All-Night Movie Night

Last night was all night movie night. We meant to start at seven (it was a lot closer to eight) and keep going until six AM. I didn't make it. I think a few people did.

We started with I Am Legend. Not a huge fan. It wasn't nearly as awful as Laura Dzienius said it was, but it certainly wasn't great either. It was an action movie with a stunning and unacceptable quantity of screentime given to panning over empty landscapes. Another case of a screewriter forgetting that he wasn't writing a book.

Next up was Beerfest. Very explicit, somewhat funny. At about 12:30, we started Sweeney Todd. After that, I went to bed because I had a bunch of homework to finish today.

West Buffalo

Despite the rumors, West Buffalo is beautiful. I had to drive there to find the bus stop for a school tour on Tuesday, so I combined it with a trip to Delaware Park and the Albright Knox Art Gallery.

First up was Delaware Park, which was lovely, as you can see. There were a lot of people there, but it is a really big park so it was still secluded and nice. Especially for being in a city, especially a city that built a highway down the middle of it.

Next up was the art museum... I couldn't take a lot of pictures there, understandably, but I got a few. Especially of the giant, shiny orb outside (one of the coolest things I have ever seen).

I did take one picture inside, just because I really liked this painting and wanted to look it up. The museum was all big empty rooms, high ceilings and marble tile floors, which was really cool.

There was some kinetic art that I would've loved to get pictures of, but they wouldn't have come out. They were pictures that moved as you moved due to tricks of the light. I did, however, get a picture of my beautiful artwork.

This is called a Buddha Board, it's a sheet of paper that changes color with water and dries in a few minutes so that you can start all over again. I drew a few squiggles and walked away, and when I came back, two dots and a straight line were all that remained. It looked a bit like a face, so I added hair. I really liked this. I could paint whatever I wanted without worrying about messing up or wasting paper, because in a few minutes it would be gone.

My Day of Adventure

I woke up at eight this morning and took a shower, then went to breakfast with Ryan. We went back to the suite and hung out with Christine and Erica until 10:30 when everyone except me had to start heading to class. I'm supposed to have chem labs on Tuesday mornings at eight, but they don't start for two weeks, so I was free all day. As you can see above, I took advantage of this wonderful opportunity to do laundry. Let me just start by saying that high efficiency washing machines are stupid. Yes, they use less energy per cycle, but you need to run them through DOUBLE the cycles you would have to otherwise. There's so much less water to dilute any dye that leaches from fabrics that you have to wash VERY similar colors. No mishaps yet, but they're coming. While I was waiting three hours for my laundry to be done, I did my chem and EAS lab homework.. Hopefully I'm enough ahead to have a nice weekend.. Sunday night into Labor Day, Animal House is having an all-night movie marathon.

When I got back to the room after doing laundry/homework, Christine gave me my mail. I got a notice card telling me to pick up a package in the dorm office, which I did, and on my way back I found a piano!!! I was so happy, I've been looking for one and whining that the only one I could find was in a locked room for DAYS. So I printed out some sheet music and made my way down there. Five minutes later, I took the picture above.

We had a fire drill. I was irritated. It was a very long fire drill.

But when I got to go back in, I got about an hour of uninterrupted playing in. I might have annoyed a few people, because I was in a rather public lounge and I wasn't playing very well, but I really didn't care. I discovered that I'm still capable of playing "A Thousand Miles." Actually, more than capable. I was able to play parts that I never could pull off. I guess I do have something to thank all of those annoying sonatinas for.. This song used to seem impossible, now it is almost laughable.

It was an interesting day, all in all. I'll probably watch the Doctor tonight, and try to get to bed at a half decent time, because class starts at eight tomorrow.

UB at Night

I got out of class at 8:15. I wasn't happy about that. It was supposed to be over by eight, but everyone was held hostage until they managed to get every single algebra problem right. But when I did get out, the sun was starting to set and it was beautiful. It's funny how cameras can never quite capture it, especially cell phone cameras..

I got back to Governors and went to "The Cellar" for dinner. "The Cellar" is a restaurant. Not a particularly good one, but the dining hall closes at eight, so I was stuck. They gave me a hard time about eating there, even though I had already had it arranged. Mondays and Thursdays are not going to be fun if I have to go there.

After I ate, I went back to Animal House. Each suite has their own lounge, but we all kind of adopted this one. Everyone who comes in has to write their name and draw an animal on the white board, thus "Animal House." Crazy card games go on here. But tonight was "Fight Club" movie night, because a bunch of people had never seen it.

My Dorm Room

My bed is the brown one against the wall, Christine's is the pink on the left. We have a lot of stuff.

I have a lot of posters...

INTERNETS!!!!!

My books, movies and music are all under by bed. I have one more set of shelves, and there are two rows of books on just this one.

UB Interlocking Photo

We got free t-shirts and stood on dots and hash marks....

And made a big UB!!

Tshirt making part 2

EXTERMINATE!!!! My awesome Dalek shirt. I can't wait to wear it. It totally looks like it's trying to exterminate my belly button.

Don't mind the waffle, I was kind of in a hurry...

This is the Tardis t-shirt I made. It didn't come out as nice as my last one, but this one actually fits. And it has K-9, which is always a plus.

Big Picnic

There was yucky bean soup (and Jessica unintentionally giving the disinterested model look).

There was Uncle Jimmy grilling.

There was Laura scrambling over rocks.

It was a great Big Picnic. Not quite as many people as usual, but pretty much everyone I was expecting to see was there. Laura was there for a while and we walked to the "big crick" or the "scary bridge," depending on who you ask. It was very pretty, I hadn't been there all summer.

In other happenings, Katie, Kyle, John and I freed the frogs Julia and Tessa had captured and were holding hostage. By having Matt tell them to have a frog catching competition in order to distract them...

Saturday Morning Breakfast

Katie brought her boyfriend to Grandma's for everyone to meet, and Grandma didn't want to make Katie embarass herself in front of him in her attempt to make waffles so I took over.

Last Friday at Grandma's

We went to Tom's for lunch after we picked Dana up at Jessica's house (volleyball again).

Ruthie and Dana fought over who was the rotten egg i.e. last one in the car.

Friday night in the grove. EVERYONE was there because of the Big Picnic on Sunday. In this picture are my mother, my aunt and my grandfather going from foreground to background.

Tessa, Julia and Dana catching frogs in the creek.

Packing

This is about 90% of my college stuff. Not kidding. I totally know where it's all going in my 12' by 12' room.

My room this morning. Sadly, not much has changed even though I worked on it for a few hours. Now it's just as messy- only emptier.

T-shirt Making Party

Me in my Torchwood shirt! I made it at Laura's house when we were having a T-shirt making party. I bought a roll of freezer paper that was a bit bigger than I would have liked (what on Earth am I going to do with 150 square feet of freezer paper?), so we all made shirts. We cut stencils out of the freezer paper with Xacto knives, ironed them on to our shirts and went over them with fabric paint. They came out pretty awesome.

This is my Tardis shirt before I pulled off the stencil. I did aTardis complete with a silhouette of David Tennant as the Doctor. The Tardis is blue as you can see, the silhouette is just the brown of the T-shirt. Some of the freezer paper stuck on, so it isn't quite right yet.

Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

Olivia was in her usual Ren Faire regalia... Three skirts, a belly dancing shirt with lots of jingling coins and a bodice to decrease the sluttiness factor. She was upset when the people in the donut shop stared at her.

Barely Balanced- even better the ninth time! With the possible exception of the lame jokes...

We also saw the Doctor. Well, not THE doctor, and not David Tennant (sadly), but someone dressed like the Doctor. We made the mistake of not following/stalking him and tragically only got to see him once, which is why I do not have a picture. I was busy.. pointing and yelling.

Geocaching

We went geocaching today and found 3 out of 6... pretty much a new record. Four of the six caches were around bridges and three of those were closed. This is one of the closed ones, it was really pretty and isolated, but not quite as much as one of the others. Coordinates: N 41° 00.472 W 076° 06.087