It's that time again...

Hello world!!! Greetings from Missouri. :)

This year is off to a good start. Sorority recruitment is over and we did our best recruitment that we have in THREE YEARS! Exciting! I have a new daughter, too. Her name is Makayla and she's adorable!! She's actually roommates in Houts/Hosey with one of the new freshman on the bowling team. Small world huh?

I had a birthday. In fact it was yesterday!! I'm old as dirt, now. 21. How ridiculous! It was a pretty laid back day since I was (am) sick and so is everyone else in my sorority [and on campus]. The health center is completely booked for the rest of the week. Lame. No worries. I'll live, I'm sure. :)

I thought I would end with a fitting video from freshman year. One of the guys on my floor played me happy birthday; it's pretty nice. lol. Enjoy! and happy day after my birthday!!!

<3bin.

The Nealis Wedding <3

Congrats you guys! You had a beautiful wedding, and I love you both! <3

You want some MOH?

Since I've arrived back to Indiana, I have jumped into wedding mode! I hadn't been in town 24 hours when I went ribbon shopping and made bridesmaid gifts with Bridey and the lovely Matron of Honor. :)

So far it's been pretty carefree being back. I've enjoyed some time off school as well as work. Hopefully I will have a job this summer that is at least a little worth while. I hope to find something other than working at the theater this year, but it wasn't that bad of a job {just didn't reallly pay me anything}, but who doesn't love free movies for you and all your friends? If all else fails I hopefully will get a job at Guitar Center since Ron's got the big time corporate job now! {woot}

I've seen many important people since I've been home I saw Sophie for a bit and watched a movie, saw Nick when I got my Mac fixed {fo' free}, and hung out watching Sex and the City with B'randon. I've hung out with the fam. Of course. They're the best! :) I ended up seeing my friend Jessica in Hobby Lobby today, as well.

The party plannig has hit full swing these past couple days. The bachelorette party will be in downtown Indy, but of course the day will start off with mani's and pedi's at the Salon Academy off Scatterfield Rd. We're going to eat din at Weber Grill which I've never been to, but April's work friends say it's great. From then on there will a bar crawl... which I sadly am 4 months too young to participate in. :( Sad day. Hopefully Xtine will have a wonderful bachelorette party! :)

2 weeks, one day until the wedding! :O

Who's a junior?

Today concludes my stay here at UCM for my sophomore year. Houts/Hosey has been good to me, but I will be living in the Panhellenic housing next year.

Due to so many graphic/printing projects that we put off, I have NOTHING packed. I'm going to have about 12 hours to pack up my life ... starting at like 5AM. The parentals arrived in the Burg around 11:45PM with pizza I ordered! To scrounge on the dollars they are lodging in my room. Since I have another ex-roommate this year, I have a spare bed and a full-sized air mattress. When planning this, I must have forgotten about dad's snoring. :O

Tomorrow is a big day. I leave the people I love to go see the people I love... it's win/win, lose/lose. Rough. As far as I know Michael will be joining me again this summer around the 4th of July season. I don't think he'll make it to the wedding. sad.

Anyway, for those of you in Andersonland, I will be home soon. Less than 24 hours. Get excited.

BOGUS!

This is our President here at UCM. And this is the e-mail I received today:

The University of Central Missouri is doing its part to help minimize the potential impact of the H1N1 virus while globally health care and public health professionals work to contain the virus. As a result, and solely as a precautionary measure, the commencement ceremony will include a cordial and congratulatory nod of the head from the university president instead of the traditional handshake.

To limit possible spread of any virus and safeguard the health of those in attendance, notices will be posted at all entrances to the Multipurpose Building asking persons who exhibit any flu-like symptoms to please go home to minimize exposure to others. They are encouraged to view the event by following steps outlined at www.ucmo.edu

.

Corey L. Bowman, Ed.D.
Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs
Office of Student Affairs - Administration 214
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, Missouri 64093
(660)543-4114

finals, finals, finals!

As it turns out, I don't really have any difficult finals. What seems to be taking up more time than I would like is my special project class Grap4040. Barabas has achieved the best kind of putting off there is, and my free time was taken with it. I made NINE screens for printing last week while waiting for my t-shirts to arrive (this is the time we SHOULD have been doing our offset printing) Sadly we are not even starting our offset until tomorrow afternoon. I still have to pack up my life!! And see some of my friends before I leave the state... and SLEEP! Lord Almighty!

Anyway, this photo is the interworkings of an offset press. Offset is where the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier on which the image to be printed obtains ink from ink rollers, while the non-printing area attracts a water-based film (called "fountain solution"), keeping the non-printing areas ink-free.

Ira Washington Rubel invented the first offset printing press in 1903.

Graph2030 Final

Alright, so this is my booklet I made hastily for my graphics project [the last one, thank goodness!] I couldn't think of anything with a lot of text I could use, so what better than my sister's wedding for a theme!? I don't know what I'm going to do after all these weddings are over for my graphics projects. ha. They kind of take over my brain. Can't help it! Anyway, I thought that at least Chrissy would enjoy seeing it. Voila!