RIP coffee machine

It was too good to be true when I received a free 12 cup Gevalia coffee machine from one of the cast members in the show I worked over the summer.
It was a dream come true on those early mornings, when I had an 8:30 class, and only 5 hours of sleep.


It' the reason I haven't gone through all my flex yet (although that supply is dwindling as well).
And now it's dead.

My poor coffee machine is clogged in the water reservoir, and it doesn't come out like it should. Resulting in burned, nasty tasting coffee.

I'm supposed to be working for catering at the school, but they rely on people they've used many times in the past, so it's hard for newcomers to get put on the schedule (especially because they've been cutting back on events due to the economy). With no work, I only have my miniscule monthly allowance to live off of for necessities. Those do not include buying a new coffee machine.

With no money to buy a new one, my flex is going to be completely gone soon, since I drink quite a bit of coffee. Hence the reason for the machine in the first place.

Maybe if I run it through a few times it will get unclogged?

Is there a way to fix a coffee machine after grounds have been spilled into the reservoir and clog?

I certainly hope so. I really wont be able to stand anymore stress.

Much needed update

I apologize for my long time absence!
I have been so busy with school work lately!
I've been neglecting this blog as well as my vlogging channel.
So here I am, trying to redeem myself with a nice update.

First D23 EXPO!!!!!!!!! it was a couple weekends ago, and it was amazing!!!!!!! I saw so much awesome stuff, and panels for Imagineering and a panel for The Princess and The Frog, which is going to be AMAZING! I cannot wait for that movie to come out. I'm soooo excited and proud of Disney for bringing back hand-drawn animation.
Anyways, here are some pics I took!
They had a cut-out of Buzz and Woody. Originally, only Buzz was the cut-out but someone knocked it over and Woody's head came off. Taran and I though this was much better because now both of us could do it!

They had a really cool exhibit of a bunch of Mickeys that guest artists had drawn, so Taran and I drew some too!!! The bottom and top left ones are Taran's the bottom right one is mine, and the green was done by some pro who came before us.

...AND there were Storm Troopers there!!!!! This totally made up for me not being able to go to Comic Con!


It was pretty much the coolest day ever. So much Disney! I can't wait for next year, I'm going to work so I can go for all the days.


Other than that, classes are going well. Ceramics is insane. I'm trowing clay on the wheel now, which is hard but fun when you get the hang of it. All the other classes are going well as well. I'm in my digital tools class with my friend Katie, and we have a good time eating our snacks, giggling at MLIA submissions, and taking notes on how to play muggle quidditch.

The roommies are good as well. We go out on late night barefoot frisbee walks when we need a break. I'm getting pretty good at the whole catching and throwing a friz thing.

We go on crazy adventures. One of the most recent was a doughnut run at midnight. Jojo and I were studying, while Kenny was out running. And we both decided that we wanted pie. But alas, there is no 24 hour pie shop in the city of La Mirada. So we settled on craving doughnuts instead. When Kenny got home, we told her of our sweet tooth problem. She seemed hesitant at first, but she was only joking and totally up for midnight doughnuts!! So we grabbed our lightsabers and techno music and went to Rainbow Doughnuts, where the amazing Asian lady gave us extra doughnuts for free!!! I'm pretty sure she gave us a discount too, because we paid under $2 for 6 doughnuts and a mini croissant!!!
It was epic. And we are now completely faithful to Rainbow Doughnuts.

Well, we're having a tea party in the park today, and we have to meet the group in front of Emerson at 3, so I'd better be going to get ready now, but I will save this draft and come back with more stories to tell!!

Okay! I'm back! And the tea party was awesome! there was tea, Little Diggies (aka McVitte's digestive biscuts), and frisbee playing.

After an amazing afternoon spent in the park with friends, we all went to the cafe and had a corn dog dinner. Then we made a mini teepee out of the corn dog sticks, Kenny's hair, french fries, forks, and a napkin painted with mustard and ketchup.
Epic day.

Now I have to get to work, because no matter how epic, all days must come to an end.

I just hope the fire alarm doesn't go off again tonight. It has been for the past two days around 2 or 3 in the morning. Ughhh...... And the guys above us sound like they're raising baby elephants in their room. So noisy!!!!

Okay. Work. Bye!!!
-Brenna Kathleen

Voldemort in the 15th Century

Who knew that Donatello thought up of the literary villain hundreds of years before JK was ever born?



Oh, Art History. So early in the morning, yet so entertaining

Nine-Nine- Ohhhhh Nine!

Greetings!

I haven't done any sort of blogging lately, unless you count the video I had to make to document a project I recently had in my 4D Design class.


Since I moved in I have started classes, gone to an entirely Harry Potter store in Santa Monica called Whimsic Alley. Discovered the best website in the entire world called MLIA.
Posted a sign up sheet in our dorm's lobby for Dumbledore's Army (which is now covered in signatures), and created a group on facebook for Dumbledore's Army: Biola chapter, which currently has 31 members.

I also spent 5 days speaking like Yoda, in the 3rd person, in Telegram, in an Aussie accent, and not speaking at all. If you want to know more about that, check out the video on my youtube channel.
~*~*~link in the sidebar~*~*~


What else...... nothing much besides all the crazy antics I usually get up to. There have been late night Frisbee walks with the roommates, beach-going, and good talks.

I honestly feel so loaded with work that there isn't really anything else for me to be up to.
And that's just school work! I haven't even been scheduled for work-work yet.


I'm going to have to do some major time management this year. Which is awful, because I'm such a horrible procrastinator. So bad that I only got about 5 hours of sleep last night, working on a project for my digital tools class.

I have very time consuming classes this year. My ceramics class requires about 9 hours of time in the shop a week, my digital tools class means late nights in the Mac lab (because I'm too poor to buy Photoshop CS4 for myself), and now I have other classes like English and Old Testament that require lots of reading and writing papers.

It's crazy! I hope I stay sane through all this.

It's been interesting so far with the three of us in my room working. Kenny and Jojo need it to be absolutely quiet when they work, and I have to have some sort of background instrumental music or I go super ADD and get distracted by every little noise.

Last night I left until 2:30 and went to a fellow art majors room to work, so Kenny could read Plato and Jojo could do her work thing.

It's not all bad though! We had a tea party on Monday since there was no class for Labor Day. Several friends...... they were all art majors now that I think of it...... but a few of them were also Torrey students so Kenny knew them..... came over and we had a lovely chat with tea and cakes and little diggies (digestive tea biscuits) with nutella.

And I got Batman socks for a dollar at Target!!! OH! AND Target had Snow White socks for a dollar too!!!
I was so happy that they finally had something in Snow White!!!

Kenny just got back from her Torrey session, and she brought leftover Cinnamon Cupcakes!!!
If you've never had a cinnamon cupcake before, go try one! They're amazing!

I'll update more when there's something to actually update about!

later gators!
-Brenna Kathleen