Fears

My two biggest fears right now:

snakes and Organized Crime groups.

I've been thinking about this for a long time

This won't be an update post, more like an informative and an idea post.

I've always thought that the grading system in schools can be really unfair. Recently an assignment was given in Applied Creative thinking and I remembered an idea of mine.

I think Robots should replace teachers. Yeah, it is crazy and spacey but I think it's cool. If robots were teachers everything would be fair. All the robots would be programmed the same. This way we could do away with standardized tests. I'm even thinking that administration should be robots too. That way everyone starts on the same playing field. I think if people were left on the way side (didn't graduate) they would go to a vocational school and be laborers. Maybe the curriculum could be more like the way the da Vinci was taught. Science, Math, Art and English (language). I've just had such a hit and miss with teachers (mainly in highschool). Some teachers at Lakeland loved what they were doing, others had NO idea what they were teaching.
Anyway, tell me your thoughts.

EEK! 4/8/2009

Hey! It has been a REALLY long time since I've blogged! YIKeees!

I'll just do a quick recap I've what I've been up to lately....

Let's see, I'm in all new classes. I've talked about Intro to Metals and Jewelry and Speech. I have not talked about Applied Creative thinking.

AH! gosh, my teacher is awful. Think about someone who is vague, and doesn't give much instructions. Times that by 1239820938 and you have my teacher. Now I understand she doesn't want to give us a lot of instructions because she wants us to think outside of the box. Although, she gives so few instructions students (including me) are scratching their heads and looking around the room to see if anyone understands what she means. She is really lazy too. To sign in for attendance, she has a sign up sheet that is up on her desk. BTW, she is also in the room AND can see if you come in. Anyway everyday, I always forget to sign in and i have to get up and sign my name. She prob doesn't even know my name. Yeah.... she definitely doesn't know my name. Another examples of why she is weird in my book. She said our first project will be done in photoshop. A student raises their hand and says, " i don't know how to use photoshop." (Me either) Other students agree with that student. "Well, my suggestion to you is find someone or look online," says my applied creative thinking teacher.

Speech! Today was SUCH a good day in speech! I "nailed" my personal narrative speech. It was awesome! I got some laughs, and the worst critique I got was 'I didn't move around a lot.' The person who said that looked like the energize rabbit, and he was asked to stop talking because he went over time. To put that simply, I'm not taking what he said to heart.

Intro to Metals...
Haven't made anything jaw dropping yet. Give me some time for that....

Well upcoming events....
Tomorrow I'll be going to the Simon Doonan lecture (I'm SOOOOO excited for it). He is on VH1 for shows like 'I love the 90s, 80s', and gossip stuff. It's going to be so great. IMMEDIATELY after the lecture I'll be on my way home for Easter weekend.

Some things that have already happened.....
So, I don't know if all the readers of this blog know about my living situation (for next year) at college. Well, I got booted out of the house I was going to share with my current roommates and a friend. BUT my 3rd roommate (not Laura) and the friend decided they didn't want to live with us next year. Because.... it would "save the friendship." Uh... yeah sure.... So that meant random roommate for next year. I was totally cool with it until my phone rang last Monday (March 30) and it was a person from my English class that lives in Tampa (i followed her in my own car home to Florida for Spring Break) and she asked about my living situation next year. I said I didn't have one. She asked if i wanted to room with her. I said sure (nothing to lose)! So i'll be rooming with her next year.

Ha, next topic. Not too proud of this one.... Well I've been trying to branch out of my new group (roommates and the people I have been friends with this entire time) and we were all like, we want to do something fun. We were throwing ideas out, some ridiculous, crazy, lame. Then someone says "someone in my class has mentioned an abandoned Meat Packing house that was burned down. It's supposed to be haunted!" Everyone was like "that sounds cool." I of course didn't have anything else to do, and went along. I figured we wouldn't find it, or we would chicken out. So there wasn't a specific address for it, we were driving around and didn't find it. Drove around some more and didn't find it. (BTW, we drove 50 minutes to the next town to get to this place). Of course, as we're leaving... this scary building pops out of nowhere. Of course I think 'oh damnnnn!' Wr get out of the car, this dog is barking like crazy. I was thinking 'ahh, i want to get out of here, I want to leave, I want to leave. They start walking around back. I stay by the car. Dog is still barking. They all come back to get me. So I go (reluctantly). It's a 5 story building they go inside (I wait outside in the back) and up some flights. They said they saw graffiti, a creepy lawn chair, dripping (it rained REALLY hard that day and the day before). Anyway, they said it was creepy. I looked it up the building a couple of days ago. That was scarier than waiting out back. Here are some facts and comments...
Location Description copied off the website:

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Off of Packing house road an abandoned meat packing plant exists. Shadows can be seen trying to escape the building but will go no farther than the entrance ways. On a full moon, a gunshot can be heard and the screams of burning victims accompany it. Every other night look at the 2nd window from the right on the 3rd story to see a woman with a look of terror on her face. On the backside of the building there are extreme temperature drops.

Comments by other users:
The packinghouse is great for a scare but may have real danger around every corner. It has long been held by law enforcement that this house is a haven for homeless people and squatters (Drug addicts, Junkies). If one were to attempt a visit the sounds you hear may be coming from living breathing people who will either hide or may attempt out of desperation to rob, rape, or kill you. So please do be careful.
another comment
dont know if its haunted or not but it is in a bad neighborhood so be careful

YEAH... so it was very unsettling reading that. I was just glad everybody got out ok and had their fix (no pun intended). It would have been the best place for a homeless person that day, raining all day. Absoultely perfect! Yikes, but still... don't mention this to my mom.

The best thing that happened this last weekend was..... KATHRYN coming to visit! It was SO great. Kathryn, and her whole family came to visit me in Savannah! We had some wonderful dinners together, and saw some museums and went on tours I had never been on.

Eek, this is a very long post.

Annie

New Layout

Hey!

I just wanted to acknowledge that I do have a new layout. I just wanted to change things up a bit, since I'm starting a whole new quarter. Which is going quite nicely so far. I have already had my 8 a.m. speech class. The teacher is really funny and nice. I think Monday will be my favorite day. Although, I haven't had jewelry class yet (5 P.M.!!!) Just waiting for that.................

Tell me what you think of the new layout, color schemes and such.

Michael's Bird-day, Pingy Tourney, End of school!

I know, it has been a very long time since I updated. I have been VERY busy these last couple of weeks because of final projects and studying. Wow, it is 10:45 p.m., but it feels much later. OK, let me start from the beginning.....

Finals week
-Monday-
Presented my last 3D project, and I aced that thing. 98 baby, best grade I ever got in there. Yet again, I will put up pictures (i PROMise)

Then I had Art history, guh still hate that class and teacher. We studied.... Italian Gothic that day. Amongst other art history bleedy bleedy boop that I will forget by Survey II.

Tuesday -
Color theory, we were let go early

Wednesday - finally end of 3D and Art History, in which there were a final test in each

Thursday -
Last day in color theory, presented my crayon jewelry. I killed (everybody loved it) as Michael would say. Packed for home. Watched the very end of Mulan and all of the movie Enchanted.

Friday

went to bed at 3 a.m. to wake up at 6 a.m. to drive home.

Gah, the drive home was nice (good tunes, got to be alone, pondered things) but it was very long.
I set off at 7 and got home at 12:30.
I slept the day away till 5 to get an invitation to the Ping Pong Tournament in which I was in the bracket! I saw Julie for the first time in months! Well, more like 2 months, still it was a long time. Kyle won- no surprise there, although Alex and Jonathan put up a good fight. I went home at 1:30ish. I was SO tired. I had some good and much needed A.K.A time though.

Saturday-
Michael Scott's birthday celebrated one day earlier than usual because Julie left the next day :(
It was nice, but it was missing something. Probably the girl who was Stanely... jk.
After that I went out to eat at Outback with my Grandparents because it was my Grandfather's bday.
After that I skyped with grace. It was nice. She is coming home in a couple of weeks (April 1st)

Sunday-
I got some new shoes, and then I had dinner at Kathryn's house with Kacks & Garc.
I also miraculously improved on my ping pong skills.

On Monday I went to school to deliver Chick-fila. I was REALLY glad to see everyone.

Tuesday-Friday-
At the beach with my mom and grandfather. I had long walks on the beach with my mom. It was just so relaxing, and great. Had great food (compliments to my Grandfather and his amazing cooking), and became very informed on Global and National news (compliments to my Grandfather again for always having Fox News channel on).

Friday night-
I went out to eat with Alex and Kathryn and we ate at Spice then we played pingy

Saturday-
Traditional Bfast with the bots w/ pingy later
At noon I was picked up and on the road to Savannah.

So I'm back at school now, and it feels good. I wanted to come back a day early to just unwind and get back into the groove. Plus it feels really good to go to bed and not worry about ANY kind of homework I have. It's great.

I'll be coming home in a few weeks because Grace is coming home. I'll keep you posted.

Annie

Places I want to go

So nothing new is happening right now. Finals are coming up and classes are coming to an end (thank God). I can not express how happy I am about this quarter being over! Anyway, I wanted this post to be a collection of places I want to go to. In no particular order, here we go............


Swiss Alps skiing; I've never been skiing (hopefully that will change in a week or two)
Mecca; kinda risky right now, but I know about the history because of Art History. That would be a neat religion to look in to.
Rio De Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer statue; the lush green foliage of the hills next to the statue make it worth it.
Taj Mahal; another kind of dangerous place, but look at the detail!
Royal Pavillion in Brighton; neat indian/ russian minaret spin in England. It just looks so pretty there
Portofino, Italy; anywhere on the Italian coast for that matter, and the island of Capri
Versailles; a big dream is to go here.
Hapsburg Palace; I had the picture on here, but it disappeared; Grace got to see it, Brahms played for the court their. One of my favorite people Marie Antoinette lived here as a child.


*Share a place you would like to visit*

Update Feb 25

Hello!

I know it's been a long time since I've blogged "officially" and given you guys a good update on everything. I always tend to apologize for me not blogging, but I guess that will just make every post I write that much better.

So midterms are over. I was not happy with any of my grades. I don't really want to talk about that though. I just need to find motivation to study and work harder, AND use my time wisely. I've realized I need to separate work from home (my dorm here), and be cut throat (to myself) and get busy (with school work).

So i think I remember being excited about signing up for classes, and I was SO excited about taking that computer class. WELL... I didn't get in the class that I wanted. Ha, there weren't any spots AT ALL for me. BUT... I did get the very sought after "Applied Creative Thinking" class. Lucky me! I honestly, have NO IDEA what the class will teach me. I'm thinking it's gonna be easy, and I'm looking forward to a much slower paced quarter. ALTHOUGH, i will have my intro to jewelry class. I know FO Sho that will kick my butt, but (ha butt but) this will be the test to see if this is what I want to do. My internship over Xmas break was also a chance to test the waters. And currently I'm feeling good about the jewelry thing. As for my other class, I'll be taking Speech and Public Speaking. I got an easy teacher, the only prob is that it's at 8 a.m., but I've done it before, and it hasn't screwed me up too much. I only had one accident and I have payed dearly for it (just like Creed using the woman's bathroom for #2).

So my week was SO fucked up (sorry for the language). My grades suck. I was going through social stuff here at school (it's all settled for those who know about it). It was just awful. But there was a light that shined last night. I was in color theory, talking to some people. (I hate that class btw.) Making friends. It was good. Although I was SUPER scared of my final project that I had to present at the end of class. We had to write an artist statement and talk about what we were going to do. I was just scared. Cause my class can be very judgmental. Anyway my idea was a necklace much like the right picture. All rockcut with lots of negative space in a prong set. Although, the catch is that I'm using crayons. ANYWAY, my class loved it and said it was cool and innovative. Which made me very happy. My color scheme is using warms and cools. Kind of like the middle and left picture. I have to make the project complex, therefore I might make a series of different colors and designs. But I'm not sure how long this will all take. Wish my luck on that.

Oh, well I had a good time in Lakeland. Grassroots was good. My fake chicken (chick-UN) was super good. I really liked the spring rolls we had first, and that sauce.. Mmmmzzz.

Gah.. i dont know what else to say. BUT, I would like more comments on the comment box. AND i still need a names for my mini xmas trees. They have been slowly but surely growing. I need to get a recent pic of them (they are like my twin children or something). So just write your feelings. Alright that should be enough for now.

Annie