It's Official

The fall semester has started. If all goes as planned, this will be the last semester of my undergraduate college career. Yikes. It sounds so final, and too soon. But all things must come to an end at some point. I better make sure to make this last semester a memorable fun one! Because after this year, it down to serious business...or something like that.

Did you know?

So I finally moved into my new apt. and things are pretty decent. Besides the fact that the place smells like paint, the hallway smells like ass crack and armpit and it's smaller than the old apt. things are fine so far. We do live right by the new apartment complex filled with rich kids. They like to stay up late and drink on their balconies while yelling at pedestrians passing by. Not so great when you are trying to sleep at 2am and they are dropping glass bottles from their balconies...damn those rich kids.

In other news, since when did they start putting "Did you know?" factoids on sweet & sour packets? I sorta feel that the two are completely unrelated, but maybe it's not? Are we all getting dumb these days that food companies feel like it is their job to educate the general public? Or is it that we are all so hungry for knowlege that the best way of feeding it to us is literally putting it on our food???

Mousie Mousie

Kat and I finally found a place to live! phew. Well we still need to turn in the lease and our deposit but when that is over it is settled. I already looked at the place and our room looks like a bigger version of a dorm room. My new bedroom will be half the size of the one I have now and I'm just hoping my stuff will fit in there. It's like living in a box, not many windows and stuffy. But it's not all that bad, but then again I did only see the model. Not the actual room I'll be living in. I was telling my mom about the place and expressed concern about how it seemed almost too good to be true. It is cheap and in the campus area and they offer semester leases! Since I have only seen the model I wonder if there will be rats in my room.

My mother's response to this was to tell me about how we have rats in our house now and in the old house we had rats too. Mice maybe, not rats...She then proceeded to tell me about one time my dad set out mouse traps around the house and he caught one but it was still alive and when he went to retrieve it, it got away. But from then on there were no more mice in our house. This is her reasoning why there were no more mice in our house anymore: "You know why there were no more mice in the house???!!! That's because the mouse that got away went to all the other mouses and told them, "DON'T GO IN THAT HOUSE! IT'S DANGEROUS!!!!", yeah that's what the mouse did, it may sound crazy but I believe this! Rats are like humans, they're smart!" haha It's too funny, I couldn't stop laughing on the other line, just the way she said it was classic too! But who knows maybe that's what really happened! :) If you would like to hear a reenactment of it, call me! heehee

Look For Me In The Next Upcoming Comics

Is It Just Me Or Does It Seem Obvious?

I was sitting at the terrace with a friend dipping our feet in the lake when a guy stands next to us and asks, "So, is this a lake or a river?"

Well, if anyone has ever seen Lake Mendota, you can clearly see there is land all around the Lake. But maybe it's not as obvious as I think it is? Is this guy for real? Or is this his idea of a pick up line? ha.

Ok Go- "A Million Ways"

I enjoy this video and I hope you do as well! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkCfh7ayDms&search=Ok%20Go

Nostalgic

Everytime I look back at old baby pictures and then see pictures of me today, I get a weird feeling. It's more of a "WHOA!!! How did I get here?? How did this happen???!! How did this girl (younger) become THIS girl (older)???!!" I feel sorta old and then it makes me wonder what I will look like in the future. I long for the good ol' days sometime and wish for my young innocence back and then I see where I am today and wonder how in the world did I ever get here and have done things I have done. It's a really humbling experience really. I see myself as a child and I can still remember what went through my mind when I was that young and how shy I used to be, I still am but to a lesser degree. When I was little I always dreamed that my adulthood (20's mostly) would be the best years ever. I would be outgoing and happy with life, even though I am not the most outgoing person I know, I believe I've improved a great deal since grade school and I may not be insanely happy now, but I'm content now and hopefull that one day I'll be happy happy happy. Looking back on it, I'm proud that I have done some the things I done and known some of the people I've known.

As the years pass I have really taken great appreciation for my friends. They are really the best people I know and I love them dearly. I often wonder how did I become so lucky to know them and what makes me so special to be in their lives? Do they appreciate me as much as I appreciate them? But I try not to worry about that too much, as long as they talk to me and seem friendly to me, that is enough. I'm lucky in many ways and I'm glad that I am where I am today. Yes, there could be improvement but I am content for now.

Moooooooo

The cow parade has made it to Madison!!! When I first saw these in Chicago I thought they were ugly and stupid but now that they are in here in Madison I think they're neat! It gives people something fun to do while they take walks. People around the city have been taking their turns getting their pictures taken with the cows. One man even asked to have his picture taken with a cow on my camera. heehee There are 101 cows in Madison but not all of them are in the downtown area. These cows will be auctioned off and the money goes to non-profit organizations and charity. More pictures can be found at: www.sarahleemyphotoalbum.com. And more pictures still need to be taken! :)

Haircut

No folks, this is not a wig. I got a haircut! I haven't had my hair this short since grade school!! Craziness! Well some people think I look like an old woman with this haircut...do I really? One friend went as far as saying that I look like his mother and his mom has the same hairstyle! haha

The Return of the Wig Party

So we had another great wig/dress wacky/dress up party! This time it was with different people and since weather outside sucked not as many showed up as wanted but it was still great times at our house. :P Thanks for all that did come though, you made it quite a memorable night!!! haha More pictures at: www.sarahlee.myphotoalbum.com

Lights

Another fun digital collage I made! Yup, that Valerie in the corner! :) She looks like a little caterpillar. cuuute!

Printing Fiasco

I almost had a heart atack on Monday! I had to get a poster I made printed for ePICS expo so we could present to everyone what we did for the semester in the class. I tried to get it printed on a Sunday but the first place I went to told me they stop printing at 4pm, then I went to College Library but they have special "printing people" that come at 4:30pm because the rest of the staff is too idiotic to work the machine. gahh! So I decided they were stupid and left the place thinking that I would skip class the next morning to get the poster printed off at the first place I went to. I knew it was risking it but I figured I'd be one of the first ones there. But to my surprise there were 3 people in front of me that had 5 posters to print before it was my turn. So I got there at 9am and they told me it would probably start printing at noon. I was a nervous wreck during that whole time and couldn't really get anything done. So noon came around and I walked up to the desk to see how the progress was coming and the guy sitting up there was like "oh, it didn't process through can you send it again?" He didn't even tell me!!! If I wouldn't have gone up there my poster would have never gotten printed!!!! argh! So my turn got skipped for another kid's ePICS poster and his file was huge! So the printer was only printing 2 centimeters/5seconds. Well something like that. It was ridiculous! So after his was finished at 3:15pm!!!!! (Note: the expo is in a hour and 15min!!!) It was finally my turn. And just my luck...my poster didn't want to print at all. The printer didn't want to process it. I dunno why and I don't know if it's my file or the printer. But after many different tries and many different computers at 4:30 something finally printed off! Except it was a lot smaller than it was supposed to be I was glad something came out at least to show off my hard work. So I made it late to the expo with the poster in hand my team surprisingly were very grateful to me. I have to say I love my team! :D But worst of all is that I spent all day trying to get that poster printed and at the end of all of this the instructor gets to take it and keep it for himself!!! grrr...

Well at least my experience maybe is better than what I heard from other ePICS groups. Some of them spent 200 some dollars on printing their poster(s). Absolutely ridiculous! Since mine came out smaller than wanted it was only $10!!! haha But only $24 if printed the right size. Large difference in comparison! Phew...now I can take a deep breath and be glad that ePICS is finally over! :)

Chicago Weekend

It's been nice to get away from school for a while but now i have a lot to catch up on! The pictures are now up on my photo site, www.sarahlee.myphotoalbum.com. Please go there to enjoy and reminisce about the good ol' days..

Deep Breaths

Do you ever spot someone you see but you pretend not to see them? It's not even someone you dislike, it maybe someone you like but because it's "too far away" or you're just too plain darn lazy to get up and say "hi" to them you just let them pass by. Or is it perhaps you have nothing to say them? I never know if it's better to go out of my way to say "hi" or to just let it pass by. I think I usually let it pass by...bad of me I think. I find that lately I've been overly insecure of myself. I never want to "bother" anyone, so therefore, when I may see them in the street I sometimes don't say anything to them because I'm afraid they don't want to spend the time to talk to me or they don't want to talk to me. I'm afraid that I'll be "that person" that everyone tries to avoid. "Oh crap! She saw me and now I'll have to make small talk!" Either that or they're just too busy to talk to me and I don't want to waste their time. I know I probably sound crazy and totally insecure...but hey I can't help it. I can't assume that everyone likes me and wants to take the time to make small talk with me...or can I? After all nobdoy doesn't like sara(h) lee! ha.

In other news...I can't wait till the semester is over! I have no motivation this semester whatsoever!!! I dunno exactly what is wrong with me...I think it might be the senioritis kicking in! ack! It sucks. I definitely need a break and someone to kick me in the butt and give me some inspiration. I do have one more semester to go yet... And to top it off, this day isn't starting off so great. Take a deep breath Sarah...

Elevators

It's very funny to me when you get on a elevator with random strangers on it, usually neither of you say anything to each other or look at anything but the floor, wall, or ceiling. It's a short, awkward, polite silence that makes me giggle inside sometimes. teeheehee :)

Oh yes another thing, I LOVE NICE PEOPLE!!!! COOL PEOPLE ROCK!!!!! YAY FOR AWESOME PEOPLE!!!

Reminder to Self...

Mountain Dew gets me drunk...

My Most Memorable Years

So I'm one of the many that are horrible at keeping in touch with their friends. But if someone does try to keep in touch with me I will usually send back a message or a phone call. It's just hard during college when everyone is so busy I don't want to bother anyone and half the time I don't really know if they care about my uncontrollable ramblings. So I'm usually on a don't tell till they ask sort of basis. Don't get me wrong I love and cheerish my friends dearly it's just that we're all so busy that I don't want to impose any one. However, from time to time I do try to send out a quick message to a friend I haven't spoken to in a long time just to check in and see how they're doing. I do have to admit that online networking sites such as facebook.com and myspace.com has actually helped in this area. I have now been able to keep in touch with more friends and family easier than I have before by sending out casual messages back and forth. Not only that, but I have been able to look at their pictures and see what they've been up to, and that's the most fun part. :)

I've had some of the best friends through my elementary-middle school years. I went to a small Catholic school so everyone in the class knew each other all pretty well. In 8th grade we were dubbed "The 12 apostles" to Sr. Lois our religion teacher. A few of us also knew each other since kindergarden. Imagine knowing someone for 9 years and then never talking to them again. It's such a weird/sad thing. I really grew close these people and right when I was really feeling comfortable with everyone we all had to split up and go our seperate ways to high school. I'm not sure what about grade school I liked so much, but perhaps it was the innocence we all shared... There have been many times when I think back about my grade school days and wonder how everyone is doing and I long to see them and talk to them again. Everything I remember of them is when they were 13 or younger. So when and if I ever see these people again that is all I know of them and I expect them to be that same person. But the truth is that they won't be, they'll be different and grown up and even completely unrecognizable in person. I have some fond memories of my childhood and the friends I had back in the day. And if I could have a class reunion with them I would. Screw high school, I'm not attending that one, I did make a few friends in high school but my friends in grade school were the bomb. But then again...maybe I don't want to see these old friends again...maybe it'll ruin my expectations of them?

The craziest thing is when you lose touch with someone that was once close to you and you see a picture of them years later and you can't even recognize them anymore. A few months ago I went back home and met up with some friends and bumped into an old friend of mine back in first grade! We didn't even recognize each other at all. But we had a mutual friend and she was standing there like "You guys know each other, you went school together!" and we both look at each other thinking "what? she's crazy! I don't know her!", but then she said our names "Lindsay, Sarah Lee..." Then we were like "NOOOO WAYY!!!" We were quite shocked but after a while of looking at each other I was able to recognize her with her cute dimples that she still retained. :) It was quite amazing but at the same time it was really sad because even though we now knew each other were we did not talk to each other much that night. It's not like you can pick up where you left off when you were in first grade and be best friends again...things are different, so much has changed! It's so sad, and as much as I feel like I'm still that same girl as I was in first grade, I wouldn't try to be her best friend again because she has probably changed a lot. But really who knows, until you try and talk again? The reason why I bring this is up is because I just found out yesterday that one of my best friends in grade school Amanda Gay, has just passed away on Monday due to a car accident. As I was looking the information of the accident up I saw a high school senior picture of her and she did not look at all like I remembered her. If I passed her on the street I would not have recognized her at all...that's very sad to me. I lost touch with her pretty much after 8th grade but have always thought about her and even when I had dreams of grade school friends she was always in them. I used to go over to her house and get rides from her and her parents to school events, I even got to visit the barn her horse was kept and got to see her ride her horse! She was always a fun loving friend and super goofy and always made the class laugh! She was a great person and will definitely be missed.

Losing Patience

I have now finally come to the point in my life where if I do not feel comfortable with a group of people or person, I make it a point not to go out with them. Why try to force yourself to hang out with them when you have nothing in common? You will just end up with awkward silence and gazing around the room and trying to think of something stupid and mundane to talk about! What's the point of that? I'd rather spend my time with people I know I am comfortable with or by myself where I do not need to feel awkward and wonder why the hell I decided to hang out with these people.

A person may be super nice and cool but for some reason there is a personality clash that stops you and this other person to really connect. I'm not sure how it all works, it's a wonder to me why I don't feel comfortable with a certain person. I may like them a lot and really want to be friends with them but there's just something there that doesn't allow me to be their friend. I become their acquiantance but nothing more. We make small talk but it never goes any further than that. Sometimes I feel like it's probably because I'm in some way intimidated by them and I don't want to look stupid in front of them so I hold myself back from my idiot personality. But sometimes you just don't have ANYTHING in common. It's sooo weird how you can have conversation after conversation with someone and feel completely comfortable with them. But once you sit down and try to hold a conversation with someone else, you got nothing! You can't think of anything to talk about!!!! You sit there staring at the wall and then decide to bring up how nice they're coat is or something lame like that. Then proceed to talk about mundane things that you don't really actually care about, like where they got that coat and how much it costed. After that another awkward silence follows..."now what?" is what you're thinking and wondering when you can go home or hoping for someone to come by to save you from this dreadful conversation.

I probably now sound like a little snob that sits at home and only associates with her clique of friends. I do try to meet new people, but it's not as easy at it sounds. I'm shy, I'm an introvert, a wallflower at parties. I don't talk to people unless they talk to me. My friends think that I'm really good with small talk and can talk to anyone and even fake like i'm interested (I'm not always faking). Even if I don't hang out with someone doesn't mean that I hate them, it's just that I can't be anymore than just an aquiantance with them. So pretty much what I'm trying to say is that I'm sick of being fake and rather just avoid you! haha Well, how about I just save everyone the awkwardness and just go our separate ways? It's really a waste of time. Small talk can only go so far until you run out of dumb things to talk about. I say, if you already know you can't be any more than acquiantances with someone, don't let the small talk go longer than it has to. Go out and meet other people and make small talk and see if it goes further than that, don't waste time on awkward silences.

Booooo!!!

Alas, spring break has come and gone. And I didn't go anywhere exciting or do anything that extrodinary. :( Well...not including the Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee porn and Paris Hilton video I saw...(god, don't ask me why and how it all came about, all I have to say about it is that I had some crazy/nightmares that night!) When I start working and making the bucks I better travel a lot to make up for this! I did go to Chicago for one day and went through the whole Art Institute building. It was great but my feet were aching after going through the whole thing. Then this past weekend my cousin from Chicago and her boyfriend came to visit me in Madison. I'm so glad she came because I've been begging her to come out and visit me at college. Believe it or not, she is 23 and this was the farthest she's been without her parents! :) YAY! Break was relaxing and I didn't do anything productive (I did have work). Today I'm sad that we are back to classes and wished that break lasted longer. ho hum.

The only exciting thing that I did discover over break was that the new iphoto version has a great color filter tool. So I've been taking pictures and digging back to old photos and putting color filters on all of them!!! Sooo much fun, ok I realize I am a dork! I showed this to my roommate and she thought I was a total nerd ( I was called a nerd 2 times this week!). haha And to think that I almost bought a one time use camera at a store that had a one color filter! Screw that when you can do it easily on iphoto digitally. I know you can do this in photoshop too but it's so much easier this way! YAY for color filters! :) So needless to say, this has been keeping me busy the past two nights! I must get an ilife upgrade on my computer somehow!

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