Hey friendly friends of mine..
There's going to be a truly fantastic animation show at my school!
I haven't heard back officially...but I am pretty sure that yours truly, among some other great people's stuff will be shown.
So..
If you love me.. you should come and see mine, and other people's wonderful animations!


If you're coming to MassArt by T...
It's super easy.
Take the Greenline, "E", outbound
Get off at Longwood...and voila, the auditorium is the big black & glass tower across the street!
You should definately come!!
I'll be there!!

haven't written in forever.......because....
well.
I've been writing in myspace...
If you miss reading my blogs... you should check it out there.

it's: http://blog.myspace.com/sairahmonster

Anyway....


So it's been quite a while since I've updated...
A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks.
For starters...
I went to Europe with my mom for a week.
PHOTOS FROM MY TRIP ARE POSTED HERE:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sairahmonster/

We left Boston March 3 via Iceland air onward to Paris, France.
We had a brief layover in Reykjavik, Iceland which was kind of cool.... what a barron country...but very cool looking from the sky. You can see all the volcanoes and stuff from the sky.
So apparently in Iceland...they have Iceland Idols... (like American Idol...)...and the final contestants of Iceland Idol.....sat directly infront of us...it was nuts... there were camera crews and stuff filming them all the way to Paris....
So upon arrival in Charles de Gaulle airport...after not sleeping at all on the plane.... my mom and I find our way to our hotel right in Montmartre...which is in district 9 of Paris...
I've been to Paris once before..in high school...but since going to colllege...I've learned so much more about history and art...so this time in Paris was a particular treat... Because I really knew what I was seeing..and could thoroughly appreciate it. So our first day in Paris, we just wandered around Montmartre and shopped...and a wonderful dinner and great wine.
The next day we crammed in a bus tour on a double decker bus and did the following:
Went to the Louvre, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, Arc de triumph, and tried to go to d'Orsay....but because it was the first sunday of the month....all national museums were free...so there was a line that was forever long...and it would've taken like an hour to get in...and our time was tight. We ended the night by going to the Moulin Rouge....which was totally incredible...(we actually bumped into our Iceland Idol friends from our flight over, while we were there...they remembered us from the plane...it was so weird)...so anyway, back to the show.. the show was really cool...and like nothing I'd expect it to be.. The girls did the can-can dance.along with a number of other dances....saw some original Toulouse- Lautrec drawings....
Had a bottle of champagne with me mom.
It was great.
So the next morning we went to Gare du Nord, which is the giant train station in Amelie. There we waited for our Thalys train to take to Amsterdam, Holland.
While waiting for our train.......I found a photobooth and took a geeky picture.....like Amelie did in the movie....I figured it just made sense and I had to....
so then we took our 180mph train through Belgium....and 5 hours later...made it to Amsterdam.
It was a beautiful ride....

Once we got to Central Station in Amsterdam, we got a cab and went to our hotel.
Dropped off our stuff and just wandered around our neighborhood.
Then the next day we went to the Anne Frank Huis (Anne Frank house).
It was incredible.
I had just finished reading her diary before we left for our trip....it was very moving.
Sad.
Then afterward we took a bus tour, and canal tour of the city.
On the bus tour we went to the Amstel Diamond factory....and learned how diamonds are cut... honestly...i thought it'd be a total bore....( my mom wanted to go....) but it was actually very interesting.
So we topped off that night with a walk through the red light district...
Saw some girls shaken stuff in their windows...
It was crazy.
There was such a preditorial feel walking through the streets... my mom and I of course being like the only females walking around the area...that weren't in the windows..
So then the next morning, we got up and went to the Rjiks museum....so lots of Rembrant paintings, Vermeer, etc. It was pretty cool. Then we went to the Van Gogh museum.....which I really liked a lot. They had a lot more late 19th century art...which I'm a lot more into. The Reniassance period was incredible....but I'm not as drawn to it as I am late 19th century stuff. I saw more Toulouse-Latrec's stuff, including a bunch of other artists that mingleded with Van Gogh and Toulouse-Latrec....like this guy Bernard who was awesome.... I saw one of the original Chat Noir prints.... it was really impressive..
And of course, the Van Gogh collection it's self was amazing.
So then after the museums...we went to the Heineken Brewery....whichw as incredibly fun...I highly recommend it to anyone that visits Amsterdam.
Afterwards, it was like 6pm....my mom wanted to go back to the hotel...but since it was our last night there....I wanted to roam around a bit more..so I went to a "coffee shop"......
For those of you that don't know much about Holland....
Well.
They have these places called brown cafes...which are more popularly known as coffee shops.....where you can buy and smoke weed and hash.....crazy right??
So I popped into one which also had an internet bar...so I didn't smoke....I was alone...and I thought that'd be sketchy...
Haha
But I went in one and chilled out for like a half hour.

So then I wandered back to the hotel, to find out that our room had been broken into.
My cellphone, and a bag of souvenirs from Paris was stolen..... my mom's jewelry and her camera were stolen also.... so we called the police... they came....and then we went to their station and filled out a report. They were sooooo nice...it was incredible. After the report they drove us around the city...took us to Rembrant square to show us these bronze reliefed statues from his famous painting, Night Watch...and then they took us on another tour of the red light district...
It was soooo surreal.
I was like.....what.... the police are giving us a tour of the prositute district...
It was so normal for them...
It was great though......my mom and I were totally impressed with how polite and generous they were to us. So we ended the night with them taking us to a really nice resturaunt...
Nuts right???

So the next day, the 9th we headed back to Boston....to learn some not so great news..
When we arrived at Logan, we heard a page over the intercom telling us to go to the nearest info desk. There was a message there to call Chris's parents. So I called and found out that Chris was in the emergency room.
So my mom and I went straight from the airport to the hospital to learn that Chris was diagnosed with testicular cancer....
It was unbelievably shocking...
A very upsetting night.
The next morning he had a surgery..

So this coming monday we find out the results of his biopsy...and where his treatments will go from here... His doctors hinted that they thought that he'd most likely need chemo and/or radiation......so we'll just have to see..
I hope he'll be ok....
I think he will be.... he has to be.
I don't know what I'll do if he isnt...

So yea..
These last 2 weeks....have been....well.
Crazy.

(if my writing in this blog is full of typos and bad grammer......please be forgiving.....I'm really tired.....and as you noticed......this is a really long entry....)

Oh yea, just a brief note I forgot to add...
we finally had our anthology published for Inprint.....
My Sun Spots story is officially published...and in a book...
for sale for $10.
Anyway..
I'll write again soon with updates about Chris...
If you pray....please pray that everything turns out ok with him.....please...
If you don't pray...please just....well... keep us in your thoughts..
Thank you..

So last night I was doing some research on 9/11 conspiracy theories....and I found some really scary stuff.... I thought most of you might be interested.

Here's a documentary called "Loose Change" that I watched...
It's pretty incredible...

This is part 1 of 2
So watch this one first:
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If you don't want to watch the documentary....which I highly recommend...you should at least check out this site www.letsroll911.org...

It's scary how easily the government can twist and hide the truth..

- sarah

SOMETHING CIRCULAR WITHIN 5 FEET OF YOU: Yankee Candle- citrus and sage

FAVORITE PART OF A COMPUTER: wireless internet

FAVORITE DISNEY ANIMAL SIDEKICK: Cinderella's Mice

BEST NAILPOLISH COLOR FOR WINTER: nothin

SUMMER: nothin

MOST EXPENSIVE THING YOU'RE WEARING: one of my silver rings, either the one with the moonstone, or the turquoise....I dunno which is more valueable

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR TOOTHBRUSH?: blue and green... I think it's for boys...

THE CUTEST MORPH-TOGETHER OF 2 ANIMALS: a sloth and a penguin (a blue fairy penguin)

HISTORICAL ARTICLE(S) OF CLOTHING YOU WISH WERE STILL WORN DAILY: anything Flappers wore in the 20's!

MOST DISGUSTING THING YOU'VE EVER PUT IN YOUR MOUTH:
Uni.... sea urchin roe... grosss... it tastes like what a pet store smells like...

FAVORITE PLAYING CARD SUIT: old maid.

WORD THAT RHYMES WITH ~BLUE~:hue

MOST WRONG, UNNATURAL THING IN A GROCERY STORE: those toys that you put a lollipop in, and when you press the button, it twirls your lollipop for you...so that you dont have to twirl it...

LAST SONG(S) STUCK IN YOUR HEAD: Hava Nagila

YOUR FIRST WORD: "Where's Papa....."

SOMETHING GREEN WITHIN 10 FEET OF YOU: Chris's imac

BOOK YOU'VE PRACTICALLY MEMORIZED: She's Come Undone

THE BEST-LOOKING THING ON A CHRISTMAS TREE: real needles aka none plastic...

FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT FOR PUNCHING: i don't punch...I rip and shred

WORST EMOTION TO FEEL: Disappointment or shame

FAVORITE CHESS PIECE: the QUEEN obviously...

THE SETTING/LOCATION OF YOUR LAST DREAM:I was premiering my animations at some kind of major event...and for some reason instead of on DV-tape or DVD....my animations were printed on crackers....and people kept eating them...
it was awful..
I woke up really upset that people ate my animations...

NAME THE DOMINANT OBJECTS/COLORS IN THIS DREAM: ummm... Ritz orangey-brown

SPORT YOU WISH YOU COULD PLAY (WELL): soccer probably

NAME THE BEST ACTRESS IN THE LAST MOVIE YOU SAW: Carrie Fisher, Empire Strikes Back- Star Wars...and of course...she's really the only actress in the whole movie...so...
yea.

WOULD YOU RATHER BE AN ASIAN OR AN AFRICAN ELEPHANT? WHY?: Umm... asian... because I've always wanted to go to Japan!

ONE THING YOU CAN COOK WELL:mmm spaghetti sauce (real sauce)

BEST NAME FOR A BUTLER: Jeeves

THE NUMBER OF VEINS YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR RIGHT WRIST: 2ish

A SYNONYM FOR ~ALCOHOL~: The Sauce

PROFESSION YOU'D LIKE TO TAKE UP IF MONEY/TIME DIDN'T MATTER: illustrator/animator

BEST CRIME SOLVER EVER: Inspector Clouseau

WHAT DO YOU ALWAYS PUT ON YOUR EGGS?: ketchup

HAVE YOU EVER PHOTOGRAPHED SOMETHING DEAD?: your mother

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTER: Igor

A WORD THAT RHYMES WITH ~DREAM~: Spleen

Waiting around a hospital all weekend...
The same hospital I was born in 22 years ago.
Weird.
Yale Memorial hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.
My uncle had his big surgery on friday. So I spent the weekend with him and family.
I still can't really believe that he has cancer.
I lost my grandfather to cancer, my aunt to Lupus, my uncle and my grandmother to alcoholism.
That's just on my mother's side.
I don't know my father's side so well.

Being in the hospital this weekend. Thinking about being born there 22 years ago.
Born to just my mother.
My father didn't come.
He didn't care.
Alcoholism does that to you.
22 years later he still doesn't care.
Oh well.
My uncle was there though.
He told me the other day from his hospital bed, "This is where I first met you.."
...it made me kind of sad.
But kind of happy.


I hope when I go, I step out in front of a bus, and BAM.
No more.
Suffering is horrible....and yes it is a part of life. It's not tragic bceause it's as regular as time.
We like in a time now where we expect to live forever with no pain.
We're spoiled that we can live past 35-40.

But still.
Being sick is awful.

HEY!!
LOOK THIS IS ME AND MY FRIENDS ON THE NEWS!!!

http://www.cbs4boston.com/firstnight
hahah crazy!

YAYAYAYAYAYA!
NOOOOO MORE ILLUSTRATION!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
woo hoo!

I have my animation review tomorrow (which is quite early)...but I'm really glad..
Because...
That means that I;m DONE after!
Woot!
Right after my review I have to jet and take a bus home though, because my mom and I are going to Connecticut for the weekend again..

So you wanna hear something crazy??
Hahah..
I was on the news today..
hehe.
CBS channel 4 News..
Ho hum.

I was interviewed animating and stuff...helping to represent the department.
Apparently our department is taking part in this thing for First Night the year, where we show our animations or something. (At Hynes Convention Center)...
And so the News wanted to do a story about..
And I got chosen to help represent the department!
Woo hoo!
It was crazy...I called my mom and she watched me while she was at work! Haha (VA, White River, VT)..
Ha. so silly.
Then afterwards I hung out with Adam G and we sold stuff for Inprint.
That was kind of fun because I don't get to see him so much these days... which is sad..
But we have a class together next semester.. so that'll be exciting!

Hrmmmmmm......
On a random note..
I really really want DDR.
anyway.
I'll talk at yall later!!!!!

Oh my goodness...
What good times!

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer
the following. Go to your library.


How many songs:3408 (9 days, 8 hours, 6 minutes & 47 seconds...) incredible.

Sort by song:
..Last Album: Walk the Line, Juke Box Blues

Top Five Most Played Songs:
1) "Run Through"- Denali
2) "erase/ rewind"- The cardigans
3) "real Heat"- Denali
4)" Werewolf" - Cat Power
5) "So Broken (live)"- Bjork


First song that comes up on Shuffle:
"I would'nt live there"- Talking Heads

Search ....
"sex", how many songs come up? 15
"death", how many songs come up? 20
"love", how many songs come up? 133
"you", how many songs come up? 268


Woo hoo how cool am I??

I hate the way you seem to care about people that don't care about you.
You've always been this way.
I can't seem to figure it out.
I never have.
I care about you more than they do.
But you don't seem to notice that either.
You never have.
I find myself caring less and less about you.
Thinking less about you.
You're mostly gone.
I hope you notice that.
But you probably won't...because you're too busy noticing who isn't noticing you.

...
And that's all I'm going to say.

On a side note.
I have a week of school left. and then I start my xmas break.
how crazy is that?
it's wonderful.
This will be my first semester without illustration reveiews...
This is my first semester not tying a noose for my stressed out neck.
I'm having my animation review next thursday with Leland and Steve.
Woo hoo.

I saw walk the line last night..
It was soooo good.
I love a good depressing story.
I enjoy depressing people.
I just bought boccaccio's Decameron the otherday.
I'm psyched to read about the black plague in my upcoming days..
I'm currently balancing The Fat Girl's Guide to Life and Rent Girl.

Anyway.
my face is hot my stomach has indegestion and its 1:13.
All in all.
I'd say it's time to go to bed.
Possibly read untill sometime after 2.
Thats what I do.
I do it best.

With an hour and a half sleep last night...
A 24oz cup of green tea...
and now working on a 24 oz of coffee...
I'm feeling a little more awake than I probably should be.

I had my Medeival Renaissance mid-term this morning... well actually.. just about 15 mins ago I finished it up.
We're on a break right now. I'd sit and contemplate life for this brief 30 min break...but with all the caffeine rushing through my viens.
I might explode.
So, I went to bed last night about 1am...
And now you think to yourself... well why did I only get 1 1/2 hours of sleep?
Well that's because I am an insomniac.
I Sarah Gay... have a sleeping disorder.

I lay in bed... close my eyes..
Feel my body comfortably laying in my bed.
My sleepy-self seems to be drifting away...
But wait.
It's not going anywhere.
It's just hovering.
Somewhere between sleep and awake. But mostly in awake.
I try to push myself closer to sleep... but the harder I push, the more aware I become of my wakeful state.
It's exhausting.
I watch my clock through my closed eye lids creep further and further into the night- or if you're a sleep deprived pessimist..
The clock isn't creeping further and further into the night...
IT's creeping closer to morning.
You can feel morning breathing down your neck- beating at your eyelids...the more you realize that your time to sleep is slipping away...
THE MORE AWAKE YOU BECOME.
When I first went to sleep at 1, I laid in bed for probably 20 mins trying to sleep...and when I realized I couldnt... I sat up and read Rent Girl for the next30 mins. 30 mins is approx. how long it takes for your eye lids to become heavy.
So by this time it's 2am.
Chris gets up to aid a cough that seems to wake him up...as soon as he returns he lays in bed beside me.
Now.
If you're an insomniac.... the worst sound in the world- next to birds chirping when you haven't slept at all is, hearing someone in the same room as you sleep.
Hearing their rhythmic breathing.
Hearing their sleep gears turning back the stresses of their day.
Hearing their body rest.

When you're laying awake next to someone whose experiencing sleep. You want to hit them.
3:30am rolls by.
I decide that if I'm not sleeping, and I need to wake up in 3 1/2 hours... I need to get up and do something about it.
So I get up, make myself a cup of Sleepytime EXTRA (yes... Celestial Seasonings has a Sleepytime Extra). And take a Nyquill. I hate the idea of using a drug to aid sleep... but when you reach this stage in your insomnia... you'll do anything to catch those zzzz's.
And yes, every night before I go to bed I rub Badgerbalm ZZZ therapy on my temples.
Sleep is something I covet.
So after I make my tea...I head back to bed... and decide to pick up Beauty Myth.
A thick documentary/essay book about social image issues that I've been nursing for about a year.
It's a fascinating book.
But it's a really slow read... which is just the kind of aid I need to help me sleep.
Interesting, feminine, semi-boring and wonderfully intelligent.

I read this for about a half hour...until finally around 4, I decide that this is it...
I can feel sleep coming, and I'm not going to miss it this time.
I close my book, put down my tea, shut off my light, and raise my thumb hoping to hitch a ride with the Sandman.
...
The Sandman doesn't come until 5:15am.

My alarm goes off at 7am.
My Nyquill has most definatly kicked in...and clutching my drowzy head from waking up.
It takes me 30 mins to finally wake up.
Go figure.

Sleep.
What a joke.

awww...
sipping sleepy time and doing my homework thats due in the morning.
Great.
I think I'm getting a cold. I took a sudaphed (sp?) earlier today...around 7 I think? And my heart's been racing ever since... god damn speed.
Roar.
I hate getting sick.

We cleaned our aparment today... oi vay it really needed it.. Im surprised we didn't find critters making nests out of the piles of crap we had laying around.
Woo.

So as of late my bras havent been fitting me so well... so today I went and bought two new ones... and guess whose wearing a DD....
I wanna shoot myself.
Boobs should never be a DD.
BAH!
STOP GROWING!
so there's that.

Boo.
Why do bra companies inisist that only old ladies have big boobs... because you can rarely find a bra thats fun or cute looking... over a size C.
Why?!
In a society driven by boobs... shouldn't the bigger the bra, the sexier it should be?
How dumb.
Oh well.
I wanna reduction.
Too bad I have no money...besides... I don't really want someone slicing into my chest...that just sounds like a bad idea.

I suppose I should get back to my homo-work.
Bah.

I need a vacation.
Someone please stop the earth...I want off.

::sigh::
What an interesting day today has been.
It all started with finally getting my refund check...
Thank god.
I couldn't have possibly needed it more!
So I spend the morning doing that, and beggin bank of america to take back some of their overdraft fees....which added it to -$195...
Can you imagine?
Isn't that shitty...
God.

So yea, I did that, and then I walked to Kenmore square, bought some Jim Henson stamps, looked at the new american paintings magazine, and Time at Barnes and Noble...
Ate yogurt and nuts..
And waited for Chris to get outta class.
After he met me, we went to North Station and caught a train to Salem...
Oh witches.
How scary and neat and intriguing.
So we got there around 5..wondered around for the most part..
Ate fried dough... went to a spooky little theatre about salem hauntings..
It was pretty cool...
Then we went to dinner at this delicious thai resturaunt where I had the most yummiest drunken noodles ever...
Seriously.
They were quite tasty.

Then we headed back home to good ol not so haunted Boston.
Now I sit..
Chris went around the corner to store 24 to get us some snacks...
He just called me and told me that apparently there's some guy in the store laying in the middle isle... in his own puke.
Gross.
Oh Boston store 24's...

Aw Jeeze.

We're gonna watch what lies beneath when he returns...
I love that movie.

Its sooooooooo scary!

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Wow despite how shitty some things are...
Some things are really great!
Like my friends!

So apparently I've overdrawn my bank account...and coincidentally Chris has also... leaving us both with $5 for the rest of the week. With that $5 we have to buy tokens and whatever else.
So anyway...
Yesterday I didn't realize that I was overdrawn, until I went to the atm to get myself some money to buy lunch.
Upon which I discovered that my account was -$29.00...
Which was totally surprising to me.....because I'm pretty responsible with my account.
So long story short, I had no money to get myself a little food... intern my blood sugar started to drop.
and if you know me well enough, you know that's bad news when that happens. (I start to pass out and stuff.. its not nice).
So anyway, I had to call Chris and beg him to bring me some food, and give me a little money so that I could get back home later..because I didnt even have $1.25..
As I waited for Chris, my friend Alex bought me a yogurt...
:-)
He's so sweet and wonderful.
So then later, Chris came like a knight in shinning armor, to give me food and a token...
THEN.....
Later at our inprint meeting, some how our money situation came up...and my friend Adam gave us $20 to borrow...
Totally out of the blue, he just gave it to us.
I was embarrased...because I felt so helpless, but truley grateful that he'd just do that for us. No questions asked he just gave us some money.
I was so flabergasted...
I never ask to borrow money.. not even from my parents...
But anyway, I'm totally grateful to have such a good friend like him.
It really meant a lot that he'd do that for us.

And then on top of it!
Shelli and Nichole invited us over to their apt, where Shelli made us chicken parm for dinner...
Because we're starving.
It was sooo delicious too!
And then to top off the night...Shelli gave me Tiger to update my computer ::drooooooools::: and then Nichole drove us home.
So by the end of the day I felt sooo pampered and had forgotten what a shitty day my day had started as...
I'm so lucky to have such wonderful friends...
If any of you are reading this, thank you so much for your support!
You have no idea what a backbone you all have been for me yesterday!
I love you guys..
(Adam and Lindsay, I promise to scan those drawings that Chris did of you :-) )
I'll post them probably up here so everyone can see them!
Anyhoo..
Now that I sound like a super sap.
I'm gonna try and find some sort of breakfast to have..

I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed...
I don't have an extreme amout of stuff to do...but just enough to make me sweat.

I skipped animation 2 yesterday... I hadnt done any of my homework...and I was tired.
On a more positive note...I did spend that time doing homework...just not for the class.
I bound my comic for narrative illustration.
I did a lot of book binding yesterday.... I had a class in the evening, through Paper Source, about Coptic bookbinding.
I boud two books...they're cute.
One is kinda crappy, at least my stitching is... aw well.

I'm so sick of the rain.. I wish it'd stop. It's been raining for 10 days.
Gross.

I'm on the 12th floor of tower right now at school..
As I look out the window, all I see is gray haze with occasional buildings showing through.
How lame.

So I picked up my registration packet today...
I can't beleive its already that time... I feel like school just started.
There's a little packet in there about traveling abroad for classes...
I really really want to do it!!
There's some really cool places that they have planned trips for.
Japan, Brazil, China, Poland, Egypt, Italy....there might be another...but I can't remember.

I'd really like to go to Egypt... I think that'd be amazing!
I have family in Europe...so I have a sense that if I want to go somewhere like Poland or Italy...it's not that impossible...
But the ability to go to Egypt, Japan or Brazil... seems a little more far fetched...
The only thing is...
All these trips are about $3,200...
So I don't know if I have that kind of money..
We'll see..
Anyway.

I'm going to see Corpse Bride tonight!
Im so excited!!

Im back from the green mountain state... like woah.
It's always a little weird going home...and then coming back.
I always end up feeling like i didnt actually go home... like I imagined it.
Because here I sit at my desk...
Click click click click click on the keyboard.
So familiar.
I was just here...
but no.
I was home.
But yet I still feel like I was just here.
Hmm.
I must;ve imagined going home...sad how things seem too work that way.

My grandma on my real father's side came up to visit me..it was nice to see here, good to catch up.
But it had its awkward moments...only because of the circumstances of why I don't see her that often.
She brought photos of my father and his wife and daughters.
It was weird.

Chris and I went to Moondance...
Which is this sort of pagan-fall celebration thing my hometown does..
It's pretty cool... it has it's small town redneck moments though..., its not really that pagan- authentic....when you look at the townies..
My friends and I went to this booth where you use a cork shot gun thing..and shoot at "wildlife" stand up things...to win a prize..
Two of my friends tried...and didn't hit anything.
I tried and hit 2 of 4 shots..
I'm so awesome.

Yesterday was probably the best day home.
Chris and I went to Weston...it's this little Vermonty town that has this awesome store, called the Vermont Country Store...
And they sell cheezes and jams, and sauces and dips and all kinds of tasty things...and you can sample allllllllllllllll of them....
Awwwwww its so delicious and wonderfull.......
Than after that, we go across the street to this other awesome store, and buy more cheeze and FUDGE!
And then sit outside and drink hot cider...
Oh what Vermonters we are.

So... I leave you with some photos from my weekend....




( Oh Vermont )

Dear diary,

The hold button on my ipod has been stuck for over a week now...
Oh the shame and sorrow.
I haven't been able to listen to it's sweet lullabyes in over a week.
Oi vay.
So here I am at school... Im about to go to the 7th floor and shoot for my 100 drawings project.
Woo...wwwwwwww.

Apparently there was a shooting near my aparment the other night...
The police had to shoot some crazy who had been shooting at crowds of people...
...or something...
What has the world come to?

::sigh::

My free wireless internet that seeps into my apartment from some neighbor...hasn't been working as of late...
So that's why I havent updated in what seems like forever!!
A lot has happened recently...
Most exciting of which, would probably be the week I spent in Ottawa, Ontario...with friends going to the animation festival..
IT was SUCH A BLAST!
OOOOOOOOOOmmmmmmmmmg..
I'm so inspired..

So that was incredibly fun...
We did sooo much animation watching, walking, laughing about bodily functions...
Oi...
We went to the most amazing Karaoke place ever!!!
IT was just like in Lost in Translation...
It was this itty bitty little room, with our own little microphone, tamborines, broken disco light... and truly bizarre movie tracks...
::sigh:: it was sooo freakin fantastic!!
Also...we followed one of my teachers to the Parliment where he set off fireworks...
That was scary... we stayed a safe distance.. as we didn't want to be associated with them... thus getting deported from Canada..
Ummmmmm...... let's see what else...
So that was a lot of fun...

Since I've been back, I've been playing catch up to the max...
I've finally dropped illustration as a major... I'm feeling really good about this decision... because I know that I'm still going to do illustration, without having to major in it.
Woo!
So with all that said...
I'm going home to Vermont next week for a few days...
That'll be really nice, because I havent been home in three months...

On a sad note.. I learned 2 days ago that my uncle has prostate cancer... so I've been pretty upset about that..
So..
This is an update of the happenings of me!
As for now, I have to go!
BYe