Summa Summa Summatime

Classes for Summer started today and it looks like I am going to be super busy for at least 5 weeks and then moderately busy for the next 5.  I went into my courses and did all of the work I possibly could for the first week without having any books yet.  I am most excited about my Composition and Rhetoric Class, the essay topics basically write themselves.  In fact, I have already chosen my titles for all of them!


Narrative:
I Was Born A Poor Black Child*
Definition:
I Am Going Into This Field To Reach My Goal of Decorating a Cubicle with Unicorns
Process:
10 Steps To Becoming A Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Research:
Does Jon Snow REALLY Know Where To Put It?
Persuasion:
Why Ryan Gosling Should Join My Marriage
Inspirational Figure:
River Tam, Because I Can Kill You With My Brain

Seriously though, I am excited to get to write assigned things again and I'm hoping it will lead to more productive hobby writing, like on this blog and just for fun.

I am seriously dreading the math class but I'm just going to wish on stars, light candles, and cross my appendages that I can get through it.  I just have to get through it and I will be okay, really.  The Photoshop class is using a book similar to the ones I had for Web Tech and Flash and they were very thorough and easy, plus I've been playing around with Photoshop for years so I should have most things figured out.

I'm going to go enjoy some reading now before I get my school books and have to do real work and am ripped out of Westeros. Ciao!

someone's gotta help me dig

I found out that the B I thought I made is actually and A.  So I got all A's last semester!  YAY!  My GPA is slowly climbing up.  Alden is also doing well in school so that's awesome.

Now if I just just win the lottery so we can afford my books/software that'd be great...

The concert on Saturday night was fantastic.  We went shopping and grabbed some food before the show.  The show itself was great. They sounded even better in person than they do on the album which is always nice.  We hung around after the show to meet the band and ask them to sign our shirts and they did.  I was practically swooning the ENTIRE TIME.  

(I am resisting the urge to put the Ygritte/Jon swooning clip here because it would be a spoiler for those who aren't caught up on Game of Thrones but just imagine it's here k thnx).

Mother's Day was lovely.  I got to hang out with Alden, my mom, sister, aunt, uncle, papaw, and nana.  Alden made me two really pretty beaded bracelets, a card, and he painted me a coffee mug.  Admittedly the mug is my favorite part, he wrote "I *<3* You" but the heart is anatomically correct looking instead of being a boring old regular heart.

This week I'm just trying to tidy up the house a little bit, figure out what the hell I need for my upcoming courses, and enjoy my last week of absolute freedom this summer.

Not that I'm complaining, coming up I have Dropkick Murphys, Bob Dylan & Wilco, Neil Gaiman, and Neutral Milk Hotel.  So I have a fun action packed summer/fall planned, it just has to happen around my stinking coursework.

Romy & Michele? Not this time...

Instead of paying $75 and dragging my husband to see a bunch of people that I unfortunately went through school with tomorrow evening, we are going to a concert with one of my best friends.  Those tickets were only $15 a piece, I'll be with two people I actually enjoy spending time with, and I will get to see this beautiful man shake his ass and rock out.

SO EXCITE!!!

I thought when my 10 year reunion rolled around that I would be excited and want to go. Then I started really thinking about it and why the hell would I pay that much to hang out with people that I don't particularly like?  I think having reunions is kind of bullshit at this point. I can see your boring life on Facebook for free.  If I want to get drunk with you I'll send you a Facebook message and we'll go somewhere that sells beer for a reasonable price and doesn't require you to dress like some sort of "dressy casual" person, whatever the hell that means. 

Of course this doesn't apply to everyone.  I am still SUPER close with 3 people from my high school class  and I still like a few other people that I don't really talk to much.   But the vast majority I don't really care to see. It's nothing against them in particular it just isn't worth $75 to hear about their kids and jobs and smile while I pretend that I'm interested.  I hope everyone has fun at the reunion.  I also kind of hope that people get really wasted and a brawl breaks out and someone puts it on YouTube, but that's less likely to happen I guess.

I'll be shaking my ass and elbowing my way up to the front of this show. 

how to internet

I am SO TIRED of seeing excessive amounts of recipes on Facebook.  Yes, I can scroll past a few but more than 2 and it gets REALLY OLD, REALLY QUICKLY.  Let me break down how the internet works for those of you who only use your iPhone/MacBook as a seriously overpriced Facebook machine.

Facebook is for keeping up with friends and family and sharing articles or witty commentary.
Twitter is for self absorbed bitching.
Reddit is for cats and boobs.
Tumblr is for fandom.
Pinterest is for recipes and DIY shit that you will never ever actually do.
Instagram is for photos of your food and your beer.

I'm not judging you for HAVING any of these accounts.  I have one of each myself, but I use them in an appropriate manner.

P.S.  If you want my username for any of them just let me know.

Carry on...

Happy Saturday or something...

SPRAAAANG BREAAAAAK FO'EVA

I spent most of the day revamping my Twitter, Tumblr, and this blog.  I'll get to my other sites on another day.  I had Spring Break the first week of the month and spent it hanging out with my girlfriends, going to see Spring Breakers, and celebrating Josh's birthday.  It was the most fun I've had in a long time.  I got to turn my music up insanely loud, I got to see one of the best movies I've ever seen, I got to be silly and drink wine and just sit around talking and eating junkfood with some of my favorite people.

Going back to school on Monday was a real drag and Wednesday NO ONE was feeling it.  In fact I was one of the last 3 people in class and I ended up leaving 30 minutes early thinking I'd read outside on the benches.  That didn't happen due to the disgusting amount of pollen floating into my face but I tried.  That night I got 2 of my best friends to finally sit down and watch the first episode of Game of Thrones with me.  I think they liked it.  YAY!  Then Thursday Alden had a playdate and it went well all things considered.  Two autistic children on a playdate is never ever a dull event.

Today as I said was spent most of the day finding new layouts I liked and tweaking them to get the look I want.  I'm currently too lazy to code anything of my own, especially since that's what I do at school all day long.  I finished my Dreamweaver class 3 weeks early because it's easy and boring and I figured I'd just get it out of the way.  One of the women in my class said "Your kid must be better behaved than mine!" and I just sat there for a second before replying with "Oh, I don't have the program at home. I can't afford it, I just work during class the 4 hours a week.  If you want to trade kids for the day I guarantee you'd take that back anyway, because my kid has autism."  She shut up pretty quickly after that.  It was hilarious.

During Spring Break I managed to get tickets to see one of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, on his last book signing tour.  I am SO excited. I met his beautiful wife (and a personal hero of mine) Amanda Palmer last year on her tour.

I was sad that 2 of my other favorite authors posted their tour dates on the following consecutive days, but this is Neil's LAST signing tour so I made the right decision financially.  If I was rich I'd go see them all!

Here are the other authors I want to meet :
David Sedaris
Augusten Burroughs
Chuck Palahniuk
Alan Moore

We have tickets for Father John Misty next month and then tickets for Dropkick Murphys the following month so maybe I'll get to meet those lovely folks too.

I hope this finds everyone well.  I hope to post more once finals are finished and I only have online courses so I'm at home and stuff.  Going to finish this drink and hit the hay.  Goodnight!

but the Dark Side has all the cookies!!!

You might remember this post and this one, today I'm here to tell you anther one.  Today I was sitting on the couch with Alden and we were playing with his iPad (specifically teaching him to care for his new Tamagotchi) and there was a knock on the door.  I wasn't expecting company but I got up to peek out the window.  A gray van.

Sidebar: Why are they always in vans? Does Jesus prefer them or something?

I don't know anyone who drives a gray van (as far as I know) so I tried to discreetly peer out the window beside the door.  All I see is someone bent over wearing a really long wool coat. Thinking this is really strange/creepy I tell Alden to "be quiet".  My initial thought for some reason was not "IT IS EASTER WEEK AND THIS IS ABOUT THE LORD" but "this person is coming to shoot/rob me, so of course I open the door like a dummy.  I opened the door just a crack and I had my left hand on my baseball bat ready to grab swing if need be.  

I look up and there is a little old man, probably in his 70s.  He is wearing the aforementioned long black wool coat, a button up shirt, and a black bowler hat.  He looked dapper, he looked British, and he looked like he probably wasn't going to murder me or rob me.  That's when I realized he was going to attempt to evangelize me.  I want to point out that he was the nicest Bible Thumper that's ever come to my door.  He was very friendly and not in the least pushy or even interested in having a debate or discussion. He just genuinely wanted to invite me to his church's events over the course of the week.  Then he handed me this...

Which in itself is not funny.  Unless you have seen this,  which I had, only a few weeks ago on the web.

It took absolutely EVERYTHING I HAD IN ME NOT TO LAUGH IN THIS OLD MAN'S FACE.  I was really proud of myself for being able to hold it in and just smile while he told me that "all the races are represented at the bottom of this photo because Christ our Lord loves everyone. People of all races are invited to these events because we too love everyone."   

I thought about pointing out that Jesus' appearance was never described in the bible and that his race was also up for debate.  I also wanted to ask why Jesus didn't have his usual hippie hair.  But like I said he was just an old nice man and I was just seriously trying hold it together and not laugh while imagining the future of this photo, in which I draw Obi's blue lightsaber in his hand & put it on my fridge.

Anyway, I did a lot of smiling and nodding and he told me to "have a lovely day" and he left.

In conclusion if anyone wants to go to a Star Wars party, I think they are having one in my neck of the woods tonight. I assume they are going to watch all 6 movies and then have a discussion.  There will be a nice old man there probably wearing his bowler hat.  I bet his favorite character is Jar-Jar Binks because he always gets left out.  

And now I'm gonna go eat Girl Scout cookies.
*because I'm from the dark side*