16 Days and Counting

Hey everyone!

I hope this post finds you after celebrating a great and filling Thanksgiving with your friends and family. I definitely did! Just to update you from the past blogging hiatus here's a summation of what's been going on around here.

I went to the David Crowder Concert in Atlanta a week ago and let me tell you - that's how life should be. During the concert Crowder kept saying "If we live like we sing this world would be a better place". We were on the floor of the Tabernacle meaning I could see the sweat on Crowder's face. Man. He even played a song with the controller from Guitar Hero. He had us bouncing up and down all over the place. I apologize if this steps on anyone's toes but I felt like that is how worship was meant to be! Just all out all over the place worshiping God. Love it.

After the concert Rachael and I embarked on a journey the next morning to meet my parents in Gatlinburg, TN. Thankfully we had a GPS which we fondly named Weatherbee that guided us to the cabin. Along the way the traffic came to a stop on the mountain and we were extremely confused as to why. Eventually I ask Ray "What is that big black mass in that tree?" "Um, Megan," she replied "that's a bear". So yes, I was in the Smokey Mountains and I saw a bear.

We stayed in Gatlinburg until Monday just relaxing, eating and sleeping. Well those were my main activities!

We arrived back in Auburn on Monday. I spent most of the week sleeping, spending time with friends and family. My dad's mom, Grannie as we like to call her, came down for Thanksgiving and we ate lunch at my mom's mom aka Mama Anne. DELICIOUS. Every time she cooks it's amazing. I'm STILL full if you can believe that.

The rest of our break I was yes doing more sleeping, (I figure I should get it while I could) and working on my pdf portfolio, updating my resume, and painting. I think I'm finally getting the hang of oil paints with a combination of mineral spirits. I'll have to post my results when it is finished!

Speaking of school here is a rundown of Megan's Tuesday:

1.) Couldn't sleep last night and received a grand total of 4 hours of unconsciousness.
2.) Late to class because I was exhausted from lack of sleep.
3.) The studio was so hot this morning we managed to sweat through 2 hours of sketching.
4.) I was verbally slaughtered in Art History by my professor as I feebly attempted to comment on Jeff Koon's flaunting his art in the Thanksgiving Macy's Day parade which made me feel like the squished roach killed during class in the row behind me.
5.) I scraped my leg in the process of biking like the wind to be on time for Biology since said professor lectured into my next class.

Also I would like to ad that going up to the storage room in J&M is a dangerous. Stanley who owns the art department of the store managed to create a waterfall of canvases to rain down upon me. As a souvenir the top of my right foot is turning a nice blue shade.

Well I'm going to continue taking notes in Biology and stop my leg from bleeding.

I guess you could say school is beating me up. Literally. Haa haha well at least my humor is intact!

As always, thanks for stopping by.

The Change

To be perfectly honest with you folks I'm plum tuckered out!

I was up till 2am last night working on my paper for art history which I spent most of my weekend pouring over.

With lack of sleep I found it hard to concentrate during my 20th Century Art History class so I started up my latest hobby: scouring the internet for design internships.

Through my ramblings and clicking on every link for every non-profit imaginable, I stumbled upon the Glue Network. Basically they are an organization that unites non-profit organizations under one umbrella. Via their website I started searching through each of their partners hoping to find something that would match up.

I found it. My dream design internship.

Yes, Invisible Children has always been filed under this category but it has recently been relocated to the job search instead of the internship quest. There is a company with 2 offices (the larger in North Carolina and the smaller in California) called The Change Strategy.

Stop what you're doing. Click the following link:
www.thechangestrategy.com

What they stand for is everything that I want to work for in a design firm. Essentially the purpose of design is to sell a product from toothpaste, to underpants, or crispier celery it's all about feeding the consumerist society in which we live. After my experiences during the past two summers of Brasil, Memphis, and Africa persuading people to buy things with the money they don't have to impress people who honestly don't care just isn't how I want to spend my life. The tricky thing about such an ideology is that your rate of living in a cardboard box accelerates from 5% to 95%. (I could deal with a hut in Tongo not a cardboard box in Atlanta).

Finding people, especially designers, who share such a philosophy with it's core based in Christ is like a needle in a haystack. I e-mailed their head designer with my basic "Hey I'm so and so, this is what I'm all about - can I intern with you pretty please a cherry on top?" BOOM! He e-mailed me back in 2 hours saying this:

I love where you are coming from. And I understand everything you're seeing.

One of the best things about the Change is that it puts us in the same circle with people like you.

I do expect to seek a design intern by the summer. It would be a pleasure to consider you.

Two things.

1. Can you send me samples of work (pdf's or a web link are fine).

2. Can you put together a list of designs that you love, respect, admire or wish you did with a little write-up explaining why. This can be anything. Product packaging, cd covers, web sites, train tickets. match boxes, clothing labels -- whatever turns you on.

I am honored that you contacted us, Megan.

Yes. My jaw dropped - seriously? Which was quickly followed by a joyful happy dance. I've got my work cut out for me but I think it would be worth it. At least NC is a lot closer than California or Tongo for that matter.

Well more on this later. My laptop battery is about to go kaput! Thanks for stopping by!

And the Results Are In...

Drum roll please....

95 BABY! EAT THAT MITOSIS!!!!

Waaaahhooooo!

Excuse me, while I go do a happy dance in the middle of this auditorium class....

Update

Hey there!

Presently I'm sitting in biology class awaiting for my test grade. Once again everyone in front of me who went into the test cold turkey are making 100's. We'll see in about 45 minutes because he calls out each person individually to come get the test. Oh and one of the aforementioned individuals found ten dollars on the way to get her exam results. Seriously?

I did get my art history test back and made an A! YES! I don't remember the last time I'd made an A in an non-design class. Sweetness. Also our paper got pushed back to Tuesday so I have all weekend to work on that. It's shaping up to be a good weekend too. I'm going to the play with Zach on Friday night - A Midsummer Night's Dream which is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. Saturday night I'm eating dinner with his family for his birthday which was this week and on Sunday I'm going to the Fox Theater in ATL with my mom to see A White Christmas. YAY!

In other news I did find someone to go to the mountains so that's super exciting. I'm ready for the David Crowder concert because he's just incredible. Also everyone that comes are bringing towels and socks to give the homeless in ATL just like we did at Passion. The thing about his concerts are they don't really seem like concerts - just a big worship session. If you haven't heard of him definitely check out his music, especially Remedy which is his latest cd.

I'm still in the hunt for summer intern options. I've e-mailed a few more people but have yet to hear back from anyone. The only lead I have is the one on Memphis so, if you have any ideas or suggestions I'm open.

Also if you want to know more about the design program here at Auburn and check out all of my cool classmates we have a new website up at: http://cadc.auburn.edu/graphicdesign

I should have my profile and work up there as soon as my professor enables my account. I'm slowly working on a pdf portfolio that I can e-mail to organizations that I'm interested in. It's just a long process of setting up the files.

Well that's about all I have for now, and still no Biology test. He's in the M's...hopefully it'll be alright. As always, thanks for stopping by!

Happy 50th Post!

Hey everyone!

Happy 50th post on this here blog! Yes I've written 50 and on top of that Happy November! I'm really starting to believe that Thanksgiving gets the shaft in comparison to all other holidays. I was studying in Panera today and they were playing instrumental Christmas carols. Seriously? The leaves have just begun to change color and the Wal-Mart isles are lined with Christmas greeting cards and fake trees.

Poor Thanksgiving.

I don't have too much to report at the moment besides that my brother is standing behind me scrubbing his keyboard with antibacterial wipes in his boxers. Yep....that's my room mate. I'm creative, you can't expect me to be neat too.

I've taken a break from school work this past weekend. We have a mid project critique coming up but I just needed to chill before diving into another one. My last project and photographs of the first one are up on my Flickr page if you feel inclined to check those out.

Last week wasn't a walk in the park to say the least. I had my huge art history test and it ate my brain then spit it out all over my essay. It was a sticky mess. Then I finally heard back on the Invisible Children internship and that's a no-go. I was glad for Will's honesty but it's still a disappointment in my book. Apparently there's always Birmingham...

I'm ready for our week break so I can catch up. I'm going to the David Crowder Concert in ATL then to Gatlinburg mountains for some time with the fam jam! I just hope I can find someone to tag along with me since I'll drive from ATL to TN. I guess we'll see what happens but I'm starting to learn that there is little in this world you can count on. The phrase "death and taxes" is starting to make more sense the older I get. Wow I'm talking about TAXES? And DEATH? I'm 22! What's getting into me!? Gees...I need to go hang out with some little kids again. Africa please? (yeah you think I could go one post without mentioning it - guess again!)

I have a biology test tomorrow and I've been studying since 10 for that. I also have a HUGE paper due on Thursday for art history. I think it shouldn't be too bad since, after all, I do enjoy writing. Obviously.

Well I'm going to head up to the ACSC and get some more studying done. Sorry this was quite a dull post but if you want a more excitable update just give me a call. Thanks for stopping by!