sometimes, words just don't work.
amazing friends. amazing God. perfect timing.
-meredith*
Monday, October 31, 2005
Monday, October 24, 2005
wow. where to start.
1) its amazing how well my mom and I get along when we aren't living together.
2) i love target. i spent a lot of money there this weekend.
3) i like showing up unexpectly in places and seeing people's reactions. like afterschool programs.
4)panera+cranium+cookout+stupid videogames+ sleepover is a recipe for a fun night that will last until 4am.
5)my brother and sister are cuter than yours.
6) Meg & Josh are married. and. it was an amazingly biblical ceremony. i think my favorite part was when Chip offered the charge of the husband and then told him to go 'recieve his bride'. How i managed not to cry, I don't know. Music was incredible. Message was incredible. I want to get married just so I can have one.
7)Meg, if you read this... um. I'm stealing the idea of using 'Joyful Joyful, We Adore Thee' as recessional music... best ever. Like how i'm planning my wedding and I don't even have a boyfriend?
8)The whole throwing rice/birdseed has turned into a sick practice of pelting the bride and groom quite viciously... I'm using bubbles.
9)Will makes me laugh even when he's making fun of me and I don't question our friendship (though, he might not say the same).
10) I cannot play the drums to save my life.
11) Sometimes Christie answers my questions by nodding... when i'm not in the room.
12)Stay is a very strange movie and I still don't know what happened. But it was a very pretty film adn i recomend it.
13) why is Phase 10 so addicting?
14) everyone should hear Cameron, James and Tyler do Tenacious D's 'Tribute to the best song in the world'.
15) Have you ever heard Cameron Lee make up a screamo song about jewish people? I have.
16) One should not drive when they've only gotten about 13 hours of sleep over the course of a weekend.
17)Know what's fun? Walking out of the metro station in Foggy Bottom and seeing Nicole Kidman just standing on the sidewalk preparing to shoot a scene.
18) Sleep deprivation gives me good ideas for paintings.
19)Naps are awesome
20)my sister Margaret has mono.
21)Group projects consume life.
That's the most concise post I could do, it was that or pages of pages of telling you how awesome my friends and family are.
1) its amazing how well my mom and I get along when we aren't living together.
2) i love target. i spent a lot of money there this weekend.
3) i like showing up unexpectly in places and seeing people's reactions. like afterschool programs.
4)panera+cranium+cookout+stupid videogames+ sleepover is a recipe for a fun night that will last until 4am.
5)my brother and sister are cuter than yours.
6) Meg & Josh are married. and. it was an amazingly biblical ceremony. i think my favorite part was when Chip offered the charge of the husband and then told him to go 'recieve his bride'. How i managed not to cry, I don't know. Music was incredible. Message was incredible. I want to get married just so I can have one.
7)Meg, if you read this... um. I'm stealing the idea of using 'Joyful Joyful, We Adore Thee' as recessional music... best ever. Like how i'm planning my wedding and I don't even have a boyfriend?
8)The whole throwing rice/birdseed has turned into a sick practice of pelting the bride and groom quite viciously... I'm using bubbles.
9)Will makes me laugh even when he's making fun of me and I don't question our friendship (though, he might not say the same).
10) I cannot play the drums to save my life.
11) Sometimes Christie answers my questions by nodding... when i'm not in the room.
12)Stay is a very strange movie and I still don't know what happened. But it was a very pretty film adn i recomend it.
13) why is Phase 10 so addicting?
14) everyone should hear Cameron, James and Tyler do Tenacious D's 'Tribute to the best song in the world'.
15) Have you ever heard Cameron Lee make up a screamo song about jewish people? I have.
16) One should not drive when they've only gotten about 13 hours of sleep over the course of a weekend.
17)Know what's fun? Walking out of the metro station in Foggy Bottom and seeing Nicole Kidman just standing on the sidewalk preparing to shoot a scene.
18) Sleep deprivation gives me good ideas for paintings.
19)Naps are awesome
20)my sister Margaret has mono.
21)Group projects consume life.
That's the most concise post I could do, it was that or pages of pages of telling you how awesome my friends and family are.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
("He who brings sorrow to those that love Him.")
Thursday night I didn't have class because of Yom Kippur. First time that's ever happened. But I appreciated the long weekend.
Friday night I was on duty, and I thought the night was going to be quiet as normal until I got a call at one in the morning from Nikki saying there was a part on her floor that was a little out of control. Needless to say, when I showed up over there the walls were thumping and you could hear the music throughout the floor. Long story short, the guys there were beligerent and indignant and made the whole think a lot more complicated than it needed to be if they'd have just let us do our thing. Instead, they made it difficult not one but FIVE university police officers showed up, two people were banned from campus and in total five people were found hiding in various uncreative spots in the apartment. It was ridiculous. Whats more ridiculous is that by the time we finished, wrote the report and I got a ride back to my building it was FOUR IN THE MORNING.
i guess this is the price i pay for free campus housing.
the rest of the weekend was mostly a mixture of sleep, studio, internet and tv movies (Paycheck, btw, with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman... not bad. Though i have hard time beleiving ol Benny to be a brilliant scientist.)
I made my mom's spaghetti sauce, whilst while delicious, has made my apartment smell like garlic all weekend.
Painting critique tomorrow and lost of homework to do for Tuesday.
meredith, out.
Thursday night I didn't have class because of Yom Kippur. First time that's ever happened. But I appreciated the long weekend.
Friday night I was on duty, and I thought the night was going to be quiet as normal until I got a call at one in the morning from Nikki saying there was a part on her floor that was a little out of control. Needless to say, when I showed up over there the walls were thumping and you could hear the music throughout the floor. Long story short, the guys there were beligerent and indignant and made the whole think a lot more complicated than it needed to be if they'd have just let us do our thing. Instead, they made it difficult not one but FIVE university police officers showed up, two people were banned from campus and in total five people were found hiding in various uncreative spots in the apartment. It was ridiculous. Whats more ridiculous is that by the time we finished, wrote the report and I got a ride back to my building it was FOUR IN THE MORNING.
i guess this is the price i pay for free campus housing.
the rest of the weekend was mostly a mixture of sleep, studio, internet and tv movies (Paycheck, btw, with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman... not bad. Though i have hard time beleiving ol Benny to be a brilliant scientist.)
I made my mom's spaghetti sauce, whilst while delicious, has made my apartment smell like garlic all weekend.
Painting critique tomorrow and lost of homework to do for Tuesday.
meredith, out.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
In Dominique's blog, she wrote a top ten list of things she wants to do before she dies.
I thought I'd make one, just to see what they'd be. I couldn't come up with ten.
-I want to have a family. I want to be a mom. I'd like to have my own kids, but if its not possible for medical reasons... then its okay because I want to adopt anyways....
-I want to go to Africa. But like, really go to Africa and help and just do something.
-I want to go tour Europe. Preferrably backpacking and staying in hostels and riding on trains and looking at the art and architecture i've seen in all my glossy-paged textbooks.
-i want to work and enjoy my job but still have time for my family and friends and making art because those things come first.
and those were the only things I could think of that really matter to me. That I think i'd be disappointed if they didn't actually happen.
i'd still like to skydive. and have someone think my artwork is good enough to put in a gallery. i'd like to help run a gallery. i want to have someone i've worked with on art have their art put in a gallery. i want to paint a mural on a brick wall in the middle of a city. i want my own ceramics studio. i want to have a garden in my backyard.
but those are silly things that might be nice, but really aren't that important.
and all those 'i want' sentences make me feel materialistic and shallow and caught up in worldly experiences.
and they really make me to want a want of nothing.
and i'm really far away from that.
-meredith*
I thought I'd make one, just to see what they'd be. I couldn't come up with ten.
-I want to have a family. I want to be a mom. I'd like to have my own kids, but if its not possible for medical reasons... then its okay because I want to adopt anyways....
-I want to go to Africa. But like, really go to Africa and help and just do something.
-I want to go tour Europe. Preferrably backpacking and staying in hostels and riding on trains and looking at the art and architecture i've seen in all my glossy-paged textbooks.
-i want to work and enjoy my job but still have time for my family and friends and making art because those things come first.
and those were the only things I could think of that really matter to me. That I think i'd be disappointed if they didn't actually happen.
i'd still like to skydive. and have someone think my artwork is good enough to put in a gallery. i'd like to help run a gallery. i want to have someone i've worked with on art have their art put in a gallery. i want to paint a mural on a brick wall in the middle of a city. i want my own ceramics studio. i want to have a garden in my backyard.
but those are silly things that might be nice, but really aren't that important.
and all those 'i want' sentences make me feel materialistic and shallow and caught up in worldly experiences.
and they really make me to want a want of nothing.
and i'm really far away from that.
-meredith*
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Last night I really buckled down and started writing the paper I had due today at one at...like... 10pm. And stayed up till 2:30 working on it. Then worked on it this morning from 8:30-12:30, only taking a break for a shower. So. Once again, Meredith barely made it.
Procrastination. It's like my job.
But, the paper was darn good if I do say so myself. And it was seven pages when it was supposed to be four. whoops.
So yeah, working like crazy on the paper, and then adding in class from 1-8:30 made the day really. really. crappy. I was half asleep all day and doodling was the only thing i could do to pay attention.
In Counseling, its pretty normal for us to do role plays with a partner to practice patient/therapist relationships. Well, today I got to be the patient and Corinne was my therapist. Anyways, I'm sitting there coloring and talking about whatever. So I jsut decided to play up the whole 'oh-i-just-moved-to-a-big-city-where-i-live-alone' thing... so i'm just rambling along as i'm prone to do... and i'm talking about how i'm really close to my family and how my friends are like my family... and how i'm a hugger... and how i haven't had a hug in like three weeks (which, is a lie, because my family came, but. before that it was true). But it ended up sounding really sad and pathetic and I totally didn't even mean for it too. So after class, we were all walking back to the metro(well, i was just walking home) and when it was time for Corrine to branch off she said bye... but then gave me a hug! I mean, she was joking around partly, but it was still nice and touched my heart ... silly, huh?
I walked the last few blocks home alone... BUT. I love walking thanks to my mp3 player. It's like hanging out with friends. I just rock out the whole time i'm walking. And resist very hard the urge to dance. or twirl. ok, sometimes i do twirl, but only when no one is around. I'm totally the people in the commercials whose shadows and reflections are dancing. And I wonder how people would react if i danced and sang along like i want to....
Sometimes, I get inclinations to check my mailbox. Not everyday, just some days I have an urge to check. All this week I felt like I was going to get mail.... sure enough, I checked tonight and found not one, but TWO letters. One was from Libby- who fully appreciates getting mail, especially when you're far away.... and the other from my grandmother Graham... who's letters always end up being really long and encouraging. And a check with $25 makes it even nicer.
I totally started out today in the absolute worst of moods... and in the matter of hour, I'm now just really in a wonderful mood. Totally exhausted. But. Happy. Thanks for the biscuit God, your timing is perfect.
listening currently to the new Thrice CD. They put the entire thing up on myspace for anyone to listen to. I really like it... its way different than everything else they've put out. But, in a completely awesome way. I'd read the lyrics, so I was excited to actually HEAR the album, check out these lyrics:
we're more than carbon and chemicals
free will is ours and we can't let go
we can't allow this, the quiet cull
so we sing out this, our canticle
we are the image of the invisible
we all were lost now we are found
no one can stop us or slow us down
we are all named and we are all known
we know that we'll never walk alone
They're my favorite. and christians. amazing. they make me happy.
check out the new album if you want: http://myspace.com/thrice
But yes. That's your daily update.
At least for Becky, because i don't know who else reads this because no one else leaves comments (hint, hint)
live from our nation's capitol, meredith*
Procrastination. It's like my job.
But, the paper was darn good if I do say so myself. And it was seven pages when it was supposed to be four. whoops.
So yeah, working like crazy on the paper, and then adding in class from 1-8:30 made the day really. really. crappy. I was half asleep all day and doodling was the only thing i could do to pay attention.
In Counseling, its pretty normal for us to do role plays with a partner to practice patient/therapist relationships. Well, today I got to be the patient and Corinne was my therapist. Anyways, I'm sitting there coloring and talking about whatever. So I jsut decided to play up the whole 'oh-i-just-moved-to-a-big-city-where-i-live-alone' thing... so i'm just rambling along as i'm prone to do... and i'm talking about how i'm really close to my family and how my friends are like my family... and how i'm a hugger... and how i haven't had a hug in like three weeks (which, is a lie, because my family came, but. before that it was true). But it ended up sounding really sad and pathetic and I totally didn't even mean for it too. So after class, we were all walking back to the metro(well, i was just walking home) and when it was time for Corrine to branch off she said bye... but then gave me a hug! I mean, she was joking around partly, but it was still nice and touched my heart ... silly, huh?
I walked the last few blocks home alone... BUT. I love walking thanks to my mp3 player. It's like hanging out with friends. I just rock out the whole time i'm walking. And resist very hard the urge to dance. or twirl. ok, sometimes i do twirl, but only when no one is around. I'm totally the people in the commercials whose shadows and reflections are dancing. And I wonder how people would react if i danced and sang along like i want to....
Sometimes, I get inclinations to check my mailbox. Not everyday, just some days I have an urge to check. All this week I felt like I was going to get mail.... sure enough, I checked tonight and found not one, but TWO letters. One was from Libby- who fully appreciates getting mail, especially when you're far away.... and the other from my grandmother Graham... who's letters always end up being really long and encouraging. And a check with $25 makes it even nicer.
I totally started out today in the absolute worst of moods... and in the matter of hour, I'm now just really in a wonderful mood. Totally exhausted. But. Happy. Thanks for the biscuit God, your timing is perfect.
listening currently to the new Thrice CD. They put the entire thing up on myspace for anyone to listen to. I really like it... its way different than everything else they've put out. But, in a completely awesome way. I'd read the lyrics, so I was excited to actually HEAR the album, check out these lyrics:
we're more than carbon and chemicals
free will is ours and we can't let go
we can't allow this, the quiet cull
so we sing out this, our canticle
we are the image of the invisible
we all were lost now we are found
no one can stop us or slow us down
we are all named and we are all known
we know that we'll never walk alone
They're my favorite. and christians. amazing. they make me happy.
check out the new album if you want: http://myspace.com/thrice
But yes. That's your daily update.
At least for Becky, because i don't know who else reads this because no one else leaves comments (hint, hint)
live from our nation's capitol, meredith*
Monday, October 10, 2005
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