Some New Stuff I've Found...

...while I was rebelling against blogging.

This made me laugh.
This kind of grossed me out, but then I kind of dug it. The 'living on in others sketchbooks kind of got me.
This made me gain back a little of the faith I'd lost for humanity.
This just staight up made me smile.

Hope it does simliar things for you.

Today I Learned...

• It's good to be back :)
• People talking in the stairwell to their iPods most likely have iPhones...
• Kate Nash is perfect music for my weird moods.
• You can never trust Peas-n-Carrots when it comes to school store hours.
• The cleaning ladies are deffinatly married. Confirmed by one saying "My wife and I..."
• You can learn a lot about how people see you by what they propse you make a speech on. Apperently I'm a Harry Potter, Gaga-aholic with love for the quest and who inspires thoughts of goats and lumpis? Well, the first half is pretty spot on...
• I miss my family.
• That my roomates are really awesome, and I don't know what I'd do without them.
• Cleaning ladies spend the time they don't spend cleaning our bathrooms plotting how to most inconvience everyone in the building.
• That really, the same rules for children also apply to awkward, older male models: only speak when spoken to, don't stare. put that thing away!
• I've managed to train the whole hallway plus the roomies bf to save their caps!!
• That the only time I have good throwing aim is when I really shouldn't...sorry Annie <3
• That I am a pathetic idiot. Well, I knew this, but I remind myself frequently.
• There are still some good and chivilrous men out there, sometimes all the assholes out there make me forget the good guys exist.
• That 'doppleganger' is actually not a very common term.
• That the author of 'Willy the Wizard' actually has the gall to try and sue JK. Ahhhh-hells-nah.
• Chacha and I are back on speaking terms!
• That the Ray-J's replacement (hereby known as GI Joe) is actually a pretty nice guy. He actually struck up a conversation with me today.
• Sometimes you feel things you never thought you'd feel. And it's refreshing.
• That the HC printers only work when you don't need them to. When you do, they fight you teeth and nail.
• Sometimes talking to people makes you feel good because if you're having a problem you realise you're not the only one. But sometimes it makes you feel small and stupid and completely trite, like you don't have a single original bone in your body.
• Bangs are a very tempremental hairstyle.
• The adverage hourly salary of a nude model is $25-$30 per hour. Which boils down to about $300/week for two studio classes that meet twice a week, for those of you who are intereseted :)
•  My poor little iPod mini has once again reached its max capacity...looks like another song clear-out is coming soon.
• Sometimes even though you check twice and step extremely carefully on what you're sure is not black ice....it is.
• People have a tendency to find random animals/dinosaurs in my sculptures.
• I'm stupid. Did I already mention that? Maybe I did, but it's how I keep my ego in check.

Things

With Krysti, not Demitri Martin, unfortunatly. Here are somethings that I dislike.

1. When you get angry at someone because they haven't responded to your text, but then you realise you never actually sent the text.
2. When the aformentioned text gets saved as a draft because, honestly, who uses drafts?
3. When you pick up a bottle (usually of iced tea) and it's unconfortable sticky. Ewww.
4. When plans you're super excited for fall through.
5. When you really want something to happen and you have a really realistic dream where it happens (and in my case I actually remember said dream) and you wake up and are super excited, but it never actually happened.
6. When you go and try to be a sanitary person and wash your hands and are in a rush and fail to realise the clump of hair/toothpaste/soap/food shit that is all over the sink in time.
7. When Lady Gaga is not on the radio.
8. When you're snuggled up with people in the most comfortable arrangement on the face of the earth and someone has to move and you know that even if they're not even near you it will never be the same. UGH.
9. When you realise how much your little brother misses you, even though he'll never actually say so.
10. When you have a list of a million movies you want to see but when you get to Blockbuster you can't remember any of them.
11. When Blockbuster doesn't have the one you can remember.
12. When you have to wake up, and your feet hurt but you have a bunk bed so you have to step on the stupid rungs so you don't die.
13. When the GPS falls off the winshield and you can't reach it while driving.
14. When you go to a store and really want/need something they used to have and they don't have it.
15. When you go to a store with money and you can never find anything but when you go with no money you find a million things.

Things I Like About Snow

Seeing as I am currently enveloped in two feet of the stuff with the expectation of eight more inches on Tuesday, I decided to dedicate a post to everyone's favorite white and fluffy weather phenomenon.

Things I Like About Snow:

1. I like how if you go out early enough in the snowstorm no one else has been there and you have no idea where the paths are and you get to blaze your own. And the people walking after you will be like 'hey! the footprints are here, this is probably the right way to go' even if it isn't. And it's kind of a power-trip.
2. I like throwing snowballs. And the occational ice-ball. Because, face it, there's no better way to release pent-up agression towards someone and pass it off as a jovial wintertime tradition.
3. I like falling on ice. Hey! I wasn't using my tailbone anyway groundskeepers, so there's no need to salt the paths...it's like my own personal ice rink everytime I leave my dorm! Awesome!
4. I like that snow masks everything. The dirtiest, ugliest place in the world would look beautiful blanketed in snow. It's like cover-up for the earth. 
5. I like getting my money's worth out of my rainboots.
6. I like hot chocolate from Gordy's. And I like the feeling of supiriority and sophistcation that comes with holding a little coffee cup with the little coffee collar on it.
7. I like turning the heater on and then climbing into bed with it still on and forgetting how hot it gets and then waking up covered in sweat because the room is eighty five degrees.
8. I like eating snowflakes.
9. I like seeing people express themselves in snow-art. Whether it be giant igloos (pictures to come) or snowangels, or snowmen, it's always unexpected and makes me happy.
10. I like having my jeans be soaked and my thighs get windburn from inside my jeans. Nothing makes you feel quite so alive as a few raw limbs.
11. I like that the campus dosen't get deserted.
12. I like that I get an excuse to wear the million scarves that I have hanging on Ashely and I's bedpost.
13. I like that when I'm cold and come in I get to turn on the heater and then the room smells plesently like burnt dust for an hour or so while the room warms up.
14. I like the way that everything is always bright when there's snow on the ground.
15. I like that only the friendly people brave the cold, ergo, if you are out in the snow, you are probably friendly.
16. I like that campus has its own version of the Naked Cowboy. Except he just wears shorts, a tshirt, and a cowboy hat when it snows. And exhibits the same degree of Southern charm.
17. I like riding on the bus while the underqualified (and usually grouchy) busdriver tries to get us to the mall, or tries not to pick us up from the Goodwill plaza.
18. I like that people still sit on benches and leave their butt-marks. It makes me laugh.
19. I like singing Christmas carols even though its not Christmas but because they're about snow and it's snowing.
20. I like using snow to wash my hands because last-minute I need to splatterpaint and art project and need to get my phone out of my pocket because someone has to let me in the back door when I'm done but my hands are covered in paint.
21. I like that it could hypothetically get me out of class :)

A Brief Hiatus

That's what I've decided to call those empty weeks since semester started and this blog sort of died. It makes me sound productive and sophisticated, like I was recovering from a particularly nasty sprained thumb or searching for inspiration in the alleyways of Bangledesh. When, truth be told, I've just been a combination of lazy and busy. So, to keep you all in the loop, here are some new things that have happened since we last talked.

• My hair has decreased by approx. 2 inches in lenth and I have gotten bangs (I refuse to confess how much of an influence my new Lady Gaga razor glasses had over my choice).
• I made myself some awesome Lady Gaga razor glasses, as featured in the video for 'Bad Romance.' The most admirable use of Honors College ink I could ever imagine.
• I now have one pint less of blood (O+) and one more useless tshirt.
• The aformentioned tshirt has already been ruined with paint.
• I have one contraband dining tray stashed somewhere in my room. Shhhh!
• I now get to sleep in until at least noon 5 of the 7 days of the week.
• I still hate laundry.
• I'm working on conquering my fear of eyes.
• I'm planning a wedding (for a project fellas, don't worry...)
• I am now a Project Runway fan (why didn't I find this sooner!)
• My days of two third floor studio classes have gotten infinatly better due to the discovery that there is an elevator in the art building.
• I've listened to 'Party in the USA' and "Bad Romance'  more times that I care to admit.
• I've made more of an effort to learn the dances to the songs above than I care to think about....
• I am helping to plan a prom (Dream. Come. True.)
• I have come to appreciate now more than ever the importance of a good pair of rainboots.
• The quad has gone 'eco' with the introduction of a Brita filter and some reusable water bottles.
• I have almost a full box of plastic bottle caps stashed under my bed which I'm collecting for extra credit in my psych class.
• I now have an art locker

So, that's my life recently, in a nutshell. Sorry if I disappointed my three or so loyal readers by not posting in awhile. I'm not really sure why, seeing as you all know how much I love to talk, particularly about myself and my adventures. Until next time: ciao bellas!

A Little Something New

So, I just spent the better part of an hour (because, let's face it, that this point you all know it goes without saying that I have nothing better to do with my life) getting the stupid new playlist in my sidebar to work. And now it does. So I hope you enjoy it; I added some of my favorite music esspecially for you and will hopefully continue to add and edit it as my musical ADD kicks in. Let me know what you think, if the autostart is annoying, my song selection is cliche, my color choice is bad...etc. New semester, new sidebar gadgets!!

Hockadoo!

I <3 Books

So, I've always been a huge bookworm and as such I found this survey on stumbleupon.com and wanted to try it. Decided to post it here so everyone could check themselves...just out of curiousity. Leave a comment with the number you've read....

Instructions: Put the books you've read in bold. The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here: instead I'm putting the ones I've read in red and the ones I've read some of, or attempted to read in yellow.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaube
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

So BBC, that makes 23 read and eight more attempted. Not bad, but still less that a quarter of the list, although I'm pretty proud that many of these I read on my own, not for school, but still! Damn, I'd better get a move on!! And don't be shy! Post how many you've read (no name needed if you don't want to) plus and suggestions from this list that I haven't read (or finished) that I should would be fantastical! Hockadoo!
 
Currently reading: The Complete Collection of the Brothers Grimm (210 stories!)

WOW: Word of the Week

2KX (noun): an abbreviation for the year 2010 which, when I tried to post the deffinition from urbandictionary.com, was not really given a great deffinition because the first person to post it wrote that the 'K' was the roman numberal for thousand (it's M). But I like it nonetheless and, for the record, the poor soul who is now being cyber-bullied on urbandictionary due to his mistake was probably thinking of the prefix 'kilo' meaning thosand when he wrote it. He gets my vote though.

And, the sometimes present Elvish Phrase of the Week! (note that I call these things 'of the week' even though their posting is sporatic and not at all weekly. So sue me, it's my blog.)

Feeling insulted? Want something unique and clever to tell off the scurvy dog who made a stab at your dignity? Why not tell them in a long-dead, Tolkien-invented language! That'll show them! Try these handy translations!

Llie n'vanima ar' lle atara lanneina. (You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.)
Lle naa haran e' nausalle. (You are king in your imagination.)
or the ever popular:
Auta miqula orqu. (Go kiss an orc.)

And That's How Krysti Sees It.

There are a lot of things wrong with this world. A. Lot. But it's not like you needed me to tell you that. Hell, according to my mom ever since I walked out of the womb (no messy birthing process, I walked out. Ever the classy one.) I've been telling her all the stuff that wrong with the world and how it 'should be done.' So I decided to make an entry of it (as you might be able to tell, as my time NOT at College wanes as do my availablity of interesting subject matter/topics for blog posts. Heck, I might just catch a ride back to school with HB solely so my blog gets more interesting!). Plus, if Sue Sylvester can do it, I figure so can I. So here it is, my first ever list of recently enountered problems with society accompanied by my commentary (of couse) and proposed solution (sidenote: I do realise society has actual real problems, immigration, healthcare, the economy, forign realtions, etc. but I am sad to say that I am nowhere near informed enough to make this blog go political and present a solid argument, so I'm not even going to try. I swear I am not just another teenager blind to everything but MTV and beer pong).

1. 
   
   Ugg boots. I've touched on them before, I know, and I won't spend too long on them. But I'm just saying, that $200 for a 'ehh' looking pair of boots that go with nothing? Let me just quickly review what $200 can do instead of buy fugly boots: 4+ tanks of gas, 20 movie tickets (that's sad), 200 cups of McDonald's coffee, about 65 cups of Starbucks coffee, feed two Pakistani children for a year, or get Over 260 delicious school cookies. Just saying.
   
   
   
2. 
   
   Kristin Stewart's Acting Skills: well, considering the problem is that this doesn't exist, I can't really propose a solution. Other than sending your Ugg money to Ms. Stewart to get some acting lessons. And, on that note:
   
   
   
3. 
   
   Bella Swan: That's right ladies, our ancestors fought tooth and nail to get us equal rights so we can lay down and let a 107 year-old virgin with a disco stick do everything for us. What a role model for young girls. Forget the bicycle, a woman needs a man like Kristin Stewart needs acting lessons, apperently.
   
   
   
4. 
   
   Childhood Books Becoming Movies: How are parents supposed to share their favorite childhood books with their kids if they've all been turned into mediocre films? And how are parents supposed to encourage their kids to read if there are no quality classics to read them at bedtime? Everything from Cat in the Hat to Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs has made it to the silver screen. I swear though, if Goodnight Moon becomes a movie I will never go to a movie theatre ever again.
   
   
   
5. 
   
   The Lack of Drive-In Movie Theatres: I blame Greece for reminding me what a problem this is. I have never in my life even seen a drive-in, let alone go to one! What better way to bring families together and save the movie industry that resurecting a few of these puppies, charging per carload and popping in a double feature with an 90's nicktoon in between? I'll bring the popcorn.
   
   
   
6. 
   
   Ke$ha: You know, that wannabe really hardcore chick that sings that ridiculously addicting song 'Tik Tok' about feeling like P.Diddy and brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels. Although I'm happy that she and other female artists are currently dominating the top of the Billboard chart, I don't really know if that's exactly what I want the next step in equality to be...I mean "Ain't got a care in world, but got plenty of beer/Ain't got no money in my pocket, but I'm already here/And now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger/But we kick em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger"?? I've deffinatly heard worse, but to be the chart topping hit of '09. Possible solutions: burned at the stake, use Ugg money to buy her some class, hire her a new lyricist, someone find the rest of her clothes? Maybe check the last place her dignity was spotted?
   
   
   
7. 
   
   Jersey Shore: Oh MTV you've done it again. possible solution: cancelation, brainwash of anyone unfortunate enough to have seen it. Before it's too late! (haha, the headline kills me.)
   
   
   
8. 
   
   Not Recycling: I don't care if you believe climate change is man-made, a natural cycle, or caused by killer manatees living on Pluto. Recycling is just flat out better for everyone and is becoming increasingly easier as more and more people start realising that we are not simply living on a flawless, endless reserve of oil. Not to swing your arm that extra 30 to 40 degrees to get your can or bottle to a recycling bin is not only lazy, it's downright shameful. It is quite possibly the easiest way to help the earth, regardless of who or what is causing global warming. Even it is the Plutonian manatees, it can't hurt for them to have a cleaner planet to take over. Possible solutions: sucker-punch non-recyclers in the face, more recycling bins closer and more convieniently located.
   
   
   

That's all I can come up with for now (believe me, it won't be long until I think of even more pressing issues of today's world. Also, I've just discovered how to insert links into my writing so from now on keep your eyes peeled for hidden links filled with all sorts of odds and ends I find surfing the web in my overabundance of spare time. G'night all!

Please excuse the terrible late-night webcam picture...

Some Art, But Be Warned...

...it's a bit risqué. I'm just saying.

I was on stumbleupon.com the other day and seeing as I checked 'art' as one of my interested, a lot of times it will bring me to online galleries. This one I felt like I needed to share. The artist, David Kawena, is extremely talented, not to mention creative. His 'Disney Heroes' series focuses on bringing each of Disney's male heroes 'to life,' putting them each in modeling poses and drawing them as realistically as possible. Now here's the catch (for those of you wondering why the warning was in the title). Mr. Kawena took his theme to a bit of an extreme, and each hero is posed as, well, a male underwear model. Take that as you will, don't judge me for putting it here. Dispite it's slightly off-kilter subject matter, the concept and craftsmenship are phenominal (as are many artists on deviantart - take a look around!!). Below is one of the tamer ones, for those with less tolerence for, what could essentially be viewed as cartoon nudity. Hopefully you enjoy it. If not COMMENT ME (I love comments) and I'll make sure my future efforts to bring art into my blog are a bit less contriversial (that's sort of a lie, I post what I want...).

Damn, now we know who put the 'glad' in 'gladiator.'