Highlights

I went up to Nina and Ali separately and asked them for sexy faces, now I think they may be the same person.

Okay I want to run some highlights of the month by you:

• Wallys Jazz- had a lady's night here- we all got supah smashed...snuck some nips in too jic, hung out with the band outback and smoked, chatted with the doorman
• Harpoon Brewery- finally made it! Didn't do the tour but did the tasting with some of my roomies
• Morgan, John, and Michael (Wolf) do standup for some alumni event at MIT, wish BC had an on campus bar! And my friends' standup? #killinit.
• Cinco de Mayo: I was working until 11 but my dear friend Ola showed up with some tequila and margarita mixes, so we got the ball rollin' on festivities and headed to our friends' place afterwards. Got our makeup-artist-coworker to doodle some staches and had the best time hangin' out in the kitchen and petting the cat. Creepiest pictures ever of us ladies in the staches, love it.
• Riley and I go to Roggies during finals- do the 4oz beer sample (they definitely gave us 2 or 3 oz samples) and got a private magic trick show! So bizarre. #Magicmansmws
• Evan opened for the Novel Ideas at Sam, Erin, and Alé's, place---it was a bummer when it got dark, but you could still make out the beautiful faces and the beautiful voices were loud and clear. First study day of finals, first day of no-college-classes
• Stinatnight: Justin's pet peeve as recorded, "When my mother eats only half of a donut and leaves the pathetic remains in the donut box for me to discover later in the day. I never thought my heart could be broken by my wonderful, loving mother, but whenever she doest this a small part of me dies inside." Justin I miss you, why did you have to leave so soon?
• Shaw "pub crawl" and senior toast: Went from Sean's room to the senior toast ("stole" 3 glasses of champagne) and Jack's room--- Colin and Ali and I went to St. Mary's lawn and met people at the Shaw house. Went on the roof and were busted by the RD---obviously was blown out of proportion but Ali and I got by and then Yuriy told on us the next day! WOW! "friend" huh? So then we met with the head of every stupid reslife department and they said they were going to hold our transcripts potentially, take our commencement ball tickets, etc! But in the end they just said if we were caught in the mods before graduation then we couldn't walk! What drama queens amiright?!
• The Beehive for dinner with my fam---this place is so good! Not only do they often have live music, but all the rotating artwork is great and I love the ambiance.
• Walked to Jim's Deli in Brighton Center (mmm) and then hung out on the 1905 roof- a beautiful and sunny day with great company. Wobbly ladders, old couch, sippin'. Made me sad to think about leaving.
• Walked to the Arboretum today, got sandwiches from City Feed, and Andrea and I walked from Brookline Village-another one of my favorite areas.

love.love.love.

Hey Big Trees

Hey big guys,

hey there trees!

We walked to you today,

you made our air fresh,

our smog-filled air, fresh.

Fresher than our pavement,

we know the forests smirk.

Hey big guys,

hey there trees!

There are peaks upon peaks of you,

rolling rivers of green,

birds swooping in and out.

Larger than our city blocks,

in our minds' smallest spaces.

And you!

Oh trees,

it's humid out and our bodies sweat,

but there you are existing.

And deep in the forests are people whose normal is this,

we barely escape our cities for a moment.

 

 

 

Tension, Dreams, Tidbits

Sometimes I find myself feeling really tense. Today I was especially aware of it when there was no music playing. I had just finished an episode of Mad Men (almost done with season two) and I went into the living room to check in, and make some food. Andrea was doing some work on the couch. There was no one else around, no music playing, just silent. I went into the kitchen and put some water on...hummed a little. By the time I was done cooking I worked up the courage to say "hey, do you care if i put music on?"--- and i put on otis redding. I was relieved to catch andrea smiling during one of the songs. reminded her of something from shovelhead the other night.

I have these moments a lot though...where I will feel really tense or on edge and feel like I don't know how to counteract the moment. And I think I take it pretty personally if other people don't notice the tension, or maybe just aren't bothered. Feeling like I'm tip toeing. It makes me wonder what normal interactions are, or if my interactions are all normal and sometimes I over think it.

Last night in my dream Morgan was going blind. Only she was being really stubborn and wasn't admitting it...it was just pretty obvious and so I was trying to help her, but she didn't really want help (but she walked blatantly through some caution tape by the bus stop). I guess she was wearing sunglasses because that would make her pretending more believable.

Also was fighting in a Harry Potter duel of sorts. It was joking-not-joking. No one was using any of the seriously killing spells, but it was a very real thing and we were in a hallway of classrooms. And I got nervous because all I could remember was wingardium leviosa (useless) and expeliarmus, which was just annoying everyone. So I locked the door to take a breather but whoever my "partner" was in the room called me out on cheating. The spell I remember relying on for the rest of the dream was "swine's breath"... whose effectiveness is also in question.

My last dream was very sad.
I have trouble writing about things that I actually find sad. (Morgan your blindness is very sad to me! But that was also a silly dream.)
There was a dog who was really hungry and skinny,
I can't even finish, dogs in distress make me feel upset.

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In other news. Finally handed in my 25 page paper today, feel relatively good about it, and I think my ten minute presentation on it went well. Also got a bunch of library materials out for my next paper.
Yesterday was the annual zbc bbq at the faculty supervisor's house in Sommerville. It was great, it always is. She has an awesome yard space in the back that slopes downwards into a opening area where there was a tetherball pole set up. (Quick anecdote, I played a lot in 5th grade-middle school but yesterday when I played I was pretty terrible.) They have a treehouse, and a little guest house thing they turned into a hang out room with a jukebox that plays great songs for free! Other weekend highlights? Cinco de Mayo employee (some) party after work Saturday night, mustaches.

Just a few things on my mind,
love.love.love.