NOW WITH MORE MEGAPIXELS!

coming soon to my possession: sony's dsc-w7.  basically the same thing that i had before, but with more megapixels!  i took my little dead camera (rest in peace!) to target, and as sad as it was, it will be better in the end. 

i had a fabulous weekend, thursday night at work kathy came by and we discovered we both had friday off, so we ended up spending a good chunk of the day together.  we met at fin and feather were i spent $50 on shoes that i now have to return even though they are pink, and from there went to her house to bake a pie.  then we got parker and returned, and there were some potato pancakes with a sauce and a nice salad prepared and devoured, and some talking happened, and some pie eaten, and then i went home to sleep.   

saturday i opened guest service where i was bored out of my mind for a few hours and then going absolutely crazy running around for the rest of the time.  around nine beth and i went to a party just out of town because bryan's band was going to play and we wanted to go hear them.  (and drink a little beer.) the band played and we listened and tapped our toes and such, and i talked with tara who is friends with bryan.  (she was one of the people i was with that night when my camera died.)  she is really nice and also an artist, so we talked for awhile and i was invited to her cd release party in march. at around 2:30 we decided to leave, and bryan wanted to ride home with us, so i'm sitting near the door waiting for them to say goodbye to people and gather their things, and this guy with bleach blond hair comes and sits next to me. and he was trying to get me to stay the night like some people were going to do, and i was trying to be polite and all, but i was also somewhat annoyed by this drunk guy, and trying to send out telepathic rays to bryan and beth to hurry up and come rescue me. but in the end i had to rescue myself and go find them.  it was kind of funny, but also at the same time not so much since i was so tired. 

so we came back to the house and were hungry, and we ate cereal and tator tots and fun things like that, and then when bryan accidently dropped a plate on the floor, we all laughed a little and then went to our rooms because we thought we might have woken up anna or melody, and they wouldn't have been happy about it.  and that was at a quarter to four.  so the next morning i slept until 11, ate some food, and went back to bed until 1.  the rest of the day i watched "the war that made america" on pbs and sometimes cleaned my floor, finally.  it took three different times of sweeping/mopping it before it got even close to being clean.

also, i still can't find my tv remote.  it's been three weeks since i last saw it.  i have NO IDEA how this is even possible since i live in a room that is less than 20x20 feet.

my sanity has been saved!

okay, so not really, i feel as crazy i usually do which is to say that at least person called me "weird" at work today, but yeah.

that song that i wanted to know the name of?  i found it.  it's jefferson starship, "jane".  i found it when i was cleaning stuff out of my computer, so i guess i downloaded it when i was trying to find it online.  but i was so excited i did a happy dance and then listened to it 20 times.  and then it was in my head all the next day at work.

also, i guess i never mentioned that i bought my plane ticket to visit laura.  and that melody and i might go to alaska for the summer.  we're talking about it, in a very tentative, maybe, somewhat possible way.  that would be completely fabulous, but if i don't, then i will rock out in ic.

i hate that i can't talk to laura, because it makes me want to every second of the day.

a backlog of photos

bouche de noel--not quite king's cake, but just as good.

this is the kind of thing you will have to put up with now that i am back online

one of my away messages makes a mention of the head of stanislaus grumman.  when i first read that, it took me about a week to realize that there was no actual person called that that it was, in fact, a reference to his dark materials.  otherwise known as "the books i obsess about".  i only mention this because i just read that they found a new director for the films, anand tucker.

"Hurley finds something cool enough to warrant a 'Dude!' in one of the bags, though, to be fair, Hurley deals out 'Dude!'s so liberally, it could be, like, anything, from a hairbrush to the head of Stanislaus Grumman."

also, i think that it's really funny for some reason that someone from television without pity referenced his dark materials.

i bet you missed me!

but here i am!  nasty cold and all!

my internet still seems to be down, and it's getting irritating.  i promise, soon i will try to make it work, and then i can read everyone's blogs again. 

work has slowed down a lot, and i haven't been scheduled as much.  on one hand, i'm worried since i kind of need that money to do things like pay my rent and eat, but it's giving me time to do other things (like work on that resulotion of mine) and finish my portfolio.  i went to the darkroom at the imu, and let's just say i was SERIOUSLY spoiled with the darkroom at cornell.  i hated being at the imu darkroom and i never want to use it again.  ugh.  so that is almost finished, so all i have left is to finish actually filling out my application, getting my picture taken (why do europeans want to know what you look like?) and get my transcripts from cornell.  and of course, mail everything to england. 

the thing about my schedule though, that's really pissing me off, is the person who schedules me is putting me on saturdays.  after a little conversation in which i said i did not want to work on saturdays.  i think i'm being punished.  and, of course, i'm scheduled to work the day that david's birthday party is being planned for.  so i'm going to have to work something out with that one because that is just getting to be extremely irritating.

and...i almost bought my plane ticket to new york today, but priceline could only give me a ticket $30 cheaper than the normal price.  and that's not really worth it since then i can't even choose when i go, so i guess i might just try a little later and hope it just won't get even more expensive.

that's pretty much all that's going on right now.  a few days ago i lost my tv remote, and i can't find it anywhere.  it's sad, because now i can't play my spongebob game that my brother gave me, and i can't watch any dvds because i can no longer change it to channel 3.  so i'm stuck watching lousy fox shows and a lot of pbs until i can locate it.  seriously, i live in one room.  it should not be that hard to find it.  oh!  and mardi gras is february 28.  i should re-post my king's cake recipe, and everyone should celebrate by making some.  i'm thinking about having a mardi gras party of some sort, myself.  laissez les bon temps roulez!

nope. not dead.

hello friends!  i am here!  i am still alive, i have survived another christmas at target.  this one was much worse than last year, and i actually had a couple of people yell at me or at least in my general direction.  i have not been online in about two weeks, because my internet sucks.  i say, "hey internet, you douchebag!"  and my internet replies with "a douche is a hygenic product, i take that as a compliment."

right.

so i had a fabulous christmas, five days at home with no work to think about and nothing to do but hang out with my family and watch tv channels i don't normally get to watch.  i also saw the chronicles of narnia, which was good, but had to endure my sister's constant criticisms afterwards.  then i came back to iowa city, worked some more, went out to a bar where some of my co-workers were one night (and got drunk), and last weekend went to amber's wedding.  then i went with bryan and kyle to mt. vernon to hang out with some of their friends, and went to randall's (or northside, whatever.)  i got pretty stupid drunk, and also did something to my camera i guess, because i can't even turn it on now.  so i don't have any pictures yet, that is something for me to work on.  but anyway, it was a lot of fun except for the part where i felt sick ALL DAY on sunday when i had to work for a couple of hours for a co-worker.

and i swore i would never drink so much again, but you know me, i can't keep my word on something like that.

i have had my hours cut at work, which sucks, but it means i am working on my portfolio a little bit.  i went the memorial union today to use the darkroom, and i have to say, i was spoiled at cornell.  i didn't enjoy the few hours i spent there at all, and i am very unhappy with the way my prints turned out.  i think that i might see if the app i am doing this for i can send in slides instead, because i just odn't know what to do except keep working on it.  it's very frustrating, i have to say.

but bryan and i made some dinner and we shared it with melody, which was so much fun.  whenever i eat green beans from now on, i will have to think about frogs and grasshoppers.  also, i have not been so full in forever.  now, melody is letting my use her computer, and later, bryan and i are going to watch the 40-year-old virgin.

and remember last year's new years resolution?  well, i totaled up with 90 books for the year, and even though most of those were YA and not the books i meant to read, that's still a pretty good figure.  my resolution for this year is to beat that, or at least read more of the books that i already own.  at least, that is after i re-read his dark materials.