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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

"Oh my gosh I think I'm going to have to give you $2 when you go to work on Thursday!"

Sorry for the long wait but like I mentioned before life has been absolutely CRAZY. Let me recap my weekend:

Friday morning I left for Sioux Falls for a track meet. I was instantly depressed upon arriving because it was about 50 degrees there, sunny and their field looked like this:
There is one really important thing missing in this picture. SNOW. The only snow in all of Sioux Falls is those piles in the parking lot. I sat in the grass and laid down in the grass and didn't freeze or soak myself. I want Moorhead to look like that.
So that was Friday. Saturday I actually had the meet which was fun. I didn't do exceptionally well, but for throwing outside for the first time in disc (and throwing shot put for the first time since the conference meet) I guess I wasn't disappointed. Saturday night a friend and I sober-cabbed for a few friends and experienced a really, really epic projectile vomit. I'm talking like 10 feet. Across a room. And all over a laptop. Nasty. Needless to say, we didn't stick around for much longer after that.

Sunday was full of sleeping, editing a video, ellipticalling for a long, long time, some AbRibberX and doing last minute touch ups on my drawing project.

Monday was long, but relieving. I got A LOT done. I turned in my bird sculpture and critiqued it. It got mostly positive reviews and I decided to sit it on it's side (I called it "Tippy Sideways Bird," but it looks better that way) for my portfolio review tomorrow. Then I turned in my drawing project and critiqued it. It also got mostly positive reviews and I was relieved because I thought it would not. But here's how cool it looks hanging on the wall in the critique room:
Much cooler on the white wall than on the grey floor!

Econ was Econ, done. I had a hard lift then went to the design studio to finish up matting some projects for my review. Got it done. Awesome day. Big stress relief!

And finally, today. Today was pretty good. I turned in my "Pants Off Dance Off" video which was not good. It was a good concept but the sound is bad and my lighting is mostly bad too. But it's still fun to watch and it's only a minute long so it might be worth your time!
History was also just History. Track was interesting because we threw outside. There's not a lot of snow left outside. There is a lot of water. I mean A LOT of water. Like, the whole field is basically under at least an inch of water and in some places there is up to six. The English Channel runs along the right side of our throwing area, and I swam it twice today to retrieve discs. I would say that I was just happy to be throwing outside, but I was not happy to be throwing outside. I was wet and unhappy.

But after track some friends and I had a little adventure in Fargo. We went to Spicy Pie (a really really good pizza place in Fargo) because they had 2-for-1 slices of pizza. So basically, for $4 you got two slice of pizza (which in Spicy Pie language is close to half a pizza) and a pop. AWESOME. Then we went to Wal-Mart which was also... Fun.

I wanted to have picture of my portfolio review room all set up for you, but there were lots of people still there when I was setting up so I didn't get it all done and couldn't get pictures. But tomorrow, I promise.

I have to go to bed now, I have a 7AM wake-up call and a very, very important morning! I'll leave you with a little tweet I found amusing, from the Hulk himself, Clay Matthews (and don't ask for a context for this because I know as much about it as you do):

"Traffic traffic... Looking 4 my chapstick... Gettin kinda carsick... There's a Ford Maverick."

Friday, April 1, 2011

"These socks are for midgets."

Ahh, glorious Thursday. It was only glorious because I did not have my 10:30 class and I decided to forgo my 1:30 class in favor of soccer practice. I was set to simply not be there, but I happened to run into Prof and told him. He said, "OK." And it was great. And soccer was great. And dinner was... fine. Then I went grocery shopping for the first time this semester and brought some food that doesn't have a 100% sugar composition into our dorm. It looks out of place next to the jelly beans, candy corn and cookies. But it's delicious.

Then I did art. Lots of art. Some for fun, some not for fun. Here it is;

This was for fun. This is also a dark picture. I'll work harder to get a nicer picture, one day. (Ha ha, get it?).
The long awaited completion of my surrealism project. This is not completely complete because I put some double sided tape where the pages connect to make it lay flatter. But it's close.

Here's an actual complete picture. It's reaching out of the top of the picture, can you imagine what the rest of the robot looks like? Me either.
And a nearly completed bird flying over some rocks. I need to sand some more, and you can still totally tell where the tail broke off, but hey, it's better than last time you saw it.

Besides that, my day was "chill." I found these pictures that also made me happy. I took one and didn't take the other, can you tell which is which?
Ok, I'll just tell you. I took this one. It's my campus, in case you can't recognize it. The really bright light in the upper right corner is where I live. If I thought you could find me based on this picture, I wouldn't have told you that.
And I keep finding scarier and scarier picture of Clay Matthews from this photo shoot. But still, just a little sexy, right?

My quote today is from a tweet I read when I woke up this morning afternoon. From Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight on The Office. He's funny. Read the whole thing if you wanna LOL. [The part like this were other peoples' who he re-posted on his Twitter. Gotta give credit where credit is due!]:

"Dancing With the Stars 2012 wishlist: Mickey Rourke, Qaddafi, Snooki, Jet Li, a robot, Sting, Knut's corpse, An Olsen twin, Anderson Cooper, Satan, Howard Stern, a turd, Macchio, Berlisconi, Marilyn & Charlie Manson, an albino, Korn, the cast of Ave Q (w/ puppets), @, Osama Bin Laden, another turd of some kind, Frosty the Snowman, Suri Cruise, a gay veterinarian, Tori Spelling's vagina, discharge of some kind, Bob's Big Boy, a severed finger, Cher, Fred Durst impersonator, Hello Kitty, Half of Santa, a pebble, Cher, a box of napalm, Vin Diesel, Cher's fa..., Charo, Gary Glitter's hard drive, Pete Rose, the dead half of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, White Snake, Michelle Bachman, the University of Kansas, Loki the Trickster God, Chief Seattle's rattle, a rare fungus, Cher, [fish parts, Optimus Orime, Rebecca Black's home ec. teacher, the Aflac duck, Bizarro, Paul Reubens(not Pee-Wee), Moby, Hobo with golden voice, Octomom (& brood), slice of deli meat, Mel Gibson's beard, Stephen Hawking's wheelchair, Cthulhu, Paris Hilton's dog, and zombie Abe Lincoln]."