I hope I haven't become pretentious or pompous in my way of dealing with others, but I've found that the intensity of my annoyance with people has increased drastically in the last 5 years. It's strange, but I find it increasingly impossible to deal with, to put it in polite terms, "stupid people". Stupidity and ignorance of others is harder for me to accept and deal with ... I'd rather just tell them to quit talking, or simply walk away to avoid staying and feeling like my brain cells are dying one by one simply by staying put and listening to nonsense. I can't understand how people can be such idiots.
Example 1: Via the internet, my activity on this dating/networking site has turned into a bit of a social experiment in my book ... a way of amusement. Someone had read my profile and asked what kombucha was. I responded simply by saying it was fermented tea. Their response: " So how would this kind of tea be different than say, green tea?" What kind of response is that? If you don't understand a word like say, fermentation ... look it up in the dictionary rather than waste my time in explaining what the fermented version of a substance is ... or at least google it for goodness' sake!
Example 2: Knowing the difference between a date and the beginning of what could be a friendship. I meet this guy on a music forum who loves board games but hasn't played a really amazing one I mention. It's cool, we meet at a coffee shop/cafe. He has a coffee, I have tea, we play, fun times are had. He's hungry, we go to a music cafe. He gets nachos, I get some coffee, I go home. He texts me that his buddy is the music director at a high school in St Paul, we make plans. We go, get in free, great show, it's Grease. The whole time, I think we're hanging out getting to know each other as friends. We go backstage to meet up with his friend, and he introduces me, saying it's our second date? I don't want it to be a date, when did it become a date? I paid for my own coffee ... I drove to south St Paul using an entire half tank of gas, upon re-fill there's no offer to pitch in for gas money. We get food, he's got cash, but has them split the bill in half and he gets tons of change, but since I was using my card, I'm stuck with covering the tip as well as my half of the bill! I'm ready to go home, but he decides I have to experience this other club ... lame, and the entire time I want to go home. I tell him I'll be busy the next week with 2 projects and have no free time outside work and school, yet he invites me to do something the next day ... saying if I have time after ... when I've explained that my projects were 2 weeks worth of work ... if he wonders why I never called ...? This is why I don't date!
People tell me that I need to get out there, spend time with the male species. Why should I if I have no interest? The one person I've hopelessly liked for so long has no idea, and I don't like anyone else. I have no desire to go on any pointless dates or waste my time with people who i can't stand, or make my brain feel like it's going to explode from the ingest of so much stupidity.
There are oodles and oodles of examples I could use from my dealings with people at work, but I won't get into the male chauvinistic russian pig that came into the polo department the other day
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Weekend musings
So I finally broke down and went to Mall of America yesterday .... wasn't really planned. My mom's best friend, Penny was in town this weekend for a leadership training workshop, so we had dinner and hung out a bit. Thursday, I picked her up after my morning class to show her around town. We had coffee, hit Magers and Quinn (an amazing book store on Hennepin), finally went to Jerusalem (an amazing authentic middle-eastern restaurant around the corner from my apartment) and explored sculpture garden for the millionth time. It was fun. She showed me some pictures of my mom in college ... it was so strange to see my mom with that hair!
The last two days were a one-day sale at work ... my disappointment at it not being slow enough for me to sneak some reading had my co-workers accusing me of reading too much. Do I read too much? Does choosing to stay in with music and a book over clubbing or bar hopping have to be such a bad thing?
The last two days were a one-day sale at work ... my disappointment at it not being slow enough for me to sneak some reading had my co-workers accusing me of reading too much. Do I read too much? Does choosing to stay in with music and a book over clubbing or bar hopping have to be such a bad thing?
Friday, February 26, 2010
Spooky Burnside
Apparently, to get your star persona, you take the name of your first pet followed by your mother's maiden name ... am kinda diggin the name:
Spooky Burnside :)
Spooky Burnside :)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
wood testing
So, with my trip to Lowe's today I was shopping for 1 by 2's and 1 by 4's ... as I was doing the eye test to make sure they had the least amount of bow, I found that the straightest piece had a bunch of knots in it. Led me to the following conclusion:
I like my wood like I like my men: Straight and a little knotty :)
I like my wood like I like my men: Straight and a little knotty :)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
China Trip Details...
It looks like I'm going to be moving back home before the trip, so I'll be able to fly out of Columbus, Yay! Home to Ohio!
So I thought I'd post the details for my trip. It's not until June, but I'm stoked ... too excited to sit on my hands.
It's called "China in Lens" June 20-30, 2010.
Starting in Beijing
So I thought I'd post the details for my trip. It's not until June, but I'm stoked ... too excited to sit on my hands.
It's called "China in Lens" June 20-30, 2010.
Starting in Beijing
- photography assignment
- Tiananmen Square
- The Forbidden City
- Palace Museum
- Temple of Heaven
- Imperial Tea House
- Back-stage tour of Peking Opera House to complete photography assignment
- Evening performance of the Peking Opera
- Visit Central Academy of Fine Arts
- Tour of CAFA Art Museum
- Chinese Photographer's Association
- visit Beijing printing company
- Great Wall to complete photography assignment
- tour of Chinese ancient city compound ("Hutong") to complete photography assignment
- Xi'an Archaeological Museum (including Terra-Cotta Warrior & Horse Museum) to complete photography assignment
- tour of the Great Mosque to complete photography assignment
- performance of Tang Dynasty Show
- Taibai Mountain, highest peak of Qinling Range
- tour of Mt Taibai park to complete photography assignment
- stop at a rural market to complete photography assignment
- walking tour of Xi'an's Muslim District to complete photography assignment
- m97 Museum of Fine Art and Contemporary Photography
- visit to Shanghai wedding photography studio
- tour of Shanghai silk factory - another photography assignment
- walking tour of Old Shanghai to complete photography assignment
- free afternoon to explore Chenghuang Temple District (or 2010 World Expo)
about China ...
So, this whole going to China thing .... I'm uber excited about it!!!!!
I'd seen on the study abroad fliers that there was a photography trip to China, but like all study abroad trips, I knew any would be out of my price range. It's rare that AI has a trip that's for photography students. Usually they're for graphic design, advertising, culinary, even fashion. Last year I had seen that there was a semester study in Berlin ... that would have been cool, but again, expensive.
Since the new abroad flier came out last quarter, for some reason, I kept looking at it ... seeing "China in Lens" a short trip between quarters ... and I kept wondering ...
Last Friday, in my search for school sponsored tax advice, I found myself in the office of Student Affairs ... the office in which the Study Abroad coordinator's desk also resides ... Upon leaving, I couldn't help but ask. Armed with a packet, I was through it even before I made it home ... Talking to my mom that afternoon regarding the dates the folks were planning to come out and help me move back to Ohio ... (The planned weekend was the departure date of this trip) So I bring it up ... thinking it another idea that would be shot down, especially by my dad ... Why should I spend that much money to go to China and take pictures!!!???? I could hear it in my head immediately. Mom tells me she'll bring it up to dad, but doesn't really seem on-board with the spending of money/ student loan situation.
I get a call a couple hours later ... "Your Dad wants to talk to you, I'll let you tell him more about it" He asks if I get college credit for it? Yes, it's a class ... assignments each day of the trip. He asks what's included? Everything except what I choose to do off the itenary ... museums, etc. Cost? His response: You should do this. You're never going to get an opportunity like this for that price. Some of the guys at work that got to go to Japan, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and this is too. You're gonna need spending money ... I ... we can take care of that, help you with that since You're gonna have to take out a student loan for this ... but it's worth it.
My dad, who doesn't understand me, art, music, on the outside looks like he dislikes asians (when in reality, he just can't stand some of the jerks he works for who happen to be Japanese) is acually on board and excited about me taking a trip to China! My first trip out of this country (besides Canada before passports were required) is going to be to China!!!!!!!! They're even helping me buy new luggage, since my set's wheels finally bit the dust, and the set I had as a kid definitely wouldn't survive the trip. :) :) :) I'm going to China!!!!!!!
I've always had a heart for Asia ... the underground church in China and Korea ... I love Asians and want to see them introduced to Jesus. Always wanted to go to Japan, but I'd be incredibly happy to go to any oriental culture! Apparently the Chinese method of woodblock printing is similar, but a little different from Japanese, so if I can, I'd love to see a bit of that as well while I'm there. Mariko (my Japanese friend at work who's in love with China) said she'd give me all the info of any extra things for the cities I'll be in as well as any pointers for China travel :) . Varita (who's from Thailand) said that the next time in a couple years when she goes back home (this year she's going in April) I should come with her ... which would be amazing. I should have a real job by then to pay for the the trip. She says her family lives in a province close to Bangkok so we can visit the city, but not deal with staying there since it's so hectic :)
I'd seen on the study abroad fliers that there was a photography trip to China, but like all study abroad trips, I knew any would be out of my price range. It's rare that AI has a trip that's for photography students. Usually they're for graphic design, advertising, culinary, even fashion. Last year I had seen that there was a semester study in Berlin ... that would have been cool, but again, expensive.
Since the new abroad flier came out last quarter, for some reason, I kept looking at it ... seeing "China in Lens" a short trip between quarters ... and I kept wondering ...
Last Friday, in my search for school sponsored tax advice, I found myself in the office of Student Affairs ... the office in which the Study Abroad coordinator's desk also resides ... Upon leaving, I couldn't help but ask. Armed with a packet, I was through it even before I made it home ... Talking to my mom that afternoon regarding the dates the folks were planning to come out and help me move back to Ohio ... (The planned weekend was the departure date of this trip) So I bring it up ... thinking it another idea that would be shot down, especially by my dad ... Why should I spend that much money to go to China and take pictures!!!???? I could hear it in my head immediately. Mom tells me she'll bring it up to dad, but doesn't really seem on-board with the spending of money/ student loan situation.
I get a call a couple hours later ... "Your Dad wants to talk to you, I'll let you tell him more about it" He asks if I get college credit for it? Yes, it's a class ... assignments each day of the trip. He asks what's included? Everything except what I choose to do off the itenary ... museums, etc. Cost? His response: You should do this. You're never going to get an opportunity like this for that price. Some of the guys at work that got to go to Japan, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and this is too. You're gonna need spending money ... I ... we can take care of that, help you with that since You're gonna have to take out a student loan for this ... but it's worth it.
My dad, who doesn't understand me, art, music, on the outside looks like he dislikes asians (when in reality, he just can't stand some of the jerks he works for who happen to be Japanese) is acually on board and excited about me taking a trip to China! My first trip out of this country (besides Canada before passports were required) is going to be to China!!!!!!!! They're even helping me buy new luggage, since my set's wheels finally bit the dust, and the set I had as a kid definitely wouldn't survive the trip. :) :) :) I'm going to China!!!!!!!
I've always had a heart for Asia ... the underground church in China and Korea ... I love Asians and want to see them introduced to Jesus. Always wanted to go to Japan, but I'd be incredibly happy to go to any oriental culture! Apparently the Chinese method of woodblock printing is similar, but a little different from Japanese, so if I can, I'd love to see a bit of that as well while I'm there. Mariko (my Japanese friend at work who's in love with China) said she'd give me all the info of any extra things for the cities I'll be in as well as any pointers for China travel :) . Varita (who's from Thailand) said that the next time in a couple years when she goes back home (this year she's going in April) I should come with her ... which would be amazing. I should have a real job by then to pay for the the trip. She says her family lives in a province close to Bangkok so we can visit the city, but not deal with staying there since it's so hectic :)
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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