just wanted to say i am still alive. i had the worst cold ever. ugh. like death.

kill the rock.

School is going really well. I'm really excited. Got some homework to do a little catching up on, but I figured I'd give this a little update first. Not actually a whole lot to report. My drawing class has reviews next wednesday. I need to get a few drawings finished up, and then one completed by next Monday. I have a few ideas going for that. Just some rough sketches in the works at the moment. I also have a midterm paper due in two weeks. I've never had to write a midterm paper before. It's kind of weird and making me kind of nervous actually. I think I've put too much pressure on myself over it, but really I can't help it. But, I have found out that techno helps me write papers. haha.

I've got a club I'm joining on Wednesday. I'm pretty nervous about it actually, but I think it'll be good to get out there for a good cause, for something I support and to just get out there with people. I need to not be so damn reclusive all the time. I think this will be good for me, so I'm forcing myself to do it.
Good Luck, me!

cover ya damn mouth.

so i arrived extra early to class today to print out some stuff i needed. i hated not having a printer at home. that is, until i found out the computer lab is all MACS. i apoligize... i'm a mac snob. what can i say.

but i'm really kind of grossed out. everyone is sick. i don't understand it. apparently it's just a bad season or something, but they really weren't kidding about this new virus. the girl across from me looks like death warmed over. and i don't have insurance. i'm trying to shield myself with my computer as best as i can from  her coughing, but i'm really wishing i had a mask on. 

the scary thing is, when bird flu, and west nile, swine flu, mad cow disease, ect. ect. ect., we're so big, i never saw a single person that was actually sick. i knew there were some around me, but never saw them. but with this, i've only heard it briefly mentioned, and everyone looks deathly. i just think the priorities of our news stations are off. 

i think i'm going to grab an orange juice before class...

Reprieve

  So. This has been a long week. Lots of homework, but again, I'm really enjoying school. Work has also been a feat this week. I haven't been getting much sleep either, so I'm a little run down. So I've just been trying to take care of myself, because I heard briefly somewhere the other day that there's a new virus or something going around. It's probably just something stupid like the bird flu or whatever. I'm not worried, I just don't need to get sick right now.
  On a side note, I've been taking a class on American Radicalism, and I'm now learning the true history of our country. I always knew we weren't getting the whole story in school, I remember in second grade arguing with my teacher that Columbus didn't actually discover America, that the Native Americans were already here that that's not discovering anything, but I never realized how much they were actually leaving out, or just all together altering. I think they've really done an injustice to Americans. I think if they want us to be true proud Americans, they need to start sharing the true history of this "wonderful" country of ours. I've just really been looking at everything, and I'm actually more disappointed in my country than I was before. Though I guess that is why they don't share any of this information with us. Or 205 is just that shitty of a school district. Which is a theory I wont dismiss, either.
  Either way, I know some of the advanced readers in my high school read this, so maybe more people have read this than I know of, but I think that everyone needs to pick up a copy of A People's History of the United States. Basically, I'm obsessed with this book. And you'd better believe that when my children are starting school, I will be following along with their curriculum, and teaching them the whole story, so they can go back to school the next day and ask their teachers about it. Maybe others can learn this at an earlier age. I just know my children wont be left in the dark. This is far to important. They ask us to blindly submit. I just can't handle such a big part of my life to be so vague and shadowed.
  Ok. So that is my rant for today. I just feel very passionately about this at the moment.

Thank you. And have a good day.

Just what I needed.

Ok. Promise that last blog wasn't supposed to sound so cynical. I enjoy blogs, I really really do. There are just some blogs that I feel the only reason people start them is so they can gripe. I promise this wont be that blog. For the most part.

I'm actually enjoying my life for the most part now. I'm going back to school. I'm stationary. Yet I don't feel stagnant like I did for so long. I'm happy. I have a stable job, though that's never been a problem for me, I'm just thankful that I have one. I have a beautiful fiancee', who is amazingly brilliant and hard working. Who could ask for anything more? We have a shitty little apartment now, but we're moving soon. This cute little house from the 1880s. We'll be living on the second floor of it. It's in east St. Paul. Everyone says it's such a rough area, but we don't really think so. We get a garage, a compost pile, a garden, about twice as much room, and my favorite part, a washer and dryer in the kitchen. Can it get any better??

In the beginning

So. I've decided to start blogging. Because, well, isn't that what everyone does now a days? God forbid you have a private thought to yourself. Hell no. Why would you keep a thought to yourself? Throw it up on the internet. Beg your "followers" to gratify you. Follow your every move. Love you.
So this is that blog for me.
Gratify me.