a temporary global warming hiatus
The Discomfort Zone, Jonathan Franzen
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
Everyone Worth Knowing, Lauren Weisberger (on cd)
Bill Bryson's African Diary, Bill Bryson
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella (on cd)
Clumsy, Jeffrey Brown
The World According to Garp, John Irving (in progress)
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella (on cd/in progress)
Some new things in my life:
-a full-time job
-acceptions to UW-Seattle, Penn State, UConn (full-ride plus stipends!) and more schools still to hear from
-new friends and renewed friends
-a cute new dress
-a new crush (?)
-new glasses! eek!
-new music
A funny story:
So, this past weekend has been one of the best by far in quite awhile for many reasons and this is one of them. After I got off work Saturday night I had a message from Ian, so I called back and talked to Miles who invited me over for dinner for Shepherd's pie (which was delicious). After dinner, Miles, Ian, and I picked up Lara (who is surprisingly awesome and whom I hope becomes more of a staple in my life) and her friend Brena (who was really nice) and went to this bar in south city, specifically in the Bevo Mill neighborhood (did you know there is a giant working windmill in St. Louis?!). So this bar was called Chrome Bar, and we went there because Ian and Miles had been before when it was supposedly dead and thought we should check it out again. So we find it and when we walk in we immediately notice that everyone there is like 65 years old or older! And they are all decked out in green for St. Patrick's day! It was so awesome, and many of the (old) people there were dancing to the live band, and it was just so ridiculous that it was so awesome. There was this one guy who was at least 70 with his arm in a sling whose hips and legs were like rubber! He danced like so crazy! And at the end of the every songs all the dancers would go sit back down and as soon as the next song started they would just get up and go back out of the dance floor... but they never just stayed there, which was weird and funny. Anyway, we all got up and danced too for awhile, which was fun. Eventually we left in search of a more age-appropriate party, but I will always have fond memories of the old people at the Chrome Bar who can dance better than I can.
Anyway, the moral of the story is that life is really good right now, and while I know things are quickly and slowly going to change and people will be moving on or staying put or maybe returning, I'm just trying to enjoy these times while I can cause they pretty much rock my world. And then I'll be ready for something new.
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
Everyone Worth Knowing, Lauren Weisberger (on cd)
Bill Bryson's African Diary, Bill Bryson
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella (on cd)
Clumsy, Jeffrey Brown
The World According to Garp, John Irving (in progress)
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella (on cd/in progress)
Some new things in my life:
-a full-time job
-acceptions to UW-Seattle, Penn State, UConn (full-ride plus stipends!) and more schools still to hear from
-new friends and renewed friends
-a cute new dress
-a new crush (?)
-new glasses! eek!
-new music
A funny story:
So, this past weekend has been one of the best by far in quite awhile for many reasons and this is one of them. After I got off work Saturday night I had a message from Ian, so I called back and talked to Miles who invited me over for dinner for Shepherd's pie (which was delicious). After dinner, Miles, Ian, and I picked up Lara (who is surprisingly awesome and whom I hope becomes more of a staple in my life) and her friend Brena (who was really nice) and went to this bar in south city, specifically in the Bevo Mill neighborhood (did you know there is a giant working windmill in St. Louis?!). So this bar was called Chrome Bar, and we went there because Ian and Miles had been before when it was supposedly dead and thought we should check it out again. So we find it and when we walk in we immediately notice that everyone there is like 65 years old or older! And they are all decked out in green for St. Patrick's day! It was so awesome, and many of the (old) people there were dancing to the live band, and it was just so ridiculous that it was so awesome. There was this one guy who was at least 70 with his arm in a sling whose hips and legs were like rubber! He danced like so crazy! And at the end of the every songs all the dancers would go sit back down and as soon as the next song started they would just get up and go back out of the dance floor... but they never just stayed there, which was weird and funny. Anyway, we all got up and danced too for awhile, which was fun. Eventually we left in search of a more age-appropriate party, but I will always have fond memories of the old people at the Chrome Bar who can dance better than I can.
Anyway, the moral of the story is that life is really good right now, and while I know things are quickly and slowly going to change and people will be moving on or staying put or maybe returning, I'm just trying to enjoy these times while I can cause they pretty much rock my world. And then I'll be ready for something new.