the academy awards went more than well. my faith in the academy has been restored with the announcement of adrian brody as this year’s best actor. i was so happy i actually jumped up and down and yelled. plus, i got my jello back. i finished it off today and it was delicious. meghan and i got pine yard for the oscars and that was great too.

actually, the past couple days have been awesome. sunday the weather was great and i sat outside for a few hours reading magazines. yesterday meghan and i went to navy pier. we went on the ferris wheel, ate chicago style hot dogs, saw the lion king at the imax, and went on the architecture boat tour. the boat tour was probably the best $18 i’ve ever spent. it was AMAZING! the weather was beautiful and the tour guide was very knowledgable…i learned stuff AND had a good time! the only low point was when a seagull pooped on meghan’s sleeve. but that was easily remedied. oh, and the guy who does the juggling/balloon show for the kids – he was sort of giving us the eye in a semi-creepy way. but other than that. awesome!

today i finished watching the first season of ‘six feet under.’ it was so good. what a great show. i can’t wait to see the second season. i also rented ‘liberty heights’ which josh recommended due to adrian brody’s performance. plus the back of the box sounded interesting.

~kara

ok i feel much better than i did 2 days ago. i’m feeling a little stressed about the film, but other than that i’m ok. i’m on the 3rd disc of ‘Six Feet Under’ and it is so amazingly good. i watched ‘the importance of being earnest’ last night and it was SO clever. it made me want to speak in a british accent for the rest of the night. plus, before that meghan and i went to dinner at outback and had some excellent steak. mmm…

tomorrow is the academy awards, so i’m bracing myself for my yearly ritual of screaming at the tv for how backwards the academy vote turns out. however, the plan is to have some sort of academy awards drinking game at eric’s place. maybe mike and jon will bring my leftover jello. i have started a few rules. most assuredly, everyone will be drunk by Best Director.

also, here are some of the top quotes from ‘calvin & hobbes,’ beloved cartoon of yesteryear.

~kara

ok, so it’s technically the 16th, but it’s only 12:28, so i say it counts as saturday still. meghan and i just got back from the bbq. it was awesome. started at 5, ended at midnight. brats, hot dogs, hamburgers, steaks, salads, cookies, tons of beer…ahh. this is the life. plus it was GORGEOUS today. only wore my red hooded sweatshirt as a coat. eric danced a lot, kate’s girls came, it was awesome.

AND today i printed my edition of my woodcut dyptich for printmaking. tomorrow i have to go in to do a monotype, and i have NO idea what to do for it, but at least that’s all i have left! then just the critique on monday morning and i’m done for the quarter!! HOORAY!! oh yeah – the papers went ok. at least they’re over. whatever.

tomorrow (today) is erin’s going away party – she’s going to cincinnati for her teaching media quarter for medill. las palmas and karaoke at 1800. excellent. the quarter is looking a lot better now that i don’t really have any more work to do.

~kara

one paper down, one to go! then i’ll only have printmaking to worry about. three days to finish my portfolio…think it can happen? it’ll have to. i went to the art store to get paper today, but they were out of the two kinds i needed. i guess i should have gotten my ass over there sooner. so to to salvage the trip i bought a newfangled red mechanical pencil. yeehaw. i’m such a rebel.

the first barbecue of the season is taking place at mike & jon’s this weekend! hooray for eric’s party planning. hooray for bratwurst. god bless us all.

~kara

so today fran and i went to old orchard (because although i have two final papers due on friday, it was clear that i might as well make it a shut-out weekend for productivity) to look for a dress for her sister’s pre-wedding funness. we didn’t find a dress for that occasion, but we DID find a dress at bloomingdale’s that would make even sarah jessica parker cringe (yeah, i’m up on my red carpet gossip). this dress was strapless, with a fully tulle-ified below the knee skirt, bubblegum/cotton candy pink. and get this: with row upon row of square-cut tulle layers. think fringe, but made of tulle and two inches wide. and all over the dress like shingles or as fran said, “piñata-style.” so, being the wuss i am, fran talked me into trying it on. the worst part: i didn’t hate it as much as i thought i would. sure i felt like a really tasteless cake or…a piñata…but still….god. i hate myself for not totally hating that dress. (here it is but think pink not black. really pink. i mean really. and way less cool on a real person.) from now on, i take a camera shopping, because who knows what you might end up prancing around a dressing room in, asking people to take a blindfolded swing at you.

~kara

ozzie’s birthday party was off the heazy for sheazy, as the kids say these days. it was downtown at iggy’s, a martini bar with excellent food. everyone looked great too! lots of eye candy – a perk of working in an office that is 75% male and way hot. 🙂 ozzie’s brother casey was there. casey and ozzie look eerily similar. even stranger is casey’s resemblance to ray from achewood. spooooky.

right now i’m trying not to freak out over how i have no idea what’s going on in the class that i have a paper due in tomorrow (my grammar just keeps going downhill….). plus it’s come up with your own topic, so i’m even more clueless. AUGH!

~kara

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGHAN!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY OZZIE!!!

i got meghan ‘XXX’ for her birthday. there is a featurette called ‘diesel powered’ lol! i can’t wait to watch it! we went to chili’s for dinner and ate SO MUCH and drank, well, not a whole bunch but a lot. now the ladies are in the kitchen making more margaritas while i attempt to type comprehensibly. i can’t believe i just remembered what that word meant, much less how to spell it. i spelled it right, right? god bless the delete button! so i paid for dinner and everybody gave me their cash, so i’ll be all set for ozzie’s birthday celebration tomorrow night at iggy’s.

right now mike, kate & stacey are experiencing and eric is reexperiencing the glory of ‘old school.’ go see it. go see it NOW!

~kara