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November 17th, 2008
samuel_lenz
 | 10:34 am
Top 3 signs that life is moving on:
- I just registered my final semester of classes
- I signed my employment documents for Microsoft yesterday
- I woke up to a gorgeous winter day today
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November 16th, 2008
missingisloving
 | 07:48 pm - guilty tendencies
this picture is helping me stay sane: reminding me to just shake it off when things really start to bug me or get me down. i had a really good weekend, but it's hard when someone that is so close to you isn't having a good weekend and it makes you almost feel like you shouldn't have a good weekend then you don't know what to do because you feel like being around them makes it worse for them. it feels like that. i never realized how when things get awkward for me in a relationship i really tend to run and hide. i should be embarassed of that and i have a million of excuses why i do that. it's hard for me to say this, but i'm pretty sure most of my friends know what i'm talking about. i think it's because that's what i want when i get that way -- when things are hard, i just don't want anyone to try to fix them, and i just want to deal with myself so maybe that's why i try to give people space. the truth is it's different for everybody -- and i just don't know what this friend needs but i just don't know how to start the conversation. i mean, i asked if i can help, but she says no. i know that my no's mean no so that's why i just give space, but i don't like how i'm being treated, which only makes me feel guilty: because seriously, emilie, this isn't about you. but you want your friends to treat you well? otherwise, you only create this great space and don't know how to fix it a few weeks later.
good news: the weekend was really good. i saw logan and hannah for most of it, on-duty nights were easy, i went home for saturday afternoon to be with my family, and i'm pretty overwhelmed with homework but still have peace.
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November 14th, 2008
xkeeprunningx
 | 11:39 am
im posting from work. designing ads is humiliating. a lady told me i had "no creativity,
and she was suprised that the paper would hire people who couldnt do their job."
Everyone agreed i did a good job at this job. i thought it was funny.
the move went ok. ive been staying at ryans house and got most of my stuff moved in.
i still have a few loose ends to move but its small stuff. we have been watching
alot of movies lately. an extreme amount of movies. and cartoons on dvd. we will be
getting the internet next week so then i can start watching 30 rock again on the old
interneterz. i have a week off next week. i have to work monday but then i dont have
to come back till the next monday. im stoked even though i have nothing to do. i think
i might try and write some music and/or work with my sampler and try and get some beats going. Jeb cleaned up my strat and it sounds real good now. Jeb does good work so if you have a guitar that needsfixed Lambert guitar repair is the place to go. Im working on a few ideas for the next art meeting coming up and a possible art show in fort wayne that i need 3 samples done by november 30th. i can have up to 25 peices in by april. So whatssss new with everyone else? Erik hows the band going? Stephanie hows chicago and performing art?
Lauren have you fed the kids to much sugar yet? Ryan quit complaing about my fish cooking in the house. haha. Helen i need new graphic design websites to look at, help! also hows the music going? Aaron, Gavin, Sam, sup. Arianna do your homework. and quit getting heckled by old ladies.
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November 13th, 2008
cribabi
 | 04:56 am - london calling
I live in London now. I have spent the last month kind of missing my friends in Austin. Now I am in Flordia for a week and have spent the last couple days missing my friends in London. Life is too weird to live sometimes.
 
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November 12th, 2008
gavcore
 | 11:01 am - GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! NINJA! NINJA-WRAP!
Ninja Turtle wrap around cover for Alec Stevens' Design class! So much fun on this one. Basically a 2 page spread. You can tell where it kind of cuts off around Raphael's elbow.. that part is supposed to be the front cover and the rest is the back cover.
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November 11th, 2008
lilviolingrrl
 | 04:17 pm - BusinessWeek's Best Places to Raise Your Kids 2009, State-by-State
Illinois -
Mount Prospect
Runners-up:
Des Plaines <--Where I grew up
Palatine <--Where Ed grew up
They really are pretty kick ass towns. Everyone just kinda knocks them because they are surrounded by opulent all stars like Barrington and Wilmette (there was a girl in one of my classes at Oakton that tried to convince me that she was from the "ghetto of Wilmette"...I feel ridiculous even writing that).
I do really feel like Chicago is my home now though. I have officially lived here for a year and a half and whenever I go back to Des Plaines, it just seems less and less familiar. And not in a melodramatic "you can never go back home!" Garden State kinda way, because my childhood comes back in a comforting, warm way whenever I go to my parent's house. It's Des Plaines itself - it now kinda seems like a check-out-our-new-million-dollar-condos-and-Starbucks (remember when Starbucks refused to come to Des Plaines?) kind of we've-seen-this-before suburb. It all kind of started with the new library for me, honestly. Sure, the old one kind of sucked and I don't want to be one of those haters who gets down on their town when it starts to get "nice", but that's not the Des Plaines I knew.
The Des Plaines I knew had a distinct smell, reminiscent of being small and lying on my back under my great grandmother's dining room table and watching the sunlight peek through the yellowed, lacy curtains and dance with the cobwebs caught on the corners of the organ. My great grandmother lived in Palatine, actually, on a road full of unique, candy colored homes (hers was blue). Ed and I tried to drive by her house one time, but it was gone and in its place were luxury homes that all looked identical.
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gavcore
| 04:03 pm - GAVRILLA!
Super fun duo-shade assignment for Kim DeMulder's Methods and Materials class.
I just found out i'll be back in Indiana in time for Vega's last show. I'm so pumped.
Current Mood: STOOOOOOKED!
Current Music: Weezer
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November 10th, 2008
gavcore
| 10:53 am - newwww stuff
Hands for Figure Drawing class.
Scratchboard assignment that sucks.
Current Music: Small Brown Bike
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November 8th, 2008
gavcore
| 01:18 pm - painting
Acrylic Painting on illustration board for Fernando Ruiz' Basic Drawing Class. I had fun doing this. I haven't really painted since high school.
HEY! 2 weeks from today I'll be home, Indiana! Get excited!
Current Location: the studio
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Berserk
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November 7th, 2008
thewolvesagain
 | 12:56 am
if anyone is interested, i have started a blog in response to different history books and audiobooks that i read and listen to.
none of my friends really care about it, so i decided to keep a record of my thoughts and store them in a blog. it's pretty boring.
but you might learn a thing or two.
www.ourhistorybooks.blogspot.com
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November 6th, 2009
proseandpromise
 | 08:56 pm - Awesome
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November 5th, 2008
missingisloving
| 11:44 am - physical assessment
i've been going to life-calling, which has been challenging, interesting, fascinating, whatever. it's been good as much as confusing. i've been living unbalanced in the grey -- it's a good thing for me to remember the black and white too.
it is weird though. i am happier than i have ever been regardless the small things that fill up my hands that create stress, guilt, and worry. the spaces are warmer around my heart, and it's not so much as everything is perfect or great or marvelous or extraordinary. life is pretty ordinary and chaotic like usual -- but there's such a different peace about it.
for the past week, courtney and i talk at least an hour before we fall asleep. man, i hope i never forget those conversations. i've been re-learning to state things out loud without feeling like they have to be concrete or sound. it's okay for me to talk in circles or write in run-on sentences. i've been in such a constant of questioning, wondering, looking at next semester, next year. i just have to remind myself that i want the meaning and the experience daily not just in the broad scheme of things.
i liked being with friends this weekend. i mean, i loved it. i think that's one of those obvious hard things: the struggle to fight for friendships. i don't really see it as a fight anymore -- it's just messing up a lot, apologizing, reorganizing, refocusing, and enjoying those relationships. rather than letting go, i see the ways i can be there for friends, the ways i need to be there for friends but not in the sense of creating expectations that cause guilt -- but searching and hoping that i desire to be there.
life is push and pull, tugging us in infinite directions. i'm envisioning that life doesn't get easier but that's okay. it's just becoming more thought-out and full of heart. boy, oh boy, there are so many things going on in my head/soul/heart.
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November 4th, 2008
lilviolingrrl
| 11:35 pm - SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
IT'S LIKE
2004 ALL OVER AGAIN ONLY THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE AND FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never let myself get apathetic or cynical or angry, but these past four years, I have been disappointed. I am no longer.
I've been bawling like the crazy. I wish my grandmother was alive to see this, but I know she is.
First African American President. First Roman Catholic Vice President.
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning
CHICAGO CHICAGO
USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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November 4th, 2009
proseandpromise
| 11:15 pm - What a night...
It will be a couple days before I can totally wrap my head around this.
Si se puedo.
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proseandpromise
| 07:44 pm - Tonight
is an exciting night. I hope you are having fun and enjoying a historic night (no matter who you support, this is history).
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