How Doth The Little Busy Bee?

Because I love presents!

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:57:04 GMT

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me.

My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

* I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!

* What I create will be with you in mind.

* It'll be done sometime this year (2009)

* You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be something written, some physical thing made, a mix CD, could be anything at all, but I will make it myself. It's entirely my choice what it is. No quibbles, no refunds.

Oh, and the catch is that you put this in your journal as well. If you don't, you don't get anything.

Droppin' the ball!

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:47:42 GMT

Whoops! I let this new LJ vow thing go for a while, but you know how life is one day it seems like you have all the time in the world and the next you're grasping at minutes. Lets re-cap the last cupla weeks shall we?

~Obama--YAYAY!
~Prop H8--Frickin boo. I am quite disappointed and ashamed in you California.
~Studio School-- Five year olds are made of sparkles and joy.
~Group projects-- Despite dealing with a weak link in the chain one down, one to go!
~Omnomnoms-- Stuffed butternut squash, beef stew, blackberry preserve, cheesecake, and mini apple pies.
~Current favorite color--burnt orange
~Printmaking-- Silk screen completed! Along with a few Christmas presents. Now just one more before I can do etching again.
~Stolen free time-- spent making really cute letters, knitting, building things with Amanda, having play dates with Kelly, and reading my book.
~Random event-- I saw MARTIN SHORT! He was fricking adorable.

To elaborate, Halloween was super fun and surprisingly so! I had a long tough week, I had no costume, and really, no plans either. I went to print club and hung out with Jordan, Kristina, Charissa, and Jared dressed vaguely as a "pumpkin" (I had a orange sweater my green scarf and a hat that looked like a stem.) After I got home I took a nap (it was glorious) and called up Amanda. In short order we had plans to go to the brewery for dinner and then an evening of fun times. I wanted to see if I could rustle up a better costume so I checked out my closet. I had the terrible lack of foresight and left all of my costumes at home so the pickings were slim. Despairing I noted sulkily that I owned a shitton of green clothing. Green, hmmm. In the end I dressed head to toe in green (literally the only thing I was wearing that wasn't green was my bra) and a party hat with 'I'm a Party' on it. Get it? If people couldn't I would hint with, "You know, you could always waste your vote on me.." heheh I'msosmart. The evening was exactly what I needed. Delicious food, Target, and Monopoly. SO FUN.

This weekend has been spent almost entirely in the Jewelry lab, and finally that class is paying off! I made earings, and three pendants I love! I have a million things due on Wednesday and Thursday but I am determined not to stree out.

Martin Short was hilarious and so so so cute! He frolicked around the stage like he was four.

This week:

I will finish all 4 papers by Thursday!
I will put together the fundraiser print-a-thon for tuesday!
I will figure out an image for the silkscreen due on the 17th!
I will call Leslie to figure out the great Santa Cruz Thanksgiving road trip!
I will get my band ring up to snatch!
I will not panic!
I will remember to eat and sleep!

BOOYA!

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Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:40:05 GMT

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Friday!!!

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:40:38 GMT

Yippeeookaipumkin!

Its Friday and it is looking to be a highly productive weekend interspersed with good fun times! So far this morning I had a Print Club Meeting, man those folks are awesome it looks like this is really going to work and the possibilities are endless! I currently have all the lights on in my house, my ipod is on a great shuffle streak and I am slowly cleaning my way through from the bathroom out. However when I finish my room I am allowing myself a break to go thrift shop for a costume to attend Josh and Ari's 70's Birthday Extravaganza! Their invite was hilarious, hosts: The sons of Valhalla, Location: Ragnarok's Fortress of Funk. Nice.

The bummer is that I have everything in the world due on tuesday. YAY MIDTERMS. Journal for Curriculum Development, 2 tests, and my jewelry project. I also should be working on the Design Challenge for Print Club, my silkscreen project, the 7 deadly sins in Tin fund raiser, my art based research project for the other section of CD, and various other readings and future assignments. This is not to mention all the fun projects I am working on for myself, the lonely leg-warmer who longs for a mate, the hot air balloon I am sewing to hang with my print in the show, my halloween costume and the secret project I am working on that none of you pirates may know about. Heh.

Another HUGE highlight of the weekend is PUNKIN' HUNTIN'! I am going with Amanda, Eric, Aric, and Ashley to the lil' punkin patch and we are going to have a carving party! Yay halloween! Tonight I am also going to try and convince Ari and Josh to host a party at their house for that friday.

Other Things:
~Pushing Daisies is back and TEH BOMB!
~I have taught myself how to make Pad thai.
~I have not yet gotten over my fear of lustful teenage vampire werewolf angst to finish the Twilight series.
~Cookies always make friends.
~The economy sucks.
And...
~Above all Ghana taught me the love of a good poo.

I love you ALL!

Stuff stuff stuff to do do do

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:54:42 GMT

Look at me! Another post? Qua? Amazing. I actually amaze myself. I am fully aware that I am almost entirely incapable of maintaining focus long enough to stick to something. Hopefully it will last.

It rained this morning. It was lovely the smell on the hardtop mixed with the crushed blackberries and early morning left a tang on your tongue and made me want to crawl back into bed to just listen to it patter on the leaves outside my window. It was not to be so, Sarah has abandoned me to go to a Print conference in Fargo North Dakota and I had to teach her class this morning, which was actually lovely. There are some great kids (and a few old ladies) in that class and I gave them a big leg up on their waterless litho project. There is something about the 8am-11 classes that is far superior to the 11-2pm version of Beg. Print. Those other ones gave me some sass.

Sarah is up for tenure this year and I have been writing a letter for her file for over 3 weeks, it just keeps getting longer and longer! I am realizing more and more what a profound impact this woman has had on my life, i.e. my whole trajectory. Printmaking has become such an integral swatch in the quilt of my being! I have been in exchanges with noted mexican-asian printmaker Sr. Takeada. I have traveled to Kansas City and met with some of the greats of modern day printmaking. I spend all of my free time and much time that is not free (borrowing heavily from such things as sleep, food, and other class work) to live in the Print-lab. WOW. I never would have told you this is where I would be after 4 years of college. How cool is that. What it boils down to is that Sarah, art, and printmaking are my college experience and I am so so so grateful that this is so.

I promised the good stuff in my last post and that is a huge part of it. Man I love what I do. It is so rewarding! And Etching?? ACH! SO GOOD! Playing with acid? How could you go wrong?? I will probably spend all weekend working on my aquatint and although I may complain out loud I secretly wouldn't have it any other way. Another major major aspect of this is the fantastically hilarious, wonderful, talented folk who are in Int. Print. this sem. You have no idea how amazingly gelled this class is, from the ridiculous bike riding, dinosaur fighting, emo-hipster Draeger, Patch and Mark (yes that is their names). To the ever surprising goofy Kristina. To Jordan who is a gem of hilarity, spontaneity, rad dressing, and the subject of many a nude drawing of mine. Annie who never seems to deliver a less than stellar print, who even on her worst day is such a sweetie you could rot your teeth. And last but not least, my partner in crime, the peanut to my jelly, the delicious delightful Amanda. I have love love loved getting closer to her!! Hooray!! And not only is she way too much fun to be allowed, she is a rock-star cook. Um, can you say Steak wrapped in maple bacon with blue cheese, spinach, mushrooms, and cheesy ranch potatoes?? *drool* I may or may not have reverted to my black hole personality and inhaled everything that was put before me.

Ari and Josh's joint birthday is coming up and they are having a 70s theme! Whoot! They are such sweeties. I miss my boys, especially Ari. A more snuggly hugger you never did snuggle. It is still a bit awkward with Veronica but there is a minimum of passive aggressive behavior, which is just grand because I probably would have slugged her if she had continued last years trend. Kelly is all wrapped up in finally having a local boy friend and Mo and Roo have been off on adventures without me, but I'm sure I will catch up with them in time.

I love finally having the space, time and concentration to finally do all the things I always half-assed when I lived with other people. Baking baking baking, pumpkin scones, blackberries crumbles and so many more! Knitting and finishing what I started (YES SHOCK! Jess, Leah you have long awaited presents coming) Beading. Painting. Masks! Writing. Its like my world was jammed full of all of this white noise clouding and confusing and now I can just focus on me. Now don't you worry, I am not going to take off into the woods to live in a hut alone forever! I love living with other people most of the time, I just feel like now is the time to find the bits of myself I left discarded on the road, gather them up and cement them into a foundation I can stand on.

As promised here are some bad photos of the etchings I did for the first project. The theme was Ex Libris which translated means 'from books' and is the title for that cool little thing in the front of books that says whom it belongs to. Neeto huh?

There is a story behind this one but I want to hear what you think it is about before I tell you. Heh.

Vow

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:42:51 GMT

I now make a solemn vow.

My friend Amanda is absolutely fabulous about keeping up her livejournal, it’s a blast reading about her life, and I am always thrilled when one of you all post. When you haven’t in a while I get nervous and start to stalk you on facebook. I happen to be one of the worst offenders in the disappearance category. I rarely answer my phone, never update anything and then sporadically have these bursts of news. I say, NO MORE! I shall update my livejournal at least once a week in the hope that I can inspire others to do so as well! Even if I am boring and all I am doing is school, still it shall be so!!!

I guess I should start right now then huh? Well. This semester so far has been a major kick in the patootie. In both good and no-so-good ways, the overarching theme being ‘I am now an Adult! Oh god…HOORAY…oh god.’ Living by myself is beyond amazing. I often just run around the three rooms laughing maniacally and mumbling ‘mine, all mine!’ I can dance around naked to annoying music after I shower. I can leave a dish in the sink and not feel guilty about it. I can come in late and not worry that I am going to accidentally breathe too loud and wake someone up. There are so many good things about this I would bore you gushing. Paying the bills however equals the suck. I was late on a credit card bill because they hadn’t effected my new address to send my bill to. I was late on my rent check because they didn’t even send me a bill. Bah.
School is nuts. Leave alone the fact that I grew far too accustomed to the pretend type school in Ghana, this semester is going to be a shredder. I am taking the least amount of units I have ever taken (only 17, I usually take about 22) but three/four of those are studio classes. On Mondays and Wednesdays my schedule rules. I have Print from 11-2 and I probably don’t have to tell you how much I love that class, then I have section one of the Curriculum development class from 2-5 we have been making masks and its like we have all regressed to elementary school! Paste and Papier-mâché, huzzat. Then I have lab hours from 6-10pm and then I go home and do home work.

Tuesdays and Thursdays however are stinky in the worst way. I have this Self, Health and Culture Class from 8am-9: 30 in which we talk about how cultures view death, dying and illness. SO DEPRESSING. Not only that but the teacher is this little old man who wears a leather fanny-pack sandals and socks and sits up there for an hour and a half rambling about relativity and telling this story over and over about this anthropologist who listened to a burn victim who had to have her skin pealed off once a week. Then I go to World Religions from 9:30-11, which isn’t too bad because its with Steve and I love him (Some of you may remember Leslie and I named our Jasmine plant after him) But I have taken all of these upper division classes with Steve in which he talks about all of these things in more depth with opportunities to actually have discussions. The other rotten thing about this class is that Humboldt is trying to catch the tech-wave and so is telecasting Steve’s class to another room full of 80 kids. So that means that every class is fraught with tech failures and request to repeat and check the mike. Then I have Jewelry from 11-2. This should be fun, but no. Its just hours and hours of filing, and a teacher is more than a little controlling. As you may have noticed I have no breaks in my day, so I was counting on the fact that usually in a three hour class over the lunch period we get a break long enough to get some food and eat it. Chris demands that our break is only 10 minutes and we should only take one. BAH. At 2 I scramble to clean up and then head to Section 2 of Curriculum development to work on the logistical aspects of teaching and planning out subjects.
So in summation I have 8 hours a week of lecture, 24 of Studio, 13 hours of work (I have been working without pay on Saturdays, that will change) And each of my studio classes say that you should be spending at least 6 hours working in the labs. That means 24 extra hours. Then I also have Studio School on Saturdays from 9:30-12. So that means roughly 72 hours of scheduled time. Which is nutz. Nutz I tell you!!! I keep forgetting to eat and I have been consistently staying up until 2-3 in the morning to get everything done. This happens to be a lame side effect of the whole adult thing; in the past I have been known to prioritize sleep and food over homework. Now I find that I just can’t do that. I set a standard for myself and I need to live up to it.

This is getting long, and kinda depressing so I think I will end for now and then go on to the more exciting/fun things going on in my life in my next post. ie. Leg warmers, 10 pounds of blackberries and the resulting bakery, teen-vampire-lusty-angst, midgets making art and a sundry dance parties.

Travelblog

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:37:19 GMT

Yep, Started a Travelblog! HURRAY! So if you want to read the 'for the masses' updates on what I am doing I would suggest checking it out! It can be found here:

http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Lizlah/

I will probably still be posting entries about which teachers, parents, and grandparents should not read but it won't be everything.

Love you guys!

Feeling groovy!

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:28:09 GMT

My loves!!!
I am having such a blast! Classes are finally getting underway and it looks like I will be taking drumming, traditional African songs, Textile Design, African Myths and Symbols, Twi and possibly dance. Heavy workload huh? So far the only classes that have officially met have been Twi, Myths and Symbols, drumming and Textiles. I am SO excited about textiles! We have both theory and practicals and will be working with batiking, tie dye and possibly even printing!!! Perfect huh? My twi is expanding in leaps and bounds because I can use it around my house with they people who I am starting to think of as my community. Last weekend we went to the Aburi Botanical Gardens and a woodcarving village where it has been proven that out of all 55 of us I am quite probably the best bargainer. Booyah.
I share a room with two other girls in the CIEE house which is super super nice. There are ten of us total and we have a full kitchen, living room, dining room, porch and a bathroom for every bedroom. I love my roomies Stephanie and Suni they are hilarious and bubbly and have many hidden talents like sneak burps and 4 years of high school synchronized swimming. I have bonded most with another of my housemates Kelsey. She is fantastic.
Another awesome aspect of the house is Natalie. Natalie is doing the full year and so has been here since September and is a wealth of knowledge. Her boyfriend Kwame is part of a band called Gouda and we have all become friends with the whole group. I have two great guys who are kind of looking after me, Tony and Kwasi. They help fend off marriage proposals and poser rastas, and make sure I never pay too much for a cab. One of my favorite pickup lines so far has been..." We are born in a moment, we die in a moment, and in just a moment we can fall in love."
There has got to be something wrong with me because I really haven't had that much homesickness at all. Well there was one incident, but it wasn't really homesickness...more like homestupidness. I was getting kind of annoyed because the only times my parents would talk to me were when I called them so I gave them a week and they didn't call so I decided to do the grownup thing and call them. My mom didn't answer her phone so I called Julia. The phone call went something like this..." HI! Wow! How are you? Guess what? I pierced my nose!...when? Two days ago." I am sorry to say that I burst into tears. Not because I wanted to be home but just because no one had thought to call me and tell me. Not even my parents to complain! BAH! Oh well, they seem to feel sufficiently guilty about it.
I feel like time is slipping away too quickly! It is already an eighth over and I feel like I really haven't done anything yet!
To answer Elpethys questions, yes! I have had a fanchoco! But I have to say that I am more partial to Fanpops(cousin to the otterpop and tastes vaguely of bubblegum). Trotros are probably my favorite mode of transportation and traffic shopping is one of my favorite hot and sweaty pastimes. I love the generic 'stew' that comes with everything and I mourn the lack of veggies and more and importantly cheese. I adore your newsie e-mails and really appreciate how much time and energy you spend on them! You too Allie-me-love! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!

I am trying to set up a traveblog so that I don't have to keep sending giant stupid e-mails to everyone in the world, and I will be sure to let you know when it is up. To get you ready here is the link to my friend Kelsey's Blog (http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/KelseyD/). There are some pictures of where we have been and even some of me! Whoohoo!

Love you miss you!

...off and away.

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:37:02 GMT

Here I go. I leave in 5 hours. First on the plane to Amsterdam and then strait to Ghana. My first international flights. All alone. I am absolutely petrified.

I tend to get really neurotic whenever I fly, checking and re-checking my ticket, the time, the flight, and the gate even when I am sitting outside the gate, I can SEE the plane and I am watching the seconds tic by on my watch. I just want this part to be over. The silly thing is that I actually love airplanes and airports! I like to people watch and I find flight totally enthralling. I am such an odd duck. I have had 2 months to prepare and I feel totally scattered.

There are so many things I wanted to do/needed to get done and I know I haven't finished them. For instance I never got around to sending Leah's Christmas presents and my birthday present to you Marta! I don't know what I am going to do about that, maybe get my parents to send it. BAH. I'm sorry! I feel like such a dolt! I definately didn't take full advantage of my free time. I actually did a lot of hiding out in my house and pretending the world didn't exist. I know I needed it, but I neglected a lot of friendship duties. Again I'm sorry.

bleeeeeeerg. I feel like mushy-pea-soup. I my emotions are all wonky and I am trying to keep the scream inside. I am going to miss my family SO much. Julia has be so wonderful these last couple of day, helping me pack and giving me tips. My dad got off work so that he could hang out with me of friday, and my Mom keeps hugging me at exactly the right moments.

I am going to miss the pirates. I feel so weird because we never had a single evening when all of us were home this christmas. It left an empty hole in my picture of how the world should be. Leah, have a wonderful birthday in advance. Hopefully I can get a letter to you in time. Marta, make sure you are taking care of yourself, and really enjoy your last semester at LC. Jessica, thank you for being such a rock I really enjoyed spending that time with you. Allie my love, don't ever let your heart be caged by other people there is too much love in you! Elspethy, I don't know what I would have ever done with out you. You are absolutely amazing, stunning, fantastic,...the list goes on and on. Take care of yourselves,ok? And be sure to write!!!

Surprisingly I actually have missed school. And I really miss certain people from school! Amanda I am constantly amazed by you. You are so strong and so creative. I have really been enjoying watching Modern Acorn grow! I am sure your new ideas will be incredibly sucessful, and I can't wait to see the fabrics you come up with! Be sure to keep me up to date, ok?

Alright, I better go. I still feel like there are things I need to be doing even though I am 99% packed and ready to go.

Love you all, the next time you hear from me it will be from forigen shores!

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:26:56 GMT

Drink Mango JUIIIIIICE....Bwahahaah!

Project for Awesome: A Hard Days Knight

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:37:50 GMT

Hooray! I'm HOME! I am sooooo happy I cannot even say how much. Last week was hell. Literally. I think I caught a forked tail out of the corner of my eye a time or two.

Elspeth is also home!! YAY! And I have seen her and spent a good chunk of time sleeping in an airport with Alliemo, but I need to see everyone else! STAT! I leave for Family Chirstmas Extravaganza on WEDNESDAY MORNING!! AHHHH! So I will be calling you: Leah, Jessica, Marta, Eppie, and Allie pretty early tomorrow to rally you all together.

In other news. I am a Nerdfighter! I participated in the Brotherhood 2.0 Project for Awesome with my first and possibly only video on Youtube! AND I promote HDK!! Hooray for camp! So please click, watch, comment, rate, favorite, whatever. Love you guys!

I'm a big dork, I know. Thats why you like me right?

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:41:33 GMT

Write, write, write.
Clean, clean, clean.
Study, study, study.
Pack, pack, pack.
Print, print, print.

For a semester that took so long to get through the last week is going to fly by! I just hope I can get everything done in time. I'm slightly overwhelmed.

I can hardly wait to see EPPIE!!!! And Julia-and-Allie-and-Leah-and-Marta-and-Jessica-and all the wonderful people I love in the bay!

Things of note:
~I sold my first prints!!! HOOORAY!! Two of 'Dependency' and I could have sold 'The Fisherman's Surprise' 4 times over if it was for sale.
~I adore Reanna, she is coming down to be with the pickup party for Elspethy and we are going to see Peter and the Wolf by the SF orchestra on Sunday!
~I am really weirded out that it will be a full eight months before I see this place again. It could be totally different and I know there will be some faces I am missing. No matter how much you don't think you fit in a place, if you live there long enough it becomes a part of you whether you like it or not. As aggravating as my living situation could be at times these last couple of months, I know that it was unique and special and I will never have the same thing again. Maybe I am being so nostalgic about the past because I am terrified of the future but I will miss these people, this place.

Anyway, on Saturday Reanna and I helped Monique with her photo project. Here are my two favorite digital shots from our adventures.

I took this one of Reanna and it is the best of the bunch in my opinion. Hooray!

A Gentleman's Duel

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:27:49 GMT

This is all kinds of awesome...

Free Rice!!!

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:53:29 GMT

I am completely addicted to this site, and I can feel totally good about that!!! The basic premise is a vocabulary game where every word you get right donates ten grains of rice to decreasing world hunger. Its fantastic! You learn and you get to save the world at the same time!

Just click on the banner and you can become addicted too.

Pie in the Sky days

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:38:02 GMT

BAH!!! I wrote this whole long update and it got erased!!!! BLARG!!!!

Anyway the gist was: I love being home! Is anyone else here? Can we hang out?

My life in so many words

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:49:49 GMT

*sigh* I guess its time for a real update. My apologies in advance, this is going to be a rather embittered entry because I am stuck in the print lab until frickin' 8pm tonight because of the holiday and I am sick and unhappy and there is a ton of people making messes.

Well, gosh. A lot of stuff has been happening. I guess I should go back a ways.

Living situation:
Living with five other people in a isolated house sharing a room is tough. In fact if I had a choice I probably wouldn't do it again. Its not like we don't have a good time, we do! We do crazy things that I don't think would happen anywhere else. But geebus do they start wearing on your nerves. Veronica and I are not very good roommates, we're not awful but against Leslie she is sub-par. I feel pressure to be exciting and fun all the time to keep her entertained because when she isn't having fun she brings down everyone around her. Not that she doesn't have a very good reason to be sad, but somehow she makes it our fault. We had one incident about a month ago when we were all drinking with some of Ari's friends who came to visit, Veronica had a bit too much so she was making frequent trips to the bathroom. After a while she didn't come back to the living room so I assumed she went to bed, which was fine. The problem arose when I tried to go to bed and found our door locked. After about a half an hour of knocking and screaming her name we were more than a little worried and very pissed. Kelly pulled a McGiver and popped off the screen to the bathroom with a screwdriver and getting in that way. She opened the door and we found Veronica in her bed fast asleep. Now, we had been at the point of calling the police and the hospital assuming she had alcohol poising or a concussion or something that had so prevented her hearing us. When I tried to get her to sit up and drink some water and talk to us she pushed me off the bed and started screaming at me to leave her alone. That she didn't need or want my help. The story continues but I get too frustrated to even write it down. We talked about it a little the next day and have not mentioned it since, but I am still angry about it. Lots of little annoying thing have been piling up and I am so sick and tired of it. My main joy of having the house is our kitten Maybe. She is a lunatic and loves me best.

School:
I took too many classes this semester. Way too many. I love print and Gender and communications, I enjoy dance and choir. I have annoying ineffectual teachers in Polisci and Piano and Tech for teach is sucking out my soul. The others I feel fairly indifferent to. I've gotten accustom to getting strait As so I can't let my self slack off even though I really want to. I have made some pretty prints so far though.

Other:
It's official, I'm going to Ghana. Hooray! I got waitlisted for the Cape Town program so I am going to The University of Ghana in Legon. I'm excited but it seems really surreal. I desperately want to talk to Eppie. I will be leaving early February and not getting back until mid June. Perhaps not even till a bit later if I travel around a bit before I return. My bank account is going down fast, what with the speeding ticket, the car repairs from the accident, and living expences I am terrified that I might not be able to even go to Ghana. I don't have any finacial aid to go and the cost breakdown is something like this...

Spring 2008
Educational Costs (direct cost of education charged uniformly to all students; including $300 non-refundable Participation Confirmation Fee)	$9,515
Housing*	$1,100
Visa Fees	$140
Medical Insurance	$45
Total:	$10,800

add to that the 1,200$ round trip ticket and I am quite in the hole. I don't think my parents are aware of the amount yet and I might need to take out a loan. Is it worth it? I spent so much time and energy applying and I don't really have any other options, because if I can't go in the spring I will have to be in school an additional year. Its eating at me. I don't know what to do and I am too unhappy right now to really think about it.

So there is the gist of it...

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:40:05 GMT

Stress has become everything. Assignments. Study Abroad Application...who knows if I'll even get it done. Pressure to get the Print Club paperwork in. Speeding ticket. Art Show. Crappy opening to Art Show. Car Accident. A possibly totaled car. Insurance. Rent. And I am going to fail my midterms on Monday and Tuesday.
I have passed the breaking point.

Summer 2007

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:03:37 GMT

Wow! So many things have happened this summer and I have been inexcusiably remiss in updating. This is because I am obviously just too cool and popular to take time out of my busy important sche-ok fine I am just too damn lazy. The verdict however is that this was a fabulous summer and now that I am looking to start school again in about a day I am both incredibly happy that it happened as it did and devastatingly sad that it had to come to an end at all.

To speak in snap-shots:
~Work was unremarkable except that there was, as always, an equal number of children I would be thrilled to have for my own, and those who would do better in a nice cozy crater on mars. When asked I now have about five hundred more children related stories to flush out my already impressive arsenal. I missed a lot of the staff from last year, but got to know some pretty cool new-hires. I believe this is my last summer working for Cal Adventures; it was a great ride but its time for that chapter to close.

~I braved Satan's outpost here on earth and my overwhelming fear and loathing of Motor Vehicals and now have a drivers licence. I also have a car. She is a sweet little thing who just had her 20th birthday. She still smells faintly of my grandmother who was her previous owner and answers to the name of Sybil. My sister swore to hate me for all eternity for taking her away, but Sybil and I understand each other. She has now faithfully carted me and all of my junk all the way up to school in a heinous 7 1/2 hour drive. Not to mention the excursion to Bear Harbor for which she gained the adoration of the masses but was badly used in the process. My poor little lady.
~As for the seister, she spent 8 weeks of this summer in Nicaragua leaving me alone and destitute in her absence. She had an amazing life changing time and will gladly show the over a thousand pictures she took to anyone who will sit still long enough. I only got about a week with her. Lameface.

~The Lady Elspeth and I took a weeks excursion up to the Land of Port to visit our love and the goddess of our hearts the radiant Miss, soon to be Mrs., Leah.

Hottie.
We did about a million things like shopping, Harry Pooter, eating, more eating, defiling sacred sites, mojitos, cooking, sand castle contest watching, Ratatollie- both watching and eating, more mojitos, karaoke, dancing, snuggling, singing, bus riding, hugging, talking, ordering drinks for the first time... legally, dressing up, trying on wedding dresses, terrifying Alex with talk of wedding preparations, painting pottery, reading erotica, generally running a muck and loving the heck out of it.

I love that picture of Alex. Heh. It was amazingly fun hanging out with y'all Summer, Alex, and Justin!
There are no words to express how much I loved having that week with you my darling Leah.

Look for an upcoming Facebook album for more pictures.
~A Hard Days Knight...Oh man, I don't think I can actually go into this one with out writing a novel, and we only stayed for a week! See the facebook album for more pictures and if you would like to know more just drop me a line. A few words on it however are; Allison/Sprout, adventure, magic, people who have already worked themselves into my heart and will definitely change my life, Bear Harbor and the move of Sybil abuse, quest, Jordan, songs and firelight, the abhorrent abacus, Casey J., caravanning, Rob, Love in a Bucket.

~My daring and lovely Pirates, although we were minus Leander I think we did a pretty good job of keeping it a-going. Love, food, heart filling conversation, dressing up and drinking, Stardust. Really I could go on forever, I love you so very very much and cannot express the enormity of the space that you occupy in my heart.

~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

...no more shall be said.

There is probably much more that I am leaving out but for now it will have to do. I am typing this on my new and beautiful MacBook that I sold my soul and almost all of my summer paycheck to pay for, on the floor of my new room in my new house in Humboldt procrastinating actually trying to turn the pile of junk into a living space. Veronica is the last to arrive and she is due sometime today and then we can set up the bed and I can search for a mattress...AAAACK. Booo. Anyway much love to all and to all a beautiful day.

This was the video I was looking for the other night...
Imogen Heap - Just For Now (live at Studio 11 103.1FM)
This is what I aspire to be able to do! Huzzat Garage Band!

Birfday!

Wed, 23 May 2007 02:21:17 GMT

Organization time~

Yarrr! Me 'earties! Tis me twenty first and I be plannin' a right 'ol bloody-maloo, me-aunti-tom's- me-girlie-shin-dig!!!

Fer t'morra I be wantin a nice 'ol breakfasty to cellerbrate the true date o'me'poppin oot! So what say ye all meet me at the Royal Cafe fer plundering, booty, and delicious grubb at round th hour o 10:00? I'll be droppin ye a line later tonight iffin I does not get me an answer on the jiffy! Ye scurvey dogs!

Fer the 'thurs' day o' the week. Be the tweeny ferth o gods month o May if I am not mistaken. Yer shore leave be cancelled! I wan ye all back at me ship the Dread Lady Pookookin at 'round 5:30 fer games, food, grog and then off to the movie at prolly 9:00ish. Yarr, I knows it seems early but the blaggards know nothin' aboot a propar midnight showin'! The first show be at 8:00! Our show be at 10 so we can twiddle aboot with coffee and 'th port o Barns'n'Noble for a bit and then line oop. Ye better be in full swag or I'll string yer guts like garters!

If that made absolutely no sence give me a call!

Tue, 01 May 2007 06:26:38 GMT

Whoa, so when it told me what my daemon was I literally shivered. Weird but it really struck me.

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More Luciferous Logolepsy, and a shout out to some lovely people

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:46:12 GMT

abderian
adj. - pertaining to foolish or excessive laughter

abdominous
adj. - having or pertaining to a distended stomach

abliguration
n. - extravagance in cooking and serving

ablutomania
n. - a mania for washing oneself

I am reeeeeeeeeally enjoying these obscure words, so I decided to put up four or five new obscure words a week until I run out. Tis a weighty duty to bring such jewels to the people, but I will endeavor to succeed! In addition this might actually get me to post a little less sporadically. Geebus, here it comes....a quote from Clueless!

TAI~Cher, I don't wanna do this any more, and my buns, they don't feel nothin' like steel.

CHER~OK, it will get easier, I promise. Just as long as we do it every day. Not just sporadically.

TAI~How do you know if we're doing it sporadically?

CHER~That's another thing, Tai. We've got to work on your accent and vocabulary. See, sporadic means once in a while. Try and use it in a sentence today.

In other news, I am currently re-reading The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. This was both a very good and a very bad idea. Good because it is an epic trilogy, completely amazing and all encompassing. Bad because it is an epic trilogy, completely amazing and all encompassing and I don’t have time to be consumed by a book, body and soul. I have a million papers and projects to accomplish before finals, and then I have the finals themselves to study for. I also am not even close to finishing my observation hours, it was a very bad idea to try and do that on top of some very challenging classes and 22 units. I think however, that my teacher is going to be a saint and let me finish up my hours at Albany High and take an incomplete until I have those finished. Otherwise I am totally screwed.

EVERYONE! What are your plans for the summer? Are you coming to visit me? Am I coming to visit you? Are they just awesome plans you should tell me? Yes. Tell now.

Leah Love~ Please, please, please, stick around for a bit in the beginning of the summer! Remember my birthday is the 23^rd! And I will start making plans to come up and visit Portland during the summer; it would be grand to hang out for a week or so if you will let me.

Alie~ I wanted to let you know that I got your fantastic package of awesomeness in an actual letter, but of course it is taking me longer to get that out than anticipated. I adore you lovekins and I am SO jealous that Julia got to see you and I didn’t. We still need to figure out when I am coming down to visit you missy.

Elspethy~ We might end up traveling around to see all of our friends instead of voyaging out of the states. Someday! Someday it will happen.

Jessica~ It will be more fun to argue in person, I can wait to see you!

Marta~ Take care of your self love! I know it is crunch time but you have to come back to me undamaged!

Summer, Justin and Alex~ I do hope you are alright with me storming your house, because I am far too excited now to not come!

Sabby~ I really hope things are working out for you now! You scared me shitless with your troubles in foreign lands! When you come home we need to play!

Issac~ I am highly disappointed that we didn’t meet up while you were up here! We need to make plans for an adventure over the summer.

Mary & Carrie~ We need to make further plans for you two lovely ladies to come visit this summer! I need to see you both!!

Laila~ I have about a million letters and a half finished portrait for you deary. I have not forgotten you! Quite the contrary! I just am consumed by school and the shame of sending off half finished and now quite dated letter. I think I might send ‘em all off in a bunch and hope that all of them together will equal one whole letter.

Olivia~ I am so glad to be able to read your updates on your life, it make it seem like I am actually keeping up on my friends! I miss you! We need to have coffee and reminisce.

Fea/Kim~ I adore seeing your videos of your little E! He is absolutely precious and I am quite envious.

Fir/Bex~ I can’t believe that you are still keeping up with that photo journal of your trip! It’s amazing! You look like your having so much fun, and you fit so well into the misty mysteries of England.

Nicole, Ben, Jo, Rick, Dolly, Nechama, Rima, Naomi, and David ~ I miss you all so much! I wish so much I had the time I used to have to get online and chat! Please please keep me updated on your lives so I can chime in with comments!

Now that is quite enough procrastination Miss. Lizzie! Back to work!

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:47:36 GMT

Did I mention that I love you all? I seriously have the best friends in the universe. Even if we havn't had a good heart to heart in a while, I still think about you and hope you are doing well. Lovelovelove!!!

Hennyway, I have taken it as my duity to bring these words back to the english language. I call on all of you to help me out.

23 Obscure and Obsolete Words

The average adult recognises 30,000 to 50,000 words, but only uses 10,000 to 15,000. However, there are actually about 1 million words in the English language, some of which - although obscure, forgotten, or rarely used - are worth reviving.

BOANTHROPY - A type of insanity in which a man thinks he is an ox.
CHANTEPLEURE - To sing and weep at the same time.
DIBBLE - To drink like a duck, lifting up the head after each sip.
EOSOPHOBIA - Fear of dawn.
EUGERIA - Normal and happy old age.
EUNEIROPHRENIA - Peace of mind after a pleasant dream.
EYESERVICE - Work done only when the boss is watching.
FELLOWFEEL - To crawl into the skin of another person so as to share his feelings, to empathise with.
GROAK - To watch people silently while they are eating, hoping they will ask you to join them.
GYNOTIKOLOBOMASSOPHILE - One who likes to nibble on a woman's earlobes. <--My favorite
HEBEPHRENIC - A condition of adolescent silliness.
IATROGENIC - Illness or disease caused by doctors or by prescribed treatment.
LAPLING - Someone who enjoys resting in women's laps.
LIBBERWORT - Food or drink that makes one idle and stupid, food of no nutritional value, `junk food'.
MEUPAREUNIA - A sexual act gratifying to only one participant.
NEANIMORPHIC - Looking younger than one's years.
ONIOCHALASIA - Buying as a means of mental relaxation.
PARNEL - A priest's mistress.
PERISTEROPHOBIA - Fear of pigeons.
PILGARLIC - A bald head that looks like a peeled garlic.
PREANTEPENULTIMATE - Fourth from last.
RESISTENTIALISM - Seemingly spiteful behaviour manifested by inanimate objects.
SUPPEDANEUM - A foot support for crucifix victims.

With eyes full of sky.

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:03:54 GMT

I was about to write a long rambling angst filled entry about all the aches and pains in my life, written in dreadful prose with inept metaphors until I stopped myself. Its so easy for me to dwell on the things that I am having a hard time with, because it is so hard for me to remove myself from the moment. Right now I am being responsible and staying in for the second night in a row to study and write papers. I know it is the right thing to do, but you can't help feeling lonesome when its you all alone with a bowl of Mac'n'cheese and a biology book. This seems like nothing really to get upset about, but somehow it still feels...icky. I just signed a lease for a place to live next year, I will be the oldest in the house with three eighteen soon to be nineteen year olds, and two nineteen soon to be twenty year olds. I kinda got swept up in to it with out a lot of say about what was going on, with a lot of pressure because they assumed I would be ecstatic and they needed me to reduce the rent. Now I'm sure there are going to be wonderful things about this, the house is nice enough and it is finally off campus, but it still feels like a house a babies. Babies who have very strong, opinions and loud voices, babies who are not good a compromising or telling people to their faces when they have issues about something. I'm probably over reacting, I mean, these are my friends, but living together with that much responsibility? I'm more worried than excited, and that in its self is worrying me.
I think I just need to keep focusing on getting into a study abroad program and hope that I don't have to deal with another rejection.

Well friends, back to the books and my mac n'cheese I go. Its nice to know you guys are listening even when I'm griping.

Frickin, YES. Thank you.

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:11:19 GMT

Click Here NOW.

As to life, it continues and I continue to be very behind at it. Six papers and a BIO test next week. Holy crap.