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      SNOW DAY!

      March 16th, 2007 by mike d. in school, PaintBrush!

      CURRENTLY ROCKING? YES.

      PARTY!

      Authored by: mike d.

      Good News!

      March 16th, 2007 by mike d. in school, Quickthoughts

      It turns out I can apply one of my MBA classes towards my MS degree.
      This saves me 14 weeks of class time, and $450.
      Rock.

      It turns out I can apply one of my MBA classes towards my MS degree.

      This saves me 14 weeks of class time, and $450.

      Rock.

      Authored by: mike d.

      T-Shirt Design Contest

      March 16th, 2007 by mike d. in Features, MSPaintContest

      T-SHIRT CONTEST

      As many of you know, my father plays sax for a band called Tabasco Fiasco.

      He wants to silk screen some t-shirts for the band, and is looking to you for awesome ideas.

      The band consists of 5 members: Two horns, a bass, set, and guitar. They play a bunch of local gigs in Massachusetts, with a focus on the classic rock genre.

      SO. your task… if you choose to accept it, is to design an image to be silk screened onto t-shirts. Feel free to come up with a logo or slogan if you’d like. Typically the band has been represented by a chili pepper, but I’m sure that they’d be willing to explore other ideas if you have them.

      The best design, as chosen by my dad, will be plastered onto the t-shirts of the band and the designer will get a free t-shirt for themselves.

      This may be the first MikeDiDonato.com art contest where MSPaint isn’t required. All I ask is that you try and restrict your color usage to no more than three colors. example: Black, red, green.

      My Dad!

      E-mail your entries to me at MikeDiDonato AT gmail D0T com. The deadline is tentatively Saturday March 24th at midnight.

      Authored by: mike d.

      Hoping for a Snow Day

      March 16th, 2007 by mike d. in A Day In The Life...

      currently eating: eggs.

      Oh the joys of watching snow pile up outside your window when you know that you’re scheduled to have an evening class. I am as anxious as a 10 year old.

      My mother has held a job at the school library ever since I traipsed the halls of elementary school. I never saw this as a bad thing. It was pretty convenient to be able to go to your mom in the library if you needed a pass, got sick, or forgot your lunch at home. One other major advantage is that our house would get a phone call whenever school was canceled or delayed for a snow day. I can remember quite vividly laying in my bed on snowy mornings at 5:00am, wide awake, anxiously awaiting the early morning phone call.

      Then it would ring. From my room I could hear my mother pick up the phone. She would make some sort of acknowledgment of the news into the phone and then hang up the phone and shout the news to her impatient children:

      “No School!”
      “90 min delay!”
      “60 min delay!”

      at which point my sisters and I would let out a quiet cheer from our bedrooms, turn off our alarms, and pull ourselves back under the warmth of the covers. It was great.

      Authored by: mike d.
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