The End Will Justify the Pain it Took to Get Us There

Hello all! This is my first blog post to this site. No, I do not have some super awesome theme here. I just like to discuss my day and my thoughts, sorta let people keep up with me. It's a good idea, I think. I have a lot of friends and family that live far away, and I guess it's also a good way to let potential employers get a feel for who I am. This blog is definitely going to be linked on my portfolio website. :p

(Side note: My co-worker left her phone here in the office with me, and it's going off. The ring is this baby laughing...I can't decide if it's cute or creepy.)

Anyway. Tonight's going to be a rough night. I doubt I'm going to get much sleep, if any, until about three pm tomorrow. Why, you ask? Well, I'LL TELL YOU!

I'm at work right now until 9pm. Then I come back and midnight and work until 6 in the morning. Then I have to be at class at 8 for finals presentations in my Body in Contemporary Art class. That will go til around 10, then the print lab opens at noon, where I will go to print out my final project for Information Design due at 5pm, then mount it, and turn it in in the art building. That'll take a couple of hours. I do have a few breaks in between in which I could nap, but I'm not sure if that will help me or just make me more tired. It takes me about an hour to really fall asleep, and about an hour is all I'll get for each nap. I doubt that even if I do crawl into bed for an hour I'll even get any sleep anyway. Like I said, it just might make me even MORE upset when I have to crawl back out.

Next topic: My newfound obsession with Pinterest. SO MANY GOOD IDEAS! I'm really excited about finally getting my own place next year, and I'm really excited about fixing it up and decorating and things like that. Pinterest is giving me so many good ideas for it! Also, it gives me awesome ideas for things I want to learn to cook or do for art and design projects.

I'm working on my portfolio website right now while I'm at work. I think it looks decent, but I'm a bit concerned because I'm not familiar enough with DIVs to use them. I'm using tables, which is the only thing my web design teacher really taught us how to do. That makes little to no sense to me, since no one really uses tables in the real world. I'm afraid that it's going to make me look incompetent. If anyone reading this blog is thinking of hiring me,

DO NOT FEAR! I learn quickly. :) All I need is opportunity and time.

College is busy, isn't it? This isn't my first all-nighter by any means, but I do think this is the worst. I fully intend to go WAY over the recommended intake of energy shots tonight. Those things don't really have much effect on me. I may also drink coffee, which I don't really like. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

In other OTHER news, I've joined everydayhealth.com in order to track my calorie intake. Apparently to maintain my weight I need to eat 1900 calories a day, and to lose a pound a week I need to eat only 1400 calories a day. Well, I'd starve that way, considering on average I eat over 2000 a day. So I'm planning on losing weight very gradually. I'm going to try to cut down to 1750 calories a day, including what I burn with exercise. And as long as I stay under 1900, I can feel okay with myself.

I'm sure that that bit bored you all. I'm actually not one of those girls who's overly concerned with her weight for aesthetic purposes. I just know I'm a few pounds over my recommended weight. I want to keep myself healthy. Looks are a bonus. ;)

I suppose that's all for now.

And that means...PICTURE TIME!