Chipotle

The only time I was able to get off-campus was to go and get dinner at Chipotle with Jackie Hines this week. It was the first time I went to Chipotle down here in Sarasota, so I guess I discovered something new this week. We’ve had Chipotle back home in Minnesota for quite awhile now and I was super excited when I heard there was one being built down here. Granted, that was last year, and I haven’t had a chance to go down to the one down here until now.

I love their burritos, but I always feel bad when I eat it, and any fast food really. I’ve been trying to eat healthier, along with buying my groceries at the organic grocery stores like Whole Foods. I like to try and buy my food from places that at least sell some local foods because that’s becoming a problem now a day. Food is almost all so processed and manufactured, that it hurts the local economy.

No Such Luck

I tried to find some free time to get off campus and enjoy even only a few hours outside, but I just wasn't able to. This week was extremely heck tick for the animation students because of all the assignments due at the same time. I were only given a week to do an animation to test our character rigs, plus having a full-faculty critique for our pre-pro stories and the development work.

The closest I got to going off-campus was down to the Academic Building because I normally only venture that far south on campus if I have Ecology of Sarasota on Thursday nights. So I’ve just got to say how annoyed I am at all of the smokers on campus. I was so happy when Ringling changes their policy and became a smoke-free campus, except for a few designated smoking areas scattered around. What’s worse is that they smoke RIGHT outside the doors to buildings so as soon as you step outside you’re greeted by a waft of smoke right in your face. I really want public safety to reinforce it, because I’ve seen them zoom right by students smoking on their little security golf carts and not even stop and say anything.

Library

I have to say; I am a complete bookworm when I’m not at school, which is mainly because I never have time to read while schools in session. I decided to take a day and go to downtown Sarasota and visit the library for the first time. I don’t have a car and couldn’t find a ride, so I ended up taking the bus. I haven’t taken the bus since freshman year, and now I remember why exactly. That first year I didn’t really know any better and I had a lot more time to spare and always wanted to get off-campus.

I learned the SCAT bus routes and I still remember it, and how terrible it is. One of the things that stood out most to me about the transportation system is that there are lots of bus stops, but they’re located in the worst possible places. Many of them simply consist of a sign on the side of the road where there isn’t any cover or even a bench for people to sit on.

Anyway, I went to the library to have a look around and ended up getting myself a library card. It was different from the libraries I go to back home, but mainly in the layout because I’ve never been in one that had two floors instead of one main room.

On the way to the library a homeless person asking me for some quarters for the bus fare had stopped me, and I didn’t have any to give him. He ended up going over to a couple that was walking in the park and got some money from them. Then when I left the library over two hours later I saw that he was still in the park, and still asking for money for the “bus.”