well we went down to cedar street. it's this courtyard between two bars downtown.
my professor owns a firm down there. we all carved our pumpkins.
it was great because none of them looked alike.
i kinda wish i had some friends. everyone was gonna go out tonight
and have fun. i spent my halloween at home...eating ravioli.
sigh.



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I did the ugly cat.

i had to run to the store today.
my studio is taking a halloween break today and going
downtown to 4th st to carve pumpkins. i had to go buy one.
there were slim pickings... i had to get this ugly one.
i went ahead and gutted it here. i also drew on it so i know
where to start carving. i'm doing a cat this time. i'll post picture
up later. i'm gonna go grab some breakfast now.. cereal..generic
fruit loops. i guess it's not breakfast time anymore. who cares.
you can eat breakfast whenever.

boogers. lj was down all yesterday.
i played catch up all day yeterday...it sucks
all the work you have piled up once you've been sick.
if could just bypass this coughing...

Happy Halloween!

ughish. i'm still sick. i thought i was getting over it all.
my coughing has gotten worse...and my fever is getting
to me..and my stomach is churning. blah.

on a lighter note, i have a cute cat story.
i was walking outside of my room yesterday..and i didn't see dessy.
she's usually right oustide my door. i found tigger on our
big yellow chair. i checked under it..another one of dessy's fav. resting
spots... but no dessy. finally i checked the kitchen and into the laundry room.
there on top of a pile of laundry in a basket was my cutie pie, desdemona.
heh.

aaaah!
i want! i want!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/3288.shtml

80" projection!

consumerism.. who needs the devil.

good morning. i didn't want to get up at all. i should have gotten up around 7:40am.
I have lots of stuff to do today. oh well. i think i'll just wing it as usual.
eating some cereal now. mmm. i have a cut on my tongue though.. so it hurts
to swallow. geez. can't my mouth just be okay for once?

55 degrees F right now. Partly Cloudy but mostly Sunny today.
Highs in the 77 and lows in the 46

pretty nice day.

pumpkin pooh

lunch today was seafood. we ate at joe's crab shack. i don't remember it being so expensive. geez. it was a wallet breaker...but i liked it.

jeremy and i bought a pumpkin from HEB on our way home. He gutted it and
I carved in a Winnie the Pooh face on the front..and a Honey Pot on the back.
It was fun and turned out pretty nicely. It's sitting outside by the front door.
Next time I might carve out an eeyore.


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gonna go eat some totino's pizza now.

just got up around noon. i forgot it's daylights savings time.. or the end of it.
we got an extra hour! yeah! i'm so happy about that. actually, in reality you don't gain an hour..but who cares.. it's just the idea that i like. :)

we just got back from Wanfu. I had some warm wonton soup. it was good.
john didn't go with us cuz he's catching my cold. i'm just getting over my cold.
we didn't do much today. mostly just rested. my cats keep trying to get into my room at night and pawing underneath my door. they're also chewing up the cable running underneath my door from john's room. we share a cable connection. it's very annoying. jeremy and i just retaped the cables down (their in protective plastic tubing). i hope it stays this time. i'm so tired of getting up in the morning to shoo them away from the
wires. ugh. i wish my cats didn't love to destroy expensive wiring...otherwise they could come sleep with me at night. before i was going to go to grad school, jeremy and i were going to get a two bedroom apartment. one room would be for our computers that way the cats could come sleep with us. oh well. maybe in a few more years. i miss the nighly critter companionship.

jeremy got here yesterday around 11pm. i ate leftovers and he had a hot pocket.
john went out yesterday disregarding my request to have him stay at home. he said he was getting sick. i don't know what's wrong with that boy. i told him he needs to get plenty of sleep if he's not feeling well. oh well.
i think we're gonna go eat at Johnny Corrinos today. it's a pretty nice italian place.
i like the bread. :)

during studio my teacher wouldn't come near me cuz i kept hacking up a storm.
oh well. i wanted him to look at my sketches at least. i don't blame him for not wanting to get contaminated. i think my brother may be catching what i have. i'm just gonna rest up this weekend. i have a lot of school stuff i need to catch up on.. bleh.
gonna go lie down now.

could someone email me how you link extra things to your live journal so they pop
up when they click on (to view more click here).
my email is alachia9@yahoo.com.

thanks!!!

what a dissapointment. the nyquil didn't make me sleepy. it gave me a stuffed up nose. i couldn't breath out of my nose for hours. i tried to sleep standing up but that didn't work. i finally brought a chair in my room and sat in that for awhile. it was miserable. i think in the end i opted to sleep with my mouth open. anyhow, i do feel a little better this morning. my olsers are almost gone. yeah! i just have this horrible cough.
i'm eating some colorful cereal. i'm seriously thinking about skipping school again..but i can't. i have an advising appointment this afternoon. :( i'll just deal.


yuminy!

i got an email from live journal today saying it's octopus's birthday.
Hope you have a good birthday!

oooh. the misery! i've been miserable all day. i had to stay at school till 7 to wait
for my brother to be done. i just sat in my studio very still trying not to move.
turns out i wasn't the only one who missed class on wednesday. a lot of people did.
a few were sick too. this one girl came in and gave me some vitamins. the zinc one was delicious...the vitamin c made my eyes do funny things. hehehe. i don't think i was supposed to chew that one.. oh well. anyhow, i just took some nyquil. i've been fantasizing about doing that all day long! here's the bonus.. i actually had some gel tablet left..so i didn't have to taste the syrup one...yucky! aaah.. can't wait for the drowsyness to hit me.

there's a movie being filmed on campus. a few people said they saw kevin spacey and got his autograph. kate winslet is supposed to be in the movie as well. It's called The Life of David Gale. It's supposed to be another academy award winning-friendly movie. I walked by some building today and there was this huge production crew outside with massive lights. I didn't see any stars.. oh well. not that important to me... just thought it was interesting.

well, i made the huge mistake of talking wal-tussin last night instead of nyquil.
i was up till 4am. What do they put in that stuff? speed? so here i am still sick without much sleep. it's not going to be a good day. i can't miss class today...important stuff for the test will be presented. I'm going to go straight home though. i'm taking nyquil tonight. i want to be knocked out..no more tossing and turning.. bleh.

i have to go read now. if i can.

i'm still sick. the lime light of the tv is glowing. i'm about to die.
i knew i should have gotten the flu shot when jeremy told me to...
ugh.

i'm so sick. ugh. i might have to take a breaky from school today and take
some sleepy medicines. last night i thought my head was gonna explode...
i hate being sick!

there's nothing worse than going to a class for a three hour lecture than going to a class for a three hour lecture in pain. I have a soar throat and two olsers in my mouth. The agony! Plus the room was so stuffy that my allergies were acting up. And there was also the added bonus of having a stinky guy sit next to me. MISERY DEFINED.

I've scheduled an advising session this Friday. Registration for the Spring semester is soon. I'm hoping to get credit for a class or two. I really want to get this schooling over with. Hopefully my outlook will change as I progress through my graduate studies. I'm rather annoyed at the repetition of education. The new material is what I'm interested in. It almost reminds me of my annoyance with public school. How we had to learn fractions three years in a row and had to study the same histories over and over again.

Today as I was walking to my studio, I saw a postman picking up mail from the bin. He was wearing blue latex gloves.

My body needs to be fixed. UGH

i had a pretty nice weekend. Jeremy and I headed out to San Antonio around 8:30. We got there by 9:30. That's not bad at all. I was thinking it would take much longer. We were the first of my class to get there. We took some snap shots while we were waiting.

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We met up with some friends on Saturday and went out to eat at this place called Shady Grove's. I had chicken fried steak. We ate outside where there was this big projector playing an old non talking film. It made me want to buy a projector. Too bad I don't have 3 grand sitting around. :)

The next day John, Jeremy, and I went bowling. I bought bowling shoes at Academy first because I was tired of renting shoes. I have to bowl 8 more trips now to make up for the money I spent. I'm sure I can handle that. It's getting more fun now that I'm learning how to bowl correctly. My average is still in the double digits. It's kinda embarrassing when I play with other people who get like 150 every time. :)

Oh we also went to go see IRON MONKEY. It was okay. I thought it would be better but it's just like all those kung fu movies. Lots of flying and fighting with a bit of humor here and there. I can't wait to see LOTR and Monsters Inc.

Jeremy had to leave early on Sunday to catch a flight to New York. He has business work to do there. I spent most of the day moping except for when I cleaned up the living room. It was getting frightful. Next up is my bedroom...then..dun dun dun..john's bathroom! hehehe.


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test in about 2 hours.
i've been moping around all morning. i've been
exteremly meloncholy..and lacking the vitality needed to
really get into a good day.
i played with the cats for awhile...dessy is being a terror and
trying to chew up my cable wires. i really need to find a durable
toy for her to play with...
tigger's been good. he just lays on the yellow chair, the little sleppy head.

i just had two corndogs and some pink lemonade for lunch.

i think i'm going to do some review and maybe just chill out...
then it's off to school.

jeremy's coming down today. he took the day off from work tomorrow.
my class is going to san antonio for a walking tour. he's going to come
along. -sigh- a few more hours.

i finally finished my readings. i have a test tomorrow in my urban and regional theory class. fun fun fun. i'm so sleepy. as soon as i got home today i started cleaning up the apartment. it has gotten rather messy. i even went as far as picking up my brother's room.. i sware.. it's like a closet blew up or something.

i actually got him to put his dirty clothes in the wash today. i'll still have to do the unloading though. he's not THAT good yet.

i think i'm going to go lie down now.
i have paid work i need to start on..but not right now.

here's a pic of my desktop.
i've been downloading totoro desktop pics off the internet.
:)

i'm def. in my depressed mode now. i've been reflecting a lot.
things are going in slow motion. i'm not exactly upset about
anything in particular..simply just not happy. i'm finding
the day to day things that i do rather boring. i think it is
such an awful thing that we should spend 70% of our lives
being bored....

oh well. i still have some readings i need to finish up.
guess i better go do that.

today we all went down to the shop to get training on how
to use the shop equipment. it was really boring..
but i got a lot of inspiration to do furniture design. that
should be fun, right? i want to design a bed.

okay.. i'm dawdling..

later

we went home this past weekend to celebrate my mother's birthday.
john's room has been revamped totally. it used to look like a 18 year
olds room and now it looks like a 4 star hotel room. it was crazy.

we got back late sunday. i was so tired but i had to stay up all
night to right a paper and finish my project. both were due monday.
i only got like an hour of sleep. i was so damn tired...but i finished
everything and the project turned out well.

after i got home yesterday, i ate and passed out.
i woke up this morning..didn't know what or where i was.
heh. so now i'm refreshed and starting on some reading for today.
how fun. it's very pretty out today.

as i was going to class today i passed by the business school..and
they had police cars, ambulances, news crews, and (scary) hazardous waste material
rescue teams. hmmmmm..

pretty scary.

so i'm at www.msn.com in studio.. trying to see if i can get
it to bring up msn messenger for me..
i see this link that says Pet of the Week.
I click on it.
It opens up this homepage with lots of text in the middle.
i look to the side where there are a bunch of pictures expecting
to see a bunch of cats or dogs. Instead there's this picture of this
exagerated body builder with a very exposed exagerated male member.
i was totally shocked to find this on msn.. crazy.
anyhow i wrote msn.com to tell them that their Pet of the Week link
is bogus.

i'm waiting on john right now. he's finishing up a computer program that's due
tonight. we're supposed to go a "coffee" tonight. it's basically a lecture
that this organization has..they bring in lots of different people. this guy
is like the former director of nasa..and a million other things.
i'm not sure if we'll go. i kinda wanna just go home and watch a movie.
we'll see.

i'm finally making progress on my project.
yeah.

done with classes for today.
i have to meet up with my brother in about 30 minutes.
we have to run to the city record office to get
his police report number from when he was in his car
accident. the insurance people are going to need it.
i'm not looking forward to it. supposedly, it takes them
an hour to process the request..and have to file the request
in person. what a crappy system. why don't they do these things electronically?

k.. gonna see what i can get done in studio..
budget my time.

as i was walking to class just awhile ago, i ran into a silent peace rally. there were people marching on the south mall with big banners. on the other end of the mall were people
holding up signs that said 'god bless the usa' and 'support our troops'. on the west mall, people were recruiting people to join their organizations. soccer, republican, arab association, sorrorities..

oh yeah.. on the east mall, there was this chinese organization asking people to help them
get their friends back from china.. i didn't really read what it was about.

gonna go secure a seat in my class now.

i just got done watching coldplay's new video "trouble"
i liked it a lot.

i just got done doing some paid work. i have a few more things to touch up on and i can send it back to the main office.

john and i are going home this weekened to celebrate my mother's birthday which was wednesday. i'm not looking forward to the long drive...

that's all i have to report now..except that i'm getting behind in my school work.

in studio class. don't know where my teacher went.
i'm kinda lethargic.
had some gatorade and hotfries for lunch.
nutritious.. :)
i'm working on my storage device.
it's coming out pretty boring.
damn, i wish i was a genius.

took my test today. i think i did fairly well.
she calls them Labs but they're really tests..
i think she just calls them that so we won't
freak out.
my theory class was very long. i think if the class
evoked more class discussion, it'd go a whole lot faster.
..but who are we little grad student peons compared to
an all knowing professor. :)

i just cleaned off my studio desk. i had a mile high pile of trace
paper on it. i also finally raised my desk so it's tilted..
it makes it easier to sketch.

i'm not really hungry right now...but i feel like eating..
don't know what though.. something light.
i really need to find a good salad place for dinner.

i called john, he told me he was studying and would call me back.
it might be hours before i hear back from him. heh.

guess it's back to the drawing board.. literally.

okay, i just spent two hours at bdoy shops getting my brother's car
estimated. we finally settled on a place that didn't mention anything
about hidden damages and extra fees. the first two we went to were
totally harping on the idea that the price of the estimate will go up
and that no matter what the price change, we have to pay it... can't cancel
the job.. whatever.

anyhow, i'm here in my studio doing some last minute studying. I'm about to go get
myself a ceasar salad from the union.

(shapow) and the world keeps turning.

had a bad day in studio...
prof blew me off..it was a very dissapointing moment...because
i thought that i had finally found a place that this wouldn't happen.
i mean.. as you get older, your time is a precious commodity..
and to have it wasted... wow.. it's very frustrating.

i was going to stay at school and study today but after that whole episode,
i opted to go straight home. John was glad to hear that.
I've been reading ever since.. reading and reading..
some of the readings are crazy.. talking about defining beauty and
fuctions. it's amazing what egos some architects have..especially those that
don't practice..but just spend years and years writing about how things
should be done. poooo-ttay!

sometimes i just want to quit and go back to the working force.
.... the things people will do for ?ambition????

sigh.. back to reading..
i think i'm about to crash.

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what a bumminin week.
my prof wasn't at studio for two out of the three days that
we meet.. and we all still had to go to class.
he gave us this bogus assignment that required group
effort.. what a mistake. we all just argued for 5 hours
straight each day. bum bum bum.

before jeremy left this weekend, we all went out with
his gang of friends to celebrate alok's birthday.
we went to applebees. john and i split a hershey cake..
it was good!! but now i feel like i need to run 3 miles.
hehehe.

john's supposed to bring his car to a shop this week.
dad offered to get him a new crv if he traded it in..but
john wouldn't go for that.. so he has to go get it fixed.
he's just so lazy. he like to blink and have things just
work themselves out..
just the other day he got a package in the mail that needed
to be returned within 5 days of dilevery. he was late cuz he didn't
check the mail regularly last week. he expected me to do that!!
i was like, if you knew something important was coming in the mail, you should have
checked the mail yourself...

i was going to watch the Emmy's tonight but they postponed it again...since
we have started the attacks on afghanistan..

oh well.. i just like to see what people will wear. hehehe.

hope classes are going better for you than they are for me!
:)
i lose all my weekends to jeremy..but it's worth it.

did john tell you, my parents got the condo. we'll be moving in
late january after they fix it up....after WE fix it up during break.
that'll be fun! we're gonna get new carpet and new tiles.. new bathroom tubs
etc.. my mom wants me to find a good plumber.. like i know where one is!

gonna go play with my kitties now and then do some work before i crash..
i really need to start disciplining myself better. i have a whole lot of reading to catch up on!!

it's been a busy week. i had some major stuff due on tuesday.
i've been engulfed in studio and paid work stuff.
I'm staying at the studio tonight to catch up on some reading.
i have a test in my urban and regional theory class on tuesday.
she calls them labs but they're really tests.

my class has been doing this group project as an exercise
while the professor has been gone. He had to be out of town
for two class days. what is amazing is that everyone has shown up to class
and participated..for the entire meeting time. I find that to be the
largest difference between undergrad and graduate studies. There's no
aloofness in the graduate program.. either you're hardcore or you're out.
etc..etc...
of course that means you have about 12 egos butting heads during class.
..heh. as fun as that was.

just got back from schlotzsky's.. john and i shared a large original.
it was good.

now.. back to reading.
YAWN

something odd about the room in this yellowish light.
where is the neon glow? where is the warmth of the tv glow?
twinkle twinkle.. pc bright... how i wish i had some sprite.
:)

is this edgamication stuff done yet.
hehehehe.

tired. i'm in studio class.
john and i were running late to school today.
i got a phone call from one of my co-workers right
as we were leaving. i had to discuss some work so
it ran us a little late. my professor ran out of the class.
don't know where he went. gonna go sit at my desk
some more. i went out and bought a new exacto
with the easy gel grip..and some more exacto blades.
now i need a model to make. hehehe.
got some gatorade and skittles i'm snacking on..
i'm ready to go home. i need a nap.