Thursday, September 27, 2007
The quotable Rushton.
My economics professor...
"So you all get to take finance next term? Weeeeeee!!!"
Student's cell phone rings in class, playing a pop song.
"I'm glad that turned off before I started dancing."
In the middle of a lecture about publishing companies:
"May I now digress with a poem?" (?!) He performs (quite well, actually) a reading of a Clyde James poem about authors' egos. Then, with no commentary, we immediatley return to our lecture.
"Life is too short for 2,000 word contracts. This is what makes life interesting."
(Only to an economist, Professor. Only to an economist.)
I'm loving my professors. :)
"So you all get to take finance next term? Weeeeeee!!!"
Student's cell phone rings in class, playing a pop song.
"I'm glad that turned off before I started dancing."
In the middle of a lecture about publishing companies:
"May I now digress with a poem?" (?!) He performs (quite well, actually) a reading of a Clyde James poem about authors' egos. Then, with no commentary, we immediatley return to our lecture.
"Life is too short for 2,000 word contracts. This is what makes life interesting."
(Only to an economist, Professor. Only to an economist.)
I'm loving my professors. :)
Monday, September 24, 2007
Primary Colors
The funny thing about most grad students isn't that they do odd things; it's that they do normal things at odd times. They brew coffee, for example, at 8am one day and midnight the next; they take showers in the middle of the day and naps in the middle of the night; they prefer to play from 9am to 5pm, and work from 9pm to 5am.
So I suppose it wasn't all that odd when Sarah and I decided at 11pm on Friday night that it was time to paint the house. Stephanie was gone for the weekend, but the three of us had discussed painting one or two accent walls in our living room/dining room. Our weeks have been busy since the first day of class and as our weekends are progressively catching up, Sarah and I decided now was as good a time as any.
So we drove to the surprisingly busy Walmart where we spent over an hour choosing colors. All the walls in the entire house are bright white, except for one in the kitchen. Unfortunately our landlord painted our kitchen cabinets "neon barnyard red," and since nothing goes with barnyard red anyways, we decided to just ignore that altogether. Sarah found a picture of a very subtle greyish-teal wall with yellowish-beige accents. It was cute on the picture and she wanted lots of color in the house, so we thought we might as well try it.
Friday night, 1:30am.
Dining room, trial 1:
There is NOTHING "greyish" or "subtle" about that color! It is bright teal!!
3am.
Living room, trial 1.
[picture to come]
On goes the first of 3 navy coats.
There was nothing "beige" about that wall. It was a lime greenish yellow! When Sarah saw me standing in front of it she doubled over laughing because she realized how neon lime green it looked compared to my yellow shirt.
So we went to bed Friday night feeling like we were on the set of a kids TV show, with our red kitchen, teal dining room, and lemon-lime living room. We called Stephanie the next morning and confessed that we had gotten a little carried away with coloring our house. She suggested using navy in the dining room and something nuetral-ish in the living room.
Back to Wal-mart for navy paint. We didn't use primer on the teal which meant we needed a second can of paint for a third coat. Back to Wal-mart again, wondering whether 3 trips in 12 hours meant I was becoming Indiana white trash.
Saturday morning.
Saturday morning.
Dining room, trial 2:
On goes the first of 3 navy coats.
Sarah worked and I volunteered at the theater Saturday night so when we got home that night we primed the lime wall, used a hair drier to dry a small patch of it, and applied the nuetral color paint. It looked much too dark, so we returned to Wal-mart once again and bought a cream. We were so pleased with the warmth and subtelty of this color, that we decided to paint 3 walls.
Saturday night, 2am
Living room, trial 3
Yay for primer.
Sarah going strong at 3am.
The living room feels much warmer now and is full of our colorful hodgepodge furniture. Our kitchen cabinets are still barnyard red. And the dining room will need another coat in order to fully transition from royal blue to navy. But as Sarah pointed out- we have the rest of our lives to live in taupe apartments. So for now, we'll enjoy our primary colors.
