Open MAC Night!

On Thursday, my dorm hosted a sort of "open mic night" for everyone in our building and the two other nearby halls. It was a great turnout! There was hot cocoa and cookies and tons of awesome performers. I performed two original songs, and Derek and I performed a duet!

This is me performing "Safe," one of my originals!

Derek and I performing Fly/I Believe I Can Fly from Glee!

Derek performing Every Rose Has Its Thorn

I think we gained some fans that night! ;)

It was really fun being able to perform again, and we got an amazing response!!! I can't wait until we do something like this again.

-Audrey

2spooky Halloween post!

Happy Halloween!!!

So on Monday my dorm hosted a Dia de los Muertos program, where guest speakers came and taught us a bit about the traditions, and then we ate some delicious bread and painted pumpkins to look like the sugar skulls that are oh-so-famous on Day of the Dead.

That's mine! I think it's kind of cute.

Have I mentioned my costume for Halloween this year? I'm going to be Blaine Anderson from Glee! He's my favorite character. I'll post a picture tomorrow or something.

In other news, I signed up for classes for the spring semester! This is my schedule as of now:

So my ASM class (anthropology) became a hybrid class after I signed up for it. It was originally Monday-Wednesday-Friday, but now it looks like I won't have any classes Monday and Wednesday! Which is very nice if you ask me. I will probably work in the mornings on those days, so I can get some longer shifts in.

I'm really excited for my ENG 288 class. It's Intro to Workshop Fiction, which means lots of writing!!! Speaking of writing, because I'm crazy I have decided to try and do NaNoWriMo this year! NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. In the month of November, you try and write 50,000 words in 30 days! I have a couple of characters in mind that have been in my brain forever and I'm eager to at least try this out.

Last weekend was really awesome!! On Friday I went to my friend Sarah's house for her Halloween party and our friend Michal showed up from California as a surprise!!! We watched Silent Hill, which was traumatizing, and then later we watch Lilo & Stitch, which was lovely. On Saturday I spent the night at Derek's house and then Sunday we visited my family and then Derek and Sarah and Michal and Dominic and I all went out for dinner at Olive Garden and then hung out at Barnes & Noble and then Sarah's house to watch Kiara the Brave (the weirdest movie EVER ok).

That's what's been going on in my life lately!! Happy Halloween, and I'll write again soon!

~Audrey

Human Rights Campaign and spring semester!

Today, I joined the HRC, a group that fights for LGBT equality in areas like the workforce, schools, marriage rights, ect. I donated 35 dollars to their campaign and when I mentioned to the rep who signed me up that I was hoping to get more hours at my job, she said that their office is hiring! And it's only a few blocks away. I might see if I can work there like on Saturdays or something, because it's something I'm very passionate about.

Also, I set up my schedule for next semester, but I don't get to officially sign up for classes until tomorrow at 6 am. So I'm setting an alarm for 5:50 am and I will sign up for classes right at 6 and then go back to sleep. I'll post my official schedule tomorrow once I'm all signed up! :)

-Audrey

I love getting mail!

So a few days ago, I got a package from my great aunt. It was a beautiful blanket she'd made, in ASU colors!!!

It's so comfy and perfect for snuggling up at night.

Sooooo, dear readers, if you are my friend in ~real life~ or family, and you want to make me super-duper happy, SEND ME MAIL!!! If you have such a desire, ask me for my address.

That's all for now!

-Audrey

Impromptu cleaning day

I haven't made a blog post in a long while, mostly because I just kind of forgot about it. Oops!

Today's been a very odd day so far. I planned on lounging in bed for a while watching How I Met Your Mother and whatnot, and then doing some homework. Instead, a rogue cockroach caused my roommate and I to freak out and we decided to clean our room, like really clean it. We vacuumed, scrubbed the fridge and sink, washed our sheets, and wiped down the counters and desks. It was an exhausting couple of hours, but now our room looks so nice and not cluttered.

But we never did find the cockroach.

The past few days!

Hey howdy hey, it's been a while. Wanna hear about my life? Ha, of course you do, that's why you're here! So, story time!

Let us start off with...
TUESDAY

On Tuesday, Derek, Danyel, Dominic, and I all got dinner together and then went on a "gallery crawl," aka a visit to three of the on-campus art galleries. Danyel and Dominic are art majors, so they had to do this, but Derek and I tagged along.

The first gallery was all dark and the art was super tiny and detailed ceramic sculptures. That one was my favorite. The other two blur together in my mind to be honest. One of them had a painting that bore a striking resemblance to me!

 What, you don't see the resemblance? Look again!

Seein' it now? That's what I thought too. 

But of course, my favorite work of art was the rather colorful fork display they had for the refreshments:

I am nothing if not cultured. Anyway, after the gallery crawl, we all decided to show Derek the "secret" garden, because he was the only one among us who hadn't seen it. I'd like to point out that the secret garden is neither secret nor a garden, and it's honestly far more impressive in name than in stature. Still, it's worth it just to go down the ghetto, skanky ramp that leads to the garden, if only because going down it for the first time you're fairly positive it will lead to an underground meth lab or a rapist's lair.

Overall, we had a great night, which was nice because the beginning of my Tuesday was pretty awful.

Let's briefly move on to THURSDAY, when GLEE CAME BACK and I was a bundle of joy. My friends Molly and Kaela joined Derek and I at Derek's house to watch Glee, but sadly around 6ish I realized that my throat, which had been a bit sore for a couple days, was now really really REALLY fucking painful. And then I developed a raging fever and the shivers. Still, nothing could keep me from my Glee. Nothing. And despite my illness, I still managed to shriek, flail, laugh, and sob over the episode.

SATURDAY was when I finally began to feel marginally better. I finished my French homework with pride, got a 14 out of 15 on my sociology quiz, and finally forced myself to do some math homework. Then, Derek and Kimi and Leslie and I watched half of The Hunger Games on Kimi's computer before something weird happened and the website stopped working.

Today, I'm finally fever-free as far as I can tell, and my agenda is to clean the sink (ugh) and then go visit my family! That's all for now.

-Audrey

side note

I almost forgot, on Thursday my dorm threw this little party/barbeque thing and yeah wanna see a picture yes you do:

photo taken by one of the lovely CAs at McClintock