This morning got my hair touched up, as there is only one week until the wedding (hoorah!). After getting in the car to go back home, I noticed a lizard on a palm tree in front of my car moving in a very peculiar manner. One of the sickest things to me is seeing a lizard mating, and I wondered if that might be what this monster of a lizard was ( Read more... )

I just finished grading all of the performance finals. I worked on them for about 4 hours yesterday and about 4 hours today. I'm wiped-out. Next week, they'll take the real final exams, which are all multiple choice--and on scantrons (!!) so those'll be a cinch to grade ( Read more... )

i am staying home from school today because i'm sick. it's kind of nice to be home. okay, it's REALLY nice to be home. but this means that i am also going to miss the sufjan stevens concert tonight at the fabulous fox theatre. that's sad, but i need my rest. i still love you, sufjan ( Read more... )

Yesterday Daniel and the rest of Winston Audio drove off in the big purple van they affectionately refer to as Leroy for a 17-day rock tour through a few of the midwestern united states. I am so proud of their new material and am amazed at their willingness to go play in unfamiliar places, not knowing where they will sleep from one night to the ( Read more... )

Naples is totally re-vamping its shopping scene. I would just like to say that Anthropologie is the most awesome store ever, and I made (okay, my mom made for me) some very cute purchases yesterday.

Wow. Lots of wonderful things have happened since my last update ( Read more... )

Monday was the last day of class. My lovely professor brought us HOT Krispy Kreams and a final assessment. She told us that our last test scores were so bad that she would give us 5 bonus points points for each final assessment question no matter if it was right or wrong, so long as we answered the question. These free 20 or so points were then ( Read more... )

We've had some pretty bad storms today--I got to see (and touch!) my first hail ever! It was so wonderful. Another highlight of the day was realizing that we DO, in fact, have syrup in our house! I've been eating waffles w/out syrup (b/c I refuse to purchase a new bottle of syrup right b/f school is out) for a while now and craving syrup for ( Read more... )

the current exhibit at the gallery includes 2 movies that play on loop, one at a time. one story is a documentary about people finding an airplane propeller while the other is a movie about adam and eve (completely nude people wandering around in the forest). it is my duty to switch out the movies. when nobody comes in during a movie rotation, i ( Read more... )

blue merle is playing too! what is going on here?!?!?!?!