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t , v > • ' . 7 ■ '• ":Y. THF MTY Wednesday, March 15, 2006 I ■ * ^ -JL. Page 11 ttwiD nm spume fever Go partying, take a trip, ask him/her out, see your friends, slack off! Alexis Arnone THE MIX EDITOR Coming down off spring break is hard. It takes about a week to fully reintegrate into the system of going to class and doing homework. Now that spring fever has hit and the weather’s getting nicer, it makes it even harder to concentrate. For some of you, graduation looms a mere 2 months in front of you. It’s scary to think about the real world calling your name. Whether you’re getting your final credits and pumping your resume full of life or making sure you take the right courses over the summer to keep you on track, it’s crucial to keep in mind what else is important in your life. Having fun these next few weeks. It’s more important now as the school year wraps up to go out on the weekend if you get that last minute phone call. Arnold H. Glasgow said it best: “Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.” Too many times tests have gotten in the way of students hanging out with the people who make them laugh the most. Or those who don’t, for that matter! Studying hard is an essential in college life, but do you want to look back on these days and realize you didn’t laugh? You didn’t even crack a smile? That you were stressed 90 percent of the time? It takes roughly 42 muscles to frown and only five major muscles to smile...so unless you’re an insane workoutaholic, lighten up. Call up your friends for a night of cheesy horror movie watching and postpone the studying for two hours — you won’t regret it. Unless you never return to studying, which is not recommended. When the cute co-ed that missed your extremely exciting lecture in English the other day comes to ask for your notes, and your digits, give them both away. Not only that, when they actually call you and ask you out to dinner that Friday night, shove your Basket Weaving 101 homework aside and go. You’ll love yourself later for it, even if you happen to have a bad time. You’ll have taken a much-needed break from school, you’ll have done something new and fun, and the homework will always be there when you get back home. Before all your friends move away and go back home for the summer, take a random road trip. Even if it’s only a last-minute trek to Orangeburg late at night to grab the wrong spare key, GO! We’re not talking about heading off to California for the day - just a quick trip. It’ll get you out of the bedroom and let you have some fun. Who knows, you could discover your new favorite place to be. If you have work, and this is a pre-arranged road trip, schedule around it. Ask off for a few days, and rest assured the place won’t fall to shambles while you’re gone. People invest way too much of themselves in their work and completely forget about their real lives. If you’re feeling guilty, tack on an extra hour when you get back or make sure to have everything done before you leave. That way you’ll be even better prepared to have fun while you’re gone. This upcoming weekend is a perfect opportunity HOIDTO • 12 Heather Hall/ THE (iAMECOCK Hanging out with friends and putting off homework for a little while is great. Just make sure to get back to the grindstone, or you might not be here next semester. Hello, my name is Gail Filpus Luyckx First-year biology, theater and education student WHAT IS SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT YOUR HOMETOWN? “In Augusta, the cops regularly chase James Brown across the Savannah river.” » WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO COME TO SOUTH CAROLINA? “I would be Harley Quinn ... she’s just crazy and cool.” WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HOBBY AND WHY? “Theater, because it’s my main art form and it clams me down and gives me something to do.” IF YOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS, WHAT WOULD YOU BUY? “I would buy a red convertible Mustang GT, my own theater company and a pink and white Victorian house.” WHAT WAS YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT? “This year it is probably falling down the stairs three times in one day and going to the hospital to check and see if I had broken my ankle.” ■*- -n HELLO • 12 Jewelry collector shares knowledge, tips Carole Tanenbaum owns more than 3,500 pieces of antique, vintage costume jewelry dlarta Salij DETROIT FREE PRESS Can a woman ever have too many fabulous jewels? Carole Tanenbaum, collector extraordinaire of antique and vintage costume jewelry, has more than 3,500 pieces in her personal collection and more than 8,000 in her retail Carole Tanenbaum Vintage Collection. (Ogle them at www.truefaux.com.) She has a particular love for bold, colorful jewelry from the 1950s, the sort of statement-making pieces that take a strong personality to carry off. Tanenbaum cheerfully agreed she has that personality. “I love the 'wow’ factor of'50s jewelry,” she said by phone from her home in Toronto. “Like my personality is kind of bigger than life, so is my jewelry. I’m a very small person — I’m 5 feet — but I wouldn’t think twice about wearing three pins at one time or multiple necklaces. I love the rhinestones, I love the color that was used and I love the scale of the '50s.” Now, Tanenbaum is sharing her love of jewelry from all eras in a book, “Fabulous Fakes: A Passion for Vintage Costume Jewelry,” and a bookstore tour. “It’s a passion that I’ve had for more than 20 years,” she said. “ I’ve worked very hard at trying to find the special pieces ... really art pieces, objects of art rather than jewelry, in many cases.” “Fabulous Fakes” offers hundreds of full-color photos of jewelry from the late Victorian period through today, bracketed by Tanenbaum’s stories of how history and personalities became reflected in jewelry. One surprise in her research was discovering the extent of the feud between Special to THE GAMECOCK Tanenbaum advises aspiring jewelry collectors to look carefully at the condition of each piece. She also recom mends caution when considering buying pieces online. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli in the first half of the 20th century. You know Chanel: the creator of slim, simple suits that begged for multiple costume jewels to adorn them. As for “Schiap,” as she JEWELRY • 12 Special to THE GAMECOCK Susan Harlin holds one of the large format negatives her husband made on a camera he built from scratch. Some photographers still refuse to jump on digital bandwagon Terry Lee 6oodrich KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS The cheery voice on the answering machine of Benbrook, Texas, photographers J.B. and Susan Harlin tells callers: “We’re busy at the jafiUTeQk_We’re having fun the old-fashioned way.” In a world gone digital, that means the Harlins are pursuing their love of photography without memory cards or computers. They use large format film and brass-and FHOTO • 12