Where oh where has Sarina been?

Hello world,

I know I have been absent from the blog for way too long. A lot of exciting things have been going on in my life which has left me either too anxious or tired to blog. So sorry about my absence. But let me tell you what I have been up to!

Thesis Madness is OVER!
This past semester has been a lot of work. Thank god I only took the one class! Also I am eternally grateful to my thesis ladies, Peggy and Diedre. Together we kicked some serious thesis butt!

Pull that, Press here, Smell this: Interactive Children's Literature on Prezi

 Now all I have to do is go to graduation .... and pay off student loans for the rest of my life! Here is what else is going on.....

Paris (in less than a month!) 

I am very excited for our trip to Paris! We have an apartment booked in the 6th arrondissement. We were really hoping for the 5th (where the Latin Quarter is) but its still great! I have been going through my travel book planning what sights we are going to see. So far it includes all of the touristy things such as: the Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Lourve and maybe hopefully the Rodan Museum.  I am also planning some French meals.. escargot and cheese platters! I am very excited and I picture entire experience to be like the movie Amelie.

Finally ... big big news... me and Tim have a house! We found a place and fell in love! Its beautiful and we are really excited! We don't move in until July but we are pretty pumped. Tim already is planning on building some furniture. I am pretty excited to start hitting up garage sales and thirfting. Now I will have a space to work on things!

For now I have a few week before all of this crazy business happens.. so I plan on working on making some small things and finally make some graphics for the blog!

Stay tuned!

How goes it?

Some exciting things have been happening lately....

Tickets to Paris have been purchased !

Tim and I never took a real honeymoon. When the discussion came up I was all about doing Europe but it didn't work out financially and I was in the midst of classes. So we saved up and figured let's get it done now before we are house poor. It also coincides with my graduation! And thanks to Uncle Sam and our nifty tax refund them tickets are ours! We go in June and I am so excited!






Thesis has been less painful
My trusty crew and I have been trudging away. Compared to to a lot of other people in the class (that don't even have a problem statement) we are sitting pretty nice. I couldn't do this at all with out Diedre and Peggy... I am eternally grateful for those gals. They are so sweet so on a recent trip into Queens it was hilarious to see them pounce. We were a few exits away from the school and wouldn't ya know it a benz was riding our butts! The car came up on our right side and we saw nasty woman give us an "Ugh" face. They proceeded to react saying "what's your problem bitch!" It was awesome and I love them. Also don't get on their bad side based on this story.

I have snuck in some craft time!

Doctor Who head band

bow-tie bracelet cuff

Thesis Madness

Hello friendos,

All crafting has been suspended until further notice! Why, you ask? Well I am in the middle of Thesis madness, that's why. It is my last semester and all I have to do is write my thesis. So every free minute I get I am usually doing research. This has been a strain on my life for several reasons, 1) crafty exploits have been put on hold 2) From sitting for so long I am getting serious back and hip pain! 

So since the thesis is serious business at Queens College so I had to prioritize a bit. I put the sewing machine away :( (but its only temporary!) and spend lots of hours doing research. I am having some trouble with it though. I feel like I am over-researching as opposed to actual writing. I think I am getting really tripped up by all the horror stories I have heard about thesis all through out library school. Also the fact that it has to be around 60 pages scares the crap out of me. My undergrad thesis was about Blade Runner and it was only 10 pages long! Luckily I have the option to write it in a group and I am so grateful to be writing it with two lovely ladies. I met them during the intro classes and we have been on the same track together. It'll be nice to graduate with them.

Another thing that helps is that I am doing an interesting topic, Interactive Literature.What like e-books? Yeah e-books are interactive but we are going beyond the digital and talking about pop-up books, textured board books and books with musical components. So I feel good that I am not doing boring nonsensical research.

As for my back pain, I try to get up once an hour. This also freaks me out.....

In the mean time I have doing stuff for myself, otherwise I would go crazy. I did things like get some new clothes and what not. Last Friday Tim took me to see the taping of Chris Hadwick's stand up special. (You know how much I <3 him) It was a lot of fun and Jonah Ray, his nerdist companion and opening act, was soooo hilarious! He read the rules of the taping as jokes. So good! And Hardwick of course was awesome. He took a picture of the audience after the show and if you look real close you can see mwha! (Tim is next to me but he was clapping in front of his face so he looks like a blurry mess) Also the camera was totally pointed at us a few times. I tried so hard not to look and was successful, Tim said he noticed some lady near us always looking at it, so I think we will just make the cutting room floor :( Oh well but it was super fun and can't wait to watch it on Comedy Central.

I am a few people up from his devil horns on the left side.

-Sarina