My Life As of Late

Well, I haven't blogged in a long time... I figured I was better expressed by Facebook. But, due to my lack of classes that require extensive essays, I feel as if I should practice my writing skills. Because people only want friends who have skillzzz, nun chuck skillz, computer hacking skillz, blogging skillz (Thanks for tolerating my Napoleon Dynamite reference.). Also, a lot of my friends keep blogs, so I feel as if I should join.

Well, 2011 is upon us, and I can't believe its already March! It's incredible, I only have two months left of my freshman year of college! I'm loving my classes. I'm so glad I switched to graphic design major. I have three studio art classes alone. This consists of 2D Design, Drawing I, and 3D Design. It took a while to get used to the three hour class; and I have these each twice a week. That's 18 hours in the studio alone! Not to mention the extra time it takes to finish a good project. But I'm lucky to have some good friends in those classes that I spend 12 hours a week with. And possibly a little more because I like them.

Within my group of friends, called "The CRU3", we all have functions. Early last semester, I was deemed "mom," mainly because I send out the texts saying when we're having dinner and where we're hanging out. But I guess I also have a "mommy-ing" personality. According to them, I make mom comments all the time, including, but not limited to corny jokes, caveats, and scoldings. We also have the absentee dad, Joey; the creepy grandpa, Drew; the cool, "alcoholic," rebellious aunt, Lindsey; the cousin, Alex; the responsible older brother, Josh; the bitter middle child, Meagan; the annoying "incestuous" three year olds, Chandler and Courtney P.; the dog, Haley; the dumpster twins, Ben and Courtney R.; the angsty teenager, Colby; the rebellious older brother who never shows up to the family holidays, Andrew, and the younger brother who looks up to him, Andy;  then a couple others that don't have defined family status, but are open to suggestions.

(Most of the CRU3 at Christmastime)

I also have a fantastic hall of girls that I live with. We call ourselves the "Dungeon Damsels" because we live in the basement of Lyon Hall. We write on each other's doors, walk into rooms unannounced, cook food together, have a soccer team, and make loud noises late at night. And somehow, our hall had the highest GPA of all dorms on campus. How? I'm not really sure because honestly we don't sleep. And we scream a lot. But really, the honors dorm is fantastic. Interesting people are always around. Our dorm hosts all of the foreign exchange students, and I've met people from Japan, Germany, Sweden, France, and many other places. There was a hardcore metal band that would practice in our hangout room, the "Lyon's Den." We have an abundance of, what I call, "Lobby Lurkers." You can almost guarantee these people are in the lobby, up all night. I've loved dorm life here.

(Our awesome soccer team)

I've had some awesome experiences this semester. This past weekend, I had one of the best weekends! I helped lead worship with some of my friends for Belle Aire's One Weekend (a DNOW type thing for high schoolers). That was a lot of fun to sing and hang out with some really awesome kids. Then Friday night, our CRU3 had our own personal rave! For some reason, the guys have sweet sound systems and strobe lights laying around their dorm. Well we put them to good use.

(RAAAAAVVVEEEE)

Then Saturday night, we joined the One Weekend kids for a night at the Rec Center. The worship band had our own team and played in a basketball tournament. Our excuse for losing miserably? We're musicians. We called ourselves "Audio Failure" because after losing house sound during a worship session, the MC said "Thank goodness for Audio Failure." And this lady thought that was our band name. After our basketball game against who became the champion team, I played basketball for an hour more.

(We're ballas, shot callas)

By the time we left the Rec Center, it was 12am. Then we went and hung out with our friends from the CRU3 until 3am. It was a fun night, filled with delusional rantings due to exhaustion.
On this perfect weekend, I ate at Olive Garden twice... mmm. Then to top it off, went to a free concert to see the extremely talented Elenowen, featuring Seeing Skies (Check them both out and get their CDs, they're fantastic). There, we got to witness history. A camera crew was there to video Elenowen getting their letter saying that they had made it to the final round of The Voice, the NBC version of American Idol. So, look out for Nicole and Josh as they belt it out on NBC. And I might be clapping in the crowd.

Lately, we've had beautiful weather, except for the two days we had tornado warnings and pouring rain. Those days are the worst because I have to carry around a cumbersome portfolio, and I also found that my rainboots have a hole in them. But on these unseasonably warm and sunny days, I've strung up my ENO hammock and just relaxed. I would highly suggest investing in one of these. Currently, I'm hanging in my hammock in Peck Forest writing this blog. And a photographer just walked up to take my picture for MTSU's brochure or something... haha. Too bad I didn't take much time to get ready this morning...

(They criticized my decision to make a hammock chair, and I struggled making it, but I did it!)

But I love sitting on campus just watching people. It's funny that there are so many people on campus, but yet I see some of the same people everyday. There's the guy, Tyler, who never wears a shirt and always roller blades all around campus. He has long blond hair and hugs everyone he knows. It almost never fails that I see him and give him a good wave. Last semester I started seeing this one guy almost everyday, and now he's in my astronomy class. I have several other people that I see almost daily, and I don't know their names! There are always very interesting people on campus, and I love to just sit and watch.

Well, as this MTSU photographer continues to take pictures of me, I'm gonna sign off blogging, promising to blog more and update you on my life. Leave comments if you have any questions of what I've been up to, or if you want me to blog my thoughts about anything :)

Peace and blessings.
~kg