Feb 9th: Blaaaaaah

Mmmm kind of a boring day. Pretty much just went to class, an optional review session, and the gym. Study parties ensued and then a late night trip to the BK Lounge. All in all a rather blah day. No wonder I couldn't remember what happened.

MOVING ON!

Feb 6th, 7th & 8th: The Weekend Getaway! :P

When I leave campus for a weekend vacation, I do it right!

Friday:

My friend and I left campus and chilled at my place for a few hours before heading into Boston to see Eve 6. The show was great! Two of the three opening acts were great (the third sketched me out - they were really creepy guys). I especially loved Lansdowne. They are an amazing yet unsigned up-and-coming Bostonian band. They are really sweet and now we're pretty much bffs. Many hugs and even a kiss! Yeah I'm cool.

Eve 6 was waaay better live than I expected. Like recording studio quality. The crowd was pumped, the guys were rocking, and I pretty much died of sheer happiness. I'm always at my happiest at a show. I love a good mosh too, where everyone is just HAPPY and having a good time...

Saturday:

The next day, we went to my house down the Cape. We ran around the beach and through the resort down the street. I couldn't help but mess with one of the signs... LOL.



Afterwards, we went to eat at one of my favorite restaurants - The Silver Lounge. Attached to the restaurant is the real caboose of a train. There are booths in there and a ladder going up to two tables up above. You kind of have to jump to get across to the second booth, and the waitresses just lift the food up and you have to bend down and grab it. I always think I'm going to spill chowder on their heads but it hasn't happened yet...

After that, we went to the cinema at Mashpee Commons to see He's Just Not That Into You. I loved it! I thought it was going to be a lot more of a chick flick than it was, so I was pleasantly surprised. It features an all-star cast and they all performed well, especially, in my opinion, Justin Long. I fall in love with him in every movie he's in (Yes, even Zack and Miri Make a Porno). Overall, I recommend it - there's a lot of lessons to be learned.

Sunday:

Sunday we hung around downtown and got some food. Then we went back to the beach and watched some kitesurfers. They were incredible. One guy, who was clearly more of an expert than the other four, pulled some crazy moves. Each time he jumped, the wind picked up his kite and he gained maybe 20-30 feet of air! WOW.

Then we cleaned up the house and headed back to school. I think the best part was turning on the radio to hear the complete Doctor Who theme. We were looking around wildy to see who's iPod was transmitting before we realized it really was the radio. America, I knew I could believe in you. Ahhhhh.

Feb 5th: Life Is a Highway

Today was pretty uneventful for the majority of the day. Some events did go down during dinner that I won't go into, as they were amazing and horrific at the same time...

But after working out at the gym and embarking on a short trip to nowhere with a friend, I've had time to clear my head. Exercising just makes you feel GOOD and I love highway driving at night. There's just something about it that soothes me: the dark sky and twinkling stars, the murmur of my favorite songs resonating through the speakers, the draw of the open road with infinity stretching out far ahead of me...


I'm not sure whether or not I overreacted to what happened (I need more info to go on). It's confusing to be unsure whether or not you should have a broken heart. But for now, I've decided to go on with my life and let the chips fall where they may.

I can be Loki's advocate.

Feb 4th: Secret Time!

Secrets. Everybody has 'em. And there are all types of secrets. Secret ingredients. Secret agents. Conspiracy secrets. Dirty little secrets. Um... Victoria's ... Secret...s.

And then there's PostSecret. It's an amazing website that is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine.

PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Select secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.

Now, I've never sent in a secret. Although I'm often tempted. Someday I will. But for now, I've decided to share one here:

If I'm alone in one of the student parking lots after it snowed, I occasionally write messages to strangers in the snow on a few cars.

Why do I do it? ... I don't really know. But whenever I get to my car and someone's drawn a smile on my windshield, I can't help but smile back. So I spread the love. Who knows? Maybe someone out there is in need of a little extra happiness in their day. So if you get to your car and see that someone has written 'hello,' you can bet it was me!

Feb 3rd: My Toughest Day of the Week is Over!

I had to get up even earlier than usual this morning to move my car from the faculty lot back to my parking lot. The school had us move our cars so that they could plow the lot, which is stupid bc it's snowing RIGHT NOW. Ugh....

Anyway, I stopped at Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, since I have class 8-5 on Tues, and got stuck in "traffic" on the way back. Which is like half a mile. Anyway, I ended up being 10 min late to vertebrate biology, as I had to run all the way from my parking lot (holding my cocoa) to my class, which of COURSE is located on the far side of campus. In the 10 min I was late, my prof issued out a pop quiz, which I ended up missing. Double ugh. And that's not the worst of it. To sit down in that classroom, you have to walk its entire length because when you walk in, everyone's facing you (and it's REALLY overcrowded). And all the front seats were taken, so I had to squeeze through and I think I knocked maybe five people unconscious with my backpack. And each time I turned to apologize to one person, I hit another... whoops. >_<

I did get to learn some pretty cool words though. Like deuterostomes, rhinencephalon, ovoviviparous, schizocoelous, and symplesiomorphy...

Paedomorphosis is cool too. It means that a sexually mature organism retains the morphology of a child at an adult stage. Basically you're an adult with the body of a kid. I feel like that's a pretty good insult, eh Shakespeare?

Mammalogy was a little bit better. I got to say Euarchontoglires.

Policy was a bore, but mammalogy lab was awesome. I really really like my TA. He's really enthusiastic about the subject and genuinely gives a crap about his work. I've had a lot of TAs, and most are only in it for the stipend. This guy is clearly in it for the long haul. And how can you NOT love a guy who tries to hide a tie-dye shirt under a button down in order to look "professional". WIN.

Anyway we had to assemble cat skeletons (yes, real bones). It was kind of ridiculous as no one else had any experience with bones, but I've already taken human and animal anatomy and physiology when I was still a pre-vet major, so I knew my stuff. See?

My last lab (GIS) got out wicked early. Bleh. Give sme enough time to get dinner before going to the gym with my friend.... (although I don't really feel like it bc my stomach is full of hot wings.... oooooooh dining hall, why do you take away all of your good/healthy food at night? WHY?) That and I'm slightly concerned since it's currently blizzarding outside. I might not be able to make it... maybe we'll go in the morning?

Laters!

Feb 2nd: Gettin' Physical

HiiiiiYAH!

Wow. My only lecture today was quite possibly the most boring class I've ever had to misfortune to sit in on in my life. I would rather have watched paint dry. Much more entertaining. Anyway, after that I hung out with a friend for a while before we visited a potential apartment for next year. The boy who lived there might have been the cutest boy I've ever met. Unfortunately, the place was MAD SKETCHY. A definite no, even though it's in a great location.

I had enough time before my policy recitation to go to the gym. I've been trying to get off my lazy butt for a while now and I finally worked up the nerve to just get up and go. Once I'm there, I'm a workout-aholic. It's just GETTING there that's the problem. The thought of spring break and then summer is finally enough to motivate me. Perhaps it's because there are only six weeks left til my trip... hmmm.

I am sooo sore but it's going to be so worth it.

Feb 1st: SUPERBOWL!

So yeah. I had a Superbowl Party. It was epic. There were chips and salsa and Bri even brought a banana. Always bring a banana to a party.

Oh, and Steelers won. Huzzah!

RIP CARDINALS