The List

Music that could be heard eminating from my room this week...

'Roscoe' — Midlake
'Now Now' — St. Vincent
'Golden Star' — My Brightest Diamond
'She Makes Me Want to' —Aristeia
'Thursday' — Asobi Seksu
'Melody Day' — Caribou
'So Pretty' — Field Music
'Homme' — Brazilian Girls
'Bang Bang, You're Dead' — Dirty Pretty Things
and last but not least, the new UNKLE album 'War Stories'... I like!

Seeing Things

3:25 a.m. I am so tired that I am starting to see things... I swear I saw a spider on the coffee table by my feet like 3 minutes ago. I'm freaking out! I have been staying up pretty late the last few nights working on a couple of small design jobs on the side. Work Work Work... boring.

The other day I went to take some pics for work. I was walking around campus when I saw a large black cloud coming from the CTC. For those of you who are clueless as to what the CTC is, it is the technology building where my dept. is. The place I spend ridiculous amounts of time... from time to time.

I was excited. I thought that Wolfpack Auto was on fire. I didn't think of the consequences, I just had to go and see. I was really hoping that it would be really really on fire and I could take a picture of it... ah the dawn of my photo journalistic career was about to break. (Random narrative that ran in my head at the time.) I was psyched. I took a couple shots of the smoke pouring from the back of the building. I could smell that it was maybe some sort of rubber... maybe attached to a flaming car in the form of tires... or so I hoped.

I rounded the corner to peek into the courtyard. The firemen were lined up against the wall, looking bored. I peered further around the corner of the wall and saw that it was not the roaring blaze of my dreams, but merely a smoldering tire. That's it.

Sometime in August—most likely the weekend of the 17th, I am going home to Salem. I'm so excited! I am planning to visit Natalie in Portland and go to a show at the Doug Fir Lounge on Friday night. Pela is playing. I've never been to the Dough Fir and need a good enough excuse to go. It'll be an extension of my birthday bash... woo! I hate having a summer birthday. Those with summer birthdays get forgotten. We don't get presents from our friends—at least not in college—because everyone is at home, far far away. Ah. Who needs presents. I'm pretty sure I have everything I could ever want right now in my life. Except a macbook pro... and none of my friends/family are buying that for me... so my life is complete. If I could get anything, it would probably not be a thing. I would just like to spend time with my friends, do something fun, eat some good food... I guess this is what you want when you get too old to get presents. I like it.

iPhone—so hot right now!

I didn't write this, but it's so so funny! [taken from crazyapplerumors.com]

Apple’s stock fell sharply today when AT&T announced that in the last two days of the second quarter, the first two days of iPhone sales, it had activated far fewer iPhones than expected. While analysts had expected that around 200,000, AT&T reported only 146,000 iPhones had been activated.

This was not surprising to regular Apple customers, however, who were quickly able to explain away the discrepancy. “Clearly this delay in activation is simply due to iPhone fondling,” said Apple Phone Show host Scott Bourne. According to Bourne and several other experts reporters spoke with, the purchase of an Apple product is almost always followed by a period lasting hours, sometimes days, when the customer sits and simply caresses it.

“It’s how we get to know an Apple product,” said the Chicago Sun-Times’ Andy Ihnatko. “Me, I take the phone off the hook, slip into something a little more comfortable and put on a little Barry White.” Ihnatko said he didn’t personally get around to actually activating his iPhone until five days later. “It was a particularly succulent morsel,” he noted. A poll of 200 hundred iPhone buyers indicated that product groping may indeed be to blame as slow jazz could be heard playing in the background of 75% of those reached.

Like I said. Very Funny!

Doing it up right—or at least a little better

I blog far too much to be stuck with such an ugly myspace blog. I'm through. We're finished. Welcome to my new blog. It will probably undergo more aesthetic changes as I make up my mind. The current look is temporary.

My life has not been as entertaining lately, but I'm sure things will pick up. Right now I am just working. Sleeping. Jogging. Then working more. Repeat repeat repeat.

Sidenote: I never find decent german pop/indie rock that I enjoy... until now. I'm pretty sure that Team Blender is my most fav german band ever. They are from Berlin, but are signed to a swed. label. I love them! The song 'nur wir zwei' (only us two) is my favourite. "Ich hatten deiner hand im meiner..." I like it... I like it a lot!

Sunday Matinee

I watched Transformers today. I really had no desire to see it and had put it off for as long as possible. Friends were going, and it was a matinee... so I justified it in my mind and went.

I liked it. I normally really don't enjoy or seek out these kinds of movies to watch. I really liked the guy's car. Somehow I cried like 3 times in the movie. Robots... or genetically modified machines or whatever they are made me tear up. How does that even happen?! Ugh! I'm such a girl.

A Slight Annoyance

I would consider myself a pretty patient person, but now I'm a bit miffed. As you may know, I blog...and my last 3 blog posts are gone. My heroes are no longer artists, but some bimbo named Jenna something or other...I don't seem to like books, movies, or watching tv. my profile background went from a gorgeous black/grey/w/pretty frames to the myspace default colors of white, grey, orange and blue. My "about me" section was wiped out, and yeah. I am a little annoyed.

Here's my new profile. I'm annoyed that my blogs have individual blocks of white behind them. I want them to have a solid block of white behind all of the blog titles within the pink border. This is me right now. I'm usually much nicer and more interesting. Oh, and my long list of music favs is gone as well. Apparently the only band I like now is air. Sooo not true. Thanks for listening/reading...

—slightly annoyed heather

Took a Trip Down South

I am back from Atlanta. I went to HOW Conference (a design conf.) in Atlanta for a couple of days. It was a fun trip, a great way to finish up this school year. Ben and Josh went too. Between trying to catch up on sleep and parking in down town, I think it was still pretty fun. It was very cool to hear from other designers, see what they have worked on, their process, etc. My mind is a little bit overwhelmed with the plethora of visual stimulants over the past few day. I have so much stuff that I need to look at. I really am too tired to look at it. I just want to be outside and doing something a little more active than sitting through presentations.

We got back to seattle last night. Upon claiming our baggage, we promptly went and found pizza to eat. Quite good. It was really nice to get some sleep last night. The whole east coast/west coast time difference has been really messing me up as of late. I forgot how much I actually like almond butter. Weird, huh... Oh, and I accidentally left my wallet in atlanta, so now I get to go to the dmv and get a new license, and I have to wait to get replacements for my bank cards.... so annoying. Luckily I had my passport with me. I blame it all on seeing a rather attractive book about houses... so hot.

I have been wanting to go to Ikea since I can barely remember... today I finally went. It was amazing. I am pretty sure that I am in love. I bought a small table to use as a desk in my room. I am going to try to put it together tomorrow, seeing as I have nothing better to do these days. Everyone is gone from Walla Walla. It is so empty here. I'm a little sad, but there are still some great people around. I console myself with the thought that most of the people I miss will be back in the fall.

Today on the way driving back from Seattle we (cousin josh and I) took the scenic route past Mt. Reineer. It was so beautiful. The sun was shining, and the remaining snow glistened on the steep slopes. The snow was starting to melt so there were little streams and waterfalls all over the place along the road. The trees were so green, and I could see for miles and miles. An over-all breathtaking experience. The remainder of the drive, we entertained ourselves with crazy 80's kareoke dance parties. I'll admit, it was a bit out of control. We listented to some Boyz to men.. so so so old school!

Anyways, it was a fun trip. I'm glad that I went, and I had a great time with my other two friends that went. I'm glad that we are all safe and back to our homes. I'm excited about this weekend, should be so relaxing.... :D