sad you are smushed.

glad we met.

More than 4 billion people make less than $ 1500 a year. Call me naive but I find that mindboggling.

mostly the weather is beautiful

but sometimes we put on sweaters.

cereally sorry

hello friends and cyborgs. sorry its been so long. i've been kind of preoccupied, but not really with anything important.

debauchery, sun, daydrinking, free and amazing live music, dancing, friends, spring break, sxsw, and falling in love with just about all of it. the highlight of everything was my first big night out during sxsw when we snuck into an rsvp only party only to find a free open bar, rjd2 and chitty bang bang, windows phones being thrown everywhere, naughty schoolgirls, ice sculptures and most importantly a barber cutting hair and beards on the second floor.

too many effers

i am reading an article by jeffrey pfeffer.

if your last name and your first name share the letters effer thats probably too much.

ok jeffrey?

i gotta finish writing this dumb paper.

but real quick. i have some headline news.

i am participating in a big lebowski bowling tourney this friday.
i was really alarmed when my team told me we had to dress as the village people instead of like big lebowski characters, but it seemed fun and i was the last to join so i agreed to anyway.

GET THIS! i finally asked them why we aren't dressing like the big lebowski and it turns out IT IS A TRICK! HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! only the dumb first years come as big lebowski characters. the second years all come in billions of other silly costumes and laugh at the dumb first years. thank goodness the second years have shown me the light. but asshole that i am, i'm not telling anyone! HAHAHAHAH!!!! great joke guys, i am so into this. also one of the awards is for least score, so we have agreed to bowl all of our balls into the gutter so just in case we don't win best costume (so highly unlikely) we can at least win lowest score. i think friday might be the best day ever. updates to come.

BRRRR!!!!

ITS SO COLD EVEN THE FOUNTAIN IS FREEZING!!!!! GET ME OUT OF HEREEEEEE

sike don't even worry about it. back in the 70s by friday.


in other news: i am coming home march 4-9...party in the usa?

this place is amazing.

in exchange for giving me a fever and an awful cold and a weekend of laying on my couch hating life...
75 degrees and sunny. watched the sunset while doing some reading at this lovely coffee shop overlooking lake austin.

don't mind if i do!
bye!

sigh.

dear cereal,

love love love,
diary.

today was embarassing.

dear diary,
today my professor said "vagina" five times. i may have had trouble not giggling. i may have actually giggled. out loud. in the front row. five times. i may still have the maturity of a fourth grader.

today was embarassing.

love love love,
cereal.

great news!

im not dead yet. but you might be. react to all my posts or you will die.

in other news: i found out today that my desk is named young hinkle.
a) great name.
b) does your desk have a name?
c) if not you will die.

bye!

question.

if your temperature is under 98.6 degrees are you freezing or just dead.

great vegspectations

guys. vegetables are the best. my body is so full of vegetables. oh man it is so great. this may be the beginning of vegetarian experiment #2.

it's been a real challenge to use up all the veggies before they go bad. almost as challenging as bschool. i've been really down about it. but you know what bschool taught me? when you are down and out and think things really can't get any worse and want to die...well, they probably will get worse. but also there is probably something you could do to help yourself. so i took a few hours off interview prepping, made a million recipes, forced a few friends to eat with me, and am lightyears closer to finishing these vegetables without wasting anything.

the best part is. THIS SHIT IS DELICIOUS.

drool away.

curried cabbage and carrot slaw

parmesan cauliflower mash

carrot fritters

potato kohlrabi and hot italian sausage soup

sweet potato mash

AND I STiLL HAVE AN ENTIRE SHELF OF VEGETABLES YET TO COOK!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH

now go get some vegetables and eat them you won't regret it.
or come eat some of mine for godsake

nice to meat you.

jk! NO MEAT HERE! fresh organic locally picked vegetablepants only.

vegetate on this: in exchange for cleaning millions of carrots, planting billions of onions and freezing for hours in soaking wet clothes, johnson's backyard garden gave me a box full of zillions of vegetables. rainbow chard, kohlrabi, beets, parsley, turnips, cheddar cauliflower, and billions more. i haven't even seen some of these before, but luckily their website has all kinds of recipes to get me started!

gotta go! time for my vegetable bath!

twentyeleven

i have been absent for a while, my apologies. as you well know, the second exams ended i took every minute possible to sleep, see friends, and be merry.

sadly, i am back at school, but happily, i am preparing for interviews and hopefully all this hard work will pay off. that said, blogging seems like much more fun than studying right now, so lets focus on that.

usually around the new year i like to take a few moments to reflect on the past year, and try to think of something i'd like out of the next year. you may remember that last year, i hoped 2010 would bring me fire.

and fire was brought-ed. two crab rangoon fires in my toaster, a fire in my apartment building, a new path for my life, and an exciting outlook for the future. the end of the year certainly had some bumps in the road, but this was definitely the right path for me, its just not as easy as i might have hoped.

twenty-eleven, this is going to be a big year for us. lots of changes, maybe another move, definitely a better idea of where i am headed in life.

i hope you bring me nirvana. both an alternative rock band that will change the future of music, and a flow of peaceful energy that somehow keeps my feet on the ground during what is sure to be an even more outrageous roller coaster than before.

come as you are twentyeleven. im ready.

Canoe.

a great way of getting around.
also a great cat.
rest in peace buddy.
you brought us more dead (and live) animals than we could have ever imagined.
and mostly that was gross.
but also hilarious.
hope kittyheaven is filled with all the chipmunks and squirrels and birds your little kittyheart desires.

someone arrest that shark!

this is the story about a shark serial killer. read it ok.

in other news: did you know that in new york it is illegal to have sexual relations with someone you know you are related to, even by marriage. yep. you should read this article its pretty interesting. in case you don't have time this is the best part anyway: "According to court records, the daughter has a tattoo reading "Daddy's Girl" on her behind."

picture dayyyy

you might be wondering what it looks like to stay up all night and do a case challenge. this is us at 2am at the last challenge, 5 hrs away from game time. the old guy is our communication coach who stopped by to "help" but i think you can tell from alex's face that we all wanted to kill him.

oh yeah!

i remember actually. it was about my neighbors.

the grundles.

ok actually i don't know their names but they are really grundley if you know what i mean. the walls here are paper thin and months ago when i used to be home sometimes i would listen to music and mrs. grundle would knock on the wall in anger. my speakers aren't even that loud, so i got a little mad about it. lately it appears that the boyfriend, mr. grundle, if you will, has moved in. this is a new advancement, but it seems to be keeping mrs. grundle less grumpy, and the knocking on my wall has reduced severely. phantastic.

now that i am home and now that there is a mr. grundle i have realized that if i sit on my couch in silence i can hear every word of every conversation that goes on in their apartment. i don't think this would be that exciting if i had normal neighbors, but over the past few days i have learned a lot about the grundles that makes me believe they are really really weird. one day for example they were singing christmas carols to each other and correcting each others' pitch. and now that i know how much fun it is to find out weird things about them its really hard not to listen. but i know thats creepy so im working on it.

i hate them.

bye.

ohmigosh

i am so tired. let's start there.

this weekend has been insanely fun. it started with a daytime pub crawl and some ugly xmas sweaters, followed by several intense games of skeeball, followed by a potluck xmas dinner followed by a long night of dancing and shenanigan making. the result is that i have a skinned knee, my shoes are all danced out, and there are several unexplained gaps in my memory.

lets not talk about it.

unfortunately, i have one last bit of work to tie up and after 3 days of phun its so hard to concentrate on anything besides sitting on the couch or watching mtv or eating. and even those are hard sometimes.

in other news: there was definitely a reason i was writing this blog but now i can't remember. this is embarrassing.
i gotta go.

1 EXAM TO GO!

WHO WANTS TO PLAY PATTYCAKE!