Finals? What Finals....?
As the year's wrapping up and we're having all of our end-of-the-year celebrations, I can't help but think that either it hasn't sunk in yet every time something happens that will be the "last" time ever, or I actually don't have any regrets about anything I've done :) I sort of think it might be the latter. These past four years have been an amazing time, filled with so many memories, but I also realize that I'm doing more these few weeks and months to make sure I enjoy it! I don't want to be stuck in my own little rut of brooding just because things are coming to a close. (Right now would be a really appropriate moment for "At the Beginning" from Anastasia to start playing :] ).
Anyway, so much has been going on that I wouldn't be able to do it justice here--last volunteer appreciation dinner, last hangout with my tutors (actually, we're having a dinner party on Thursday!), last time on site at the school (next week!), coordinator appreciation dinner (my cluster, my fellow awkward turtle coord class, all the gifts and love letters and loving <3), last day of school (already done!), graduation (soon!), last time hanging out with all of my friends--it's just too crazy! But I guess a few pictures won't hurt, for memories' sake...
Turtle Cheesecake! This is what I do instead of studying. A bunch of caramel-chocolate-pecan goodness stuffed into a graham cracker crust and pie tin. (I made it for the other "awkward turtle" coordinator who is in the same coordinator class as me--we're the only two left, and he got me a copy of Where the Wild Things Are because that's what we got the first group of coordinators from our class who graduated <3 And I hadn't gotten him anything, so I made him this "turtle" cheesecake and bought him a gift certificate to a restaurant he's been wanting to try :] )
Oh! And I also made a delicious (if I say so myself) portobello mushroom spinach pasta bake for a potluck on Wednesday :] it was the only dish that was completely gone! I also got food poisoning from that potluck, though...so these past few days have been virtually no food in the daytime and then a weird cereal craving around midnight, which usually results in 4+ bowls of scarfing down my cereal + milk T___T I have no idea how that's related to food poisoning, but I guess it's thrown off my eating schedule...? I am super sad, to say the least.
On another, sort of related note, my hips feel like whales' at the moment. I have no idea why. If anything, I have seriously been eating less because of this food poisoning thing and before that, too. Oh, human metabolic body, you are such an unfair thing.
Oh, and I turned in my honors thesis this week! *Does a little jig* My honors thesis adviser told me it was a "success in her book," which left me feeling pretty darn up in the clouds that day. Why is the end of this semester flying by so quickly??
Anyway, so much has been going on that I wouldn't be able to do it justice here--last volunteer appreciation dinner, last hangout with my tutors (actually, we're having a dinner party on Thursday!), last time on site at the school (next week!), coordinator appreciation dinner (my cluster, my fellow awkward turtle coord class, all the gifts and love letters and loving <3), last day of school (already done!), graduation (soon!), last time hanging out with all of my friends--it's just too crazy! But I guess a few pictures won't hurt, for memories' sake...
Turtle Cheesecake! This is what I do instead of studying. A bunch of caramel-chocolate-pecan goodness stuffed into a graham cracker crust and pie tin. (I made it for the other "awkward turtle" coordinator who is in the same coordinator class as me--we're the only two left, and he got me a copy of Where the Wild Things Are because that's what we got the first group of coordinators from our class who graduated <3 And I hadn't gotten him anything, so I made him this "turtle" cheesecake and bought him a gift certificate to a restaurant he's been wanting to try :] )
Oh! And I also made a delicious (if I say so myself) portobello mushroom spinach pasta bake for a potluck on Wednesday :] it was the only dish that was completely gone! I also got food poisoning from that potluck, though...so these past few days have been virtually no food in the daytime and then a weird cereal craving around midnight, which usually results in 4+ bowls of scarfing down my cereal + milk T___T I have no idea how that's related to food poisoning, but I guess it's thrown off my eating schedule...? I am super sad, to say the least.
On another, sort of related note, my hips feel like whales' at the moment. I have no idea why. If anything, I have seriously been eating less because of this food poisoning thing and before that, too. Oh, human metabolic body, you are such an unfair thing.
Oh, and I turned in my honors thesis this week! *Does a little jig* My honors thesis adviser told me it was a "success in her book," which left me feeling pretty darn up in the clouds that day. Why is the end of this semester flying by so quickly??