Boathouse on the Georgetown waterfront (Taken with instagram)
You need that boy like a bowling ball dropped on you head, which means not at all. You’ve got too much to give, to live, to waste your time on him.
Superchic[k], “Bowling Ball”
Great advice on this lovely Thursday night.
I just sat and watched all 4 episodes of “Scandal”
And Olivia Pope is just…
It’s true. One of the best shows on TV right now. I know I have finals to study for but I just couldn’t help myself. #TeamFitzlivia
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25 things to do in New England this summer under $25
Looks like I’m going to need to work my way through this list because I found out I’m going to be working in New England this summer! #InternshipSwag
![GPOY: Last night we had a birthday party for everyone whose birthday was in the summer at the rollerskating rink. This time I only fell once [hooray!]. It was a costume party I went dressed as a pre-teen at a sleepover. You can’t see it, but I even wore my retainer for the occasion.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m371cs2aTa1qzfh2mo1_1280.jpg)
GPOY: Last night we had a birthday party for everyone whose birthday was in the summer at the rollerskating rink. This time I only fell once [hooray!]. It was a costume party I went dressed as a pre-teen at a sleepover. You can’t see it, but I even wore my retainer for the occasion.
Highlights from Last Day of Classes (LDOC) click on pictures to zoom
From top left:
- Free cotton candy
- Free massages
- Silent disco dance party (sooooo fun! best part by far. I’ll post a video later.)
- Bouncy slide!
- Make-your-own tie-dye Duke shirt
- Free sand art
- FREE CHIPOTLE!!! (I was first in line… of course)
- The random saxophonist who serenaded us on the Plaza
- Wristbands
- Fun on the moon bounce
I would have to say this was the best LDOC yet. I’ve been to 5 so I’m no novice. There was so much stuff to do and the dance party was beyond fun! I missed my friends hard core, but instead of longing for the old days, I wished that they could have experienced LDOC the way it was today, because it was that good. And I didn’t even make it to the concert.
During my Latin Dance final, one of the couples did a rumba to this song and I almost started crying. I’m not quite sure why, other than I really really love this song and its so sad. Reading week/ finals is making me emotional.
Source: Spotify
Last day of Latin Dance class (Taken with instagram)
![You are now standing in the presence of royalty.
Last weekend, we had grad student prom for our program and I won freshman queen! I’m posting this here for a few reasons:
For posterity; one day I want my kids to read this blog and be impressed by how cool their mom is and how they must bow down and listen to all I say because I’m way cooler than them. [I’ve already planned to have this conversation with them as soon as my oldest turns 2. No use in letting her go through life thinking I’m uncool.]
To remind myself how much fun I had a few days ago even though now I am wallowing in mountains of work and drowning in my own tears.
To further demonstrate my vanity.
To make it impossible to win next year since no one would want to vote for that jerk that blogged about her win of a joke award.
To stick it to Jamie, the girl I was runner-up to in high school in more than one beauty/ popularity contest. Look at me now, Jamie!
To have photographic evidence that the next time I say: I never win anything! I’m lying.
Did I mention, I never win anything?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2xqeloRKB1qzfh2mo1_1280.jpg)
You are now standing in the presence of royalty.
Last weekend, we had grad student prom for our program and I won freshman queen! I’m posting this here for a few reasons:
- For posterity; one day I want my kids to read this blog and be impressed by how cool their mom is and how they must bow down and listen to all I say because I’m way cooler than them. [I’ve already planned to have this conversation with them as soon as my oldest turns 2. No use in letting her go through life thinking I’m uncool.]
- To remind myself how much fun I had a few days ago even though now I am wallowing in mountains of work and drowning in my own tears.
- To further demonstrate my vanity.
- To make it impossible to win next year since no one would want to vote for that jerk that blogged about her win of a joke award.
- To stick it to Jamie, the girl I was runner-up to in high school in more than one beauty/ popularity contest. Look at me now, Jamie!
- To have photographic evidence that the next time I say: I never win anything! I’m lying.
Did I mention, I never win anything?
I needed a hair tie to put my hair up and I found a stick on the ground and it works perfectly! My organic, biodegradable hair accessory definitely makes up for that fact that I drove to school today instead of taking the bus… right?
Something Truly Amazing
My friend Julie is pregnant, but that’s not even the most amazing part. On Saturday, due to a great idea by one of my friends, we had a virtual baby shower for her! With the help of Google hangouts we had a surprise 10-way video chat with Julie [it was a surprise to her, not us]. Two of our friends who were in on the surprise happened to be visiting Julie for the weekend which was helpful in setting up the surprise and getting Julie online. Overall we had “attendees” from San Francisco, CA [she had to get up super early because of her time zone… what a saint :)], Texas, New York City, Washington DC, North Carolina, Boston, MA and someone even video-chatted from her car driving on the road in Florida [she wasn’t the one driving though. We’re a safe bunch. The group would never allow ourselves to chat with someone who was videochatting while driving]!
It was great seeing technology bring us all together to share our joy and excitement for the impending birth of Julie’s baby. Just like any baby shower we had games and presents, but unfortunately, no food. Next time we do a virtual baby shower we should all cook the same food and eat it at the same time. We also had a website where we wrote well wishes for Julie and even suggested names for her baby. My personal favorite name was Meryl because then the baby would be Meryl Farrell! Pretty nice huh? It rhymes and she’d be named after the GREATEST ACTRESS ALIVE [said in your best Lil’ Wayne voice].
We gave Julie two presents, one was a book of prayers we had all written for baby Meryl* and the other was a framed alphabet collage where each of us decorated two letters and mailed them to one of our friends who assembled them all into a beautiful framed piece of art. Even still days later, I’m still talking about how awesome it was to see some of my best friends from college all together “in one place”. Oh technology, sometimes you can be pretty helpful [ok just kidding, it’s always helpful].
Here’s all of us posing for the camera!
*her name will most likely [unfortunately] not be this
Photos courtesy of Davina and Ashleigh
My Inner Hipster
I wouldn’t consider myself a hipster by any means but I’ve lately realized just a few instances in which I prided myself in liking things other people didn’t and now that it’s popular I am no longer fan.
1. I used to be OBSESSSED with Adele my senior year of college which was the year she won Best New Artist at the Grammys. I downloaded her album 19 immediately and listened to it on a continuous loop for 4 months [which is usually when my music ADD makes me switch to another artist/ song]. When her album, 21 came out and everyone loved it, I refused to download it because everyone had discovered her. Still to this day, even though Adele is just as talented, if not more now than she was 3 years ago, I do not have her album and refuse to gush about her with everyone else [because true inner hipsters leave the room when mainstream topics come up].
2. I also used to really love Zooey Deschanel. I even declared my love here on my blog because she was hilarious in Failure to Launch back in 2006. Every time she came on the screen of whatever tv show or movie I was watching, I would screech, I LOVE HER! Well guess what, now that everyone else loves her because of her new show, New Girl, I refuse to join in on the chorus of I LOVE HER’s. In fact, I even refuse to watch her show.
3. And finally, I fear that soon my love of Arrested Development might go the way of my previous two examples. Though the chances are low because my love is so strong. But I definitely get upset when people rave about how much they love the show that they didn’t start watching until it was on Hulu. Where were you all when the ratings were struggling and my favorite show of all time was canceled after only 2 1/2 seasons? WHERE WERE YOU THEN???? I’m happy to welcome new people to the fandom, but it’s definitely bittersweet. I’m happy you like it now, but you’re 6 years too late. So maybe this situation is actually the opposite of the first two. If everyone had like AD at the same time as me, maybe it wouldn’t even be on this list and it would still be on tv.
This inner hipstertude selfishness is probably all just because I am first-born child who can’t share.
Source: behance.net
GPOY
After rollerskating last night, I woke up this morning with a banging headache and an aching body. If I had amnesia, I would have thought that I drank and raged pretty hard last night. But no, I was completely sober. I guess falling down 9 1/2 times has the same effects on my body as a night of hard drinking.
Source: nerdnirvana.org
