new york
That was easily one of the top 3 best three trips I’ve ever taken. It was crazy how much stuff we did in such a short amount of time..I got to see a lot of Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and even a little bit of Harlem. I had some great company and very generous hosts everywhere we stayed. I only spent about $30 on food for the entire five days, but I had some of the greatest food I think I’ve eaten in my life.
The major highlights of the trip included Times Square, Chinatown, and the St. Marks street area. I also got to watch Annuals the first night we got there, and they were unbelievably good. They seemed to improve a lot since the last time I’ve seen them, and that’s saying something because they were awesome the first time. We went to the Museum of Natural History and some cool art galleries. I bought some interesting souvenirs for Chae at that point in the trip. I haven’t tried them yet, but I think I’m about to. Wish me luck..
We also hung out a bit in Central Park. That thing is enormous. I would estimate we saw about 1/16th of it, but the bit we did see was really nice even if it did smell immensly of horse s**t.
It was at this point in the trip I remembered my mom wanted to have a lot of pictures taken with me in them. I felt weird about asking Eric to take pictures of me, so the first few looked a lot like this:
After a few of those, I decided to start taking them a little differently.
Halloween was pretty crazy there too. That last picture of me is from that night. Apparently somebody gave me a bloody apron to wear as a costume. We went to a bar and had a few drinks, and I spent most of my time after that walking around the streets talking to everyone I saw in my Murray voice.
And here’s Trent.
And that pretty much concludes the trip I think. I would really like to go back sometime soon.
-colin
7th batch
Hey gang,
Things are going pretty ok for me lately. I just sold a lot of my music equipment and bought this. It is pretty awesome. I’m going to New York with Eric over the Halloween weekend and I’m very excited about it. I’m halfway through the Harry Potter series and it’s really good so far.
My nephew fractured his knee at his birthday party and I just watched “Where the Wild Things Are” and I didn’t like it at all. Those are the only two bad things that have happened in a while.
Here are some more things I made
Until next time…
6th batch
Here are my five “for the week.” We really haven’t been doing it weekly anymore, which is fine with me. It gives me a little more time to work on them.
Oh, and the dates on the pictures have nothing to do with the pictures themselves. I just randomly picked them.
And here’s the current sticker on my car. For those of you who don’t know, it’s totally customizable.
Here are some things that have been going on recently..
I give my first interview tomorrow in front of class. I’m a little nervous.
I pulled a piece of wisdom tooth out of my gums yesterday, so I went to the dentist today and he filled the hole with awful tasting gauze soaked in some kind of medicine. It has to stay in there for a week. It keeps releasing really bad tasting medicine into my mouth.
Eric is moving out sometime soon. We’re either going to have to find another new roommate, or just abandon ship. But I’m sure it’ll all work out somehow.
I was walking around campus the other day and there was something really irritating my eyeball. I went into the bookstore to buy a brownie and the cashier goes “Here’s some free gum, and a free sample of eyedrops.” Weird, right?
Just finished Ender’s Game for the second time. I’m about to start reading the Harry Potter series.
mm..I think that’s it for now.
-colin
pulling teeth
I had my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday. It was pretty nuts, because I was informed in my checkup that I would be put to sleep during the procedure because the bottom two teeth that hadn’t crowned would have to be surgically removed. When I got to the office, I found that the surgeon that was going to operate on me was out of the country and I’d be having a stand in. I was told this by a woman that would be assisting in my surgery. This woman was arguing pretty hard with another lady that worked there, so when she was bringing me to the operating room she was all pissed off. I just kept trying to make jokes with her to lighten the mood, but she wasn’t having it.
So I’m sitting in the chair, nervous as crap, and the surgeon comes in. He gives me some pain killer and starts explaining stuff to me, although at that point I couldn’t really talk or understand what was going on. I was conscious though. They started removing them and I kept looking around at them as if to say “HOLY CRAP I’M STILL AWAKE” (since I couldn’t talk). I remember flinching in pain, making weird noises, swallowing blood, and hearing my teeth cracking. It all seems like a bad dream now though..I don’t really remember the feeling of pain, just flinching because of it, if that makes any sense.
A really unfortunate (and I guess rare since they didn’t mention it; I had to look it up) after effect of getting your wisdom teeth removed is chronic hiccups. I am extremely tired because I’m on some hardcore pain medications, but I can’t go to sleep because the hiccups won’t let me. I’m pretty sure this is one of the annoying experiences I’ve ever had in my life.
I’m really really looking forward to full recovery
-colin
week 4
Just got back from watching Inglourious Basterds. It was really really good, I highly recommend it.
Here are this weeks projects. The colors got all jacked up in some of them, but I just decided to leave them as-is.
School is going really well so far. Much better than I expected, though I do have to give speeches a lot now. I think I’m getting more comfortable with it finally. I walked into my interviewing class today not sure of what was going on because I missed last Friday. I asked a girl next to me and she said we had to give speeches about ourselves today. “OH SHIII…”. So I got up when it was my turn and free-styled and it turned out ok. I even made fun of myself for being nervous, but my teacher said I did really well.
In my advertising class we get to take a 3 day trip to St. Louis. I’m really excited about it.
Wisdom teeth are coming out on Sept. 10th. I’m so nervous I could crap all over myself.
-colin
a day late
Here are mine for the past week. I had a lot going on so I had to throw some of them together…I just really didn’t want to be murdered. These were all pictures taken with my crappy cell phone and I added text, for better or for worse.
-colin
week 2
I moved from footwear to asset protection this past week at work, and so far it rules. I pretty much just stand there and draw and talk to people. And I get to leave way earlier than everyone else. Yesterday I caught someone trying to steal shoes and I stopped him. He was trying to walk out with a box that I had noticed he hadn’t come in with, so I asked to see his receipt. He started shaking and said it was in his car. So I asked him what register he went to and he couldn’t say, so he just said “F**k it” and threw the shoes down. When I opened the box there was blood on the shoes because he cut his hand while trying to get the sensor tag off, so then I lol’d. My friend Matt bought the bloody shoes for 75% off.
Flight of the Conchords season 2 came out on dvd bluray hi-def high definition DVD disc recently and I’ve been watching it like crazy. It’s funnier than I remember it being when I watched it as it was coming out.
Here’s a list of albums I’ve been listening to lately if you want to check them out. (Thanks to Korey and Justin and Brian Warren for showing me some of this)
Modest Mouse – The moon and Antarctica
Hot Chip – The warning
Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell
Two Gallants – self-titled
Rocky Votolato – Makers
Lukestar – Lake Toba
The Henry Clay People – For cheap or for free
Phoenix – United
Girl Talk – Feed the animals
Ratatat – LP3
Also, just finished this weeks’ projects, which as you can see are animal themed. I’m really having a good time doing all this.
-colin
five times a week
Justin had a good idea. We’re having an artistic “competition” where we make at least 5 artistic/creative things a week. If we fail to meet the quota, we get murdered by the other. I like the motivation because I’m not really taking anymore art or design courses but I want to keep making things.
This week I found the pictures on some random image boards, manipulated them a bit and put text on them. Except for the one that doesn’t have text of course.
I’m excited to see what’s going to come out of this competition in the upcoming weeks. Also, check out Justin’s journal. I’m sure he’ll be putting his stuff up soon.
-spuds m.
3rd planet
Almost done with my summer I session. It’s been a pretty busy month for me, so I’ll be glad when it’s over. Then I’ll start summer II immediately after. Then the fall session immediately after that. Then then a winter mini session, followed by the spring session. Pretty much, I’ll be going to school without a break until I’m 24 years old. I think it’ll be worth it when I’m finally done with it though.
I made a few trips to Austin recently. Some trips were more successful than others, but I had a good time on both of them. Some highlights include kayaking in the most adventurous way possible, eating some really good food, watching Drag Me To Hell (which was hilarious), and being totally frightened when I accidentally put my face really close to a homeless guy’s face.
And when we were driving home one night we saw some bats. Well, like a ton of bats really.
That was pretty cool.
But this was cooler…
It also featured a red sparkly paint job and more epic artwork on the back.
And here’s a really poor quality cellphone video of my nephew, Ethan. He rules.
-colin
