tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26547833360174861652024-03-21T11:39:32.932-05:00I Fold Omelettescoming to you directly from the mind of Christie Robertschristie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-8725187169047151612011-12-22T22:34:00.001-06:002011-12-29T00:57:31.250-06:00Real Pigs, Fake Cows, and Homemade Cheese<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you take anything away from this post, it should be this
simple lesson: “Holy shit, the Slovakian countryside is beautiful.” That’s what
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A side note for some context, this was the same day as <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2011/12/cutest-village-in-slovakia.html">this encounter</a> so
we were already a bit tipsy from all those welcoming shots as we drove from the
old couple’s cute cottage to an even cuter farm. There were animals in every
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<i>[<a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/JennuhKlein">Jenna Klein</a> once captioned on a similar picture, "Art kids first encounter with nature," which I enjoyed]</i> </div>
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Not only that, we explored some sort of homemade
playground as well. Damn, climbing ropes is fun. </div>
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After spending some time in the
gorgeous fall weather in the gorgeous countryside farm place, we were ushered
inside for lunch. Perhaps I should say Lunch because this was intense.
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The first course was soup. Two kinds of very heavy soup plus
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not complementary at restaurants, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not
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a lot of confusion and possibly even resentment from the Czech tender. (Tender being short for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bar</i>tender. You got that,
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After the soup, there was a main course: potatoes, meat,
lots of very filling things. I was honestly going to explode when they brought out
the two desserts. I forgot to take pictures until they gave us pickled beets,
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After lunch: more animals!<br />
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As our class wandered around staring at the beasts, our teacher Sarah had an epiphany, "Wow, these pigs are so REAL!" The most real of the real pigs she had ever seen, I guess. (Don't worry, we didn't let her live it down.) <br />
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<i>[First line of a real life high school paper, written by a friend: "The spirit of the wild horses will never be broken." So hilariously terrible, and yet when we told Aidan, she defended the horse-loving writer. You can see it in her face here.]</i></div>
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<i> [Side note: The "spirit" was all over this place.]</i></div>
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<i> </i>Soon enough our translator offered to take some of us on a walk. As we ventured out, we asked her how far we'd be going. </div>
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"Ten miles."</div>
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"<i>Ten</i> miles? That's a really long way--nearly 20 kilometers!" We argued, but she insisted, pointing to some distant hill as our destination. (SPOILER ALERT: We didn't really go ten miles.)</div>
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But what a photogenic walk this was! We ended up stopping in this fantastic sunny field and taking some photos. And a nap.</div>
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Soon enough, it was decided that Joe was dressed like "a Sears model" and needed to pose for his cover shoot in the field. <br />
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<i> </i>We stayed in the field too long and had to take a short cut across the field for more food.</div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">[Ne, ale dekuju. ("No, but thank you.")]</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>The return was worth it though, as we were introduced to unlimited homemade cheese and given a demonstration on how it is made. </div>
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<i>[He is wearing these pants that every Czech person seems to own, but few in our American group have been able to find in stores.]</i> </div>
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I was so pleasantly full from the cheese, the perfect light dinner after a long day. Then we went to the hotel and were pretty much force-fed more food for dinner. On this day I decided never to eat again. </div>
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p.s. More farmage. </div>
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After Krakow, we clamored into our personal travel bus with
the grumpy driver and made our way through the mountains to Černy Balog, a village in
Slovakia. I’m going to have to split this town into multiple posts because a
small non-profit group showed us around and pumped our days full of activities.<br />
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Get ready to be jealous as I show you the cabin-mansion, mountainous,
fresh-air haven where we stayed. </div>
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<i>[View through the window]</i></div>
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Like <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2011/10/relovice-word-that-contains-no-r-sound.html">Rehlovice</a>,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b>we were welcomed with shots of some
flavored vodka, or maybe the herbal hard liquor Becharovka, who can remember. The
shots kept flowing in Slovakia: we awoke to early morning liquor at a kind old
couple’s house. </div>
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<i>[It must be a painful life for those who are less artsy than myself...]</i></div>
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We had one when we arrived, one in the middle, and another
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This couple was adorable though. They showed us traditional
Slovakian dress, food, music (involving an accordion, the instrument of
angels), and weaving. </div>
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The first involunteer was myself, but others followed. Let me tell you, this
woman was ridiculously strong. Some of you readers may know that I can’t dance;
I hardly did anything in this traditional Slovakian partnership but we were
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By the way, this house was adorable. (I would use a stronger
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<i>[And this was in some sort of gazebo thing, furthering the adorableness to new levels]</i></div>
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So now you probably want to know about our third round of
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I couldn’t decide if I wanted to blog about Auschwitz or
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The amount of tourists was shocking. There were people
everywhere, crowding, and tour guides for nearly every language. The museum was
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personal (English) tour guide speaking quietly into a microphone. This made
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We started in the original part of Auschwitz, “Auschwitz 1,”
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Shocking to me was the building they used for a sort of
unbalanced court-room. Though everyone was meant to die anyway, certain
prisoners who broke the strict rules were put to trial and sentenced to death
or held in cells. There were starvation cells, darkness cells, and
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There were also rooms where they displayed personal items
that were stolen from people before they went into the gas chambers. This displayed
the huge amount of murder that was going on in some way, but it was hard to
look at. You see, on room was filled with millions of shoes, another with
suitcases, another with pots and pans. Everyone from further away countries
brought pots and pans—they were told they were going to a family camp or
something. On the suitcases, each person wrote their name on it; assuming they
would get it back in a little while. The last room had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hair, </i>two tons of human hair that the Nazis shaved off new
prisoners and made into rugs for sale. The quantity was overwhelming and it was
just a tiny fraction of the reality. We weren’t allowed to take pictures for
respect reasons but if you’re really curious, I’m sure you can probably find
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The larger part of the camp is Auschwitz-Bierkenow. (Notice: larger in this case = unfathomably massive)</div>
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<i>[After a short time, the Nazis extended the local train tracks directly into the camp for efficiency and to avoid suspicions.]</i></div>
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By the way, Auschiwitz was the only combination work camp/death
camp. In the east were death camps which had only gas chambers, and in the west
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Auschwitz-Bierkenow was more what I was expecting, I think?
It's the part they use in movies at least. The whole experience was pretty surreal. </div>
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<i>[The Soviets took over Auschwitz before the war was over and dismantled some of the barracks to use as timber, leaving these eerie skeletal chimneys.]</i></div>
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Anyway, there are way more things I learned but I don’t really
have much more I want to say here. The visit was worth it even though it was
hard to go through. Afterwards the six of us smooshed into two hotel beds and
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This time, I felt even more like Hermione because I was with
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<i>[I'm guessing Grace is HP because she has brown hair, and Naomi is Hermione, because she's so damn excited for school.]</i> </div>
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Poor Sarah (our Academic Director) had the worst of luck on
this day. When we got on the first train, off to start our week-and-two-days
long trip, she realized she had left her giant bag of belongings on the
platform. She may have laughed it off, but she had to buy a week’s worth of new
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After taking these pictures I realized I really had to pee.
Sarah wouldn’t let me go because she was too worried about making the train
back to the right train. When we got on the train back to the right train she
informed me there still wasn’t time. I stubbornly ran to the bathroom (and back
because someone was there and I felt it stopping, and back because it wasn’t
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The next day we woke up early to a lecture on the history of
Poland in relation to communism. Surprisingly not as boring as it sounds. We
had a good speaker and good tea. AAAAAAno. </div>
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We saw a bit of the city; pretty in a gray sort of way. </div>
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At a local coffee shop Grace and I discovered Remember Cats,
the game that is sweeping the Polish nation. What amazing things happen in
Remember Cats (other than the physical act of remembering cats), you ask??
Well, it’s Memory… with CATS. Delicious.</div>
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<i>[SO MANY cats to remember!!]</i> </div>
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but I think they are just buses that were produced during
the Communist era. It was never really explained to us. On the bus,
ever-cheerful Grace exclaimed, “Who knew Communism could be such fun!” Remember
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completion. For some reason that park was heavily advertised even outside of
Nova Huta and claimed to have a lake. On the day of the grand opening hundreds
of families showed up with children, beach towels, and swimsuits to find an
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anti-religious sentiments, but there is a massive church in Nova Huta. Why? Not
because the leaders wanted it at all but because the people struggled for it.
They painstakingly worked for permission to build a tiny wooden chapel and
slowly worked their way up to this giant church, taking years to finish it. At
one point the Communists changed their minds and tried to destroy it but the
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Europe. Actually, people going to church and following the pope was the way the
resistance to Communism first started in this country. It was the first to fall
of all the Soviet Union’s satellites. The first night we walked past some sort
of processional where people were carrying a statue of Mary. There were
candles, and tall, dancing shadows, nuns (one running because she was late),
priests, and tons of people. I didn’t get a picture but it was like a scene
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find it while I was hangry (hungry + angry) and settled on this place which had
an ugly flashing purple sign. And was called FAMILY FUN. I was positive it was
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In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a bit behind, so this is
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This week our neighbors had invited me to a ballet. (They
know me because they once hosted a student through SIT and had been interested
blah blah.) This family is always suggesting things for me to go to and
inviting me to things, that usually don’t work out. Obviously, I’d completely
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I was even sleeping over at my friend Aidan’s house when I
got the text that morning, telling me the time and place we would meet. I
rushed there without enough time to take a shower or realize that I should put
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The text I’d received was just signed with the family’s
surname, so I expected that most of them would be there. Surprise. It was only
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When we got to the theater I dropped my complain-y attitude
because the building was beautiful. I couldn’t take pictures of the show itself
but I got a few of where we were sitting. </div>
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The ballet was Goldilocks, but there were no three bears. I
couldn’t grasp what was going on until Marie bought a program and let me read
the English part. Czech Goldilocks is a beautiful princess with such golden
blonde hair, that an evil king from very far away wants to marry her. He sends
a messenger who helps animals perform certain tasks on the way. He saves ants
from a fire, lets a fish go, etc. Each of them tell the guy that if he ever
needs a favor he should just ask. When he arrives he has to jump through all
these hoops to get Goldilocks, including perform three tasks that he could only
do with the help of animals (like find a ring in the bottom of a lake or pick
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Then he has to guess which daughter is goldilocks with their
hair covered. Luckily, the fly he had saved from a spider’s web whispers the
answer to him. Goldilocks has permission to be married, and the evil king ends
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At the end, the clapping never stopped, something I have
learned is normal here in Czech lands. You see, the actors bowed, we clapped.
They bowed again, we clapped. They left the stage, I grabbed my coat, but they
came back and bowed again. They kept bowing in different combinations and
leaving and coming back over and over. This happens at every performance I’ve
seen. You just keep clapping for about five minutes straight. This is probably
why the arts thrive in Prague. </div>
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Another thing I did during this week, was interview an
artist. My art prof. Jan suggested him for an assignment, most likely not
realizing how little English the guy knew. Waiting for him I was really nervous
he would think I was late and leave because a massive statue was obstructing my
view of most of the room. I took a picture just so you could feel my pain. </div>
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really. He knew lots of English words but no grammar, so some sentences were
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That week I recorded the adorable rule postings for the
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Český Krumlov (CHESS-key KROOM-love), a city of castles and red roofs. Get ready for photo-overload because all my pictures of this locale were inexplicably good.<br />
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On the first full day, Aidan and I decided to explore the ol' fairy-land. The place was beautiful, albeit a tad touristy. To my surprise, not a single person in our group complained about that. I believe it was because our regional stays were <i>draining</i>. Enjoyable, but definitely draining. We needed a cheery, touristy break.</div>
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Is that not what I just said? Gorgeous, yet the peasant clothes are clearly worn by people in the tourism business. I delicately framed it so that the car on the left would add a hint of irony. I have a very complex relationship with technology.</div>
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Here is Aidan, looking out upon the town. </div>
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<i>[Probably pondering the meaning of life or something.]</i></div>
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And a widdle biddle wiver! Ano, prosim! ("Yes, please!"<i>)</i></div>
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Even the stupid wall we were near was pretty.<br />
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Next we found a photogenic church. Sexy, even. (Am I allowed to say that?)</div>
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An apparently this stemmed from a tradition that was hundreds of years old. When we were inside the castle, nearly every room was furnished with a bear-skin rug. <br />
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The last bit of the castle tour was a walk through one of those castle gardens. You know, the ones that are almost too perfect and geometrically stable? Still pretty, but I like my gardens a bit more <i>wild. </i><br />
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(I have a great story to tell you, but only two (low quality) pictures. I guess I will revert to my old days of <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2009/08/moment-you-know-youre-totally-fucked.html">recreating my facial expressions at the time</a>. You're welcome, of course.) <br />
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After <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2011/11/terezin.html">Terezin</a>, we returned to <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2011/10/relovice-word-that-contains-no-r-sound.html">Rehlovice</a>, Lenka's old farmhouse turned art studio and gallery.<br />
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Before Terezin, I caught a horrible coldish flu. I tried to set it free but it would not go. The night before returning to Rehlovice I was wearing all of my sweatshirts and shivering under two blankets. I felt a little better the next day, but still wanted to nap constantly.<br />
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In the morning, Lenka was running errands and her mom was left to entertain us. Remember how the first time we met her mother, she was wearing nothing but a black bra and underwear?<br />
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Her name was something Czech but her nickname was Bohous (Bo-hoosh). She was constantly talking to us but did not speak a word of English. Sometimes she was drawing pictures to tell us things and other times she was playing charades or motioning to objects in the room.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"></span>Why the king was relevant, we had no idea. For some reason we thought the walk might lead us to pick up Lenka or else Bohous' grandkids (last night she had said the word "tomorrow" in relation to them during some mis-communicated story).<br />
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I had a sinus headache and slime dripping from my nose.<br />
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We walked along the side of a highway, stopping constantly to learn the Czech words for grass, sky, horse, and anything else Bohous could point to. She made us stop next to an ugly bush and smell it for nearly ten minutes before we figured out that <i>Pivo, pivo</i> ("beer, beer") meant we were smelling hops.<br />
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On the way back, we wanted to learn the Czech national anthem from Bohous, but our only strategy for asking was to sing the American national anthem and then say, "Cesky??" This did not work. Eventually, she did teach us some sort of marching song. We sang it many times walking on the edge of a sidewalk-less road. Excuse me, <i>marching</i>. Bohous had us march, which is how we came to the conclusion it was a marching song.<br />
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Get ready for a short, slightly depressing post right before I go to the Plastic People of the Universe concert.<br />
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So, on our regional stay, Lenka showed us her <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2011/10/relovice-word-that-contains-no-r-sound.html">art place</a>, then brought us to <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2011/10/devil-in-wee-city.html">Ustek</a> for a day, and the next day we went to Terezin, which was a Jewish ghetto during WWII. <br />
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Our tour guides were these two German boys that we had met on the first day. They were only one or two years younger than us, spoke brilliant English, and we got along really well. The cool thing about them is that they moved to the Czech Republic for very little pay just to volunteer a year of their lives giving tours to people in this old Jewish ghetto.<br />
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We started in the main square, which looked like a regular main square in a regular town, but used to be filled with hastily-built barracks. The Nazis tore them down when the International Red Cross came to visit to make sure the Jews were okay. The Nazis also sent a ton of people to Auschwitz to make it look like it wasn't usually overcrowded and had only certain people talk to the Red Cross, feeding them the right lines to say. <br />
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</div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-42073095603929398502011-10-31T16:57:00.001-05:002011-10-31T16:57:25.399-05:00Devil in the Wee City<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ustek had a
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<i>[See how they're all stacked and whatnot? That's what I call funky.]</i></div>
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NO. This was not educational nor delightful. One couldn't even use the word "museum" for it really. It was more like an elaborate, drawn-out, shoddy "performance" with furry costumes and no English subtitles.<br />
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There were compartments and everything. I felt like Harry Potter... Okay, let's face it, I felt like Hermione. And not even because she's a girl, but because she's a nerdy, overachieving, school-lover like myself. (If only my boyfriend Brian would stop <a href="http://brian-schroeder.blogspot.com/search/label/Harry%20Potter">dreaming he's Harry Potter</a> and become Ron, we'd be set!)<br />
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We were traveling to Relovice in north Bohemia (still in the Czech Republic, in case you were wondering). There were 5 groups who all went on extremely different trips. Julia, Hannah and I ended up at some really old, beautiful art/community center owned by a woman named Lenka.<br />
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That's right, it was actually so pretty that I decided to <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2010/01/jan-16-jaipur-to-delhi.html">break out the panorama setting</a> on my camera once <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2010/01/hi-delhi-nice-to-meet-you.html">again</a>. (Panorama would look so much nicer spelled with all a's. Panarama? Am I right? Maybe it started out as Pan-o-rama. Yep, that would explain it.)<br />
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When we arrived there was an outdoor feast and some cherry vodka shots waiting for us. (Apparently shots are the perfect way to welcome guests in the Czech countryside). We begun our tour that night, but I didn't take pictures until our second tour the next morning.<br />
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Our tour guide for the day was Jan, a man who inexplicably
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<i>[Seriously, he translated all of the words and the only one I
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One woman made a giant drawing and hung it from the opening
in what used to be part of the brewery. It was once a room where they stored
great barrels of beer and only a tiny amount of light got through the ceiling.
The walls are so thick that there is a noticeable temperature difference when
you walk in. Anyway, this had to do with ancestors, but I can’ t remember the
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Lenka dropped us off and drove away to her mother’s house.
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6:30. She couldn’t think of the word in English but assured us it was not
“steeple,” “tower,” “antenna,” or “pole.” (Note that we were constantly playing
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<span id="goog_1259319958"></span><span id="goog_1259319959"></span></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com4400 02 Řehlovice-Stadice, Czech Republic50.6175442 13.96784350000007250.6150747 13.964237500000072 50.620013699999994 13.971449500000071tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-77424199926974547352011-10-02T15:17:00.001-05:002011-10-02T15:20:26.390-05:00My Prague Cottage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For some reason during week three there was a lull in my normally overactive picture-taking. Needless to say, I have not written a full length novel for you today.<br />
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One nice day, I shot a pic of the main square (namesti, if you will) of Roztocky. I was trying to go to the Post Office, which had sadly closed ten minutes ago. <br />
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After taking this, I decided to try and get a close-up of that couple on the bench to illustrate how strangely okay PDA is here... but unfortunately they were just cuddling and not making out or anything else these gutsy CR couples do.<br />
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Roztocky has an abundance of cute little shops, my favorite of which is "Dog Pet," though I have not yet ventured inside.<br />
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Do you like the green and brown striped fence? Me too.<br />
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Oh! And don't let me forget my deaf and blind dog pet, Homer.<br />
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Which leads me to... drumroll, trumpet blast... my BED! As they would say on every episode ever of MTV Cribs, "This is where the magic happens."<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>[And by "magic" I mean Homer slept there once.]</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I have a pleasant view through the window every morning. Lets just say, there are flowers. Ready for it?<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Yep. That's my underwear and I am not ashamed. Also, we often see a pretty white cat in our backyard named Angie. Today I got her to let me pet her and found out she has one green eye and one blue eye. I didn't take a picture though... we don't know each other well enough yet. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Let's see... what else to say? Jarmila has grandkids, as evidenced by her refrigerator. (Side note: I met some of these aforementioned kids on Skype the other day.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I close with a picture of Naomi. She said, "I feel like such a bad-ass hipster right now, someone needs to take a picture!" </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Don't worry, she's not usually a hipster, it's just that she happened to be borrowing a guitar, wearing a scarf, AND smoking a cigarette she had rolled herself. The stars aligned. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com3Roztoky, Czech Republic50.1580658 14.39761729999997950.142617800000004 14.368687299999978 50.1735138 14.42654729999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-19188937566035721332011-09-19T13:31:00.000-05:002011-09-19T13:31:48.214-05:00Homestay in Roztocky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hey everyone, I would like to start out by saying that I didn't fail my goal right away. I wanted to blog yesterday but my computer decided it hates the internet at my homestay. So I'm at school right now.<br />
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Speaking of homestay, I haven't told you about that at all yet because it started this week! Now I haven't taken pictures of my hostmom or her house yet because I have to ask her to make sure its okay to put them online and whatnot. But I can give you a snippet about the hostfam:<br />
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I live with Jarmila and her blind dog Homer north of Prague. She has a cute little house with a green gate. Homer bumps into everything and can't hear very well, but he's very fluffy which makes up for it. Jarmila has three older daughters who are moved out of the house. Two of them have kids, two of them live in England, and one lives in Amsterdam but is currently on an archeological dig in Greece with her Canadian husband. I met the middle daughter and her children over Skype and marveled at the wonders of technology.<br />
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Anyway, my class had a big dinner Saturday night where we met our families. The next day they picked us up.<br />
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Jarmila and I took a walk around her (aka OUR) hometown of Roztocky on Sunday. This is a place one might deem a "liddle widdle town" because its very adorable, contains cottages and is near a river.<br />
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We also walked down to this really old church as well, but we had no money to pay for the tours so I'll show you pictures of that later... SPOILER ALERT: WE WENT ON THE TOUR THE NEXT WEEKEND. <br />
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Monday morning my hostmom rode the bus with me to help me get to school. (Yes, this is real life and I'm 22.)<br />
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On the way home I <i>thought </i>I knew what I was doing alone but got off at completely the wrong stop. After wandering around a bit I caved in and gave my hostmom a ring. She told me how to get home of cours,e but my pride was a bit unhappy.<br />
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I took a (mediocre, frantic) picture of the right bus stop when I got home because I was so happy to see it.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i>Also, our kind teacher Jan (pronounced "yan" and I def. can't remember his last name at the moment) gave us plastic cutouts shaped like the Czech Republic. Awwww! I'm going to pull it out every time someone asks if I went to Czechoslovakia. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Brian, sometimes I think of your <a href="http://godscallisabroad.blogspot.com/">Europe travel blog</a>, and I realize the only pictures I take of food are dessert. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">On Friday we went to the Kampa museum to look at "pre-war art," which actually meant Kupka's art; he was one of the first abstract painters. We couldn't photograph <i>his</i> stuff, but they had a quality sculpture garden:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The artist I'm going to write about is Marian Karel, who currently has a big exhibit there.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Jarmila took me to an exhibit of fair souvenirs from hundreds of years ago when "fair" mean pilgrimage or Christian processional. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Damn it! That wasn't the last thing. Here are some photos from Levy Hradoc, a church that has been around since the 8th century or so... the oldest church in the area in fact. (Remember ages ago when your read something about a spoiler alert? THIS is what I was spoiling for you.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Goodbye, cao, ahoj, na schledanou, until next week! </div><div style="text-align: left;">(Or if I am wise it will be sooner because I take so many freaking photos each week.)</div></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com6Prague, Czech Republic50.0878114 14.42045980000000349.9702814 14.179827300000003 50.2053414 14.661092300000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-14480830197510498982011-09-11T12:40:00.002-05:002011-09-11T12:54:12.056-05:00First Week in Praha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;">Ahoj! (Pronounced "Ahoy" and means "Hi")</div><br />
I've made a goal for myself to post every week that I'm here, hopefully that will happen!<br />
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I got here on Saturday, September 3rd, and met the other 13 people in my group. All are girls except one and we get along famously, even with Joe, the boy.<br />
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When we first got here we walked around the cobblestone streets looking at the quaint architecture. It was really hot, but we went down a huge flight of stairs anyway. This, of course, necessitated a pub stop because in Prague "beer is water."<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">There was a very pretty view from where we were sitting as well.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now I'm not going to give you a play-by-play narrative of the entire week, but some highlights are in order of course. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The metro is a unique experience. You go down a steep set of escalators where the posters are hanging at an angle to match the architecture. It makes me a tad dizzy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">On the metro, everyone is very quiet. This is the number one place to go if you want to feel like a rude American. It's hard for us not to talk the whole time, and sometimes old women glare at us. Unfortunately this just makes the experience funnier. We're getting better though. Most of the time we at least talk quietly.<br />
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On the first day we broke up into groups of four and went on a "scavenger hunt." Everyone in my group was bad at directions. Naturally, we started out the hunt by walking back and forth on a long, hot street. We kept changing our mind about what the right direction was. By the time we found this cool monastery with a massive library, we were not in the mood for a tour. We passed the next place, a tiny gallery, with the same overheated attitude and stopped to get iced coffee near the street you see above. Iced coffee is not common here, but we found it in the touristy area. ;)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyway, our next stop was the Perin Tower, Prague's version of the Eiffel or something. It was on top of a huge hill. Needless to say, we were sweaty and red-faced at the end of it... which was long overdue by the time we arrived at the top. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">It was a neat tower, and Natalie even got to use her Spanish skills on a tourist, but we were absolutely exhausted.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Another night, we went to a concert in a coffee shop. It's funny because they also sell some beer and wine which is different from coffee shops in the US. I don't know what the band was called and they only spoke in Czech (except the line of one song "You may be Juliet but I'm not Romeo!" which we Americans got excited about), but the music was really good.<i> </i>It was a nice combination of modern and traditional.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Again, everyone in the concert was very quiet, even between songs, but we were good this time. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">At this same coffee house, we also had a sort of getting-to-know each other class on the first day, and during a break I took these pictures nearby. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm not sure about the name of either of these things, but the park was pretty and I loved the fountain. If you don't understand how cool the fountain is, just know that it looks better in person and is different from every angle. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyway, I hope you like architecture pictures like this, because there are more ahead. We went to Old Town (the center of Prague and oldest part of the city, with a lot of Baroque architecture and other things) on a very rainy day. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<i>[One of those lucky spots that everyone is supposed to touch, don't ya know. That's Aiden, by the way.]</i><br />
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I close on this note: Comic Sans is everywhere. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">So you will hear from me next week and maybe sooner if I have something short to say!</div><span id="goog_1187618803"></span><span id="goog_1187618804"></span></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com8Prague, Czech Republic50.0878114 14.42045980000000349.9702814 14.179827300000003 50.2053414 14.661092300000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-4540874428712882362011-06-29T20:26:00.002-05:002011-06-29T20:39:52.012-05:00100<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is my one hundredth post! Now, drop the urge to start lecturing me on how this-would-have-happened-a-long-time-ago-if-you'd-just-apply-yourself-and-spend-more-time-on-the-internet-and-less-studying, and just enjoy it!<br />
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My initial idea was to do ten top tens of images from my blog's past, but that seemed too... predictable. Instead I will do eight top somethings. Well, maybe I will split that into two posts so you don't get bored.<br />
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Without further ado...<br />
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<b>The Top 7 Best Winks</b><br />
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<b>7. Winks are just plain nerdy when you are reading.</b><br />
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<b> </b>That book was about art history too, I think that makes it even worse.<br />
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<b>6. Accidental wink</b><br />
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So kill me, it was really sunny out!<br />
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<b>5. The stray bang wink</b><br />
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May I deem the stray chunk from my bangs a "bang"? I do this a lot. And for all my (someday?) international readers, I'm talking about "fringe." <br />
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<b>4. The wink that arises when you can't smile (REENACTMENT) </b><br />
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Damn, that's sexy.<br />
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<b>3. Winking with GUNS</b><br />
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And horns for that matter. This is a pretty quality wink. As you can see, folks, the man has committed his entire body to the wink, even if he is a tad crazy about Christmas.<br />
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<b>2. Winking with headgear</b><br />
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Wow, <a href="http://brian-schroeder.blogspot.com/">Brian</a>, another classic move. When my <a href="http://www.lexthompson.com/">photography teacher</a> saw this one, he said it was one of his favorites because you looked so "coy." <br />
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<b>Drumroll... </b>(<i>yes,</i> of course there is going to be a drumroll before every one! And I want to see you slapping your knees before you read them.)<b> </b><br />
<b>1. My specialty: unflattering winks</b><br />
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Read 'em and weep! No wink can top this one in jankiness!<br />
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What's next? I suppose, since this is an omellette related blog and all, we should go with:<br />
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<b>The Top 4 Eggs</b><br />
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<b> 4. Classic egg(s)</b><br />
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<b> </b>Aww, this is from one of my first posts, that's why it's so itty-bitty. And what a gorgeous picture of those white domes, <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/">courtesy the artist</a>. <br />
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<b>3. Decorative egg</b><br />
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In Middle School we had "Exploratory Day" and I signed up for a class on how to make these decorative eggs. It is a complex process involving crayons and knowing which color is darkest. Needless to say, I did not make this particular egg.<br />
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<b>2. Not sure why my family owns this egg nicknack. </b><br />
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Don't you wish nicknack was spelled knicknack?<br />
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<b>Drumroll... </b><br />
<b>1. The most eggciting egg. (What did you eggspect in an egg countdown?)</b><br />
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Delicious.<br />
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Okay, so maybe I was a little <i>desperate</i> when choosing these countdowns. I was trying to be creative or something! You know, out of the box...<br />
But that leads to my next countdown of course. 'Twas a planned insecure rambling.<br />
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<b>The Top 9 Faces of Desperation </b><br />
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<b> 9. Apparent unibrow desperation</b><br />
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Otherwise known as very little chin desperation.<br />
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<b>8. Costume desperation</b><br />
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In the next few minutes you will find that this particular type of desperation is widespread among animals, human-animals, and human-foods alike. Costumes just aren't as fun as one would think. <br />
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<b>7. Costume desperation is real, everyone!</b><br />
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It was very cold, I had nothing else to wear. <br />
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<b>6. Indecisive desperation</b><br />
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<b>5. I'm too old for this desperation</b><br />
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Not even dalmatians could cheer me up at this party.<br />
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<b>4. An extraordinary case of costume desperation</b><br />
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<b>3. Clenched neck desperation</b><br />
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<b>2. Zoomed in desperation</b><br />
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The bulging eye is what brings this face up to number two. It's not your typical bulging eye but a prime example where the eye we see to our right bulges just a bit more than the left. Actors: study this. <br />
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<b>Drumroll... </b><br />
<b>1. You're taking another picture? desperation <i>and</i> outdated glasses desperation</b><br />
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This one is an instant classic. I think the jumper makes it all the more successful. Winner! Mom, I would totally link to your blog right now if you had one.<br />
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I know you are all anxious for one more countdown. Put on your reading glasses for this next one. There will be some <i>fine print</i>, if you know what I mean.<br />
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<b>The Top 10 Glasses</b><br />
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First eggs and now glasses?! I know, right? That's just how it is around here, the party never ever stops. <br />
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<b> 10. Harry Potter, beloved</b><br />
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Hoodwinked again! I know you all thought I would put Harry at number one, but as the first movie is not very good, you were WRONG.<br />
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Suckers.<br />
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<b>9. Anthropology professor glasses</b><br />
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Not bad, Harley, not bad.<br />
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<b>8. Reflective glasses worn by sweaty people</b><br />
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This blurry, shiny, unflattering thing was taken on a rickshaw in India. How can it not be number 8?<br />
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<b>7. Smart glasses</b><br />
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Without these extra large peepers, I'd be nothing next to the wise owl. Instead, I stare him down like it's nothing! And for 19.95, these brilliant-makers can be yours too. <br />
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<b>6. Justine glasses</b><br />
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Justine eating quesadilas beats most glasses pictures. <br />
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<b>5. Creative glasses</b><br />
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Doesn't the phrase "turn that frown upside down" mean anything these days? Artists: study this, you are expected to dress up for gallery openings. <br />
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<b>4. Puns</b><br />
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It's just juice, stop freaking out.<br />
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<b>3. Anime glasses</b><br />
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... in the cornfield!<br />
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<b>2. </b><b>Really hip glasses</b><br />
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I will also accept "cool" and "rad."<br />
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<b>1. Cutest glasses-wearer ever (sorry, Brian)</b><br />
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There's more where this came from! So I hope you liked it! Comment? Follow? Plus one? (Whatever that is.)</div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-69868397418807378872011-06-12T22:28:00.002-05:002011-06-12T23:09:51.668-05:00In Case You Didn't Know<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlnv2ihgt16DtH_CPq8O23d2J5Qw25qxZWhOhUKDNVRxd0VGXnfrH9LmIBDIg9_ypvYcsB0G8uZVBDBJ0eEeGEW1yYrkkfy5_m6P9MBc1QyrHVbUex4UiVaYFhswzCjpuBnvupc85ivwZQ/s1600/prague_sightseeing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlnv2ihgt16DtH_CPq8O23d2J5Qw25qxZWhOhUKDNVRxd0VGXnfrH9LmIBDIg9_ypvYcsB0G8uZVBDBJ0eEeGEW1yYrkkfy5_m6P9MBc1QyrHVbUex4UiVaYFhswzCjpuBnvupc85ivwZQ/s640/prague_sightseeing.jpg" width="640" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">[Prague, Czech Republic]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm going here! All of fall semester. Yahooo! Damn it, because of a certain website that sounded like advertising and it was supposed to sound like joy.</div></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-63962347048024021742011-06-04T22:35:00.002-05:002011-06-12T23:26:46.957-05:00Turtle/Dove<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">My sad, sad absence from the blog world is finally over!<br />
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I am working with Bethel's gallery again this summer. An artist named <a href="http://www.sandrajeanceas.com/">Sandra Ceas</a> showed there. She makes these little porcelain <a href="http://art4him.net/">Blessing Doves</a> that she prays over and leaves all around the world as unexpected gifts for people. No note is left or anything, just a smooth white dove.<br />
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I got to leave one, so I went to a bridge near where I grew up in St. Michael.<br />
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My thoughts were that maybe a child who played by there now would find it, because I totally played there. When you live in a suburb, small bridges are exciting.<br />
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I shoved the dove above my tire with love... just kidding... I put the dove and my camera into my bike basket and biked back and forth suspiciously until people left so I could put the dove there without anyone seeing.<br />
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It <i>is </i>supposed to be a surprise, after all.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the way home I found <a href="http://crispinator.blogspot.com/2010/04/top-ten-things-i-did-in-last-ten-days.html">ANOTHER</a> baby turtle! Just a little quarter's worth of a turtle! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I decided to "rescue" him by leading him closer to a little stream. Turtles want water, right? Right? So I delicately placed him in my basket and cranked the pedals as slowly as I could while still keeping the bike straight. I was amazed at my brilliance, until the little guy tried to jump out of the basket. This was bad, I thought, as I poked him away from his unintended suicide. This light poke made the basket fall off the bike! Lucky my turtle had a shell. I walked him to the stream area, after scarring him forever, I'm sure. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hope to see you more often this summer :).<i> </i></div></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-66896959791081767822011-03-19T20:59:00.002-05:002011-03-19T21:07:21.054-05:00Pointy Frost and Procrastination<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Today was a pretty gray day. Sometimes gray days are pretty, sometimes they are horrendous. I think it has to do with the temperature. A warm(ish) gray day is peaceful, cool, and laid back, whereas a cold (or freezing) gray day is bleak, endless and windy. (I just had an urge to add a citation to that sentence, proof I've been spending too long on this paper!)<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway, I noticed the frost this morning looked like tiny little spikes or icy fur.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The strange crystals made the chain link fence look more dangerous, yet more soft. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, my day was not as exciting as it may sound. (I know you think pointy frost sounds better than any party, winning game or concert.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After working with some rambunctious dogs, I went home to try and complete a paper. I didn't get very far (one paragraph) before I decided to blog. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ah, but now we must part. I will leave you with a forgotten picture from my home computer: the creepiest Ice Cream van I ever purchased a cold dessert from.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-8575595168202959412011-03-09T01:28:00.000-06:002011-03-09T01:28:13.205-06:00What a Pleasant Surprise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A few weeks ago I found a piece of art in the halls that I had never noticed before. It's a lovely still life painting that reminds me of <a href="http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbs=isch:1&q=cezanne+still+life&revid=1921241557&sa=X&ei=5Cp3TaDOHYa4qgGr69zWCA&ved=0CDMQ1QIoAA&biw=1073&bih=604">Cezanne</a>. <br />
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It's called <i>Round Table</i> and it was painted by George Robinson, who I believe helped found the art department here. Also, it's 51 years old! My gosh, 1960 it was painted. The textures and colors are still gorgeous today.<br />
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It's in a weird little corner at Bethel, back by the philosophy department offices, where they have a wooden sign that says "Philosophers' Corner." <br />
<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><!--Session data--><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /><div id="refHTML"></div></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-44792485344356594602011-02-15T20:33:00.000-06:002011-02-15T20:33:47.092-06:00Reptile-mania-insania<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Taking pictures of <a href="http://brian-schroeder.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-new-kite.html">kite festivals</a> wasn't the only thing I did in my January photography class. You see, we had to make an entire project based off of a random subject line from a spam email, drawn out of a bag. Mine was:<br />
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533 reptiles stolen from wildlife park<br />
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So many possibilities, but obviously I decided to make shitty cardboard-duct-tape-pipe-cleaner costumes for my friends and coerce them into dressing up as reptiles. Seemed the most logical, right?<br />
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The first day I started to make costumes, I got my awesome friend <a href="http://onlyvcities.blogspot.com/">Sarah</a> to help. We both figured it would be easy to get people to wear our fantastic outfits, so we went excitedly to <a href="http://brian-schroeder.blogspot.com/">Brian</a>'s room after a few hours of working. His roommates were surprisingly reluctant.<br />
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Begging and pleading and begging a tad more did work eventually, and I got some pretty quality photos that day:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">[Brian was a sensitive dragon]</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Luckily my teacher found the combination of (admittedly crappy) costumes and sets really funny and urged me to keep going and make it even <i>more</i> elaborate and stupid. Hooray!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://thinwheezyflabs.blogspot.com/">Shelby</a> posed for me and hers turned out to be some of the best:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">My good luck kept coming when my mom agreed to play:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Things got even better. A guest artist came to my college to help us make an on-site artwork. It was going to be a giant cardboard collard green, but there wasn't enough time to paint the leaves so we ended up with a hideous duct-tape and cardboard tree-like thing. This was my moment. Or should I say, Sarah and Chris's</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The final photo shoot was just a 23 minute free-for-all with random costume parts and set pieces all over the place. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Chris called the costumes "repties," a play on the little know cult/club of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furries">furries</a>, people who dress in animal suits for fun. He wanted the subtitle of the project to be "Reptie Convention 2011."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Sometime this semester I might be able to print out more, if so, you will see them!</div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><!--Session data--><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /><div id="refHTML"></div></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-38702330891695523952011-02-01T19:53:00.001-06:002011-02-01T19:56:51.067-06:00Tiny Banana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One day I found the tiniest banana in the entire world. It was not one of those other breeds that is meant to be mini, nor was it a plantain. It was a tiny banana.<br />
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I couldn't bear to eat it because it was just so darn cute. When I held it in my hand, I started to think about how cute it was and I would tell random people about it. They all agreed it was very small.<br />
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After my philosophy class, I was the last student out (a common trend with me for some reason). The teacher started to talk about series theories and their implications for the philosophies of love and sex. His name is Dan Yim and he is a hip, genius professor with a streak of blonde in his dark hair and plastic black framed glasses. Despite his youth, the insane amounts of knowledge that flow from his mouth make him intimidating sometimes. I didn't know how to answer his philosophical questions so I changed the subject and showed him the teeniest banana in the entire world.<br />
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To my surprise, he was very excited and took out his cell phone to photograph it. After class, he emailed me the photos.<br />
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As you may have noticed, the entire situation was a tad awkward, but in a good way. Next he decided a close-up was necessary. <br />
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Now, the more I look at these pictures, the more I realize a problem: they do not illustrate the true tininess of the banana. You see, when you feel the banana's immense fragility and thinness and when you see it in three dimensional space, there are no doubts about whether it is the tiniest or not. Since we cannot do that on this blog, and because I probably have smaller hands than you, I have created a diagram displaying how small tiny banana feels.<br />
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This is how you should remember tiny banana.<br />
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Eventually, I did eat tiny banana. In about three bites.<br />
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<div id="refHTML"></div></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-7579045151015207952011-01-07T02:19:00.000-06:002011-01-07T02:19:16.583-06:00Camels: Dinosaurs of the PresentCamels are oversized, clumsy, crabby old men. They are curmudgeons, grousers, grumps. The dusty beasts are known for spitting, but when I saw them in person I only noticed their roar. Not only do they clomp around like mini-dinosaurs, they yell like dinosaurs as well. I'm serious.<br />
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I went to the Middle East two years ago and I got to ride one of these brutes. I quickly learned that they are strong, clunky, bitchy and absolutely lovable. A camel is like that hilarious old grandpa who complains all the time but you love him anyway (he is probably on a sitcom, because that would be much more complicated to deal with in real life I'm sure). A camel could also be compared to a rancid, crusty mechanic who is super helpful, yet crass.You are afraid of him, yet you would never dream of taking your car in to anyone else.<br />
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They are ugly, yes. Rough around the edges. Puppies are nice and all but ugly animals are more interesting.<br />
Did I mention they have knobby knees? <br />
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Do you still not believe me that camels are modern-day dinos?<br />
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Okay, so I was going to just post this as is, until I realized I own a few funny pictures of me and my complex relationship with the camel species. They aren't on my computer so what follows will be pictures of pictures. Quality.<br />
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You may also find that I am a scrapbooking maniac. (Don't tell anyone.)<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">In conclusion, dinosaurs are not extinct. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">p.s. Would you like to see a camel shaped rock? Near Mount Sinai? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
Knew it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYk-i_X0ELuMRTczwOXid01Bt4F3FVZJaqynbkikBntKqhUkF9BK9FmrFPjJGKop7aWVi_Eny0nrQUQKHszzvuj4eJic5lEou1N5Dm_5iR9HqMfiNxCwXOEF_y6DvqBxTBNgfkBAs2_eQ/s1600/n110900083_31146466_9657.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYk-i_X0ELuMRTczwOXid01Bt4F3FVZJaqynbkikBntKqhUkF9BK9FmrFPjJGKop7aWVi_Eny0nrQUQKHszzvuj4eJic5lEou1N5Dm_5iR9HqMfiNxCwXOEF_y6DvqBxTBNgfkBAs2_eQ/s400/n110900083_31146466_9657.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">[prehistoric]</div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><!--Session data--><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /><div id="refHTML"></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-89483067499064450772010-12-28T23:25:00.001-06:002010-12-30T20:39:10.255-06:0026 Excuses NOT to BlogFor some reason, the ever-increasing time gap between my last post and a potential new one has been making me nervous. I have a vague belief that my readers will expect the quality of the post to drastically improve when there is a large gap of empty time before it. As if the new post must take a really, really long time because THAT explains why I haven't been posting in such a long time.<br />
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Now, I know most of you read <a href="http://brian-schroeder.blogspot.com/">Brian's blog</a>, so combined with the vague-yet-certain-expectation-of-greatness, you may also be disappointed to see another <a href="http://brian-schroeder.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-know-i-know-and-christmas-is-not.html">blog about not blogging</a>.<br />
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Well, I say: too bad all ye naysayers! I must break the ice somehow! So enjoy this cliche <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">ABC list</span></span> of things to do instead of blog.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">A</span>sk <a href="http://brian-schroeder.blogspot.com/">Brian</a> and <a href="http://thesmoothstonesinlife.blogspot.com/">Tess</a> why they aren't blogging instead.</b><br />
<a href="http://jennarosies-publicjournal.blogspot.com/">JennaRose</a>, you are obviously not included because you blog all the time! <a href="http://marinarob.blogspot.com/">Marina</a> and <a href="http://raudausmondaire.blogspot.com/">Rau</a>, you never blog so I am losing faith.<b> </b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">B</span>ug my mom or dog or something.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">C</span>ulvers: one could spend 3 hours there with some friends from high school.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">D</span>rawing suburban homes has become too time-consuming.</b><br />
And painting them with watercolor, of course.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">E</span>ating is more delicious than blogging.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">F</span>orgot. Sorry.</b><br />
"Typical Christie answer."<b> </b>some would say.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">G</span>rinches have stolen my computer, I think.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">H</span>ungry again.</b><br />
My mom is a preschool teacher so all the kids still give her presents for Christmas. This means there is lots of chocolate around the house.<b> </b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I</span>ce has developed outside and I must slide on it.</b><br />
After all, it will only be winter for like 2, 3, or 4 more months!<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">J</span>une is coming soon--then I'll blog about spring.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">K</span>innect for Xbox is too fun.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">L</span>iking things on Facebook is so much easier.</b><br />
Just kidding, I don't really go on Facebook that often. What, don't believe me?<br />
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This was written after only a few measly comments on my part. So ha!<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">M</span>y back is killing me--perhaps a visit to the chiropractor is in order.</b><br />
Didn't really help though, I think I should go back.<b> </b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">N</span>arnia! The books and the movies, if you were wondering.</b><br />
I have plowed through the first five (of seven) and they are so short I can read one in a day or two! However, this is because I spend ridiculous amounts of time on the couch reading.<b> </b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">O</span>x! I think I just saw one.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">P</span>ow! That ox just punched me! I can't write for at least a week (he punched me in the hands, of </b><br />
<b>course).</b><br />
Note the brilliant foreshadowing on the last picture's caption.<b> </b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Q</span>ueer... I think it must have been a magic ox. Still hurts a week later. </b><br />
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Only magic <i>boxes</i> would show up when I searched Google for a "magic ox."<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">R</span>ushing it would only produce bad work. I must wait for the ox's magic to sink in before creativity can strike.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">S</span>hopping for Christmas is obviously more pressing.</b><br />
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Christmas picture, anyone? I was too lazy to go find my mom's camera and load pictures so I stole one from Facebook :).<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">T</span>easing my readers with a short post is not worth it, I should wait to think of a nice meaty one.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">U</span>gly girls blog--pretty girls go shopping! My new motto.</b><br />
OMGeez! Totes.<b> </b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">V</span>eto. I have all the time in the world.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">W</span>ell... first I have to read all the others' posts I've missed.</b><br />
Did it. It took hours.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">X</span>-ray! (that and "xylophone" seem to be the only words that start with X)</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Y</span>OU think of something to blog about!</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Z</span>ombies have murdered the zoo animals and I must go save them.</b>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-40549982190669867452010-10-25T21:18:00.000-05:002010-10-25T21:18:13.528-05:00My Boyfriend is Having an Affair...... with CHRISTMAS.<br />
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You heard me. I <i>know</i> it's only October 25th, that's how I <i>know</i> it's an affair! Follow along, people!<br />
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Anyway, Brian has always loved Christmas.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I mean, it's not like the guy doesn't have good reasons for loving Christmas. His choir puts on a fantastic concert, for one thing. Oh, and his family has CRAZY (but awesome) traditions, most notably Cookie Baking Weekend. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cookie Baking Weekend is exactly how it sounds. The whole family gets together and bakes hundreds, possibly even thousands, of Christmas cookies. This includes wearing matching aprons, antler headbands, and listening to a constant mix of Christmas tunes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first time I joined, Brian asked me if I had any suggestions for the Christmas playlist. I hesitated, then said, "Silent Night?" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This became a joke with the family because they probably had five different versions of Silent Night on the playlist already. What they were looking for was suggestions of songs from specific Christmas albums. Whoops. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The only Christmas album I know is <a href="http://www.harryconnickjr.com/us/home">Harry Connick Jr</a>! It's my mom's favorite. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway, there are many types of cookies made--some I had never even heard of before. Like rossettes, these crispy, fried things shaped like flowers. Spritz is another kind, shaped like 3D trees and wreaths that you get to shoot out of a pump (compare it to a <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Playdoh.jpg">Play-Doh toy</a>, that's what it reminds me of at least).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I suppose the best part is decorating sugar cookies. (Note that each cookie must be decorated in a special way, according to tradition.) We get to draw on hundreds of them with different colors of frosting and sprinkles. And because it's Christmas, there is no ugly pile, just a to-eat pile. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By now you may have discovered something. I like Christmas too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIXYtODETju7eHHK40Hnlvu6pFSWjAqS4DB-vsRt8296KGU1etFZz02-NyQxEHoXUm0bqRjIrtk6M6laVwRim9rnC0d32qBmSJt0JAF3ii8e4GBBWcdO1b-rNbs3aPtmpH728sjicCvsM/s1600/042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIXYtODETju7eHHK40Hnlvu6pFSWjAqS4DB-vsRt8296KGU1etFZz02-NyQxEHoXUm0bqRjIrtk6M6laVwRim9rnC0d32qBmSJt0JAF3ii8e4GBBWcdO1b-rNbs3aPtmpH728sjicCvsM/s640/042.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">[caught in the act]</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We practically share a name, for crying out loud! </div><div style="text-align: left;">(When I was 8 or 9, I tried to make my friend a Christmas card. I accidentally wrote "Merry Christie!" on the front. She gave it back saying, "I don't want to marry you, Christie!")</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now where was I?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh yes, Brian is slipping away! He is thinking about ornaments and snow and how my family always sings Christmas carols before we open presents. I mean...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">You see, Brian is cheating. He can't be excited for Christmas before Halloween! Just because Christmas is only 2 months away, just because Christmas means desserts and sparkly lights, just because it's going to be<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">awesome,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">festive,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">and pine/cinnamon-scented...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">doesn't mean he can break the rules! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Right?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Actually... I think Brian wins on this one. I'm (SORT OF--IN A HEALTHY AMOUNT) excited for Christmas now.<br />
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Congratulations, champ.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div id="refHTML"></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654783336017486165.post-27304983290995623752010-10-19T00:23:00.000-05:002010-10-19T00:23:07.136-05:00Things I've Been Making<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Here are my past two sculpture projects!<br />
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I was going to show you some great posters <a href="http://brian-schroeder.blogspot.com/">Brian</a> and I collaborated on for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/pages/Forwards-Backwards-A-Musical-Bromance/153557388015322">his musical</a>, but they are saved in a format that doesn't work on my computer.<br />
Don't be so angry, okay? I will show you them later. Also, if there is anything you want me to blog about, please let me know. I have been uninspired as far as the blogging arena goes.<br />
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The first sculpture came about when I decided to purchase the cheapest thing at <a href="http://www.ax-man.com/">Axman Surplus</a>. Nuts were 72 cents a pound. (The ribbon was from Michael's though, don't tell anyone.)<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSV3UnjCctFRMZoNTn8EwZuYh70rPgPKnnP6Cj_XPS_xKn04Wpxr6EjOHvXU_Wc9PbDvbiLgC2d8EVLsquimOYJayUAQ-MxXPbhmetYczTYkevZ1BYGwqe5yf9z-zuQQc9kljZn1EFJVKA/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSV3UnjCctFRMZoNTn8EwZuYh70rPgPKnnP6Cj_XPS_xKn04Wpxr6EjOHvXU_Wc9PbDvbiLgC2d8EVLsquimOYJayUAQ-MxXPbhmetYczTYkevZ1BYGwqe5yf9z-zuQQc9kljZn1EFJVKA/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">[closssse up.]</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">In case you couldn't tell, I made it squiggle all across the pedestal. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Then we have my second project. We were supposed to do the opposite of a well-known artist. I attempted to do the opposite of <a href="http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=AKk&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=1082&bih=604&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=andy+goldsworthy&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=">Andy Goldsworthy</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;">He goes outside and uses only the things he finds there to make interesting art, so I went <i>inside</i> and did the same.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Squiggles somehow became a theme...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">These were all fun to make, except the large rainbow bookshelf took a tad longer than I'd hoped. You should probably click on it to see it large to appreciate my hard work. Also, I am now in the process of putting the books back (they are sorted by subject) and it is HORRIBLE. Books fall down all the time, space is running out in certain categories, and the overly cheerful/patronizing teacher whose office shares this wall always makes stupid comments about it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Lucky you, our next project is metal casting!</div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><!--Session data--><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /><div id="refHTML"></div>christie!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06608865924843134945noreply@blogger.com2