This semester has been crazy so far, things just don't seem to settle down.



The first day back our lake was frozen over. It was a weird day. What has even happened since then? My crazy roommate moved out with much drama. Ian made things official. Carolyn and I made plans to go to disney world for spring break. I epically failed in LJing. Hmm. Yes.

I'm still not dead. I have my new laptop, but I'm so busy with school. The inauguration was...an experience.

hmm.

Life has been so hectic with it's personal ups and school downs that maybe but maybe don't balance each other out that I'm not really sure what to do with myself. I met a ~boy~ and we are going on a ~date~. I have four papers to write before/for finals, a total of about 32 pages and plenty of research. I have a lot of other work to do and no motivation to do any of it. My roomate becomes crazier and crazier but I spend all my time with two close friends from another floor. On the whole, I can't believe that life is so good only a year from one of the worst times in my life. I would like to just wish all my school work away though.

This is the second to last part of the D.C. trip that happened...over a year ago. Go me.





( if it should happen )

Life certainly took a turn for the hectic. I've been sick and then sick again, went to a concert, got a spot on the yearbook staff and completely failed to do anything in relation to photography.

There's a good possibility that I'm taking a little run up to New York this four day weekend, though, so that will certainly get things going. And the fact that I have three midterm papers due directly afterwards has not impeded my plans because I am very stupid.

Anyway, in early April I went out with my friends to get pizza and ice cream.

BUT FIRST: A quick roommate story. We have bunked our beds for more space and I have the top one. I also get the top of her bookshelf for my alarm clock, books, etc. Yesterday afternoon I prepared to go run errands and realized I had left my alarm light on bright so I climbed up to turn it off and the jumped right back down. She, from her position on her bed started laughing about me "going in circles". Apparently nothing I do ever has reason behind it in her world.





We met up in the parking lot (that's Clara, Megan, Emma, April and not yet arrived is Kathryn).

( And then what? )

This whole friendship making stage is so awkward, with a host of almost friends and my very close friends from Baldwin just making me think about how close I am not with anyone here yet. I mean, I don't even think we've been here for a full month so I'm not surprised, just a little...saddened maybe.

My roomate has taken to answering everything that suprises her in the least or she thinks "sounds funny" with "WHAT THE FUCK." I swear like it's going out of style but seriously, shake it up. And try not to laugh SO loudly SO often at things that just aren't funny.

Boy that was sappy. Some more pictures from Baldwin in March-ish!





I had just recently gotten this hat, and I was/am pretty enamored with it. I saw one in the subway in New York and spent a few weeks scouring Google with my mom until we finally found the website. It was a big hit amongst our group when I went to England, too.

( -.- )

March at Baldwin was a good month. It was colorful, I was happy, things went so smoothly. I can't believe how long it's been- the scar on my foot from the science building door just might never fade, and I'll never forget the feeling of actualization I felt the first spring morning.

I guess I'm happy now, too, but I don't feel like I fill myself up right now. I don't have the friends, I don't have the routine, I'm just kind of in stasis. I look forward to breaking out.

I can't stop listening to Tegan and Sara.

My roomate gets crazier by the day. Who would have thought that was even possible? She's so involved in my life and what I am doing, like a nosey mother. But I'm not used to that crap because my parents actually respect my privacy and personal decisions.

Laptop is back, yaaaay. Doesn't seem to be fixed, crrrrrrap. Hallmates are turning out awesome, yayyyyy, roomate is turning out psycho, aaaaaaaaaaack. Yearbook has asked me if they can use my pictures from the concert last week holy hell yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaah.





Waking up in New York is one of my favorite feelings.

( It's a little cold and rainy, but that is how I like it. )

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK WHO SETS THEIR GODAWFUL ALARM CLOCK THAT SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE A FIRE ALARM FOR SIX OCLOCK IN THE MORNING, THREE HOURS BEFORE ANY OF THEIR CLASSES BEGIN, AND THEN HITS THE SNOOZE BUTTON GOD KNOWS HOW LONG.

I ONLY DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG BECAUSE IT'S NOW 6:22 AND SNOOZE BUTTON IS STILL BEING HIT. FUCK. YOU.

In happier news, my laptop is back in my possession way early.

Classes haven't really started yet, so I still feel a bit out of the groove, and it doesn't help that I don't like my roomate and feel kind of numb. The girls on my hall are nice, but we don't really connect.

Anyway, my laptop needs to be fixed up, which means two weeks at HP, which means last picture post for a while. Not that I've never gone longer than two weeks before posts.





( My cat and some flowers, taken in May. )

I can't believe I move in on Saturday. I'm nervous, and nothing really seems to be certain. I can't imagine myself in any other college setting than Baldwin, but i hated it there. And I haven't packed at all, mostly out of denial. This is what I wanted-what I still want, and I should be use to pre-change jitters by now but I'm not.

So some moving out pictures, in memory of Baldwin I guess?



I think I'd be happy to never see a cardboard box again. A lot of the things I packed are still in boxes, waiting to go to my new dorm.

Well, I'm a little bit excited about this dorm because it's on the fourth floor and I might have a good view of the quad.

( --- )

Well, I'm back home. It wasn't as relieving as I thought, but whatever. At least I have internet from my laptop again.







Girl in the red shorts? Craziest, most infuriating English classmate I've ever had the displeasure of knowing.

( Is it bright where you are? )

I'm going to see The Dark Knight tonight, which should be amazing.

My wireless on my laptop has stopped working again, and I don't know when I'll have it working by. It appears to be an issue with the chip, not just the drivers, and so I have to order a wireless card but it'll be a while arriving and installing and what not so no pictures for who knows how long. :(

This is my July 12, 2008. A day from our 11 day beach vacation. I've finally gotten my wireless on my laptop at least mostly fixed, and I got Sims working again! So things are going well. For a while I couldn't do picture posts at all.





( Have you ever stared into a starry sky? )

So I just received my Wii today and, guess what, the TV is completely unresponsive. Won't turn on, won't call me back- I see how this relationship is. Also my laptop appears to be having some kind of driver issues and won't connect to the Internet. This post was made from a borrowed iPod touch which, let me tell you, is no way to access the Internet.


And today had been going so well. : /

Finally, my England trip. I take a ton of pictures, some every day, but I am really bad at motivating myself to actually post them. Whatever.

This is a collection of my favorite/most moving pictures from my trip to Wales/England. It was a fourteen day trip and we spent two nights in each hotel, landing in London with the first two nights in Bath and the last to nights in London before flying out. I had been hating and dreading this trip from before second semester when I found out that my two friends couldn't go and I'd be alone. As it turned out, it was one of my favorite things from this year. How can I even put it into words, the freedom and wonder I felt? Maybe someday I'll get around to all 1500 some pictures I took, but this'll give you the best idea that I can convey.






This was in one of my very favorite towns, Aberystwyth. We stopped for lunch at a little place called Salt. The food was wonderful and the company was even better. This is pretty much who I hung out with the whole trip: (from left to right) Leah, the gangsta talking cupcake fanatic, some weirdo, Noelle, the sarcastic Egyptian lesbian, Sarah, the magic boy attractor/poetry fanatic/past England resident, Charly, my roomate and RA back at Baldwin- she was kind of sex obsessed in a creepy way, Sadie, the also poetry obsessed hipster chick who managed to not be annoying with her overwhelming indieness.

( What a Group of Losers )