i managed to piss the whole weekend away, hanging out with my friends. which really isn’t a waste at all, it’s just not as productive as working on compositing or my poetry performance which is TODAY for chrissake. crap. i have to leave work early to go buy some wonder bread at osco. don’t ask. i just want it to be over.

easter was video games and….video games….and talking about video games…

also there was really good food. we ate lunch and dinner together so that was a good time. also trivial pursuit. mike, kate, grover, and i versus eric. we beat him. just barely. this is what it takes to make an even match against this guy.

yesterday eric and mike and i hit giordano’s for the half-off pizza. eric waited for me at searle for like half an hour! what a guy. also he was all stylin’ in his green cords and black turtleneck sweater. yow! 🙂 at dinner: take 2 (take 1 being chapter dinner) we talked about really uplifting things, like how the economy is going to fail and we’re all going to be screwed and nanomachines are going to take over the world and infest our bodies and either kill us all or create heaven on earth. you know, a lighthearted evening.

when i got home from the pizza bonanza i worked on my poetry performance, which is to say i put on the costume and recited the poem a few times and that was it. the way i figure it, i can’t be any worse than some of the people that have already gone. well, ok i COULD, but that’s just too horrible to think about.

this morning i got up early and went to the post office to pick up the package that josh sent to me (really, himself) that’s a gift for (shh!) meghan. who i hope isn’t reading this before he gives it to her. that would be really shitty of me. but probably she doesn’t read this very often, and definately not while her boyfriend is in town for one week only.

then i went to class, met with my anal/perf professor about my poetry performance, participated in a comm studies experiment (2 credits down, 4 to go!), went to work, got kyle’s digital camera, met with the commercials dp, updated the production book, caught a ride with andrew (blessed andrew with his automotive genius) to campus for compositing, was totally lost in class because my computer kept freezing and i had to keep rebooting, then stayed in the kdms lab until 11pm working on color keying for friday’s assignment. whew!

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whew! first day of class and i’m exhausted and it’s only…well, i guess it’s midnight, but whatever. i was up at annenberg for ipc 20 minutes early this morning, then got let out early so i went to norris and bought my books then went to the printmaking lab to pick up my tablets and portfolio from last quarter (got an a! made the dean’s list!). then i went to the house and read half a chapter for ipc. went to parkes for anal/perf (analysis & perfomance of literature for you non-nu people) then ran home for lunch. then went to work where i had multiple meetings about look & feel and the commercial shoot. went from there to the house for chapter dinner and chapter, left early to haul ass up to francis fucking searle for my internship seminar. then came home and glutted myself on veggies and triscuit. a lot of veggies and triscuit. a lot.

sleepy. i guess i’m not going to get more reading done.

~kara

this weekend was great! i played the piano whenever i wasn’t sleeping or eating or at a family function which was…well, not as often as i would’ve liked. but i practiced some chopin and managed to keep my mom up all night on friday. the baby shower was super too – we went to this cute little antique place and had tea. two kinds of tea (yummy) and lots of good food including the best scones i’ve ever had. my mom made some great enchiladas too and i got the leftovers (of course). i also bought fresh produce for the first time in months.

tonight the plan was to go to 1800 club, but then i looked at my class schedule (first day of my last quarter tomorrow!) and realized i have to be up at annenberg at 10am. ick. very ick. plus i still haven’t heard where my internship seminar is being held tomorrow night. yeargh. back to reality.

~kara

last night meghan, eric, mike, and i went downtown to the green mill to see kurt elling play. ok, we didn’t really see much of him, but we could hear plenty. it was super! meghan and i got there later on and had to wait in line outside for a little while, which was sort of annoying, mostly because we could see eric and mike through the window and i had never noticed a line there before. but i guess that’s because usually i get there around 8 instead of 9:30. anyway, the show was great. afterwards eric, meghan and i went to steak ‘n shake and i indulged in my ritual plate of cheese fries. mmm.

today i have to take a couple of dvds back to blockbuster, redigitize all my media on avid 4 since it all got dumped yesterday as part of spring break cleaning at louis. in preparation i have already thrown two books in my bag and i’ll probably pick up lunch on the way there too. then i have to figure out what’s going on with this weekend. my cousin’s baby shower is on saturday, and i’m supposed to be catching a ride to the qca with her and her mom. but i haven’t heard anything from them so i’m a little uncertain as to what the deal is. i’m going to call my cousin later on today i think. then tonight meghan and i need to watch ‘liberty heights’ after we hit eac.

ugh. step one. put the computer away and go brush my teeth.

~kara