I made a hat!!

Labels: knitting

In the past 48 hours I have spent more time crying then sleeping. If only I could get this emotional about events that occurred in my own life instead of a stupid fantasy kid's book.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Hedwig, Albus, Aberforth, Molly, Arthur, Remus, Sirius, James, Lily, Cornelius, Vernon, Petunia, Dudley, Luna, Neville, Dean, Seamus, Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Peter, Tom, Minerva, Severus, Dobby, Kreacher, Nymphadora, Draco, Rubeus, Fleur, Viktor, Cedric, Barty, and Grawp, I'll miss you.

Labels: books, personal

The Decemberists and the Grant Park Orchestra gave an absolutely beautiful performance last night. For free!! Yay! Much more exciting than the bio class I am currently sitting in.

Labels: chicago, music

Look! Look! Look! I made a pretty scarf!



Do you want me to knit you something?? I can.

Labels: knitting

1. I think I might have gotten a really really really bad grade for the first quarter of bio. My group members (including myself) were less than brilliant biologists, and Dr. Quintans, one of the most awesome professors I've had, thinks I'm a total idiot. Well, sort of. See, on Thursday, in the break between lecture and lab (it's a 3 1/2 hour class, so we get a ten minute break most days) I was finishing my bagel outside the lab and reading some article on livers posted outside the door. Dr. Quintans sneaked up behind me and said, "I'm so glad to see you reading about biology." "I think it's really interesting," I said, "I'm just not very good at it." "You could be good at it, you're smart enough. Wait here." He goes in his office and emerges with a brand new $140 biology textbook. This one to be precise. He says, "You don't have to give this back if you promise to read it." So maybe I won't fail.

2. I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night with Betsy, Olivia, and Albert. I think that it was definitely the best directed, it was done really well. I think David Yates created an exceptional representation of the book, considering how much needed to be cut out to make it practical. Also, the fifth book is so driven by emotion rather than plot, I was very impressed that the movie was actually pretty interesting. The kids are not the greatest actors in the world, but they do a good enough job. Also, Luna and Umbridge were perfect.

3. I think I am going to a release party with Sara and Betsy on Friday night. I have never been to one, but come on, it's the last book. I think it will be fun. I am super jealous of Joe who is rereading all the books right now. All my books are at home. I just want to say that I really like the McGonagall is a spy theory. As much as I want Snape to be a bad guy, I realize this is unlikely. And it would just be too easy for Dumbledore to have a spy and Voldemort be left in the dark. So, even if it's not McGonagall, I really hope there's a spy for the Dark Lord in there somewhere.

4. I taught myself to knit. I will post a picture of the wonderful scarf I am making when I'm done with it.

Labels: friends, knitting, movies, school

I've had a bunch of people ask me how I made those pictures earlier (the full album is on facebook). It's a website called the St. Andrew's Face Transformer, and it's pretty damn sweet. If you do it, send me your best morphs and I'll post them if you want.

Labels: amusing, nattily

I could be blogging about how horrible my week was. How I lost my wallet. How I missed my therapy and my IOP because I had no money, no CTA card. How I couldn't go see my cousins in Florida because I had to present a project for Bio. How my project for bio was really shitty. How even if I had gone to the airport after class and tried to fly home, I couldn't, because I have no money and no driver's license. How yesterday I stopped to give some family directions and some homeless guy shouted "move" and violently pushed me out of the way so hard that there is a knot the size of a golf ball in my left shoulder and I think I will have to see a doctor.

BUT NO.
I am blogging about how sexy I am as a black person. That's right, check it out:



Unfortunately, I'm pretty ugly both as an old person:



and as a man:

Labels: amusing, chicago, personal