all over the place

SECTION 1: HOLY BOWL


this saturday was the 38th annual Holy Bowl. the Holy Bowl is a big football game between Christian Brother's High School (my school) and Jesuit High School. these are the two big catholic high schools in sacramento, CB being co-ed and Jesuit being an all boys school with it's sister school Saint Francis. they've had an ongoing rivalry since the two institutions have existed. i like to think of it as a dose of good, healthy competition, but in reality it is a bit vicious. i personally feel passionately about it. this year was Cb's year. our boys were better than they've been in a long time, beating ranked #6 Luther Burbank and St. Mary's or stockton. everything was going wonderful. CB gave the first score to Jesuit but quickly took the lead and seemed to be holding it. no one expected that late in the 4th quarter Jesuit would take the lead by a mere on point. time was running short but CB still stood a chance to score one last time. naturally that didn't happen and we lost, yet again. everyone, especially the seniors, were so ready to win. since our freshman year our football players have excelled at football, beating jesuit and all of their biggest competitors, and now we lost it all to a few bullshit calls and a mere minute lost on the clock. but the most important component to the Holy Bowl 2008 story isn't that we ALMOST won, but that we played well, we came out with more spirit than a liturgy, and had a good time despite the loss...or until the loss.
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SECTION 2: COLLEGE TALK
i just attempted to clean my room and a part of that is organizing all my random papers into organized piles/garbage receptacles. everything is pretty organized except for the huge monster pile of college brochures that i decided to keep. most of these are for art schools that i won't ever go to. today i was talking to luke, and he told me that just about everything i say is college related. he is probably right. i'm a high school senior in the fall semester and college is on the frontmost part of my brain. sadly my original dreams might not be realized. due to financial and practical reasons, i'm second-guessing this whole art school thing a lot. i love art, making it, looking at it, all of it, but i don't have the money to go to art school. plus, how can amy albertson go to a school without a football team? no one has the answer to that. so i still know what i want to do with my life, i'm just not sure as to how i'll be doing it anymore. it is really a shame because time is running out. i haven't started any applications. the most i've done is start my portfolio, and that is a waste if i don't end up at an art school. i'm just not sure, and i hate not knowing.

sailboats

Saturday Sept 20th-21st was Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco. i went with sarah wong and we stayed at my grandmother's in berkely. what is TIMF? it is vampire weekend, tegan and sarah, chester french, goldfrapp, tokyo police club, justice. it is independent clothing companies. it is free t-shirts and buttons. it is a music festival with a ton of great indie bands and interesting people and culture. there are too many words required to describe how great it was and is. basically, i had a really terific time with sarah, watching bands and seeing things, and i also got to hangout with some people. i met D.A. from Chester French and found a new love in Sara from Tegan and Sara. i discovered that tokyo police club is possibly one of the cutest bands ever.








holy bowl is this weekend.

up and down

the last...48 hours or so...have been a roller coaster ride. i had a wonderful day at work on sunday only to be killed by a boring monday at school. then on monday evening i got to go to dinner with my cousins who i haven't seen in forever. keith and emily and their kids are visiting from orlando so i was really excited. dinner was fairly hectic, as it always is with my gigantic family and my mom was stressing me out beyond all reason. luckily i got to go to my cousin jill's house where her, emily, and i watched a ton of episodes of the hills and ate cake batter. it was so fun to spend time just hanging out with my cousins. i never do that often enough. i always really miss keith and emily because their family is just so fun and they are so nice. it's too bad they live so far away. but back to the roller coaster. my mom got mad because i came home at 11:30 from jill's. it is kind of ridiculous because i was at a family member's house and i was visiting with people i never get to see. of course i had to go to school today to be welcomed by a summons to the dean's office and a notification from ms. olson herself about my 3 detentions. the day got better and we celebrated nick jonas' birthday at lunch. we ate cake that jill had baked for me the night before. of course i had to go to work and tell my boss about how i will be late on two days because i have detention. luckily it went ok. work wasn't bad and now i'm just waiting for tomorow and the next day because friday sarah and i go to SF for treasure island music fest. I AM SO EXCITED!

be interested

i want to blog about something interesting but i just don't know what. everything i think i want to talk about just doesn't seem adequate, but i'm full of thought.

i suppose i'm going through an important life-stage. i'm starting to seriously question whether or not i really should go to art school. i have 3 major reasons for this lack of security. first, my art teacher actually said to me "maybe you shouldn't go to art school if you always want things done your way". i was not only insulted, but i also really took that as a heavy hit. i know mr. mcgovern isn't the most competent, motivating, or well-educated person on the matter, but he is knowledgeable and no matter what way i slice it i owe a lot of my interest in art to him. hearing him discourage me really makes me think "is he right on this one?". second, i feel behind. today i got a postcard from MICA about portfolio review days and interviews for the fall. i am not ready to show a portfolio for the fall. i don't have enough high-quality pieces to present at this time. does that mean i am not cut out for it? should i be ready? i just feel like i'm not up to par with the rest of the industry as far as skill or product goes. i know the one place i am up to speed in is passion. i really want to do it, i just don't know if i really am supposed to. perhaps i'm pushing it too much and it's not meant to be. the third reason is that my family has informed me that although we may not be poor, we do not have enough money to pay for art college. all of the art schools i've looked into run about 30-40 thousand dollars a year, not even including living expenses. i HAVE to get a scholarship if i want to go to any of them, but most of the financial sid they give out is based on need, which i have none, or artisitic ability and i'll be the first to admit i'm not that good. i might be good compared to the average person, but not to the amazing talents that i'd be competing against for a scholarship at an art school. once again i remain the lowest of the over-acheivers. i'm definitely not the best of the best. so i might end up at a state college, or something. perhaps i dream to big and need to rethink before it is too late. i don't want to be one of the kids who screws themselves over.

randomness

let's start with a little story telling:
last friday evening i saw Vicky Christina Barcelona with eden, sarah, and nick. luke and chris sylva were supposed to come but both had to bail, not for the same reason. yes, luke isn't talking to me. no, i am not in the position to explain. the truth is i couldn't if i tried. all i know is i wish he wouldn't ignore me.

saturday i got sick, but i still had to ref soccer. that evening, after i drugged myself up, i went with the group to willy's and then we went to claire's house. it was an interesting...and odd evening. i had john howard take me home early because i had work in the morning.

i'm not sure if i updated with the fact that i did get a job at freeport bakery. today was my 4th day. i've pretty much got the hang of my job, for the most part. working has definitly made my schedule a little hectic. i don' t think i planned to be working during the school year when i took on so many activities. i haven't gone to soccer in ages and i need to get my bangs trimmed but i dont even know when i will have the time. i am a little behind on my government reading and we have a test on wednesday, so i need to really catch up.

between the events of friday, saturday, and all kinds of other things, my life feels kind of jumbled up right now. it isn' t necessarily a bad thing, i'm just not in the same pattern as usual and i'm trying to find a new one. o, and i saw a picture of brian wearing what i am pretty sure is an american apparel sweatshirt....yea.

blogisodes coming soon i swear. two of them.

happiest place on earth

from august 28th until the 31st my family ventured to disneyland. naturally it was quite an interesting trip, seeing as my family is nuts and does not spend time together often, especially not this much time. day one we drove down to LA which was a less-manic-than-expected car ride. once arriving we ate some really interesting Vietnamese food [because my father is a food critic and looks up restaurants on the internet], and went to downtown disney for the first round of shopping and headed back to our ghetto hotel. day two we actually went to disneyland. of course we went on basically every ride and you know all the rest. lines were fairly long, it was sticky-hott, and there were millions of people around. but i did have the pleasure of riding the new finding nemo submarine ride. as a child the old submarine ride was my favorite and was sadly closed down. now it is reopened as a similar variation with a finding nemo theme. a win-win i think. [i'll have a webisode about disneyland to give you my further opinions coming soon].

[more pictures later]
day three we went to california adventure for a little while. i got to go on the new toys story mania ride, which is by far the best ride ever. you sit in a little car type contraction and wear 3D glasses while you play virtual carnival games, competing with the person sitting next to you. after CA adventures we moved into our second hotel, the disneyland paradise pier hotel. it was one of the most amazing hotels i've ever been in.

that night we hit up some obscure, and super authentic italian restaurant for pasta so that my mom could load up on carbs for her marathon the next morning. after that we headed home to sleep because i had to wake up at 5 in the morning to escort my mother to the starting line of her race. after she finished we ate breakfast at the PCH grill, which ended up being one of those character breakfasts. i was very pleased with that, other than the fact that my father ran out of cash so i had to put in some of my own stipend. [pictures also coming soon]
all in all, it was a nice trip and despite a few disputes and the annoyances i enjoyed my time and i still love disneyland just as much as ever.

p.s. i started working at freeport bakery yesterday. it is kind of hard work because there are a lot of new things to remember, but i'm sure i will get it eventually. everyone was really nice and i'm sure they will help me with things until i really get a hold of my job.

coming soon

A DISNEYLAND POST! i just got back and i have tons to do. once i'm organized and i've uploaded pics i will post it so keep looking for it!