20 days

Only 20 days until I move back to Mankato! I'm freakin' nervous about all the new stuff that's going on. A new major, a job with work study, and just everything. Bahh! But I'm very excited to get back into the swing of seeing my friends everyday and all the crazy stuff they do and say. Can't wait to see all the girls!! :) WAH! WOO!!!!!

Discovery: Christina's World

Christina’s World, 1948
Andrew Wyeth
      It was inspired by seeing his neighbor, who suffered from Polio as a child, crawl across a field because she couldn't walk. Before I knew the story behind the painting, I thought the girl was posed in a slightly melodramatic way - looking onward to a promising future. But after knowing the struggle that the girl in the painting faces, the whole meaning of the work changes. Desperation and distance become great cloud-like setbacks. 
      To me, the painting is symbolic of people in our lives. People we might see a certain way... positive, cheerful, carefree; someone we may take for granted. It is not until we dig deeper, discover their truths, that we can truly see who they are, what they need, and what we can do to help. And it may just be as simple as what Andrew Wyeth did -- just taking notice.

ERIC WHITACRE LIKED MY COMMENTS!

One of the most exciting things ever! I was on Facebook and my favorite choral composer, Eric Whitacre,

had posted a new video with some of his music included. Struck once again by his powerful music I just had to comment. Twice. He liked both of them and it was a fulfilling moment in my life. I took a screen shot of the comments and his 'liking' of the them and they are below.

Here's a link to one of his most beautiful songs... "Sleep" 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh0J-bP5ClE

The Freshman Quote Book

Ty: "Hey crabby pants!"

Megan: "That's not gonna help the situation."

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    "We have to look at male genitalia. ... yeah... At least we aren't still on the Greeks. Their junk was all over the place." – Courtney (speaking about her art history)

·  "Migration does not occur in the follicles." – Courtney

·  "Everyone! Go 'like' my status! Right now!!!" - Liz

·  "I know who Julie Garden is..." – Liz

·  "You better watch out, you better not cry, cause Frank Sinatra's a seducer, oh my. You better watch out you better not cry cause Frank Sinatra's gonna eat your brains out!" – Liz

·  "Oh how I wish I didn't have an Asian teacher. ‘Start review from now and ask question during office hour in next week.’ Why? Why? Why is this? Not okay." - Courtney

·  Liz: "I love you to pieces"

   Courtney: "I could just eat you one by one"

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   "Study-ohs! What are you eating? Umm...my study-ohs?" - Courtney

·  "But if they get mad they could just like kick your ass. Like there was this one girl and she like kicked my ass... like I was like 'I'm gonna die!' ....... okay that was totally not the point." - Amanda Houdek talking about mentally handicapped people.

·  Megan: "Where do babies come from?

   Jenna: "That's where a mommy and daddy get together and have fun."

   Nate: ".... IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA TELL OUR KIDS?!"

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·  "It's PIIIINK!!" - Ty

·  “Suck with me forever babe” – Courtney

   “I think you mean stuck with me forever” – Justin

·  “Go to class. It’s good for the soul” – Liz

·  “What class is that quiz for?” – Amanda Houdek

   “The shoot-me-in-the-leg class” –Kruger

·  “Look! He’s in love with Jesus Christ!” – Amanda Houdek

·  “I didn’t realize how many s’s there are in possessions.” – Courtney

·  “When I laugh they jiggle” – Liz

   “Don’t watch them!!!” – Courtney

·  “Who’s that Mexican?” – Liz

·  “Touch my lips and die today!” – Liz

·  “I like the way you wrap your hair in the towel” – Courtney

   “I don’t. I look like a Muslim.” – Liz

·  “What if God isn’t real?” – Amanda Houdek

   “I know. I kinda wanna die just to see what happens.” – Kruger

·  Liz: "Calm down. There’s no need to get your panties in a---"

   Courtney: "---MY PANTIES ARE BUNCHED!!!!!!!” 

·  “Less than 24 hours and I’ll be home. With my kitties. My kitties. And my mom. I love cats.” - Courtney

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·  “What do you announce over a loud speaker?” – Courtney

·  Megan: "Victoria’s Secret angels? That’s like…an oxymoron.” 

   Courtney: "They’re not gonna get a plaque!!” 

   Megan: “…cause that was my immediate thought!”

·  “I just really want some pizza rolls” – Liz

·  “Tedador Roosevelt. He’s the one who ordered Lewis and Clark to go exploring!” – Kruger

·  “No. You’re painting nails completely wrong.” – Ty

·  “It’s okay. I’ve got southern cousins.” – Courtney

·  “That’s weird. I don’t like it. Put your hand away.” – Liz

·  “Where’s my phone?” – Liz (all the time)

·  “I saw him with shorts on. I thought less of him.” – Kruger talking about Hooka Charlie

·  “I just laughed about loud.” – Courtney

·  “If you think about it though, birth control is a condom.” – Liz

·  “What song is this called?” – Liz

·  “I like yours, it’s soft” – Amanda Houdek

   “Amanda! Don’t touch my ‘puter!” – Liz

·  “Okay, we’re done.” – Cassie/Megan

·  “We should hug before you leave in case, you know, you die” – Kruger

·  “Hey if you’re thirsty you should get some water out of Liz’s phone” – Kruger

·  “Mom you in there?” – Kruger (watching “Disturbia” while shia lebeouf digs through the ice in the freezer with a shears)

·  “Wait. That’s the senate? Well…I don’t like the senate, I don’t like to read, and I don’t like hairy things.” – Kruger (studying and trying to figure out how to remember Harry Reid)

·  “Guys, what kind of English are we?” – Amanda Houdek

·  “Green light!!! …Oh, there’s a car in front of you.” – Liz

·  “Could have had a V8!” – Megan

   “Could have had an orange juice!” – Liz

·  “Can I put in a maintenance request for the blinds? I got polka-dotted fingers.” – Ty

·  “…only cause you have a big puter!!” – Ty

·  “I’ll butter your handle.” – Liz

·  “You wanna know what you should do? Get drunk.” – Kruger

·  “Are those Liz’s sandals? What should we do to them?” – Kruger

·  “You just winked at me. That’s a little prerogative!” – Liz

·  “Don’t judge me. I’m just a tree.” – Amanda

·  “Know what I want? A hug. From a stranger. Not with aids though.” – Liz

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·  “I spy something white” –(someone)

   “Courtney!!” – Ty

·  Megan: “Okay. I’m done now.

   Liz: “No keep going! …That’s what she said.”

·  “Apples in the mornin’ feelin’ like P-Diddy. Got my fruit in my palms I’m gonna eat this breakfast.” – Courtney

·  “It’s 9:18 on a Saturday morn.” – Courtney

·  “Courtney, why is yours so hard to slide in and out?” – Ty 

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·  “I want pink balls and a zebra bar, and you want zebra balls and a pink bar…” - Courtney and Ty

·  “Stay strong little marshmallows, you’ll make it through.” – Ty

·  “We’re gonna have a TV show called “Pimp My Astronaut Suit” and they’ll have a bejeweled astronaut suit. Then we can have ‘before and after-naut’ – Courtney and Megan

·  Ty: “I’m keeping a sticky note so we can keep track of the football score.

   Megan: “Really.”

   Sarah: “IT’S IMPORTANT!”

·  Amanda Houdek: “Guys, I don’t know what to write.”

   Nate: “Just pull it out of your ass.”

   Megan: “Write from your heart…not from your ass.”

·  Megan: “It (gum) gets hard after a while.” – Megan

   Courtney: “It’s supposed to work that way or things don’t go the way they are planned.”

   Megan: “That was very deep."

   Courtney: “You don’t get it, do you.”

·  “You would have gone down like the twin towers.” – Amanda Kruger

·  “Lyndon is a big, black piece of joy.” – Elizabeth

·  Anne: “I feel really bad”

   Megan: “Why?

   Anne: “Because I’ve been staring at that picture all day and I think your brother’s really attractive.”

·  “Bless your cotton socks.” – Peter Charles Something (Chatroulette)

·  “It’s okay if you have a hot brother. But you wouldn’t date him. Like…I have a hot cousin…” – Anne Eiden

·  “I love laying on my vintage couch with my dogs.” – Anne Eiden (legend)

·  “We’re Judge Judy’s nieces.” – Kruger

·  “This has too much whoop and not enough pie.” – Liz

·  “It’s just like Michael Jackson! Black and white!” – Houdek

·  “She’s CHANGING!!” – Liz

   “Your face!” – Houdek

·  “Carve down those edges.” – Courtney

·  “I couldn’t even imagine a whole load…a whole load of oblong.” – Courtney

·  Liz: “Why do you keep saying ‘oblong’?”

   Megan and Courtney: “It’s an… oblong story.”

·  “Joan Baez: We shall… shut the hell up.” – Kruger

  

·  “If we sit here long enough eventually we’ll see everybody.” – Dad sitting in McDonalds

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·  Megan: “Where did the name Robert come from?”

   Courtney: “…a robber… …that got hurt?”

·  “That song’s gonna be imprinted in my face.” – Megan

·  “It looked like you had an itch on your face.” – Liz

·  Megan: “Do you drink and drive?”

   Kruger: “Not on occasion; all the time.”

·  “He just got wet-willied by a chameleon” – Ty

·  “At least they weren’t in your pants…like last night.” – Courtney

·  “The only assault that’s good is a good musical ear assault.” – Anne

·  “Holy banannies.” – Anne

·  “Stick it in the fridge.” – Sarah

·  Sarah: “That’s where all the muffins are… that guy has a whole bowl full of them.”

   Liz: “Oh my g muffin man.”  

·  “Jesus eats ice cream? Is that kosher?” – Megan (talking about the long-haired guy)

·  Megan: “How sad would it be if you died on your birthday?"

   Liz: “I would be a little depressed…but you know…life goes on. Well, not for me actually.”

·  “That feels nice.” – Liz

·  “She’s a she and it came out her mouth so…that’s what she said.” – Courtney

·  Megan: “What is the next stage?” (making an exhausted expression)

   Kruger: “The…sleepy stage?”

   Megan: “The exhaustion stage.”

·  “I didn’t get a rush from doing my speech. The only rush I got was ‘rush through, rush through, rush through.” – Kruger

·  Kruger: “Appaisal? Don’t you mean appraisal?”

   Megan: “I don’t know… there were no r’s”

   Kruger: “Did I write that?”

   Megan: “…yes!”

   “If I’m ever a vegetable just kill me off.” – Kruger (give her two days and then cut the cord—she said this).

      

   “Teach me how to Frisbee, t-t-teach me how to Frisbee.” – Megan

     

   “It smells like green grass… and boys.”

   “Mary Jane in the sky with Wanda.” – Megan

   "If you start saying more stupid things I will have to start slapping your legs!!" - Anne Eiden 

  

   Megan: “Jimi Hendrix was the bridge between what?”

   Kruger: “San Francisco and Iowa.”

·  “Let’s go look at other ugly people.” – Liz

·  “Stupid Gina.” – Megan and Liz

·  “I will do multiple things to comfort you.” – Liz

·  “That’s So Raven 70’s Show.” – Amanda Houdek and Megan

·  Amanda Houdek: “They’re coming out with another ‘The Fast and the Furious’.”

   Megan: “What is that…the ninth one they’ve made?”

   Houdek: “Haha…the fifth I think.”

   Megan: “They should just come out with the same movie and just call it something different like … ‘The Speedy and the Serious’.”

·  “I don’t use mine either but I like it cause it’s big.” – Courtney talking about her chapstick.

·  “Soup Fo.” – Courtney (‘Sup Foo)

·  “Each little step leads to a bigger step.” – Liz (her argumentative essay…cute!)

·  Megan: “We need an acronym for IET.”

   Tyanna: “I Eat Tea!”

·  “Sighted Orange Washington” – Mom

·  “It sounds like a telephone…an elegant telephone.” – mom talking about George Winston’s song ‘Longing Love’

·  “Of course, if it takes a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters a thousand years to write Shakespeare then obviously the coefficient is Twinkie.” – Steven Langton

·  “Napoleon…Metropolitan…Neopolitan.” – Liz, Courtney, Megan 

·  “Xavier…like lightsaber…with an X.” – Liz and Melissa

·  Megan: “She’s casin’ the place.”

   Kruger: “What? I’m paying attention.”

·  “MEGAN!” – Liz kept trying to get my attention…it was hilarious

·  “The Star-Spangled Dying Cat.” – Megan (Liz was singing the star-spangled banner with ‘reow’ lyric)

·  “I guess we can’t suck in at the pool.” – Amanda Kruger (after we ate Pizza Ranch)

·  “Studio 57…in Kansas City, Wyoming.” – Amanda Kruger (studying Disco)

·  “They needed gas to fuel …their …radios.” – Kruger

·  Megan: “What did Ras Tafari Makonnen say?”

   Kruger: “He said that if any Cubans were going to be slaves they should just kill themselves.”

·  Liz: “It was impossible to keep Madonna from being…”

   Kruger: “…black.”

·  “WHO!?!!!??! Created the tango craze?” – Liz

·  Liz: “What is tipica?”

   Courtney: “It’s pudding.”

·  Jenna: “I missed out on an A+ in English by 2%”

   Megan: “She has the grades up?”

Jenna: “Yeah.”
Megan: “Would she have mine up?”
Jenna: “When did you turn your paper in?”

Megan: “…I haven’t.”

·  Courtney: “Who directed ‘The Da Vinci Code?’ Ron Burgendy?”

   Megan: “…Ron Howard?”

·  “Not loose my shockorspep.” – Courtney

·  To the tune of ‘My Boyfriend’s Back’: “My parents don’t care that I’m a miniature slut. Ay ya, ay ya… my parents suck.” – Megan (talking about those 9-year-old girls who should not be dancing like that)

·  “Merf. A man, a her, a smurf.” – Courtney

·  “Teach me how to not stutter, t-t-t-teach me how to not stutter.” – Courtney

·  “I feel so pleasured!” – Courtney

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