Fame & Fortune

So we didn't make the home page (lame) but we're practically famous for being so geeky.

Check it out!

http://svu.edu/news/archives/2013/students-win-top-awards

Being Cultured

At the National Gallery.

My Life

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

I am currently enrolled in a course entitled "Saints Signs and Symbols: Reading Medieval and Renaissance Art"

So I'm writing a course paper about the classical story of the abduction of the Sabine women. And how that story has been politicized in modern art.

Here are the paintings I'm looking at:
(Primarily the first three, and just drawing a little comparison from the last two)

Jacques-Louis David

Picasso

Picasso

Picasso's Peace

Picasso's War

So yeah. I'm learning lots about Picasso. The paper is more interesting than I thought it would be, but at the same time I feel like I'm probably kind of butchering it with a deluge of quotes and facts. We'll see....

It's on Repeat

This group came to play for a benefit concert at my university, and they are my new jam. Seriously.

My roommate and I have them on repeat, ALL THE TIME.
The Hunts. (A family of seven kids.) They're on iTunes. You should buy their album.

They also have awesome covers. Just sayin'.

Baby Baby Baby

So my boss has a baby.
I think she's almost five months old?
But she's come to work meetings a few times, and tonight my boss had this little girl with him when he stopped by for a minute to see how things were going and sometimes...

I will catch this little baby just staring at me and smiling.

It kind of makes my day.

It makes me feel like THE coolest person, really.

I just want to grow up to be a baby whisperer. It's official.

Siblings Day!

I changed my Facebook profile picture to match Rebekah's in honor of National Siblings Day.

I know, my head is tilted the wrong direction.

But getting this photo was SO MUCH WORK that there was no way I was about to try again to fix it.

No one was home, my camera was dead...

So I had to wait around for my battery to charge enough to be functional, and then use the 10-second timer. And keep the camera balanced on a desk, angled correctly... there were some bloopers.

Like a Ghost.

Forgot to set the timer.

Forgot to set the timer. Again.

Happy National Siblings Day!

P.S. I'm only aware of the holiday because of my Facebook newsfeed. Honestly.

The Final Haul

As my high school French teacher would say, I am currently feeling "screwed, blued and tattooed" (say it with an Irish accent).

There are two more weeks of class before finals.
And I have these two papers I need to write... One is supposed to be fifteen pages, and I can't say that I've started it, yet. Every time I think, "Man, I need to work on one of those papers," I choose to work on researching the OTHER one. It's going to be an issue.

But HEY, that presentation I mentioned in my last post actually went really well! I ended up just scripting the whole thing and then looking up when I could. It was cool because it was just a conference full of history nerds, and they seemed to enjoy my research! They laughed at all the right places, and even in some unexpected ones. It was cool to have people enjoy my research as much as I have.
And there was a hot tub at the hotel we stayed at, so that was cool.
My roommate went to the conference, too, so we had an absolute ball.
Our ride up was SO NERDY.
There were four of us students along with a history professor, and our conversations were pretty much identifying favorite presidents, and postulating the political affiliations of various Disney characters. Geek squad.
And my paper DID place, which I had legitimately not expected. Here are some photos of the weekend! (which you may or may not have already seen on Facebook)

On the road!!

Lookin like a mess, but holding the coveted certificate!

All of us! You can probably guess which is my roommate. JJ, the guy in the blue shirt, took first place in the U.S. history category. 'Atta boy!

We're intense.

We were pretty stoked for the hotel...

I had the back row allllll to myself! It made it difficult to hear what Dr. Mosser was saying up front. Oh, well.

Giving my presentation! "Yanks and Franks: Franco-American Relations in WWI France." Colin came up with the "Yanks and Franks" part.

Jared, Randi, Me. Geeking out.

They served cookies during the awards ceremony.

Chipotle and frozen yogurt on the way to the conference! So excited!

I told you we were excited for the hot tub. But I had some last-minute reading to do and Randi wanted to review her presentation and we didn't want to waste any time soooo.... multi-tasking. 

I dripped my wet hair on my only copy of my scripted presentation. #Fail

Our super official name tags. My hair kept getting caught in mine...