MadelineAwesome

i have noticed that sometimes when d00ds use the bathroom on my all-girls floor, they leave that seat up. that is NOT okay. i decided to take some action. i wanted a stern message with an angry black man pictured. so i googled “angry black man” and appropriately enough, the Unforgivable guy was a top hit. so i went with that theme. and here is the result.

this is how all three(3) of the stalls look now.

and if your old eyes still can’t read that shiz:

and just for kicks: here is a cool picture and a picture of the urinals that boys are NOT allowed to use on my floor. I dont want to walk in there to see yalls member out yo pants.

so plz. put the seats down. i dont want to touch them. ick.

here is another painting deal.

my graduation party was on saturday and it was a complete success. My closest friends all came and mingled with my family and life coaches. And by life coaches I mean i have weird old friends. Like 40 year olds. Its complicated. Don’t worry about it.

but the party was great. Aside from one disastrous number, Vague Babies performed pretty well. I made a dress the night before that turned out to be pretty adorable and worked out well for me. Pictures to come.

Today i’m going to get some ballin bubble tea from BeBoBa and then return some sound equipment and go see my lawrence, kansas buddies– Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk.

i had a night last spring where i did a bunch of paintings. i posted a stream of some that i did this year, but the ones from last year have gone unshared. here is one of them. it might be my favorite of them. i should probably play into all that vh1 countdown suspense bullshit but i think that is stupid and too much work and i am in a bit of a rush. so here is the whale/plane painting.

took the AP comp test a few days ago. pretty much pwnt it. My english teacher gives out tattoos to her students to remind them to “cop a ‘tude” for the test. so she had pirate themed tattoos but i wanted to go above and beyond and make sure everyeone knew i was a temp tattoo enthusiast. so i put on one of mine. a key with some ribbon. i said it was the Key to all the answers on the test.

but since the comp test is over, we don’t do much in class. we are supposed to be reading books, but i was too tired to absorb any language so i just drew some more doodles.

i have like 10 days of class/finals left or something. here is what i did today during my composition class.

some explanation:
- my freecyle digest had a solicitation for a HUGE chinchilla cage.
- prom is soon
- i was thinking about mexico
- i dont even know what dashboard was about…
- after finals and AP tests every year SLK and i eat candy bars that we call ‘victory bars’
- my AP test is tomorrow and my class is having a breakfast. i am bringing in a playlist of music to pump us up.
- i draw ridiculous animals.

last night sasha and i painted on envelopes. here are mine:

also: i picked . i am very excited.

still suped up about this scanner. i had a good time last night digging through a big box of pictures and finding the best pictures to upload to the intarwubz. here are a bunch with some explanations.

best year book picture i’ve ever taken i think. good sweater, good hair, decent smile. totally good. totally 6th grade.

in third grade my family went to Italy for spring break. here are some pictures:

the flickr caption on this one is “lollipop[e]s” i so clever.

little white speck in middle of all the commotion is pope john paul. holla. he is my favorite pope.

hey JP. sup?

this is in ireland. land of my father. actually, land of my great grandfather. he was born in the upstairs of this pub. (picture circa 6th grade/2001)

this is a picture of two girls completely psyched about getting their hair done for their first communion. (1998/2nd grade)

communion hairrr.

my gramma loves me.

dear american girl, you can make checks payable to ME.

so my backyard used to be a jungle. i love log. (circa 1995)

CUTEST TINKERBELL EVER. dont even try and refute that. (circa 1995)

before moving to the Chi, we lived in Burnsville, Minnesota. It snowed. that is not my house in the background. that is the babysitters house across the street.

uncle steve and aunt julie got married. These are all the cousins. before steve and julie had kids. i think i am going to use this picture as our facebook groups default. good idea madeline. and yes, my cousins and i have a facebook group.

first day of kindergarten.

my brother is an Ultra-Artist.

hey/hay/hei is for horses. i wish i still had that shirt.

today my friend Gaurav was like ‘hey. wanna make a flyer for the BABT show on saturday?’ so i pushed aside the homework that i was not doing anyways and made this. it pretty much is inspired by my new favorite domesticated animal. the blue russian cat. they are the tightest mofos in the cat kingdom*.

here is the flyer. coming to a myspace page near you.

*i have a solo project now. its called Madeline and The Big Cat Family. its ironic because its just me.

do you know i have a band? have i ever talked about it? i mention danny cohen sometimes on here. he is the other half of the band. you can buy us on itunes, amazon, and eMusic. Search for it. Vague Babies.

also: if you live in lawrence, Kansas, or near there, you should go to this show. BABT are my friendlies and they rule.

i knit. not well, but i knit. I basically knit things that are rectangular. Scarves…and well. scarves. but i happen to like scarves and so do my friends. So it works out. I dont even really do fancy scarves. I sometimes insert a stripe, but i think i do it the wrong way. whatever. it works for me. But i think knitting is a good way to pass time and do something productive during time that would generally be unproductive. When i am on the train or in a car (and not driving) or watching TV or listening to a lecture in class knitting is awesome. Once you get the point where you can do it mindlessly its just a matter of muscle memory and your hands just do it. I just gave away one of these aforementioned rectangular projects to a friend of mine. Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound. He’s a good guy. He really like this scarf. I gave it to him and he was like “YOU MADE THIS!? This is so cool! Its so 1993! I LOVE 1993!” the perfect reaction. anyways. he went on to say how he wished he knew how to knit and that he used to do cross stitching projects when he was a kid.

here is the scarf i made for him.

here is the show. it was hot on stage.

and if the picture alone isnt doing it for you: here is a video from the show that some guy took.

he is from georgia where it like doesnt get cold so i hope its at least scarf weather for the rest of his tour…