Five Guys Burgers & Fries

So tonight in Pennsylvania we went to Five Guys for dinner. I had never been, but had heard mostly good things from it. I don't really have any complaints. I haven't been so full in a long time! Almost 4 hours later, and I can't even fathom eating anything. I actually took a nap afterwards. I haven't gone into an actual "food coma" since... Thanksgiving.

Burgers

I just got a "regular" cheeseburger which turned out to be 2 patties. Who knew. They were decent sized and tasted fine. I still think my dad's and Hackney's have the best burgers.

Fries

Definitely split with a friend. Waay to many for one person, and I didn't think they were that good. I'm on a quest for good, satisfying fries.

Well, that's all about Five Guys. I'm going to go check out the Super Moon! http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/

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New design!

Because the best moments in technology happen late at night, I decided to give my blogger a new theme. I decided to go with a pre-made theme. I really like this one. It's simple, and simplicity is good when it comes to web design. Even though web design is my thing, "if it's not broke, don't fix it." If a theme looks good, I'm going to use it. Ok, so I changed the fonts a little, but green's my favorite color (& I'm not just saying that because today's St. Pat's).

Tumblr: DONE.

Tumblr account is created!!! Finals are over & the world is good again!

It's been a month so I've decided to assess the goals I set for myself a mont ago

1. Have Big Comic Locked Down

This is chugging away slowly. Everything is falling into place. Production quotes are in, offer letter is out. I feel good about this.

2. Have idea of what I'm doing as After Hours FEST assistant

I have sent out e-mails to peotential acts asking for price quotes & availability. Right on track

3. Have an A in all my classes going into finals

For the most part, yes. Some assignments haven't been graded yet so I don't know where I stand in one of my classes. Finals went ok though.

4. Know what I'm doing next school year. I am really caught in between studying abroad & running for E-board of DAB. I just wish a voice from above  would tell me what to do because I have no clue where I want to go in my life.

I'M STUDYING ABROAD!!!!

5. Have applied for at least 2 summer internships. Hopefully Gorilla Chicago will have an internship posted by then as well because I'd really like to intern there.

I have applied for 3 internships, actually. Spoke with Gorilla @ the job/internship fair 2 weeks ago. Haven't heard anything yet though.

6. Try a new recipe (cooking wise, but baking will suffice)

This didn't happen, sadly. But I did make puppy chow earlier this week

7. Have laughed every day

I think so. I laugh a lot, so it's probably achieved

8. Talk to someone I haven't talked to in a while

YES! I saw my friend Joy in Connecticut who I hadn't seen in almost 5 years!!!

9. Finish the site (Champagne Jelly) I started on for Aaron and Chase

This hasn't happened because they haven't gotten back to me about some things, but it's coming along

10. Because I wanted to have 10...[it's a nice number for things like these) Lose 5 pounds (why not I say?)

Well, the "finals diet" pretty much screwed that up. Pizza, pop tarts, taco bell, at least a can of soda a day, and pounds of cookies are not the healthiest choices. But starting tomorrow, I'll do better now that I'm not stressed to the max.

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One of my favorite pictures. Five months later, she will always be in my heart.

♥ AMG

This Breaks my Heart

So, I should be reading for class, but I took a break and went to check out the Belleville News Democrat website. About twice a week I look to see what's going on in the hometown area. This was the headline:

Harmony-Emge cuts music and band programs, will save $640,000

Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2011/03/01/1612485/harmony-emge-cuts-music-and-band.html#ixzz1FPJ5EGgx

When schools have to cut budgets, music programs are always the first to go. I spent all of Spring Quarter my freshman year writing about this topic, so I don't want to go too deep in this post because I really should be doing other school work. But it's not fair. These programs are just as important as other subjects. If my high school didn't have a music program I'm sure of 4 things:

1. There would be an outrage of parents and the student population would be a bit smaller because their parents moved them to a school with a band program
2. My high school experience would have been extremely different
3. I would not have the friends I do now
4. I would not have excelled as much as I did in high schoo

Granted, high school is different than grade school, but there are so many studies that prove the positive effects of music on children. I could go on forever about the benefits.

What really ticks me off though, is the fact that the State of Illinois does not have the money to give this school. Illinois owes my hometown grade school at least $100,000. This is rediculous. How did we get into this situation? Corrupt government employees/governors. All they care about is driving fancy cars, custom tailored suits, & getting expensive hair cuts (yea, Blago, I'm talking to you). A cut of my hard earned money is going to state taxes. I want my tax money going to good use. Meanwhile our kids are suffering. They're not going to experience the joy of having music in their curriculum while in grade school. I'm almost embarrassed to be from such a cruddy state. We have to slash so much funding because greedy people in Springfield don't know how to do their job.

Well, that's out of my system.

 

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