100 POSTS!

Happy 100 Posts Everyone!! To be honest, I didn't think I'd stick with this stupid blog as long as I have, and clearly from my recent lack of posting I'm sure you didn't either. Thanks to all who read, I'm glad someone enjoys my rambling. And to celebrate:

100 Things To Do Before You Die

1.  Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.  
2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
3. Swim with a dolphin.
4. Skydive.  
5. Have your portrait painted.  
6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.  
7. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.  
8. Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
10. Be an extra in a film.  
11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
12. Make love on a forest floor.
13. Make love on a train.
14. Learn to rollerblade.
15. Own a room with a view.
16. Brew your own beer.
17. Learn how to take a compliment.
18. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
19. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.
20. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
22. Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.
23. Send a message in a bottle.
24. Ride a camel into the desert.
25. Get to know your neighbors.
26. Plant a tree.
27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.
29. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
30. Learn to ballroom dance properly.
31. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
32. Be the boss.
33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.
34. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
35. Sit on a jury.
36. Write the novel you know you have inside you.
37. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
39. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
40. Be someone's mentor.
41. Shower in a waterfall.
42. Ask for a raise.
43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
44. Teach someone illiterate to read.
45. Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.
46. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.
47. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.
48. See a lunar eclipse.
49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
51. Experience weightlessness.
52. Sing a great song in front of an audience.
53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.
54. Drive across America from coast to coast.
55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.
56. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
57. Write your will.
58. Sleep under the stars.
59. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!
61. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
63. Forgive your parents.
64. Learn to juggle with three balls.
65. Drive the Autobahn.
66. Find a job you love.
67. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
68. Overcome your fear of failure.
69. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
70. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
71. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
72. Grow a garden.
73. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
74. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
75. Accept yourself for who you are.
76. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
77. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
78. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
79. Attend one really huge rock concert.
80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.
81. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.
82. Give to a charity -- anonymously.
83.  Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.
84. Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.
85. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.
86. Fart in a crowded space.
87. Make love on the kitchen floor.
88. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.
89. Create your own web site.
90. Visit the Holy Land.
91. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
92. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
93. Create your Family Tree.
94. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
95. Make a hole-in-one.
96. Ski a double-black diamond run.
97. Learn to bartend.
98. Run a marathon.
99. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.
100. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

 carpe die(h)m everyone. happy 1oo. Here's to 1oo more.

Spotted Around My Life

So, as is per usual, I'm taking this opportunity to clear all the random pictures of things I take and put them up on my blog for your personal enjoyment, so enjoy.

I deffinatly posted a picture of this before. It's a toilet paper dispenser in one of the art building bathrooms. Someone wrote "what will you do with your life" and it was there for awhile, so I added "find adventure." The dispenser and wall around it is now covered in other answers.

So, this Spring Break I quested with my favorite questers. And on our journey we decided to go and poke around this incredible cathedrel that we'd all always passed and admired from afar but avoidede actually seeing due to its mysterious affiliations with a certian crocodile-keeping, cult-like religion. Needless to say we ventured in, and were given a full tour of the gorgous place. Just goes to show you that a sense of adventure can get you into all sorts of cool places.

I just thought this was funny/shady so I took a picture.

I love being creepy in the parking lots on campus because people always have the best bumper stickers. I wish I still had the Questmoblie just so I could stick this on the back because it is so insanely accurate.

These are the most incredible things I have ever seen in real life made out of snow. Three igloos that, if you look at the building behind, are taller than the first floor. Completely hallowed out inside too.

Ahh, humanity, your sick and twisted suggestions for going green. Also useful, the person who suggested recycling condoms. Classy. And we wonder why our environment is the shit show that it is...

Found this on the pilliars at the library entrance. Words to live by. I love finding stuff like this.

A Letter to My Loyal Fanbase

Dear Three People Who Still Read My Blog,

If you're out there, I love you and I appreciate you. I want you to know that, dispite how it may seem, what with me not writing anything interesting anymore. I'm sorry. I love you, and I'm sorry, that's all I've got for you. I'll change. God, it sounds like we're breaking up. But, here, I'll make it up to you. Double posts! Here goes:

I'll start by getting you caught up with myself, your favorite blogger. I have now done something that over 80% of college students will do (and no mom, it's not drink, that's 84%): change my major! No longer will I be found prowling the art building, random assorted supplies in hand, scrambling to finish my design projects. Although I'm keeping an art major (I'm only 6 credits away), I am now an Elementary Education major!! Also, to everyones relief (including ours) the Quad will be reuniting next year, same dorm, same room, joined by a whole flock of new freshman in 2A! They'd best be nice too...cause....we're living with them. Other than that, did some questing over break <3 and....yeah.

Things I've Learned:

• No one person on this green earth knows everything that applys to your scheduling. No one person can help you, you need to go and find three different people who each can tell you a small bit of what you seek. You then must solve the riddle of the Spynx and return the Golden Idol to the Hidden Temple. Then you may schedule.
• I'm a crafty person, not an artsy person. I've learnered there is a difference.
• Sunshine can bring college kids out of a dorm faster than if the whole building spontaneously caught fire.
• Apperently, door key swipers are not matience's priority.
• Walking around the building to swipe your key at the back door is a lot more pleasent when spring is here.
• Lady Gaga = <3 (I didn't really learn this, but was re-re-re-reminded)
• There are interesting things to do in Bucks County, even after all these years...
• Craftsmenship is important.
• If I lived in DC I could be making an easy $45/week.
• Some people are actually jackasses. As in, doing pointless things for no other reason than to annoy someone else in a stupid way, like flipping over full recycling bins....wtf?
• Mickey Mouse was originally a rabbit named Oswald until Disney lost the rights to him, so the chopped his ears off and made him a mouse.
• Walking to the education building requires sneakers.
• One can only eat at Galley so many times a week.
• UD gets worse everytime we get back from a break...
• Speech sucks.
• Changing your major is the most stressful/greatest thing ever.
• I can't multiply fractions...
• But I remember what prime factorization is and how to do it.
• There is no greater feeling of relief than when the female model enters the room rather than the male on the first morning class back from break.

<3 Wow, I missed this. I know its been so long since I last wrote and can't remember all the lessons I learned since. Esspecially considering my last entry was complaining about snow and now I'm raving about the sunshine (have I mentioned how GORGOUS it is?) TTFN: Ta ta for now!

Also: for those few of you who read this, you should also write on my formspring page, where you can ask me all sorts of things with or without revealing who you are. Challenge me! Why? Because I love talking about myself to anyone who listens and the internet lets me do it without feeling like an ecotistical, pompus ass.

Peace an' Blessins'

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!)