I'm retiring this xanga. so now i have a new one:
www.xanga.com/catchtower

easy to remember yes? see you there.
(resubscribing takes forever...)

ciao

It is only late at night when I'm not really tired but still thinking deeper than I usually do during the day that I realize the wisdom and discipline of my dad's words. One summer, I was working at a booth at the Taste of Chicago and I hated it; the heat, the smell, the sweat, the standing, the obnoxious customers... everything. I wanted to quit the first week I was there.

Unfortunately my dad didn't let me. He said if I quit then I'm not learning, I would only be walking away from my problems. But learn what exactly? He said to learn about myself. If I can point out what I did not like about working there then I can use it to better myself. If I hated the management, I would learn how not to run things.

Mostly I think he didn't want me to quit on my experience. I have to know "hardship" in order to appreciate life. Quitting is a temptation, merely an escape from the tangible reality.

So I won't quit this semester. There's something I have to do because God put me in the place to do it. I knew I wanted to completely take myself out ever since I stepped in. I'm still reluctant but I'll see it through for the rest of this semester...

gosh i hate drawing. stupid graphite pencil... i like charcoal though... but i hate drawing.

Currently Reading Son of a Witch : A Novel By Gregory Maguire see related

off to school i go. boo :( arriving about an hour before my first class... what a way to start my 2nd semester. but here's my winter break in a short list (because i have a HORRIBLE memory):

• starting break a week early
• my first stronghold experience
• dirty bingo and the wal-mart truck
• sledding at gompers park
• monopoly (i still feel like playing even though i suck)
• super scrabble (what a gigando board)
• megs and i partnering for kent haha
• my Christmas day with Bo
• A certain Tyrus Yamagiwa
• an epiphany
• LOTS of online shopping...
• the bet with Kai and I vs. Tyrus and Derrick

.... ok i suck at this. i can't remember anymore. someone else can try.

the weather has been fall weather lately. i love it. Kai doesn't. i hope it stays this way.

(Son of a Witch is a great sequel to Wicked, perhaps even better. nice play on phrasing...)

mmm fondue is very yummy. but i smell like fondue oil now. booty.

hostel had a good story i must say. but i was a little queasy after the movie. it wasn't scary (well, the parts i kept my eyes open to watch), just extremely gross with one too many naked girls. jay hernandez' character escapes. now you know the movie. and i didn't even spoil it for you who's reading this; the last person standing is always the escaper. lucky him.

i wore a track jacket today with... argyle! ::gasp:: i'm not one to like wearing that kind of pattern but i got it as a gift and it fitted, i like the colors, and my obnoxiously long hair blocks the minimal strip of argyle print anyways. so there.

i need a new camera that won't take 50 years to turn on and has the same quality as my olympus. oh i wish... i think i'll start taking pictures with my olympus again. and if i weren't dangling on a string above being broke i would use my manual pentax film camera. photography is so expensive. how typical of art.

btw, does anyone have canson marker paper that they don't want anymore? how about some chalk pastels? any art supplies at all? art is stinkin expensive.