the provost was very...russian

congratulations to my sister, who graduated from college this month! my family visited her for the ceremony, followed by lunch and pingpong at jillians, frozen drinks at wet willies, a sisterly walk around campus, colossal pizza, coffee-vodka shots out of ice, martinis and dancing in five points, breakfast at ihop, and an out-of-the-way trip to bowman, south carolina's ufo welcome center. trips to columbia are always a a blast! love you, A! 



barsa

happy birthday to my best friend, brittany! after a long lull in hanging out, it was so nice to celebrate with others at a new spanish tapas restaurant together. merry 25th year of life!

free hepatitis

the mother of nick's best friend bought a house in an interesting neighborhood for demolition (and land-selling) purposes. chris recruited the help of nick and derek, while i tagged along for photo documention. though swinging a sledgehammer does bring a certain sense of satisfaction to one's life, this place was g.r.o.s.s. i'm talking big spiders, needles on the floor (diabetes), mattresses...but the boys spent several days clearing it out and chopping down walls, til the ceiling practically collapsed on them. meanwhile, i contemplated burning my clothes.

...line up at the door.

ssooo, as you may or may not know, i've been in the midst of student teaching for the past two months. hence, the lack of updates. i mean, nearly every picture i've taken since the beginning of the year has been of my nineteen 7-year-olds. and i'm pretty sure sharing pictures of other people's children with (mostly) random strangers is frowned upon. but alas, i'll try to take a deep breath & remember to capture the other facets of my life more often.

until then, how's it goiiin'?

...gimmegimmegimme.

image found here

i would love me one (by which i mean, five) of these right now.

...develop immunity.

after two days of observing first grade classrooms, i am already sick! howisthatpossible?? i've been gurgling warm salt water and guzzling hot water with honey, trying to cure my sore throat and it seems to be working. this may be a looong semester. thank goodness i have the day off to rest.