April 04, 2008
April 4th, 2008
Sadly this will be the last blog entry that I will be making... unless I need to rant about my roommate some more before the end of the year. It has been fun and definitely therapeutic to write here (almost) everyday. Now it is also sad that the year is almost over, freshman year went so fast! I remember it like yesterday, going to my first party, starting art school, and making friends. Well I should be excited for next year, sophomore year, I have my own house, with all my really close friends and just a block away from my guy friends too! However, we do have to spend an entire four months apart. :( Which will be difficult and disappointing, but hopefully I will see them over the summer. Well I hope everyone has an awesome summer vacation, I definitely will. Tata for now, or forever.
<3 Your avid blogger, Anna
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April 02, 2008
April 2nd, 2008
For the first time in my life I have a lot to do. I have four watercolors to complete, a seven page paper to write, a project for CFC to do, and a huge, gigantic puppet to paint and put together. All of this has to be done by either sunday or monday so I'm a little stressed. Also this weekend I have no time whatsoever because I am doing Relay for Life on Saturday from 10am to 10am the next day. Then at 12:30pm on Sunday I have to hurry my ass over to North Campus to help load my (hopefully completed) puppet into a truck so that we can parade it around from 5-6pm on Main street. This will all be fun and games, but then I have to go and complete two watercolors and finish writing my seven page paper. Maybe I should point out that the paper is actually suppose to be seven to ten pages, I'm just giving myself the least amount of work to do. So now I don't know what to do with myself because besides balancing all of these things I have to think about packing all my stuff up because school ends in like two weeks! Yuck! I think I'm gonna try and organize myself, do a little facebook stalking, and then go eat lunch before I do any of this. Really great idea!!
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March 30, 2008
March 30th, 2008
Woot Woot March is almost done and then we have only like a week and a half left of school!! What a good deal... yet it is going to be weird leaving all my friends here for an entire four months. I'm gonna miss my friends here, yet love being with my family and friends back home... it's so confusing!! I hope they come and visit me because I don't know if i'll be able to live without them for that long. I have lived with them for seven months or something so I see them all the time going from everything to nothing is not gonna go over well.
Other than me missing my friends, nothing really happened this weekend I had so much work to do that I stayed in. I did two watercolors and wrote my english proposal which is a lot of work to get done in one weekend. And the greatest part is that I have to do a six page english paper and two more watercolors by next monday. That sounds like a lot of time except now I have to work on the puppet project for ADP II which is a huge amount of time and work. I'm actually stressed out for the first time this year... it's great it has to come so late in the year. ugh!
Tata for now... have a great day!
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March 28, 2008
March 28th, 2008
Hello All!!
Well today is friday and I am sitting in TMP working. Today is a work day which is fun, but I cannot wait to get out and take a nap because I am extremely exhausted. I'm exhausted because I stayed up to absurd hours last night for no good reason and so now I am obviously tired. Also I can't seem to get this song out of my head by Jason Mraz called I'm Yours... it is so good and now I can't stop singing it in my head. So yeah... there is really nothing to write about other than OH! My goodness my roommate left a note on my door at 2 am in the morning saying hey btw my boyfriend sean is sleeping over tonight, no big deal right! Well it wouldn't have been except when I walked in the door they were snuggling in bed and it was really awkward and I don't want to talk about it. So thats my little gossip.
Bye Bye.
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March 26, 2008
March 26th, 2008
So we're making puppets! What a treat I'm actually excited to begin working on ours which is going to hopefully look like a giant bra. Weird, yet cool at the same time (hopefully). Right now I am sitting in the art school waiting for my watercolor class to begin which is three hours and I've already been here for two. It will be fun to spend time here, but not because I actually have to do busy work to keep myself occupied. I thought maybe I would work a little on my English assignment, but it is so boring that I can't pay attention and I don't want to do it anymore. So now I am just sitting and being. Sounds fun and it is!
I wish though that I had my sketchbook or something so I could draw something that I would have much more fun doing. Now I just have to sit here and stalk Facebook. Don't get me wrong that's definitely not boring, but I get a little self-conscious when people are all around and could possibly figure out what I'm doing. Therefore I have to be even more awkward and sort of hide my computer screen so that no one will see what's going on.
Well it was a nice day again today so I hope everyone got outside at some point today to absorb the sun. Have a great rest of the day and night!
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March 25, 2008
March 25th, 2008
Today has been an interesting day... Just plain boring and drone so far. I woke up around 10 which is great because I got a lot of sleep, yet I didn't really enjoy going to lecture for only 30 minutes. Then I got to go to this really interesting "lecture" (it was too little people to be a lecture), given by Maureen Connor's who is actually helping us complete a project in our CFC class. She had a really cool installation called the lingerie collection which showed the impossible expectations that women have for their bodies. It actually gave me a couple of ideas for my own art.
In my CFC class, given by Danielle Abrams, were following a project called Personnel that Maureen started in 2007. It addresses the issues that the workers have in art galleries about their work spaces and what we can do to make them more comfortable and functional. I think this is a really great idea and the staff member that I am interviewing is Annette Haines, the field librarian. I hope that the interview goes well and she brings up some very interesting ideas that we can help her fix.
Tata for now... have a rest great of the day!!
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March 23, 2008
March 23rd, 2008
Happy Easter everyone!! Today I had an easter egg hunt with my friend Megan and although that sounds lame it was actually really fun and nostalgic. We had the Jewish boys downstairs hide them all throughout the hallway, in rooms and on people. It was much harder than it sounds and it took us a good 30 minutes to find all of the eggs. However, some had been eaten by the people in the rooms and so we were "missing" a few.
This easter egg hunt did not makeup for the fact that my family abandoned me this year. They drove 5 hours to see my entire family in New Hampshire leaving me stuck at school by myself. It wouldn't have been that disappointing, yet my mother hid this from me until I called her yesterday and I heard my cousins screaming in the background. What a good mom!
I hope everyone had a great easter and didn't eat to much candy. I definitely substituted a few meals with some chocolate and jelly beans.
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March 22, 2008
March 22th, 2008
I actually really enjoy snow. I know that if this gets out I'll be pounded into the ground, but I'm excited that there is snow on the ground! I feel this winter hasn't brought us that much snow or maybe I just tried to ignore it during the cold winter, but now I appreciate it more. Possibly because the first day of Spring was two days ago and it still managed to drop low enough to snow 4 inches. I find it very interesting that in Michigan people become enraged when someone says "Yeah it's snowing!" I usually get very dirty looks or a comment like, "Oh, you must not be from Michigan." Well I'm not, but I am from New York and it's not like there's no snow there, I just think its so pretty and I love how the next day smells and feels.
I hope today I get to participate in a snowball fight. I'm feeling a little nostalgic and homesick because this is the first Easter I will have to spend by myself. It's a little sad, but I think that throwing a hard snowball at someone and possibly hitting them in the face would make my weekend go a lot smoother. I hope that everyone has an awesome day out in the snow, and don't get too wet!
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March 20, 2008
March 20th, 2008
So I got really cool green sunglasses today! And a purple sweatshirt from American Apparel!! Yeah for new clothes... yet let me explain that because of those two purchases I am completely out of money for the rest of the semester. It is going to be really fun and soon I will be begging on the street for money to buy necessary items, such as food/water. Other than purchasing things that I will probably only use for a year, I sat through lecture content with listening to my music and watching the images pop up on the screen. The guy seemed very interesting and it was even more fun to realize that I've ridden on one of his bikes before in New York City. Now I am sitting back watching some television and can't wit to just chill out for the rest of the weekend... ahhhh...
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March 19, 2008
March 19th, 2008
This is what I have been thinking about for the past 24 hours...
Bras tell a lot about their wearer. Whether they are confident, self-conscious, ashamed, or even proud of their breast size. The different kinds ranging from push-up bras to reducer bras allow women of all shapes and sizes to proclaim and embrace their femininity. Furthermore, by wearing a bra a woman can make her body conform to the norms of today’s society. By following its history, major social ideals have changed in conjunction with the bras evolution. The bra, an ambivalent article of clothing, has served as an eliminator and an oppressor, but most important the array of bras that are present in today’s culture show the overwhelming pressures that women must go through to conform to everyday norms.
Thank you ADP II...
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March 18, 2008
March 18th, 2008
Leaving two essays to the last minute is not a good idea. Both having to be 7 pages makes it a little bit more difficult too. I wish that possibly this weekend I wasn't deathly ill so I could have worked on one, but I couldn't move out of bed. My essay probably would have been a hot mess if I tried to write it while I was sick anyways. However, now I'm a little concerned and stressed out about having to write about two completely different topics that I don't really know that much about.
Other than having to write two papers, I have to remember to do my laundry. It is literally overflowing from my laundry basket. Yuck! People come into my room, see the overflow and automatically leave. It's no big deal though, I do get a lot more alone time that way.
I also think that maybe I should think about getting easter eggs for myself because I am going to be here all alone this weekend. I should buy a 30 pack and make my friends hide them before they leave. Therefore giving me something to do while their all home celebrating with their families.
Well good bye for now, I have to continue these essays.
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March 16, 2008
March 16th, 2008
The milk went bad today! Let me just tell you that my room smelled like ass for a good 20 minutes after I threw it out. The worst part is that it was my roommates and I had to discard of it because she went home to spend time with her parents. I've noticed recently that I've been venting about my roommate a lot here and it's a good thing because if I didn't have this release there is a good chance I would have hit her. Then there would have been this whole news scandal, "girl gets socked in the face by her roommate, awaiting executive board decision." That wouldn't have been good because then they could have kicked me out of school and who wants that! Anyways, she left the old milk in there just to spite me I think so I'll just wait until she gets home to politely tell her I threw it out for my own benefit. Hopefully she'll get the message and not leave rotting milk in a fridge anymore. Tata for now!
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March 14, 2008
March 14th, 2008
Well being sick is interesting... I mean feeling helpless and disgusting is awesome. I can't do anything and basically whine to myself all the time. My throat hurts so it sounds like I've smoked eight packs of cigarettes every day of my life. People avoid me because they think I'm contagious, which is probably true, but still I feel a little alienated. I've even had an experience where someone told me not to open the door and just talk to them through the wall so that I didn't get them sick. That conversation obviously went really well and we completely got the point across. Not. Hopefully I'll feel better soon because it is St. Patty's day tomorrow and even if I don't go out there will be drunk people all over the place making noise. I'll just sleep all day and I'll be better as soon as possible.
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March 12, 2008
March 12th, 2008
So someone broke into my AOL account yesterday and changed my password. Therefore basically stealing my account and making me very stressed out. Luckily, this morning I called and changed my password and fixed the problem. The only question I have is who would want all of my junk mail? All of the e-mail that I get on that account has nothing to do with my credit cards, phone numbers, or address, it's just junk. Maybe I should have just let them have it, it definitely would have made my life a little easier. Although its probably better that I didn't let them have a chance to possibly find any information about me. So it's fixed, I just thought it was amusing.
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March 11, 2008
March 11th, 2008
I'm a little bit nervous today because I'm feeling kinda crummy and I have a formal to go to on Thursday. Meaning if I don't get better in the next day, I will have a horrible time. That wouldn't be fun especially because we are driving on a bus to Canada for 1:45 minutes each way. I would feel horrendous and probably opt not to go at all. Therefore, I hope that this lump on the side of my neck, meaning my glands, subsides so that I can breathe a little better. Even worse I have a sociofunctional paper I need to write for ADP II which is stressing me out. Hopefully all this will just go away and I can attend the formal with no problems. This is obviously some kind of karma for something that I've done, but hopefully they will see that I've been punished enough.
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March 09, 2008
March 9th, 2008
http://pixiestixkidspix.wordpress.com/?page_id=244&preview=true
Just read it and you'll understand.
It literally made my day... maybe even week.
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March 08, 2008
March 8th, 2008
You know what really irks me... when I go to sleep at 10:30 at night wanting to get extra hours of sleep because I have to wake up early the next morning and my roommate proceeds to print a ridiculous amount of paper at 3:30 in the morning wakening me up from my wonderful sleep. It was really nice of her too to invite a shit load of people over to our room without telling me, therefore when I walked in with my robe on I felt really uncomfortable. Then to top it all off she decided to tell me her boyfriend is sleeping over ten minutes before he gets here so I have to find another room to sleep in, wow real nice. These are just a few of the things that my wonderful roommate has done to me over the past three days. I'm not mad or anything. ugh!
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March 07, 2008
March 7th, 2008
Sleep....zzz....
Go to sleep my little baby
When you wake,
you shall have,
all the pretty little horses.
Way down yonder
in the meadow
poor little baby cries mama
birds and butterflies
flutter 'round his eyes
poor little baby cries mama
Hush-a-bye
Don't you cry
Go to sleep my little ba-by;
When you wake,
you shall have,
all the pretty little horses.
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March 06, 2008
March 6th, 2008
I actually enjoyed the lecture today for Penny Stamps. I thought the lecturer was very interesting and amusing, and gave me some hope that I will make money being an artist. Although I want to become an art teacher it still showed me that with this degree that I am getting from the University of Michigan I will be able to be successful. Other than enjoying the lecture today the rest of my day was crap and boring. I learned how to use a video camera which was very useful, but then did absolutely nothing in my discussion group and I felt tired within 10 minutes. I hope that tomorrow will bring me much joy because it is Friday and it will be my first weekend back in Ann Arbor! Yeah! I am definitely excited.
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