(Because I’m all about lists…)

-Read these 10 books
(Amies, I still think you should stilllll get Goodreads accounts…they’re the best…. but actually). 
-Get up to running a 40 mile week/run at least 25 miles every week. 
-Think about getting a new laptop (…might be ready to move on).
-Watch all of Downton Abbey. 
-(and maybe even Gossip Girl since I’m such a sucker for guilty pleasure TV)
-See UVM Ami. (But actually this time. It’s been so so long.)
-Go hiking. 
-Go picnic-ing. 
-Do the vegan thing for a total of at least two weeks (non-consecutively). 
-Do something for the story. (The amis are very in to this concept).  
-Figure out what classes to take in the fall (at the moment I’m only signed up for 7 credits…)
-Go to Ithaca lots to see le copain and some of the amis.

And I think that might be it.

So!… 
What’s on your summer-y lists amies? 

As of today, I am two years out of UVM/Burlington. Two years!
It probably wouldn’t stick so clearly on my mind, except the day I left was Friday the 13th and I couldn’t have felt more lucky. 

… Yet, here I am now, and while I don’t want to relive my time during that year, I keep thinking about Burlington. It’s not that I would wish the experiences I had there on anyone (because I wouldn’t), but I learned so much during that year that I have taken with me and I really am quite thankful for that. I would really like to get back to Burlington some day soon. Talk about the strange ways of the world… 

Tonight was the last Sunday night dinner with all the amis. 
Pasta, delicious sauce (marinara + added vegetables), salad, wine, and brownie sundaes! And of course all the (outrageous and wonderful) talk that occurs with these types of dinners. 

It’s just hard to believe that the year is winding down and that I’ll be leaving my Cornell family in less than a week. I love them all so.       

                                                         

I have witnessed too much in the library the past couple days. Well actually its happened throughout the entire semester, I’ve just spent many more hours in the library lately so I’ve noticed more. Sometimes people in the libraries here…. I never experienced anything so ridiculous at UVM (my guess is because only the people who wanted to study used the libraries… but still!). 

Anyways here are some of the things that have made me shake my head the most/give the meanest looks/(given me some funny stories to tell despite any previous annoyances):

• Guy eating crunching ice from a Styrofoam cup. 
• Guy constantly throwing up his pen at the ceiling tiles in a game of catch. 
• Two girls loudly looking at Tumblr as if it were a girls night in or something. The also voiced their opinions against Cards Against Humanity. One also looked like a roommate I had and never wanted to see again from UVM. Everything about those girls was bad. 
• Guy who thinks it’s a good idea to spin around in a broken chair as fast as he can (consequently making as much noise as he can) since he doesn’t have work to do. 
• Couple. PDA. Enough said. 
• Guy who tries to whistle… but doesn’t even know how to and proceeds to do an even worse job at beat-boxing. 

Oh yes. The libraries of Cornell. Perhaps your school libraries are similar, amies? 

So I guess this is where I tell (most of) you amies that I finally have an internship for the summer! I committed yesterday morning. 

I’ll be working as an energy analyst at an engineering, consulting, and construction management firm and I couldn’t be more excited (and nervous and so so sooo relieved after too many rejections/no-responses). 

For my last horticulture class, we went on a garden tour of a bunch of the horticulture deparment’s professor’s gardens on Saturday. Six places, six very different but immaculate gardens and farms. All in all, it was a beautiful day with very engaging company, a delicious picnic lunch, and many beautiful flowers, trees, and other garden-y features. 

Slope Day was on Friday. I think just about everyone here in Ithaca has finally recovered. It was a fun and crazy day despite the music (Kendrik Lamar, Hoodie Allen, and 5 and a Dime = iffy at best). 

I woke up early as people do on Slope Day, the all the amis and I started off the day with blueberry pancakes and lots of mimosas. We did the Slope Day traditional activities…, stopped over to a party at an amie’s friend’s house, met another amie’s two friends, and then hit the slope for the music. 

Talk about a long, crazy, wonderful day.