the world of allie

my life is getting complicated and i can't control it.
i want to control it.

http://www.rit.edu/~930www/photos/viewer.php3?date=2004-09-16

This is a picture of me working at the Pre-Seed Workshop last week. The second and last session was yesterday but the after math of this amazing workshop isn't over. Arwen and I are going to try to get my idea some protection and then to see if we can get a working prototype. I'm just in a "WOW" state of mind right now. our buisness pitch wasn't the best of the workshop but everyone saw the potential of the company so that is what matters.

oh so this has been the weirdest week EVER with some adventure along the way.....

monday

i signed up for this workshop that was taking place in downtown rochester. so i print out directions from mapquest because i'm still not familar with the area and i have my friend driving with me to help me read the directions. we are on 490, with all the crazy trafic, and i get off for the inner loop and what do you know... i get lost!! so i was driving around rochester for like 20 minutes trying to find main street. luckily i found it and made it in time for dinner. (more weird stuff happened later that night but i shouldn't post it on the internet ;-)

tuesday

So it's the first day of the two day workshop. i wake up at 6 am, get on the road at 7.. discover that the sun will be in my eyes while navigating the scary route on 490. not being able to see the signs i find my way to the workshop. now by 10 am i have the dear in headlight look. i'm completly overwhelmed of what was going on. i had no idea what i was signed up for and at noon i had the next year planned out if i decided to take what was going on seriously. it was a workshop in starting your own buisness. now that is all well and good but i'm only 20 years old.. i haven't even had my first co-op yet, and i def can't go to the bar to celebrate with my partners. the rest of the day passed quickly and i am excited but it's just a "wow" experience. the workshop was being held in the Powers building on state and main in the heart of downtown rochester. it was such a beautiful building. marble floors, arched ceilings, a grand stair case, an atrium that reaches the top of the building. i was in this office and i was looking out to the building across the way, and i could see the reflection in the other buildings windows. it was an amazing sight. i also got to walk around downtown rochester a bit... my friend and i wandered to the democrate and chronical building and got a little history lesson in printing.

now i'm exhausted from the day (which was a little hard to believe that i was doing this workshop). i went to bed around like 10 pm. at 11 my roomate was knocking on the door. i peered out and she was sitting at the top of the stairs, she asked me if i called maintence. i told her that a couple weeks i asked about getting the stopper in the tub fixed. so i went back to bed....

wednesday

i wake up and i get ready for school. i'm leaving the house and i go to lock the door and my key doesn't fit in the lock! i thought that i was insane, so i'm turning the key, flipping it over, but nothing is working. i go upstairs and i knock on my roomates door and i asked her what was up. she said that maintenece let themselves in at 11 pm last night because some girl called them about an electrical problem. she listened to the message and it was not one of us.. it was some girl with a heavy indian like accent. so i'm thinking to myself that i was sleeping in my underwear and teeshir in my own house and some guys walked in to fix something in thebath room... and that if no one was home besides me or no one was awake,.. i could have gotten up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and i would have found guys in there working on the tub!!!! (or any other horrible senarios) they came back this afternoon and they fixed the lock, and the tub, so that is all taken care of.. but it was just wierd.....

yesterday was the beginning of the first weekend of school. we finished our first week of classes, and so the need to go and have some fun was prominant. alecia and i wanted to go out and party hop. so i found a couple parties that we were goign to hit up in colony. the first party we hit was this b-day bash that a friend of ours was at, so we hit that up to get the night started. well we ended up being the only girls for quite a while. we played beer pong, watched a couple guys box and chatted with the guys. it ended up being a decent party so we never went to the other ones. well around like 2 am we went across the street to make grilled cheeses with these guys that we met... we only planned to be there for a little while.. but it ended up being like 2 hours. alecia, the engineer that she is, left her jacket with her keys, money and id in the other house. so by the time we left the guys' place, everyone at the party was asleep!! we banged on the doors and tried the back door to see if it was open but there was no hope. alecia had to come to my place and sleep on the couch. luckily when we went over there this morning.... after alecia pounded on the door for a while.... we got her stuff. hahahah

so today i became an indepent film star. i was in javas, and these underclassmen come up to me and asked to use my backpack for a shot in their collauge film... they were looking for specific iteams... like a scavenger hunt. so i let them use it, they didn't go very far. the guys thanked me, and then asked if my name was sarah. of course it isn't, i told them so, but they asked if i could pretend to be sarah. hahahahah so they filmed one of the guys asking my name, i said "sarah" and he said "nice to meet you" and i became a star ;-) hahahahhha

it's labor day and oh you gotta love rit because we had our first day of classes today....

lets just say that i hope that this year will go a hell of a lot better than last
and i hope that i have a hell of a lot more fun
and that i hope to met a lot more people
and do better in classes


i just hope

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this is my new home......

but it has a freaken sauna!!!!!