Maybe a weird reason to make a post, but my college BFF Kerrie just managed to sum up exactly how I feel about our mutual place of higher education, and probably more eloquently than I could put it:

http://thegoodkerrie.blogspot.com/2009/11/erm.html

On a completely unrelated note... my friends are always posting weird meme/side-by-side comparison pictures on facebook, but ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. This one is just downright creepy. LMAO.


(as a side note: the above picture is from a play I was in in high school. I do not always dress quite so fabulously in so many sequins)

Eliza also finally posted some pictures from when she went to Comic Con on Friday with me this year.

WE MADE A NEW FRIEND


And traveled through a Stargate. And I always make stupid faces in pictures. ALWAYS.

Long time no blog (for the three people I know actually read this. Hi Kerrie, Rose, and Dad XD)! Life has been a little crazy lately for a number of reasons, but for the most part things are going relatively well. My new neighborhood is relatively boring after 9:00 PM especially after having lived in Manhattan for 4 years, but it is a nice place and I have at long last been reunited with my cat. :P

The main reason I made this post is to share a few awesome things I rediscovered lately during late night youtube adventures.





And on a completely different note: it is now less than two months until my favorite holiday of all time. And not just because of the Disneyland fireworks.



I will actually be going home for Christmas (if only briefly), which I am glad of since it was not a sure deal until today. LOOK OUT EAST COAST, I'M COMING FOR YOU. :D

Family fun times in Colorado

I've been criminally neglecting this blog lately, but my dad recently (FINALLY) sent me some pictures from our family vacation to Colorado earlier this year and I figured that was a good excuse for a post.

First off, my grandpa's memorial. Our Colorado cabin belonged to him and his family before us (dating all the way back to when it was built in the 1920s)


The tops of mountains are very windy (AND COLD)


My parents thought this was funny. XD


We take this same picture every year we go. The height ratios have changed somewhat since I was ten XD


ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE


My little brother has long floofy girl hair :P


The rare and elusive group picture where none of us is making silly faces


AND NOW: a whole bunch of gorgeous scenery pictures that I can't come up with appropriate captions for. Colorado is absolutely beautiful (a few of these are actually from last year, but I couldn't resist).

Hello West Coast!

I am in San Diego now, and for the most part I am very much enjoying the city. I am mostly on my own at the moment. Eliza, my best friend since age two, and her boyfriend Curt are moving back here the 14th and it will be awesome to see some friendly faces. :)

Not much to say at the moment, so instead I am going to list the things here that might take a little getting used to:
-Actually having to press the button for a walk signal. I've forgotten about this an embarrassing number of times.
-Not being able to walk everywhere just because of the layout of the city. There's lots of stuff that's close enough, but not all the roads have sidewalks
-STARBUCKS IS CHEAPER HERE. I got a grande frappucino today and paid less than $4 for it. It was magical.
-Movies are also cheaper here. I approve of $9 movie tickets.
-Completely different array of fast food chains. Rubios fish tacos may become a new favorite of mine.
-BUSES. The bus system here is crazy complicated but I am slowly figuring it out. I have taken the buses a couple of times and managed to not get lost yet. Knock on wood.
-On a similar topic, the one thing I really don't like about the buses is the lack of free transfers. You have to pay every time you get on a new bus. In BOTH directions. Which means one bus trip with one transfer costs me almost $10 round trip. They do have monthly passes however, and I may have to invest in one since I've ended up relying on the buses more than expected.
-THE WEATHER. Oh my god the weather. It hasn't been anything but sunny and comfortably warm since I got here. It's beautiful.

However, some things never change. I think you Vermont people in particular will appreciate the fact that even in Southern California... the fair has Swifty Swine's Racing Pigs.

Well, I leave for San Diego in less than a week.

Not much to say really. Currently couch surfing with some awesome friends in Queens until I leave.

However, I will leave you with a moment of zen.

This is a door. A bathroom door...

... in Disneyworld



No further comment.

Heeey! Long time no blog! Wanna know what I've been up to?

A lot of my theater department


With my BFF/roommate of two years, Kerrie.




With our friend Rose



That's right ladies and gents, as of today I am an official graduate of Pace University! Our ceremony was at the famous Radio City Music Hall, home of the Rockettes. There were, however, no rockettes at out graduation ceremony unfortunately. But Kadey did do a back handspring across the stage, so that's something. XD

I had no elaborate graduation day pranks, but I did throw up some rock hands in the official photos they were taking of me.

Summer suggestions?

So this time we have a post with no pictures! Imagine that!

Anyhow, as most of you who are reading this (or at least the one's who are following this blog) know, I am spending around two months this summer in sunny San Diego. I'm heading out there at the end of June to spend time with my lovely lady, and some friends, as well as my childhood BFF from Vermont who just so happens to be moving out there this summer to live with her boyfriend and who has offered me a possible place to stay (I was originally tentatively planning to stay in Santa Barbara with friends of my dad's).

So the question is... what does one do in San Diego? I was born in SoCal, but we moved when I was two and I haven't been back there to visit since I was in the 2nd grade. I already have tickets for San Diego Comic Con in July, and I plan on hitting up various theme parks and such, not to mention the beaches. HOWEVER, is there anything else in the area I should be sure to see/do? I know some of you have been there and know the area way better than I do.

Definitely planning on trying to hit up some auditions in LA while I'm out there too. Might as well! Who knows, maybe I'll actually get something?

On that topic, if anyone has suggestions for a part time summer job out there, that would be awesome. I'd like to try not to eat through ALL of my savings. XD

OK, I lied. I couldn't let this post end without a picture. So here's my friends and I getting all soaked at Universal Studios Florida last year.

Spring again, in video format!

Today was a GORGEOUS day in Central Park, and somewhere in the two hours I was walking around I decided to take advantage of the video setting on my little digicam.

IGNORE MY DOOFY VOICE. :P The narration is mostly directed at my girlfriend who has never been to New York (yet) who I've been harassing lately about HOW PRETTY THE PARK IS.








BONUS VIDEO: My roommates and I fail at directions while trying to get to Ikea.

Another way I like to waste my spare time...

First and foremost, this post is brought to you by my assistant Holly. Who really doesn't do much in the way of assisting. Her expertise is more along the lines of sitting on my hands while I try to type.


AND NOW, I present: another one of my many hobbies.

I have always been interested in costuming and making things. My mother taught me how to sew when I was little and I'm not too shabby at it if I do say so myself. In high school I experimented with this little thing called cosplay, which is essentially nerdy dress up for the sake of fun. I didn't really have many conventions to go to, living in small town Vermont, but I had a lot of fun making costumes for friends and for Halloween. When I went to college my costuming kinda got put on hold, due to the fact that I no longer had a sewing machine or my group of costuming friends. However, last year I made some pretty awesome friends who encouraged me to get back into the game and come to some conventions with them, and holy WOW did I have fun! I figured I would share some of the costumes I've made recently (pictures all taken by various friends).

First we have Toph Bei-Fong, from the cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender (which you should totally check out if you haven't, because it's AWESOME). I actually wound up doing several variations of this particular character over the course of the year, starting with the red outfit, which I made over Christmas break '07





Then came "Invasion Day Toph", which I made to match a couple of friends' costumes (who were dressed as other characters from the same episode)

(I'm the one on the left :P)


Unfortunately I have almost NO good pictures of this costume for some reason. I'm planning on wearing it again at Anime Boston this year (because it's one of my absolute FAVORITES and hasn't gotten nearly enough wear) so hopefully I can get some then.


This seriously blurry, but it's the ONLY half decent picture I could find of me with my helmet on.



FINALLY, we have outfit number three, which is Toph's dress from the series finale. This is probably the FASTEST costume I've ever made in my life. I put it together in less than a week. XD





This picture doesn't show off the costume very well, but I just like it. :P



Most recently, I have moved on from Toph and started attending conventions dressed as my very favorite resident of Arkham Asylum...



This costume was a BITCH to make, due to the fact that spandex is the most horrible material to sew with EVER, but it sure does look good when you can get it to cooperate. However, my favorite thing about this costume is the fact that if I don't feel like wearing the hood and makeup (as happened Sunday of New York Comic Con), my hair is still accurate to the character.


Even Harley Quinn loves the Ninja Turtles!



And that is all for now! I'm working on (or at least planning) some other costumes at the moment for both myself and others. This year I will, for the first time, be attending San Diego Comic Con! I've never been able to afford to go that far for a convention, but this year I'm spending the majority of my summer in San Diego anyways, so it all works out. I'll likely be dressed as Harley Quinn the whole time, hopefully with my partner in crime Poison Ivy.

Spring has sprung!

Well... sort of. Not quite warm enough to go to the beach or run around without a hoodie on (at least not today), but it's getting there. Things are starting to bloom, and I snapped a few pictures today near my apartment.

I don't pretend to be a photographer with my dinky little digital camera, but I do like to take pictures of stuff. No photoshop on these or anything, because I'm feeling lazy. :P

These first few are from City Hall Park right by my apartment.







They finally turned the fountain on! :D



This next bunch is from Battery Park down by the water. The light was going a little by this point, but OH WELL.














And, just for fun, a few of the statues outside the museum by Bowling Green.

Proof that weirdness is genetic

Well, no topic suggestions yet (let me rephrase that: no VIABLE topic suggestions yet. You know who you are). And my ladylove has informed me that embarrassing photos of her are not an acceptable blog topic, despite my spectacular arguments about it being an important human interest story. So you'll have to settle for the next best thing: PICTURES OF MY FAMILY.

When I was growing up, every year my extended family would gather at my grandpa's house for Thanksgiving. At the end of the weekend, we would take a group picture. While my grandpa is no longer with us, and this house belongs to someone else now, one of my cousins recently decided to upload a treasure trove of these old pictures to Facebook and I felt like they should be shared.

We're all a little bit touched in the head, and I wouldn't have it any other way.





Us poor saps in the front row had no idea what was going on






I believe my aunt's holding her arm out like that so we could photoshop in someone who was missing XD




BLUE STEEL


An innocent photo descends into CHAOS


And finally, this isn't a Thanksgiving picture (it's from the summer of '05 I believe), but it's one of the last group photos we have from before my grandpa died, and I like it. :)


Perhaps a post with actual content next time? NAH. That would just be silly!