CRISIS!

Rascal Flatts is hands down my favorite band. I have seen them in concert a handful of times and every year it is better than the last. Since I am in New York interning for the summer I will be missing the show at home in Virginia with all of my friends. I thought that all of my summer concert sadness would be relieved when I realized that they are playing about an hour and a half from my university in Small Town, PA the weekend after classes start. I even called my roommate and we were all set to get tickets. That was until we realized that the concert falls on the same day as the second round of sorority rush. You can miss a round but there is a fine to pay and while there is no stipulation on what you can miss for.. I don't know if Gary, Joe Don, and Jay are a legitimate excuse. I need advice.. because as a senior I have a much lesser role in recruitment. The juniors pretty much run the show and I did MORE than my fair share last year. I even missed an engineering lab, had to drive all over to get battery operated candles, accidentally left my flashers on all night which resulted in a parking ticket AND a dead battery. This would definitely be a fun way to kick off senior year and it would be my roommate's first Rascal Flatts experience. But at the same time I always get a bit annoyed when the seniors start to check out and stop coming to sorority events.. and this is our first event of the school year. What to do, what to do?!

Here we are again..

Another summer.. another internship.. and I find myself back in a familiar place.. a lurker in the Blogosphere. I enjoy so much reading all of your blogs and have made a few attempts to become a contributing member of society but I end up finding your lives to be much more interesting than mine. So lets see how this goes...

Starting today..

So I am deciding that I really want to write more on here.. I spend tons of time looking at other people's blogs but I feel like I dont really have much to say.. Looking back at the meme I did made me laugh because I didnt indicate that I had ever performed a solo when in reality.. there was a very traumatic experience with me playing the role of Ella Fitzgerald in the 5th grade that I must have blocked from my memory. It was one of those corny elementary school chorus plays.. the title was something about jazz music and I was supposed to run off stage.. do a quick change which involved me putting on a skirt and coming out singing a song. Well somehow the skirt got all tangled up.. I waddled out on stage and immediately started to sob.. I take the skirt off and everyone applauds.. and the sobs grow stronger.. My chorus teacher had to finish my lines because I couldnt control myself.. Everyone afterwards thought that it was supposed to happen.. Lets just say that was the end of my musical/acting career.

I cannot even believe how fast this semester is going by. Only 2 more months until the end of classes and then finals start. And then I am a SENIOR in college? How did this happen? Why did high school seem to drag on FOREVER and college has gone by in the blink of an eye. We had a speaker last night that came to talk about the hookup culture on college campuses and boy was she accurate. It wasnt anything I was unaware of (ie. all boys think girls are crazy for wanting a relationship and all girls are fed up with boys who wont commit) but it was good to hear and she was quite humorous. The funniest thing to me was that she quoted a girl saying "At home in Virginia hooking up meant something totally different" I have been saying that for the last 2 years!! In high school hooking up to me and all of my friends meant you were full on doing it, then all of a sudden at my college above the Mason-Dixen Line.. hooking up took on a whole realm of different meanings and you then had to explain "hooking up how". Too much confusion. Also, all the young alumni she interviewed were confident in saying that once college is over.. traditional dating makes a comeback. We'll see about that one.. :)

Finals...

Finals.. my brain is slowly turning to mush.. so I took a little break. :)

Meme: Just bold all the things you've done.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (am I allowed to say that I was slightly dissapointed? I imagined it to be much bigger in my head..)
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (my entire senior year of high school)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (try going to college in central PA)
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David (the one in Florence that is a copy in the place where the original was so I'll count that one)
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasman
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi concentration camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car (my parents bought it for me..)
83. Walked in
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

I am happy that I have been able to travel a lot.. so much more I hope to see and do though!
40/100.. guess I've got some living to do.. Back to studying!

It's that time again..

So I started this blog way back in the summer to make me feel like less of a lurker but never ended up sticking to it. Seems to be a repeat pattern for me. Hmm.. Anyways, I should be writing a paper for my International Politics final tomorrow but I will get to that soon enough. I cannot believe how fast this semester has gone by. High school seemed to drag on forever and now college is going by all too fast. Finals are just the bane of my existence. This is majorly to blame on the fact that at my high school you could get exempt from your finals if you had a an A or C+ or better with less than 4 absences. Needless to say I never took a final. I still havent gotten the concept of packing a whole semester's worth of material into my head, but I'll keep working at it.
On another note.. I have absolutely no idea what to get my family for Chrismakkuh (the holiday we so appropriately adopted from Seth Cohen). My little sister loves hippos, so thanks to HauteLook, I just ordered her this:


The one I got is a zip-up, originally $165 and I got it for $65. She is going to love it. This is the first thing I have ordered from HauteLook. I always check out their sales but have continued to be a bit skeptical. Has anyone ordered from there?

I believe I have procrastinated long enough with this paper.. Happy holiday shopping to everyone!