I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown

It's been a long time since I've updated, but my life has mainly consisted of running to class and working on projects so you didn't miss anything. I had my sorority semiformal invite on Friday night and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Especially when I think about how bad it could have been. This time, I had a hard time finding anyone who was free that night, so after asking like 5 people, I gave in and asked one of the girls in my house, Lauren, to set me up. I hate blind dates more than anything. Not only do I clam up with people I don't know well, but what if they aren't nice or don't like to dance? Lots of things could have gone wrong. But luckily, everything worked out for the best. I went with the roommate of Lauren's boyfriend who was very nice and we had a good time. The venue was this club on Melrose, but it reminded me kind of a warehouse. It was next to a furniture store that specialized in rugs and a psychic with one of those neon signs outside that you always see at psychics. I ended up taking off my shoes right when we got there, which I do at every invite. It was pretty hot inside, so we both agreed not to dance all that much. Overall, it was a pretty laid back invite and I'm just happy that it worked out as well as it did. I would post pictures from the night, but I didn't like the way any of them came out, so use your imagination.

This week is going to be so much fun. Tonight I'm going to the ballet! I'm going to see the Kirov Ballet perform Sleeping Beauty and I couldn't be more excited. Last December, I bought tickets for my family to go up to San Francisco to see The Nutcracker so when my sorority mentioned that we were going to Sleeping Beauty, I was over the moon. Ballet used to be such a huge part of my life when I was younger, it's weird to think about it now. And I get to dress up. Whenever I go somewhere like a ballet or a nice concert, I always think about that scene from Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts goes to the opera. I'll talk more about how it was in my next post. This Saturday, my brother and one of his friends are coming out here to USC for the football game against Arizona. The game starts at 12:30 so I'm guessing it will be pretty hot in the stadium and I'll probably get sunburned. After the game, I'm going straight to a Franz Ferdinand concert at the Greek Theater. Connor got tickets presale or something and it's going to be amazing. I haven't been to a concert in a while and the Greek is really pretty. So my week is definitely looking up.

Other than that, I just finished my latest design project that's due tomorrow. We had to create an editorial layout that might appear in a magazine about a product or a person, so i decided to do mine on the band, The Shins. College is such a great time because generally I get to pick the subjects of my projects, but I know that when I get out of school, I'll probably be stuck doing advertisements for soap or something ridiculous like that. So here's what I came up with. You probably cant see the text, or the details, but you get the general idea.