there's nothing better than an alcoholic evening with 40 of your closest friends...
wow. i mean really... wow. the party this year was just amazing. the location was awesome. we had an easy time decorating, it was big, isolated and really perfect for what we needed. the weather was also cooperative... cool but not cold, and definately not raining. and the people... it was so great how many people showed up!
to go with the theme this year i decided that my main decorating idea would be pictures from the previous years. so i went and bought rolls of wrapping paper and found a piece of thick cardboard from my art days, cut it into one inch strips and then gathered all the pictures i had printed (about 300)together. i poured myself a huge drink and sat on the floor with it all in front of me. i decided to use the strips to stabilize the ends of the wrapping paper, then just roll out the paper and put pictures all over it. it seemed like a cheesy idea at first, but as i worked i got into it and the flow of captain made me sentimental. luckily, they went over at the party just as well, if not better. everyone made a pass around the room at least once or twice to check it all out. it was amazing to have the last 7 years laid out like that... it was definately a stroke of genius on my part.
so when we finally headed home at 9 in the morning, i was pretty drunk but feeling good about myself. the party had been a blast, i had won the potato gun in the gift exchange (finally) and i was pretty sure i had over 300 pictures to commemorate this final party. we went to waffle house for a morning pick me up and then headed home to sleep it all off. it wasn't until 6 hours later when i woke up very out of sorts that i realized i had neither my camera OR my potato gun. i looked everywhere and finally figured out that i had left the camera in josh's car, but he was already back in savannah (damn) and that the last time i remember having the potato gun was before the pinata when i was outside seeing some people off and taking pictures of their departure. so somewhere between two in the morning and 9 in the morning it disappeared. my initial thought was that someone had taken it... but who would do that to me? i'd be rather insulted if someone came to my party and then stole my gag gift from me. so i must have just left it at the clubhouse, right?
well, we went back to clean up at 6 and found that the forstners had beat us there. i don't know how long they had been at it, but a lot of it was already cleaned up. huey and i hopped in and finished it off, but i realized that if my potato gun had been there we would have found it by now. so either someone took it or it got thrown away in the cleanup. since i haven't been able to verify either so far, it is kind of frustrating me...
so now i have to turn my attention to real christmas. and after that we have a parade of people coming in and out of town that we have to catch up with at some point or another. and then is new years in hilton head! it's going to be a hectic couple of weeks off of school, i can tell.
but i'd just get bored sitting around on my ass anyways...
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posted by megs at 09:31
12.15.2006
my shooting star wish came true!!
so i got to see my little sister walk in her college graduation today. it made me feel really, really good inside... i'm so proud of her, being the first kid in our family to get there. i also wanted to kick her, because she was the first kid in our family to get there... then i realized that i really just wanted to kick myself, for allowing her to be the first kid in our family to get there.
but i am trying to rectify that. i made my wish on my shooting star, and spent my day neurotically checking the grade website every half hour from my phone. i swear, internet on the phone can really be a curse in this kind of situation. slowly during the day, grades popped up. i had my one official A already... two more showed up later... and then another after lunch... and when i checked again at four i was up to five OFFICIAL A's on the website. one of my up-in-the-air classes had finally come through... it was my last final that i took on wednesday. i guess i did well enough. the only one i still didn't know was my first one from monday, which i needed a 79 on to get an A. with cumulative finals, really strange things can happen. when i took acct 1, i got A's on all my tests throughout the semester but got a C on the cumulative final. they can be really tricky sometimes.
so i finally headed home at about 6:00 from my mom's house and decided to check one last time, in case they had put up my last grade right before they headed home or something... scrolling through the page i wasn't really expecting it to be there, so when i saw that final A i actually screamed and then almost drove off the road. then i laughed and bounced around in my seat singing to myself "i'm such a smarty pants... i'm such a smarty pants..." and then i did the strangest thing... i got all teary-eyed. for some reason i was thinking in my head, why couldn't i have done this while my dad was still alive so he could have seen me be the first kid in our family to graduate? what the hell had i been waiting for all this time?
well, woulda coulda shoulda, as my mom always says. there is no point in dwelling in the past. focus on what is ahead... which would be the christmas party tomorrow night. i still haven't done anything for it, but i do have a plan now. my plan is to go to party city right after i finish this and buy a pinata... then i'm going to run around like a crazy woman and somehow magically get everything else done before 5:00 tomorrow so that i have time to come home, relax and make it to the party on time...
yeah, right.
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posted by megs at 18:55
12.14.2006
awesomeness...
i found the cool thing about being awake at four in the morning with nothing to do!! i just saw a shooting star!! i made a wish...
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posted by megs at 04:48
my sleep schedule is going to be soooo messed up for the next week...
so i got home yesterday from my last final (finished in 40 min... not bad) and was still all jacked up from the two cups of coffee that i chugged before the final started. so i figured i would hunt down all the pictures from the 1st and 2nd christmas party since the target lady called and told me my order for the other 5 parties was ready.
i'm getting ahead of myself. i decided as the decoration for the xmas party this year i would use old pictures frrom previous parties. so i found all the digital pictures we had taken at parties three through seven and uploaded them to our picture server on flickr. that took freakin forever, and on top of it i couldn't find ANY pictures from year five. i have absolutely no idea what happened to them all, and that was the year we had the cool hawaiin theme! anyway, i picked about 175 of the pictures from the other parties and ordered them to be printed for the wonderful low price of .15 cents a picture. they get printed at target and i get to pick them up tomorrow. so, since we had done parties one and two the old fashioned way on a 35mm camera, i decided when i got home from my final to find those prints and sort through them. that added another 100 pictures to the pot, so we'll have a decent amount for decorating... i'm so excited about the christmas party!!
so anyway, after i did that i kind of laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling. i had just kicked off my shoes and was still dressed up from the presentation we had to give this morning, so i decided to change out of my slacks before they got all wrinkled. i got in my pajamas and cuddled up under the blankets and turned on harry potter. i guess at some point i fell asleep because the next thing i knew i was blinking my eyes in darkness and the harry potter menu music was playing over and over and over again. i had slept for 12 hours and am now wide awake at four in the morning with nothing to do...
well, not nothing to do. i'm of course going to play zelda on my wii... i've been abstaining the last two weeks, not playing anything because i knew it would detract from my studying. so now i've got time again!! but i have to go to work in a coupla hours, and then work late because there is some kind of christmas party til 8:30 tonite that i have to take my grandmother to. so chances are that i'll come home from that tonite and then crash all over again before 10. but it's good to get as much sleep as possible in before the christmas party. i know i'll have a lot of work to do over the next few days for that. but as i said, i'm so excited about it!!
so according to my calculations, i now have four pretty solid A's... one A has already been officialy posted on my KSU grades site... so now i just have to sit and worry about the other two. ooooh... what a nailbiter!!
i'm such a geek.
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posted by megs at 04:11
12.13.2006
sometimes i'm impressed by just how much i care...
honestly, i've already passed all my classes this semester. i could go home right now and know that i got a C or higher in everything and don't need to worry anymore. but the thing is, i want to do well. it's a matter of pride. the real question here is... at what cost?
right now, i'm completely exhausted. i hit the 24 hour mark over an hour and a half ago and have 3.5 hours before my last final begins. i somehow managed to get through my group presentation at 8am this morning with flying colors. in fact, one of the guys from the company we were presenting our adv and promo plan to actually came up to us afterwards and told our group that we did the best out of all the other groups. he said we were focused, passionate, and carried ourselves well throughout the whole presentation. this amuses me a lot because the three of us walked away from the front of the room after our presentation giggling like little girls because we had all come off sounding like cheerleaders (high voices, rather loud, and a bit too cheerful for that time of the morning.) i guess it worked though. honestly, we were all so delirious by the time we got up that we just wanted to get through it.
so i shouldn't be in this position in the first place. i finished preparing for my group presentation at 11:00 last night, organized and printed all my notes for my second final by 11:30, knowing i'd have four hours to look over them today and was all ready for bed before midnite when it suddenly hit me... i forgot to do my damn take home final for my 8am class. realizing it would probably take two hours because it was all essay and cursing my poor organizational skills, i got comfortable on the couch (but not too comfortable... kept my feet on the floor) and got to work. i realized at about 1:30 when i was half way done that i wasn't going to get any sleep last night. if i even attempted it i would probably sleep past my presentation in the morning. so i popped in a move (the break up... frustrating movie, but i'll get to that later) and just plodded on. when i reread what i had written early this morning for some of the "give your own opinion" questions i realized thinking of intelligent answers at 3 in the morning when you are tired and watching a vince vaughn movie was like trying to do it while you were high... everything sounds good at the moment, but in retrospect you can't figure out what your point was.
here's a few gems... first off, i took a very strong "pro-puffery" stance, stopping short of calling most consumers dumb...
I personally believe that the FTC views the use of puffery in the correct context. Puffery should be viewed as a form of poetic license or allowable exaggeration. Consumers do expect exaggeration in advertising and should take personal responsibility in determining their stance on products. A company claiming to be the “best” at anything is simply stating their opinion. I could say I was the best at everything but wouldn’t expect people to just take that at face value. I think people see advertising and may take slogans such as Papa John’s to heart, but if they try it and don’t like it will continue with their favored pizza brand of choice. When it comes down to it, a snappy slogan or tagline can bring attention to a brand but I believe consumers should be responsible for making their own choices. Whether they base those choices on exaggerated claims or on their own beliefs is their prerogative.
and then there was this paragraph, where i made some really strange references and clearly was just making shit up to finish the test...
I tend to lean more towards agreeing with the advertisers and marketers in favor of shock advertising because much does personally not offend me. I think that they usually know when to draw the line because stepping over it can alienate and anger the audience they were trying to get attention from in the first place. I also think there is a time and a place for everything; I wouldn’t be offended by finding one of the Bijan ads in an Elle or a Maxim magazine, but wouldn’t want to find it in my niece’s Highlights magazine. While critics of shock advertising argue that it will somehow spiral out of control, it is exactly these kinds of public debates that the ads are hoping to spark. As my mom said, it is no coincidence that Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” happened right before a new album of hers was set to hit stores.
and when i realized that 7 and 8 on the test were the same question (and yes i was already part way reanswering the damn thing again) i got kind of snarky and wrote this...
Repeat of the last question?? Same answer I guess.
oh well, fuck it right? it's done.
so yeah, i watched the break up... how damn depressing was that ending? the fact that they got along so well after ending so badly... blech. i would rather they had stayed together and liked each other or broken up and hated each other. i'm a girl so i should have gotten the girlfriend angle in this movie, but for the life of me i couldn't figure out why she would try so hard to get him back and then just quit. what kind of backwards ass thinking is that? was the point that sometimes people need their own time apart before they can get back together and rebuild what they had, only better? is that what the whole "chicago is the second city" crap meant? or is that just it for them? dammit... i wanted my pretty little bow at the end... it's like a dangling particple... so damn frustrating because it just doesn't make any sense...
oh god... i just compared a movie to a dangling participle... i'm such a mess right now...
must... study... not... sleep........
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posted by megs at 10:19
12.12.2006
i must have got up on the stupid side of the bed today...
i have no idea what happened... i spent all day studying. i actually confined myself to my room all day and really really hit the books. i was doing so well. i even made a cute little illustration for my advertising campaign of a little mascot we named reader rabbit... i was feeling really good about tests today.
then i went to bed. to make sure i got up early enough i set three alarms. one at 7:00, one at 7:15, and one at 7:30. i woke up, turned off the first one, then rolled over. then i woke up, turned off the second one, and rolled over. then i woke up, turned off the third one and flipped through the channels to see what the weather would be like. i blinked, flipped a few more channels, and then looked at the clock... it was 9:08. and my final started at 9:30. fuck, fuck, fuck!!!
so i took the quickest shower of my life, grabbed my notes to go over my quizzes one last time (part of the reason i was getting up early), then turned back into the bathroom to grab a pony tail holder, ran out the door... and was 15 minutes down the road before i realized i'd forgotten my notes. dammit, dammit, dammit!!
so i showed up to my final 20 minutes late and got to work. i blanked on a few things but did my best. leaving the test not feeling so good, i immediately pulled out my laptop and pulled up my spreadsheet to see what the minimum i could get on my final... if i did my calculations right, i just needed a 79 to keep an A. taking a deep breath, i overheard another kid talking next to me at the next table... he was saying he needed a 60 on a final in his next class to get a C. that's when i realized i'm probably freaking out over nothing.
i may not get all A's this semester, but i think i'll do okay.
i do have one A already... i checked my consumer behavior grade today. unless he has something extra up his sleeve, one is on lockdown... just 5 more to go, right?
gotta remember to breathe... and get up on the other side of the bed on wednesday.
