{ feeling : bummy
{ hearing : joe play stacking

OK! So this layout is done with loads of help from the bestest husband ever. Not much new here ... Updated the about section. That's about it.

Life is good right now ... It's starting to get warm and all that jazz. Our three children (cats) are fine. Luci is a meany, Duke pwns everyone and Tesla is slightly less scared.

Work is slow but hopefully things will pop up soon enough.

I think if it continues being slow at work, I'll try to finish the couple of layouts I need to finish. Eh, we'll see.

{ feeling : a little bored
{ hearing : quiet office-ness

OK ... I'm still working on cleaning up bits and pieces of this layout ... If you see wonky-ness, ignore it.

It is sad that I finished this layout a while ago and am only working on it now.

{ feeling : sniffly
{ hearing : naked audiobook read by david and amy sedaris

So, I cave. I got a Tumblr to manage my doodles. Haven't uploaded them yet since I'm at work. Will do when I do get home.

Le Click Here to follow. No updates yet ... Just a coming soon kind of intro thing. TO COME ! :O!

{ feeling : ok
{ hearing : nbc nightly news weekend edition

So ... Haven't uploaded them over. They're just adding up. Um ... I'm trying to reconfigure the site so I can just upload the files sort of similar to Facebook? Don't know, I designed a layout but haven't gotten around to implementing. GAH sorry...

I'm sure if you looked me up on Facebook, my albums are public. Come back sometime in the future and hopefully everything will be set.

{ feeling : sick
{ hearing : my own sniffly doom

Sooo ... It's been a while. Our home scanner broke so I was unable to get any of my recent doodles on a computer. Today, Joe went to his parents' and used their scanner so ... I have 20 pending things to post! ... But am sickish to do it right now.

They're all on Facebook now though ... Just easier to get it there. Will post the rest at some point. Sorry, few who venture to this page!

{ feeling : unproductive
{ hearing : 2gether - say it (don't spray it)

So, I didn't make either one of my personal deadlines in getting designs done. Sad times. What's my excuse? I don't really have much of one. I'm finally getting hours at the IMAX but because it is Avatar, they've been exhausting even with downtime.

There was also an incident that happened a couple Saturdays ago that I will never hear the end of.

That sucked and sucked for everyone. Even people not involved with it at all. Needless to say, I really hate James Cameron and the gimmick of 3D movies. I want a calm and no more customers asking for parking compensation, cookies, puppies and anything else they can milk from IMAX for that day.

Oh yeah, there was also the whole moving to the condo thing last month that halted any projects or job applying. That took a while ... And is still sort of going. The condo is still kind of a mess and it seems we live over a grouch but yeah, I'm digging it so far.

Weird thing about it is that as much as bills kind of suck, I like being responsible for them.

New web layouts hopefully soon. I won't make a deadline cause that just made a fail. I don't know when I'll be feeling adventurous again. I've mostly wanted to play video games all day but I'm determined to at least apply to a couple jobs today.

Also, make a cheesecake. Let's go...?

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : tmz, wtf is my problem?

So as of today, I have packed and moved 25 boxes of my life to the condo. Packed mostly. Joe did most of the moving of things. The goal is to be moved in by possibly Saturday and my room is near empty in terms of non-furniture so I'm in pretty good shape!

Sad news is that because all this madness, I have not had a moment to work on my portfolio or blog design. I think I'll try to make it by my birthday instead. Either way? Who checks? Whatevers.

{ feeling : tired & chilly
{ hearing : abc news rerun

I'm going to be working on a redesign for this place and my portfolio! It has been decided, it will be done ... Eventually. A placeholder is at indoorpanda.net right now and has amused a couple. Because of this, I'm going to make "It's an Anagram!" a tagline ... Perhaps.

I'm going to make the January 1 be my deadline for now but whatever, yes? Who reads or checks my portfolio anyway. Thanks, recession and the personal blog going out of fashion.

Living news: Closing on the condo took place Friday. Joe is now a homeowner and I'm his honorary mooch. Not really but the most I could do with my sad excuse of a paycheck is donate for groceries and/or utilities. Although, we haven't moved in yet. If anyone follows me on Twitter and/or Facebook (content is basically the same thing), we've just been prepping it to live in condition.

It's ok to live in but it needs a little lovin' like ... Paint and floors. I basically painted most of last weekend and most of today. We decided on laminate and some ceramic in the kitchen. Almost all materials have been purchased and are in our possession but contractors will probably do everything else that is not painting.

Things are good. I've been pretty excited this entire time and now it's alright cause we actually have the place. Dorkiest thing in the world, I'm totally stoked on the fact I have a new set of keys on my chain.

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : karen o and the kids - hideaway

I enjoyed Where The Wild Things Are despite the numerous family walkouts and claims of it being depressing in a disappointing way. I also really loved the soundtrack and was kind of saddened no one really took an interest in our soundtrack plus complimentary pass offer these pass weeks.

Actually, I don't know if that's changed. Yesterday, one of my coworkers managed to sell five CDs.

Thing about Where The Wild Things Are is that I just love seeing it on screen AND being blessed/produced by Maurice Sendak himself. I also enjoy Spike Jonze a lot. It was in fact sad but kind of awesome. Needless to say, I never know what to say when explaining what it's about to customers.

I'm a bad liar. Hell, I guess I should have just stuck with the fact I liked it a lot. They don't need to know about the people walking out or how strange it is.

A Christmas Carol opens on Friday. It is similar to The Polar Express which I hear from coworkers who've worked there longer than me (strange, yes?), it's the Vietnam of movie releases: they'd rather not talk about it. I wonder if we're going to get that for this one? I don't really know. Last I asked the status of ticket sales, the news was kind of disappointing but sometimes there are assloads of walk-up customers.

Whatever, more customers mean more hours for everyone.

Outside of the IMAX world, I haven't found a new job partially because whenever I get time to, I get horribly depressed by the process. I need some time, I guess.

Good news? The boyfriend and I might actually have found a condo. Needs some work and attention but not that much. Other good things? Video games. Played some DJ Hero the past few days. Granted, on easy because I kind of suck but still awesome and fun. Amazing shit? Daft Punk everything in the game. Also! Watched the boyfriend play some of The Ballad of Gay Tony last night. So great. I still find GTA IV beautiful. Whatever on technology, I'm always in it for the story anyways.

There's also the next episode of Monkey Island and assloads of good television. Dexter gave me a slight mindfuck, my shame girl shows have been enjoyable for the most part, and I always enjoy Heroes, Monk and the Thursday NBC lineup. Also, I'm one of many who have fallen in love with Glee but must admit, it really sucks having all the nice people get screwed over by the terrible.

Basically, media has been keeping me sane. I've even managed to read a lot of books sort of. Graphic novels are books but way shorter. Things are alright. Things can be better but that's a given.

Whatever, I'll enjoy my media.

{ feeling : annoyed
{ hearing : munching and glee on hulu

Brandon Lee I think this just means in six months Kanye is going to sample a Taylor Swift song and she's gonna be in one of his videos

I hope it comes true because people hating him is probably justified but is still really annoying. I think I have come to the conclusion from all the Twats etc. that maybe I do not sync with the MTV crowd anymore. Fuck 'em and whatever The Hills is. I was more concerned in watching King of the Hill's series "finale" than the VMA's.

{ feeling : sniffly
{ hearing : atmosphere – modern mans hustle

I was going to blog my experiences during the course of the weekend but then I was lazy so here’s this! I should cut it. That’ll probably make it less wordy-scary-ness.

... ... ... Moving on.

{ feeling : sniffly
{ hearing : andrew bird - fake palindromes

Andrew Bird was pretty much the highlight of my Lollapalooza Friday even though we missed a good fifteen or so minutes of his set for some temporary merch hunting. The find of the day was Zap Mama. Seriously, despite the fact Joe and I arrived five minutes before their set ended, it was pretty damned good. I need me some more of that at some point. Also today?

RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN

In other news, a gal named Claudia is visiting our fair city for the weekend. She's from San Jose, California where everyone gets around via car and not via feet. I feel kind of bad I dragged her around the city on bad shoes yesterday. I love this city. I'm from the city in the midwest best city in the whole wide wide world afterall but I guess transitioning straight from constant motor vehicle status to none, public transit, and just plain foot power is probably intense.

Also intense? Apparently someone died today at Lolla but the details are sketchy. That's kind of scary.

Tomorrow is another day and another day of free LollaLounging. Although there's less rain than today (it rained until around 8pm), hellish heat and humidity is expected even though this has been the coolest summer in Chicago in a while. Lame timing. Super lame.

{ feeling : annoyed & generally bad
{ hearing : strong rains outside

As much as I'm no where near religious, one thing I remembered from about nine years of Catholic elementary school that never stood in my parents' "right" to yell at me all the time and me never speak back:

So in everything, do to others what you would
have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and
the Prophets.
_{Matthew 7:12}

But I guess I had the whole fifth commandment thing fucked (FYI, the one about honouring parents). It's hard to do if all your parents do is yell, yell, yell. Oh yeah, they have a right to. Nevermind. I'm all hell and Satan afterall.

{ feeling : sniffly
{ hearing : abx – billie “wildcat” jean

So, weird thing about Twitter is that I feel kind of dirty whenever I make use of it. It’s a new trend that I don’t quite understand but have been using as of late and as you can see, linked to on my sidebar just now.

Why do I not fully embrace? It’s just really … Blogging but shorter and more semi-nonsensical? Letting people what you are up to, etc. despite how ridiculously boring and lame it is? Bah, I don’t know. Trends, they happen to everyone I suppose. I guess part of it is because I am one of the few people I knows that doesn’t own a phone with the internets. I wants to fit in with technology?

Anyways, feel free to follow my ramblings. In other today news, I may play some Harvest Moon on the Wii pretty soon. Haven’t decided yet.

That was pretty boring and lame FYI right there. Twitter worthy?

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : some local band on wgn

Tiffany L—— im so glad that the premire of transformers 2 is OVER!!! fucking douche bag customers i hate you… i am so proud of my understaffed IMAX team for pulling this shit off…. i want to see AMC SEAT AND FEED A SOLD OUT SHOW OF 500 PEOPLE WITH ONLY 4 WORKERS AND 1 SUPERVISOR!!!! fuck you AMC, KERASOTES, MUVICO, CINEMARK, LOWES and all you other pussy ass movie theaters!!! LONG LIVE IMAX!!!!!!!
_{8 hours ago}

Just saying, it’s true.

{ feeling : ok
{ hearing : some local news on abc

Look! It’s a new layout. It’s super simple but I like it a lot. I retired the doodle/picture bar because I kept forgetting to do anything with it. I feel kind of bad because it took a lot of work on Joe’s part to make it work. But I have other links above now? Neat! Maybe. Kind of boring, har.

Nothing new otherwise. Transformers Part Deux is out tomorrow but I didn’t watch it or care to watch it.

I’m required to watch the movie so I know what it’s about but seriously, I don’t need to watch it to know what’s it’s about. Giant transforming robots based on an 1980s children cartoon. Oh yeah, it’s the sequel. Need I say more?

I’m just happy it won’t be dead as hell but slightly scared of any sort of asshole customers I encounter. We get a lot of those with these kind of movies.

Star Trek customers were basically the best customers I’ve gotten since working at the IMAX. Most were super polite despite terrible circumstances and they were all older crowds but not the jock kind. Robots with identity crises will definitely get those. Harry Potter crowds are iffy because sometimes children are in there.

Children and family customers are almost as bad as jock asshole ones. Mostly cause we get those kind of parents who are … … Let’s say, suburban for lack of a positive adjective. Jock assholes usually come drunk and that includes mean drunks so … Yes.

Um, what else? It’s hot. I hate hot. Um … That’s about it.

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : abx – hot doesn’t run on cold

The following was written earlier. It says that but I cuts it cause I feels like it. I have to finish some homework because I totally slacked off yesterday!

... ... ... Moving on.

{ feeling : scared
{ hearing : girl talk – give me a beat

So there was no blog yesterday because we had a test run of Star Trek last night. I’m not sure about my coworkers but I enjoyed it thoroughly. I imagine it’s going to be busy at IMAX for its two week run either way.

I have too much to do so I will make this brief.

I learned this last week that I really suck at interviews because my introverted personality but was noted that my work is good so some employers may understand that?

I watched a Boston Legal episode about an exceptional girl with broken nerves that had left her unable to smile and sort of thought the same sort of deal but no where near close.

I also learned that I sound like a valley girl with my incessant use of the word “like”. Y’see, I knew I did it but I didn’t think it was that bad, but when you are forced to watch a recording of yourself at an interview, you get these realizations I suppose?

While I’ve been trying a tactic semi-suggested by my professor: wearing a rubber band around your wrist and snapping it every time that word or a similar “uh, um” is uttered, no real progress has been made because I tend to forget to snap.

Everything is coming so fast. I’m worried but not at the same time. As much as this has been the worst semester for me in terms of getting shit done, I feel that I’m better off than a lot of seniors I had shared classes with last semester. I’ve gone to more than five classes during these 15 weeks and as half-assed all my work has seemed, I did in fact try my best with what little motivation I had.

It’ll be fantastic when it’s over so back to work I go.

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : southwest airlines commercial

The end of my college career is ending (maybe) soon. I hear about that graduate school thing but at this point, am not interested in more schooling. So let’s say end for now?

Since I am a poor blogger, I am going to make it so I have to blog these last four weeks. Same time next week? Alright.

What is left during these last few weeks?

• Authoring Interactive Media
• • Final Project: Chicago Freight Brand Identity & Working Website
• Advanced Typography
• • Digital Journal
  • Independent Project with Final Typeface
  • Final Typeface with Type Card
  • Completed Final Typeface
• Professional Portfolio Development
• • Finished Portfolio
  • Business Card
  • Leave Behind
  • Prep for Industry Night
• Contemporary Issues in Printmaking
• • Final Project: Two Prints Reacting to Walter Benjamin
• Publication Design
• • Indexhibit Website
• Art & Design Internship
• • Two to Three Page Paper

Possibly too much? Probably not. I have just been in this perpetual slump this semester. I haven’t really inspired, etc. Of all the things I did semester, I think I’ve only been happy with one of my assignments. I just haven’t been into it even when this is the last time I’ll have to do it for a grade.

I hope I can get things done. I didn’t really get anything done this weekend. I hope to get out of the funk soon because the sooner I’m out of this funk and done with work? The sooner I’m done.

{ feeling : chilly, strangely enough
{ hearing : seinfeld

So Joe is updating me with his experience watching the show Breaking Bad and I realized I have so many shows I would like to watch through/catch up to but have no time for. That is one of them. Other ones include …

1. Boston Legal
2. Chuck
3. Dexter
4. Mad Men
5. Smallville
6. Flight of the Conchords
7. Monk
8. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9. 30 Rock
10. Heroes
11. Sex and the City
12. Nip/Tuck
13. 24
14. King of the Hill
15. Charmed
16. … … Even More?

It’s like, I may have watched episodes of each of these or most of these but not really in any order or in general, fell way behind. In the case of Charmed and Smallville, for example: I was pretty damned loyal to that shit. I made it somewhat of a priority to watch them when they were on and then all of a sudden, I got busy and just fell behind.

Truth be told, I didn’t think Smallville was going to last as long as now because my experience with shows on that network but lo’ and behold, there it still is!

Charmed was aging but I still liked it massively. Probably made me feel nostalgic for my Goth/Wicca days. Not to mention that cast was pretty hot.

King of the Hill has been around forever but it was never a priority even though I found every episode I watched was pretty damned awesome. I only now realize how much I miss and love about that show right when it’s actually getting cancelled.

I just have generally bad timing.

While graduation is in a month and it worries me that I’m nowhere near done with shit, I am looking for that great thing called free time. I can’t wait for the days in which I could just sit back and watch all these TV shows all day with no worries, har.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : friends on wgn

It bothers me that the majority of the people I got along grand with in the past are either turning into or are annoying, materialistic, whiner yuppies. Thank you, Facebook, for making me aware of such madness. Gross.

Yuppies are annoying and I secretly fear they will shoot me in an alley one of these days while I am begging for change.

Shut up, American Psycho was a good movie. Trippy but awesome.

Why do people I liked have to turn into yuppies? It’s not cool. Not cool at all.

I don’t actually beg for change, by the way.

Maybe yuppies equals grown up somehow? Traveling the world, etc. makes them better than me and grown up? I don’t know? It’s just unsettling and junks. Who is fail?! I is fail!

It’s probably the Northside effect or something. Overachievers usually want more, duh. How did I receive the great privilege of attending Overachiever, USA? I still do not know. I was pretty damned mediocre in grade school and have never had straight A’s in my life.

Summer art school does not count.

I think maybe I’m obsessed with labels.

On a way related note on failure, I did nothing productive this weekend! Just finished the game I shouldn’t have bought … But I guess it’ll make me work since I have nothing else to distract me. Maybe. World of Goo is still there and unfinished.

NO…! MUST DO FUTURE … MOO.

{ feeling : full
{ hearing : family guy on wgn
 
So a new thing came out about that whole Miley Cyrus business and it is found here. Free money would be fantastic but weird thing about it was that I was thinking about this today because of Margaret Cho‘s little song about the thing. I’d probably never think about it otherwise.
 
I am what Asians call a Twinkie …
Technically a Coconut.
 
Anyways, I thought of the fact people think it’s stupid for Asians to be offended for this but really, I get the feeling our opinions or outrage don’t matter 90%-95% of the time.
 
Granted, I don’t give that much of a damn about it. Miley Cyrus is nothing but another Disney teenager in my book but I think maybe I’ve been desensitized over the years.
 
All stereotypes of Asians are good. Model minority. Wir n ur hospitalz fixn ur brainz! or Wir n ur offis doin ur mathz!
 
They are basically considered white so they have no right to complain when they’re called chinks or if someone mocks their language. Seems that way, anyways. When someone offends someone black, it’s heard around the country for at least a month and no one calls it ridiculous. Protests are made about immigration quite a bit. Usually makes the news. Usually has the support.
 
But when an Asian person complains, no one really thinks more of it. Sure it comes onto the news but everyone says it’s asinine or that we should “go home” if we don’t like it. Any complaints are usually cast aside.
 
I don’t really know how to feel about that.
I guess it’s kind of sad.
 
Thinking back on our history, I guess it’s not as robust as say African Americans or Latinos. We basically made railroads, Europeans sold resold us opiates, and Spain did the whole Catholic takeover in the Philippines. There’s probably more but yeah, we don’t have the taken-against-our-will thing or risking-all-or-nothing-to-get-here … Thing. Maybe the later sorta but I’ve been told to not complain about people stretching their eyes at me and assuming I’m good at Math and Science.
 
I mean, if I don’t like it, I should “go home”. I forget I’m perpetually foreign even though I was born and raised here for 22 years.

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : sideshow bob crashing into a shack via plane
 
If anyone’s curious, I totally have CSS Zen Garden’s up. Not on the official site but under my newly formed Publication Design subdomain. We’re going over CSS and content management in that class so we can make our eventual magazine an online kind, too.
 
Also, even though it’s completely unnecessary for myself, I’m taking an HTML class and that stuff can be found here. It’s kind of lame right now but don’t know, it’s school work. I don’t have much else going on right now. I have little projects that are nowhere near done but that’s about it. I think with free time, I’ll either chill or scan in prints or doodles for the hell of it.
 
Most likely chill. I’ve been feeling kind of lazy.

{ feeling : still chilly
{ hearing : the cure – lovesong
 
I just updated my photoside-thing after an eternity. It’s a funny bunch because it’s a lot of old finds while the president campaign was still going. Whatever, there are kittens. Who are the kittens? They are Joe’s kittens care of his homie Russ.
 
They are super adorable and I miss them.
The cat I have here just sorta glares at me all day.

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : the dick van dyke show
 
So here ends my first week back at Columbia. It was overall an interesting week but made me feel nervous. The week was slightly overwhelming. It made me realize I have a lot of work to do to put together my portfolio, resume, and possible brand identity with website.
 
It is weird that every one of my teachers is for a personal brand identity only I found someone at a company I dig hates them. He can’t be the only one but maybe.
 
Some highlights of the day include:
 

1. For Printmaking, Columbia has its very own Print Lab. It is a neighbor to Anchor Graphics who I found out will be hosting along with the college, a huge conference for printing. Kind of exciting.
2. While music is allowed to be played in said Print Lab, the following are banned: Interpol, The Smiths, Death Metal, & Gangster Rap. I was upset about this last one and it’s apparently cause some people take it way too seriously. Come on, Jay-Z and Snoop and MANY others are the balls. Too much? Hell, I’m a girl. It doesn’t bother me.
3. Though I looked this up before, I have two professors for my Publication Design class because it will be divided into two parts: One with a solid print, one with web development and learning content management.
4. I like this Jobson fellow who reminds me of Santa Claus. He’s so amusing. Like my Advanced Typography teacher said, they are basically somewhat the same person only different. Yin-Yang, as she says.
5. Dreamweaver is kind of annoying even though it’s supposed to be easier than handcoding.
6. The future still scares the fuck out of me.

 
I think the highlight of my school “week” was my Advanced Typography class. I don’t know, it was the first week of school. I guess I’ll settle in some more. I forget how tired these things leave me.

{ feeling : full
{ hearing : an at&t commercial
 
La Pasadita is so good. It’s like, whenever I pass by it while it’s open, there’s this overwhelming smell of yumminess. I can like totally eat their steak tacos forever. Maybe. I’m just saying, they’re really really good.
 
Only one class today. It turned out being really short. Basically, I’m scared for the future. That is all I learned. My teacher is cool though. It was the standard stuff, syllabi, what to expect, etc.
 
I’m not looking forward to being recorded while I do a fake interview, though. It will probably do me good but still kinda not looking forward to that.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : abc news rerun/blagoja-bitch
 
Today was the first day of the spring semester and possible last semester of my college career. I’m just going to blog about my first classes. I’m not about to write something every single day. Anyways, some stuff I learned today:
 

1. The Interactive Media Department have people that seem more human than people I encounter in the Art & Design Department. Nerds versus Hipsters? I’d chose Nerds.
2. There are gamers other than me and Joe that enjoyed Spore.
3. In Interactive Media, they sit entire PC towers next to Mac ones.
4. I seriously know more HTML than I thought.
5. When loud and cool but crazy professors argue/talk to each other, it’s fucking amusing.
6. Arial’s uppercase R has nothing on Helvetica’s.
7. If you are my Advanced Typography teacher, you can and will play the soundtrack to The Matrix when explaining font making includes a matrix. I never thought I’d associate Rage Against the Machine with font making.

 
I’m so tired. Tuesdays are my one day I get to sleep in. I think I’ll go and do that. More on this loverly semester later probably.

{ feeling : hopeful
{ hearing : the simpsons
 
Hooray for a new president! One I actually enjoy seeing on the screen AND talking! I must admit though, the most surreal images I’ve seen today are white folks at the Neighborhood Ball being completely confused by a whole lot of music they’ve never heard before.
 
Also Jay-Z borrowing Kanye’s nerd glasses.
Or so it seemed like anyways.
 
I have one more week of freedom yet. It’s kind of full somehow but not. Yesterday was an IMAX staff bowling party in which I got the lowest scores out of the fifteen folks that came. Today was kind of empty but then tomorrow I have a lunch date, Thursday is not only internship but an evening Canasta show, Friday is internship too and IMAX is rereleasing The Dark Knight so I have work Saturday & Sunday!
 
I don’t know if you readers read Chicagoist but there was a mention of a screening of Batman Begins after the 9pm show Friday night but that may change so it’s not so nonsensical. I heard things but I’m not actually sure if the ideas I heard are actually in play.
 
In other news, I totally added a couple more things to my desktop.

... ... ... Moving on.

{ feeling : sleepy/crampy
{ hearing : abc news rerun
 
I stopped being a spazz with the random blog entries but just felt like saying …
 

 
I totally saw a duck outside Borders today. It was weird because it’s freezing and snowy out and it was so shiny, clean and awesome. It totally posed for this picture (Joe’s camera phone, not mine). Being a city folk, I think I’m just way too amused by nature.
 
I totally want a duck.

{ feeling : chilly
{ hearing : little nicky on wgn
 
I like talking to people I haven’t talked to in forever. It’s so awesome.

{ feeling : kinda bored
{ hearing : wgn news with mark suppelsa & various others
 
So I was on Netflix a few days ago going through my movie suggestions, seeing if there were any I’ve seen or actually do want to see. The thing suggested the movie Modify because I enjoyed Party Monster and pretty much all the volumes of Invader ZIM.
 
I thought that part was funny.
 
I got this film Modify in the mail yesterday and watched it today. Basically, even with fair warning, I wasn’t really prepared? I guess the beginning was most of the bad: plastic surgery procedures, genital mods, and all that good stuff in machine gun imagery form.
 
I otherwise thought it was interesting. I ended up just giving it a mild “Didn’t Like It” but um, I thought Netflix was pretty good with suggesting stuff.
 
I mean, I’d like to get a couple body mods someday but I’m not about to split my tongue in half or suspend myself with my back skin. Owie. I’m no way judging but I’m standing by my owie.
 
I think it assumed I was into gore while I have yet to “Love” a horror flick … Just Invader ZIM and Party Monster. I think I might have stomached it sophomore year under my goth phase. Probably it.
 
Also, Netflix gives me a lot of Anime and I don’t think I’ve actually watched much Anime since the mid to late 90s. It’s weird. That’s where the entry was going! I am totally weirded out by all this Anime I’ve never heard of.
 
Yup, I’m pretty bored.

{ feeling : nauseous
{ hearing : my lappie/tummy make noises
 
Look! A new layout! Kinda clean and different than usual but I like it. Please note, I still have to add a few things … Mostly content under “about” but enjoy? The bubble above is for comments/permalink.
 
Joe is awesome cause he helps me learn code better. Yay Joe! My tummy is dumb but it’s cool cause Joe is here to make it better! I heart Joe!

{ feeling : super lazy
{ hearing : heligoats – a guide to the outdoors
 
Standard happy: YAY OBAMA WON!
Personal happy: Got my ideal final semester schedule.
 
So I’ve been terrible the past couple weeks where I really don’t feel like doing work. I go to class and all but I usually don’t have a lot done. Basically, I was doing so well in the beginning of the semester with homework getting done days and days before it was due. Now, I am lucky to finish everything.
 
Senioritis? Maybe. The moment I stop going to class, I will worry but I don’t think I’ll do that. I think I’m just in some sorta slump … I want to watch a movie.
 
Oh yes, here is my last schedule ever (maybe):
 
MONDAY
9 – 11:50AM: Authoring Interactive Media
1 – 4:50PM: Advanced Typography
 
TUESDAY
1 – 4:50PM: Professional Portfolio
 
WEDNESDAY
8:30 – 12:20PM: Contemporary Issues in Printmaking
1 – 4:50PM: Publication Design
 
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
Nothing.
 
I also have a workshop worth one credit on the first Friday & Saturday of February that’s 8:30AM to 4:50PM. Don’t matter too badly since it’s one weekend. I’m pretty happy I got what I wanted for my last semester. I just need to get through this one.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : the hood internet – frozen age
 
So what’s fun about the CTA is that when sometimes when a train conductor says a train is immediately following, it’s not 5 minutes but more like 30. Just saying but seriously, I do still heart the CTA.
 
I also heart graffiti … The pictures on the side just appeared but are old … Still fun, though.
 
That said, you can now scroll through all images I’ve posted thanks to Mr. Joe. He’s crazy good at all sorts of coding. It’s ridiculous.
 
Nothing new here. Not like anyone checks anyways, har. I’m still doing the schooling but currently procrastinating. I voted early a couple weeks ago so … Nothing there. Um, work is still kind of crappy but good because it has been ridiculously slow. Halloween is coming and I think I’m going to a concert and that’s about it. It’s a Canasta concert and they’re going as The Decemberists.
 
I’m being myself. Ooooo … Scary.
 
Real scary though is to be a senior. Well, a senior at an arts and communications school. I went to this event for seniors last week and realized I am totally unprepared. The thing they stressed at said senior event? Jobs and portfolio. Um, I don’t really have much experience in the industry (still) plus I went to the Portfolio Center for the first time JUST today.
 
It was like I was with a classmate and we were the only seniors there. Everyone else were youngins. Yay! I’m old! I’m doomed!
 
I get to choose my last classes EVER … maybe … next week. It’s cool but still scary cause then there’s after and I have no idea what that’s going to entail.
 
Man, I think my writing is just getting worse. Maybe just here but it can’t be good since I have a 20 page paper on Harold Washington due in like a month. YAY.

{ feeling : sickish
{ hearing : random commercials on wgn
 
So I saw an old face on the bus today. Made me feel weird in the way wandering Facebook profiles. Basically, since I went to the grandiose Northside College Prep, every single one of my many acquaintances are doing about … A million times better than I am life-wise. It just sort of makes me feel like … Eep.
 
The thing is about going to Northside is that I still sort of wonder how I ended up going there. During elementary school, I never once got straight A’s … Come to think of it, I don’t think I ever got anywhere near that at Northside. Even further, I didn’t want to attain perfection in any classes I went through.
 
I was pretty content with just passing the lot of classes I had.
 
Every single time I would hear the gripes of not getting at least a 4.5GPA or later, at least a 32 on the ACT, I’d just sort of be like I am now. Y’know … Eep.
 
But it’s also weird because during times like these, I randomly hear the lyrics to “More” by Rhymefest.
 
I don’t really know how to express how I feel. It’s just, as much as I’ve been raised to aim to get more, I’m pretty content with what I got. When I see there’s more to what I got, I just sort of think, would it really be that much better? Would I really be happier with say a better brand of clothing or a higher end of electronics?
 
Probably, maybe, sure?
 
I guess this entry was kind of rambly. It’s just with the chances I got, I found myself lucky rather than pressed to succeed to the max. I feel like, I try my best and hope for the best. If it’s not good enough in some circles, I move on. Kinda lame but I don’t know, I don’t want to go on living life always wanting more (“No matter how much I get.”).

{ feeling : sore
{ hearing : harvest moon ds music
 
Another year, another Lolla. I had a nice weekend except for the fact I kind of suck at keeping energy up, picking shoes that don’t give me terrible blisters, and tolerating thousands more people than I’m used to (I’m convinced I’m slightly agoraphobic). I didn’t get to stay all day yesterday because the pain of the blisters were too much. Basically, I was being miserable at the LollaLounge even when thousands of people weren’t in my face … so there was no point in me staying.
 
I like watching random episodes of ‘Til Death (with Margaret Cho for some reason?) and reruns of The Simpsons and Family Guy in bed anyways.
 
Anywhoos, from the acts I saw all weekend, I loved The Go! Team, DJ Bald Eagle, and The Octopus Project. Nice little finds for me (yeah, I am still new music challenged so bear with me) were Holy Fuck, Cadence Weapon, DeVotchKa, Jamie Lidell, Brazilian Girls, Dierks Bentley, and Sharon Jones. Why I am mentioning this? Because I need to remind myself to grab some of their tunes. Y’see, I always forget.
 
In other news, I had a mini-breakdown at work last week so I’m convinced that’s why my boss gave me the weekend off and didn’t give me hours till Thursday. My blisters are still terrible and yes, I knows I am a pussy for whining about some lame blisters so I may not do much until then, har. Possibly watch The Dark Knight on a non-IMAX screen and maybe Pineapple Express, too? Who knows! For now, the Harvest Moon calls to me this morning. I like farming games … I blame Phillip Ozaki for that.

{ feeling : accomplished
{ hearing : tom freaking skilling
 
Guess who saw The Dark Knight last night and had three point five hours of sleep because of it? Go ahead! Don’t worry, I’ll wait.
 
Anyways, I have about one and a half more weeks of school left and it’s nice just because for once when a semester is winding down, I don’t feel swamped. I pretty much have just about everything done. Maybe tweaks here and there but yes, I’m almost done!
 
Did you guess yet?
 
I don’t really know what to do with myself right now. I would play the Wii only I am out of batteries. I would play a PC game only I don’t really have one I want to play. I would do NetFlix only I haven’t gotten that yet. I would do homework, but just like I said, I totally have it pretty much done.
 
So yes, I watched the movie. I guess this is what critics and Hollywood folk feel like when they see movies weeks and weeks before its actual release. Too bad it was terrible. Awful! Don’t come to the theatre and pay fifteen bills for it.
 
You know I’m kidding … Or am I? Oh ho, “Why So Serious?” Just to say this, it’s weird that I’ve been everywhere the movie was but never actually around during the time of filming. It’s like, how do I miss a mass of people and cameras at a corner I pass by quite a lot?

{ feeling : still sick
{ hearing : girl talk – give me a beat
 
People hate people. It just sorta happens. People hate me and I can hate me. Whenever I get into lame states, I wander MySpace and get reminded of the people who probably now hate me. I wonder why but then not really.
 
Probably cause I’m fat or something, har.
They have reasons! Can’t really read people minds.
 
I try not to haterize… Y’know, except hipsters. They hate everything so why can’t I hate them? I don’t know.
 
You know what I do know? I’m really digging Girl Talk’s new shit. Granted, all the songs I’ve heard before mixed by The Hood Internet (ABX’s “I’m a Flirt” is much better), still really really really good. You make Avril Lavigne sound good? You’re pretty set.
 
I Wikipedia a lot and Wikipedia told me Mr. Girl Talk spoke in a documentary about mashups so that’s totally downloading right now.
 
This entry of nonsense is brought to you by the letter Q.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : happy birthday, lisa via the simpsons
 
“This is Logan Square.
This is a Blue Line train to O’Hare.”
 
And look! A bear! I don’t know, I still get amused by the robot announcer thing rhyming. I’ve been showing myself to the Blue Line more often these days. I had been on Brown since Fall since all that massive construction near Jefferson Park. Granted, it’s still going on but not so much so I have to take a shuttle bus to get to downtown.
 
Brown Line is good still but generally slow … … And full of yuppies.
 
So I’ve been sick for approximately 1.5 weeks. Mostly a cough but it’s making it so I’m lazy and stuck with all work I have to get done. For example, I suppose I should be working on two genre posters for tomorrow, a book title and layout but I’m not. Ever since I got home at 1:30pm this afternoon, I’ve been playing the Penny Arcade game.
 
On break now because I’m having trouble with the final boss, har.
 
But yes, I have about three or four more weeks left and this is no time for dilly-dallying. I hope this cough isn’t serious because man, it sucks.
 
I wonder if concerts knock sickness out of you. Probably not. I don’t know what my problem is.

{ feeling : strange
{ hearing : al piemonte ford commercial?
 
So literally a few minutes, I got a call from Columbia about how Political Philosophy has been canceled due to low enrollment.
 
So, I instantly get my ass on Oasis and promptly look for a new class to replace it. Sadly, as much as another language class or yoga class seems interesting, I’m taking Figure Drawing. Hooray for summer nudies!
 
It’s with a professor I had before. Should be interesting. So yes, instead of dealing with Libertarians from 9 to 1pm, it’s nudies and sketchbooks. Sweet.

{ feeling : relaxed
{ hearing : tom skilling, chicagoweatherman-man
 
Spring semester is basically over. It’s like, fuck yes … No more dreary days in the darkroom. I guess I have one more class tomorrow afternoon but I stopped caring cause doing an entire ad campaign in less than two weeks, fuck that.
 
Technically, we had four weeks only no one understood the assignment until the second and I was absent for that second week of work. Also, the thing about my advertising art direction teacher is that she was trying to get us into real jobs. The first and only other huge assignment was a real job and I managed to get chosen so in addition to a confusing ad campaign in two weeks, RAIN GARDENS … the new frontier!
 
I still have like a couple more things to do for mounting and presentation but then I’ll be done!
 
It’s been an interesting semester. As much as I generally dislike the population at this art school, I’ve met a couple people I hope I can keep contact with. It just dawned on me that I won’t be able to have neat chit chats with them in class anymore. I guess Facebook helps but I’m bad with that shit, yo. I am awkward and constantly paranoid of being perceived as a creep or something.
 
Why do I think of Radiohead being sung by Eric Cartman when seeing that word on screen?
 
I had two or three hours of sleep last night. Ain’t that neat? I don’t seem sleepy but I’ll try it in a few. I have a whole week of not much and then it’s back to school … I hope this week of not much involves lots of GTA IV playing with Joe. I’d totally be hoggin’ that shit if it was here right now. It is so pretty.

{ feeling : ok
{ hearing : little chit chat in the design lab
 
Who has so much of school: I do! I’m taking summer school and I just got registered to Fall. It’s weird to be knowing what your schedule will be looking like for the next half of the year … More so even!
 
It’s kind of crazy but not really. For example, summer looks like:
 
MONDAY
9 – 12:50PM: Sign, Symbol, Image
 
TUESDAY
9 ? 11:30AM: Political Philosophy
1:30 – 5:20PM: Intermediate Typography
 
WEDNESDAY
9 – 12:50PM: Sign, Symbol, Image
 
THURSDAY
9 ? 11:30AM: Political Philosophy
1:30 – 5:20PM: Intermediate Typography
 
FRIDAY
Nothing.
 
But according to the course description, I’ll probably be in class only Tuesday and Thursdays for most of summer school. Sign, Symbol, Image is a apparently a 5 week course or something like that. Not too terribly weird … Fall on the other hand is kind of way weird. It’s like this:
 
MONDAY
8:30 – 12:20PM: Branding Idenity
 
TUESDAY
8:30 ? 12:20PM: Packaging Design
1:00 – 4:50PM: Digital Illustration I
 
WEDNESDAY
6 – 9:50PM: Photo Communications
 
THURSDAY
Nothing.
 
FRIDAY
Nothing.
 
SATURDAY
9 – 11:50AM: History of Chicago
 
The things I do to graduate on time … Hopefully. J-Session (aka Winter School) is probably in my future according to my advisor. My initial thought was all these classes were what I needed only no because I need a certain amount of hours which explains Political Philosophy. I just need some electives. Any electives. Me wanty hours.
 
Currently, photo isn’t killing me as bad. Well, I guess it is only I’m sort of getting used to going to the darkroom up to twice a week for up to 6 hours each time.
 
Our final project can be anything we like that we’ve done so I’m doing concert photography. Seeing as my teacher’s first suggestion was to go to outdoor concerts doesn’t work (seriously, it doesn’t seem like a concert is going to be outdoors till May), she then suggested to try to get hookups to bands so I can use a tripod or something. Anyone know a band? Give me the hookup, kthx.

{ feeling : sleepy
{ hearing : kyle mann combo – lyrical rhapsody for the cell phone abusers
 
Wandering arbitrary areas in Facebook could be good sometimes. I was cleaning out my groups a little bit and decided to click on the group called Hey Columbia, Macs Suck and found this loverly post by some bloke named Neal describing what you get with a Mac:

Let’s see…I pay a premium for third rate hardware, fisher price accessibility, monotonous product design, and limited compatibility, limited upgradeability, and an insufferablely condescending userbase. Sounds like a good deal to me!

It’s just kinda sad now that I think about it since this statement was made about a year ago and according to previous posts, the group has halved. You see, if Mac users weren’t such dicks, I wouldn’t hate them so much. Even people who are supposed to help like professors like to be condescending about it. Apparently I’m living within the “dark side” and it’s completely prehistoric!
 
I must be some bastard child of art school because I like PCs. Oh well, I get a right mouse button, gaming, Winamp, and oh so much more. I should be good.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : abc news rerun
 
Here's a brand new layout that isn't really that brand new. It's been sitting around as a tester for about a month. what's the occasion? New hosting. I'm sharing it with Joe-face on Dreamhost.
 
There are still some kinks here and there but I only managed to access all of what I needed ... Now. That pink thing on the side will have something eventually. It's going to be a doodle/picture bar.
 
I should really be asleep so I'll go do that.

{ feeling : kinda hungry
{ hearing : wgn news at noon
 
So hooray for being on break for one week! For some strange reason, winter break this year is kinda longer and I have no idea why. I’m off till January 28. Technically January 29 just because … Take a gander at my schedule next semester.
 
MONDAY
Nothing.
 
TUESDAY
8:30 ? 12:20PM: Jewelry and Objects I
 
WEDNESDAY
8:30 ? 12:20PM: Foundations of Photography I
1 ? 4:50PM: Introduction to Graphic Design
 
THURSDAY
8:30 ? 12:20PM: Darkroom Workshop I
1 ? 4:50PM: Advertising Art Direction
 
FRIDAY
Nothing.
 
I’m such a terrible blogger on this thing. There isn’t much in store for break for me. Probably just trying to catch up with all the games I’ve gotten and work. I don’t really have a list of best albums just cause … I listen to The Hood Internet and mostly old shit. Um … Here’s an awesome music video!
 

I’m excited.

{ feeling : sick
{ hearing : will & grace rerun
 
So I’m sick today possibly to too much inside or wandering near the lake the evening it was going to be 39 degrees out. Most likely the prior but feels more like the later.
 
School begun. I’m kind of on and off stressed because I’m working during the week as well. This week, Transformers comes out but I actually still don’t want to see it so I may skip the screening to begin watching Gossip Girl and the new season of Top Model. Yes, I’m a sucker for bad TV.
 
Does anyone else love Kanye’s “Stronger” as much as me? Whenever I hear it, I’m just really happy because memories of last year’s Lolla and this year’s Lolla merge into wonderfulness.
 
Also the video is good.
This one for “The Good Life” is pretty damned good as well.
 

 
Oh yes, my schedule for this semester is as follows:
 
MONDAY
1 ? 4:50PM: Animation I
 
TUESDAY
3:30 ? 6:20PM: History of Communication Design
 
WEDNESDAY
1 ? 4:50PM: Applied Drawing
 
THURSDAY
8:30 ? 12:20PM: Broadcast Design
 
FRIDAY
Nothing
 
SATURDAY
9 – 11:50PM: Contemporary European Nationalism & Ethnic Conflict
 
I hope not to die this semester. I’m off to bed.

{ feeling : tired but accomplished
{ hearing : dj stv slv – la femme d’monsieur jones
 
I was wandering the facebook and found that like … 50 of my friends were tagged in an album in which they all went to the IMAX for Harry Potter this weekend.
 
It’s like, if I worked this weekend, would they have noticed me? But it’s also like … They wouldn’t have had to pay $15 per person if they kept in touch with me.
 
Just saying!

{ feeling : sleepy
{ hearing : abx – wouldn’t grip far
 
It’s so awkward whenever someone asks about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at work. I mean, with Spider-Man 3, I could have just said, “It was ok,” but with Harry Potter, it’s just awkward simply because … I read the books and the fifth book was my least favourite. I mean, it was good but it was only as good as my least favourite book of the series. It’s a good movie but angsty Potter pisses me off.
 
Although, I can indeed say the 3D part of it was pretty damned bitchin’. “Stunning” as the ads say, perhaps?
 
OMG!!! FINALLY ON ACTUAL SUMMER BREAK!
Well, more hours at work will be involved but still.
 
Pitchfork? Don’t know how to feel. I’m mostly following Joe around as usual. I’m pretty much looking forward to Girl Talk and that’s it. I don’t know enough about everyone else to care, har. We’ll see how things go. I’m not looking too forward to crowds as massive as last year but it’s inevitable.
 
Intonation was my favourite last year.
Sad times with lacking of it this year.
BAH I need a layout change.

{ feeling : itchy
{ hearing : the white stripes – icky thump
 
Although it’s not 100% sure, I’m told our screening of Harry Potter 5 is going to be the same time as a reviewers’ screening. It is at 9am on July the 9th. Works for me since I can just go to class afterwards but probably not for most. I guess that’s another lonely day of screening. Oh well … I tried!
 
I’m burnt out on hearing about the goddamn Transformers and iPhone. Michael Bay has a 33% on Rotten Tomatoes. Apple annoys me. I’m pretty content in watching Sicko or the new Pixar joint.
 
Two more weeks of summer school! I have to write a six-page research paper about Nazi propaganda by Monday … Then I don’t have too much to worry about! YAY!
 
Easier said than done. Poo.

{ feeling : achy
{ hearing : rhymefest – devil’s pie
 
So maybe it’s because me and my coworker are members of the IMAX at Navy Pier or maybe it’s because we aren’t critics but fuck Rotten Tomatoes. Pirates of the Caribbean the third time around was much better than Spider-Man 3. I think those critics were way too lenient on that thing.
 
We agreed that we’d go back and pay to watch Depp and company again but even when we have unlimited free screenings of the man in blue (then black), we would not sit through that shit thing again.
 
I’m one of those mofos that don’t really hate movies or consider them only good when inebriated. Spider-Man 3 wasn’t that terrible but as said, I would pay to go back to Pirates … Not so much Spidey.
 
Perhaps I’m too partial to Johnny Depp and my coworker’s a bit partial to Orlando Bloom.
 
That’s just us though. I think the movie is going to break records either way since I did try watching it Thursday evening at Pickwick but 1,200 screaming teenage girls isn’t something I like.
 
Summer school is going ok. I was worried last week but I think I’ll be ok. I get to learn about power tools AND Nazis! Who wouldn’t love that?
 
I don’t know what else to write about. I got my first GameFly game today. I’m not sure if I’ll have time to play through it but it’s kind of spiffy.

{ feeling : bored
{ hearing : abx – i’m a flirt (shoreline)
 
Damnit, it’s a good song.
 
So, I was such a smart cookie Friday evening. After Lupe Fiasco’s set at a parking lot near Columbia, I jumped over a fence (since there was one exit and many people) and landed on my left foot. It now hurts when I walk and I’m a limpy mcgee! So although I could have stayed out for Looptopia (I ended up calling in sick Saturday), it was hell to walk around. Joe gave me numerous piggyback rides and I am eternally grateful.
 
I guess I should be resting more but I can’t stand staying in bed for so long. Hurts to be up around but yeah …
 
I was just wandering my Last FM and among finding the names Weird Al next to Bright Eyes and Kanye West, found it amazing that I’ve only known about Amy Winehouse for a few weeks and it’s number 12 on my overall top artists. Oh Last FM, you amuse me.
 
Tonight’s the Top Model finale and I’m not especially fond of the leftovers. I had a little paragraph written about it only it sounded superbly dorky so … Nevermind!

{ feeling : ok
{ hearing : abx – i’m a flirt (shoreline)
 
It’s strange how tacky plus boring equals wonderful. Mash-ups are wonderful. You all go to The Hood Internet for some fabulous ones. I guess I’m pretty partial to this one. Although I’m not sure if it’s because Joe’s been listening to it like crazy or of its natural awesomeness.
 
School is over! Manifest has Lupe lined up on the same night as Looptopia so Joe calls it Luptopia. I don’t know what else we’re doing but whatever. I just know I’ll be a baby and go home after Lupe due to work in the morning. I haven’t checked if it’s sold out all weekend again because everyone basically saw it last week and it’s been agreed by critics (and most of my co-workers) that it was pretty mediocre in comparison to the first two.
 
Sixty feet high faces of Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst actually bothers me a bit.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : abc world news
 
Two more weeks of school and my African lit essay didn’t turn out as bad as I thought. My professor was all amazed that I was such a great writer although considered the grade I got a bad one. It was weird. I don’t think I’m that great of a writer.
 
My art history paper I know is terrible but I guess I’ll really find out this week or next week.
 
I should sleep because I have work tomorrow morning! I just wanted to blog about how I love my mandolanjo. What is a mandolanjo? It is my instrument for my Physics of Music class! It’s like …
 
Mandolin + Banjo = Mandolanjo <3
 
I just need to write an original song for it. I managed to figure out some notes from “Kevin is Gay”. At this point, I’m just fooling around with it. I need a pick or something cause I got a tiny bump on my finger from plucking it so much, har. It’s strange just because I only finished it like … four hours ago.

{ feeling : icky
{ hearing : random ac, typing & the occasional scream
 
I didn’t really know Paul very well. He was in my Physics class Junior year. I just knew him to be very nice and cool and possibly the only person from Caw! Caw! that I thought completely kindly of.
 
I remembered that I was having trouble getting myself to ask if the band had any new music considering I hated Tim and Evan was quiet but completely intimidating to me but I ran into Paul. Initially, I was generally weird and awkward about asking about something to someone I don’t normally talk to but he was really nice about it and told me he would let me know.
 
I got a package in the mail from him a few weeks later with a copy of their previous CD. I had a copy of it already only with the label faregsone but I found it really sweet that he went to the trouble … And I always enjoy getting mail!
 
This week is just massive amounts of bad news coming at once. I thought research papers and my aunt flo were bad enough news but nope, dwarfs in comparison.
 
If I was a religious individual, I’d be praying for the families but since I’m not, they’re just in my thoughts. It’s just as good.

{ feeling : annoyed
{ hearing : amy winehouse – tears dry on their own
 
That was unpleasant. It seems if you are staying around Chicago for spring breaks, you are pretty much screwed all around. I just remember it raining the duration of my spring break and although last week wasn’t stormy, it was fucking cold and now this week, hey! Snow!
 
I just thought of this because I remember Liz being all, “At least we have our spring break DURING SPRING!”
 
Not much to write about. I’m uber stressed about two research papers due. One of which I haven’t started but is due in two weeks and the other for that class that makes me want to die. I guess I’m getting along with an outline but that’s it.
 
I guess I also wanted to watch Grindhouse but since I’m not a hardcore movie-goer who likes the comeback of the double feature, I went to watch Blades of Glory instead. I guess I still want to watch it only I’m just not sure if I’m ready for sitting for three hours for two different stories. I mean, I can stay seated for a good continuous story for three hours but for two stories? Not so sure.
 
I’m sure the DVD will turn out superb anyways.
 
New Facebook layout again. Don’t even start bitching about it. The world isn’t going to end with the change, you’re going to get used to it anyways so why bother putting the energy into complaining about it? If you can’t handle it, quit the networking site.
 
I want to change my layout again only I don’t really write much here and I don’t think I would have the time to make one, code one, and recode it into textpattern.
 
Eh, maybe during my two week break between spring and summer semester. Yup, I am in fact taking summer school … IT NEVER ENDS YAY …

{ feeling : sleepy
{ hearing : the octopus project – music is happiness
 
I never blog, do I? I really don’t know what to say about stuff.
 
Oh yes, I went back to school on Monday and I’m completely convinced the only purpose of having racial issue courses is to make you feel terrible about everything you are. You’d think it’d be the opposite but not so much no. Maybe I’m taking the wrong ones. That’s probably it. I’m taking an African Lit class and I’m not African.
 
So yes … Basically, I’m terrible because my ethnic group run businesses in neighborhoods that aren’t theirs. What right do I have, right? I know nothing about weaves! I just go, “Ching chong you likey this nice weave.”
 
Their words … not mine.
 
Also, I guess I’m an idiot because I don’t believe hip-hop is dead. In fact, rap is just commercial and doesn’t really count as hip-hop. I guess I’m a tad naive to buy into such things! I guess the only thing that matters is the B-boy. I guess I can’t name a famous B-boy. I guess it really IS dead!
 
I wonder if I’m also terrible for digging Banksy … Or wait, does Banksy not count either?
 
That class depresses me. I can’t bring myself to write a research paper for a class that depresses me. Monday was just terrible for me. I just sorta wanted to shoot myself for caring about the things I do.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : mr. food on the local news
 
Although not many read this bugger, I figure it was worth blogging about … Just in case anyways.
 
I’m required to watch all the films that come by IMAX but I haven’t done so since Happy Feet. At the staff meeting, the top boss brought it up and even decided to set a special screening for the staff this Monday. We’re allowed to bring three people.
 
SO … If anyone’s interested in watching 300 for free at Navy Pier’s IMAX Monday evening at 7PM (I’m sacrificing Heroes for one night, damn), email me or IM me about it … Commenting here works, too.
 
Joe told me he doesn’t want to watch it and well, I’m not that hyped for it either but eh, Hollywood IMAX films usually cost $15 and I get in for free so why not?

{ feeling : sad
{ hearing : married with children
 
The OC is over. Grey’s Anatomy killed it.
 
Mr. Josh Schwartz did something tricky when ending the series but it was all fine and good. I was really sad about it ending and I still am but there’s just something about your favourite musical artist doing her own version of the theme that makes you feel better.
 
I need a copy of that bugger. I don’t know why I never pictured Annie ever watching that show. I guess I’m weird. I consider her to be a celebrity so I don’t see her doing things I do, perhaps?
 
I have to wake up before 6am on a Saturday! Why? Staff meeting at 8am! Oh the wonders of living an hour away from work and having to deal with weekend CTA!
 
I’m so miserably lonely at Columbia! It’s not even worth being lonely for these kids but I am! The only instances when I talk to people from my school is if I have to find a lab partner in Physics or if someone in Design Lab needs a little help on something. YAY FOR BEING UNWANTED!
 
The Changes tomorrow should be good. Possible snowstorm? Not so much but hey! The Changes!
 
I should be sleeping.

{ feeling : sad
{ hearing : the oc
 
I don’t want this show to be cancelled.
Make it uncancelled, please?
 
... ... Pretty please?

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : brittany murphy – boogie wonderland
 
I’m so ashamed for loving this song so much just because it’s from a movie about tap-dancing penguins. What is my problem? I’m due for some new music. Although … mash-ups sung by penguins are kind of great.
 
I’m finally feeling better from that same cold I got two weeks ago. Now I get to take a final about AIDS! Hooray!
 
I find it strange that I’ve only worked at IMAX for about month and have already seen about three people vomit … Two of which were employees.
 
I’m so content with playing Animal Crossing right now.
The last of my Art History homework will never get done, ha.

{ feeling : deathly sore throat
{ hearing : king of the hill
 
I’ve been sick since Sunday evening but I did manage to go to two out of the three classes I’ve had so far. I figured one day without conspiracy theories wouldn’t hurt my grade.
 
I’ll go to class tomorrow hopefully and visit the campus’s health center afterwards. I don’t think it’s anything that serious but it doesn’t hurt to check. I am in fact scheduled to work but I should not be near children or food considering I’ve been coughing like crazy.
 
So, I accepted a friend request from someone in my grade school today. I knew her to be a quiet girl, funny but nice but I guess she had given birth to a beautiful baby girl during the time I hadn’t seen her. It was kind of strange.
 
I think back on the people I knew in grade school and don’t mind that I’m not tied with them anymore. I mean, they’re all so “matured” with their parties and the excessive amounts of Jack Kerouac.
 
Some memories are kind of great but in general, I don’t like thinking about my past. I was a dumb kid. Like … What the fuck was my problem? We were all dumb kids. I guess considering I’m not swimming in liquor in my own dorm/apartment every night, I’m still a kid but I don’t mind. I’m starting to like myself which is kind of weird.
 
Maybe I’m just in this state of anger towards my body cause it won’t stop being sick. My mind is kind of loopy.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : wicked – defying gravity
 
I want Thanksgiving food.
I’m totally working Thanksgiving.
 
If I suddenly have this odd obsession with penguins,
Please understand it’s because …
I’m being bombarded by them.
 
Nature showed a penguin show last night.
See? Even PBS wants me to love penguins.

{ feeling : cold
{ hearing : brazilian girls – all about us
 
I can possibly stop bitching for now because I officially have a job. If you happen to turn into a tourist for a day in Chicago, you can visit me because I’ll be a concessions mofo at the IMAX in Navy Pier. I’m a trainee at this point but that’s ok. Unlimited popcorn, nachos, and soda? Not a whole lot to do while a movie is being shown? Early viewing of an adorable penguin movie? Not bad.
 
Also, I just finished my schedule for next semester. I’m glad I was able to do that today; I went through hell to get a hold off of my account.
 
I’m sad because as much as I want to do Columbia’s J-Session so I can quit technically being a Freshman, they aren’t offering any classes I need. I’ll probably take a few summer classes so I don’t have to deal with an extra Fall Semester in the future. I’m a weirdo and I enjoy posting my schedule on my blog so here it is! It may stay the same! It may change! WHO KNOWS!
 
MONDAY
12:30 – 3:20PM: Issues in African and African American Studies
 
TUESDAY
Nothing.
 
WEDNESDAY
9 – 11:50AM: History of Art II: Renaissance
1 – 4:50PM: Beginning Typography
 
THURSDAY
9 – 11:50AM: Physics of Music
1 – 4:50PM: Design Lab
 
FRIDAY
Also nothing.
 
I realized that now that I’m responsible for paying for my tuition (or the loans for it), I hate the idea of skipping a class … EVER. Just like … Fucking hell, I’m paying so much for this shit and I don’t want to waste a penny; I better damn well be learning shit for this amount of coin!
 
Two concerts tomorrow! OMG! Bring it on … ?

{ feeling : filthy
{ hearing : ending credits of the simpsons
 
My two favourites on Top Model are gone.
I’m rooting for CariDee …
Or anyone but Melrose.
 
Who voted?! I did … About two or three weeks ago. I think I’ll do it again so I if I do ever decide to turn into a hippie, I’m justified to complain.
 
I totally kid.

{ feeling : lazy & tired
{ hearing : lady sovereign – hoodie
 
Nice evening last night … Quite possibly the latest concert I’ve ever attended and it earns points for starting even later than advertised! It was a blast though. The opening band was cool even if they only played like six songs.
 
If you guys have ever seen Lady Sovereign live, there’s usually a painter at the corner of the stage. Last night was no different … Well, except for the usual hugeass canvas used throughout the show, he did a painting for each song performed it seems. He also lugged a few smaller pieces with him when setting up and passed them to the audience during the show. Joe and his tallness managed to grab the last one he had and gave it to me for an early Christmas present.
 

 

 
I love it because … I’m a sucker for graffiti art in all forms. It’s probably because I suck at that sort of thing but eh, I love looking for it around the city. Plus! It’s Lady Sovereign’s painter … Spiffyness.
 
I have so much work to do but I’d rather be playing Bully.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : deal or no deal
 
Drugs are bad, mmkay.
Why I like Indie Music.

{ feeling : cold
{ hearing : good eats
 
Although it was not planned,
Columbia got me a fall break.
 
I finished a layout!
 
If you don’t know this, I have a SecondLife. It’s not much of a SecondLife, but it’s there. I even made a Blogger for it so I made a layout for it. Click if you’re interested.
 
Joe won’t stop making fun of me because I love this cake show on the Food Network. It’s called Ace of Cakes and I sort of just stumble upon it sometimes but they make just about the coolest cakes ever. Like the one I watched tonight had two life-sized flamingo cakes.
 
I guess I can understand why he’s making fun, ha.

{ feeling : merf
{ hearing : the young republic – she comes and goes
 
I love that Woxy is back. I’m sad my TV died Saturday evening. I’m ultra-weirded out (but not surprised) that Lady Sovereign got up to number three on TRL.
 
Midterms are coming!
I don’t feel like doing anything!
 
Shit.

{ feeling : hungry
{ hearing : lady soverign – love me or hate me
 
I have shows to watch this season. I’ve been terrible at keeping up with shows for the past few years. I’m actually following a few now. I managed to watch all of The Office and I’ve been watching Heroes from the beginning (and of course I’m watching the latest cycle of Top Model. Go Anchal or AJ!). I sort of want to follow Twenty Good Years and possibly Ugly Betty but three is enough for now.
 
I kind of regret not following Smallville and Charmed just because I would like to know what’s been going on (or what did considering Charmed ended last year). For example, I turned to Smallville recently and saw Lex lying on what looked like a torture table. What did I miss … ?!
 
I also miss Best Week Ever.
But that’s my TV’s fault for farting away my VH1.
 
Classes have been going ok. I managed to get an A on my first Art History quiz despite the fact I can’t remember dates and specifics very well. I have another one which I should probably be studying for right now. As for my other classes, I’m one of the few people in my design class doing ok and my AIDS class makes me feel I may turn into Mr. Monk at any moment. Too much talk of diseases lurking everywhere … oy vay.
 
I don’t even know what’s going on in Geometry because we went on a “Field Trip” to Grant Park a couple weeks back and then watched a rather long video on Chicago architecture last week. Drawing scares me because my professor didn’t comment on my drawing last week and it was the first drawing he was actually going to grade (as opposed to rating our skill the weeks prior). On the bright side, I’m doing a lot better now than when I was at UIC.
 
But then again, I’m still friendless,
I still have no job or money,
And Shumie is still missing.
There was a poster of him at Columbia.
It’s still so very scary.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : thunderbirds are now! – we win (ha ha)
 
Another concert, another bunch of great photos taken by Joe. I don’t feel like yoinking and resizing them just to post here so just go to his flickr. As much as it seems people prefer Les Savy Fav, I like TAN! so much more. They both are fun to watch but I like Ryan Allen’s voice more.
 
I’m still contemplating whether or not I would have initially thought he was a girl if I hadn’t seen him perform live.
 
I don’t know if you guys have been following the news or anything but someone from my graduating class is missing in Iowa. I’ve been finding myself thinking about it a lot because it just hits close but not at the same time. It was just I knew Shumi to be there all that time in high school. I just didn’t know him very well besides that he was pretty much my favourite member in Caw! Caw! after the high school thing was over. I just hope he’s ok.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : weird al – trapped in the drive thru
 
First week over! ... ... I guess technically not because I have yet to go to my AIDS class on Monday but whatever. I have nothing against any of my classes thus far. We watched Pi in Geometry, there’s no super final in Art History … I guess I have one problem with one of my classes. My drawing class requires a ridiculous amount of supplies. I had to get a ginormous drawing pad and in order to carry it, I had to get one of those big portfolios.
 
I’m too tiny for those things. I’m just being kind of lazy for the most of it. It seems I’ll probably do most of my homework due towards the end of the week earlier since it’s drawing and a design class. I mean, I have a project due in Art History and it’s sort of artsy but I’m so lazy to do it because it involves writing a paragraph with it! JEBUS. Drawing and design? All drawing, doodling, and Photoshop work.
 
Not much else to say about my week. Oh yeah … In comparison to UIC, Columbia has a lot more smokers than UIC. The bold and italics are an understatement now that I look at it. Just assume a lot.
 
Joe is totally gone for the entire weekend. I missers him. Boohoo. :(
 
This CD is hilarious. I feel bad that it leaked someplace on the internet but then again, it’s one less CD I have to worry about.
 
Lady Sovereign does in fact have a release date! Well … I guess two claimed ones since I just glanced at her Wikipedia entry. RedEye said October 17, and Wikipedia says October 2. I’ll just have to wait and see.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : george lopez for some reason
 
I think me and Joe are the only human beings that don’t despise the news feed. I have to admit, it’s in a kind of messy arrangement but I don’t mind it much.
 
Last time I checked, there were about 400,000+ people on that petition to get rid of it. Eh, I still stand by it’s coolness even if it gets cut in the end. I mean, it was something different. I’m always for something different.
 
So I have to wake up at 6AM tomorrow in order to get to my class. I guess I’ll crash after the news or The Simpsons. Ah … Back to being a kid and sleeping early.
 
Oh yes, if anyone’s interested in a $15 gift card to Tower Records, Yaris folks are giving them to anyone who test rides their car over at the corner of Clark and Belden. I got mine … Though I have yet to see if it’s actually redeemable.
 
I’m waiting for some CDs to come out … Like Thunderblogs are Now! and Lupe Fiasco … As well as this collaboration The Octopus Project did, The Decemberists, and Weird Al. Joe tells me maybe even Kanye but who knows!
 
I’m also waiting for Lady Sovereign’s CD. No release date on that that I’m aware of but yeah, want that shit, too … ... Only I’m disappointed that “Ch-Ching” may not be on it.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : beefy – internet celebrity
 
Here’s a new layout! Ain’t it pretty? It was all hand drawn and Photoshopped again. I don’t know how long this one will last but I like it a lot. I managed to even code most of it all by myself! Joe “proofread” it.
 
Not much to write about. I’m still jobless. I seriously applied to 20+ places. I’m going to try for on-campus employment at “Phase II” of CCC’s orientation and if I have time, some market in Lincoln Park.
 
I missed Jhonen Vasquez’s signing on Saturday for fruitless shopping at some outlet in Aurora. I’m just stating this just in case you missed that entry I had before about it.
 
I seriously have nothing to write about. Everyone’s starting school so everyone’s left Chicago at this point. It’s just been kind of sad lately.
 
Canasta on Wednesday should be good.
Fuck yeah … Not 21+?

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : papers shuffling
 
I officially go to Columbia! You can take note of this by visiting Facebook. Yep. Merging accounts confused me for five minutes but that’s ok.
 
I should be asleep since I’m working at 7AM tomorrow but laundry decided to be dumb. I feel bad cause I kicked Joe out of my house early because I was thinking my laundry was not dumb but then it was. Sorry :(.
 
So here’s my schedule! I’m kind of ok with it even with all those general requirements in there. Might as well get them over and done with … Or at least have ‘em with some art classes.
 
MONDAY
9 – 11:50AM: The Biology of AIDS: Life of a Virus
 
TUESDAY
12 – 2:50PM: Geometry in the Arts
 
WEDNESDAY
10 – 12:50PM: History of Art I: Stone Age to Gothic
 
THURSDAY
9 – 12:50PM: Drawing I
 
FRIDAY
9 – 12:50PM: Fundamentals of 2-D Design
 
One class per day. This is all new to me … I love how the week gets progressively more artsy/creative. Well, it seems that way … sort of. I don’t know how 2-D Design works.
 
Though I hate to jinx it, I’m really looking forward to see Pablo on Friday. I hope things work out. I haven’t gotten much details on that.
 
No pictures yet on the haircut! Joe took many a picture of me before and after but I haven’t gotten those … And the scenester/hipster orientation leaders decided to not print out my ID which would have had it on there. I lack student ID at the present time, d’oh.

{ feeling : see above
{ hearing : caw! caw! – rudolf kristmas
 
I didn’t sleep much.
 
Oh, I dig this video …
Bullshit!
 
Happy July, everyone! I don’t want to jinx anything so I’m not telling you how my Friday went. Just know it involved Dr. Pepper. I discovered last week that there does exist a restaurant in O’hare that serves Dr. Pepper. That has nothing to do with anything.
 
Ich liebe schlaufen.

{ feeling : ow
{ hearing : the simpsons
 
There are none of them in my house. I sort of need one for my bloody foot. It’s actually kind of bloody. I was wandering downtown since 10AM this morning. I was job hunting even though I have a job.
 
I really don’t like my current job.
 
I managed to apply to eleven places but I still wanted to apply to six more places. Some of them I didn’t because they were online and some I didn’t because they were out of applications. I’ll get to the online ones soon enough.
 
Oh yeah, one is only for tomorrow so I’ll probably wander again tomorrow before going to the Heligoats concert. I also have an interview tomorrow at Potbelly’s.
 
I guess it’s good I didn’t have six more written applications because my hand was pretty sore after eleven of them.
 
Intonation weekend! Yay! Lollapalooza schedule! Yay … ?!
 
I don’t know what to feel about the latter. I only have two real conflicts but they’re kind of big. Do I go see Common or The Flaming Lips? Do I go see Matisyahu or The Shins? I do not know! I may follow Joe but I don’t know, I know Common is spiffy as hell but I really don’t have much of his music. Conflict! OH NOES.
 
And for a helluva downer:
My dad is now unemployed;
He was laid off this morning.

{ feeling : tired
{ hearing : canasta – sympathetic vibrations
 
I have to go to work soon. I don’t want to but I need the coin. I felt like blogging real quick and I have no idea why. You know what’s kind of creepy of me? Looking at my site stats based on location. I mean, I don’t really get many visitors in the first place but the few I get, interesting places. Like … ... China!
 
I think one of my cousin reads because I saw a familiar location (y’know, besides the bunches from Chicago). How odd. I think I know who it may be but I’m still weird about the idea of family reading this crapola.
 
I’m not really close to my family really. Well, considering I’m Filipino, I’m far from that usual family closeness that you usually tie into the Asian-American lifestyle. The closest I’ve got was with my older married cousin in Michigan simply because I seeked advice on how to deal with my mom in my decision to switch majors.
 
Anyways, I just wanted to state my hatred toward yuppie scum. I was looking forward to watching Canasta at the Improv Olympic last night but yuppies ruined the night with their existence. We ended up not going because the chaos of nightlife.
 
If you aren’t aware of the band Canasta, they play mostly 21+ shows so it was pretty upsetting that the one time they weren’t doing a 21+ show, yuppies prevented me from going.
 
Oh fuck, at least I got an Icee. Not blue raspberry but it was still great. Also caught part of a forgotten film done by Matt and Trey called Orgazmo. It was on the Sundance channel for some odd reason. Well … ... ... I wouldn’t have heard of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert if I hadn’t been watching IFC.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : south park – succubus
 

I wish all my favourite peoples in Northside’s class of 2006 the best for their graduation tomorrow!
 
Be good! Keep in touch!
LIKE OMG I’LL MISS YOU GUYS.
Y’all be leaving me and going out of the city.
Also, sorry I’ve been a shitty friend and didn’t have a chance to visit the school recently before you left. We still have the summer? Send me an email and we’ll go for some sushi down Lincoln and Belmont … Or something else? I don’t know! DON’T LEAVE MEEEeee T_T

{ feeling : content
{ hearing : they might be giants – new york city
 

One year doesn’t feel like a year
It plain feels nice <3
I love you lots, Joe! ^^
I had a wonderful day despite me being icky sick. I got panda slippers and Margaret Cho ticks! The panda slippers are so comfy. I luff them. Also, I got to see some spiffy ass movies like … Beverly Hills Cop, The Fugitive, and The Jerk. Taco Bell eating is also very good … Free ribs, too!
 
I also experienced a Frosty for the first time,
That was pretty great.
 
Eee! I love my boyfriend! OH EM GEEINSERTCHeeezhurrrr …<3 ... The world would be so great if everyone just gave hugs. I think it was a music video once. I don't remember which.
 
Sorry if my entries seem a tad ditzy lately.
Is this what happens when you’re reeeally happy?

{ feeling : sick
{ hearing : fox news chicago
 
I have a cold. I know it’s about 80 degrees out but I still have one!
 
The plan today was a Murder by Death mini-gig at Reckless Records down Broadway then a concert at the Metro. I was a trooper for the first part. I didn’t see the band at all due to my immense shortness but as the day went on, I realized I should have stayed at home.
 
Joe was a spiffy boyfriend and brought me home at around 5PM. I took a nap and so here I am! Since it was an all-ages show, I’m assuming the concert is over or in the process of winding down.
 
No sexy cello action for me tonight.
 
Ew, I have work tomorrow. I’m hoping it won’t be busy since it’s Memorial Day weekend. That busy thing seems more of a Monday thing in this case.
 
I don’t like being sick, you guys.

{ feeling : cold
{ hearing : lauryn hill – superstar
 
I finished my Columbia application! Yay!
Well, I guess I still need a letter of recommendation.
But I finished my essay!
Please respond, Professor Bloggerizer!
 
It was Daison’s birthday a couple hours ago. I still need to write him a letter. I should really get cracking on those. I’ll do a bunch of them one of these days. I have to look for that old list I had.
 
I get to see a science teacher in action tomorrow! I actully paid! It’s free now. So if anyone’s interested and is over 18, The Bon Mots tomorrow night at the Metro? Well, they’re openers for Brad Peterson along with The 1900s. Just a suggestion if you’re bored tomorrow night. Free entertainment ain’t terrible.
 
I never blog cause I don’t know what to blog about. Um … There’s an artist I really like at the gallery I’m working at but I keep forgetting his name …? It’s like … Schwartzen … something. I’ll try remembering it when I go there next week.
 
Oh yes! I have built an external hard drive! It’s so pretty. I named her scarlet. Vantec is an ugly name for something so pretty.

{ feeling : lazy
{ hearing : thunderbirds are now! – eat this city
 
I should be studying.
I’ve been awake for 4 hours and I have not done so yet.
 
I have 2.5 days until the Biology final
And 3.5 for the Psychology final.

{ feeling : spiffy
{ hearing : the bon mots – ghetto falsetto
 

OH EM GEE, HAPPY ELEVEN MONTHS, JOE!!!!!1111ONEONEONELEVENITYHUNDRED
[ INSERT CHEESY PICTURES OF US HERE!!!!11111ONE ]
<3<3<3<3<3<3
On a side note, I find it cool that one of NCP’s teachers is playing Lollapalooza. I never had Mr. Coy as a teacher but I hear nice things about it. I dig his tunes at the very least. I hope to see their performance then! If anything, I’m seeing him perform in a couple weeks anyways.
 
I may be interning at an art gallery this summer!
I got better than usual on my psych and bio tests this week.
Sadly, there’s still a final for both of those next week.
BUT … … Annie Hardy is my reward after all that.

{ feeling : sick
{ hearing : giant drag – swan song
 
I’m surprised I have this song on.
I can’t stop listening to the cover of “Wicked Games”.
It’s so good. I like it better than Chris’s.
 
Semester’s winding down,
I feel uneasy about Biology and Psychology.
 
I’ve applied to about six various art related internships but no dice so far I got one reply so far. Oh noes, interview on Thursday. But yeah, Joe reassured me that he got a call after two weeks. It still worries me because I really need it. It’d be just … Wonderful.
 
I’ve been slowly weening off of the SL. I need another game or something to distract me. Maybe a book, I finished reading Harry Potter (finally) and The Hard Goodbye. Harry Potter digs Giant Drag. You should too. All ages show with Pretty Girls Make Graves at the Metro?
 
I love my boyfriend who is also my concert buddy.
Oh the cheese! Don’t die, I rarely do this sort of thing.

{ feeling : accomplished
{ hearing : giant drag – wicked game
 
So that was lame. Y’know … closing my blog like that. Well what’s even more lame is the fact I decided to just move it on over here and get rid of the name. I don’t know, that last layout on there was number thirty so I figured it was about time to retire it.
 
That and when I was listening to the song I named it after (not Evanescence’s version), I suddenly had the urge to get rid of it. I still like Marilyn Manson fine but y’know, I don’t listen to him as often as I used to.
 
Not much to say really. This is my first layout entirely done by me. No outside images or fonts were used. Well … If you count Arial Narrow an outside font. The heading there was me screwing around with a sharpie. That drawing was me, too. Not that great … Joe said the nose was odd.
 
I can’t draw noses.
 
Oh yeah, I decided to shift to getting a BFA in Graphic Design. It was inevitable. Too bad my mom didn’t realize this. She’s cutting all my funds and I’m going to be paying for the rest of my education on my own. I need a better paying job somehow.
 
Only problem is the getting into that portion. I’m in the College of Liberal Arts and Science and I need to get into the College of Arts and Architecture. In order to do this, I need a certain GPA but my semester has been going terrible academically. I need a tutor real bad for Psychology and Biology to get through this semester and into the Arts College.
 
Happier things that should be mentioned:
- The dad is cool with my decision
- Two more weeks of classes
- Giant Drag (I guess Pretty Girls Make Graves, too)
- The Bon Mots (I guess Brad Peterson, too)
- Murder by Death
- Intonation, Pitchfork, & Lollapalooza
 
My English Professor is psychic. He totally knew I was an Intonation kind of person. Oh my crazy blogging English Professor.