~OhSnapAdorable

So I'm going to Temple U now. It's cool. I get to see a lot of crack heads and hear gun shots in the distance. Also, there's a liquor store that doesn't card.

I'm testing out Anthropology as a major. It's alright. If I decide that it really isn't for me I'm just gonna get a portfolio together and transfer to Tyler, which is Temple's art school. Assuming they let me in. They probably will.

By the way, there's a shitload of art that I need to put up on here. Next time I go home I'll HOPEFULLY get pics taken and put them up here. I need to do some dev art house cleaning too IF YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN. ugh I have a headache.

So back to college and how it's fun. It really isn't that hard to make friends. Most of mine are jewish boys. They are wonderful. They can get me into the Jewish frat when they have parties (which is often.) Normally I would never think of myself as the type to party at a frat, but there's tons of free (or usually free) booze, so there ya go. and there's tons more people to meet there. I just don't go on the dance floor. A lot of humping takes place there. I just hang out by the beer pong table and cheer on my jews (and my handful of non jews.) Holy shit guys some girl wanted to fight me the other day. I probably would have kicked her ass but I was laughing too hard to do so.

Other cool things about college: pot and making out, but not necessarily together. Cigarettes and making out is usually tastier.

Just make sure you're making out with someone that you're actually attracted to. There is someone I need to talk to. Shit

BUT I did make out with a hot 28 year old British guy on my first night here. Best part? He went back to England so I never have to see him and be cripplingly awkward.

Speaking of which, I went to France and England this summer! How rad is that? Way rad. The sites are awesome and the booze is too. European men are kind of jerks, though.

Girls, don't wear shorts in Europe. Wear pants. At the very least, a knee length skirt.

But yeah, that's right, I was in Paris and it fucking rocked. London rocked too. I keep chair farting. Anyway, London and Paris have two totally different yet totally cool vibes. Work it. I mean, who doesn't want to spend the day strolling through Paris and visiting Notre Dame and then go out to the bar and have British men buy you drinks because you're a fucking retarded and moderately attractive American girl? I know I do! And I'm really not being sarcastic. I love the bar scene. Fuck you, America.

Jesus I'm stream of conscious tonight.

Another way cool town in France? Albi. Def check it out. I left my heart in Albi

Fuck you I don't have anything else to write. Besides I have actual work to do.

Tomorrow? Lotsa boozing.

Good night.

<3 Reen

OH! PS. This summer pretty much right before college I drove SEVEN FUCKING HOURS to Pittsburgh to visit Sarah Huth (Sarah Granger Snape, anyone) who I met when we were twelve through Harry Fucking Potter role playing. This was the first time we ever actually met in person and it was soooo much fun. Man do I love that girl. theslytherindorms may break up, but we always have each other. Best part? We saw Harry and the Potters, who were awesome as usual.

Okay, bye for reals now.

<3 Reen

I definitely haven't updated anything here in forever. I've got a lot of art that's not on the computer, but I don't really have any access to a scanner. I think I'm maturing in my art work a lot; at least that's what my teacher says.

I've also decided that I'm not going to pursue art as a career, even though I could probably enjoy a fair amount of success in it. I just don't think I have the drive to do it every day for the rest of my life, you know? I realized this during my junior year when we were working on our two-point perspective drawings, where I would just sit and stare at my illustration board and play with my kneaded eraser almost the entire class period. When I go to college next year I'll major in Anthropology with a concentration in archaeology. I won't take any classes in art, just to make SURE that I don't want to do it anymore; if I find myself missing it a lot, then I'll consider transferring.

Other than all that, my high school art class is going fairly well. I'm learning a lot about what I can do well, and what I need to improve on. Currently we're doing our self portrait units, with one portrait that has to be as realistic as possible, and another that that we can do pretty much any odd way we want, each in whatever media we want as long as we can handle it. Our class is also entering the homeroom pumpkin decorating contest, with a Batman and Joker theme. It's pretty fucking sweet. Me and my friend Tom stayed after school for three and a half hours on Thursday finishing sculpting the Joker's face out of model magic. The other homerooms shall be thrashed.

I really miss everyone from The Slytherin Dorms, you know?* I wish I'd saved all of my old threads and gotten everyone's devart IDs. If any of you read this, drop a comment here or use any of the other means of getting in contact with me:

AIM: OhSnapAdorable
Email: packingbroomstick@gmail.com
Myspace: [link]

Send me a note if you want my facebook; I'll decide if I trust you enough to give it to you, haha.

So yeah, that's pretty much all I've wanted to say. Hopefully I'll get some more art up here soonish. Happy Halloween!

<3 Reen

*I recently figured out why I say "you know?" so much. Apparently it's because I grew up around Philadelphia. Go figure!

Alright, so... my boss wants me to paint a mural on the wall in the guard lounge where I work. Mostly I think this is just another excuse for her to spend more taxpayer's money. So I stupid agreed to do this, even though I don't really paint, and even though my boss knows NOTHING about painting murals. She wants me to paint in house paint, and to have all the guards participate and make it a paint-by-numbers sort of thing, and when I told my art teacher that she wanted to do it that way, he laughed in his cynical, disheartening sort of way and said, "Good luck!"

Mostly I'm posting this to ask you guys if you have any ideas for what the design can look like. My boss wants it to say either "MWR" or "All Hands Pool" on it in the center, and have it have any of these themes:
1. Pool (duh)
2. Lifeguarding
3. Beach
4. The Navy
5. Uhh...water in general?

Mostly the thing that I'm worried about it making a good composition so that it's pleasing to the eye. What I'm thinking about doing is finding famous painting that centers around water, and base the design off of that and make it all...lifeguardy.

So, yeah...any ideas you guys will have would be great. Thanks!

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Warped Tour yesterday was awesome. I got to meet Mae and Paramore, and got to see Boys Night Out (THERE'S A GIRL IN THAT BAND! I NEVER KNEW!) among other things. Had my first time in a real pit, didn't get a chance to crowd surf like I wanted, though, but it was still a lot of fun. My armani frames got scratched because of someone falling on my face, which was awesome. I danced around work all day today.

Things in general are going all right. I sort of miss Joseph, but it's not like that would've gone anywhere anyway. I'd like to have a boyfriend this school year, so we'll see what happens there.

Feeling fine,
Reen

Today, I got a love note and saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was excellent. Mr. Summer Fling visited me at work two days in a row. Of course, that resulted in the guards using the megaphone to yell stuff at me, but it's cool.

Going to get Harry Potter tonight.

I've been really happy and obliging lately. On Tuesday, I was happy enough to lay in bed at night and wonder if what had happened a few hours earlier had been real or if I'd been dreaming.