Billiards

For the last part of the summer my friend Jen had been bugging me about joining her women's pool team. I wasn't sure if I really wanted to do it. Mostly, I was just unsure of myself, not having played much. Jen assured me though that she would teach me all I needed to know and that I would be a pool shark yet.
So I did the most logical thing and that was to throw caution to the wind and say yes.
We play for the Wooden Nickel, a bar near our apartment. Wednesday was our first league game and we WON! There are six women on each team and they form 3 teams of 2. Each team plays 3 games for a total of 9 games for the whole night. Whichever team wins the most games out of the night, wins the night.
They didn't tell me until we won that last season they only won 2 nights out of the whole season. Hopefully I can whip these girls into shape! Just kidding.
Well that's what I have been up to this week.
Have good weekends.

Happy Birthday Ross!!!!

will someone please kill the cricket!!!

I know the picture is gross, but I think that a little visualization will help my cause a little.

Our boiler room for the building is right across the hallway from our door, which, at any other time would mean nothing.

But...for the last week or so there has been a cricket stuck in this locked boiler room cricketing away almost constantly. I think he knows when we are home and need a little peace a quiet to get work done, and therefore he chirps some more.

Today I wanted to work on a project for one of my classes and didn't want the TV or radio on or anything, but even in the farthest room with the door closed I could still hear the chirping.

The first step was to put a note on the door for whoever has a key to said locked room to please kill the cricket (although the chirping is messing with my sanity, I didn't think the landlord would appreciate a call to kill a cricket).

I then grabbed my computer, and my lawn chair and deposited myself on our front lawn, where yes there is a lot more going on out here, it is far less distracting.

So if you need to find me, this is where I will be until further notice (either the cricket croaks or it snows!)!

retouching

For one of my first photo assignments, we had to scan an old photo into the computer and then use photoshop to make the lighting and certain blemishes or problems with the photo better. The two below are ones that I will be turning in on Monday. I just thought I would share a couple of cute pictures of me when I was younger.

The first picture of each set is the before, and the second set is after.
The differences are not huge, but much better, and there were a lot of things that you can't see with these little pictures.

leaks and holes

After class this morning there was a little surprise...water dripping down the light fixture in our dining room area. We immediately called our realty company and they sent over our fix it man who is a very nice guy, but it takes him a while to do something and it takes him even longer to explain how is going to do that something.
We put a couple of bowls down on the floor with some towels to catch the dripping while we waited for him to come.

If you look closely you can see the water dripping off of the light fixture.

As was explained to us, the first step would be to get a bigger bucket, which he did.
Then he left to get a tarp for the second step.
Then he leaves for a while and comes back with the ladder for step three.

Our stove even got covered.

Still a lot of water coming down.

When I came home from my second class, this is what my ceiling looked like. There were also notes on the wall for us and the plumber, who came by later today and decided that he was going to have to replace the whole pipe after a bigger hole is cut in the ceiling (at 8am tomorrow).
Thankfully he is coming tomorrow, because otherwise it wouldn't get fixed for another 2 weeks. In the mean time we will live with clutter for a while, wait for the ceiling to dry (which is still dripping, and then have to have it patched and painted. Ahhhh.
This is one of the times when I am glad I am a renter, I do not have to pay to get this fixed, or coordinate the plumber and fixing of the ceiling and whatnot.

fall

No, this is not my bicycle, I only wish it was that cool! :) I borrowed the picture from here.

The reason for the picture of the bike is that all summer I have been resisting exercise, mostly because of the sweating...I know I'm weird, but I HATE to sweat. I hate everything about it. Smelling sweaty, feeling sweaty, thinking other people can smell my sweat, etc. Just plain GROSS.

That being said, I believe that fall has officially blown into Marquette. It has been so nice and cool here. Finally I have been having the urge to get out and get moving. A huge feat for me and just in time. There are very few weeks left before Andrea's wedding.

I took a walk after class, biked to my second class, and jason and I biked downtown to the Vierling to celebrate our friend Jen's 26th birthday. It was a great time, we even wrote 2 lined poems that turned out hilarious. Normally, not being an English nerd I loathe doing Englishy things like that, but I played nicely and they turned out great. (yes, I know englishy is not a word!) The best part is that it made the birthday girl happy, and that is all that matters.

For those of you that were wondering, school is going very good, I still feel like it's going slow, but, for the classes I am taking it makes sense. Everything needs to build on each other instead of just getting a bunch of info all at once. I am taking Color Photography, The History of Western Art and Architecture, Physical Structures and Concepts, and Website Design. Finally I am enjoying school.

Here's to fall, cooler breezes, falling leaves, new starts, and mostly NO SWEATING!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!
I LOVE YOU!