Happy Halloween!

One of my favorite holidays! It absolutely feels like fall, with leaves all over the place. My window has a crack in it (and it will be repaired soon) and you can hear the wind blowing like in an old haunted mansion. It's really beautiful! Can't wait to see the little kids running around. I hope everyone has a good night!

Rain, rain go away...

The weather here is very interesting. Storms roll in and out of town in minutes. Today it was misty and cloudy all morning, noon was clear and by four it was pouring rain and lightening. Now it is kinda warm outside and smells like fall.

But I would rather have damp shoes and frizzy hair than a frozen nose and bleeding lungs. Yes, that's right. Apparently it gets so cold here your snot freezes in your nose and the air is so cold it causes you to cough up blood.

Are you warm in California, friends?

Love my new bike. Slowly breaking it in! Very slowly. The ride to school is only ten minutes but I am leave three minutes before school kind of girl. Riding in the cold is not so bad as riding up hill and riding uphill is not so bad as riding downhill! The hills are steep here and I am afraid of killing someone, myself or just not stopping in time and riding into oncoming traffic.

But still. My bike is pretty stylin'.

Study.... learn.... REPEAT.

Busy, busy, busy! Since the start of October things have really gotten underway. The hardest part would have to be that I still don't know the city that well. I don't have to just take a bus and roam around and I don't have the money to do so either. Which is fine because I like making artwork. I am either at the school or home. Always. I didn't come here to discover the city... I just wish I could discover some things like the best place to shop for groceries or where to buy paper. I had been driving a mile down the road to a horrible grocery store when just last week we found out there was one three blocks away that we didn't know about because we never go that way. Crazy.

I was also accepted into the Art History program so I am officially a double major!! It will mean more work each semester but I really believe I can do it.

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman...

Thank you to everyone who has sent me packages, postcards... car keys, beanies and letters. It really means a lot to me to get stuff in the mail that isn't a bill. By the way, if you are reading this and not related to me I need your address. Jan, Jules, Betty, Silla, Candice (I closed out of the chat before I wrote it down,) Marc and so on....

So send them!

Featured in a Tribute to Yellow...

My yellow teacups from years ago (back when COS still rocked the waterless lithography) was picked to go with the theme of yellow. The artist wrote a nice little blurb about how the pieces should get more then a hundred favorites from other artists.

Surprising to be included. Here is the link if you want to look at the other pieces and my piece is on the bottom of the "traditional" group.

http://news.deviantart.com/article/74715/

We All Scream For Ice Cream....

So working at Murray's has been really fun (except for the carpul tunnel I get from scooping ice cream.) And they saw it will get worse. But I finally snapped a picture from outside and thought you might like to see it!

Moving Right Along...

I have been crazy busy with work, school and homework. So let me go in update order. I miss everyone like crazy.

School is amazing. I really do love my classes. I only work four days a week but it feels like eight. The shifts are really long and the work is really hard, but in the best way. I have pulled muscles that I don't even know how they were used! But it's good. And the ice cream is amazing. Carrot cake is my new favorite.

Some of the assignments are weird but I am getting along. I don't quite feel at home in the lab either because most of my classmates have been together for years and love to stick to themselves or the fact that the lab is just different. Really different. I miss C.O.S!

I couldn't figure out how to post picture with text next to them so if you scroll down you get to see the sights I see everyday!

My Favorite Class Takes Place in this Building!

The Most Amazing Library!