Fill in the Blank Friday #5

I remembered on time today, YAY!!! and know that lauren's got the mclinky running over at the little things we do... every picture is linked today. click and you will receive.

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1. This weekend for The 4th of July I'll be not celebrating. Actually, I will be turning in a last minute tea party coin design for a scholarship contest. I have some good ideas but I'm scrambling to get them down on paper, seeing as all designs are due sunday. yikes!

I could just sit back and read
all the signs. also, this one
needs to be printed and hung
on every politicians front door.

2. Fireworks are are nice, when you can lay on your back in the bed of a truck and watch the sky light up. they suck when your neighbors set the extras off during randoms nights.

3. Nothing says summer like WARPED TOUR! I seriously miss going to it but this and last year it's been held at a different venue from my first experience. I just don't like the change, but I'm sure I'll be going next year. Also, I took this picture:

Not like this particular one
is mine, but I have pictures
that are basically the same.
I must have been standing
right next to the person who
took this. Crazy.

4. My favorite summer memory is again, Warped. Seriously one of the best summer days I've ever had. I still have MGC's signature, from The Academy Is :D

5. My favorite thing about summer is everything. I have always liked it better. There's the anticipation for fall, the parties, the food, the ability to touch water and not freeze, the feel of UV rays on my skin, and even the triple digits. I love it all.

I did take this one, however.
Home cooked bar b que!!

6. Summer in a word is necessary! Absolutely necessary.

7. If I could choose to have summer or winter year round I'd pick summer. I absolutely dread winter. Along with all the other problems, my emotions are directly in tune with the seasons. So I'm pretty much blech for two or three months. Unless it rains, which is a nice pick-me-up.

took this one as well. i love it.

forgetterings

i hate when i realize all that i've forgotten. i never did my mad tea party with all the others and a fanciful twist :( was looking foward to finding a bunch of mis-matched cups and things around on the cheap, but i never got around to looking, and then i completely forgot and i ended up planning over it.

also, i've been thinking about my art history today. i know it sounds silly, but i really call it that. since i was teeny tiny, i wanted to be an artist. a painter. but everyone said that artists don't make any money. so i stopped trying to want to be that and started looking for some other niche that i could aspire to fit right into. but i never really found one that other people approved of. everyone else wanted (and still wants) to be a doctor, a marine biologist, a teacher - something that is clear, something that is precise and that you go to school, get a degree, and get a job. but nothing i ever seemed to like worked into that pattern. i remember distinctly being very embarrassed and oh, maybe disillusioned (is that the word) when i found out that "the business" was hard to get far in. by that i mean show business. being an actress. that's the one thing that's been steady, and it's not practical. not one bit.

okay, okay, i'll stop complaining. i've done four responses for the dual credit english assignment, read about 2/3 rds of the way through, and marked about half way through. I wrote bits and pieces of an application essay today. it's the schreiner one that i'm starting with, and i'll be recycling it for several other schools and scholarships. and i've applied for quite a few scholarships already. we shall see how the chips fall.

and now some great parodies of a WWII eara poster:

from 3 Lambs Studio.
I highly recommend looking through
the photostream. every print is great,
and they sell many of them on etsy!



come now, you can't have really
thought that I was from
"across the pond", as they say?
ps - that one's from google.

ah well, i suppose that'll do. i'm going to drop off both fill rolls tomorrow at walgreens and then after i get some theatre hours done, i'll be back here to show 'em off. cross that they come out good!

- p.

michigan & world cup

curious. very curious.

everything is so flat and green. honestly! there's a few hills here and there, but they are so perfectly placed (in relation to roads, etc) that I can't help thinking they're man-made.

we're sitting in a hotel in a squat little town called Charlotte, which I've learned has emphasis on the second, not first, syllable. The old telly is on some random channel so we can watch the Portugal + Brazil game. It's definitely good so far and I'm caught up on who's who this year. Several yellow cards for each team in less than half an hour, and it's funny to see all the reactions ... it's quite good fun. Though, being Brazil, I think this is going to get rough once the timer reaches sixty.

Today, no earlier than three, we're to head over to the inn - notice I didn't have to specify which inn; that's Charlotte for you - and start getting all spiffied up for the wedding tonight. Last night I walked outside with my neice to the back of the hotel to see the lightening bugs down in the bushes. She had bug spray all over her, but I only had it on my legs. Needless to say, in less than five minutes of walking out and back into the hotel, I had 12 - yes, TWELVE mosquito bits on my arms. Two more on my forehead.

The worst bit is that I rarely get bitten down in Texas. I suppose these Michigan flyers thought my sweet tea blood something just to their liking.

I forgot my camera battery so I bought a couple 35mm. I'll post those when we get back.

-polexia.