A loss of Wisdom

Hello there face here! Does anyone remember Face from Nickelodeon? He was "just an alternate" between regular kid's nick shows, but he was still a part of my childhood upbringing.

Well as the post says, I will be losing some wisdom... tomorrow. In my other posts I had mentioned my wisdom teeth were hurting and giving me a pain on my lower right side. Ooh and did it hurt. Well I'm not a dentist, but I think I'm in the best situation as far as the removal of wisdom teeth goes. They are not impacted, they are growing straight, and the surgery shouldn't be too hurtful. But hey, I get to be on some pretty hardcore drugs before and after the surgery! yay street drugs!

On Saturday I had my "Last Supper" with the piano kids at Gosh. It was SO great to see and catch up with my favorite piano people. I just wish one person would've made an appearance.. and sadly he'll never "see" this blog ever...

Another surprise was my gift from Angel. That was the best book I've EVER seen on jewelry. Like the best. It was in color, it had all these really great methods. It was perfect. Thanks Angel!

Well at Gosh they were playing Christmas music and they played Wham!'s Last Christmas. Of course Lorel was singing along. Anyway, I thought of Grace and how she is singing this in her class with the other Japanese kids. I'm really glad she is going to learn all the words to the song so we can take parts and duet-it-up! Speaking of which, thank God for SKYPE, Grace and I talked or a record of 3 hours and 45 mins. It was really great. We got to catch up and talk about my college stuff and her Japanese stuff. It was really good catching up with her again. I miss that little tigger.

Much later but on the same day, an original Champeau bonfire happened. It was great as usual. We got to play the office game and talk about people like usual. I've missed those so much.

Last but not least, I've been on a knitting tear. Today I bought a bunch of needle and yarn to finish projects that were started and never finished (typical me), and stuff to conquer new stitches. I love teaching myself things. I can't wait! Cause I'll probably be in my bed recovering from the loss of my wisdom..

Bye!

P.S. those are NOT my teeth. & My teeth will probably not look like that, although that would be cool.

Back home for the rest of 2008

Hello All,

Yet again it has been way too long since I've updated. I've had finals, I'm home now, I've had my birthday (19), there has just been a lot of stuff going on.

- School -
I had finals. 2D's final was my floor cloth (basically a rug). I need to put a picture up of it. It's really cool, and I'm impressed on how it turned out. I didn't even have a concrete idea, I just kinda ran with it.

I didn't really have a final in English, but I had my last paper. Ohh English Composition... My final paper was comparing and contrasting these two paintings in the library at my school. That was a hard assignment, I won't go into depth over it because even I had a hard time understanding the point of the assignment.

And lastly, in drawing there were two drawings that should and could have taken over 36 hours to complete. One was an inside class and an outside class drawing. Inside meaning inside the classroom where we had to come in and work after class, on the weekends, anytime we could. One kid from my class spent the night in the building (not allowed), he said "he escaped the security guards." Then outside was a still live that I had set up in my room.

All in all I got B's in all my classes. I was very relieved to see it on Blackboard yesterday... kind of a birthday present to myself... I pretty much knew I was going to get B's in 2D (my teacher NEVER gave A's) and English, but at midterm I had a C in drawing. So as you can imagine, I was scared for those final drawings. I think my teacher saw how much I improved (I improved SO much) so that justified my B.

Alright moving on, I am really glad to be home. I have access to really great Internet here. I can sleep in my own bed. I'm not around people constantly. I can eat healthy again. I get to see my friends again. It's great. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a total antisocial freak. I like people around, but when you are around the same people with NO breaks for 2.5 months it can get very annoying. I like to have "me time." I found "me time" at the computer lab. My roommates and friends think I have an addiction with the computer lab. I have no addiction, i just like to calm down and listen to the purr of the macs. If I may speak freely, I think my roommates have an addiction with facebook. They are always on fb. But I guess a lot of people are obsessed with that right now.

My roommate and I have started playing Frisbee which is good. She gets off facebook, and I get some fresh air and exercise. We always play at night, 10 p.m. or later- one time at 1 a.m., it was cold that night too. It was great roommate bonding. Well I found a TMNT frisbee.... The Mighty Ninja Turtles frisbee in the hall closet of my house and I played with it today with Alex. When I play with Macy I'm not that good. Her frisbee is heavier and harder than mine. I played much better with mine today.

Oh, so I'm not sure If I told everyone about my problem with registering for classes next quarter. So I got a time ticket for 7:30 p.m. and I logged on, signed up for the teachers and times that I wanted, then I emailed my academic adviser and he told me that I hadn't signed up for any classes. I almost flipped. I found out I signed up for the Winter 2008 classes- I was supposed to sign up for the Winter 2009 classes. I don't know what I was thinking, but I guess I live in the pass. Anyway, I got it all figured out. I'm good, and I'm happy about my classes. Monday/Wednesday at 8 a.m. I have 3D design. 2p.m. Art History
Tuesday/Wednesday 5 p.m. color theory.

Well I've missed three Office episodes because I never watch any tv while I'm at school. So those three were good. My favorite was the one where Michael went to Canada. It was cool to see Andy being nice to Oscar and not annoying-well not too annoying, it is Andy. I got an office trivia game for my bday. Some questions are hard, but I can't wait to challenge some really avid office watchers.


Speaking of which, yesterday (November 25) was my birthday. I turned 19. I felt as if it was just another day.

I bought and am growing a mini french Christmas tree. It was in the dollar section at target, I've been responsibly watering it EVERYDAY, and it is slowly but surely growing. I can't wait for it to get bigger.

I downloaded a LOT of music today, I got an iTunes card which prompted me to
downloaded some music. I used the Genius tool on iTunes and picked out some sweet tunes.


Lastly you can see the Forest Gump picture^^ I've FINALLY seen Forest Gump. When I got to school I heard they filmed a few scenes in Savvy so I had to check out the movie. Sure enough the bench scene and the opening feather scene were shot in Savannah, GA. I didn't really like the movie that much. Jenny was kind of a ho, that should not have been respected by Forest. Anyway that is my film critique for this blog.

Enough of this,
Annie Yano

Question: Who else is EXCITED about Christmas?!?!?

11/8/2008

Hello and good evening, it is a sort-of-cold November Saturday in Savannah Georgia. I'm writing from my favorite place here at SCAD.... yes, the computer lab. I love it. So I've realized i haven't written in quite a long time. But not much has happened so I don't really have that much to say!

I'll re-hash the week and anything that has happened that was exciting. But I'm going to go all Willy Wonka and go backwards...

Friday 11/07

I strangely woke up at 8 a.m. on the dot, and wrote about 3 letters (to Julie, Lorel, and Emily). I then got dressed to go play tennis with my friend from my drawing class. I hadn't played tennis in a long time, so i was expecting to suck. Although, I wasn't as bad as I thought! I was also half expecting my friend to suck, but he wasn't bad. Later on Friday, I went to a movie called Role Models. WOW, funny stuff. It is Rated R, and for a good reason too. I hadn't even heard of it, but I liked it.

Thursday 11/06

I didn't go to English class on account of a big drawing assignment that I had put off... i know, but i hadn't skipped any English classes, and don't intend on skipping anymore. Then I went to drawing...nothing to exciting there.

Wednesday 11/05
uh... didn't go to ANY of my classes on account of sleeping in and... i just didn't want to go to 2D.... there I said it. But SERIOUSLY, i hadn't skipped any classes AT ALL before the 3 this week.

Tuesday 11/05

WOW, it was a HUGE day for me...
I woke up at 6 a.m., got in line to vote, went to get free Starbucks for voting, ate breakfast, went to English class, and then went to drawing. Then at 10:30 p.m. or so I came to the computer lab to watch the developments on the election. Luckily, I got to talk to Grace over Gtalk which was good, it was almost as if we were watching the election together! As I was walking back to my room, the outcome of Obama being the next president was out and it was crazy. People were screaming and cheering and doing crazy stuff. The police even showed up..Such a long day...

Monday 11/04

Came home from Lakeland- what a long drive.... ugh, but I DJ-ed the iPod and "knat" (knitted) a scarf for Jbaby. Then I went to 2D design to get the assignment on the final project which is a floor cloth (aka rug).

Sunday 11/03 -Friday 11/31
I was at home in Lakeland, and it felt REALLY good to be in my own bed and in my own room. I went shopping with my mom, and that was another successful trip. We got some bday/ Christmas gifts for Grace. Because she won't be home for Christmas we're making it extra special for her... I can't say too much because I don't want to give it away.... Didn't do anything for Halloween... saweee

I can't really remember too much about the week before that.. probably nothing exciting..
Although, I was spending a late night at the computer lab and i brought my iPod cord to charge my ipod. Anyway, the next day i thought I lost it and I was freaking out. So i came back to the lab and they didn't have it, but they had other cords and gave me one(it's a Apple Mac lab -- yay!). So guess what I found yesterday while I was playing tennis in a hidden pocket... my own ipod cord.... oh annie...

A really great thing that happened was when Julie came to visit! Julie came ALL the way from UF to visit me. and we had great fun. We went to the beach and we got TOTALLY soaked one day.. ha good times, that we decided she won't remember, but I will- whatever that means...

Ok, enough...

annie

hewoah you!

He-woah youuu!!!
So nothing really exciting has happened in my life. BUT, something very exciting WILL happen in a day or two (depending on how you look at things)! Julie Champeau aka jbaby aka Jewbaby aka Champy will be visiting me in Savvy for the weekend! I'm so excited that she is coming to visit and meet all the people i've been talking about for 5 weeks.

As far as school stuff, I'm finished with my collages in 2D. Thank god too, I was getting tired of looking at my old toothbrush in the collage. But during the critque, i got the most complements on the toothbrush. Now we're onto our Halloween project, which is a halloween scene and we cut out the negative space of the scene from a black piece of paper. I was thinking of using the castle that was used for Brideshead Revisited, but that was a little complicated with all the architectural elements.. Aka, the pediments and the cornices (shout out to APAH) So i decided to do a haunted house on a hill. I really wanted to just do a door with a latin saying above the door jamb. Possibly the title of the first chapter in brideshead revisited.. It went something like "Et Arcadia in Ego." Anyway, those are just ideas rolling inside my head.

Another thing, lately.. this is weird. I've been listening to Metro Station's Shake it. AND please dont get me wrong, it is a good and catchy tune. I love it, but it's so different from the songs i usually listen to. Anyway, just thought i'd get that out there.

Last thing, i gotta type a 900-1100 word essay on... the PIANIST! loves it, so i gotta get on dat before too long. But i just want to say that i miss baby gace. I finally got to talk to her on the phone after 2 months and it was so good to hear her voice. anyway...

XOXO gossip girl.

Chicken Wednesday!!

Hello readers of Annie's Memorandum!!

Today is a lovely, sunny Wednesday morning.. well now currently afternoon, but still the same. We went to FYE.. aka first year experience where we talked about.... nothing! yay, nothing. I'm serious, and my teacher didn't even talk about how he can taste color. Yes, my FYE teacher says he can taste and smell color (i think it's a bunch of nothing, but if he can then he can). Although sometimes he says his food tastes beige.. which would be a let down. But other than tasting color he is okay. It just sucked that we had to wake up at 8:30 to go to a "class" to talk about nothing.

Let's see, nothing really new. I wrote a bunch of letters this week. [Angel, Bobby, Sabby, I'm talking to you..., I loved them all] I REALLY like getting mail, and I would REALLY like it if I receive mail. I know I was kinda slow on the return this week, but I was major busy.

1). I had to write a paper- and if you don't know, writing is my WORST subject
2). I had to draw my collages for 2D- and if you don't know, I'm terrible at drawing!
3). I had to go to the cemetery to draw-YUCK!-
4).... i know this is NOT an excuse, but the new Urban Outfitters opened, and I bought something (a dress, my friends made me buy it) and have gone twice in a 46 hour increment.

Dwight: The Schrutes have their own traditions. We usually marry standing in our own graves. Makes the funerals very romantic. But the weddings are a bleak affair.

I felt like that a lot while I was drawing.

Hey, Halloween is soon. I won't enjoy it here and Savvy, because I'm coming home for a brief visit!!!! You don't know how excited I am about that! I'm ready to come home for a bit. I'm going to see Loho, the bots, maybe a few others if they call me... who knows.

Oh, so my second english assignment is on a movie that has been widely released and has a lot of commentary on it. So I chose The Pianist. I know I ranted and raved about how great this movie is and I still believe that. I love love love it!

Oooh, Office tomorrow! I know this is a little late to say, but I don't like that Jim and Pam are together. I know i'm going to get hate mail after this, but I liked the subtleties of their earlier relationship.. or "ship" as Kate Scott would say. I just liked how it was kind of a secret.

Ha, I feel like a Pam in my drawing class. There are these two people in my class...actually kind of like Dwight and Angela. I've drawn little comics of them and their "love" -Typical Pam style.

"Dwight": Zak aka "Bam Bam" (I HATE HIM, he lives next door to me, yes the loud rap playing room till 2 a.m.) a 5 foot 5 individual backwards SCAD hat on. Long Island accent. Gross, disgusting, and rude individual. He isn't quite a Dwight as far as intense, and crazy attack plans, but still annoying.

"Angela": Arlene, a little bitchy Asian girl.. GUH!! I hate her too, she is SO judgemental!!! She fits the Angela mold a lot more.

Anyway, their relationship was EXTREMELY visible yesterday when he had his arm around her hip, and then Laura told me he had her up against a wall in the hallway.... "grinding" gah.. I'm so glad I wasn't there, but still juicy to hear about.

Ok so now that we've crossed the 10 day mark, I can not begin counting down the days till Julie will come and visit me! I'm very excited.


Currently listening to the Beatles.... Although, I feel as If I don't have enough. Ben and Grace have the WHOLE anthology it seems like...
Grace, if you're reading this, send me a few of the ones we used to listen to in the car.

Miss you all,

Annie.. aka Nana (yes), Banana

P.S. I'm not allowed to say 'boink' around my friends anymore, but they do like the "Hewoah you" greeting--all from Michael Gary Scott--

Week of October 4th

Hello, and sorry I have been distant. A lot has happened this week, and I haven't had a chance to really get on the computer and blog. So let me tell you about my week!

Monday, I had my academic advisement meeting to discuss what my intended major will be. I've decided that I'll major in Metals and Jewelry and minor in Accessory design! I've been on a tour to the accessory building and I thought it was REALLY neat. Like, I can make shoes and purses! I can't wait! About 5 hours later I went to my design class. We all got our grades back, no one got an 'A'. I was a bit disappointed, on account of my piece being on the wall. I *think * i got the highest grade. I got an 89 B. I talked to her about my piece, and she said if I would've just changed the boarder to the paisley one and made it smaller than it would have been perfect. Although, I didn't know we could play with the boarder! All in All, I got put up on the wall before anyone else and I was happy about that.

- Tuesday -
Nothing really happened on Tuesday. I had drawing. It rained EXTREMELY hard! Laura and I had to wrap our drawings in trash bags to prevent them from getting wet.

-Wednesday-
FYE class, was boring as usual. We went to tour the library and all it's wonders. Like our usual Wednesday tradition, we went to Chick fila for breakfast. 5 hours later, design happened. Nothing too big in here. We had to bring in our collages, and sketch them. BOO!! I hate drawing! After about an hour and a half of that we had a lecture on nothing but..... PAPER! Yes, paper! I felt like I was in one of Dwight's many lectures on paper. I was SO close to asking the guy what kind of top soil do they use for the trees, but I didn't. He was boring enough, I didn't want to make it even more boring.

-Thursday-
English Comp happened and then drawing. Nothing too exciting in there either.
Another boo, NO OFFICE?!?!?!?


-Friday-
Woke up super early to get to the Art Trade Show. I was really excited to go to this. I went crazy with buying art supplies. I spent $106, and the money went really far. I bought 2 newsprint pads, 1 drawing pad, a paper palette pad, a Bristol (cough, sarah palin) pad, bundles of pencils, a really nice pen for 2 design. GOUACHE!, a large wooden clip board for drawing (we're going to the cemetery next thursday to draw... ooh scary!), charcoal, erasers, fixative, a lamp for 2D, a sketchbook that I don't really need, but w/e, got some free stuff too! I think I want to go back and buy paint brushes and a pencil case.

Later on that day, me, Macy and Megan went to Chills! I bought envelopes for the letters! Macy left for the weekend. Megan and I played a WONDERFUL prank. After that Megan and I went to the Marc Jacob store, and then went to the smoothie shop and the cupcake emporium! Later on we went to get pizza. I came home to an empty room, if felt good. I took a shower, and went to bed. About 10 mins later, I heard banging on my door. I opened it. It was none other than the flamboyantly Kenny and Megan wondering how I was all alone. They left soon after and then I went to sleep. As Pam might say "It was a good day."

One last thing, I'm loving the letters. Absolutely loving them! I just sent three yesterday, and I just love receiving them. Keep them coming!

hey it's the WEEKEND!

Ok, so let me first talk about the office. LOVED IT. Pure copier + toner + stapler love. I did not like some things in the office and my office experience. I'll list them

1). Not in the Champ's living room crowded around my bestest friends.
2). JAM proposal. What was up with that... nuh uh, not cool.
3). did I mention that I wasn't with avid office fans??

Ok, so i guess it was only two things that I didn't like. But those two things were crucial. I don't understand why the writers thought that was "cute." If I may quote Michael Gary Scott "It was LAME." Yeah, the rain was great, but at a gas station?? Pammy deserves better than that, and don't call her Pammy!

Ok so early on Thursday I had no english class (loved that), and then drawing. I really hate all the kids in my drawing class except about 3 kids. But i'm only really friends with one person. Later on my thursday evening.... what did I do?? Oh i remember, after the 14 people that were in my room for the office vacated we hit the sack.

FRIDAY-
Majors Fair. Majors fair is where every single major at SCAD has a booth set up and they tell you how GREAT that major is. Everyone had to go to get their passport stamped for their FYE class. So i got mine stamped, and was almost going to leave, but I was like ' I should just look around." Luckily the jewelry table was right near the door. I picked up the curriculum paper and talked to the jewelry people, told them I am A). A worker, B). A good worker and C). a hard worker. No, just kidding. I didn't want to seem to merciless. But I did tell them I was very convinced on Jewelry being my major. Other people in my group said that going to the majors fair made them more unsure of what they wanted to do.

Later on Friday-
Went to the Mexican Buffet. I don't like Mexican food, but I tried the Pico, Guacamole, and something called a tequito. Anyway, it was all good. I still wouldn't say i like Mexican food, and I know be me saying that I might lose some friendships. But I'm sorry, I just dont like tacos and stuff. I don't know.. Sue me!
- Then me and my roomie went to the Mall. Got my fav headphones... YES, skullcandy bihs! I love those things, they are made from angels i think.

Later Later on Friday- went to a Jazz Festival. It reminded me of my old Jazz band days when i would play the sax and piano for my middle school jazz band. Oh, at this concert there was a lot of smoke from ciggs, cigars, and other smokeable products. I was thinking.. I wonder if any people with nose rings have any cloves, and if they could pass me one and I could smoke some of it..... I didn't cross any pathes with any people with nose rings. :(
Later on that night we went to this coffee house and I had a wonderful Bubble milk tea. It reminded me of the old escapades Grack and I would take to Shanghai Express.

After the Jazz fest- we walked back to my room and watched a movie.

-Early Saturday-
Went to get pizza for lunch.
Came back, watched Royal Tenenbaums.
Lolo called me while I was trying to do my drawing homework.
I'm sorry that your besties are gone. Lolo as Outback steakhouse might say "get out there." Meaning, go call the IB girls. Or go get drunk and tell someone your pregnant.
Later on I think i'll be going to the mall.. and YES i'll be going to the Gap. I think I've found true love.


Annie
Letters are welcomed!

*Also, most of the ridiculous things I wrote in here were quotes from the Office. Please don't get confused*