If You Give a Mouse Some Peanut Butter...

.... he will learn to not poop in our silverware drawer.

Puppetteering

Day one of the Making of Europe class, I signed up to be in a group that had to present a book project first to the class. It entitled us to read a book, present the contents to the class with your group in an interesting fashion, and write a 5 page paper, all in about 1 1/2 weeks.


The group read Gilgamesh, and after reading the book, decided to create a puppet show video for the book. So, we had a busy week last week:

Monday - Decided to go with a puppet show
Tuesday - Created puppets, props, and some scripts
Wednesday - Finished scripts, recorded audio, then recorded video
Thursday - Mixing, and writing 5 page paper (I was only one who started this earlier)
Friday - Present in class, crash on exhaustion after


Wednesday we worked from 3 pm to 1:30 am recording. The entire week felt like a long weekend that you had to purely do work in.


Why did we put ourselves through hell? 20 extra points to our group project and paper, worth a total of 30% of our final grade.

Things Have Almost Started. And Ended.

It's been a busy week. I've set up my room completely different than how I thought I would have, but now get to utilize the whole thing. Painted half of Sarah's room, another half to paint today. Her pipes are frozen. My roommate may be coming in tomorrow night.

We met with Sarah's artist friends a little last night. It's odd how everyone will be saying how it is exciting that it is their last semester. It's not mine, and it is kind of sad that this is the last semester I may see many of their faces. Of coarse, Facebook may keep many in touch, and I'm sure I will see some of my closer friends, and next semester will be better for studying.

Mind Offset

Leave tomorrow, and I don't know what to do with myself.

COUNTDOWN!!!

Got back from Sarah's today. Had an action packed week!

Went to the city Monday, highlighted by lunch at Morimoto restaurant (everything we touched was delicious, as he is an iron chef). We walked the high-rise park,

Tuesday we went to Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, where Sarah was poking around to get info on a possible internship. Next door was the owner of the company's concrete mansion. It was a crazy house, truly unique, and big.


Wednesday we took it easy, going out to eat with Sarah's grandmother and cooking a lemon chicken dinner for her family, and finished watching her Northern Exposure dvds.

Now I'm back at home, with plenty that needs to be done, and I don't feel like doing anything...

Maybe tomorrow.

Anyway, counting down the hours before I head to Alfred. Can't wait!

Jersey Week

Not even home for a whole day and I'm in New Jersey visiting Sarah. We just picked up a futon at IKEA and I am very happy with my purchase. The mattress is comfortable and the frame makes it extremely easy to convert from a bed to a sofa and back, while the mattress hinge seam is unrecognizable when laying on it.

Can't wait to go back to school!