Save it for a Rainy Day...

"Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day"

The past few days its been raining pretty hard, but today I finally took out my saved falling star and have a pretty good day. This morning, my sister, Shiri, and I went to Disneyland. Since it was raining, it was not very busy despite it being holiday season. We got to go on just about all of the major rides, and all in just a couple of hours.


But this was not the highlight of my day. As always, any day that I see Kevin Mills is a good day. I've known Kevin for only about a year, but he's still one of the few people that always brightens my day when I see them. I met Kevin last year at a Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra rehearsal and we got to be good friends through the Maxim Presents fundraiser concerts. Even though this year Kevin and I are both graduated and at different colleges (he stayed fairly local), we were both invited to return as alumni for another Maxim Presents tonight. While the performance itself wasn't very good, it was still great to see Kevin and get to spend some time with him.

A Long Time Coming...

So ever since my photo class ended, I stopped posting pictures as break happened and things got busy. But now that things in my life have calmed down a little bit, I've decided to go back to posting pictures and just all around updates on my life.

My favorite part about break thus far has most definitely been going to Disneyland with one of my favorite people in the world. Last week my friend Sam came from Houston so we could go to Disneyland for a couple of days. But before we went to Disney we hiked up a hill in Turtle Ridge with the perfect look out point over the beach timed perfectly with the sunset.

 The colors were absolutely brilliant and I loved being able to capture them. Its hard to make these colors any other way but in nature and it was just amazing to experience them.

The next two days were absolutely fantastic, as what could be better than two full days at Disneyland at Christmastime when there are hardly any lines? That's right, nothing. I had a lot of fun spending time with Sam and Kyle (from Ventura) came down to spend those days with us as well. Oh how I love Disneyland at Christmastime :)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 6 November, 2010

For another class, I was required to attend the production of Julius Caesar put on by the Theatre Department. This was certainly an interesting cultural experience, and although I wasn't a huge fan of the play itself, I thought it was done very well. The staging was very different than what I imagine Shakespeare originally intended it, but there were many things in it that Shakespeare clearly did not intend. For example, there were several Nazi references in the battle dress of some characters and the tiles on the floor of the stage were arranged in a swastika, something that clearly wasn't common in Shakespeare's time. Also, many of the characters were cross-gender cast, so many of the male roles were converted into woman's roles. I didn't really like how this was done as it seemed to detract from the huge masculinity that should have been shown in the roles of the conspirators.

Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior; 5 November, 2010

This time last year, I was running in my last cross country league finals. This was an extremely eventful day in my life as not only did we advance past our league into CIF for the first time since my freshman year, but we also had one of our girls break her leg in the last 400 meters of our race. However, before all of this happened, the varsity girls took almost 100 pictures of each other, and our whole team. During this picture spree, we found this log along the side of the road that looked like it had a heart cut out of the center. So of course, we took many picture of the log itself and of us around it. This is my favorite of those pictures as around the heart, our feet are aligned in a star formation (even though its a little lopsided). I miss my cross country girls tremendously and I'm so proud of how they've been doing this season, on track to place top 5 in State.

Intermural Volleyball; 3 November, 2010

Another great thing about college that was never available to me in high school is intramural sports. So far my hall has had a broomball and volleyball team, and I can't wait for next quarter when we rock indoor soccer. This picture was taken at our last (I think) intramural volleyball game, and since it was right around Halloween, we chose to go dressed up in our fantastic costumes.

All Hallows Eve; 31 October, 2010

Halloween was so much fun this year. I haven't done much for Halloween the past few years, opting to stay home with my sister watching our favorite scary TV show, Supernatural, rather than go out and party or something of the like. So this year was great actually being able to go out and have some fun with my new family. This photograph was from the first night people went out, with these girls (minus our fabulous RA Vanessa) going up to CSU to see old friends from high school. I didn't go with them, so I was photographer for the night before they left.

Pi Lambda Pi for life :)

Pumpkin Carving; 30 October, 2010

In the days leading up to Halloween, the JMac Leadership Team held a pumpkin carving contest. As JMac LT historian, of course I was there snapping photographs of all the pumpkins and their carvers. I really like this picture as it has just about all of the carved pumpkins in it and the orange stands out against the black night outside. All of the pumpkins turned out so good after they were carved, and I'm sure it was difficult to choose the winner. I love being a part of the JMac LT and was glad I was able to participate in this event and help put it on.