new semester. new apartment, semi-new crowd. things are finally settling in.

i do miss everyone who has graduated and left though, but im happy for everyone for going to do awesome things like grad school in a castle in england and san diego. :)

school is way harder than its ever been but im loving all of my social work classes. its the first time that i've ever really felt absolutely sure that i've made the right decision for myself and im exactly where i need to be. i've never felt so passionate about anything school/work related, and its awesome. (social justice is awesome, wooo!!!) im working at the family abuse center currently and thats been an amazing experience. other school classes kind of suck, but at least im in mostly SW classes now.

we had the first big party in the new apt last weekend and it was a success...masks, feathers, glitter, brazil, and caiprinhas (thats not spelled right). practice tonight with the rap band (laura, ceci, and hempy) its pretty hilarious, but i think that maybe we're kind of serious? we may or may not have an upcoming gig with reeve and american sasquatch (hah.)

other news?...im really sick and had to teach my human behavior class today but i think it went okay...i made everyone watch a video with a jewel song (cool.) mmm lots of projects,,, one due tomorrow that we were supposed to have started many weeks ago. hempy got a books dvd that shes currently semi-obsessed with.

i think its finally been enough time so that i can take another dayquill (hurray!)

halloween is coming up and hempy and i have an awesome kickass costume that i am not at leisure to disclose but i can promise that it will be fantastic and that i will post a picture post halloween.

**updade**

ummm so apparently we are opening for reeve hunter and american sasquatch. thats just silly, no, ridiculous. hah. we wrote a song tonight thats pretty funny... laura's gonna burn you like salt to a cut, or, it you prefer, shes sweet like a newborn mut. haha. we have an (un)official name now too: rap band practice. its horribly silly. we laugh the whole time during practice. i can't believe we're tring to play a show in 4 weeks... for reeve... hes actually good... like, hes kind of my idol. and theres going to be a lot of folks there. and its in four weeks. i think were only going to do like 2 songs  but still... thats just silly.

my class is in 9 hours.  and i still need to write this research paper. domestic violence is depressing.

5%??? seriously?? thats absurd.

missing waco. lots. (and also missing a certain favorite  friend in austin, too. i promise to come and visit sometime shortly after moving back )

im having some good times here though,  i just watched the five hour version of pride and prejudice with my grandma...it was awesome :)

moving back in two weeks woop!

i'm gonnna kick this craft's ass!

i dont feel so bad now, patch isnt done with all of  my present either. but its really awesome! he made me a pillow case with  a stencil of me looking like serious business and it says "ellens pillow back off"  because i always yell at him for trying to steal it. and hes also making me a super awesome big wooden trunk decoupaged with photos of last year...its the shit!

i've been trying to make michael this super-bitchin awesome craft for an anniversary present (woot woot for a year!) , but its definitely the most frustrating craft project ive ever tried to do... man, am i cool? blogging about craft frustrations.

really boring craft story below:

but seriously. im making a batiked picture of us stretched on a frame, and it was all going well until i couldnt get the wax out after the first dying..so i tried to boil it out, but its too big and the wax got caught in the folds and most of the dye came out. so then  i let it dry and scraped it off, but it wouldn't all come off. so i ironed it between newspapers, but that left splotchy circles everywhere that look like grease stains... so then i ironed it between old towels, but they're too thick...then... i stretched it on a frame and   tried painting on the dye, but it still looks splotchy and there are now places where the dye wont penetrate so it the color is uneven and white in some spots where the wax wouldn't come out.

theeen, when i got it back out today to add some more colors, the fabric had stretched and now its all loose on the frame and looks like shit. i dont think i can restretch it without tearing the fabric because its fucking cotton and not canvas.

.. i cant decide what to do. im supposed to have it done by friday....i can start over, but ive already spent at least 20-30 hours working on it, but to keep working on it is an equally frustrating option because the more i dye it, the more the splotches show up everywhere and look like shit. uuugh. i thought about painting over it, but i think that would just look cheesy.

seriously.. fuck this thing. and i dont even want to give it to him if it looks like shit.

fuck crafts.

thats right, i said it. what?

in other news, being my parents house is the most depressing place in the world. really. no really, i cant believe i live here right now...its making me a little bit crazy.