pump up the volume

today is my first final for the semester, and of course i'm not studying. but it's for media law, and it's just not that interesting anymore. although we did have a guest speaker who was the attorney in one of the cases in our book...but still. his name was milton.

and to think when this class first started i really liked it. like, really. for about a month, i actually considered going to law school after getting my master's. haha.

i think part of the reason i absofruitly hate this class right now is because it's an express class (which means i have it two days a week for THREE hours. too much.) AND it's a night class, which is a stupid, stupid idea and i don't know why i signed up for that time slot. 

i just want to go back to my writing classes! i loved them so much!

but it's so close to winter break, i can taste it!

a funny/stupid picture of christmas time with the roommates my freshman year

the beautiful marion square at christmas

inside the huge christmas tree made of lights

cuddle fuddle

it's official: i love the onion. i remember my brother requesting onion editions for christmas when he was in college, but i didn't know what he was talking about. i just watched this video about Joe Biden being a crazy-head and i just don't know what to say except that i love it.

also, i went to dinner last night with my wonderful friend chelsea and she had some news in the musical world: this electro-funk-pop-whathaveyou musician, who goes by the stage name of toro y moi, is from the same city as i am, is on a mini tour, kanye west has talked about him in his own blog, and I KNOW HIM!

well, sort of. i've met him. once. he is good friends with this kid i know from high school....what small world we live in.

in other news: thanksgiving was wonderful and i only have two finals!!

i and love and you

thanksgiving is coming and could not be more excited! this is my [second] favorite time of year (spring being the fave, of course) and i can't wait to go home!

i get to visit with allllll of my family, hang out with the broseph, aaron [who i hardly get to see], and see all the beautiful orange and yellow leaves, something that is rare in charleston.

i will also reunite with my wonderful, beautiful friends and eat until i explode. my two favorite things!

here are a few pictures of a turkey day party monica had at her apartment last year:

i have so much fun with my home friends and i can't wait to see them! [and catch up on all the juicy gossip about the stupids we went to high school with :)]

and maybe watch new moon....

and

i love those fall days when the air is crisp, the sun is shining and a big gust of wind knocks tons of leaves from the trees

wading in the velvet sea

I FINALLY TURNED 21!
sunday at midnight we went out to juanita greenberg's, one of my favorite places to eat in charleston, and we hung out there til they kicked everyone out at 2am.

it was so fun! 

i didn't plan on drinking very much, just because i've been nasty sick these past few days, but once the bartender found out it was my birthday he was very generous with the alcohol....i had such a good time! i even got to see hillary, who stayed an extra night in charleston just to hang out with me on my bday!

we went to santi's last night for a delish mexican meal and wonderful margaritas...my first time at santi's! so good! and super cute and eclectic. the margaritas tasted so fresh and reminded me of the pisco sours we had in peru (the peruvian national drink. i wanna go baaack!). also, there were 10 of us who went---who knew i knew so many people?? surprising...
 

a comet appears

my parents came down last weekend and we enjoyed one of the most beautiful weekends that charleston has seen in a while.  since it's been so rainy lately [ughh] it was so nice to be able to spend the entire weekend outside without a single cloud in sight.

we ate lunch at the farmer's market, went on a tour of the haunted jail, walked what seemed like the entire circumference of charleston [with beautiful, relaxing breaks at waterfront park and colonial lake], and enjoyed meals at three of my favorite restaurants---fuel, basil and bull street gourmet.

on sunday, we spent a few hours taking photographs up and down smith street/bull street. then we went closer to the center of the city and took lots of photos in the old historical cemeteries that make charleston "the holy city."

and there was a full moon sunday! it was the perfect weekend....right before all my professors crammed every assignment into the one week before fall break.

a poem on the underground wall

sometimes i get really stressed out and really tired and there's not much i can do to focus myself. like the kind of tired when you just stare at an empty space on the wall and zone out.

riding my bike through charleston's confusing one-way streets and down by the battery is a nice way to clear my head and remind myself how great my life is. so i think a bike ride is in order.

here's a picture of my beautiful friend stephanie on my beautiful bike sophomore year. this was taken the weekend of my 19th birthday....we saw the shins in concert the night before, had five loaves for lunch and basil for dinner, and we had both just dyed part of our hair red and shannon's purple [tried to anyway].
best. weekend. ever.

random blog, but whatever.

heart of a lion

These past few weeks I've been volunteering at the Center for Women here in Charleston and my work has been focused on ovarian cancer awareness. My grandmother died from what they think was ovarian cancer but since it was in 1957, medicine wasn't advanced enough to correctly diagnose it.
So anyway, the Center for Women hosted an ovarian cancer awareness event at Colonial Lake today. And I wrote this press release for the event!

The event went really well, we got coverage in the Charleston's Post & Courier and Channel 5 News came and interviewed some people [and I may or may not have gotten in the background of a few of their shots....I'm just sayin'.]

And for future reference [since nobody really knows about this] September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month....and welcome to October: Breast Cancer Awareness month!

go out and love someone

i absolutely love my job. i work at this awesome school where i teach after school to a group of adorable 4-year-olds. the school is in downtown charleston, straight up in the ghetto, and it's thriving---unlike most public schools downtown.
 
it's a private school but it's corporately funded...so these kids get a $16,000 education [or whatever private schools in charleston cost] for just a $1 a day! and i love them!

..........but i have 25 4-year-olds all to my self for three hours a day. so sometimes i don't love them so much. because they really know how to drive me crazyyyyyy.

but today i loved them so that's why this blog is coming now :)
here's some pictures from our teddy bear picnic  

[and these three boys give some of the best little-kid hugs, so sweet!]

bonkerssss

so. since my life is somewhat underwhelming right now, i'll start this blog off right with a post about music.

i went to england this summer to visit my beautiful friend vicky. and we just happened to go to the largest greenfield festival in the world, GLASTONBURYYYYYY.  needless to say, it. was. amazing.

we were there for 5 of the muddiest days of my life, all the tickets sold out (all 150,000 of them), and with all the festival workers and volunteers there were over 200,000 people there! there were 4,000 "porta loos" for everyone to share, but there was this wonderful invention called a sheepee that was just for women. i loved it. 

so back to the music.
i saw so many awesome bands at that dairy farm turned festival---the yeah yeah yeahs, lily allen, n.e.r.d., regina spektor, the ting tings, lady gaga, franz ferdinand, cold war kids, fleet foxes, dizzee rascal [new favorite!], a bit of neil young [who ended his set with a really great beatles cover] and bruce springsteen, bon iver, metric....just to name a few [although that was a pretty long list].

but by far, my favorite part of glasto was the silent disco. it's so strange to see so many people dancing away to music that only they can hear...loved it.

anyway, here's a few of my absolute favorite pictures from that crazy/wonderful week:

oh, and i was in london for a day and half. and sheffield [where vicky's family lives] is adorable. you should go.

And then there was light...

So this is my first blog since MySpace....just wondering what it's all about....and being lame listening to this Kid Cudi/MGMT/Ratatat song on repeat.