working stiff.. works

yikes. co-op starts in T-10 hours. i am excited and nervous for this quarter. it's more responsibility than i've ever had before. i'm afraid of screwing up... something i definitely excel at. with any luck and grace, i'll manage to make it through. in a perfect world...

1) work would be cancelled in honor of the Red's Opening Day (it's kind of a big deal)
2) k. norris would call me up and tell me j'ro/some other famous chef wanted to do my restaurant. which would mean fat royalties for me and a design job for E mersion.

but, my world is not perfect, nor do i expect it to be.

i applied for and got hired at a ndy's Mediterranean grill... but to be perfectly honest, i don't want to be crazy on the go again this quarter. i'm willing to take out a loan if i have to ... but i don't want to blow off my friends and loved ones this quarter in lieu of the almighty dollar.

God will provide. always. all ways.

Su Piccolo Cucchiaio

i'm in love


i'm in love



i'm in love



i'm in love



i'm in love



with a wonderful guy.

home, where the music's playing...

home is mom.
home is katy.
home is shoes off in the mud room.
home is mashed potatoes and chicken broccoli braid.
home is katy and mom bickering over high school.
home is a tilted bed.
home is ridiculous conversation.
home is painted toes and cajun with dana.
home is only slightly awkwardly catching up with people not spoken to in year(s).
home is smiling and crying over old photographs.
home is sitting on the computer.
home is pink shag carpet, and an angry bunny who chews on it.
home is missing cincinnati.

cincinnati is nick.
cincinnati is housemates.
cincinnati is yelling obnoxiously when i come in the door.
cincinnati is eating leftovers in the refrigerator.
cincinnati is checking the white board to see what's going on.
cincinnati is responsibility.
cincinnati is parking tickets.
cincinnati is strong and caring arms holding me close.
cincinnati is sushi.
cincinnati is #17 bus.
cincinnati is paintings, calendar, and obama poster hanging on the wall next to my bed.
cincinnati is conversations with kara at three in the morning.
cincinnati is fixing the projector.
cincinnati is friends and school that come and go.
cincinnati is the extremes between stress and relaxation.

cincinnati is missing home.

Spring Break Schedule

Today:
Process book
Eat
Shower
Give Kevin Cookies
Bowling


Tomorrow:
Move DAAP CRAP
Finish Process Book
Print Process Book
Deliver Process Book - 5pm
Celebrate Accordingly!

Saturday:
UTA
HOME!!
Seeing DanaFace

Sunday:
Easter!
Quality Family Time

Monday:
Chores, including:
*taxes
*getting car looked at
Seeing Bridget and/Or Liz

Tuesday:
Pictures with my Sista
Hang out/finish up what i didn't from Monday
Scholarship stuff?

Wednesday:
Go back to Cincinnati after supper

Thursday:
Eye doctor appt - 2 pm
Recycle every plastic bag in our house
turn in cable box
figure out how to make cable work through VCR... eek
Pedicures with Sarah and Tiffy Face

Friday:
Dentist - 9 am
....

get ready for work-age, i guess

ready, set.... GO!

Home Sweet Home

Is anyone going to be home/ in Indiana for the week of March 23-29? That is my spring break - I would love to see people if they're close. Unfortunately the price of gas may prevent many roadtrippage - but Greenwood/Indianapolis area is not too terribly far away.

I would love to see ya'all, if you're around.

Let me know. thanks :)

Jenny

it's over

it seems like when it rains, it pours... or rather in the case of last weekend, when it snows, it blizzards. seriously. it was halfway decent through january and february, but come the first weekend in march... definitely time for 12 inches of snow.

it was pretty ridiculous. the bad news: three of our five shows got canceled. the good news: i was able to use friday and saturday to work on my final stuff for studio. also, we rescheduled and had two shows on sunday, so the run wasn't cut completely short.

i still don't regret trying to do too much at once. it makes me crazy, but i love it. i don't know if i would've gotten all my stuff done on time if i actually had to perform on friday and saturday.

God works in cool ways like that. it always works out. i always forget that it will, and freak out, and then it works out...

kinda like co-op. the whole not getting a job until the last week of school thing is getting kind of old. hopefully next year will go more smoothly.

but. i DID get the job at E mersion design. it's really small - only 15 people or so. that is exciting and really scary at the same time. we had a guest speaker come and talk to us about putting together contract documents (i.e. what the builders use to build a building) during materials... and i was confused and bored at the same time. it sounded like he was speaking another language during his talk. according to nick, this whole specifying materials, finishes, everything business is what interior designers DO. they should tell us that up front. boring and scary at the same time - because if you mess up or don't label something specifically enough for the construction people, they will mess it up and it will be your fault.

egads.

despite getting a job, finishing up the bulk of my studio work, and not being in a musical anymore, i still have other stuff to do for school, and all i really want to do is lay around. and sleep. and goof off.

i can't wait for co-op to start. then i will have nothing to do in the evenings.. and it will be fabulous.

last chance

i am an hour away from my last interview in cincinnati. i'm pretty excited about the prospect of this firm, especially as i'm pretty sure i'm the only one applying for it in interior design. it's really small and really new - they hired the one interior designer on staff in december. it would really give me the chance to see how a small contemporary firm works. hopefully i don't blow it.

things may or may not be on the upswing for me. like it or not, final reviews are on monday, and there is nothing i can do to stop them. it wouldn't be such a huge deal except for that i have four performances this weekend (eek!) i'm going to be setting up a workspace in the greenroom on saturday so i can be in there doing what i need to do when i'm not on stage.

all good things come to an end. hopefully today i will hear whether or not i got the part in another show. i've been jokingly saying that i'm addicted to theatre the way crack heads are to crack. apparently that implies that i can't stop and it's unhealthy. that wasn't exactly the angle i was going for...

theater is a release. it's something i'm good at. it feels awesome to put in a ton of hard work and then have someone else appreciate you at the end of it all. it's also caused a lot of heartache for me this quarter, what with being too busy in combination of school, show, friends, and boyfriend. next quarter all my daap friends will be on co-op, and my other friends will be crazy busy cuz hey, it's spring quarter. nick will be studying for the ARE and finishing up two huge projects at work. i guess i could sit at home and catch up on my needlepoint and reading... but it's nice to have something to do in the evenings. plus, it's over by the first week in may so i'll have a month and some to help amber get ready for the wedding. eek!

and that's assuming i even get into blackpool and parrish. egads.

time to get ready.

here goes nothing.

strike four...

Good Afternoon Jennifer,

After careful consideration, following your interview today with _____, he has decided to hire one of the other co-op students that were interviewed. He felt that you were a good candidate but just not as good a fit as the other candidate interviewed.

We do wish you well on all future endeavors, and know that with your LEED accreditation and your previous co-op experience, that you will be offerred a good co-op position for Spring/Fall.

Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with us.

Sincerely,

________

*************

someone please tell me what the hell is wrong with me.