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.

Fill in the Blank Friday #5

look what I found in my drafts!
a FITBF from a couple weeks back.
and look, it's friday. HEY NOW!
no pictures here, though. sorry ;(

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it's monday - oops! i've nearly forgotten last friday's blanks. i don't remember what i was doing that day at the moment, but i do know my saturday and sunday have been FULL with shopping. shopping for others, shopping in new stores, shopping for Michigan this wednesday! oh my, an early morning on a plane for several hours and then we get to grand rapids :) that's one more state I can cross off the list!!

anywho, the mclinky is closed! but if you want to see more, go visit lauren over at the little things we do. she has a cute lil blog and many many past blanks to fill in ;)



1. The best thing about being in school was/is learning. there are other things about the school environment that are nice, but the absolute best thing is learning.

2. The worst thing about being in school was/is the requirements. japan has all these wicked geniuses coming out of it, and us westerners aren't so used to being the not-top-dog. so all the lil kiddies get to make up for the supposed lack of standards by taking a bunch of classes that most of us don't care about, and that are only useful in (also required) college classes. oh my, don't ever get me started in that rant again!

3. My favorite subject in school was/is history. you can get anything you want from it - english, math, science, ANYTHING! and if you really learn from it, you won't repeat your mistakes, and you can spot the mistakes of others as well. it's good when you have a really ignorant government.

4. One subject I wish I could have mastered/would like to master is French! I have absolutely fallen in love with this language, and I can't wait to study more of it in college.

5. I could never get tired of studying again, I go back to history.

6. The most memorable teacher I had was all of them. I'm not kidding. I've only been out of my school system for one year, and in that time, I realized that my district has outstanding teachers, and has a level of quality that is very rare. I still don't really care about sports (our football team sucks anyway, and will suck until the coach sticks around for more than a year) and our newspaper is pretty much unheard of ... But I value almost every teacher I've ever had. I remember their names and faces, and various good times in their classroom. All the way from kindergarten to this year just ended. Middle school is fuzzy, and I hated that place, but I still remember the names. I will be thanking my teachers specifically when I win that Tony award.

7. If I could choose between going to school for the rest of my life or working for the rest of my life, I'd choose working at school. I love school, but the frustration of not being able to choose my subject is so infuriating that I really am just exploding from the fact that it is still another year until I leave it behind. Teaching and inspiring others to love learning and the world as I do is on my bucket list.