cfc

University of Michigan School of Art & Design
I'm just sitting here, and I noticed I have a patch of dry skin, I hate dry skin
I love Dove lotion with cucumber and something else...the green one

it's just another manic monday

not really, but its a good title. It's actualaly quite a nice day, very relaxed which is exactly what I needed after a hectic week and weekend, a nice relaxed monday. Wood was much much better today, im making a spoon, a cool spoon. Then lunch and lecture and break for work which was just like perfect and easy. and then lecture and discussion.
all i will say is this:
stereotype:
A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
One that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

Then I had a breakfast buffet for dinner which was absolutely delicious and now im just sitting here enjoying not having to do anything! yay!!!
I <3 peach

weekend

so i havent had the chance to write for the past couple of days, but i didnt forget about it, so here is my weekend:
Friday I went to a retreat with campus crusades and it was really really fun. I got to bond with some great girls and it was something that I definitely really needed. Sometimes I find myself doing way too much and not taking enough time for myself and it was just nice to be able to have fun and fill myself with a postive spiritual mind. Saturday was all about my job, the entire day! It was fun though, it is a really comfortable atmosphere and everyone is really nice. It was exhausting though, some parts of the photo shoot were really intense and almost made me cry because I suddenly felt what this girl must have gone through and it is a scary situation. Today was just a lazy day, I saw my parents and slept and nothing much
That's it!

my song

TODAY, TODAY
SUCH A LONG DAY! (ur suppose to sing it)
thats it...
It was a productive day, apart form the 4 and a half hours of sleep that I got, I feel quite peachy and I got a bunch of stuff done and I got flowers...randomly...that were admired by everybody in the front office.
i love lillies, they are so pretty and yellow (mine are)
YAY FOR THE WEEKEND AND A LITTLE WEEKEND GO AWAY AND NO MORE HARD INTESIVE LABOR, ONLY FUN STUFF FROM NOW ON.
thats it...

past eleven pm

I strongly dislike having to listen to stupid conversations
Being extremely smart gets in the way
Whatever happened to knowing how to enjoy quietness...(I think thats a word)
I do enjoy headphones and music

hmm???

Why must we live in a world of lies? and why cant we respect the people who open our eyes to see the lies? It isn't a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of not wanting to be blind.
To a lighter note, my boyfriend serenated me today! I write about him a lot but I just really love him, he plays guitar (not to brag but amazingly well) so he played a couple songs for me and it made my day! made me feel very special
p.s. I really wanted to write this yesterday because yesterday was an awesome day (until about 8 at night) I really felt like driving, you know those days that are just like...I want to drive, it was one of those days.

:)

I wanna love you and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night:
We'll be together with a roof right over our heads;
We'll share the shelter of my single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! - for jah provide the bread.
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I’m feelin’?
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I’m feelin’?
I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now!
I got to know - got to know - got to know now!
bob marley and the wailers

its ummm...

I kind of don't have a title and I thought I did and it starte with It's and that's all I remember so to make this writing process faster I just went on with the entry.
ok, as I promised yes I now have a job! This is my first offical job ever and I'm actually getting paid (I taught flamenco for a couple of weeks this past summer but I refused to get paid because it was more a favor than anything but don't do it! always take the money!) anyway it is a very awesome job, I am working with an awesome professor (I know you're reading this!) and she has hired me to model for one of her projects, She is making a book about the women in Juarez Mexico who have been raped and murdered and their families are left with no consolations because sadly it is a problem that no one talks about, that has been mysteriously going on for a really long time and that the government and police refuse to fix. Back to the project, she is makinig a book about one of these girls and she makes dolls and to the dolls she puts the faces of different people and I am one of the characters. I must admit that I have this insecurity with having my picture taken because I NEVER like my pictures because I have this theory that if you want to get your picture taken you have to know how to have it taken meaning...you have to know how to smile and look interesting and I don't think I can do that very well, but today went good and she was really really nice and got me very excited about working with her and I feel like I might get quite attached to this project and maybe slowly I will rid myself of this insecurity if she keeps telling me that pictures look good. So that was the highlight of my day not to mention that after reading more than 100 pages this past weekend I think I can now read faster...if only I could write now ahhhh
Im feeling good because I managed to survive the weekend and all the work that I had to do and what not and I'm just really hoping that I can go back to doing nothing for a day or two.
I am very thankful for all that I have though, looking back and reflecting upon it all, I wouldn't give it up but instead keep pushing to be better and gain experience in life because after all that is why it was given to me. I feel like everything comes to me for a reason and it makes me very happy to know that God in his own magical and mysterious way is still looking out for me so no matter how hard or frustrating it gets I am always 100% sure that I can get through it.
p.s. long entries make me happy ;)

oh no! i skipped a day!!!

I can't believe it! I forgot to write on my blog yesterday!!!! how could I!!!
I'm really hoping that this entry along with every other entry makes up for thaT
I will tell you about yesterday because it was a day full of everything, I woke up really early because I decided it would be good to work on my wood piece since I'm so freaking slow at carving, little did I know that three hours later all the muscles in my body would be aching, I would be sweating and I would have dug a chisel into my hand...twice, the good thing though is that we get band-aids in our tool kits! cheap ones, but they work! Anyway...i used a drill! I really think that if anything I am over coming my fear of power tools. So after that I had my discussion class to which i barely made it because I was so exhausted I seriously felt like I had just ran a 50 mile marathon (I've never done that but I'm assuming it felt like I felt yesterday). Nothing much happened there, theeeen...I went back to my lovely room and showered and got ready like every friday for tea time! This is at the Martha Cook house and it is so much fun and u can only come if you are with a Martha Cook girl so if you want to come, be nice to me! It was black and white tea so I dressed in black and white and all and had a really fun time and then I just worked insanely on my CFC project because I have sooo much freaking work to do it is overwhelming, its like never ending, one thing after the other and I feel like I can't stop, like I'm just always doing something here or there, it is really getting to me, so I did that and of course I missed dinner sooooo (here comes the good part) my lovely boyfriend who is in school in central new york (Geneseo), called a pizza place here and ordered dinner for me and it was delivered and paid for and it was soooooo sweet and sooo nice and he is absolutley the best boyfriend ever! It was such good pizza I ate almost the whole thing! it made me very very very happy.
Also! I have a job now, yay! I'll talk more about that later one
I must go back to my never ending pile of work baaahhh

Whaaa'!?

I have another blog, I call it the other, I have grown to love this one, but now I have another one. I will try not to replace but learn to love both, if you go to my website (you have to figure out the url on your own) you can link to the other from there...i Like Thursdays!!! they symbolize happiness for me!
I also like digital, its a fun fun class
I have a lot of work to do for today but I'm just gonna take it easy, I feel good I may even stay up later than 12.30 tonite and not mind...
I have a CFC group critique which to me is absolutely incredibly ridiculous because I don't understand why I need to have input on someone else's work if its their idea and their own creativity coming to life or vise versa. It kind of makes all the projects pointless because they are no longer unique or belong to one person alone, they now belong to a whole class so...why don't we just all work together on one project and make our lives easier????
After that I go to lectures series (nap time) but perhaps it will be interesting this time and then I dunno
p.s. this is really really important and I mainly say it to convince myself of it, Do Not Do Unto Others what You Dont Want Done Unto YOU!

I must confess...

I have an addiction! I am addicted to coke...as in coca-cola, I love it and can't get enough of it! I absolutely love the tingling in the throat when you swallow...ohhh its awesome!
ok to more serious stuff, today started off as a really frustrating day because wood was just not fun, it was hard, it was like too much at once and I felt no good at it, and it was one of those moments when the only thing going through my head was "What in the world am I doing here???" I just kept telling myself, you've never done this before, you are not expected to be amazing at it, just do it, but I still feel ahhh about it, and! I have a blister from one of the tools from carving my abstract piece of wood, art, whatever.
It got better though, I enjoy wed. because I have two lectures and all I have to do is listen and its just fun and theeeeen!
first of all I now have a mailbox in the A&D building (yay!!) and in it was a letter saying that I made the dean's list (yay again!!!)
It just made me feel so happy and like the work that Im doing is worth while and it was very reassuring, I have tons of work to do but it doesn't matter because I want to work hard again and I know I can, so yay!!
I must go because my boyfriend just fell asleep...
later!

8.30 am with no sleep is the worst

I HATE EARLY MORNINGS WITH NO SLEEP THE NIGHT BEFORE!!!!! I MIGHT CRY!
so last night I attempted to go to sleep a thousand times and nothing worked until about the time I had to get up, which really frustrates me because I cannot function with no sleep!!!!
Ok... I feel better now, I'm liking digital class. I feel like I know what I'm doing and its the best! :)
umm...I don't think I'm prepared for CFC so I really hope I'm not suppose to have material today because I'm definetly not ready to work or anything
I feel sick... the works of early mornings with no sleep :(

Update on the driving

So...stick shift driving...yeah... not bad at all except for some odd reason my arms and my legs are really sore! hmmm...quite the workout i might say. It is fun to do and to my surprise it only took a couple of hours of frustration, near tears, yelling a little and having the car stop- before I was on the road and shifting like its no biggy. I will admit that...practice makes perfect [almost perfect ;)] It's an awesome car though, just imagine a white sport liberty...that's it!
Oh how i wish weekends were always looong weekends! I would even promise to be productive during them, I just want to be able to sleep past 7.30 am!
One more thing...my boyfriend is coming to visit in less than a month! yay for the best boyfriend ever!
Also- I have to start thinking of a design for a website and I have this website that I really like because its simple but good and I really really hope that I can do something like it because that would get me more excited than scared about doing this.
ok! now u can stop reading
later

Rainy days

I usually find that rainy days get me down but for some reason today was a great day. I had a class at noon and I enjoyed walking out with my umbrella over to the Frieze building and having my GSI say, "I'll let you out early because it's raining" HAHa!
not only that, it was a very winding down day and relaxing with not much to do except let the day pass. I went to the movies with my sister and a friend, and tomorrow I get to go home and learn to drive a manual Liberty, Exciting!!!! I will right to let you all know how that went... Usually fridays the 13th are bad luck and I feared that it wouldn't be a good day, but it really was, I enjoy taking pleasure in simple easy going days with no worries.
One more thing, I'm reading a book about the senses for my CFC class and I am reading the section about touch. The two things I found the most interesting was a part about how babies develop much better through being touched and it was a very sweet part, made me want to hold a baby. The other part was about a kiss and how a kiss can explore deep emotions and it made me miss my boyfriend's kisses.
Ok, that's it for now, it feels like a good weekend is ahead.

Where is the cake???

chips and dip

This is a very serious blog, it is really kind of upsetting and nervewrecking to think about this, in fact I cant bare thinking about it. The thing is my mom went to whole foods and she very sweetly bought me a slice of lemon cake and brought it over aaaand...i left it in my sisters room with her roommate and her boyfriend which means that....THE LEMON CAKE HAS BEEN EATEN!!! :´(
im sure it was a delicious slice of lemon cake

pictures pictures pictures

So I've come to the realization that I really miss my family back home (Mexico) I spent the last 40 min. or so looking at my families christmas and new year's pictures back in Mexico and talking to my cousing and aunt about it (this all online) and it made me miss them bunches and made me wish that my parents and me hadn't let almost 2 years go by without going back to visit. I also miss my parents though, I miss being home and being pampered and spoiled, I think it is what makes college hard missing people or a place you know you can't really go back to in a heart beat but instead you must concentrate on the memories and wishes of going back. I thought this picture would be well suited for this entry :)

THe WeEKenD

SOooo, digital class I think is going to be really hard especially because I have never done anything like it and I'm feeling kind of lost in all the homework!! AHHH!!!!
The weekend was ok, I got to sleep a lot, and I think the highlight of it was when i got to go to Coney Island and eat Chicken lemon rice soup which was awesome! I might have to go back often because it is really good soup:)
I feel like I have a lot to do next week, I hope I can take it all and make it through 4 long days of classes.
ciao, ciao

first blog ever!

this is my first blog ever!
it is my first day back at school after winter break. class starts at 8.30 am which means i have to get up at 7.15 in order to get ready, have breakfast and catch a bus on time to get to class since i live on central campus. Besides the getting up early its really not bad, i kind of enjoy being back in ann, arbor. Im thinking it will be a good semester. Digital class seems fun, I feel like I have a lot to learn but im not going to worry about that, I'll just have fun with it.
If u dont have a mac computer this probably doesnt mean much to you but in digital class we got to play with widgets and i now have the moon phases, an awesome lava lamp that is yellow and red and is really fun to watch, and snapple facts! quite amusing (i love dib)
Emm...thats it for now!