It's been a week exactly since I moved into my lofty condo in Loring Park. From my bedroom I get a sweet view of the interstate and the creepy Sunshine 24 Hour Buffet. Surprisingly the former is quite useful in determining the latest time I can get up, battle through traffic and make it to work still on time. I have one roommate named Delia, pictures to follow. However Marquette Place is full of BSC interns. I met most of them at the daily continental breakfast on the 4th floor. Which sounds more amazing than it truly is. Unless donuts for bfast every morning is your dig you might want to still invest in morning groceries.

It's been nine months since my last post. somethings have changed. i no longer live in the united kingdom, a topic on which i am still sitting on the fence when the question of how i am adapting arises. my tutor made an interesting comment the other day. see i am left handed and she said that a left handed person has the ability to best adapt because we have been adapting since birth. i asked her what i have been adapting to and she said living in a right handed persons world. maybe i see her point but when i really think about it there isn't much i have had to adapt to. a few instances come to mind. i am forced to use my right hand when operating a mouse, a car, or most game controllers. When I was younger and went to sports camps they never had a left handed club. i don't think that is the sole reason for my complete lack of skill in the sport but it could be a contributing factor. i also suck at bowling and there is no left handed argument there.

other things that have changed. i would like to announce that i have the cleanest driving record of the family. to everyone that knows me this will come as a complete shock but my mom and dad have gotten into wrecks since my european departure. and i know what comments the peanut gallery will begin to shriek, and yes i have only been back on the road for 4 months but I have been an agile and defensive driver thus far, let me add lucky as well. i have two new kitties Hogwarts and Blondie. Blondie's mother was a weed addict he is very demure and always has the im laid back swagger. Hogwarts mother had a different drug preference and its obvious she is a crack kitty. she is very excited and energized at all times. she is the first cat i have seen that jumps in the air to be petted.

right now i am home for fall break, a short period of time purdue grants to us students so that we may attempt to regain our sanity before hell opens up. i spent the first two glorious days locked in studio trying to catch up on my senior collection. i drove home yesterday and within 5 minutes had a plate in the microwave. i didn't realize how bland my diet had become. lean cuisines and fiber one. i really should try to diversify my food selection. my mom's refrigerator was the equivalent of DZ in my childhood. last night i went to a party one of my mom's friends was hosting. a one year wedding anniversary, pregnancy, house finished, husband gaining citizenship party. it was my first grownup party to say the least and i am quite proud of my showing. i was not raucously drunk like the lady downstairs, i made good conversation, and i was not a dessert table stalker like many...ahem father. it was neat to make talk with adults on adult topic things and pretend the most exciting event in my life was the awkward conversation i had with the kroger fruit manager this past week. they found the idea of breakfast club to be the most abstract idea and died laughing when i showed them past costume pictures. overall great night seeing as i finished it with episodes 1,2, and 3 of Seinfeld Season 3. Joe Dimaggio is a dunker?

Today my mom took me flu shot hunting thank goodness CVS and Walgreens were out I despise needles and really don't see a problem with lying in bed for a week with the most amazing excuse. Family fun day also consisted of traveling to Anderson Orchard in Mooresville. Weirdest concept is they have free test taste apples for each species so that you buy a peck of your favorite. So after four free apples, apple cobbler with ice cream, and apple cider my family and I left quite satisfied with ourselves and headed down the road for some more food. Gray's how I missed thee. Never disappoints.

At home I made myself sit down and read the current Time cover to cover. Topics from Obama's healthcare reform ideas and how they don't really fix the issue just patch the cracks, to how housing subsidies are becoming ridiculous in concept and in governmental cost credits are all over my head but its good to inform yourself so you can at least pretend your well educated on current issues. What I did gather is that I want to see the Coen brothers' latest film A Serious Man and that if America is to point fingers at a troubled regime in Iran the man to blame may not be the current President Ahmadinejad, who seems to be the poster boy of Iran but really only controls the domestic economy, but actually the Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. A man I would most likely run from if he was to ever to come within 100 miles of my secluded and sheltered life.

Signing off from Avon

so im kinda tipsy...i don't lie

so i have been seriously neglecting my blog...i had an inkling this would happen ha! but anyways i am at my grandparents now celebrating christmas. my grandpa gave me a 5X Obama Tshirt and my brother a 6X, glitter and all. so now we both have a perfect outfit for the upcoming ghetto thug partys we have been invited to.

i just booked my flights for second term. i fly out january 4th which is only 8 days away. time has gone by way to fast. i flew home the 15th and spent the night at anneliese's after a dinner of oxtail and apple crisp. adding to the letdown i would receive once i returned to the kitchen of mama rolston. that monday we traveled to four airports in three different countries and used 4 different forms of transportation, surprisingly we were still in human form at the end. we flew out of berlin that morning into stanstead london. then we flew out of heathrow after a long bus ride into chicago ohare. the following day i met my brother for dinner, my first american restaurant in months. thursday night was the escada christmas party. watched my bosses and coworkers drink themselves in oblivion while trying on lingerie and posing playboy style for the hired photographer :] after our party crashed we headed over to louis vuitton for their holiday party...LAME! so we all went over to cheesecake factory for a few christmas drinks. then as usually nathalie and i set out to burn the city.

the next morning i headed out to geneva way of train to visit my uncle phil and aunt karen. we went to the little traveler, 3rd street and caribou coffee the highlights of this chicago suburb. the following night i had a wedding on the outskirts of geneva for my love amanda hermann now de silva. so for christmas my aunt and uncle bought me a dress esemble for the wedding! it was so kind of them. i got a red christmas dress from nyc, heels, jewerly, the whole package. they took me for pizza and i was basically drooling at the table. london has a funked up rendition of pizza, mainly sausage=hotdog so don't ever order that. and for some reason pizza hut is a sitdown upscale restaurant on the other side of the pond...we once went there to grab a drink cause we were so thirsty. but then we were greeted by a hostess stand and candlelit tables. no need to worry kfc was across the street haha so we hit them up instead.

anyways...the next morning after cinnamon rolls from brahm's i met up with whitney at C&B for wedding gift shopping..so typ of us to wait till the last day. but i missed whitney sooo much. i hadn't seen her since the beginning of august. and i hadn't heard her voice since the end of september. when i called her when i got off the plane we basically cried to each other over the phone. it was so great to see her. we met up with ross and ben, after waiting 30 minutes for their never arrival they picked us up and took us to panera. there we questioned their friendship responsibilities, even after they bought me lunch ha. i missed them both so much. while overseas and i don't realize how much i miss them cause i NEVER get to talk to them. my computer crashed but even then skype never worked on it. NEWS: the old man...santa, brought me a mac so no worries. whitney and i got ready at my aunt's. scarfed down chicken salad, and was just in time to get in for the wedding. laughing the whole way cause this is the story of our life. hanging out with ryan at the reception was a blast. amanda looked absolutely beautiful. it was so great seeing her and kara. we danced the night away like we had no pride. then the twins ahaha wedding horror story. ross picked us up around 1am. went back to his house. i slept in the other twin bed in his room and we caught up until 3am. then the next morning i poked him awake around 6.20 to take me to catch the train. nevermind the 10 degree weather or the fact we got 3 hours of sleep. THANKS ROSS!! then finally on sunday after tundra downtown temperatures, getting locked out of the condo, catching up at savor the flavor, i got on a bus to go home. 6 days after i landed i finally got to see my family and home friends. haha and on the way home i told my mom i get to pick dinner my first night home and she agreed. i go chicken and noodles and stouffers mac n cheese, to cut to the chase i got microwave meatloaf, my mac thanks, green beans in a can....its standard.

but anways back to my flight plans. i am flying back in may 29th. this is REAL different from original plans. i wanted to go to a school in denmark but i had to concede that so i could go to hong kong. the economy has taken a hard hit on my family and my college fund (which is in the stock market). with the unsure future and my mom's insecurities of my safety abroad i knew it wasn't happening. the school in denmark is krannert supported and does not charge tuition. in the end it is cheaper to go to this school than it is to return and take purdue classes. the housing option includes a meal plan. so $1000 for a month in denmark with 6 transfer credits..amazing deal. but my parents don't see eye to eye with me on my study abroad desires. and i was going to stay three weeks after the end of the aiu spring term to travel around europe. but my mom doesn't want me traveling alone and with the uncertainty of the economy they aren't sure if i will be able to stay overseas. i found about 20 different internships in downtown indy that are marketing and promotion directed that i am currently applying for. and they all require 10-12 weeks so i myswell head home for those. and i need money. so my new plan is living at home this summer with an internship and job and school. this next year i have decided to return to purdue to graduate within ADT. the fall semester of my super senior year i am going to Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute, it is accredited by CFS and Krannert. I will graduate in 5 years with both degrees and minors in marketing and fine arts. Then either next summer or the summer after my final graduation my parents will take me on a tour of Europe and afterwards I will be allowed to stay over to travel and see my friends and family...and maybe never come home hahaha. i probably shouldn't joke about that my mom doesn't find that funny. but who knows...america pales in comparison to me compared to europe and the other continents. and while i know this may make me sound ungrounded and unrealistic i really want to a) join the peace corps and maybe find a position amongst their organization and b) work for a cruise line and travel the world before i start to age and have to abandon my nomadic lifestyle. who knows...if i pursue this i strongly believe my family will disown me, which looking back at my santa presents i do not think i am willing to give that up.

anyways enough rambling. i leave next sunday and i will be home in five months time.

Wow three weeks in...time is flying by. So quick update. My roommate Roberto codename Fernando, he likes to poke moving objects with his dick and sometimes pays for it. We actually don't even need to speak in code around him because he doesn't really understand english, so if we talk fast enough we can say anything. For example, last night he walked him and I said Hey there greaseball sweet outfit. And then Anneliese added, did you just get finished having sex with your male counterpart Lorenzo. And he just laughed because that is his default answer to anything he doesn't understand so that was fun. But truely he was wearing skinny girl jeans with hightop shoes and he gelled his hair down and it look so diirrty. His birthday is next Monday so we are debating if we should do anything for him, we asked him if he would take us to dinner on the big day and he said he would think about it :].

Anyways school is absorbing my life. Four classes here is considered overload, 12 credit hours in 10 weeks. I have four sketchbooks only one which i have thus worked on, but my teachers are emphasizing to me that needs to change. We started drawing nude figures in life drawing. His name is Frank he is 60 something, deaf and blind(drew from observation), tattoos everywhere, and BUTT IMPLANTS...oh yea he is a cross-dresser and he tried to show some pictures to a girl in our class of something that our teacher grabbed away real quick and since then we have not seen her anywhere...mysterious. So my design research class, my teacher reminds me of my friend sophia if and only if she decided to do coke for the next 20 years. she is very interesting. she introduces our class by telling us a story about a vacation her husband and her took to spain in the 1970's where they ran into this family from 'The Yemen'. And she continues to refer to it as 'The Yemen' for 30 minutes. P.S. our class is about the Cold War...still no mention or correlation an hour in. And since our class is 5.5 hours long we usually get a half hour break in the middle. So our break is approaching and she goes so break how about 15 minutes. Groans and mumbles from the peanut gallery. She then says okay 20 minutes wow you guys are so greedy. We leave at 4.00 and all of us arrive back at 4.20. Our teacher, yea she shows up at 4.45?? Excuse me?? haha she is an interesting person. And my other two classes have the same teacher. Stuart McKenzie who is soo cute. He purses his lips when he gets mad or thinks real hard and I think its adorable. But he is so talented. In his class we just work on stretching the box of our artistic realm and exploring different themes and media. Yesterday I was telling Meg in my class how much I hate visors that when I see them I actually get chills an Stuart starts laughing and says I actually bought two visors this weekend, I was planning on wearing one today but it didn't match my outfit. The class goes dead silent, shit. And then he starts laughing and says bloody like i like visors. then we talked about the worst fashion trends ever, fanny pouch, ponchos, so on. In my digital imaging class with him we made a melon head and added various edible parts for face pieces Mine ended up turning out as a replica of Michael Phelps, big ears sticking out. So I told Stuart I named mine Michael Phelps and he goes whos that.....so I drew a picture of Michael Phelps in my sketchbook...and wrote him a peronalized note identifying him. Stuart lives underneath a rock.

Outside of school this past weekend I went to Scotland, which I have no idea how to identify..is is a country, a region, a state, a continent. Regardless, its wicked hilly and a 15 minute hike up a hill to our hotel is not a highlight. Oh and anneliese and I were so excited!! cause we sleep on wooden boards here in our biscuithead apartment. And the idea of a hotel bed was more exciting then dating Tony or eating a whole gallon of B&J. We stayed in hotel room #1...really never knew hotels had a room #1. needless, it was amazing, we even had a heater and a tv! So we went on a tour of old and new town of Edinburgh which roughly translates in german to 'Edin Castle'. Later that night we went to a Ceilidh which is a traditional Gaelic music and dance gathering + a bar and hot scotish men in kilts. so we all got a little tipsy then scotish people tried needlessly to teach us dance moves. While we drooled over their highlander beauty. There we plenty of times that we fell over and were dragged along the floor and were trampled while we were in deep thought about the next dance move but it was an amazing time. Afterwords we went out clubbing, which is very interesting in Scotland. At the door they give you a voucher to get into the club free.. and it was about midnight as we entered a club called faith and we were the only ones there-no joke. After five minutes three drunk people walked in and provided amusing entertainment. So we went in early cause the next morning we were headed to Holyrood Castle, the official estate of the Queen in Scotland. Ill bypass a history lesson and just say it was pretty sweet. Afterwords our group set out to climb Arthur's Seat a 820 feet extinct volcano mountain. It didn't appear too daunting, obviously our vision needs to be checked. Our teacher Tony, a gorgeous 40 year old man father of two children and also possesor of superhero speed, embarrassed us all. He scaled it in about 10 minutes only taking breaks so we wouldn't die and attemting to conger up something to talk about so we weren't too embarrassed. Just further imprinting the whole American Obesity idea. When we got to the top and after I arose from my collapsed position, I found out we weren't there yet...So we had to climb this rock wall in the rain to our impending death. The view was amazing. I dropped my memory card down the elevator shaft cause I am that cool, so Anneliese has all the pictures. It was soo windy too, Scotland as a whole is very windy and hilly. It was an awesome experience. The climb down wasn't exactly oodles of fun in the hurricane-like weather. But no worries cause we found a starbucks and we all refueled on hot chocolate. Besides Starbucks Scotland has Quizno's, Subway, KFC, Burger King, McDonalds (which we ate at haha). After all that physical exertion Anneliese and I went back and had a romantic night watching movies in bed and playing Speed. Which reminds me we had to ask the front desk for an extension cord for her computer and they go oh yes give us ten minutes we will bring you one. So when I heard a knock I answer the door and here they have a TIM the TOol MAn FreAKing Generator Extension Cord I died laughing it was interesting. We laid down in bed at 6.00 pm we did not leave till 9.00 the next morning, the reclusive hermits we are just to score on the free breakfast downstairs. Sunday was spent visiting the Edinburgh Castle which was originally built in the 12th Century and then shopping for various Christmas Presents. And then after a 6 hour return train ride--oh so much fun in which Anneliese rubbed in my horrendous softball skills, and we continued to stare at the man of our dreams--we were finally home. So there's a generalization of my Scotland trip. I am planning on going to Barcelona towards the end of November. Anneliese and I are going to Greece for 4 days at the end of term. Rome might also be in the books. And then in January- Ireland, Italy and Scotland often with Morgan and Jill, Spring Break is either Sweden or Germany.

My lone class for today was cancelled for a field trip on Friday to the British National Museum so last night we had drunked festivities in the apartment. Meg came up and along with Anneliese, me and Marina we played Swedish card games (which included RIDE THE BUS??), and took interesting pictures and planned our amazing upcoming week. Friday afternoon I have a ticket for Tea at the Dorchester which is $70 eek but its an eight course exclusive meal on silver china. Friday night is eating really tasty, scrumptous, delectable food if you catch my drift. And then Saturday is hair day going blonde? and then Mayfair at night with Swedish visitors. And I think next weekend we might be doing a day trip somewhere. But what the hoot. I am loving it here!

64 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!!!

psss.. me and anneliese need chipotle, potbellys, and noodle&co immediately. we haha bought macaroni and cheese in a can yesterday the first we saw of it. it was greenish in tent and made a glopping sound. we each ate one noodle...WERE DYING!!!