Say cheeese-

CAKE! At Cheesecake Factory, when the dude was taking our picture, he said, “Say cheese!” and I added “Cake!” and thought I was uber clever. Nobody heard me. Sometimes that’s how life rolls.

I met the manager at Audrey’s Starbucks today. I have an interview Thursday. I’m getting a good vibe. Audrey said as long as my hours work, I’m almost sure to get it. I hope so.

So the whole point of this post, though, is to post some pictures because I FINALLY found my camera cord. From now on, I’m not allowed to buy a camera unless it uses the universal plug because I need to be able to borrow one when I lose mine. I think it’s because I am a MESS right now, and really have no desire to clean up. Maybe this weekend if I don’t go home, which it looks like I won’t be anyways because of a possible job.

PICTURES!:

This is when it snowed… one of the many days that it has snowed now. Probably about a week, week and a half ago.

The following three are of my new boots. I don’t have any straight-legged jeans, so I had to wear flares with my jeans. To get the leg down in the boot, though, I had to use a knitting needle. It was quite a difficult ordeal. I was afraid to take them off all day.:

I saw this when I was out walking Sunday. It gave me quite a chuckle. They aren’t actually touching; there is literally an INCH seperating them. Bostonians are basically the best people in the world as parallel parking with only an inch to spare.

This is me looking cold on Sunday. It was actually beautiful Sunday. Since we aren’t in single digits anymore, I’ve tried to go out walking every day in the beautiful 20s-degree weather.

Today I finally broke down and bought new shoes. I’ve been wearing my flats for about four months now in the freezing cold because I didn’t want to spend money buying new shoes. I can’t wear my converse all the time, though, and my red sneakers are all holey now, and my black flats hurt like heck. I decided shoes are sort of a necessity, though, so I bougth these and think they are SUPER cute.

A very nice black woman helped me pick them out. She was telling me all about her fashion style and how she bosses her friends around. She was super nice and funny and part of me bought them simply because she was so nice, haha. I also bought them because I seriously think I’ve been getting the beginning of frostbite in my toes.

This is me getting back after walking around for two hours because I forgot my gloves at Payless and had to go ALLLLLL the way back. I was a bit chilled.

Like I said, my living space is a mess right now. I am alllll over the place. But, like I have my chair at home, this is my chair here. As you can see, there is crap all over my corner. I’ll clean it this weekend, I promise, roomies!

I realized this little guy was sitting on my desk today. I haven’t messed with my desk much since I’ve been back just because I haven’t had any homework that requires me to use my desk. And sitting with my electric blanket is so comfy. But so this little dude has been sitting on my desk since October. If you can’t tell, he’s making an odd face due to the mold eating him alive. I decided to do the humane thing and toss him. Poor little guy.

And that concludes this picture time. I am going to return to ODing on caffeine to get rid of my headache (an Aleve, two midol, a cup of a coffee, and a coffee cake muffin that I don’t feel guilty at ALL for eating; I’m sure there’s not actually any coffee in it, but it was in the name, so I thought I’d give it a try).

My wireless isn’t working. I need to track Matt down and ask him to fix it. I also need to submit to the Literary Anthology. And write my Jot for Honors tomorrow. And get my class council sheet from downstairs. I just don’t have the motivation to DO any of it, though…

Weird…

Yesterday morning I was talking in my dream, and then I realized I was actually saying it out loud, though. I could hear Erin was awake, so I said, “I’m talking to myself, aren’t I?” She said if I was, she didn’t hear it, but it scared her when I asked because she didn’t know I was awake. Weird…

Later, after walking around shopping for Audrey’s birthday present, this middle-aged black man with his two little boys came up to me on the street and asked, “Can you tell me where Beacon Hill and Exeter is? God, your eyes are killing me.” At first I thought something might be WRONG with my eyes –like that they were bleeding or something creepy like that. I gave him his directions, he thanked me, and went on his way. I think it was actually a compliment. Weird…

Then, in honor of Audrey’s birthday, the entire room went out to Cheesecake Factory. I had a yummy Oreo mudslide cake (and didn’t feel guilty; weird…) and then we walked back and I talked to Juliette about school and the Castle and so on. It’s the first time our room has done anything all together since I think October. And we enjoyed it. Weird…

Tonight Erin and me went out to dinner together at Uno’s. We were going to wait for everyone else and go together, but we were too hungry, so we went just the two of us. It was actually a lot, lot of fun. I really enjoyed talking to her about EVERYTHING –stupid stuff, serious stuff, school stuff, world stuff. It was just a lot of fun. I feel like we’ve really been getting along wonderfully since Christmas break, like we’re actually friends now, and I’m enjoying it. I’m enjoying her. Weird…

My wireless internet isn’t working, so I’m having to use ethernet. Sucky AND weird…

And I hopefully probably have a job at Starbucks with Audrey. He boss said to fill out an application and come by tomorrow. I can either go early early in the morning while she’s working and then come back for my ten o’clock class (so I’d have to go at like eight, eight-thirty) or I can go after my class, but she won’t be working. I think I’ll shoot for early morning but I’m afraid that isn’t going to happen. But I might hopefully have a job now! At Starbucks! Weird…

And now I need to go get my clothes out of the dryer downstairs. I’ve been putting off doing laundry as long as I possibly could, but I literally did not have another clean pair of socks or underwear, and my pants were bad, so I broke down and did it. I’m not looking forward to folding my clothes, and I usually love folding clothes. Weird…

And that has been this weekend in review (oh, Saturday, I literally did NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING all day; I left my room once, for food). Weird…

A graphic novel

We talked about graphic novels in Honors today. Here is a graphic novel about my day.

I will have to fix my roots tomorrow. But that means spending money. I have to buy new sensitive toothpaste too so I can stop microwaving my pineapple before I eat it. Because it is pathetic to burn your tongue on PINEAPPLE.

Still no word from Starbucks. I am going to visit tomorrow and Audrey said she is too.

I made a bunch of graphics today. Here are some for Valentine’s Day:

I think these are two of the cutest layouts I have made:

A lot has really happened

in the past two days between church, the football party at Osei’s apartment (which was fun and I met some wonderful new people and now have a lot of things, hopefully to look forward to), all the snow we’ve been getting, class, and… well, that’s it, basically. Still no word from Starbucks. I’d write more because I’m sure everyone is so, interested, but if you haven’t looked at the time, it’s 3:01 AM and I have class at ten. This is the first day I have been back and not gone to bed at midnight. I’m hoping that staying up a little later tonight will kick my sleep cycle back into normal so that I don’t require fifteen hours of sleep a day because I’m sorry, that’s ridiculous. I think this is how I fixed it last semester. We’ll see.

And now… it is 3:02. That = bedtime in my world.

Well since it’s up

here’s my last essay I wrote for my Honors seminar last semester. It got great remarks (all profressor remarks are in [] and italics), so I thought I’d share it with the world, rofl.

Here

Kinda makes up for 10 degree weather…

This morning I woke up to this:

That, my friend, is SNOW! It snowed super hard for about thirty minutes, so I THREW some clothes on and went running outside to walk through it on my way to breakfast, pick up my books, and Starbucks. Unfortunately, the dining hall wasn’t open at 10am on Saturday (wth?) and neither was the bookstore, so I just went by Starbucks to check on my application. Still no word.

Then, it was just too cool outside to go back, so I went walking for an hour.

This is the pond in the Public Garden all frozen over:

This is me in the same spot I took the Ophelia picture, only it’s winter now:

And this is the little circle of thawed water that I’m pretty sure the city drilled out for the duckies. Either that or those ducks are generating some MASSIVE body heat and just might be what’s causing global warming.

Other than that, it was a sit-in-the-room day. I have two cool things I meant to blog about, but neither of them are at hand. So I’ll save them for a day when it didn’t snow, so I can’t write about it snowing.

I did homework all day and wrote a bit and talked to people and read a lot and picked up my books and read more and wrote more and talked to people about random events in their life that, when put into perspective, don’t really seem all that important anymore. I’ll talk about perspective in another post.

We also had another fire alarm today, but I didn’t leave because the lights weren’t blinking on my floor. That marks like the FIFTH alarm that’s gone off since I’ve been back. (okay, it may only actually be fourth).

And now… now my apartment smells like popcorn which is a cruel smell.

And now… that is all.

Still no job

I’m beginning to panic, because I probably have things going on every weekend in February, so I really need to get started this month. I badly need the money. So badly.

I think I’ll go visit Starbucks and Bath&Bodyworks tomorrow to see if my applications have been reviewed. Gosh, I want that Starbucks job so badly.

HOORAH!

The demon scarf is finished!! And I like it enough that I will definitely be making more… though not for a few weeks.

However, this does pose an interesting problem. I’m almost out of yarn, and I’m not allowed to buy anything except bare necessities until I am gainfully employed. So what do I do now?

Fatally Faux: Do you know what that thing reminds me of?
Fatally Faux: it is most definately the sea plant that Ursela dances with

Global warning

advocates (well, advocates for the cause, not for global warning itself), as well as advocates for many other groups often stand outside of Emerson College dorm buildings. Overall, I think this is very smart. Emerson kids tend to be crazy involved and crazy passionate about a WIDE array of causes.

However, something just tells me that when it is 10 degrees outside, global warming is not foremost in everyone’s mind. And, I don’t know, I just would have a difficult time stopping to talk to an advocate for the cause of global warming when I’m losing feeling in my fingers and toes due to the onset of frostbite. Maybe global AWARENESS would be worth it… but I’m just not feeling the whole global warming thing at that precise moment.

I loved my creative writing class today. I usually hate reading my work to people. I post it online but I fear reading it to people face-to-face and seeing their immediate reaction. I’m so critical of my work that I dread the inevitable onslaught of criticism, despite the fact that I rarely ever receive it (this is not something I am happy about, by the way). Today we had to read short stories we wrote last night, though, and I received such positive feedback that I’m wishing I didn’t have to wait until Tuesday to have this class again.

You know you live in Boston when: it’s 32 degrees outside and you’re like, “Man, it’s a beautiful day! I think I’ll go walking!”

Today I learned 52 new words in ASL. Only 6 billion to go.

Now I’m going to go finally finish that potato chip scarf. I’ll post pictures when it’s done.

Back in business!

After an month+ hiatus, we’re back to blogging. I can always tell how homesick I am because the more homesick I am, the more I blog. It’s basically me e-mailing me mom but posting it on the internet for anyone else interested to read.

Had Honors class this morning, which will be every MWF and is THREE HOURS LONG. That is a really long class. I’m actually looking forward to it, though, particularly the BIG research paper due in April.

Then Diana and me headed off to job search. CPK and the Starbucks in Cityplace weren’t hiring, nor was Macy’s, and though Bath and Bodyworks took my application, I didn’t get a good vibe. Then we walked into the Starbuck’s on teh corner and they had a now hiring sign. Pray/cross your fingers for me because this would be an amazing job! It’s right down the street, Audrey and I could cover shifts for each other, and it ’s a job I could continue at home. It would be perfect!

Now… now I’m working on ASL until my 4pm class (history of photography). I want to get licensed as an interpreter for ASL, so I figured I might as well work on it now, right? I’m also ALMOST finished with my scarf; I’ll post pictures when it’s done.

Oh, and I miss Lauren. It just doesn’t feel quite right without her here. I haven’t met the new roommate yet, but no matter how great she is, she won’t be Lauren.