Tuesday, June 7, 2011

graduation situation

done done done with college
drinks right after my final at 3pm was the perfect celebration but now i am way sleepy
I graduate saturday!

new Beyonce song i am obsessed where has andre 3000 been!?!!!!!?!!?

http://fortheeloveofmusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/beyonce-party-feat-andre-3000-new.html





Monday, May 30, 2011

this morning

i fell down the back stairwell while doing my laundry and scraped up my elbow and Danny moved out :(
HAPPY MEMOrial Day!

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Saturday, May 14, 2011

without fail!


the only true constant in my life is that i will inevitably get sick right before or directly following finals. and not the "sleep it off- three day" kinda sick, but the kinda sick where you feel shitty for like a month. i thought it was allergies but my throat says otherwise. bummer. I hope I feel better before graduation dress shopping with camilla's grandma on tuesday:)


Thursday, May 5, 2011

Feliz Cinco De Mayo


i feel like cinco de mayo is the most misunderstood holiday it is definitely NOT Mexican independence day which is September 16th as i learned when that man broke in to my apartment drunk on the real Mexican independence day. it is like the day when the people in the southwest announced themselves Mexican Americans... or something. however just like everyone is Irish on St Patty's day the amount of fake Mexicans abounds today in Chicago! also i sat next to a man drinking tequila out of a dunkin donuts coffee cup on the bus:) VIVA MEXICO!

Monday, April 18, 2011

Heavy Meadow



i have a newfound love for dolly parton?!
annie get ready for a south dakota/montana playlist for the central stretch of our roadtrip chalk full of some dolly
also since i just came up with this brilliant idea right now while typing i think that some serious mix making is in order in correlation to the vibe of the states we will be passing and when we cross state lines we have to have a whole new set of mixes so that every states feels completely different!!!
so i think dolly goes on my south dakota mix as she is a gentle soul and belongs in quiet South Dakota with Mount Rushmore and the fundamentalist mormon temple of Pringle South Dakota (prime example of a pretentious documentary fact) i have some more antler enthusiast, gun totting , raised truck inspired jams in mind for Montana
cant wait

also when did they stop using that rad close up profile view layered on top of far away frontal view in musical performance videos i toally dig it!!!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

what lies behind your eyes?



in my procrastination tactics i stumbled upon an 8th grade favorite quizilla :) a good 30 minutes of fun: finding that my rapper nickname should be nuffing, my lipgloss flavor is sour apple and what lies behind my eyes is this rad picture!!! and peace i guess. i need to get outta this city! everything is old news i am feeling antsy, that coupled with my lack of funds for having fun, my parents stressing me out with their travel plans for my graduation and my future lyfe plans hanging midair somewhere in the near or far future of email or postage mail in world have me obsessively checking me email and the mailbox and watching a shit ton of biglove.
oh have i not mentioned i am in love with biglove and wish i had costumed it and attributed to its greatness this may be due to the fact that while at home on my parents big comfy couch over spring break i may or may not have become addicted to the show sister wives on tlc, i cant help it TLC GETS ME EVERYTIME whether it is an hour long special on primordial dwarfism or a show about baby beauty competitions i can not look away, it may be due the fact that i self proclaimedly will watch a documentary about ANYTHING! really unless it has a gag factor that i cant handle i will pretty much be hooked
or maybe it is because i am nosey or maybe i truly care about things and am truly interested in lyfe ? nope i bet i am just nosey and love pulling those annoying pretentious random facts out in groups of people. which led to Sohui and i watching a half hour of primordial dwarfism youtube videos in the costume shop on tuesday :/

bah sorry yes biglove so good
also who knew the bump-it and braid hairdo is the tell tale sign of fundamentalist polygamist mormon women?!?
kinda love it kinda hate it the height of some of the bumpits on the show get a little outta hand


Saturday, April 16, 2011

LoveStories from the Jersey Shore '94

i really like the "vibe" of this clip
not to mention that amazing shoulderless button-up!!!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

bad people should have to wear a scar or an eye patch so you can recognize them







Tuesday, March 8, 2011

mah nose

my nose ring /thing/ stud fell out the other day when i was watching psych in my room! and i finally got to change it no pliers, two string men needed and/or eye/ face injuries involved! i thought that i would have to grow old with that earring back in my nose i had dealt with the fact and run the slideshow of my life growing old with a nose stud from when i was 20 years old looking hip with the nose stud in my future came with its share of no serious jobs only long white hair and crazy southwest inspired jewelry that, or i was gonna move to an indian neighborhood where an old lady aint judged!


but alas it did not come to either of those scenarios HOWEVER ... i did have to go to the most awful store with the most awful music to buy a new nose stud there was a man getting a barbed wire tatto and the woman who helped me wore an awful coraline inspired( i am sure) maroon wig however nose stud retreived and my future looks bright



By Randy P





these make me miss california spring break cant come soon enough!!!
i cant wait to throw away all of my boots after this winter !!!

Friday, March 4, 2011

fridayz lazydays scrambledeggz

so bad at productivity on fridaze




also i took a picture of my side table this morning because it was its own little tortoise shell vignette:)
sometimes you dont realize you have a problem till it clutters up your bedside table

Monday, February 28, 2011

waiting game

now i sit and WAIT AND WAIT AND WAIT for two months until i hear back as to whether i get an interview and eventually a fellowship thank god spring break will take my mind off of the waiting and my future being up in the air. gah!




yesterday i painted my nails this really obnoxious orange/coral and it makes everything i touch look fake which is kinda gross slash cool i will live with it everyone needs something highlighter colored when it is this shitty outside it has been sludgy for days now


today on the train two girls turned around and looked at me as i was reading and one of them said "like that!" and pointed to me i continued to read not looking up and she continued by saying "when i get my next weave i want it to look like that" bahahahahahah my hair looked exactly like this^

Saturday, February 26, 2011

wait, great, checkmate, phosphate, deathrate

i finished everything for my fellowship applications !!!!
retrieved all recommendation letters
finished final draft of my personal statement
updated my resume
filled out cover sheet in extremely tidy handwriting completey unlike my own 12 year old boy handwriting
bought navy linen'y folders to put application materials in

now i wait til monday to go to fedex and ship deez bad boyz off and
WAIT until the end of April o cruel cruel world



All images J.C. Leyendecker
who i adore

Friday, February 25, 2011

BAH!

my father's family is cut from the proudest of cloth
which is so annoying and NO ones talks to each other and everyone is secretly embarrassed about the fact that they cant talk about real things and real shit is going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i shouldnt have to be the one communicating with all of my cousins its NOT my job


Tuesday, February 22, 2011

SPRINGBREAK2011

there are some people that just make every stupid thing youve done seem perfectly normal





Saturday, February 19, 2011

KaBluey




i have been dyeing paper all day for my latest costume renderings
i really think the paper hanging in my bathroom looks crazy sexy cool with the seventies yellow tile and if i wasn't gonna use it i think i would leave it there
also right hand fingertip to knuckle is BLUIE!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Back to the Future

i love everything about this project! its called "back to the future" by a photographer named irina werning and it recreates old family photos. it reminds me a bit of the project i did at oxbow and makes me want to start using my camera again SO bad maybe when i go home for spring break i will retrieve it however bringing it back to frozen tundra is prolly an awful idea another reason snow blows my list is getting bigger







Tuesday, February 15, 2011

there are not enough hours in the day to be both lazy and productive



these are a couple of lovely pictures i have taken on my phone recently:)

today i started my first day
of my second job
in my third quarter of this year
in my fourth year in Chicago





Sunday, February 13, 2011

blue da be deeedakjubba dieeeekjbdf;kavfiya





yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

jus'kiddin
just dyeing paper
and eating lick-a-maid
out of my valentines mailbox from school
:)

Thursday, February 10, 2011

This Blows!!!


i just went out on my indoor back porch to get to the basement to do laundry and tripped over a fucking glacier!!!that used to be a fluffy lovely indoor/outdoor snow drift
this blows!!!
booked my spring break ticket home
march 16th at nighttimez to sat the 26th
wahoo
sunshine, salutations, seashells and sequins
luv,
Carmen



Tuesday, February 8, 2011

things


this is the most stressful thing to watch as the title gives it away and thenyou just have to wait and my computer is really slow ... so it kept freezing ......eeee.....but i like how the red wine looks when it spills it is crazy fantastic





also i want a cat like one of these /or both of these:



this morning:
i woke up two hours after my alarm
made coffee
read my google reader
worked on my fellowship applications
and made a rad blog which i will have to share with annie and sasha as they are two thirds of this blog pie chart
details to follow
i love not having class until 2:40
and i love my new print making teacher who is awesome and got me into his class
now since i begged to be in his class i better get my ass out of bed and get there by 8:25 what a bitchy move if i skip it all the time:/

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

snowpocalypse







never have to go to school ever again you say?!

last night i played in the snow until 2 in the morning and today i slept, watched a movie, snow shoed to the grocery store, made biscotti and read. being stuck inside is like a forced vacation and I am kinda in love
working on playing catch up with school will start tomorrow
maybe

also my parents come into town tomorrow to see the show i designed and haven't seen myself since saturday and have no time to change anything i see that goes wrong but whatevs i am not stressing and my parents will still love it even if it looks crazy so we're good!

this week marks week one of carmen's 1.5 quarter's of being a normal college student with only classes and work to worry about and it is looking pretty sweet!!!