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Name: Christine!
Birthday: 12/28/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: sleeping. choxie (chocolate with moxy, apparently). coffee. spicy foods. indie films, indie music. dancey music. dancing. architecture. the fine art of cooking. also, the fine art of shopping. knitting. amusing friends inadvertently through my stupidity. books, fiction (with a weak spot for British Lit) and nonfiction (with an inclination towards biographies and anything Christianity or Asian related). SNL (Mr. Pibb + Red Vines= Crazy Delicious!) Grey's Anatomy. Project Runway. learning and learning. being Asian. following God.
Expertise: general ditziness
Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
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AIM:  Crickymarie
Member Since:
4/1/2002
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| This is dedicated to my friend Christy, who is bored with my last entry!
Well, what can I say? I'm finally going to architecture school at OSU. It was kinda weird adjusting to moving. As a kid, I moved every 2-4 years, but after age 13, I stayed in Dayton. So I was out of practice. I was homesick during the 2 weeks before school started when I first moved to Columbus (I had to come to school early for a workshop in the architecture program). I went home every weekend for about a month.
However, after I forced myself to stay in Columbus during the week and weekends, I slowly got used to it. It helps a lot that I have two really awesome roommates. My roommate Ruth is my best friend from high school, and we'd always wanted to live together (she went to OSU for her undergrad as well as for grad now) but obviously, with me going to Wright State for undergrad, that didn't work out. Living with her has been a blast though- it's good to have the emotional support of Ruth- we pretty much laugh the whole time we're around each other. My roommate Cheryl, who met Ruth in their department (Food Science) is also really nice. And since both these girls are Food Science majors, I basically always have food because they love to cook. And I get invited to the Food Science department's tailgate parties, which has awesome party food.
Speaking of tailgating, I sadly did not buy tickets for this season. Funny thing- I've lived in Ohio a long time, but have never been in Columbus during a home game. The first time for me was the OSU-Northwestern game, and it was shocking. It was like the whole city of Columbus was going to war- all I saw was a see of scarlet and gray. Kinda scary for me, not even a casual football fan.
Um, and so, I am also embarrassed to admit I never thought that the Buckeye leaf resembled a marijuana leaf. A new friend of mine, who is from Minnesota, was telling me that she and her husband thought, after seeing the Buckeye leaf everywhere, that they were moving to "Weedtown, USA." Then Ruth told me that it was an old joke- boy, I feel silly.
The architecture program itself has been a big adjustment. It's a very theoretical program, and yet I enjoy it. I had an engineering prof try to convince me not to go, but I had a feeling I'd be fine. I was never all about engineering anyways, so it wasn't going to kill me to not have a more technical/engineering-based architecture program. I'm loving my studio (design) class and my history of architecture classes. Building construction is boring, but necessary. I got waived out of a Structures class (which basically covers the crap I studied for the past 4 years) so I'm taking a Computer Graphics course. The class is ok- I'm used to learning programs because of my old job- but there's a certain way of speaking and presenting ideas in a poster that I am still trying to master at this school. There's a way of doing things in the program that I'm still learning about, but I'm sure I'll acclimate.
I recently found out I can take a trip to Europe through my program, with many expenses being paid for by my scholarship. Pretty sweet deal- I think this year they're heading to Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Germany. I can't wait to do the class, because I plan on hopping a train from Munich to England to see my friend Jill afterwards! Woot woot!
The people in my program are pretty cool. There are two guys who kinda suck, but the majority of the people are fun. There are only 4 girls (including me) and 9 guys; we have a small class this year. But I think we're becoming a tight group. Since I worked with mostly guys at my old job, I'm used to working with mostly guys in my classes now. I've found people who like Project Runway and Top Chef so that's always a plus. I recently found out a girl in my class has cable and enjoys both shows, so she said I can come to her place when season 4 of Project Runway starts up. Oh, and I've found TONS of people who like What Not to Wear, so life is pretty sweet.
I've been church-surfing to find a church to go to. It feels like I'm dating churches- "Um, sorry, I just got out of a long term relationship and now I'm just looking to have some fun." Or, my friend Annie had a great line- "Thanks for the one-morning stand." Most churches I've been to have had their positive points. I know I need to pray for God to lead me to a good church and for the discernment to realize which churches are good.
I'm writing in xanga because it's the first week night I've had the free time to sit at my computer and actually blog.
Last week was hellish:
Monday- History paper due
Tuesday- Construction drawing due
Wednesday- History midterm
Thursday- Work on Computer Graphics poster/Build a model for studio/Draw studio project drawings
Friday- Present projects
*And, I pulled all nighters Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday night.
Well, as a writer, I wished this blog post was a bit more upbeat and concise. But that's it for now. I will bring fun pictures in the next entry. My bedroom! My work space at school! My super cool architecture school building! The horseshoe stadium! My sad studio projects! My packed-to-the-gills refrigerator! Oh, can't you just smell the excitement?! I can!
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| I thought some of my friends would find this amusing, but I must admit, I am finally...
feeling...
BORED!
A lot of my friends, plus some coworkers, were making fun of me way back in June, when I stopped working. Everyone knows I'm a workaholic, so teasing mostly consisted of, "You are going to be so bored without any work to do!"
Au contraire, amigos! In July, I went to New York City and visited my friend Christy. In August, I went to Hershey, Pennsylvania, and visited my friend Elizabeth. (Hmm, I probably should have blogged about these trips, but I have been too lazy...a picture post will come at some point!)
When my trips by air and road were done, I set about cleaning my room and sifting through years of crap to either throw away or give away. I got furniture for my new apartment. I sent old friends stuff I had meant to send them ages ago. I basically did a lot of things I never got around to during my undergrad years.
Then, today, I realized I've run out of things to do. Well, things that were pressing matters. So it's a good thing I'm moving this week! I'm a little wary just because I haven't been faced with a "new school, new people, new town" feeling in a long time. When I was little and moved every few years because of my dad's job, I hated the first day of a new school, but it happened so often, at least I was used to it. I have to admit, I'm not really too excited or too scared. I don't know what to expect, aside from lots of school work. I usually make friends pretty easily, but even with that in mind, I don't know what to expect from the people in my program. So, I'll make like the Bravo channel's motto, and "Watch what happens!" (Yeah, another thing, I have been watching too much tv)
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| So, I just tried to sell my clothes to one of those places where, if they take your stuff, you get cash. Guess what?
They didn't take my stuff! They didn't even want a purse. Instead, I get a girl, in a monotone voice, tell me, "We are looking for long tanks, long tees, hoodies, jeans, hoodies, hoodies, hoodies....blah blah blah." Um, okay, so you want hoodies, I take it? What really got on my nerves was that all these chicks running the store were certainly not dressed the way I would want to dress! Man, tough sell! I am embarrassed that I actually got offended, but I guess I'm going to try Ebay. I mean, they didn't want a Kate Spade purse?! What's wrong with these chicks!?!
Then I gave the rest of my stuff to Goodwill. No, not the stuff rejected by the store-that-shall-not-be-named, but just random stuff and really really old clothes leftover from my teens/childhood. Funnily enough, the staff taking donations were dressed a heckuvalot better than the people I just ranted about. And I am biased b/c they took my stuff.
On a whole 'nuther subject, So You Think You Can Dance: Season 3, was a bit of a downer for me b/c I think I liked Season 2 better. And my favorite dancer, Pasha, didn't make it to the finale  ! Oh well, they made him dance a lot in the finale. He's my favorite b/c he likes to dork around with computers  !
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