thursday indulgences

It's a Thursday evening, we have one week of classes left, an episode of The Office and two episodes of The Real World to catch up on -- so clearly there was no other option than for my roommates Kendall and I to order our favorite guilty pleasure: wings over happy valley. Ordering wings on lazy weeknights with Kendall has become a senior year staple. We spend one part of the time talking about how much we can't wait for them to be delivered, one part of the time talking about how delicious they are and double the amount of both of those times talking and laughing about what a poor choice we made by ordering unhealthy food late at night.

Oh well, here's to college, right?

 

 

And most recently, when we're not catching up on our trash TV. We're singing our lungs out to this little gem. 

Happy Thursday, 

happy final week of being an undergrad, 

and happy ending times of living with friends

and eating terrible foods. 

And just when I was starting to think I was doing this regularly

I went and took a week and a half off.

So many wonderful things have happened in the last 10 days. Most (but not all) revolving around 3 days, 46 hours, and 9.5 million dollars, but I'll post about that this weekend.

Hints: I didn't win, steal, spend or find 9.5 million.

Although there has been one 'low' for the past week and a half. I have heard of it a lot before, although it never affected me until now -- senioritis.

Ugh, that scary word that makes me melt into a ball of laziness and apathetic-ness. I don't, at all, want to do school work. I was lucky to have an extremely light course load this semester, the perfect way to end college, or so I thought. And while I enjoy not staying up cramming until 5am two nights out of the week, since the classes I'm taking don't matter towards my career I am finding it impossible to find the drive to do the work. I have never been as "ehh, whatever" as I have this semester. The downside of all of this is that I can't even find joy in not doing work -- I feel guilty all the time and small little assignments are constantly hanging over my head. Not fun.

But, spring break is just around the corner and I'll be spending mine in sunny and warm Jacksonville, FL. Someone pass the SPF and an epic driving playlist please.

Random side note, while in the midst of my senioritis I've been daydreaming about what my post-grad home will look like, assuming it's not in my high school bedroom of course. Check out my musings below.

Happy Thursday -- the weekend will be here before you know it!

dusting off

ek, I always swore that if I didn't update my blog regularly, then I was going to delete it, what can I say.. I'm attached.

As fast as August fell away, so too has September. It's already mid-month and I am in the 4th week of my semester as a senior. My last autumn season in Happy Valley.

A lot has changed since my last entry nearly two months ago, at that time I was living by myself and soaking in the summer months while my friends went home for the school-year-break, but in the beginning of August, I moved to the west side of town and moved into the most charming old apartment you've ever laid eyes on. I also gained 4 ridiculously amazing roommates.

Our modest brick exterior and cherry hardwood floored interior apartment has been a haven to ourselves and the ones we love. We have lots of space (5 closets, 5 girls, the bliss!), built in shelves and an irreplaceable sense of community, friendship and love. We love hosting people and lighting candles. It's been great.

On the side of academia, I am trying to remember that in the midst of not wanting to study and do hours of homework, that this is presumably the last year of my life where I will be a student. An undergrad at least. Soon the cliche college things will be a way of the past and it will no longer be acceptable for me to roll out of bed in jeans and a worn hoodie, rush to class, spend money I don't have in starbucks and stay out until 4 a.m., with an obvious sleeping until noon the next day. This is the final year, this is it, and I have to be reminded of that when I get the urge to throw my computer out the window, which happens often. I love learning, and this is my last time, in the foreseeable future, that I'll be able to do so in a classroom setting. The marketplace of liberal and idealistic ideas that come about in a classroom discussion are something that are so precious and unique to my four years in college.

My "obligations that don't feel like obligations because I love them so much" are now in full swing, almost like there was never a break between spring and fall. I'm interning at a great non-profit and it scarily makes me feel like a grown up. I dress up, have a cubicle and even an email address with a company domain. What can I say, I'm living the dream. Thon and all things Navigators have picked up as well; imagining my school year without them is similar to a beach without an ocean -- just a desert --- what's the point? The amount of joy I reap from my extracurriculars is such a blessing and probably will leaving the biggest impact on me post-graduation.One more year of them, this is really a case where I need to remember to absorb every moment, good and stressful.

And so senior year begins. The last year of my twenty-somethings where I'll be enrolled in school. The last year of my twenty-somethings where my parents are still paying my rent, my car and cell phone bills.

I think it's going to be a great great year.