Oberlin

School is starting - a time to reflect on what makes Oberlin great (or just plain ridiculous, depending on who you ask). Features a hawt pic by my best friend, the incomparable Megan Snowe:




I also did some research and budgetting and as it turns out I can actually afford car insurance and gas on my budget! This is exciting to me because while giving up my car and going green was alluring, the idea of walking every morning before dawn through this:


was not as alluring as one might think. I consider myself a capable girl and I handled walking through Vladimir, Russia at 1 am on a few occasions, but I'm also not an idiot. According to the NY Times, my path from the bus stop to my work takes me through"a place of wandering drunks and drug addicts, with homeless people lining urine-stained sidewalks in sleeping bags, cardboard shelters and tents." This is what I experience most mornings on my one-block walk from the parking garage, but at least it's light out then. I'd feel like a real asshole if I saved a couple hundred bucks on auto stuff just to get mugged, raped, kidnapped and murdered on the way to work. (As we all know) I've seen way too much SVU to put up with that shit.

Racism!

Lazy Sunday

In the interest of exerting my creative brain cells, and staying out of the billion degree weather, I spent most of today indoors, doing some drawings. Here's one I did in pencil... (click on these to see them bigger and in more detail)


and then I drew the same picture using these brush pens I just bought. It's interesting to see how much more control I have with the pencil than I do with a brush, but I'm looking forward to exploring what I can do with the ink.


Speaking of drawings, these are awesome. They're maps of Europe drawn during war-time as comics, featuring a lot of sarcasm and not a lot of subtlety.

Also speaking of drawings, I have decided to mar my body for the rest of time by getting a tattoo. I want to use a sketch from one of my favorite comic artists, like Craig Thompson, Eddie Campbell, Frank Miller, the chick who does Mr. Lunch, etc etc. I am far from being ready to be inked up but I have started keeping an eye out for design ideas. Any suggestions?

Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

I've recently begun to realize that due to the asymmetrical shape of the modern-day toilet seat cover, there's probably a right way and a wrong way to orient it on the toilet seat. Can someone help me out with this? I think I might have been doing it wrong this whole time! And after the Bobby/i Brown incident I'm not willing to take any chances where my own reasoning skills are involved.

Idiot

OH MY GOD




I JUST NOW realized that Bobbi Brown of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is not Bobby Brown of Diana Ross and New Edition.

I honestly thought that they were the same person until I read an article talking about her makeup tips. I cannot believe I actually graduated from college.

*UPDATE*
My best friend, after asking me "what's your blog again?" because that's how much she cares, read this story and responded as such:
"haha
sorry
oh man
HAHAHAHAAHAHHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA'
didn't you know they were spelled differently?"

NO. NO TINA. I DIDN'T NOTICE.

This conversation reminds me of when she and I were talking about boys with girl names and she said "Ashley's one!" and I said "you mean like in O-Town?" and there was a pause, and then she said "I was thinking Gone With the Wind..."

I Scream

Yesterday I bought this ice cream maker!!!



I really wanted THIS ice cream maker:



but apparently you are not supposed to spend $100 on superfluous kitchen equipment when you can barely afford rent. Having the conversation "I don't need a bed frame, right?" was a particularly low point.

Anyway tonight I attempted my first recipe... OK it wasn't a recipe, it was yogurt with sugar and Kahlua dumped in and stirred around a bit. I'm so excited! It's cooling in my freezer right now and I plan on enjoying it (or being incredibly disappointed and never touching the machine again) in about half an hour.

Meanwhile I'm watching a movie that involves a madcap romp through Russia, called Dr. Zhivago. Maybe you've heard of it? It is about as lighthearted and enchanting as a festering wound. However, Alec Guiness is such a hot piece and frankly I am kind of into Omar Sharif's egregiously defined cleft chin.

Wait I take that back, his eyes are like a lizard. What is going on with that face?




Thеsе are the hottest Russian I've ever seen (actual Russians:)



Andrei Chadov, who is a famous film star there (and a TWIN!)

and THIS GUY: (possibly the best photo I've ever seen)



Sergei Lazarev, who is a pop star who mostly sings in English (like here) and is surprisingly not gay.

Yesterday I found out that Mr. Rogers came and visited my place of business many years ago, long before I was here. Can you believe that shit? I was so mad that I wasn't here to see him. You know what I saw outside of work yesterday? I saw two people having sex on the sidewalk in broad daylight,neither one of whom was Mr. Rogers. I hope.

My friend Carlen likes to ask strangers how their rashes are. If I asked the people outside of my work I would get real answers :( sad. Or crazy mumblings, or catcalls, or HEY BABY I GOT WHAT YOU NEEDs like last time.

My coworker's favorite story is of a guy on the street yelling at her "hey girl, can a man of my complexion walk in your direction?" HA. Skid row has more poets than you'd think.

Who here sometimes gets the NAACP and the NCAA mixed up? Show of hands? After all they both deal primarily with people of color right? HAHA it's funny because black people are better at sports (see previous entry).

Actually I (like everyone in the WORLD) have been watching a lot of the Olympics, and I think it might be the whitest sports event in history.



NOTICE ANYTHING about the dominant color in that picture? HMMMMMM??

This is my favorite picture from the Wikipedia article on Olympics:



I love it because it must be the funnest place to work ever, besides having Tom Hanks' job in Big (or Tom Hanks' job, for that mattter) and I also love it because the picture was taken by a David Shankbone. Poor, sad childhood for David Shankbone.

HAHAHA also I just discovered accidentally that Michael Phelps, Boy Wonder has a facebook fan page and someone wrote on it "I'M STILL BETTER THAN YOU!" That is so sad for that person.