week and a half. Love to all.

Midgee Cows!

Dad, the great wise man that he is, read an article in the paper about Miniature Cattle. (!!!!!!!!!!!How Cool!!!!!!!!!!) They are about 30-40 inches tall, whereas normal cattle run about 48 inches. They only require one acre of land to live on. Dad was talking like he was about to buy the calf then. They run about 6,000 Dollars, though. I would rather have a car. Oh well. Just one more cool animal on my fictional farm.

their site is http://www.minicattle.com