fast family history 101 (with pictures)

when i was home recently, i actually decided to take some pictures with me. well, they were digital on my parents computer, and i emailed them to myself, but anyway i was excited. my dad has scanned all of this old pictures from my grandparents, and all of these pictures from his life and my and tc's childhood and they are all on the hardrive. so i took some of what he had, and put them into photoshop and this is what i turned out. i've printed all of them and put in them in my room...i'm pretty proud : )

my grandma and grandpa.

my grandma (on the left) with a friend

my mom, playing on a playground

my mom and dad. i think they were either seniors in hs or my mom was in college?

my dad and my aunt sherri.

all the fast kids. this is my grandpa's family.

at the urge of sam 2

i'm writing in here. i know you guys definitely don't hang on my every word...so i figured it'd be hardly noticed if i was gone for a while. that being said...i'll probably be on hiatus until after summer class (july 2nd). things are insane. i feel sort of like i've been stretched to the point that i'm paper thin. in a nutshell.

maybe i'll keep going while i'm at here though...

i was talking to Trista today (the girl my age who works in Marketing with me) about guys. and how i've been wondering if i've started to lower my standards because its been so long* since i've had a boyfriend, or for that matter, even kissed a guy. i will stop now for a disclaimer: if you are a family member and this makes you feel uncomfortable, or if you just plain don't want to hear about this and related topics...you may stop reading now and skip to the bottom of the post. anywho, its just cause, i sort of feel like i'm on the brink of settling. or that i've been acting like it. the guys i like, or think i could like, or have liked over the past year, really aren't up to my usual par. and its sort of makes me think i'm getting desperate. which is a bad place to be when it comes to boyfriends. i don't know. its one of those internal battles i never seem to get over. its the something is going to happen when you least expect it vs. go make it happen. gag. i want to stop talking about this now. lol.

tomorrow is the birthday party at work with Marketing is hosting. so i'm going to be there at 7:15am. whoa. and then another day of Celebrating Excellenc which is a training program we host for new hires offsite. its fun. and sort of exhausting. but friday i get to go see Transformers 2 in imax. and hopefully relax.

see you in a couple weeks.

* four years

professor: "where did you take that class?" me:"...in florence."

i felt like a little bit of a show off in class today. well...i'm actually still in it, we're on our break. we were talking about narratology (the study of narratives/stories) and our prof asked if anyone had been exposed to the terms in the text. i had in italian literature. so i talked about it a bit, then she wanted to know where i took that class. florence. haha. and then she said, "couldn't we all be so lucky?"

so far class is good. i'm basically a fourth of way through it, which sounds really strange, bu true. i'm taking Literary Criticism, which is looking a different ways to analyze a text. the stuff we read for today i finally understood. thank goodness. and everything we talk about is really deep and philosophical. for instance...

some people believe that language constructs our entire reality. we come into the world with already pre-created ideas, because language is already set. we have four seasons because we say we have four seasons. we have words for everything. so therefore, is it possible to tell someone what you don't know. for instance, if i said, i don't know what a lake is...i obviously do, because, i'm saying the word for it. if i say, its made of water. well, i'm saying its a thing - a noun - and i know its made of water. i know what a lake is that way too. i've tested this out on a couple of different people lately. barb somehow got around. i couldn't think of anyway to refute what she said. lol. all in all, though, its pretty interesting stuff.

so the first week is down. three more to go. woot.

work went well this week too. other than that, nothing too exciting has been going on. we moved into our new apartment which is awesome. i love being back at East Lake. everything is so nice - minus a washer that doesn't work - and i can make my room my own again. my parents coming to town tomorrow to bring me the rest of my stuff.

alright...that's all for now folks. have a great weekend!