It's been a while.

This is why I fail at blogging. I get busy and forget to write it down! I just got back from the bar though and i'm still buzzed from my redbulls so i'll write something now!!

First of all, about tonight: I met up with my friend Sarah who I haven't seen in YEARS and we went to Radiopark. Let me just sum up Radiopark in one word: EPICWIN (yeah that counts as one word). Honestly though, the music is amazing, the atmosphere is awesome, there were tons of people there & everyone was having a good time. The only downsides are that the bathrooms are tiny (one stall didn't even have a door) and there's only one bar and it's right by the door. The area around the bar gets very crowded and it's annoying to walk through. Once you get to the dance floor though, you forget all of that. The DJs are on a stage that people can dance on which gives it a really fun atmosphere.

The music they played was somewhat of a 90s house fusion. It's hard to explain but it was jizz-in-my-pants amazing. They were playing 90s cartoons & the muppets on TVs and there were diner-style booths off to one side for chilling out in.

Some memorable moments include the insane number of guidos and hipsters that are there (they're easy to ignore) and the two girls who decided it would be a good idea to jump up on the stage and pull there pants down to their ankles and dance in their G-strings. It SOUNDS hot but honestly....the one girl looked like someone had accidentally ironed her ass and it was flat and sagging and SO nasty. *gag*

After that I dropped of Neila & Sarah and drove back home, taking care to keep under the speed limit because cops tend to be out a LOT on Saturdays. They were.

Yesterday I went to classes, came home and played MW2. For like 8 hours. And i'm level 49 now. Woo! 70 & AK-47 HERE I COME! w00t w00t!

Shea finally got his Xbox back. That makes me so insanely happy ahaha. I finally get to kick his ass :D

Also as I type this I realized i've eaten absolutely nothing all day and i've just put redbull & liquor in my tummy. I'm fucking starving. I'm going to go eat something now...

PAYCE!

Song of the Day: "Same Song & Dance" by Eminem. Just 'cus :D

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It's almost the weekend!

I know I just had a whole week off but I can't WAIT for the weekend! So in need of sleep catch up time. And maybe a head start on the research paper that we FINALLY got assigned!

The assignment is simple: Research a type of paper or a paper manufacturer, write a report on it and create a presentation to show the class. I'm planning to set up a meeting with a paper manufacturer or distributor in Calgary and get some non-online research for once.

Tonight, I think i'm going to wash my car, go to the gym, finish putting my laundry away & type up some research questions to ask whomever I end up talking to. I know, i'm so exciting. Also I may copy some notes from my notebook into my binder and get that all up to date so I have all my notes in one spot. That was my downfall last semester. My notes were all over the place so when I went to study, it was chaos.

I think that's all. I might fit dinner in there somewhere. And i'll definitely end up watching the third season of "Secret Diaries of a Call Girl" which I can't stop watching. It's so addicting. It's like the heroin of TV shows.

Hoping to go out sometime this weekend with Gabe & his camera & take some sweet pics. Would be nice before all the snow melts =D

Song of the Day: "Low" by Flo Rida. It feels like summer again & this is the perfect driving in the sun song!!

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Happy Tuesday

Today was pretty uneventful as well. Woke up later than desired again. Drove to school and ended up being about 40 minutes early. Which would have been sweet except some guy stopped me in the parking lot to ask for directions. I was trying to help him but he didn't speak English well and asked me to put the address of the place he was going into his GPS and then asked me to call the place he was trying to go. Finally, when he asked me to get into his car because I looked cold, I pretty much RAN to school.

Shea, Gabe & I brought some joy to a teacher we used to have last semester. Apparantly she had some very sweet things to say about us to our first class' teacher. Also, there may or may not have been tears involved. The smallest acts of kindness go a long way it seems!

I'm so tired right now because my sleep schedule is all throw off. Once I get back into my waking up early mode I should be okay.

Today I tried to Photoshop a picture of a plus size model to make her look skinnier. That part worked out okay for a first try. Then I tried to Photoshop Megan Fox's face on top of hers and the two skin colors clashed horribly. Even after an hour of blending & blurring & healing brushing, the face was a disaster. Next time i'll just do what everyone else said to do and photoshop Megan Fox's whole head onto the body.

What a boring blog. Oh well, maybe i'll do another one later when I'm not about to fall asleep haha.

Song of the Day: "Dubstep" by DJ Hazard. Sounds soooo sweet in my car :D

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Post-Reading Week Blog

Today was very anti-climactic for the first day back from reading week. I had every intention of waking up on time today (well yesterday technically...Monday...) and I set the time on my alarm to 6:30 because I was sleeping over in Calgary so I was already closer to school. ONE PROBLEM: I forgot to turn the alarm ON! Ugh. So I ended up waking up at 7:22 and decided that my morning class was a write off.

I got to school in time for my second period class (Press & Bindery) and Gabe & I rocked the projects and ended up finishing an hour early. We were finished a 50 page "perfect bound" booklet, including a cover with a spine, a 24 page saddle stitched booklet and cut 100 bookmarks, gold foiled them, trimmed them and round corner cut them. ALL of this was completed before anyone else was even finished their first/second booklets. And we got A+ for all our stuff =)

After Press, Gabe and I rescued Shea from Pre-Press class. I shouldn't say rescued. Pre Press is an AWESOME class. Brenda is a wicked teacher. Kinda like Tyler. I've never heard teachers speak to us like we're on the same level as they are before. Still used to being tormented in the crypt.

Web design class was uneventful and I finished the homework in class with about 30 minutes to spare.

After school, I immediately went home & cleaned my room. And I mean cleaned. I swept & washed the floor, dusted my TV stand, shelves, tops of my dressers & desk and finished my laundry. All I have to do tomorrow is put the rest of my clothes away, change the sheets on my bed (if I don't change them AT LEAST once a week I go nuts. It's an OCD thing). I'll take care of it after school tomorrow.

I went out for Cole's birthday tonight. He turned 21. Lucky bastard is going to Vegas this weekend. Anyway we had a drink at Limericks (which was much farther from my house than I was expecting) then went back to Cole's house for a bit before we decided it was bed time for all of us. Tamest birthday party ever hahaha. I was home by 1am, completely sober but tired as hell.

Hopefully fate or karma or whatever can infuse some excitement into my day tomorrow. Just no car accidents please! (And no flat tires HAH!)

Song of the Day: "Tik Tok" by Ke$ha ... Cole sang all the words to this song on the way back from the bar...including the "errybody gettin crunk" with hand actions.

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Branding & Identity

Deciding that today would be the day, I created my page on Facebook for my "company" Fidelity Design. And everyone knows that once it's on Facebook, it's legit. I was partially inspired by the fact that I have no money and also by boredom. I honestly can't wait until Monday when I can go back to school.

HOWEVER. This week off has allowed me to think a lot about my future relating to my career choice. Do I want to be a starving artist for the rest of my life? No. Could I put more work into my projects and really make them stand out? Yes. Could I maybe come out of college with the beginnings of a portfolio? Hopefully! So if you don't mind, become a fan of my page on Facebook & follow my new Twitter account



Next up: Launching my own website so I can showcase my work in a more professional atmosphere as opposed to a blog or a Facebook album (the thought of the jpeg compression makes me cringe).

Thank you! =)
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First Real Client: Web Design

I have the beginnings of the website I'm working on for my first real "client". I have a feeling there isn't going to be any work after this initial set up but it's still good practice and it's something to do while I have no homework. Keep in mind, I don't have the logo, images, descriptions, text or any real content other than the name and the slogan so that's why it looks so bare. I might throw some stock images on the page to make it look better when I present it to her but until then...



The colors aren't concrete and neither is the layout 100% but the basics are there and that's all that matters :D Hooray! Hopefully i'll get some images or something to work with soon so I can get this all finished up =)

Let me know what you think so far & if you can see anything I could improve on in the basic design. (In case you're a n00b, all the text on the page that isn't the name or slogan is filler and is absolutely meaningless right now lol)

Song of the Day: "Breaking Dishes" by Rihanna. Dedicated to my newly single, woman-scorned little sister!

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Post-Bar Photoshoot

I get super bored when I come home from the bar and I haven't been drinking except Redbull & coffee. So I decided tonight that since I was wearing my fake eyelashes, I would take pictures of myself with my Macbook. HOORAY! Photodump!
And because Facebook isn't working, I'm gonna put them up here. Hooray.







YAY! Those will be going into my Macbook Randoms folder as soon as Facebook stops shitting itself.
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