I had a friend once, who told me the worst mistake you can make is to think that you're alive. When really you're asleep in life's waiting room. -The Waking Life

I'm obsessed with BIRP (Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist) and I just noticed on the site they have MixTapes! I listened to the most popular one called Don't Wake Up and it is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. I tried really hard to find an embed code so I wouldn't have to just give you the link but I couldn't! :( So the link is here.

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The movie the quotes are from is called the Waking Life, So I googled it and it's free on google so I watched it and it is so cool! Although the artist's style hurts my eyes the dialogue is so powerful and amazing.

College (sounds so weird to say)

So I've been looking at colleges for the past couple days and it is just so exciting to have a new beginning, to start off in a new place and make new friends.

Who doesn't love Animal House?

Needless to say I am VERY excited but the when I got down to the logistics of it I realized, my GPA sucks, standing now at a cumulative (weighted) 2.48, I haven't taken the SAT or ACT yet and I can only afford $20,000 per year including textbooks, room and board, and a meal plan and I do not want to stay in state. Sure Ohio has great colleges and students at my schools get special consideration for OSU because it's our designated public college but that is just way to close for me and I want to go somewhere that's not a bubble, and out of my comfort zone.

The Rooms at George town are so pretty, at first I thought
 this was some school in India.

 I'm beginning to get discouraged, I've come up so far with a list of 10 schools but I have no schools that I'm sure I'll get in. My best bet is to not try to get into schools with tough admissions and work really hard this semester so my GPA will be at least above a 2.5.

I thought this was so funny, one year
at Akita they made a triple layer bunk
bed but then the whole cabin got on
the top bunk and the bed collapsed
and put holes in the floor of the cabin.

Birthday Weekend!

I haven't posted much throughout the course of this blog but that's going to change!

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Friday was my birthday and my friends Bailey and Joe took me out for some greek food I had a delicious falafel sandwich at my favorite greek restaurant Mazzah which I would recommend to anyone vegetarian or anyone who enjoys greek food.

On Saturday I went thrifting with my friend will I got some really great stuff which I hope to share with you in a later post but I don't have a camera right now.... For lunch we went to this grocery store next to Volunteers of America and I got the most heavenly soup, it was wild mushroom with brie I might even go as far as to say it was the best thing I've eaten all summer (maybe all year) I've been craving it ever since.

It looked like this

For dinner I went out to Eleven with Joe and Will but it was terrible, the calamari was soggy the mac and cheese didn't even have a cheesy flavor and the only good dishes were mine (thank god) and for dessert we walked over to Jeni's where I got a trio of Rockmill Golden Ale and Apricots, Pear Riesling, and Passion Fruit Frozen Yogurt. It was all excellent as usual.

Photo Courtesy of Jeni's website

Instagram!

My good friend Carly

A pretty creepy picture but, I like it.

What I have of my terrium so far, I still need a little plastic deer 

Katie at Steak and Shake

My cat Sampson who I sing Regina Spektor to all the time.
I think he hates me for it.

Potatoes I was cutting the other night.
I was thinking of a spine when I made this shape.

I wish I were better at photography... I refuse to take Photo 1 because it's filled with a bunch of girls that take black and white pictures with fisheye lenses and consider themselves groundbreaking artists.

Senior Schedule

P1: S1 Workshop Theater
    S2 Study Hall
P2:    IB Physics
P3:    Politics, Economics, and Government
P4:    World Literature and Composition
P5: S1 Lunch
    S2 Desktop Design
P6: S1 Study Hall
    S2 Lunch 2
P7:    IB Math SL
P8: S1 Material Science
    S2 Life Guarding

Class Descriptions:
Workshop Theater: An introductory class to the theater and stage acting.

Study Hall: Seniors have full open campus so study hall is open and I don't have to be at school until 8:54 am second semester and first semester I have a double lunch which will be an hour and a half :)

Jason Lee Parry

IB Physics: IB stands for International Baccalaureate which are college level classes taught the same all over the world. Many colleges consider this acceptable as credit towards your major and numerous offer scholarships around $2,500 per year for IB students.

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Politics, Economics, and Government: We learn about current issues with the government and are taught how to educate ourselves on issues before voting.

World Literature and Composition: Just a regular English class focusing on international literature.

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Lunch: The reason I have lunch 2 is because typically lunches are supposed to be periods 4 or 5 but because I wanted to take desktop design I have to have lunch 6th period which shouldn't be an issue assuming some of my friends have 6th period study hall. Going along with open campus all students have open lunch and may eat anywhere they want.

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Desktop Design: An introduction course to using photoshop.

IB Math SL: IB level math that teaches you precalculus and calculus in one year. SL stands for standard level.

Material Science: A fun science class that involves making dip-n-dots in liquid nitrogen, that's all I needed to hear. Not to mention the teacher of the class was my Chemistry teacher last year and I love her she's so kooky.

Mmm I can taste them already…
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Life Guarding: My sister works as a life guard and she loves it so I decided to take this class to get my certification, and an extra gym credit.

If only Chuck Bass were the teacher
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6 Word Stories

Six Word Stories could possibly be the best website I've ever been on (ok, maybe not THE BEST but it's up there) I just love how the brief sentences leave everything open to interpretation and the artwork is so beautiful.    

I've Found It!

So I couldn't find the poem I based my blog name on and I really wanted to quote it when I first started the blog. But I found the poem in a book about Buddhism that I got from the library called The Buddha Book.

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On Life

Life is…
like a flickering flame:
a phenomenon that
cannot last long.
Like an illusion:
appearing real
but not there-
being empty.

Phenomena are
like dewdrops
or water bubbles
that can perish at any time.

Being transitory in nature
like a dream
they appear real
from their own side,
yet they are empty from
their own side.

Like a dream-
exactly like that.
Total hallucination
Like lightning,
transitory in nature.
When there is lightning
a flash of light appears
and then is gone.

Same:
When death comes
all appearance of this life
go,
like friends who were here
then pass away
and are gone.

Buddha said:
If we cling, if we grasp
there is suffering.
Things cannot last;
they are impermanent by
nature.
Holding the view of
permanence
only leads to suffering.
It creates the cause to
reincarnate in samsara
again.

Attachment ties us to
samsara… again.

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