The Adventures of Sot

Stolen from Jaaaahhoooooooooooo

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Today was alright. Had it's super blah/awful moments. Woke up. Had coffee. Painted (Visual Language final project). Went to work. Came home. Watched a movie.

Aaand now a meme before bed.

( Html is hating me. hard. But I needed to meme before I went to bed. As I needed something to do. As I haven't done much all day, but have been working so therefore no time to actually do anything )

Aaand now I'm super sleepy. Even though I don't want to sleep yet T_T

Halloween happened. Kinda boring since I don't party (aaand need to get a state ID/license before I can even enter a cluuuuubbbb).

But yea~ Got some chaider on newbury street, then went to the common to get roasted nuts, and walked back to the public garden and sat under the trees during the hurricaine-like winds. Got take out later, and just were amused by other peoples costumes. Came back and watched horrible movies until I fell asleep at like...10:30. Yes. I am lame.

But yea....

Did a lot of homework this weekend.

BUT HAVE BEEN DOING 1 DRAWING ALL DAY AND ONLY HAVE IT LIKE....HALFWAY DONE. FUCK FULL BODY SELF PORTRAITS. ALKAJDKLFJALD. but it's due wednesday...and I don't have class tuesday so woooo. more working on it~

AND BTW I HAVE TO PICK A MAJOR BY FEBRUARY AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M GOING TO DO WITH MY LIFE. WOOOOOO!

AND I HAVE TO START MY DRAWING MIDTERM. AND TALK TO MY TEACHER ABOUT MY FINAL PROJECT.

AND START MY 4943845 LONG PROCESS FOR FORM STUDY ON THE STUPID PROJECT THAT I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE FIRST PART DONE, BECAUSE DOING THINGS IN CLASS FOR ONLY LIKE, 3 HOURS AND HAVING NO TIME TO THINK SCREWS ME OVER, SO IT WAS CRAPPY. AND I KNEW IT. AND MY TEACHER KNEW IT. AND EVERYONE IN THE CLASS KNEW. SO REDOING WORK YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

Stuff and then bed. I am sleepy. Yes. at 11:30. even though I don't have a class till 1:30.

Ittttt's Halloweeeen on Friday! Last night I carved pumpkins in the workroom with some people :P And Ally's mom sent her this huge halloween pack full of decorating stuff, so our room is rather halloween-ey now, especially with our pumpkins :3


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Ally also decorated the outside of our door, so there are cobwebs in our door alcove with spiders in them xP

In other news I have a fever :( Woke up today and went to breakfast with Alex. I was pretty much a zombie. Aaand then I came back and slept...and slept and slept until it was time to go to Art History at 1:30, when I figured out that I had a fever. Aaand so I zombied through the art history lecture whilst being loopey. Had drawing afterwards, and told my teacher that I was sick, but hadn't gone to health services yet, so he told me to go. Buuuut our health services is fantastic, and shared among like, 3 colleges, so they don't have an appointment for me till tomorrow, so I went back to class, and told my professor that I had a fever, so he told me to go and eat chicken noodle soup (because he's like that), and to email him.

Soo today I at chicken noodle soup, and...was entirely un productive because I am sick, and have to go to staples or blick before I can do my homework for Friday, as I need cardstock or board or something stronger to make my book cover and pages out of, and it was entirely gross out today. Like rainey and windy to the point of umbrellas turning themselves inside out, and just like...gross. and cold. SO that was fun.

It's early...but I think I'm going to call it a night.

Was totally freaking out earlier today because I thought my GIANT 2 YARD LONG FULL BODY SELF PORTRAIT was due tomorrow. It's not actually due till next week, or the week after that even (depends whether J.Santos follows his syllabus or not. So my proffesor wanted to "save us money", so he told us not to buy paper by the yard at the bookstore, as it's suuuuuper overpriced. So I went to Blick to try and buy paper by the yard....but they didn't have it last Friday. So Alex called Utrecht for me to see if they sold it, and said that they did. So I walk over, and try to buy 2 yards...but they don't actually sell it by the yard anyway, and I had to buy a 10 yard roll of it. I'm sure I'll use it for other things now that I have it, but still, that's just annoying.

Didn't have class today because I don't have class on Tuesday's, but it was also meet with your advisor and get your classes signed off on for next semester, even though we can't actually register for classes until november. So I went and got that paper, and also went to Staples to get photo paper to print out my photographs that I needed for my photo book that I have to make for form study. We had to go out and take photographs of things that were a certain thing that occurs in life. Lik, symmetry, concentric circles, couples etc. I did couples, so I have 25 pictures going into this book now that all involve couples in some way shape or form. Aaaand I have to make a book out of it. Buuuut I need stiffer paper for the pages, aaaand I totally didn't realize that until I had ALREADY gone to staples, and it had gotten dark. This isn't actually due till friday tho, so I guess I'll be going back.

But yea...I'm sick :( or atleast I have a cold/cough thing. There was just a case of swine flu in our dorm tho....and it was a friend of Tim...who steph (my room mate) went shopping with that weekend. And Tim is basically my 4th room mate with the amount of times he's here. Soooo I really hope I don't have swine flu T_T

Didn't have class today because it was teacher's something or other day. Sooooo I walked around Boston while doing by Form Study project with Alex. Had to take 30 pictures of a certain situation/state of being/adverb/adjective happening. I picked "coupling", so I just went out and took photographs of things that were occurring in pairs. Walked around some cool alley ways and stuff that I hadn't seen before.

Then dropped my camera back off at the dorms, and Alex and I walked to whole foods to look around (as I never really go to whole foods) and Alex needed coffee, and I offered to get pumpkin pie mix for my roommate Ally (who just made pumpkin pie :D). But anywho~ I found what I needed for Ally, and also found some Indian Pudding, which I had at a restaurant recently. It's one of those foods that you hear what it is, and you're like..."hmmm...i don't really know if I'll like that" and then you're like "holyshit this is so good". It's like, a pudding made from corn meal and molasses that's basically cooked to death, and served warm with vanilla icecream on top. It's sooo gooooood.

But yea, got all 30 of my pictures edited, printed, and cut to the correct sizes. So my homework for tomorrow is done! Whoo! Aaaaaaaaand I also finished my Visual Language homework for Monday! WHooooooo!!!! Now I only have to worry about work on the weekend, and grocery shopping. Because all I really have to eat here is english muffins, peanut butter and spaghetti. And tea. I have a lot of tea. So yea--I need to go get groceries.

Might be going to go see the destruction of the Sand Mandala that was being made this week by a budhist monk that was here at the school for some reason. I really wish I had gotten to see it before the ceremony though. My room mate got to see him working on it. Apparently he's very nice and short and cute, in a cute old man monkish way xP My other room mate ran into him doing laundry too, apparently, which is extremely ridiculous.

So...on a random note, can anybody tell me why basically all the couples I know have broken up in these past months? Because srsly--it's really wierd.

Aaaand sorry for this super long post :X

But on another note 4 DAY WEEKEND! It would be a 3 day, but I have Tuesday off.

( MY ONE WEEKEND IN BOSTON :OOOO )

Went out for breakfast today with the family at a little place in Natick called "Rise and Shine". It was delicious, and super homey. They had fresh pumpkin muffins for us which were the best I've ever eaten <3333 Ordered a huge meal, ate it all as it was sooo goood. Didn't eat for the rest of the day xP Went to iparty afterwards, and got Halloween decorations for outside the house. Put them up today, so I'm feeling in the holiday spirit :P My parents also bought me a halloween lantern thing, with electric tea lights so I can have it in my dorm <3 Went to the mall today too with the family. Got pumpkin candles at Bath and Body works, which I'm currently next to in the dark with my tea light (actual candle right now) lantern :P I feel very halloweeny. It's delicious. Went to crate and barrel and had to buy some of the ornaments there for my dorm. They're not christmasy at all really, so it's okay :P They're just shiny and colorful (blue and silver), and they match the stuffed owl ornament I bought there too. It's like, a pathwork purple owl and it's ridiculously cute. My room mate Ally has a bunch of owl stuff, and it was cute, and would match the other owl things we have in our dorm so I couldn't resist xP

But yea--in other news TERESA'S COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!! :OO This means boston times over the holidays and alllllso actually having a family christmas, which I was going to be sad about :( it's not the same being an only child during the holidays/my birthday :(((

But YAY THAT! and actually getting a weekend in Boston!

Oh, yea--MIKA THIS THURSDAY 8DDD

GGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

8:30 AM CLASS/CRITIQUE

ON WHETHER OR NOT I TRANSFORMED TOILET PAPER ENOUGH TO BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE

CARRYING KNIVES WITH ME TO CLASS BC WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO BE DOING IN CLASS TODAY WITH ALL OF OUR MATERIALS AND OUR TOOOOOLLLLLSSSSSSSS

BUT IT WILL INVOLVE TOILET PAPER

WHICH IS WHY I HAVE TO LUG LIKE A BAJILLION ROLLS OF IT TO CLASS WITH ME.

I DON'T DO ART WELL UNTIL LIKE 10. WHAT IS THIS CRAP?

AND WTF AM I DOING WITH TOILET PAPER

ZOMG GGGAHAHAHASDKLFALKSDLFALSLDJFLJS

Worst day of my life ever on Monday. Everything was just awful. My Visual Language teacher is kind of wierd. She can be either really nice, or a TOTAL FREAKIN CRAZY FLIPOUT BITCH. Sooo she decides to do this crit that instead of talking about everyone's work, we write down on a piece of paper something about the work. SO it's all anonymous. And of course when it's anonymous people are more likely to be mean. So I get all these nice/well thought out comments on my piece, and then I get "Piece draws in the viewer, but leaves them slightly disappointed b/c of the inconsistent/unplanned/haphazard execution". So that made me feel spectacular about my day. And then my Visual Language teacher gave me shit about like...nothing later because she just flips on anyone who's around sometimes. She was alright after, but still. ALlkakljfadlksjf.

And then other things happened which just made life even more great.

But yea--have this weekend off from work, and it's a 3 day weekend because of columbus day, but I have 4 days because I have tuesday off! :D I might be staying here for 2 days and going home for 2 days, but I don't know yet. I have to figure that out.

But anywhooooo.

I will fill you all in later about my ridiculous assignments and teachers and stuff later as I am tired and have a semi-early class in the morning.

Iiii also have pictures of my room that I still haven't posted, so I should get around to that too xP

No classes today~

Going to Newbury St with Steph, my room mate, today. Bit of a fiasco because Alex wanted to take me exploring there for the first time. But she asked after she got ditched by her friend when they were going, and now she's not friends with this person anymore, and then her boyfriend of more than a year and a half broke up with her so she basically asked me while crying, so I couldn't say no :XX

So yea. Going there today~

I hate not having a weekend. I legit went home, ate, went to work, came home, ate, went to sleep, woke up, did homework, went to work, ate, did homework, came back to boston, did homework, slept, did homework, went to class. It's that bad. Brought my laptop home and didn't even open it once. I don't think I'll bring it home anymore, because I really don't have time to do anything with it if I wanted to. I also hate wanting to do things when I have no time. Like I really want to go to Urban Outfitters, and there's one just down the street from where I live. But I either don't have time to go, or no one to go with. And then I wanted to look around the mall for somethings that I need for the upcoming winter, and just in general and I wanted to putz around the intense crate and barrel that just opened up, but I can't because I'm either in boston, with no time, or in Framingham (IN THE MALL) without any time because I'm working. But my boss is giving me a weekend off coming up soon, and then I'm going to take Halloween weekend off. So I'll get things done then I guess.

Blah blah blah. I have ridiculous assignments that I have to do, but they're all wierd and just like...difficult to explain and I'm not sure if anyone's really that interested, so just say if you are and I'll tell.

But yea....blah.

Hungry. Breakfast. Shower. Shopping/Newbury St.

Killing time before class starts at 1:30. I have visual language aaaand I have no idea what we do in that class. It's a studio class again, so it'll be 5 hours long. But it's the first day, so I hope that they don't keep us there for 5 hours.

But anywho, I went back to the 'ham this weekend to mainly work, but also to pick up warm clothing at home because for some reason it is FREAKIN COLD here in Boston. So yea...I worked a 9 hour shift on Saturday. It didn't seem like it was really long because we were super busy, but it was rainy...and it was a Saturday, so the mall was crazy busy. And of course one of our computers had crashed that morning, so we only had 2 registers. One of our coupons that we had been giving out was redeemable too, and there was huge craziness with that because people can't read, and are all really bitchy if they can't use thier coupons all at the same time. We had 3 coupons that were circulating, and none of them technically can be used at the same time.

SOO we had like...20 people in line because it was so busy and one of the registers was down, so the lady that I've had 4 times came back to return something AGAIN. And accuses us AGAIN of doing something wrong. So I do it the way she wants and whatever--it's fine. it's done. she leaves.

And then I get this other lady, who has these coupons that she HASN'T READ. And so she's all like "I didn't expect this at all" blah blah blah because she didn't READ THE FREAKIN COUPON.

And then there's this other lady IN A ROW FROM ALL THESE OTHER CRAZIES. And she tries to use 2 of the coupons together and I politely tell her that that can't be done. So she tries to make it another transaction. THERE ARE LIKE...20 PEOPLE BEHIND YOU LADY. So I tell her that I'll put them together, even though I'm not supposed to. And so she is almost done. Aaaand then I give her her punches in the cards that we give out (for every $20 you spend, you get a punch and when you fill it all out you get $20 off), and she fills up the card. SO THEN SHE WANTS TO USE THAT TOO. And I'm like...I'm sorry that can't be done. And she argues with me and is all like, then I want to not buy an item, so I only have to spend enough to do the punches and then use the card. And I like....uhm what? Because that makes no sense. BECAUSE SHE STILL CAN'T USE IT. So I argue with her over all of this, and she makes it seem like I'm stupid and just not getting it, when in fact she's the FREAKIN STUPID BITCH who doesn't understand. So I get my manager Melissa to come over, and she argues about the same thing for like, 5 more minutes with this lady. And I just like...couldn't take it anymore. I just like started crying and had to go hide in the back for a while. People are stupid jerks. The end.

But yea...my manager talked to me afterwards and was like "that lady was a huge jerk" and she completely understood, so she didn't make me ring anymore (for that day and the next), and I just did other things around the store while she rang for me. I heard plenty of stories from that mangaer, Melissa, and my other manager Christina about the countless times other customers have made them bawl so apparently it happens.

People are stupid. The end.

But yea...came back into Boston late last night with all of my warm clothes and new socks (from target! they're super soft woolly and comfy!) and am killing time.....I am so bored T_T

Woke up early this morning because my room mates had class. I like waking up early and having time tho. Took a shower and didn't have to rush. Got dressed, and met up with Alex for breakfast. Our food isn't that bad, but it's suuuuper greasy, so I'm not that enthused. I'm probly going to try the salad bar, and if that's okay then eat salads for foreeeever. Or just cook stuff at home :P

Ran into Cara at the Massart dining commons, as she goes to Wentworth, which like...right next door to Massart, and Wentworth and Massart share dining space. Finished eating and took my coffee out to the park that's right nearby and sat with Alex in the chilly weather before he had class. It was really nice. I love just sitting in parks and talking and wasting time.

It's super chilly in boston tho. It was absolutely freezing two nights ago. It's supposed to get warmer in the afternoon, but right now it's chilly. Our air conditioning is freeezing, so I opened a window, but it's freezing outside, so that really doesn't help. Ohh welll.

( But here is my schedule if anyone's interested :P )

But yeaaaa~ I have like.....2 more hours to kill before class. I reeeaaaally am not looking forward to going to get supplies today, as Blick will probly be ridiculously crowded. Aaaand they're running this huge sale right now, so everything is a super good price. I could go to the Bookstore here at massart and use my money that's on my school card...but it might be cheaper just to go to blick. We shall seeeee~

At college now in Boston. Whoooo!

Room is okay-- it's like...the smallest room plan in the building...and it's a force triple to add to that.

But my room mates are chill and all is well so far.

Met some pretty cool people while going on random trips in random groups on orientation. Everyone here is really chill, including the upper classmen and the staff.

Classses start tomorrow. I have Western Studies from 11:30-3...and Drawing from 3-8. Sooo I'll be running from Western Studies to drawing every single day with like...all the other freshman because they reallllllly didn't plan things out well with our ONLY lecture. So yea. That'll be fun. Especially since we don't have our supply list or anything yet. So hopefully we won't be kept in the drawing class doing absolutely nothing. For 5 hours. Because that would not be fun :X

But yea. I don't have classes on Tuesday, and only have more than one class on Wednesday and Friday. And we're not having classes this friday, as we have like a...seperate orientation type thing after the first two days of classes.

Buuuuuut I went to the Northend like...twice already. Modern's pastries as well as mike's are both delicious and Regina Pizzeria is amaaaaazing. And I found a park with a cool water fountain type thing today on Mission Hill.

I also attended a snackpack pudding party. One of the guys on the floor below us had a party trying to cram as many people as possible into his force triple. It's bigger than ours tho, and he just like...gave away pudding because his mom had bought him shitloads of the stuff. There was also a dance party on the 4th floor that I didn't get to attend because of the floor meeting that I had to go to.

But we're having floor activities sometime soon. We have to have atleast one a month. Our ideas so far are a game party (including twister), a costume/dance party with a theme, a potluck dinner type thing, a pajama party/breakfast for dinner type thing. But yeah, thaaat should be fun.

Sleep now. I am exhausted from walking around Boston like craaaaziness.

Iiiii have been working like a mofo.

I've worked every day for the past two weeks, including a 7 and a half hour shift, and an 8 hour shift.

Aand I have a cold.

Aaand even when on break, I only really get 10 minutes to sit down and shove food in my face.

So yea. I've been tired.

Working 9-2 tomorrow and then on call 1-6.

Aaaand then moving into the artist res in boston :)

I SURVIVED PLANES! AND IOWA :OOOOO

I did get goobered by my aunt's saint bernard Ruby tho (named after Rubeus Hagrid xP) She is quite cute, but ridiculously gooberey.

But yea--planes and stuff turned out to be alright. It freaked me out at first, but it's not so bad after a couple of times. But I had lots of good food and wine and cappuccino at my aunts, and we talked about random stuff. She bought me coffee and we went to see Julie and Julia, which was cute but kind of sad. I helped my uncle make hand made pasta, which turned into "drunken pasta", which is pasta boiled in wine, and then my aunt made a pesto sauce for it from basil from the garden. Yummmm <333 It was delicious. But yes--it was full of great food, and great company, and great wine and coffee.

Aand we went to the museum in the city there, which was interesting. The artist who did "American Gothic" was from Iowa, so there were a few of his works there--Grant Wood I think is his name. We went to the faire after that, which was an experience. When I say faire, I don't just mean carnival rides and fried dough and lemonade. There was livestock and animals and stuff that were winning prizes and stuff. So yea--It was kind of like stepping into another world. I have toooooons of pictures. They're all loaded on Facebook tho :X Formatting and everything for livejournal is just so time consuming >_< So yeah---If you want to see them, my username is Alina G and I'm on the Massart and Framingham High School Network. The album's titled IOWA, so yea--if you want to see go have a look, and if you don't have me added, and want to see them, feel free to add me.

But yea---bought almost all of my college stuff today. I have kitchen supplies out the whazzoo in my living room. I just want to get moved in and get organized like right now. I still have to find a kitchen trashcan tho. I couldn't find one that was the right size :/ but I only really looked at one store, so I'm heading over to target sometime to see what they have.

But yea :OOOOO

LIfe.....is......I don't even know.

So...Elly, one of our cats had surgery a couple days ago. She had lumps on her mammary glands and so they removed them and did a biopsy. So she's been in a cone and been cutely pathetic with her cone. She's like...super fail with it and it's so sad/pathetic/cute :(

So...I got a call the other day from the vets, and they said that they did the biopsy and that it was negative--that they were just fatty deposits.

Buut...they apparently called when I was at dance and there was a second biopsy and it is cancer.

So yeah.

Fuck.