goes by so quickly! it's been almost four (crazy, busy, event-filled) months since i've been able to slow down and collect my thoughts enough to write. and blogspot changed its interface a while back and it confused me enough to deter me from posting for a little bit. haha. that, and i've just had a lot going on. it's so warm outside. something about the summer night air is so comforting and free. but also kind of suffocating sometimes.
let's see.. since my mindfulness-class-high post last time, there has been so much! i'll try to remember a few highlights.
- spontaneously drove to florida without a place to stay and ended up having a wonderful, relaxing few days on the beach with my lovely sista. and watched a lot of redbox.
- had friends come in town for fun shows towards the hustle and bustle end of the school semester.
- lots of outdoor pint drinking and brunches galore to celebrate spring and summer weather!
- my first steeplechase in nashville! saw no actual horses. just lots of nashville faces that i always adore seeing. and ate lots of miniature sandwiches.
- trip to charlotte/charleston/asheville with my most precious gems. more shows, beaches, and beer! ha.
- accepted to american university in dc! to begin the long journey of my ma and phd.
- cut my hair! definitely the defining end to a difficult chapter of my life. (hair loss, no more!)
- bonnaroo... camping and music and suntanned noses and lots of free love :) and hardly any pictures to prove it! (ugh).
- went to dc for a fun lil long weekend to visit and see what i'm in for. the city couldn't have been more enticing! i didn't want to leave!
- had a nonstop nature weekend.. paddle boarding in quarries, tubing in swimming holes, unsuccessfully sliding down rope swings, white water rafting. gonna miss that kind of accessibility.
lots of smiling from this girl for the past few months, i tell ya. probably the most prominent reason has been the acceptance into american. reference the first or second post on this blog and you might remember that getting into grad school is mainly all that's been on my mind since, well, years. it's weird getting older. and having to really think about what you want out of your life and make those big decisions. and then stick with them and be confident about them. but something clicked in my head, and i couldn't be more sure of myself at this time. everything has fallen into its right little place. i'm especially elated about what i'll be researching for my thesis and where that will take me in my career! now... if i can just find a suitable place to live. (I'M MOVING TO DC ~!@#$%^&)
more random thoughts:
- um, saw moonrise kingdom and it is the cutest little quirky movie ever and i highly recommend it.
- getting really sad to leave knoxville because i've started to love it so much.
- rufus still loves straws the most out of anything, ever.
- summer summer summer. i love the ease.
- got wen hair stuff in the mail, after being persuaded from watching the qvc/infomercial for maybe a little bit too long. still deciding if i like it or not.
- don't know what the heck mary kate is thinking with this new dude. she's the same height as his daughter.
- I LOVE THIS GIRL'S BLOG. and i especially adore her manifesto. i feel like when i write, everything sounds like this in my head, but then it never comes out like that. on a few of her posts, i feel like she went in my brain and took my thoughts right out!
- i'm going to forecastle this weekend!! and for any of you that are aware of my obsession with my morning jacket know the excitement this is causing in my head.
- my statements are so exclamatory. i guess quixotic really is an appropriate descriptor for my thoughts.
alright, now here's lots of pictures! (cause i know that's what you really want).
phew! hopefully the interim between the next post will be much shorter :)
