Dish Network has bad timing.

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So last night I was watching Eat Pray Love.

It was really good. 

Julia Roberts has never been my favorite, but she did really good in this movie.

If you haven't seen it yet, skip this, cause I'm bout to spoil it.

It's about a woman, Liz, who visits Bali and meets a medicine man. She asks him about her love life, and he tells her that she'll have two marriages, a short one and a long one, along with some other stuff. She goes back to New York, and a while later, she ends up divorcing her husband. The divorce was really rough, but she meets David, an actor, and is happy for a while. But she realizes she's unhappy, and decides to go on a trip to Italy, India, and Bali. 

So she goes, stays in Italy for a while and makes a few friends. She ate and was happy doing it. She then went to India to meet David's Guru (she isn't there, she's in New York ). She stays in the sanctuary and meets an old gentleman who calls her Groceries since she eats so much. He advises her to focus her devotions on something other than the Guru, and so she focuses it on a young girl who is troubled by her upcoming arranged marriage. 

After leaving India, she goes to Bali to help the medicine man. While riding a bike down a trail, a man in a jeep nearly runs her over. She has to go to a healer for a hurt leg. A woman interrupts them, and invites Liz to a party. At the party, she meets the man who nearly ran her over, Felipe. After getting a bit drunk and a young man trying to get her to skinny dip with him, she starts to leave. She realizes she left her shoes and as she turns, she bumps into Felipe, who is holding her shoes. He takes her home, saying that if he's driving her, he can't run her over. So he takes her home, and comes back the next morning with a hangover 'cure'. He gives her his card, saying that if she needs a tour guide to give him a call. She asks if coffee comes with the tour, and they're off! After a while, they're happy together, and after Felipe's son comes to visit on his spring break, Felipe decides to take their relationship further. He puts on a mix tape, and starts to dance with Liz. They go to the bedroom. The next few weeks, Liz and Felipe spend nearly every moment together, but she has to go back to her meditations. And the last thing I saw was Liz writing an email to all of her friends, new and old, to help the healer, Wayan, afford a home for her and her daughter.

This thing popped up.

Kill me now.

I swear, this thing is worse than internet pop-ups saying

Dear Lord, I just put that picture up and it's already getting on my nerves!

And so I wait.
10 minutes later, it hit 2 out of 5.

25 minutes later, it hit 5 out of 5, then a blank screen.
10 minutes after that, I gave up and went to bed, too angry to wait any longer.
Nothing I had tried fixed it.

And to make matters worse, this morning I was watching Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. It got to where Aragorn and the hobbits were running from a few of the Nazgul, and Frodo had been stabbed. Having seen this movie multiple times, I knew that Arwen was about to come to the rescue (yay!). I see the knife at Aragorn's neck....

And it popped up again!

The accursed error message, saying the signal has been lost.

Finally, when it goes away, the movie comes back on. The fellowship has been gathered, and are hiking through the snowy mountains, about to go to the mines.

EVIL.

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All Dogs Go to Heaven

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Well, I haven't been here in a while. I haven't even been drawing for the last week or so. 

The creative mind can be overwhelmed in the face of tragedy.

We just had to put my dog down.

He had cancer in his stomach, and I knew it was for the best. He could barely stand up.

Speedy had been my best friend for fourteen years, and I'm only 19! I grew up with him.

He was there for me through thick and thin.

It was the hardest decision to come to terms with to let him go easy.

I'd rather let him go early than see him suffer any longer.

And the pain he was in was plain as day.

So goodbye Speedy.

Go chase Aunt Paula in Heaven and nip at her heels like you used to.

I'll see you when I see you.

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30 Day Drawing Challenge

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So I was Stumbling one day and found this picture.

You know those things that have been going around facebook for the past few months?

30 Days of Photos

30 Day Song Challenge

30 Days of Anime

etc.

Well, I don't know why I never though of something like this, but someone did.

Really cool idea.

I'd done the 30 Days of Photos challenge.

Tried the 30 Days Song challenge, but when the semester ended and I had to go home, my access to internet slowed drastically. So no go on YouTube.

But this?

This is perfect!!!

I get to draw stuff! 

So I started yesterday.

Day 1, yourself.

I've never been too good at drawing myself, so this made me a bit nervous. But I started at it. 

Eh, it turned out alright.  Chin is iffy and the eyes are too big and the nose is too small.

But hey, no one is perfect.

And today is Day 2

Favorite Animal

FOX!

I just used an old drawing of a fox that I really really liked.

I really liked that one.  So next is favorite food. 

Better start workin' on that. 

Oh boy.

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I Transformed into a Commander

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I feel like it's time to explain my name.

Truly, it's not really a funny story or anything like that.

It just happened.

And it was a choice between Commander Curtis and Hannah Montana.

No self respecting female should want her nickname to make people think of HER.

Umm, NO. I'll take the random, boyish name of Curtis Flynn.

So I went on a mission trip to Ukraine last summer.

It was awesome.

And on the way up there, the flights were crazy! If you are flying east overseas, it sucks so bad. The time messes you up! Night was only a few hours for us, and it didn't help that the airplane was jam packed and the seats in front of me squished my knees. So we made it to Kiev after like 12 agonizing hours, and I was exhausted. Technically, we'd been flying for a whole day, even though in reality it was only half that. So we're sitting at a table in the crowded Kiev Airport, and I lay my head down. I wake up over an hour later feeling refreshed, but for some reason, my friends Trey and Stirling were calling me Curtis.

Then they went on to call me Captain Curtis.

And THEN they started calling me Commander Curtis, saying I was better than a Captain.

And it stuck. I am Commander Curtis. 

Stirling. We got him a shirt that says, "100% Manly" in Russian. Inside joke, I guess.

But the kids at the camp we were serving at never caught on to Curtis. 

They only knew of Hannah Montana.

Great.

But I didn't complain cause I loved them and they were epically awesome.

But Trey, Stirling, Sarah, and Margo never gave it up.

And so, almost a year later, I am still randomly called Curtis.

It kinda grew on me.

And so that's the tale of my name.

I warned you, it wasn't really all that interesting.

Me and Margo at Gorney.

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So I am a band nerd.

This is me at the Governor's 2011 Inaugural Parade.

 I admit, I love it. 

I'm in marching band, pep band, and I was forced to be in Symphony Band. I tried out in August 2010, but as a bass clarinet, it isn't really all that hard to get it. And so fall semester went by, and I loved it. It was awesome to play wonderful music with people who love it as much as I do, and can actually play it! I'm even going to Canada this April to play with the Symphony Band in a music festival in Whistler, where the Olympics were. Cool, huh? We just finished a recording session with Bob Buckley, recording his music for a cd. When that comes out I'm gonna put the bonus track up here, cause it was AWESOME. We sang Free Running, a song that is at 176 bpm, and consists of only 8th notes.... YEAH. 

But for serious:

Music saved my life. 

I joined band to get out of P.E. cause it was pure torture. 

I was teased.

I had one friend.

I was weird.

I can go on but I'm not going to. 

I don't know where I would be if I didn't join band. I don't think I would still be living. But here is the equation, cause quite literally, band saved me.

hating P.E. -> band -> making friends -> meeting Karrie (current best friend) -> Karrie convincing me to go to church -> Jesus came into my life.

Told you it saved me. Now I am a Christian, a follower of Christ, and I've never been happier. 

Music changed my life for the better, and anyone who thinks band is for nerds, it is. Because nerds are the best kind of people. 
They'll stay by your side till the end of time.

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Metamorphoses

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Jessica Threet, sophomore, theater major.

I went and saw Metamorphoses today.

It's a play that my University performed.

AND IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!

Seriously, if a local university, theater group, or traveling performers ever do a showing of this nearby, go see it. However, in the words of one of my dear friends

"It is not a family film."

At one point, one guy was nearly naked. The only thing covering his junk was a golden  cloth that was held in place by a tiny bit of nude-colored fabric. 

But aside from the near-nakedness, there was a bit of cussing and drunkenness, so don't take your impressionable children to see this play, or they'll go running around half naked screaming curse words. 

Hire a baby-sitter.

It was the perfect mix of funny, romance, and suspense.

A few bits were really surprising, and you could tell it was written in the modern day, because at one point, one of the Greek Chorus girls yelled out, "Oh no he didn't!" 

So the play itself is based on Ovid's poem, Metamorphoses, and is a series of myths.

There's the myths of King Midas, Erysichthon, Orpheus, a quick glimpse of Narcissus, 

Pomona and Vertumnus, Eros and Psyche (my personal favorite), and more. 

Some were funny, like Pomona and Vertumnus. The guy who played Vertumnas was adorable and childlike, and made little jokes.

Others were sad, like King Midas, who turned his daughter to gold.

Some were pretty weird, like Myrrha, who lusted after her own father.

Some were meant to be serious but were kinda funny, like Erysichthon. He chopped down a tree and was cursed by a Goddess to be taken over by Hunger. The part that was funny was that Hunger was a girl dressed in purple tights with matted black hair and dirt on her face. She clung to Erysichthon, sometimes on his back, sometimes clinging to his side. Once she was even around his neck.

Eros and Psyche was my favorite, partly because I am friends with the guy playing Eros. He's really cool, but very awkward, and he was the guy wearing the golden cloth over his junk. 

It took all my strength not to bust out laughing.

But this story was serious, and once I gained control over the threat of my laughter, I was left in a feeling of awe. It was a romantic scene cause  Psyche wasn't allowed to see Eros so she believed him to be a monster, but she snuck up on him while he was asleep and burned him with candle wax on accident. He wakes, she runs in shame, but they fall in love. 

It was uber sweet.

So if you ever hear of a showing of Metamorphoses near where you live, GO! 

It's a wonderful story filled with so many emotions.

And there's a pool on stage!

I mean, seriously, how cool is that?

"Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me 

die still loving, and so, never die."

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