"I want that can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars, over the fence, world series kind of thing."

But in the mean time, I dig my life. I'm so wonderfully content with these incredible people around. Like really, I don't know what I'd do without a Spike to come home to. Or a best friend to listen while I obsess over the same situation a thousand times, and to act like it's not the thousandth time she's given me the same advice. Or even just a classmate/person waiting in line for poptarts/person that tripped & laughed with me about it, everyone has an impact. Different people now all fill different roles in my life, it feels so much more secure that way. I'm not carrying my happiness eggs all in one basket anymore because, collectively, they make me whole.

Ha, happiness eggs.



In other news, I'm excited to be dancing again. In fact, next semester shows a lot of promise in terms creativity. Ya know, come to think of it, so does this semester...

Being a SMAD major is a lot of fun. I definitely don't regret these classes/skills I'm learning, despite the fact that they won't be uber necessary for my teaching career, it's still really cool to be able to learn them. I'm going to have the sweetest "End of the Year" videos in the whole 4th grade, heyoooo.

So Springfest was this weekend... & if you haven't heard, you've been living under a rock. What actually stinks is that from what I hear, most of the people causing the riots were NOT JMU students. It's just really unfortunate, because it makes us look bad. Of the 35 arrests made, apparently only 5 were students here... but it still makes fielding tour questions SUPER TENSE. How do you explain a party that ends in the swat team, police dogs and tear gas to prospective students and their parents?

Other than calling it a giant success, of course...

JUSSTTTTT KIDDINNGGGG!

Ahh. I'm so strangely content right at this moment, which is weird considering I've been a self-proclaimed whiner all day long. The birds outside my window began tweeting at 2am... I did not sleep well. Haha, instead I watched Buffy and tried my darndest to study for the test & quiz that I had today... whompp.

Anywho, tomorrow looks brighter. Tomorrow always does!


Snails see the benefits, the beauty in every inch of life...

I am in no rush, life goes by quickly enough as it is. I'm just enjoying everything & constantly learning.

Whatever it is you think you are, you aren't.

I have amazing friends. I can't stress this enough.

It's ironic that being angry at someone generally takes more of a toll on you than it does on that person who made you angry.

& even more ironic that human nature clings to it. Why is it so hard to let anger go? Is it really that attractive? What positive purpose does it serve in your life?

I think it's because when you peel back the anger, you're left with pain. & that's rough. Pain is a lot harder to deal with than anger. I don't know what the answer is, but I can promise that the exploration of your pain gives you a lotttt of insight into yourself.

To me, that's valuable. To me it's worth it. & you'll probably find out that you're a whole lot stronger than you ever suspected. And then the next time you get hurt, it won't hurt less, but you'll be better prepared to handle it because you'll have given yourself a little "self toolkit".

My tool kit is actually more of a fannypack. Neon. It's the sexiest toolkit you've ever seen.

Speaking of sexy things,

I went to Take the Pulse last night & was introduced to the awesome acoustic artist OWEN.

Check it out, I highly recommend him. All of his stuff sounds very similar, but that's okay because I love the way it sounds, haha. His voice is like a story book & he's really amazing on guitar.

Spring Preview Days are going on now at JMU & man OHH man, my life's been tourtastic lately. BIG HUGE MONDO tour groups. But it's cool, I really love talking about JMU & with the weather being as beautiful as it has been, it's a very easy sell.

Have a beautiful tuesday, everyone.

Starting Now.

Ingrid, I love you.

Life's been insane in a beautiful way. I think I'm a temporary hedonist, I've been choosing time with friends over schoolwork (and over pretty much everything else...), but I'm really okay with it. You would be, too, if you'd seen how fantastic these people I surround myself with can be! It's like their fabulosity is coming out of the woodworks, as if I weren't already in awe of their fantastic nature.

I think the thing about having a dark period in your life is that it makes the light so bright, so beautiful. I'm so pleasantly peaceful. I appreciate everything and everyone around me. & It doesn't hurt that there are birthdays left and right

A Sidenote: Sometime in my life, I want to be the Irene Adler to someone's Sherlock Holmes.

Also, in the past month I got the opportunity to go to Mississippi for the SA convention:

& to the Big Apple with the BFF

DAMN we're sexy on a foreverlong sketchbus ride to Chinatown.

& to the Generation Equality Concert at University Richmond... which I have no graphic for. But suffice it to say that it was an eye-opening experience.

I also go to go see the Lady Dukes play in their first NCAA game EVERR.

HEARTBREAK.

Buttttttt the pain of that experience was combatted with a FABULOUS Ingrid Michaelson concert.. ANDDD we got to meet her.

I plotzed.

This week has been wonderfully busy & I expect life to continue this way for quite a while. But then again, life is always about the unexpected, eh?

Trust is like a mirror

you can fix it once it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

Telephone Video.

Watch it. Love it.

Oscars Night

Who are you wearing?

Well actually I'm wearing sweatpants from the JMU bookstore accessorized with a fabulous bowl of Bruster's Chocolate Raspberry Truffle.

AHH Spring break. It's beautiful.

It's spring! & in our house, that means smoothies.

Mangos, blueberries, watermelon cantelope, pineapples & bananas, to be exact!

Thus, filled with all of the fruit-induced energy, my brother & cousin headed into the woods to find a log to carve into a tiki man. But not just any log, Oh no. This log was about a half mile into the woods and probably thirty feet long. Apparently This adventure turned into 4 hours of the two boys, Clara the golden retriever/explorer & a canoe. They returned about 3 hours later with a frog lawn ornament.

Aunt Lori & I then decided that we'd just buy them a 1/2 price tiki man from Pier One. Shockingly, there does not seem to be much a market for them.


Have I mentioned that I love my family?

It's sunshine and smoothies, baby.

I'm finally feeling like myself again, thank baby jesus. I hope this stays. I like me, & not the toned-down, saddened version of me that has existed (with or without permission) for these past few months.

Ohh tomorrow.. I just can't wait for a lifetime of tomorrows.

Ohh, the places you'll go...

Hm, I like this a lot.

I love Stars. I have never seen so much snow. Wintry nights make me want to cuddle. I wish I had a dog. I don't know much about football. I have awesome, classy, caring friends. I need new socks.

No more snow, please.

I am growing weary of this life.
Is it time for me to go back to Ireland yet?