New Rules

I feel like I need to introduce a new set of rules for myself, so let's start with that. Here's what you can expect from this blog from now on:
1. I will take at least one picture a day.
2. That day's picture will be posted the following day.
3. Saturday and sunday will be combined into one weekend post, likely posted on sunday but possibly on monday.

I think this will solve my frequent late posting problem, since I mostly take picture in the afternoon/early evening and then forget to post them because I've had a group meeting or something. Now I can post the previous day's picture in the morning before I go to class, and hopefully all will be well. We'll see.

So, today's picture (from yesterday!), is quite pretty, and will eventually be more pretty! Ben is in a watercolor class this semester, and last night I saw the start of one of his projects sitting out by his desk.


Posted with permission, of course. Hopefully I'll be able to get a picture of the finished piece, too.

Tornado warning

This evening, we had a tornado warning. Shortly before, I snapped this picture when I noticed the sky was getting dark and funky


I was going to go outside to get a better one, but that's when the tornado warning went into effect, and the sirens went off and we were all shuffled into the dorm basement. Once the warning was over, I ran over to the bus shelter across from my dorm (it was raining) and got some after pictures, because the difference looking either way was incredible. When I looked to the right I saw this:



But to the left it looked like it was clearing up...


I guess the storm was moving rather quickly. After, it continued to rain for awhile, but the sky was wicked blue, so I took one last picture from the Student Union:


Apologies for the reflection- I didn't want my camera to get wet taking a picture outside.

The Birdcage

I am always wicked excited to see a new netflix envelope sitting out on Jon's desk, so today I got really excited when I saw this:


The Birdcage! (imdb page here, yahoo! movie review here) My friends and I discovered this movie over break one morning, but sadly didn't get to finish it since it was a museum day and we had to go. Anyway, I HIGHLY recommend you rent it. It is absolutely wonderful.

Combination weekend

The pictures for this weekend were going to be two separate parts, but I was out late last night so I figured I might as well combine them today. So, here we go:

As part of the Earth Day activities on campus, a bunch of random things were taken and made into statues on one of the lawns.
Part one, Saturday's picture, was this big metal bird. I think they used different chair legs and such to make him.


The second part, today's pictures, were the big island construct they made from everything from recycling bins to file cabinets, to more chairs.


I also got a close up of one of the littler pieces on the island. I really liked these little orange flowers :)

I don't think we're in Wisconsin any more...

This afternoon, it was really gray and stormy. Good news for people with allergies, bad news for anyone who wanted to be outside. Even the nice pink tree looked dark and sad:


For awhile, we were even under a tornado warning/watch thing. This, of course, led to a Wizard of Oz discussion with one of the boys. I had been lamenting the fact that I couldn't go for a walk, because I didn't want to be Dorothy. Que talk about creepy flying monkeys that scar kids for life. But it got me thinking about various fantasy worlds, so when I was walking back to my dorm this evening and saw all of the lampposts, I couldn't help but think how fun it would be to wander into Narnia.


I apologize for the somewhat poor picture quality- my camera is pretty basic and I'm not very photo-savvy as it is. Still, this is pretty much what the lampposts look like to me if I'm not not wearing my glasses, so it's somewhat accurate. lol