Just taking a break from studying Art History.

i think it's safe to say that this is the longest I've gone without blogging in like 2 years.

These past few weeks have been some of the hardest I've ever had, where college is concerned. It's kind of draining and exhausting and overwhelming and other such synonyms to those words.

I just successfully memorized 25 slides {which includes but is definitely not limited to: Name of piece, artist, years, place found, museum currently in, style, and 9-13 things about the piece}

and to celebrate, I will blog and tell you some of the fun names I have to memorize so you can better appreciate the difficulty for my brain.

apoxymenos, praxiteles, alexandros of antioch on-the-meander, lysippos, laocoon, paestum, epigonos, athanodoros, hagesandros, polydoros of rhodes, iktinor, kallikrates, dionysos, epigonos, Hagia triada, myron, etc.

Don't you wish you were me?? seriously. if they were names like john hansen and william smith, and robert johnson, this would be ten bajillion times easier. But, I guess if this art is mostly in Greece, they're greek names.

Also, the names of the pieces would be easier if they were labelled, nude man 1, nude man on steroids, nude man dying, partially nude woman, nude woman going to bathe, nude man throwing a discus, etc.

okay, that was a little bad. I actually do like some of this art. I like learning about it, I just honestly cannot see the point in memorizing the names and years. There is never going to be a time in my life where someone is going to say, "If you don't tell me the correct year the Venus de Milo was created in, your family will die." Why? A-because no one knows for sure the exact date most of these were done in and b- it's the easiest thing in the world to google it and see. We live in a world where random facts don't need to be memorized. I'd so much rather memorize why it's important and just the facts about it.

Anyway, I have vocab to work on next. But this was a nice rant and let some of my stress fly away.

in closing, I will give you a few pictures of some of the stuff I'm memorizing.

Censored for the children and for the males, and for the other Brianna's of the world that still doesn't understand why everyone was naked in art back then {or I guess now, too}. No one walks around naked everywhere.

So, in case you didn't know, Hermes, the adult here, is teasing his little brother with Grapes. Because the little baby here is Dionsyos, who is the god of wine. You don't see the grapes dangling from his handless-hand? me neither. But somehow, every art history teacher says there were grapes there. So we have to memorize it.
I feel like sometimes I don't believe them. How do we not know this was just an adult and a baby staring weirdly naked at each other?

this is Aphrodite of Knidos. the story goes that aphrodite saw this sculpture and exclaimed, "When did Praxiteles {the artist} see me naked?!?!" True story. Well, I don't know if aphrodite really said that, but that is what my art history book says. I highlighted that because it was funny. I might have added more exclamations though. Also, this is the first nude sculpture of a woman, in case you were wondering.

So now, I bid you ado.

p.s. I carved a pumpkin tonight for FHE with a mustache. :D

My new love. Confession time. I'm not weird.

Before you read this, you must know:

this is not creepy.
I'm not weird because of this.
It's normal.
You can't judge me.
It's not my fault.
Sometimes things just happen.


Okay, with that said, I'll confess to you my new love.



Business men.

Whew, glad to get that one off my chest.

Now, you may be thinking, "why did she preface it that way?".

Well, that's because I didn't tell you what I've done about this love...
I'm going to give you some background.

You see, there are apx zero boys in my major. Okay, that's not true. There are a few. They're cool. But not my type.

And I'm kind of in love with a good cowboy. But the problem is I'm too afraid to talk to them. So that obviously is not going to work.

Which leads me to the perfect solution. Business guys.

I came upon this at the beginning of the semester. I'd walk past the business building about once a week and there are always guys dressed up for their classes.

So, I kind of, sort of, maybe........

I'll get to what I did at the end. First, here are a few reasons why they strike my fancy.

• They have ambition. There are very few things about a guy that are more attractive than ambition. A guy who is going places and knows what he wants to do. Men who have high goals and are on track to accomplish them. 
• They're confident! A guy who knows what they are talking about and are not afraid to be themselves in all situations. No fluff. Not only talk the talk, but also walk the walk.
• They're leaders. They take action and are self starters. And not just leaders, but I feel like the business guys are the natural leaders. And you guys, my future husband is going to be a leader.
• They wear suits. I'm pretty sure if guys knew how attractive they were when they got gussied up, they wear a suit every day. {is this just me?} Guys don't act as immature when they're dressed up either. Which let's be honest, this is a definite plus. Also, I have a new found like of bow ties and skinny ties. This is all. 

So there's the reason why I may or may not have done the following a handful, or so, of times.

Sometimes I take a detour on campus to walk past the business building. 

but wait. there's more. {I just sounded like an infomercial}

Sometimes I go inside the business building.... and just walk around. 

But most of the time I also visit the little girl's room so it's not like I don't have more than one purpose. Clearly, the bathroom was why I went in there in the first place.... {they do have a full length mirror in it though!}

And 2 of those handful or so of times were to meet with a business advisor person about stuffs. So, it's not creepy that I'm there. 

and once, I even got a free pulled pork sandwich out of it! Once I went into the business building, ya know, to use the bathroom, and they were giving out deliciousness! It rocked! I vowed on that day, that whatever my reason for going to that particular building was, it was okay, because I got free food. 

Lunch AND dessert {eye candy}.

So, I repeat:

this is not creepy. 

I'm not weird because of this. 

It's normal. 

You can't judge me. 

It's not my fault. 

Sometimes things just happen.

K. Darkroom/photo lab break over. 

hopefully i'm not in here more than an hour longer. 

No, I did not change my professor's Facebook Status.

If you can't make yourself laugh, no one can.

It's not hard to make me laugh, so this probably means I make myself laugh far too often.

People probably think I'm insane sometimes because you might often find myself laughing in a random place.

I've discovered that when things are too stressful and I'm in a bad mood if I do something dumb and make myself laugh, I don't feel as stressed or crabby. So, I probably seem like a weird-o lately.

And I've been having a lot of opportunities lately to be crabby.

example- I dropped a hammer on my foot while setting up the Fotosommer show. So I said ow! and then I laughed. Because it was probably 10:30 at night. And i'd been there since 4.

Also, I was using my professor's computer for something that took like an hour. His facebook was open and I had ample opportunity to change his facebook status.  But, I didn't. I really wanted to though. I'm still unsure if this was the best idea or not. I mean, who can say they hacked their professor's status on facebook??? I can't. But, I could have. drats!! Next time.


It's now the part of my blog called, "I love".

You guys {and girls}, I'm in love. I'm in love with this years fall.
This morning for the first time since germany I wore a jacket! And I loved it!
my nose got a little cold, and I ate hot soup for breakfast.

I drove through Sardine canyon and I've literally never seen such a beautiful sight. Usually I try to get through the canyon fast 'cause I don't like driving through canyons, but I drove in the slow lane. And I enjoyed the millions of red leaves. there aren't many yellow or orange leaves, but the canyon looked on fire. It was stunning.
Usually when something like this grabs my attention, I grab my camera. But, I didn't this time. I decided to have this peaceful 30 minute drive to just be in my memories. Plus, there are a few things that a picture really can never do justice for. Sunsets, sunrises, Fall landscapes, and how adorable my niece really is. True story.

Speaking of how cute my niece is, I have a story.

I came home today and put my dirty clothes {I haven't done laundry in 3 weeks....} in the washer and then stole my niece from mom and she was sitting on my leg and got so excited she peed all over me! Who ever put her diaper on last {*cough* aunt maryel*cough*} didn't do it right and so it was all over me. I took a picture but I figured you don't want to see this... Am I right?

The best parts were- A-ALL the clothes, which were dirty anyway, were in the washer. and B-I had to shoot an engagement session in 15 minutes and had no pants to wear.

So, being the nice brother he is, Quinton let me use his sweats. I felt like the most unprofessional photographer of all times wearing sweats to take a couple's pictures. Luckily they thought it was funny. I'm pretty sure   I looked ridiculous.

You can see a preview of this session here. I am in love with fall love. I really am excited about these pictures!

And here's a funny conversation on my Facebook had over commenting on a picture