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? 

Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) wears the same dress I have (circa 1994)!!!

The other week le copain and I were watching the third epiosde of Friends (we unofficially decided we’d watch the whole series, but we’re not doing a good job because we’re only on the fifth episode), and there was my iconic gingham-y dress on screen! (I may have freaked/le copain may have had to pause the episode for a few minutes). It was quite exciting though. It’s hard to believe both Friends and the dress (which was my mom’s until it got handed down to me in seventh grade) are nineteen years old. 

This semester… 
{AAAAAHHHH!} — aka: muffled scream into pillow. 

It’s been great, I love being here and seeing my favoritey favorites everyday, but physics…it’s horrible. Last semester it was okay, this semester it is taking over my life (like I worked/was in class from 7:30am until 5:30pm, and 7 of those hours were spent on physics. I just cannot stop thinking about how much I dislike it, but I feel like this is a time that requires more positive energy because I hate feeling this hung up on something for school that won’t matter in a year, so here I go… 

This week I’m happy for:

• The lovely roommate who also was in physics office hours for 3.5 hours with me and for the others there who ended up spending a few minutes of that time bashing the professor and his never ending work with us. 
• The lovely copain who watches HIMYM and eats Oreos and takes silly pictures with me (and the fact that I got him the best Valentine’s Day present ever that was finally not on back-order for the first time since two weeks before Christmas! 
• Eating chocolate chip pancakes for dinner while watching the Biggest Loser (I have the guiltiest of guilty TV pleasures). 
• Later I will also be watching Pretty Little Liars with lovely roommate 1! … But after taking an online physics reading quiz, of course!… 
• Advil. 2 make everything better. Or headaches anyways. 
• The fact that I can now elliptical! 1-2 more weeks until running!
• Good advice from an amie who probably didn’t even realize it when she gave it a few days ago. Thank you. 
• Another amie who has been chatting me up on Skype lately. I feel like that didn’t happen a lot last semester. I like our random 3 minute check-ins. A lot. I’m glad you’re still the same. 
• The Superbowl party the amis had on Sunday and the awesome snacks we had!
• Discovering that the tiniest splash of vanilla and some lemon slices makes water taste quite delicious. 
• The fact it has been snowing every night and waking up to snow in the morning. It reminds me a lot of Burlington. Although I was really lonely there, I really miss it sometimes. I think Burlington might be the best place I’ve ever lived. Hopefully that makes sense way.  
  
  I’m sure there’s more, but for now that will do because I feel slightly better and I hope that you are all not overwhelmed and quite happy yourselves amis! xo

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Update—I somehow managed to get the okay to take physics pass/fail. It doesn’t make it any easier and there’s still work all the time, but a weight does get lifted off your shoulders when you find out that you’re not going to have to worry about a C going into your GPA. At least there’s that. 

Being back at school…it’s been way too much fun.

So far it’s involved:

-An Indian dinner out . 
-An apartment hop! Or whatever you call going from apartment to apartment and having different refreshments at each while playing a different game at each (games which involved animal noises, reciting lines from Frank Sinatra songs, playing “big booty” which I cannot do for my life, and a lot of other random things).
-Baking orange cupcakes—yes amies, you’ve all had them multiple times lol 
- Sunday night spaghetti dinners with eight of us. This includes our ami who was away on co-op last semester and is one of the most unique people any of us know… he craves soup for dinner on hot days after running, has had experiences goat herding and glass etching, and always has an entertaining story. Most of dinner was spent hearing about how he saved his frat from being kicked off campus… at 5:30 in the morning. 
-Biking at the gym which I finally got a membership to! Of course biking becomes my main form of exercise when the whole controversy is going on. (No worries, there’s no doping going on here…just figured I’d clarify (lol))
-Eating vegan for an entire day (the unofficial New Year’s resolution was to do this once a week but his was the first day I did it…perhaps I’ll mention this more later). 
-Limping miles around campus (in like sub 10 degree weather) to get to classes, and 
-Classes! … Hating on the second semester physics professor with lovely roommate 1, but obsessing that I have my same TA as last semester who lovely roommate 1 and I are also slightly obsessed with. And showing up to my other classes which seem like they’ll be pretty okay.   

  
PS: Sorry for the lack of pictures lately. More coming soon… I think.  
PPS: Thanks for sharing your lives and thoughts lately (most) Amies! I’ve enjoyed all.   
PPPS: Sorry for any grammatical errors. I didn’t check over that thoroughly. :| 

I’ve only written twice this month. 
I feel as if I should have more to say. Usually I do. I don’t really now, but here’s what’s going on in my life: 

I skied/worked over the weekend. I also read lots (currently Anna Karenina). 

I ended up spraining my knee (MCL) on Monday. It’ll heal completely, but it’s a total bummer. I was supposed to teach Le Copain to ski. I can’t ski for 2-3 weeks and I can’t run for 4-6 weeks. I can bike all I want to though. At least there’s that. 

Since I can’t do much except awkwardly limp around, I’ve been watching a ton of TV. The Biggest Loser. Pretty Little Liars. The Office. Pawn Stars. You name it, and there’s a greater chance than usual that I’ve probably seen it in the past 2 days. 
(I’ve also been spending lots of time online. Blogs mainly. Facebook too. But if you didn’t know, Amie AL finally got a blog. O. M. G. !) 

I finally bought myself an electric beater. It’s the same one my mom has, and it’ll mean I don’t have to bend cheap forks or use my hands anymore in order to successfully mix stuff I want to bake. 

I figured out my schedule. Finally. 
I’m just ready to go back to school. 

Tomorrow, I’m going to Albany and picking up Le Copain at the airport!!
We’re not skiing anymore (I know I already said that, I’m just really disappointed that it didn’t work out :’( ), but we’re gonna spend a day and a half in the Adirondacks before going back to school and that will be lovely anyways.  

I think that’s it. 

PS: Sorry for the lack of pictures. If you’re up for some visuals, these here (aka: project 365) represent my life lately enough though.
PPS: Hope to hear more about your lives soon lovely amies!  

Sorry for the delay/hiatus/blog break/whatever you want to call it. 
Life has been busy lately and internet connections have been iffy (or at least in terms of uploading pictures here). 

To briefly fill you amies (and other random followers) in…

• My parents had a pretty big Christmas party, I had a 21st birthday, and there was a present swap/cookie swap with the amies. 
• I’ve been up in the Adirondack’s) since the 23rd ski instructing/skiing. The extended fam came up (lovely mother’s side) for Christmas, we got over two feet of snow, and well yeah that’s about all the major things. 

I will however elaborate more on all events soon though. Until then, I hope you are all having lovely breaks. xoxo. 

there’s a song. most of it means nothing to me, but one line always resonates.

                                                          “well tell her that I miss our little talks”

it brings back one memory of many nights spent.
it’s summer and it’s three in the morning and i’m going into senior year/freshman year of college. i’m in the kitchen on my computer talking to a friend online about nothing really because neither of us has anything better to do. 

it’s as simple as that and actually one of my favorite memories from those years. 

the problem is, in time, we both found better to do. these moments became less frequent and then basically non-existent. something i’ll now admit really saddened me even though many wonderful things have happened in my life in that time. 

why i’m saying all this is that tonight, we caught up after so long.
we walked around town for a while. we talked around town for a while.
it was nice to do something so familiar even though both of us had clearly changed so much and had so many new experiences over these years. 
it was nice to have these little talks again. so so nice.  

1. A Physics Final in Barton Hall 

Stressful? Yes—but now it’s over and it wasn’t soo bad. 
(*Just to clarify…this was taken 20 minutes before the test…those are notes and a seat assignment in front of me. NOT the test.) 

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