10/16/2010

A bit out of inspiration again after a long evening at work, I took this last Saturday. When I went home a couple of weeks ago, my Mom had cut out a couple of pictures of penguins she thought I'd like and this was one of them. (Penguins are my FAVORITE animal - sooo cute!) It looks like they are a little baby penguin couple, holding flippers! Aww.

10/17/2010

Sunday sure was an exciting day on campus! President Obama and his wife, Michelle, and various members of Ohio's current government (such as Ted Strickland - he's about the only name I recognized since sadly I am  not very much up to date on politics) all came to speak at the free Moving America Forward rally on the giant Oval on campus. Apparently over 35,000 came to see everyone (but probably mostly Obama) speak, including Zack and I and his older sister who also attends OSU. It was long and a pretty tiring standing up in a close crowd for hours (and I had worked earlier that day) but it was worth it since I got to see the President! (And Zack was visiting - always fun!) 

This is a pretty good picture of Obama standing off to the side as Michelle introduced him. I had a hard time getting pictures once he was at the podium because a microphone was blocking my view of his face.

This is one of the best shots I got of him speaking. He gave such a moving speech urging the importance of us getting out and voting this November. It was a really great experience!

10/18/2010

As I was hiking over the giant foot bridge connecting West (Agricultural) Campus with the rest of OSU's main campus for my Environmental Science class, I paused to take a view of the scenic Olentangy River that runs through campus. It's really nice to have areas of water (such as this river and Mirror Lake) and large parks (the Oval and the South Oval) on campus, it really makes it a gorgeous place to live and go to school.

10/19/2010

Since I love my state and my college, I thought this photo was very appropriate. It is featured outside of a new store in the Ohio Union called Station 88. They sell pretty unique OSU themed stuff and their grand opening was last week, which was when I stumbled upon this giant Ohio! It is made up of a bunch of Ohio license plates from different years.

10/20/2010

I am already aware that this picture is a tad self-centered: it's my eye. Emily and I got all dressed up to go and see a comedian, Aziz Ansari, for free at the Union Wednesday night. He put on a great show and kept us laughing - definitely enjoyed it! We weren't allowed to take pictures at the show, though, so since I really liked my eye makeup that night I decided a picture showcasing it would suffice.

10/21/2010

Not too much to say about this picture - just that I thought the sky was exceptionally pretty with the bright sun, puffy clouds and bright blue hue that is so characteristic of fall.

10/22/2010

Emily and I took quite an adventure (if you really want to know the full story - ask me, but the long and short of it was that it took us 2 and a half hours to get somewhere that was supposed to take less than 45 minutes - oops!) Friday evening and went to a nearby mall, Tuttle Mall. Despite our travel troubles we still had a great time and I snapped this picture while waiting for the bus. I liked how college-y the building looked and the (surprise surprise) brightly colored tree next to it.

10/23/2010

This was what I stared at for hours on Saturday before and after working my 4 hour shift - my Chemistry midterm was today (Monday) and I studied like crazy for it (hopefully it paid off). This was my desk covered in Chemistry...and if you look closely, you can see I'm watching ESPN. Shocker - being at a huge football lovin' university has indeed made me love football as well!

10/24/2010

On my way Sunday night to a Chemistry review session as the sun was setting, I thought the swirling clouds in the sky behind the huge and brand new Thompson Library in the Oval was gorgeous.

10/25/2010

My Dad came to visit and bring me food (yay!) last Thursday and he also brought me some Halloween decorations, like these pumpkin lights to put in my room! I strung them under my bed and voila - instant Halloween in the comfort of my tiny dorm room. :)

Here we go again! :) Sorry for the even longer than normal gap in updates...midterms were last week so I've been crazy-busy. Not to worry, though, still taking pictures each day!

10/1/2010

Admittedly, I ran out of inspiration that Friday evening, so I took a picture of my backpack. I really treasure all the patches and pins I have on here, so I guess this picture does mean something - it's more than just a boring old backpack. The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Led Zeppelin patches were sewn on by my Mom (Thanks, Mom!) before I left for school because she knows how much I hate sewing and how bad I am at it. I got both the patches while I was traveling in Spain this summer, so that's kind of cool...plus they're two of my favorite bands. The "Stop the Hate" and "Heard" buttons are both to show my support for Gay Pride and Gay Rights...I got the Stop the Hate one a couple years ago in high school and the Heard one recently as OSU. I also have a dragonfly pin I love, an OSU pin, a map of an area of France on a pin my friend Julie made and a little red dog/bear pin I found on the ground. Always looking for more pins to add to my collection! :)

10/2/2010

My Mom and Aunt Louie came down to visit me this day. We went to a really cool vintage thrift shop and look what I found - goldfish disco shoes! Sooo cool. Apparently they also used to make some that had real fish in them...that's just scary. But still, I thought these were pretty groovy. Thanks to Aunt Louie for sending this pic I took with her camera to me!

10/3/2010

Okay...so I admit that technically I cheated with this picture. First, though, I'll explain why I took it. I was out Saturday the 2nd with one of my good friends down here at OSU, Ian, and some of our friends and we saw a rose vendor while walking down High Street during Gallery Hop near downtown Columbus. Without thinking, I went, "Ooh! I want a rose!" and before I could do anything, Ian went up to the vendor and bought me one. :) He said, "The lady asks for a rose, the lady gets a rose." I can't tell you how sweet that was! He got me pink for friendship and happiness. It kept in this makeshift vase in my room for over a week. :)

Now, the reason I cheated - I had the idea to take this picture of the rose on Sunday the 3rd but completely forgot. :( When I woke up Monday morning, I remembed again and snapped the picture. So, for the first time so far, I accidentally skipped a day for a picture but I'm counting it for Sunday since the idea for the picture was on Sunday. :)

10/4/2010

This picture is of Colin Beavan, author of OSU's summer reading for the freshman class, No Impact Man. It was a great book about environmentalism, making oneself happy, and living life to the fullest. I'd recommend it to anyone. As part of the FYE (First Year Experience) Book Community for this year, OSU invited Beavan to come and speak at the Wexner Center for the Arts! He wasn't the greatest speaker, but I still enjoyed his lecture and later got to meet him at the book signing after the event. I was pretty excited!

10/5/2010

Walking back to my room after my first class that morning, I took a little detour past the pretty Mirror Lake on campus, only to find a beautiful red tree behind the fountain in the lake, so I paused to snap a picture. Get used to these tree shots because there is a lot of them coming up!

Also taken Tuesday on my way to my last class, a shot of the sun beginning to set over the Oval (the giant courtyard) on campus. Really pretty!

10/6/2010

I see Goodyear Blimps all the time at home in Akron, but I thought it was kind of funny to see one down here in Columbus, although I'm sure it's just as common. The sky was also a gorgeous blue that day! I love how clear the sky gets in the fall.

10/7/2010

Kind of an odd picture, but again, I liked the sky in this picture. I was waiting for the bus to go to one of my classes and looked up and thought the green and brownish tree above me looked cool against the sky.

10/8/2010

Going home! My Dad came to pick me up Friday after my last class and after he got out of work and I liked the way the sun shone on the tops of the trees as it was setting, illuminating only part of them in fall color.

10/9/2010

This was taken while hiking with my Mom at O'Neill Woods (my seventh of eight hikes for the hiking spree!). The color is so much more accelerated at home, even though it's only 2 hours farther north. Weird. I liked how you can find just about all the colors of the rainbow in these two trees and the sky!

This tree is always gorgeous - I went to Zack's house Saturday night and was so happy I hit the peak of its color just right. It's just at the end of his street near his front yard. So pretty!

10/10/2010

I took this picture with my Dad's camera...we went apple picking (one of my favorite fall activities) before I left on Sunday and I thought that the view of this aisle in the orchard was just so pretty.

Heading back to Columbus with my Dad, the sunset was so pretty again. See what I  mean about my obsession with sky and fall color pictures?? :)

10/11/2010

Although a lot of the upper leaves are gone on this tree, I was struck with how red it was because most of the other trees down here are still green. This was up on West Campus of OSU, where the Agriculture and Environmental Science classes and buildings are located.

10/12/2010

I woke up to a kind of gloomy, depressing day, but the trees right outside of my seventh-floor window are so yellow that they lit up the scenery anyway.

The day later brightened up and I spent some free time wandering around the gardens on West Campus. (I have a million up-close pictures of flowers now!) There were so many bumblebees and I couldn't resist snapping this picture - they're so fuzzy!

10/13/2010

I had to get up at 6:30 in the morning Wednesday morning to take my Calculus midterm at 7:30 and this is what I saw from my window. I haven't woken up that early since move-in day to be able to leave Akron around 8 am, so it was kind of cool to see a sunrise again for the first time in about a month. I'm sure it got a lot more beautiful, but then I had to walk to the exam and by the time I got out of taking it, the sun was fully shining.

10/14/2010

OSU gets certain speakers, performers and bands to come to the Ohio Union and other areas on campus for free shows (like the Weezer show on my last post). I was able to get two free tickets to a performance in the Grand Ballroom of the Union by a band called Iron and Wine. It is a one-man band and he performs a lot of slow, folk-y type music that I really enjoy. Zack came down to come to the concert with me and we had a great time! (It also didn't hurt that it was free)

10/15/2010

Zack left yesterday evening to go to some meetings for a Marketing Education organization called DECA in Dublin (very close to Columbus, which is why he was able to come down a day early Thursday night for the concert). He is Vice President of the Northeastern region of DECA, so these meetings are kind of a big deal. Before he left, though, we stopped a local pizza place very close to my dorm called Formaggio's to get their famous Buckeye Pizza - pizza dough covered in peanut butter and drizzled in chocolate. It was sooo good but so unbelievably filling! Yum.

Will post today's picture later!

Well, this is mighty long and mighty overdue, folks.

09/24/2010



Last Friday night, the Ohio Union Activites Board put on a free concert for all us Buckeyes - Weezer! The show was great. I've loved Weezer for years, the engery was fantastic and I stood in the crowd with my good friend Ian for hours to get the great position that we ended up getting. Oh, and...it was free. :)

09/25/2010

GO BUCKS!!! My dad knew someone from his work that had two extra tickets to the OSU-Eastern Michigan game last weekend, so he helped me get my hands on them and Zack came down so we could go see the game together! It was my first OSU football game and his second. We were both so stoked and the game was great - we crushed EMU. (73-20, if I remember correctly) I loved watching the players, the band and cheerleaders (pictured here is the classic Script Ohio) and the crowd. Everyone was just so energetic! Thanks, Dad. :)

09/26/2010

 

Meet Grumpy. My roommate, Emily, got him as a pet a few days ago. He is a "semi-aggressive tropical fish." She named him Grumpy because of the grumpy face he always makes. He's so cute! I have officially been dubbed his Aunt.

09/27/2010

Another work of Emily as my picture for the day! I brought a bunch of word magnets for our microfridge and during the crazy 90-degree heat wave in Columbus, I came home one day to see her "Can it get any hotter?" message. Ha ha ha.

09/28/2010

So the other night, Emily and I made a discovery that we were both OBSESSED with Jesse McCartney when we were younger...so we promptly had a Jmac jam sesh in our room. (His album on her computer is pictured here) A little ridiculous that we're both 18 and still love his cheesy pop songs? Maybe, but it sure was fun.

09/29/2010

My Dad came to visit me in Cbus Wednesday night, bringing me lots of yummy goodies and then taking me shopping to get some more stuff I needed in my room. (Thanks, Dad!) On the way out of Kroger (the grocery store we went to), I noticed the sky was gorgeous - the sun was setting and the clouds were really wispy and swirly. I actually took this with his camera because I didn't have mine on me. Don't the clouds look almost like some sort of bone formation, almost like a spine? That isn't meant to be creepy, I just thought it looked really neat.

09/30/2010

This isn't the best picture, I know. But last night I went with some friends to the Hoover Reservoir (near New Albany) to try out OSU's Sailing Club! It was really fun, it was just super windy so it was almost too much for these little old boats to handle. (someone told me they were from 1976!) They are F420's, which are just little wooden two passenger racing boats. It was a beautiful night for a sail! Now I just need to decide if I want to join for sure or not.

I just had to upload this one, too...this was the sunset as we were leaving the Reservoir. So pretty!

I don't have a picture yet for today...I will try and update more frequently, starting with whatever I find to capture this evening!