belated and a dangerous precedent

Everyday I think I should find something to post about and then don’t and it’s becoming a dirty habit, I’ll have to try to do better.  My classes have once again picked up the work load.  My teacher assigned a full length book review, a three part midterm, an assignment and over 130 pages of reading for the same two weeks and needless to say I’m attempting not to sink under the joy of that much busy work.  Other than that things are just peachy…

Matt’s dad, Larry, for those of you who read this and aren’t his family, will be here anytime now and Matt is super excited to show him around.  I couldn’t even convince him to go out for Rockband the other night – he had to get ready for Larry.  I just finished making a movie for a class project, which was incredibly neat.  It’s five and a half minutes of stills and video with voiceovers and background music and a dvd menu and credits that call me the co-director.  I’m massively egotistical about the whole thing.  Although, I must give credit to just about everyone else who did all the tough parts – Matt – for acting like a really old drunk suicide risk & Brant, of course for telling me how to do things on the mac besides check my email and admire it’s aesthetics.  I will post a link to the video on Youtube as soon as I remember to ask Emily to borrow her password to post on her account.  And, then, you can all congratulate me and Shauna on its supreme marvelousness.  Now, I’ve got three weeks of clean laundry to put away, a paper to finish and a ten page article to read before tomorrow morning so I’ll leave all the other goodness till next time.  Wish my belabored brain luck.

 

yours,

alaina

Lovely Fridays

So, it is a lovely Friday here in the middle of the country.  The sun is shining, I’m sure a bird is singing somewhere and I don’t have a physical boatload of homework this weekend!

I forgot how quickly school weeks go by whether or not you accomplish anything…..  But I’m hoping to do better this weekend.  I’m also hoping that next week I wont have to walk past a 20 feet tall anti abortion display with graphic pictures everyday of next week…  Keep your fingers crossed!  It was there all week in the middle of a walk way and it got really offensive.  I mean, why do they get to put up the display on campus?  The pro-kill-the-fetus people mind their own buisness, why can’t everybody else.  However, it was humorous that on one of the free speech boards in front of the madness someone wrote “WARNING: Necrophiliac Prenatal Pedophiliac Photos Ahead!”  That was hilarious.

Matt and I are getting new couches next week!  YAYAYAY!  We’re buying the cast-offs of a friend who got a new couch and I’m super super unbelievably excited.  They are a honey beigey color and very cushy.  And there is no evil spine killing bar in the back!  Matt has his doubts about them but I’m excited enough for the both of us and at the very least they aren’t too expensive and they will be an improvement.  We even found a friend of a friend to save us from having to pay to rent a truck to move them…  It’s so exciting.

Tonight is RockBand night at Emily’s where I’ve promised to try and sing on Medium instead of Easy, which is scary and means I will suck, but apparently we will get more “fans” that way, so I’m taking my lumps.  Tomorrow is bad movie night with a bunch of girls from my class, I think this week is “From Justin to Kelly,” which I can’t actually say I’m looking forwards to, but “Crossroads” was fun so I’ll go with them that they can improve the experience.

I think that ends the interesting things I have to say, so I shall now go pretend that I’m going to start homework.

We miss you all and Happy October!

yours,

alaina