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.