http://blackfivesblog.com/?p=232 please check it out, comment, and veiw my gorgeous photo!!!!! -Rachel-

*Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

life is good. really, REALLY good. I am totally moved in, I love my room, I love this house, I love my studio, and my balcony. I love Philly,I love Tyler, I love art, I love life... I feel like I am in love with everything.
It's a good feeling to have.

I sincerely hope everyone is doing fantastically, and I deeply wish you all would let me know how life is ( this is mostly to those of you who have yet to check in * glare*) In any case oodles of love and joy to all, -Rachel-

P.S. Spending the 4th and subsequent weekend in Delaware, on the beach. *giggle*

SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



*yay*


-rachel-

so i was surfing youtube in my general state of procrastination when i came across the work of Phil Hansen. His work seems to bend towards the common trend of mixed media and digital tiling, and most of it is political in nature (yeah i know), but i saw some grains of... well... coolness there. so i said "hey what the heck i still have seven hours til my paper is due, lets procrastislack some more" and went to his web page, www.philinthecircle.com . it wasn't til i arrived here that i figured out this guy was pretty awesome. x-ray tech by day, artist by night, or something like that.
Trying to ignore the fact that his bio hits a bit too close to home i forged on. anyways he did this 'influence' piece that was completely original, and rather insightful. some of his images seemed a bit contrived, like a flower, or a little dog, but for the most part they seemed like good, somewhat personal things, with touches of controversy. also most of the images, but not all, were recognizable icons. This was an excellent self portrait. But wait there's more. What i really appreciated was the silhouette cutout afterward of the painted layers, and on his web page there is a picture of the rolled up layers. it really drives home the point. now it could be the sleep deprivation talking, but i think this guy has something.

In short I've bookmarked the page, and intend to check it out sometime in the future as i hope all of my avid readers *stifled laughter* will do as well.

much love to all, -rachel-

life is gooooooooooooood. enjoying the break, hope you all are too.
much love, -rachel-

first of all i would like to say thank you to all of you who called me today to make sure i hadn't been torn limb from limb by a tornado (a direct quote btw). Thanks, i apreciate it. All the tornado action was much farther south than Chapel Hill, so i am A-ok.

On another note it looks alot like i will be in town for thanksgiving. It knida sucks, and kinda doesnt. I have alot of things to get done, but I would like to be able to be home with my family for this time. I've decided not to whine about it, and instead im just gonna role with the punches and see where i end up.

The only other comment for the day.... The sacred halls of books and learning are called LIBRARIES. notice the spelling it is not li-berry. If you pronounce it liberry you need to go get yo-self some o' that good ole book learnin. Special shame on the college students. geez.

P.S. Much love to my muffin.

P.P.S. If you think you are my muffin, but you aren't sure of it, then you aren't but i probably send love your way anyway.

happiness and joy to all -rachel-

plywood is heavy.

today is 9-11. nuf said.
-rachel-

Your results:
You are Iron Man

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Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

I am very sorry to say that my beloved cell phone is no longer with us. I will not go into the details, but the end was...brutal. It has been replacedwith a newer, and hopefully more durable model, but as of now the poor thing has nothing NOTHING in it's phone book.

the short story? I need everyone's phone numbers again. And i do mean everyones. help?

please email them to rae165@gmail.com, cus i don't want you all posting them.
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-rachel-

P.S. calling me isn't gonna work, its summer and im dealing with the hills ppl. there is no hope, just email. much love!!!!

Alright well here is a random entry for you all.
1st I had the most wicked awesome day ever, beach, funness, sunburn, and boca burgers. What more could a girl ask for?

in any case in this post I have decided to give you all a series of amazingly awesome links... just because im feeling that nice. *grin*

Bush gettin his groove on

Stupid girls

All you need to know in life

 German power rangers?

UNthinkable

a bit of beautiful fun

foamy!!!!!

kittens  nuf said

check em out... it'll make your day!
-rachel-

It seems like every day some country is suing an American museum or institution over the return of some artwork or antiquities which may have made their way to the US through either shady means or even forgotten formal agreements. And now Bloomberg reports that the government of Peru plans to sue Yale University, over hundreds of artifacts taken from the ancient city of Machu Picchu nearly a century ago. And this may be the straw that breaks the camel's back (or in this case the llama's back). The artifacts made their way to the US through Yale archeologist Hiram Bingham. One side claims that the artifacts were on loan. Yale contends the artifacts were legally excavated and exported "in line with the practices of the time." And if these artifacts were sent to the US through some agreement with the Peruvian government nearly a century ago, then Yale has a case for keeping them; otherwise -- in the event that the American archeologists simply found them, crated them and shipped them to the US - all on their own -- then today's courts may well rule in Peru's favor.And that straw that may break the camel's back may also unlock Pandora's box (which Greece will soon be suing for).

First: let's get one thing clear: Nazi art loot should and must be returned to their original owners or descendants.But for most of all the other demanding of artwork returns: where does it stop? Because unless you have some official paperwork signed, stamped and approved (and recognized as valid) then...

Does every Roman artifact in museums around the world have to be returned to Italy? And do Italian museums have to return Roman antiquities that were made in other parts of the Roman Empire to the nations that now exist there? And Italy better start packing the 13 Egyptian obelisks that are all over Rome: Cairo is clearing out some spaces for them. Every Greecian urn back to Greece? But do Greek museums have to return Cypriot antiquities to Cyprus? Does every mummy have to find its way back to Egypt? That "official" cadaver of Christopher Columbus in the Havana Cathedral? Sorry... back to Spain; or is it Italy, or Portugal? All three of those nations currently claim him as a native son, although I suspect that the Grand Admiral's descendants, currently living in Spain, have first dibs on Chris' bones. And the fake Columbus cadaver in the Seville Cathedral? Back to Genoa, even if it's fake (just in case).

After all, that fake Scottish Stone of Destiny has made its way back to Scotland (God only knows where the real one is), but there are probably hundreds of thousands of antiquities (if not millions) from all over the world disseminated... all over the world. Our own Smithsonian has over 100,000 pre-Columbian antiquities in its inventory (most of which are not even on display). Do the ones that were created by pre-Columbian artisans from north and south of our border have to be returned to the countries that now exist there?

Unless these museums have a provenance with lots of country of origin stamps authorizing the removal of the antiquity, I'd be pretty nervous if I was one of those museums. And even if you have such a paper, what's to stop today's version of a country's government from saying that they do not recognize the authority of their predecessors to allow the removal of a national treasure from their nation.And where does it stop?

Frida Kahlo was essentially ignored by Mexico while she was alive, and yet decades after her death she was deified outside of Mexico, and eventually the government of Mexico made her works a national treasure and forbade the export of any of Kahlo's works from Mexico. I think that this is a good (if late) thing for Mexico and Mexicans. But what's to stop a future Mexican government from demanding the return of any and all Frida Kahlos outside of Mexico back to her mother nation. It would just be a case of this "return" trend being pushed a little more.

Personally, I think that from now on, when I visit foreign museums, I will be making a list of American Indian artifacts in those museums, and they better damned have a piece of paper somewhere full of stamps and signatures from the Sioux, or the Walla Walla, or the Cheyenne, or the Seminoles or the Oneida or whatever indigenous Native American nation that currenly lives in the USA created them. Official export paperwork from the United States government is not valid, and will not be accepted, regardless of how many non-Indian Washington, DC officials have signed it.

Of course, that may also mean that every non-Indian museum in the USA itself, would have to return every Native American Indian artifact back to their tribes.

Makes my head hurt...
-rachel-

Your IQ Is 140

Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Genius

well at least ive got book smarts... but below average in being a normal person. seems about right to me. *sigh* lol ahh well, i like it this way!

So uhhh yeah, turns out i have a facebook. I had no idea til today. I'm serious. I don't do facebook, cus of the stalkers from last year... and the badness. But what the hey. I mean i already had 3 friends requests, and i now know that if something truly awful does happen to me I have a troup of fencers to attack ppl. Sad as that is it really does bring a smile to my face. In short i actually have a facebook page, i updated, and im awaiting ppl to list me. Much love, come find me. -rachel-

P.S. Its been a wild break and im feelin pretty goooooooooooooooooooooooood.

quote of the day

my dad;
"the cardiologist acted like a jilted girlfriend... he was all like ' well you already went ahead and talked to the surgeon, you just don't need me huh? i take it im not that important.' I mean what, do i need to buy him chocolates and make up?"

gotta love him

molly is fine, im going to be fine, regionals are comming, john will be down the 28th til the 2nd and we are gonna tear this place up, or at least have a bit of fun. work is work, school is hard, life is beautiful. what more could i ask?

sidenote in celebration of molly, getting through wednesday, and the total victory of unc over state tonight tomorrow will be choice B. lol rain or shine it will be all white.

gnight and joy to all, -rachel-

Two names you go by
1. rae
2. etch-a-sketch

Two Parts of your heritage
1. czech
2. Kentucky mutt

Two things that scare you
1. poisonous biting things
2. failure

Two of your everyday essentials
1. cell phone
2. epee

Two things you're wearing right now
1. contacts
2. pearls

Two things you want in a relationship (other than Real love)
1. not to be bored
2. connections (emotional,intellectual, physical,and then some, its all equally important)

Two truths
1. cerulean blue is the most versitile shade of acrylic paint
2. cell walls are alot like pumpernickel cream cheese sandwiches

Two physical things that appeal to you
1.shoulders
2.mouth

Two of your favorite hobbies
1. art
2. fencing (though i dont know if these count as hobbies, they are kind of ...life)

Two things you want really badly
1. to see my wave get built
2. for my dreams to become reality

Two places you want to go on vacation
1. italy
2. the outer banks

Two things you want to do before you die
1. become an art professor
2. have a family of my own

Two ways that you are stereotypically a girl/guy
1.i go ballistic for three days out of the month
2.i am driven by my emotions more often then logic

Two things you normally wouldn't admit
1.If i normally wouldn't admit them what makes you think i will now?
2.i mean comeon, an online survey to reveal my secrets, riiiiiiiiiiight.

Two things you are thinking about now
1. the rest of my day
2. yesterday

Two stores you shop at
1. walmart
2. gap

Two people you would like to see take this quiz
1. whoever wants to
2. just let me know so i can read it and then mock your answers!!! *grin*

Well now i am officially 21... wow. My day yesterday was awesome, starting with pink champagne and ending with a beautifully gorey chick flick *sigh*. It was fantastic, everything was fantastic. Oh yes, I almost forgot. It didn't start with champagne. the first thing to happen was the fulfillment of my birthday curse. Ahh the curse of Rachel. Every year on my birthday since my 13th birthday there has been a power outage of some kind. yes its true, and yes i know no one believes me. In any case just after midnight there was a huge booming thunder storm and the power was out in my house til about 9am. So my champagne experience was by scented candlelight. It would have been the most fantastically romantic moment of my entire life (yes trouncing the fireworks in chattanooga) had it not been with a friend. I adore all of my gifts, i love all of my friends who were sweet enough to think of me yesterday, mad props to you all. The only downer is that i dont think my party is going off tonight. For reasons beyond my control, my house mate, aka the owner of the house is back for the weekend, so this year im low key. However to all of you people out there who were relying on me for fun and alcohol i promise to make it up to you, probably over spring break if i dont go anywhere.

oh yeah, random comment. Last night at walmart (don't even ask why I was at walmart on my birthday, its my day, i do what i want) i saw the single most fabulous bracelet i've seen in a while. Its stirling silver with these blue daisy chain flowers, probably sapphires, or a knockoff, i dunno, but it called to me. first chance i get im running back there and buying it as a personal present. I tell this story as advice to you all. If you find an inanimate object that actually induces happy feelings, go ahead and indulge yourself. lol. I fully intend to buy it and wear it every...single...day..... oh yeah, its that pretty. This is me signing off, and wishing all a happy day. -rachel-

OK so why is it that all at once, in one twenty four hour period all the men, and i do mean all of them, in my life decide to gang up on me and try to make me feel as horrific as possible? i mean if you add it all together evidently i am a;
Worthless, usless, lazy, slutty, self centered bitch of an alcoholic woman.

That does not give me the warm fuzzies. I would like to say that i think all of you Y chromasome carriers need to go reevaluate why you are pressing all this on me. I know i am not worthless, i certainly do not even resemble lazy. None of my professors or other fencers seem to think im usless, i am not a slut, dont ever call me a bitch or ill redefine the word for you, and i'm not even certain ive finished a drink in the last four months. You all suck

on the upside i found a dollar, danny has invited me to the ATO frat party tomorrow night and says if i get there by ten, and save him a dance he'll work it so i can play with them *yay*. PPl at the DMV may suck, but I'll get my way by this friday, just wait and see. Until then this is me saying dont mess with my head, or I'll cut yours off.
-rachel-

I don't know what else to say but...well... just check it out http://cgi.4chan.org/f/src/ultimateshowdown.swf

john, what a find.
-rachel-