28 More Days......

I decided to venture out of the house today, on my day off, to the place that should be the last place I go, School! I'm sitting here listening to music and enjoying the peace and quiet, and of course, internet :)

It is only 28 short days left until I leave for Washington D.C. Although I'm extremely excited about leaving Harrisonburg again for a semester, my FINAL semester for that matter, there are a few things left to deal with before heading up there to the Metropolitain.

The last week my friend Pat and I opened up a whole new can of amazing worms that may cause me to go broke in the next few weeks. We went to the fabulous New Market Rebels game last Tuesday. I have since went to 2 about to be 3 more Valley League baseball games. Shout out to you Pat, for reminding me of what I enjoy doing! Next summer I play to go to more Rebels games than I did this year. They are entertaining...

Anyway, nothing much going on other than the summer days going by faster and faster than they ought too. Two thumbs down to summer going fast! I suppose life does travel quickly, which is why we must be faster than that! I hope that the rest of you are enjoying what is left of the summer months and are about to embrace another beautiful fall season quickly approaching, which is MY favorite time of year! Cheers!

Nobody Told Me

Everybody's talking and no one says a word
Everybody's making love and no one really cares
There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs
Always something happening and nothing going on
There's always something cooking and nothing in the pot
They're starving back in China so finish what you got

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- strange days indeed

Everybody's runnin' and no one makes a move
Everyone's a winner and nothing left to lose
There's a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu
Everybody's flying and no one leaves the ground
Everybody's crying and no one makes a sound
There's a place for us in the movies you just gotta lay around

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama

Everybody's smoking and no one's getting high
Everybody's flying and never touch the sky
There's a UFO over New York and I ain't too surprised

Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama

-John Lennon (1940-1980)

I promise!

Ok People, I promise to update as soon as I can catch up with myself! I haven't forgotten!!

Flying in our Friendly Skies

So, here I am, stuck at Edmonton, ALBERTA! Yes, thats right folks, for all you people that have ever been to this airport, it's crap! Vending machines to accomidate my hunger...I'm eating a bag of chips for lunch! Rockin'! But they are Miss Vickies, so that is a little better.

I'm not going to lie, I love to fly, I think it's the ideal way to travel. For example, it took us, in a car, from Calgary, Alberta to Victoria, British Columbia, 2 days, broken up. It's about 12ish hours all together. Now, I flew from Victoria International Airport to Edmonton which is farther north than Calgary, and it took me an hour and 20 minutes. Which do you think I prefer? Now don't get me wrong, I loved the scenes of the rocky mountains and the wonderful wildlife and interesting sights along the way, but flying, my lands, I got a nap in, I didn't get car sick or motion sick, annnnd I'm halfway done with my trip.

Ok, so this is a lot of babbling, only because I bought a days worth of internet because I figured, hey, I'm here for a 2 hour layover, which ended up being 3 1/2 or something, might as well do something fun. You maybe asking, Sabrina, why aren't you reading a book? Well, I did that too, on the plane, and I did it on vacation. One book down, one more to go....

I enjoyed my vaca in BC as I usually do, but when it's time to go home, I guess I'm more than ready to be home. What is "home"? Well on this trip I've come to realize it's not really that I MISS Harrisonburg, or have a disconnected feeling when I'm away, but I'm more or less discussed with the fact of living out of a suitcase. So whether my home is in Harrisonburg, Washington DC, Colorado, France, doesn't matter, I'm settled when I'm not living out of a suitcase. So....I'm ready to not be on the RUN and feeling like a tourist.

Ok. I'm finished complaining and talking usless and trivial things. I'm ready to be home. the end!

Commencement has come and gone...

It's true, it has come and gone. My beloved school is my past now. Of course, I still have one semester left, but it won't be on the campus of EMU, and that is ok. The more and more I think about being in Washington DC my final semester the more I am sadened because I love EMU. I thought I'd never fall in love with a school like I did this one. Eastern Mennonite University was a place that I never wanted to go when I was searching for colleges. I never went to college, for two years. I worked. A crazy fortune of events happened soon before the fall of what would have been my third year of no education. I finally gave into the school I never wanted to be a part of. The school where my parents went, my uncles, cousins and brother before me. I know now why I love that school so much. It's beauty, it's walls of wisdom and people and community. These walls shape who I am now, and I hope that they will continue to shape me as I grow older. I want to be able to come back to this place and be proud of what I have become because of the knowledge set forth from this University.

This place in my near past has set an imprint of wisdom upon me. It has set a goal to strive to be my best and I have taught myself through this journey of my life to never give up and great things will come for those who wait and try and never give into anything. Perhaps school isn't my favorite thing to do, but maybe I'll go back, so that one day I can teach. I still think I should have been a teacher.

All is well, I'm on vacation and I can say that I'm enjoying it and looking forward to a productive summer and an exciting fall. Keep those fingers crossed that I get that one job I'm searching for!

New Idea...scratch my other post!

Ok, so I came up with a new idea and it has to do with my new found friend, Sedrick. He is a gnome and I will be taking him to new places that he has never seen. He'll be making adventures to the supermarket, maybe to the JMU, it's so hard to say right now, I'm following Sedrick with the camera. So meet sedrick.

An Artists Statement

In my photography work I have noticed that I enjoy taking pictures of objects, things that are old and decaying, things that often represent history in some way. I try hard never to take typical pictures, pictures that you see many things of, but how often does that actually happen?

In my theme I plan to take an object, something small, very unimportant and useless when it's by itself, but when given to someone, I hope that they can make it into something very imaginative and exciting. Something useful and profound, perhaps.

In my series, i'll take an object, new or old, I'm not sure, and hand it to many differen people in different places, and hopfully of different ages and see what they do with this object.

Lets hope that they all do different things with it!