Moving Day

Friends,

I have a glorious few years with you and I hope you've enjoyed my company, but it's moving day. OWU is doing their best to update the technology and we will be opening up a new blog soon, soon, soon. Actually I've already posted to it. Check us out at our new location: http://bishopbytes.blogspot.com/

See you there!

SamanthaOWU

Job job two

Readers,

So, I believe in an earlier post I updated you as to my grad. school adventures. Well, I still have not heard back, so plan A is still running. What is also up and running is plan B. I got a job! I got a job selling wedding gowns! Random, yet wonderful. It's always interesting when your plan B (that was really just fluke application) takes off before you plan A (which is what you really want to happen.)

Ugh, I am just so busy now. With school, It's like I'm working three jobs. My head is enough above water so I can breathe (last week it was not that way) and I'm treading all right. Looking forward to spring break in a week (not that I'm going anywhere with work both weekends) but it will be a great way to get my portfolio finished. Days upon days of uninterrupted work time; honestly, I'm kinda excited.

Have a great one.

Abhorrent Honesty

Friends,

I am frustrated. I am taking a non-fiction writing class at present and all was good until my professor called on me to comment about a book that I had no time to finish nor had any interest in finishing. And so I told my professor just that. I told my professor that it took me one hour to read twenty pages and that I did not have six hours to dedicate to the book (I do in fact have other classes). I told my professor that also, the book was uninteresting to me and so it made me even less encouraged to finish it.

Apparently my honesty was not appreciated in a class on a genre that was built on being honest. Ironic, I think so.

I will say this: I never made the decision to not finish because I disrespect my professor (though perhaps my actions unconsciously did so). I do. I never made the decision not to finish because I'm lazy (actually I'm quite busy and the decision was made to keep my sanity, which, in all honesty, is starting to fail (oops, honest again.)) And finally, in a workshop class, I want to workshop. I will read my contemporaries before I read authors who have made their place in history because I believe that in workshop, your job is to make your peers and yourself a better writer. If the goal of this workshop is to get me to read pieces by people who I can not critique, then perhaps the name should be changed from non-fiction writing workshop to non-fiction exploration.

Leaky Snow

My ceiling is leaking. First it was the tub chronicles and now, my ceiling is leaking.

You know, I always told Phoebe I would get her a fountain so she didn't have to be in the sink . . . but I never planned to have that fountain start at my ceiling and run down my wall and puddle on the floor. It's not even a good fountain. Good fountains recycle. Though it is kind of slum-chic.

Ugh. The maintenance man says that it's because of the snow and the cold and frozen gutters, which I get, but if this water doesn't stop, I'm thinking serious mold issue plus water damage to ceiling, wall, and wood floors. Want to know what else sucks? The real problem is the roof and the roof can't get fixed until the snow is gone . . . it's currently snowing.

Perhaps there are some perks to living in the dorms; aka you don't have be an adult and deal with a leaky ceiling yet.

On a happy note, my birthday is in a week. Woot birthday!

Have a great one.

Hi

Friends,
Just a quick update. Currently the blogs are in a transition. Hopefully our new layout will be up soon but until then, my updates will be a bit sporadic. Bear with us through our digital evolution.

Thanks,
SamanthaOWU

Picture: Just for old times sake.

Happy New Year wishes

Hello readers!

Thank you for sticking with me another year. As 2009 draws to a close I'd just like to wish everyone a content and forward progressing and healthy (because I am currently a sickie) 2010.

Yours,

SamanthaOWU

PS. For those keeping track (aka me) I am twenty-five posts away from 200. Here's hoping!

Brilliant

Just checking in my dear readers.

So far, this break has been wonderful. I've already read a book simply for pleasure. I've already written some stories simply for pleasure. I've been baking and shopping and lunching in the the Cincy Crew. It is brilliant.

Hope everyone is having a restful holiday.

Have a great one.

Exam = pOwned

For the point of this blog see title.

Have a great one and a very Happy Holidays (I'm prepared because my amount of updating at home decreases significantly and I might not update again before the holidays.)

Applications

Grad. school applications sent.

Check.

Have a great week.

Austin Manor Rocketh my Socketh

Hi all.

Today is Tuesday and yesterday was Monday and on Monday my neighbors to Zoe and I to this wonderful little restuarant with the best Butterscotch pie ever. It was so, so, so much fun. P.A was right when he said the restuarant would become the center of the world. If I could find it again, I would consider going weekly. And it's not expensive at all. On Mondays, they have $5 meals that include entree, veggie, and some sort of tater. Then, of course, you have to have pie.

Thanks Kristie and P.A. for a wonderful dinner!

Today is also still an examless day so I am mock-touring this morning, mailing my grad. school applications after that (I'm applying to grad school!), then going into to Polaris for some last minute shopping (which really isn't that last minute but it kind of is because I go home in two days.)

Have a great one.

PS 29 posts till I hit 200.

Photo: A goat.

This is me bragging

I'm done!

What I considered done.

I'm done!

Utopia paper. Check. Asian and Arab lit. exam. Check. Journalism history exam . . . okay, so not totally done but done with the two big things that needed to get done. Now I can really focus on getting my independent study typed and sent along. Yes, it is going to take some focus. Woot though for the doneness.

But that still doesn't mean I can go home. Sad face. Because journalism history exam is Wednesday, inconveniently (arm wiggle) scheduled for late. But hey, I look at it this way. I will be home this week. This week! And I will be there for an extended period of time.

Oh . . . I'm a second semester senior . . . oh . . . scared!

Have a great one.

Photo: Our Christmas Tree.

Should Be vs. Actually

Hi.

What I should be doing is studying for my journalism history exam that is Friday morning. What I'm actually doing is writing a blog despite the fact I updated this morning so I don't have to study.

What I should be doing tonight is the same thing I should be doing right now. What I will actually be doing is baking cheesecake brownies for the tour guides.

Yes, yes I will be.

One Acts Over

Hey there Readers,

So, as my title suggests, the One Acts are indeed over . . . and their awesomeness is not just something of memory . . . and it is a very, very good memory. Everyone did such a good job with "Why Men Carry Purses" (aka my play), swooping seagull included, that I've no complaints.

And now for stuff of today.

We have a wind advisory because the potential gusts will be above 55mphs. I am taken back to a day last year when we had gusty winds. A tree fell down and we lost power and lucky for us then, it was relatively warm outside. If the power goes down today/tomorrow, we will be cold. The high tomorrow is in the 20s. My body freezes over when the temperature is in the 40s. Woot to sleeping with hats. (If I do infact have to sleep with a hat on I will take pictures and share them with you. Promise.)

What else. It's a Wednesday, which means I have eight days left of my fall semester senior year. Bittersweet; mainly because I need the break so bad but I don't want college to end so soon. Hopefully the grad school apps will be in the mail soon but even then I won't know anything till March. Limbo is a very strange place to be situated.

Well all, have a wonderful day and more updates as they are needed.

Have a good one.

Photos: Pictures one and two are the gang I went to the One Acts with. Picture three is a flash back to last year's wind advisory.

One Acts December

Hello readers,

I hope December welcomed all of you with contentment. While I'm content, it's also a week and half before finals so busy, busy, busy. But, within the busy, there is a glimmer of fun, aka, the One Acts.

One Acts are put on by our theatre. Each member of the playwriting class writes a one act play and those plays get shuffled to the directing class who gets the actors and basically produces them. And those are this weekend, the first batch was last night and the second batch is tonight and I am especially exctied about tonight because my one act is being preformed. Woo!

Some of you might be de ja vuing right now because a similiar thing happened last year at this same time and you are right to be remembering that yes, last year, I also had a play as part of the one acts. Excitingly, this year they need an extra play or two and my got to be that extra. Woot!

So just a quick shout out to my actors: Joanna and Jamie you are brilliant. Thanks for all your hard work. And a shout out to my director: Frankie you are equally brilliant. Thanks for bringing my writing to life.

If your in the area, the One Acts are free and everybody should come see them tonight.

Spammers

Dear Spammers,

My blog is not a place for you to post your birth control and Viagra ads and other such material. Please back off.

Yours,
SamanthaOWU

Thanksgiving to a Break

Hey all,

Sorry to leave you in the cyber world without a bit of entertainment but I've been a busy student. One of those weeks where the world eventually faded into the colors of my word processor because I'd been staring at it for so long and when I looked up I wanted my sunglasses because the world beyond was so bright. But everything is done. I even have my grad school applications 75 percent complete. Yes, yes, I do.

Two more classes and then I've got a week off. What I look forward to most is reading a book that I choose. What I look forward to seeing is my family. What I look forward to eating is well anything that won't kill me.

Have a good one.

Picture: "I peel the potatoes," at Tour Guide Thanksgiving which was a rockin' good time.

Happy November

It's November.

Two more months of 2009.

And I need to be working on my grad. school applications. They are two times the fun of undergraduate applications because you have fill out two apps. all together. One goes to the graduate school admissions and one goes to the program you are applying for. So cool, I know. I am going to get my MFA in creative writing.

Right now I'm drinking tea. It's a raspberry based black tea and it is so good. Yesterday I had green tea with honey and lemon. I feel so writer-ish when I sit at my computer and drink my tea and have my cat on my lap and work on the first three chapter of my book because those are the writing selection I'm sending to the grad schools.

And for those of you who are applying to undergraduate college, don't forget your deadlines. They are quickly approaching and the last thing you want to do is sacrifice opportunity because of laziness.

Good luck.

Have a great one.

Picture: Me eating hot sauce and oyster crackers at Skyline.

Hockey, Hockey, Hockey

Hello readers,

So I have discovered some sad news, especially sad in my world but just a bit sad for any of my fellow hockey enthusiasts.

Sergei Zubov, a defensemen for the Dallas Stars officially left the NHL to play in St. Petersburg. Beyond being my favorite NHL player he also was one of the highest goal scoring defensemen in the NHL as well as an all around great player.

Good luck in St. Petersburg Zubie!

On a good note, the Stars are off to a great start this season. Keep it up guys!

Have a great one.

The Tub Chronicles VIII

Hi.

I would like to announce that Austin Manor has a new water heater and it is lovely.

Thank you.

The Tub Chronicles Part VII

I think the water heater is bi-polar. This morning it was ice cubes and this afternoon it was lava. Regardless. I got a shower and now I'm clean.

Count down to Austin Manor's new hot water heater: 4 days.