jessica

6k run/walk

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:16:27 GMT

Anyone want to run this with me? http://www.believeintomorrow.org/p2f/
or if you'd rather just donate a few dollars: http://www.firstgiving.com/jessicaniederberger

After years of working the event, I think I deserve to run it this year!!

papercuts

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:59:06 GMT

These are really cool: http://www.petercallesen.com/index/index2.html

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:17:37 GMT

We no longer are getting free cable (I think I might have inadvertently messed up the wire while moving the TV, or the cable company finally turned it off. One of the two haha). Now we get about 3 channels. The weird thing is that the channel I have on now, all the ads are muted. The sound comes back on when the show starts again.... so weird.

you could be the next designer on project runway!

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:34:11 GMT

Free sewing machine!
Someone at the dance studio gave me a sewing machine last week. She was so excited to give it to me, that I just couldn't say no. The thing is I have my mom's extremely old metal pink one (that I think is super neat). Anyone have a need for a free sewing machine? it's hanging out in my trunk for now; I haven't opened it up or anything, so I don't even know what brand it is etc (but if you really want to know, I'll get that info to you). Here's your chance to learn how to sew and become the next big thing in the fashion world! (or you could just make yourself some nifty pillows. either way, it's win win.)

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:35:52 GMT

What a gorgeous day!! We are all packed up and ready for our 6K this sunday (for anyone who is interested: it's a 6K run/walk starting at the BMI and going through the Locust Point area). I'm excited that we should have great weather... that means we'll probably get a good number of walk-up registrations. It'll be an early morning, but I pretty much will just be taking pictures after we get everything set up.

bright and shiny teeth!

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:00:58 GMT

My sister is currently looking for a patient to perform her final dental hygiene boards on at University of MD, Baltimore. Anyone know someone who would like to get a free teeth cleaning (must have not been cleaned for a year or more), and who is a student/retired or otherwise has 2 half days of time they'd be willing to give up for a nice bright smile. It may not take that long, but it's her final test so they have to allot a certain amount of time. It seems weird to me that she has to find her own patient, but if she doesn't find someone she fails, so I figured I could ask around! I'm sure she'd be willing to hook her patient up with a nice supply of toothpaste/tooth brushes/whitening strips etc to show her gratitude.

If you know of anyone who would be interested, drop me a line.

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:19:17 GMT

I made you a snowflake!

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:02:24 GMT

To everyone who came out and made my birthday very special - Thank you!!

back from CA

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:32:15 GMT

I got back not too long ago (about 8:00 or so). I have been traveling in some way since 6:00 this morning (california time) after 2 short hours of sleep. I am exhausted. Overall it was a fun trip... but I'll post more later when I have more energy.

Check this out

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:39:31 GMT

Google Sketch Up

new icon!

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:01:31 GMT

aniika made me a new icon! it makes me laugh. This was shot on the bus on the way to NY this weekend. What a fabulous trip that was. I must write more about that another time. this pic is quite the odd one. haha, why do i find it so amusing?

missing the obvious

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:05:09 GMT

as further proof of my lack of a brain today: i was at giant this evening after talking myself out of a fast food meal. after gathering my items and waiting in line, the cashier informed me that the system was down and i couldn't use my credit card. as i didn't have cash or my checkbook with me, i left. it didn't even occur to me to go to the ATM 20ft away until i got to my apt. it's been one of those days.

interesting

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:26:00 GMT

i'm sitting on the second floor of the art building. some random guy wearing clown hair just asked me to watch a few of his short videos he carries around on his key drive. as i watched the short titled "suicide" i found out that he doesn't even go to school here, and that he's just "hanging out." hmmmm. there was another "ad" for natty boh as well as another for the "breakfast alarm clock." interesting.

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:57:27 GMT

i went to my parents place in frederick for the 3rd week in a row. this time to use their sewing machine to make some adjustments to my halloween costume and to make some pillows for my newly arranged/decorated living room. the costume part turned out decently, however, i did a terrible job on the pillows (as i had no patience to measure/cut straight/pin and proceeded to wing it). the outcome was two sad lumpy lopsided blobs. haha. i'm too tired to care right now.

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:41:03 GMT

it's 5:30 am. i just got home. sitting out in the cold in the middle of baltimore waiting for a tow truck is no fun. didn't expect to be out all night - now i must get some sleep

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:00:31 GMT

i just rearranged the furniture in my living room to make space for a new bookcase. i'm not sure i like it...but i'm going to leave it for now. i need a second opinion.

i just got a call from a friend - looks like i'll be going to power plant tonight (or "power point" as i mistakenly called it). the prospect doesn't thrill me, but it's better than staying home alone on this dreary gray day. this weather has to change. what happened to our crisp, sunny fall days?

a butterfly named "dog"

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:32:48 GMT

so saturday was pretty great. the weather was fabulous, and i got to enjoy a nice long walk along the toepath with aniika and a butterfly named "dog." yeah, we found a butterfly on the path, and were able to coax him onto my hand, where he sat happily licking my palm with his curly butterfly tongue. he hung out with us for quite awhile, but eventually left us to our walnut throwing antics.

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:28:19 GMT

so on the one night that i am tied up babysitting, 4 different people want to know if i can do anything - 4 PEOPLE! what are the chances of that? it's so sad, cause i really would have liked to do something tonight. however, the kids are upstairs watching a movie (2 to be exact - they fought, so i made 2 movie rooms), and i'm downstairs scanning in my letters and updating LJ - could be worse :) preliminary plans have been set for tomorrow afternoon - that at least is something to look forward to.

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:58:44 GMT

despite the rain and the fact that someone side swiped me and knocked one of the side mirrors off my car, i had a fabulous birthday on friday. we ended up at the barking dog in bethesda and danced the night away. more people than i had expected were able to come which made it all the more fun. yay for fun people :)

today in my typography class, we got our papers back sans grades. looks like i have my work cut out for me. although it was a good class - the teacher was happy with where everyone was with designing our typefaces, and gave the go ahead to start drawing them on the computer. however i have some catch up work now that i've decided which design to pursue.

happy post

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 02:25:39 GMT

my presentation went really well today. :) yay! our teacher sat us down and told us we did a "really good job" and that he was really happy with how everything went. This is very nice to hear from him, cause he doesn't just say things like that. We have some engineering students who are really interested in our project and who are willing to collaborate with us. This will be very interesting. We might have a marketable product by the end of the semester. wow.

Tonight I got to take a nice long walk with my girl. That made me very happy.

Tomorrow night I'm going out dancing for my bday! I'm very excited about that, I haven't gone out in awhile.

my bed is calling my name...

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:43:09 GMT

I have an hour and a half to figure out my presentation. I just finished dance... i'm wiped out (the "easy teacher" killed us today). It's only the "dry run" for the presentation, so I'm not worried. I'll think of something to say. Although I do hope it goes well... b/c I really don't want to work on it anymore after this class. Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day at work, and I certainly don't want to be worried about the presentation I have to give tomorrow afternoon. Plus, I need to get to work on typography homework tonight (I think I say this every post) b/c it's going to be a busy weekend. ok, back to work

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:45:53 GMT

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Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:07:20 GMT

the agenda for today:
1. figure out where exactly our group presentation is going for conceptual design (we are presenting our concepts to the engineering class to try and get them to build prototypes for us) and divide up the additional research that needs to be done, as well as combine the different presentations i have created into one thoroughly impressive 15 min presentation (oh yeah, and figure out what i'm doing with this video!)

2. go to the store to get some sort of stencil so i can draw circles for my type design, freehand is just not cutting it at this stage :) i also need to either get some ink for my printer, or buy a new one.

3. sketch, sketch, sketch!! i need to have some awesome (well thought out) type designs for tomorrow morning's class. i'm actually excited about this. i'm going to explore 3 different design concepts, so that we can choose the strongest during critique tomorrow.

hmmmm... doesn't sound so bad, should be a fairly good day

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:26:26 GMT

it seems like there is a lot of sadness/frustration going around. at the end of my dance class today, one of the girls randomly burst into tears. it was like looking into a mirror... all i could do was give her a shoulder to cry on. it sucks feeling this way. and while i'm feeling a lot better than i was last night, it's even harder to see someone else go through it. it's completely random too. one minute i'd be fine, the next the world was crashing in on me. anyways, enough of that. I decided to take the advice of my bestest friends, and not try and take practicum. so i stuck to my original decision. however, i did not come to this conclusion until about 5:30 this morning when i found that all my "computer sketches" were gone. yeah, it was my fault, i totally forgot to save, and just left them on screen - but my computer turned off and had them as an early morning snack. i guess i took that as a sign. haha. so now i have some extra time to do things for myself - like get my resume together, look for jobs, maybe put some extra hours in at work when things get crazy at the end of this month... and then the best part - SLEEP! thank god for friends who think rationally when i cannot.

now i need to go make some food, then maybe start some tighter sketches for my typeface, then hopefully find something to do tonight!

wow

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:15:09 GMT

when i got home from a busy day at work, i was surprised at the site of oreos in the mail bin (the bin all the apts share for oversized mail). I looked longingly at them and took a peek at the bright orange ribbon wrapped carefully around the package... sure enough "j-e-s-s" was written clearly across the 4 strands of ribbon. I stared in disbelief that someone else in this small building was named jess, and that someone had gotten her oreos. so i went upstairs. then it hit me. those oreos were meant for me! some wonderful person who had read my LJ brought me oreos! (either that, i am indeed munching happily on someone else's oreos, hehe) it was too much of a coincidence for them not to be meant for me though. so i want to thank this anonymous person, although i'm convinced i know who you are. you are awesome! it really made my day. :)

this evening the girls came over for a bit. i love them. friends are wonderful when you are trying to make hard decisions, and while i'm not certain of the decision i am going to make, i feel a lot better about it.