What my Life Looks Like as of Right Now

My billionth attempt at knitting: My first ever scarf (hopefully)

The mess that is the view from where I'm sitting

Coffee utensils and a random pair of scissors

The view from where I'm sitting Round 2

Attempting to Restart...

It has been quite a long time since I've posted on this motherfucker. Here's a run down of what has happened between my last post and now...

• Worked at my "dream" camp in Pennsylvania. It was actually hellish (lots of weird cultural differences and such), but I made some really great friends and visited New York City twice, which was amazing.

Sophie, Joel, and I at an Italian place in New York City

•  I was hired on as a Resident Advisor (RA)! Unlike my position this summer, being an RA has been phenomenal. My Co-Ra's are really great (even when we fight), and I love my residents to death.

  So that's what's new with me. I even included some RA pictures for your enjoyment. How about you, if you're all still there?I hope that your days are lovely!

My Co-Ras, Eli and Meric

Aaron and one of my residents, Chelsea, who brought me pumpkin coffee for my desk shift

  

A while ago, my old roommate Lauren and I got into a huge fight and she ended up moving out of my room. I hadn't seen her since, which was kind of heartbreaking since she was one of my best friends.

 A week ago, she contacted me and asked me to hang out. I had some qualms about it, but decided to hang out with her anyway. I had already lost her as a friend, so what else did I have to lose? As weird as it is, things between us weren't weird at all. We went to our school's cafeteria and hung out for an hour, talking Fall Out Boy (which is cool because none of my other friends really understand them like Lauren does) and life over Chinese food. It was super fun, and we are probably going to hang out again soon, which I am really excited about.

Who says that second chances don't work? Definitely not me.

 

Lauren and I last year.

DJ Slingshot

Last weekend, all of my friends and I went to go support my friend Erich (DJ Slingshot), while he DJ-ed. Due to a large throng of sorority girls, he didn't win, but we all had fun anyway. Here are some of our pictures.

                                                (Danielle, my roommate, and I)













(From Left: Dan, Danielle, me, Erich, Shrillz, Christie, Maddie)

(Me and Erich/DJ Slingshot) 

Home Sweet Homes

As much as I love visiting my family, I am super excited to finally return back to my school and friends. I want to say that I am going "home", but, with all of the moves that I go through, I can never really place where that is. Is it possible to have multiple homes?

For the past two years (aka since I've started college), I haven't stayed in one place for longer than two months. At camp last summer, I moved cabins once or twice a week, and then after camp, it's school to my hometown and back again over and over. And I love it, I really do. It's taught me a lot of things like proper packing skills, long distance communication, living in the moment, and to rid myself of things that I don't need (I have a little trouble sticking with that last one). The idea of home has been screwed up for these past two years, since I can never pick one solid location.

However, the cliche still remains true I guess, home is where your family is. Here are a few of my families.

 (My camp family performing one of our favorite skits)

 (My college family after attending Day-Glow)

(My extended "biological" family on one of our annual vacations to the ocean)

"We were part of something ours and ours alone,

anywhere was home, we're almost here again"- The Academy Is...

Prank Wars: Revenge Time

My counter-prank on Shrillz (because she turned my things upside down,) was to newspaper her bathroom. It had to be done quickly, because it was a Friday and I had things to do. Plus, she was only going to be gone for a short period of time.

Unfortunately, she came back to let her boyfriend in right as I was starting, but hopefully she didn't see a lot. In a weird way, it was almost better that she saw, so then she knew, when she went back to eat dinner in our school's cafeteria, that her bathroom was being completely destroyed somehow. Good stuff.

Because of this, I decided to do a little more. Instead of just completely covering her bathroom with newspaper, I did that and then took all of the sheets off of her bed and replaced them with newspaper. I also stacked a bunch of random things from her room on various bathroom fixtures.

Fortunately, Shrillz took a photo, since I have no camera.

(You can even see her microwave, full of random things, chilling out on the toilet.)

Why?

     Questions. Questions are crazy things. From a young age, I and many of the people around me have been told some terrible things about questions. That's a stupid question. Stop asking questions. That's not worth answering.

No. No. No.

     Everyone should feel comfortable asking questions. Why is the sky blue? How did you do that? Who was that guy on the television wearing that funky hat? Should I check out this totally awesome blog? (Yes, obviously to the last question.) As a tour guide, I make sure to emphasize that there is no such thing as stupid question, there are only stupid people who don't ask questions (except I phrase it more professionally in order to not lose my job).

    In classes, people are often afraid to ask questions. I am often afraid to ask questions, and I am one shameless individual. A lot of times though, other scared people have the same question, or, at very least, you don't have to sit there with a confused look on your face.

Intelligent people are intelligent because they ask questions and find answers.

Plus, it keeps us from making assumptions with negative consequences.

Here are my questions for the day

Why does it have to keep snowing?

Is being friends with my neighbor/now ex-boyfriend (we broke up last week) a terrible idea?

Why is playing baseball with a light saber and a smiley face ball in my dorm room so much fun?

  Where do people go after they die?

When will Fall Out Boy come back together (their breakup was one of the saddest musical days of my life)? LOL JK THEY ARE BACK TOGETHER.

 When will Brand New, The Killers, and Julian Perretta tour near me?

There are so many amazing quotes, excuse the multitude.

So question yourself. Question your authorities. Question your friends. Question your enemies. Question me. Question life. The answers are everywhere. Here's one to start you off.

Fantasy Shopping (in my closet)

     A while ago, I did a post about fantasy shopping. While I finding the pictures, it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, I should be grateful for the clothes and other fun things that I already have. Instead of making this a lecture post on how we should be grateful for everything (because no one really wants to read that), I decided to take this moment to showcase all of the awesome things that I already own.

Special thanks to my best friend, Maddie, for letting me use her camera, since mine is so many different levels of broken.

Keep in mind, I am a poor college student and not a photographer, not even the amateur kind that takes pictures for Flickr and Instagram or whatever. Thanks!

 This is my typical wannabe hipster wall collage. A must for all college dorms, and it took me like two hours, so I kinda love it a lot. Taking it down at the end of this school year is going to be hell though.

Part of my drawers, some books for class/my own enjoyment, Woodstock mug, African Piano from the camp that I worked at last summer, octopus bracelet that my camp counselor friend Clare (she is a boss at anything artistic) made me because she knows that I like krakens/octopi, and sunglasses for my upcoming camp season and summer (wishful thinking).

Eiffel tower lamp that one of my friends drew on last year (the drawing continues and flows all of the way around the lamp), continuing the kraken theme.

 

The only nice thing about winter is the fact that sweaters are everywhere. I make sure to buy bright fun ones (especially yellow ones), just so that the greyness of the season doesn't pull me down.

All of my tea making supplies, and some random supplies that my artsy friends and I found by my school's railroad tracks.

Beanies are the easiest fix for when curly hair frizzes up, and I love the ease of slipping them on and the statement that they make.

The white converse on the left have paint on them from when my friends and I went to Dayglow a while ago. I love wearing them for the memories.

My aunt bought me the fringe as a welcome-to-college gift, and the red boots were a thrift store find (my mom wanted a pair because she inspired by the Julianne Hough version of Footloose, so I let her borrow them occasionally).