Today was... A little frustrating. I couldn't get myself out of bed in time to go to Guiry's and make it to the bus on time, and was an hour late to class. It probably also didn't help that I stopped by Vic's on the way to the bus stop, but I wouldve been to class like... 45 minutes late instead of an hour. Whatever. When I got to Denver is when frustrating thing #1 happened. I put my mug in the coffee mug pocket in my backpack and as I was taking the stairs out of market street station the lid started to come off and some girl stopped me and put it back on for me, for which I thanked her profusely. But then this old man offered to carry my portfolio, and I was just like, "Oh thank you, but I've got it, that isn't necessary..." but he just kept trying to carry it until I had to be a little rude about it. I keep on walking and this time I could feel warm something on my leg (yuck) and of course it came off again. This time I just dropped everything and took my backpack off and was like, cursing under my breath and the old man reaches for my portfolio and tackle box AGAIN. Still unnecessary, old man! Bah! So I walked the rest of the way to class with mocha all over the back of my pants and my Minnetonka boots. : ( Frustrating thing #2 is that when I had to pee super bad after drinking a mocha and a lot of green tea, I go to use the rest room (the only person in there at 1:30 in the afternoon on a Friday) and settle in to do my business and some woman comes in and decides that of the other 9 stalls available, the one next to mine is the right one for her. Biggest pet peeve. I don't need a pee buddy.
BUT two pretty cool things also happened today. #1 is that my new 250 gb super fast hard drive is on the way! It should be here Monday or Tuesday, because I can't just go pick it up from whatever post office it's at in Stupid Commerce City. Oh well. I will be patient. Awesome thing #2: I got the charcoal drawing my drawing teacher displayed in the glass cases in the art building back today and she said I can pad my resume with that, and say that I've been shown at the UCD Art Gallery or something. Siiiiiiiick!

Boy... I haven't updated this in a while. : / I will try to do so more often, especially since I'll have a mother fucking computer again. Yeahhhhh!

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So... It's strange being back in school, and it's even stranger being back in art classes. I just got my first grade from my drawing class (only 6 weeks in, nice!), and I was so worried because this is the teacher who always looks at what I'm doing and is like, "What's going on here? This is too dark. You should do it like this." and rarely says anything sort of positive about my sketches. Meh, no big deal, it's just weird. And she's a lurker, which totally gives me performance anxiety. I came into all of these art classes a little worried that this would all be a repeat of high school, where I didn't feel successful in art whatsoever. My first grade in this drawing class was a 24/25, which was this huge relief, because now I feel like my other A's in my 2D class aren't completely unwarranted. I actually feel like I can do this. My GPA over all is like a (very high, thank you) C average, so those other classes/subjects... I CAN do them, but it feels good to be kind of good at something again. I met a guy that made me feel a little better about my superfluous major the other day. He said his generation worked very hard to give our generation the world we have now, and he said we need artists and it's now our job to make the world beautiful. Hahaha. Well ok, that's enough lj bragging. I have to call my mom and brag now.

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Not to brag, but I had another pretty good day. I guess it didn't start out spectacularly, I woke up and rushed around to get ready and make it to work on time, only to get there and find out that I'm not even on the schedule. So I get there, with cupcakes, feel like an idiot, and go home, only to have them call me back in an hour later, lame. So I get home and decide to stop by flatiron crossing and see Forever 21 and get my watch batteries changed. First of all, new F21 = amazing. Then I ran down to fossil to get my battery changed, and I couldn't decide whether I wanted both changed or just one. I finally just decided to do one, but the girl changed it really fast and was like, "Hey, give me your other watch and I'll only charge youfor one... But quick, my manager is in back..." Rad! Two new batteries for the price of one! Then I drove down to the ranch to see Julie and Julia, and after my mom spent $44 on tickets (!), I went to get snacks and Clayton, Cam's youngest brother, rang us up. I said hi and made awkward conversation, and he gave us a ridiculous amount of snacks for $5.75! I fully intended on paying for all those snacks, but he was like, "Don't worry about it." Plus, Julie and Julia was totally amazing and cute and I loved it.
All in all... : )

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So I went to Elitch's today with Claire, mom, claire's friend, and Joooooordan, and had such an awesome time. I love Elitch's (Elitches?), but I really miss the old one, with the sweet log ride, and the gum tree, and the carousel.... Apparently now they have a Panda Express, which is unnecessarily expensive, and though tasty, still a little strange to find there. I rode the twister II twice, and after the tea cups I sort of regretted the combo of wine and tequila from the night before...
So, something also really ticked me off about today, and I'm going to whine about it here, because that's totally what LJ is for. When we got to the park there was a pretty big group of girls Claires age, and one of them started saying yelling, "Ewww Claire! Ewww Claire!" and Claire looked and the girl and said, "Hey______! ... What? Why are you saying that?" Or something like that... I didn't immediately notice any sort of animosity, I thought she was maybe friends with them.. Any way, I asked her what that was abot and she said she didn't know but that one girl was always sort of saying stuff like that to her. : ( How do you explain to a 10 year old that sometimes girls are just mean? And that she probably wouldn't want to be friends with them anyway because they're probably not nice to each other too, when they're probably the popular girls in the class? Uggh. I had kind of forgotten the whole thing had happened until we were in line for the "Ghost Blasters" ride (which was really lame) and the same girl came up and started saying it again, this time Claire and her friend were clearly with us, so it's totally inappropriate to say anything like that. I looked at the girl and in my stearnest, grumpiest voice said, "That is enough. Thank you." Joooooordan was there too, and totally saw the look of total shame, or embarassment or disappointment or something. Whatever I was it was awesome. I crushed a 10 year old. I feel bad now though, like I fought claire's battle, or like now she'll get teased more because I couldn't keep my mouth shut. Uggh!! It was just so annoying! I know I wasn't exactly nice to everyone in elementary school (there was one girl who wound up switching to a different class because we were so mean) but I cannot recall ever being mean to someone outside of school or like, the rec center, especially in front of their family.

Is it pathetic that I feel totally awesome every time I think of the look on that girl's face though? Hahaha...

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