french pressin.

so yesterday I had more views than i have this whole week combined. cosmic sign i need to post more?

Fall weather has finally settled here in the greater Washington Dc area, and I couldn’t be happier. Unfortunately in the mists of my packing and moving  i moved on slipper to the new place and found the other one under my bed.

Right now I feel completely burnt out on dating. It seems that these past few months I’ve attached a cornucopia of socially awkward guys. Starting with Penne Pasta guy, and ending with Chocolate Mouse Pie guy.  It’s been an adventurous past few months ,but I’m ready to keep it quite for a while.

this morning i used my brand spanking new french press! My very good friend Meggie gave me one for my birthday. If you’ve never had french press coffee then you’re missing out. Its the best way to brew coffee, come over and have some!

meggie and I went on a cupcake date! Delicious dipped cuppy cakes, chocolate cupcake peanut butter and vanilla buttercream icing dipped in chocolate ganché.

 

rushrushrush

i am so enjoying this cool evening. I am not enjoying trying to pack up my life and move. I’m packing between everyday use and storage. Bahh. I do have movers coming but i’m hoping to move most of it out so they can just handle the big stuff.  At the rate my life is going I’m not sure what i’ll be able to take over now.  I’m exhausted all the time.

The wind rushrushrushing through the leaves sounds a little like the ocean.  I do love the ocean in the fall in winter, its something I can’t explain. Something about the ocean never changes. The waves never stop crashing on the shore, and the wind never slows.

Just because everything is changing, doesn’t mean it’s never been this way before.

Yesterday was the first day of fall. Yesterday my life changed, today my life changed, everything is changing. Often change can be invigorating and stimulating, or it can be overwhelming. I some how find myself in a balance of the two.  At least its always interesting. I can’t wait for class tomorrow. No matter how blasé last weekend was, I know this coming weekend will be amazing. More best friend time (Carissa!) and Art Management volunteering awesomeness!

Today I was on my first (real) shoot in ages- it was a lot of fun!  It started a bit rough but I think in the end we got some amazing shots. I’ll be excited to work on these over the next few weeks.

As it turns out, my scale is broken. I know this because there is no way I weight what it says I do. Its become a depressing realization. I have lost some weight, but not 25 lbs worth! I plan on investing in a new scale soon..ish.

This promises to explode your mind and then never call.  I’ve recently started to appreciate stop motion animation. This video is amazing! Please please click on the link and watch it. For some reason it repeats it self, so its really only 4 mins- not eight.

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis

I got a guy’s number this week.
To bad that guy was gay,
and about 40.

I would never do, never.

A million years ago, or at least it feels like that when really it was just six years, I worked at a summer camp in Nebraska. There I had my first serious crush, Andrew. I was apart of a summer support staff group. There were five of us in the group and he was the only guy. Two of the girls had boyfriends back home and as it always happens, Andrew liked the other girl. It never really seemed to matter much, we were all really close friends that summer. Just young, carefree, goof, and silly group of people.  Also that summer I fell in love with Dashboard Confessional. By the end of that summer I knew two of their albums, A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar; and Places You Have Come to Fear the Most by heart.

Since then summer time and early fall has always brought me back to Dashboard. I’ve not listened to much of their new stuff, mostly because I’ve moved on to better music, but those two albums and all it holds for me will always be there. Surprisingly whatever I’m going through during those seasons brings me back to those albums.

The Country (Club) Life

Tonight I had a golf lesson! I am in the Profession Development class which is taught by the Dean of my college. The class helps you focus on your ultimate goal for the future and how to create a path to get there.  Every semester he takes the class to the Country club for a golf lesson and dinner at the Club House afterwards. The point of doing this is because the people who belong to Country Clubs have (generally) a large amount of wealth. To work in an arts organization one day it would be beneficial to know the ways you can connect with people who can finically help your organization someday. I was beyond excited for tonight. I’ve always wanted to learn how to play golf.  I’ve played, or tried my hand at every other sport but golf, so this was perfect opportunity.Of course I was terrible at first but then I got the hang of it. I completely understand how it can be very addictive. The more you hit, the more you want to get better at it.

In addition to the Dean, three other Arts Management professionals joined us for golf and dinner. It was a great night just to hear their stories and soak up their wisdom. Rather it was golf advice or life advice I took it all in. I felt like I as glowing by the end of the “class”.  I really feel like I am supposed to be here in my life right now. I still feel pretty clueless about my life, and where I would like to end up but I know that I’m were I need to be to figure it out.

I am sorely behind in my reading already! I’m so tired now I know if I start to read I’ll just fall asleep. More to cram into for tomorrow!

Sometimes there is a reason.

I’ve thought about writing in here all day and I’d come to the conclusions that I just have too many thoughts. Too many things to say about school, about life, and people. I’d rather just talk to you about than write it here. There are a lot of life changing things going on with me. I’m finding it harder and harder to write them all down in here.

I feel myself breaking away from all the disappointment and sadness I was holding on to this summer. A lot of friends have come out of the wood work to support me and give me really good advice. It’s been a journey to find those people who will be honest with you. And really tell you when a situation or a person is complete crap. I hope to I can be honest to them and others when they need it.

Tonight is my last night at the house, and tomorrow I’ll be busy moving back home before I need to go to class. It’ll be a pretty jam packed day.

This morning I made Eggs Benny again and it finally worked out. I looked at some more recipes and even watched a how-to video before hand this time. It really did help. I pan seared the roasted potatos from the other night and made them kind of like a hash brown side.

And then this is what happens when you take pictures out side. I bet kitties like eggs..

Today when I was walking the dogs I felt the fall season. It was amazing.