So the past few days i have really started to get annoyed at the fact that the 1st pres debate was gonna be on our campus here in miami. there were fences everywhere enclosing us like prisoners, and we have had to wear our id badges everywhere to prove we should be here, and the parking inconvenience as well... but to be honest, after tonight, all those little inconveniences seem trivial.
It was soo much fun having soo much going on here!!!
first of all, free food, good food too!!!! all over the place!!!!
next, if you were watching any of msnbc's hardball this evening around 8:00-9:00 with chris matthews, there is a very good chance you saw me!!!
We got some signs, "Unidos con Kerry Edwards" yeah spanish, but come on, we're in miami remember... but we were the only 3 people with those signs. so if you saw that sign heald up by a girl in a blue polo... that girl was me!!!! we weren't behind chris matthews, but we were behind Ron Reagan and behind the 2 other guys at a different time!!!
but it was soo cool, we got to see/meet Al Sharpton when he was talking with chris matthews.
oh, and i can't forget the cnn stage with Anderson Cooper!!!! yes, you read that right, we met Anderson Cooper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he was surprisingly really friendly and talkative.
then during the debate they had these HUGE screens up in the UC patio which is a huge space they loaded with tables and chairs and of course FOOD!!!
but since we were messing around with the MSNBC people until 9:00 when the debate started we coudnt get a table. it was crazy packed out there, but luckily we each grabbed empty folding chairs and scooted up to the main big stage and had an awesome spot!!!
the debate was really fun too!!! the majority of the people out there were KERRY FANS!!!! well it seemed like that because we were cheering a hell of a lot more than the bush people, but come to think of it, there really wasn't much for them to cheer about. well the first 6 times he mentioned kerry's flip flopping thing they cheered, but i think they even got sick of that.
GO KERRY!!!!
and then after the debate concluded we got a little airtime on cnn's something behind wolf. but we didn't stay there long at all because the music was starting over across the lake.
Jill scott, who i had never heard of before, started off the music for "rock the vote" right after the debate. it was good, jazzy. unfortunately, we missed most of her stuff running around all the security people and across campus to get around the barricades to where she was playing.
following her was Vanessa Carlton, who did a really good job i thought. it was a relatively small audience, well what i could see, but people were all over, up in trees, around the lake, everywhere. but she was really cool and personal talking to us (the audience) a lot in between her songs. and she played a lot of her new songs and some of em were really good, so maybe she's not just a one hit wonder... but she did finish off with " a thousand miles"
all in all, it was a really fun evening, unfortunately a late night though, and a shower was definitely needed after a night out in that humidity... and of course, i've got to be up in less than 4 hours for practice!!!! but im not complaining, i love it!!!!!

GO KERRY!!!!!

this is a conversation that occurred about an hour ago between one of my room mates and myself regarding the secret service searching our apartment on thursday morning since the presidential debate is going to take place in a building about 100 yards away that evening, (exciting eh) well here it is:

Alex: "Julie! you know the secret service are goin to be searching our apartment on thursday? they're gonna find my tools!"
Me: "what tools???"
Alex: "you know, every woman has her tools!!! they're for when her man's not satisfying her. I've got 2! a white one and a black one! you tell'n me you don't have any tools?"
Me: 8*
Alex: "oh, come on, even your momma's got her tools"
Me: (again) 8*

am i really the only one who doesn't have any tools??? well i know my mom doesn't have any... or does she??? ahhhh

So we were on lockdown again last night because of hurricane Jeanne, which, just like the others, COMPLETELY BYPASSED US :( they close dowm campus for the weekend for a little rain and wind... another weekend ruined :( grrrrr
but this time, we werent going to let it completely ruin the weekend so we "prepared" ourselves for this one ;) just a few supplies to get us through the night...
we had a fun little dance party/karoke here in my apt for a while then i headed over to another apt across campus, all the while waiting for my roommate and her boyfriend, in from out of town for the weekend, to perform, "I Swear" by boys2men when i get a call from her that she needs to meet me half way that "we need to talk"
so i grab my rain suit and run out to meet her, and guess what???
Mike punched a HOLE in our bedroom ceiling over her bed. there were pieces of the ceiling all over her bed, my desk and the floor.
as you can see, its not really that big of a hole, but since these building are old and crappy, we have to take EVERYTHING out of the room, for a WEEK, for them to redo the ENTIRE ceiling of our room!!! DAMN MIKE!!!!! well here are some pretty pictures of "the hole"












the up side to all this: we all had a great stormy night ;)

ok so the site is now a big secret and noone can ever see it, ever. its not even like we will be actually building a building there, although that would be really really cool...

maybe this will work, maybe not, this is the site for my building, or maybe just a big black box like before :(

i can't see it, can you??? :( oh, maybe my computer is being dumb, i'll try again later ;)

back to my senior design thing, here's the plot of land we are suppossed to design our building on. It's right next to a golf course and also surrounded by several big time gov't buildings. I wouldnt know that except when we were out checking out the spot taking pictures, these two big official looking men came out to us, showed us their badges and were like, "what are you doing taking pictures of federal agencies???" eeek, we all got a little nervous, they had big guns and looked really mean. but luckily after we said who we were and what we were there for they were really nice and told us to build a nice building and wished us luck.
and hey, this shot may not look all that exciting now, but just wait till we get our big exciting "office building" in there ;)

ok, so i was walking to class with my roommate (jess) earlier today....
we see a flock of ibis walking in front of us, which is quite a common thing on campus, they are EVERYWHERE, especially by the lake. well she gets all excited at seeing them for some reason and screams out, "Look at the Ibis!! I want to play with them!" she then goes running after them. They fly away... jess again,
"Hey, I didn't know they could fly!" :(
hehehehehe, look what i have to live with... :) jk

i don't want to grow up, or have to go find a job, start a career, ahhh, i just want to go back to kindergarden where they sat us at our tables, sprayed some foam/shaving cream stuff on the table and let us play with it until it all disolved. those were the good old days. now it's sr year of college, i have never had any engineering experience, i don't know of any places or people i can get a job through, and we have just begun our sr design project that we will spend from now till may working on. it's described as,
"The main objective of our senior design project is to work as team to build an office building while taking into consideration important factors such as safety, environmental impact, cost, transportation, architectural, mechanical, civil, and other aspects. The building will be architecturally and aesthetically pleasing to the eye which will attract business and customers. The project will consist of a single building with an integrated parking garage. Specific plans and details of the design will be developed after our group has been given a site and specifications for this project. Group member’s names, majors, and the field of interest are listed below. Our organizational chart shows the diverse interest and abilities of our group and maps out how everyone will help each other during this project." - and then there are a bunch of charts that describe who is heading each category. but come on now, i still don't know what on earth i am suppossed to do with this thing. well i guess i'll have to see how the semester pans out... ahh and then next semester too 8*

due to all of the "possible" hurricane frances effects, we have been evacuated from our apartments and sent to the dorms. now its not so crouded since most of the local florida kids have gone home for the long weekend, but we are locked in this building until up to monday night and the storm is not coming anywhere near us. if anything we are going to have a lot of rain and a lot of wind, but thats really not much of a danger is it??? ahhh, but this is soo boring. they made it a dry campus for the weekend so not only are we stuck in this building, but we are all stuck sober, cramped, and bored... ahhh, all we can do now is just pray it weekens more and we can get out!!!
well i can't say its been all boring, we were allowed outside today where we "attemped" to play a little bit of ultimate frisbee. aside from the winds carrying it off across the field, we had loads of fun then and the several movies watched today and of course the card games... well more fun to come... hopefully ;)