Monday, October 31, 2005
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Isn't my Jack O' Lantern awsome? I've named him Charlie. Our party on saturday went wonderfully. A lot of people showed up, and everyone had some kind of costume or another. There was lots of mingling, drinking, some dancing, and Rock Horror! Elia and I got quite teh drunk and harassed Phil, Noah and Kim around 2am after the party wound down. All in all, it was big fun. Here are a few shots of costumes and whatnot:
(I was a 60's mod girl...check out that hott $3 dress!)
(this is Elia as a drunk flapper girl)
(The Decade Girls in order from left to right: 80's Sara, 60's Me, 50's Pam, 40's Vasare, 20's Elia...MIA is 70's Annie)
(I just had to include Alex as Bob Ross...uncanny resemblance)
On Sunday I ditched out of work early to go apple picking with Phil and Kim. It was so much fun. The weather was simply beautiful and I got a TON of apples. (ok, well not a ton, but a half bushel which translates into about 35 apples). I went home and made a bunch of apple sauce! It was really nice! Going apple picking has always been a tradition in my family since I was a kid. I went my freshman year with the honors group, but I didn't get to go last year, so it was really nice to do it again. Phil and Kim are a riot, and it was fun just to get off of campus! I feel like I've really made the most of the Halloween season! I'm really excited about Thanksgiving now. I'm ready to go home for a bit and see people there. However, I've got a ton of work to do between now and then, so good night and good luck to you all!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
(I was a 60's mod girl...check out that hott $3 dress!)
(this is Elia as a drunk flapper girl)
(The Decade Girls in order from left to right: 80's Sara, 60's Me, 50's Pam, 40's Vasare, 20's Elia...MIA is 70's Annie)
(I just had to include Alex as Bob Ross...uncanny resemblance)
On Sunday I ditched out of work early to go apple picking with Phil and Kim. It was so much fun. The weather was simply beautiful and I got a TON of apples. (ok, well not a ton, but a half bushel which translates into about 35 apples). I went home and made a bunch of apple sauce! It was really nice! Going apple picking has always been a tradition in my family since I was a kid. I went my freshman year with the honors group, but I didn't get to go last year, so it was really nice to do it again. Phil and Kim are a riot, and it was fun just to get off of campus! I feel like I've really made the most of the Halloween season! I'm really excited about Thanksgiving now. I'm ready to go home for a bit and see people there. However, I've got a ton of work to do between now and then, so good night and good luck to you all!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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Saturday, October 29, 2005
(Light up tuba!!)
Well, I suppose the last post was needlessly angsty. Life is good. I'm keepin busy and staying healthy.
(Grand Finale!)
Last weekend was exciting. We went to the Dresden Dolls concert. There were so many crazy weird people there, it was so entertaining! It was definantly the most theatrical concert I've ever seen. And I got to see my Morky, so that was an added bonus. Before the show, Elia and I went to The Blue Nile, which is this Ethopian resturant in Columbus. It was really fun, and the food was great! You sit at these cool little wicker tables and eat communially with your hands. The guy who owned the place was very nice too.
Mork!
Saturday, Laura and I filmed for our documentary. We were on site filming for like 10 hours! It was crazy and tiring, but we got some really good footage, and we made quite a few contacts. People were comming up to us and talking to us and asking for a copy of the film when we're done with it. I'm so pleased with how our documentary is turning out. I feel like a real filmmaker. I swear I have such a love/hate relationship with film. Everytime I swear it off. I say I'll never do it again, that I hate it and it's not worth it. But then, I keep comming back to it. I enjoy it, honestly. I love the end product. And I guess I'm finally realising that all of the heartach and work and time that goes into it, is actually worth it. It's hard, no doubt, but I feel like I'm getting better as I go. It really is just like any other art form. No one is born a natural filmaker. You've got to bust your ass to get better at it. And the first few films you make are gonna suck. Period. That's just how it is. But they get better, things get somewhat easier. Who knows, maybe I could actually go somewhere with this.
Tonight we're throwing a Halloween party. It should be big fun. I'll definantly try to post with details and photos later.
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
I suppose I knew things wouldn't turn out the way I planned or wished for them to. That still doesn't keep me from being disappointed.
whatever happened to the good old days when my life was wraught with drama?
ya know, a crush is actually a good thing. At least when you have a crush you have someone to focus your attention on. If I had a crush, I would know what to do with myself and all this built up frustration. I don't need a man, but good God I need a man. Life has become somewhat boring. I'm getting sick of this college rutiene. I need something new. This year is like a remake of sophmore year...completly different, yet the same, and not quite as good as the origional.
Sorry for the personal and blunt entry, but I'm drunk and I don't care cause no one reads this anyways. I'm also getting sick of psudo-political rants. Caring gives me a headach. Ignorance really is bliss kids. If you start paying attention, you'll just see how bad of shape the world is in and how little you can do about it.
And now I sleep.
whatever happened to the good old days when my life was wraught with drama?
ya know, a crush is actually a good thing. At least when you have a crush you have someone to focus your attention on. If I had a crush, I would know what to do with myself and all this built up frustration. I don't need a man, but good God I need a man. Life has become somewhat boring. I'm getting sick of this college rutiene. I need something new. This year is like a remake of sophmore year...completly different, yet the same, and not quite as good as the origional.
Sorry for the personal and blunt entry, but I'm drunk and I don't care cause no one reads this anyways. I'm also getting sick of psudo-political rants. Caring gives me a headach. Ignorance really is bliss kids. If you start paying attention, you'll just see how bad of shape the world is in and how little you can do about it.
And now I sleep.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
I get really annoyed with old people. Not 'old' old people, I mean older people, particularly the ones who run the world. They're always talking about how degenerate young people are now. How we have so much sex, how we're so violent, how we have no morals. Oh yeh, things were soooo much better way back when. You were all such swell people, and no one EVER had sex. Ummm...lemme see...WWI, WWII, Korea(well, we won't count that, it wasn't a REAL war) Vietnam...yeah, you guys were so peaceful. Baby Boomers make me sick. They act like they're so moral and upright and like 'kids today' are so corrupt. Don't they realize that's exactly what their parents said about them, what with Elivs and all that Rock and Roll business, and GASP Television and comic books?! It's the same thing their grandparents said about their parents, with their devil jazz music and short haired women and all that organized crime. See a trend here? It's just the way the world works...old people are afraid of what the younger generation brings, so they say things were so much better back in their day. Fucking get over yourselvs. Anyway, you're the ones who fucked up this world before I even came into it! I read an article today about how our oil revenue will probably peak by 2020, if it hasn't already. But the people talking about it in the article were acting like we've got all the time in the world, it isn't as big of a deal as it's made out to be. Maybe for you it isn't! You're old, and by then you'll be even older if not dead, so you don't care! But I'm going to have to fucking deal with this mess IN MY LIFETIME. Seriously, oil is the issue of our generation. It WILL be dealt with, weather we want to or not, cause one day (and one day soon) it's not going to be around. So how bout you old people who have so much power, authority, intelligence and morals start doing something about this instead of complaining about how much oral sex teenagers are having.
I've got another rant stored up about Denison, but I'm giving myself a headach...
I've got another rant stored up about Denison, but I'm giving myself a headach...
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Thursday, October 06, 2005
Hey guys. All of you who read this, probably read Ian's blog too, and you're probably all sick of my own psudo-political rants, but oh well. I'm not going to repeat everything Ian's said, but here's the gist of it. A lot of soy which is marketed as 'eco-friendly' is actually grown in Brazil. This is bad, because soy farming is a big problem with the destruction of the rainforests. Now, America is the #1 producer of soy, so one would think there is no real reason to buy soy from Brazil, right? Well apparently some companies think it's a great idea. Here is an article outlining the problem. It's a little bit dated, but it's still relevent.
I've also got another slant to this. In addition to destroying the rainforests, which is bad enough, this is taking money out of our already struggling agriculture economy. Now, where I'm from, factory farms are a BIG issue. They are responsible for the collapse of so many family run farms. They kill rural communities, and they wreak havoc on the environment. I'm not just spouting this off, I've seen it. My mom works for an Environmental Remediation company, and she has told me stories of HUGE piles of chicken shit, just sitting in silos, slowly leaking into the water table. This is for real. BG people, it's happening right where we live, and I can guarentee it's happening across the country.
Now this whole buying from other countries sucks, because it's not simply taking money out of the US, but it's taking money directly out of family farmers hands. These companies who buy Brazilian soy would probably otherwise buy local and family soy. That's their big selling point, that they're eco-friendly and that they support family farms. Hell, White Wave was one of the biggest sponsors of Farm Aid.
Now, I'm not directly attacking these organic companies, because in comparison to other companies they are a lot less evil. However it's important that we call them out on this. And since they're less evil (quasi-evil if you will) perhaps we have a chance of actually making things change. Anyway, you should all go to White Wave and tell them how you feel about this issue. Ian provides a really nice letter for you, if you want to cut and paste. My letter was a little less eloquent...but the point is, make your voice heard!
I've also got another slant to this. In addition to destroying the rainforests, which is bad enough, this is taking money out of our already struggling agriculture economy. Now, where I'm from, factory farms are a BIG issue. They are responsible for the collapse of so many family run farms. They kill rural communities, and they wreak havoc on the environment. I'm not just spouting this off, I've seen it. My mom works for an Environmental Remediation company, and she has told me stories of HUGE piles of chicken shit, just sitting in silos, slowly leaking into the water table. This is for real. BG people, it's happening right where we live, and I can guarentee it's happening across the country.
Now this whole buying from other countries sucks, because it's not simply taking money out of the US, but it's taking money directly out of family farmers hands. These companies who buy Brazilian soy would probably otherwise buy local and family soy. That's their big selling point, that they're eco-friendly and that they support family farms. Hell, White Wave was one of the biggest sponsors of Farm Aid.
Now, I'm not directly attacking these organic companies, because in comparison to other companies they are a lot less evil. However it's important that we call them out on this. And since they're less evil (quasi-evil if you will) perhaps we have a chance of actually making things change. Anyway, you should all go to White Wave and tell them how you feel about this issue. Ian provides a really nice letter for you, if you want to cut and paste. My letter was a little less eloquent...but the point is, make your voice heard!
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Sunday, October 02, 2005
Serenity...what can I say?
This is the first sci-fi movie of it's genere to really blow me away since the origional Star Wars trilliogy. I wouldn't dare say it's better than Star Wars, but...well...it's definantly up there. I hear rumors that there may be a trillogy of this series, and I certainly hope so. It is the Star Wars of our generation. Seriously folks.
And cinematically, it really is a good movie. It has just the right amount of humor without detracting from the dramatic scenes. It has a great plot, with very humanistic elements that are very compelling. I loved how the assasin was delt with (I won't give any spoilers but he's not your traditional villin). All of the characters are just very well done. And the soundtrack is great too!
It's just...Wow. Guys, go see Serenity. Just do it. Now. Stop reading this and go see it.
This is the first sci-fi movie of it's genere to really blow me away since the origional Star Wars trilliogy. I wouldn't dare say it's better than Star Wars, but...well...it's definantly up there. I hear rumors that there may be a trillogy of this series, and I certainly hope so. It is the Star Wars of our generation. Seriously folks.
And cinematically, it really is a good movie. It has just the right amount of humor without detracting from the dramatic scenes. It has a great plot, with very humanistic elements that are very compelling. I loved how the assasin was delt with (I won't give any spoilers but he's not your traditional villin). All of the characters are just very well done. And the soundtrack is great too!
It's just...Wow. Guys, go see Serenity. Just do it. Now. Stop reading this and go see it.
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