Happy 2011! I have returned after bouncing around the country for a little while and ending up back in NC. During the past week, I:

+ packed my suitcase like a boss and managed to fit a week's worth of clothing and supplies into a carry-on intended for three days. Take THAT, obscene baggage fees.

+ Rang in the new year with my best friends. I love ( Read more... )

Over the course of the past three days, I got up at 3:30 am to go surfing, got bruised, cut-up and horribly sunburned, found a black widow spider at a hillbilly gas station, got hit in the face by a fish while trying to catch a wave, set off my friend's smoke alarm while trying to make chai, lost my pocketknife after going to the park at night to ( Read more... )

Reason #45683 why I love living in Virginia now: it's only two hours from Charlotte, so that when my friends there announced that they were kidnapping me for the weekend, they were serious. *dances gleefully* So I'll be gone for the next couple of days, leave a message after the beep.

Seriously, I love living back in the south. I love looking out my ( Read more... )