Robin Hood all the way!!

Ooooh de lally!

Disney Parks Blog is doing a poll to determine which old characters will be back for a special engagement at Disneyland Park!!!!

VOTE HERE!!!!

I voted for the Sherwood Forrest gang, of course.

Seeing them back would be brilliant! <3

Pull up a chair, and listen to my back crack...

Time for yet another juicy installment of the "journal" papers the lady makes us write for Human Factors class. Not sure why the formatting got weird. Oh well. Here is a rant about chairs. Enjoy.

             As I sit down to write this, I’m thinking, “Oh crud, I’ve been sitting at a computer all day already, and now here I am doing it again instead of dragging out my yoga mat and doing some scorpion kicks to deal with my butt, which I have been neglecting.” So, let’s slink not so smoothly into the topic of chairs. Because I said butt; that’s the best introduction I can muster at the moment. I’m sitting in a chair right now, right on my aforementioned body part. It’s from Target, but I like to think I’ve gained enough knowledge and taste throughout the years to pick and choose wisely enough so as to discount my way through life while appearing as a fashion maven. Okay, maybe that’s taking it a bit too far. Still, my chair from Target is an oversized, armless, wooden legged, cushy thing in an off white canvas material with a pop-y black botanical pattern on it. I love it, and I really want to plop it in my new apartment as a side chair to my ever-so-kitsch living room set that will consist of that, a teak coffee table that Logan procured from his San Diego days, and whatever couch anyone is giving away come November. However, at this point in time, my lovely chair, which is very comfortable, is masquerading as my desk chair, and in doing so, is very uncomfortable. The problem with the current situation is as follows: the chair is not at the correct height for comfortable computer use. It really comes down to that, which is probably why, in the course of this discourse, I have unplugged my laptop and relocated it from my desk to my lap, and am sitting here comfortably cross legged. But I’m not actually using my desk. Drat. When I try to, I get that crick in my shoulder which I’ve affectionately come to call my “CAD knot”, because my right arm, (my mouse arm) ends up all screwed up over the desk at an unnatural angle. For that matter, my left arm gets messed up too, and I end the day looking like Quasimodo.

          It’s really mostly desk chairs that ever give me issues. Why the ever loving heck can’t 

there be a desk, office, or school chair that is comfortable, affordable, and oh, here’s the kicker: actually bought and used in said office or school. I’ve seen plenty of great, ergonomic, pretty desk chairs that are actually meant to support a person working at a computer on a desk. In fact, I just took a grip of photos of awesome chairs at the Haworth showroom that we just visited. They were comfortable, (I sat in some and said “ahhh”.) pretty, (they even had my favorite color!) but alas, probably not to incredibly affordable. Drat again. Here’s a question: Why is it that I pay bazillions of dollars to go to a school that makes me sit in crappy chairs all day? Is it because they are more affordable? Where the bleep is all my money going? (I do realize that was three questions, but if I may be allowed to continue my rant…) Chairs that spin and roll and go up and down are expensive. I get that, although I’m sure there is a better way to manufacture great chairs without requiring a fortune, therefore not needing as much from poor consumers like us. This aside, if chairs like the good for nothing rolly, spinny, up-and-downy chairs they bought for our classrooms and computer labs cost a bunch of money anyway, why not get us some well designed, comfortable chairs instead? I think I go to the worst designed design school of probably all time. They are trying, I guess. I mean, the school rents the building space in the Business Park, and they are trying to do things like paint and put decoratively informative graphics up on the walls. Can chairs be next, please? Granted, I’m out of here come September, but if they could find it in their hearts to replace the chairs that, judging also by the upholstery, haven’t been new since 1998, my scoliosis would thank them. That’s pretty much it, except that also I am staring a fund for a green Haworth desk chair.

 

This Rug is Bananas!

Can I just say, I want this rug.
Nay, I need this rug somewhere in my house. 
Possibly the bathroom.

jonathan adler banana rug $165

 Other than that, happy Tuesday- the day I'm at school all day working on my portfolio, drinking coffee and then having dinner beers & burgers at The Counter with friends before yet another class. Then I get to drive home at 10pm. 
Have a banana.
Brilliant.