Darlings. I can't even.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mackenziekruvant/ryan-gosling-and-rachel-mcadams-forever
Is this real life? I'm more emotionally invested in their relationship than my own... and by my own, I mean my relationship with Ben and Jerry.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Sam's Saturday!
Hello darlings!
What a whirlwind week! There have been some very hard moments, but I was reminded that there is so much to be thankful for.
1. Know that you matter to someone. You've positively impacted their life, and you are loved. With this in mind, tell someone how much they mean to you. You never know how much that might mean to them.
2. On a lighter note, I spend yesterday at Camino's again! Two words: Maple Latte. Yes, it was as delicious as it sounds. AND now I'm best friends with the barista. Win.
3. On Friday, two of my friends and I decided to be spontaneous and go see a late night movie. Our choice: About Time. It was heartwarming, interesting, and surprisingly substantial. Grab your mom, your brother, your dad, your friends, anyone and go see this sweet film. I can guarantee you'll leave the theater smiling.
4. Registered for my classes for next semester! I'm taking 2 communications classes (Law & Rhetoric, as well as Organizational Rhetoric), an art history class (19th Century European Art), an entrepreneurship class (Design Building and High Performance Teams), and I'm auditing an intensive elementary French class. My dream of finally learning French is going to come true!
5. Alexis Ohanian came to Wake to discuss his journey and how he founded Reddit: the front page of the internet. Besides being one of the coolest cats around, he offered great advice and encouraged everyone to take a leap of faith and pursue a dream.
What I'm looking forward to next week:
Date Function on Friday! The theme is GΘLD RUSH. I'm thinking of either wearing my Koalafornia Mank, maybe a California flag as a cape, and being the "California Gold Rush." Or, if anyone has a suggestions, send them my way!
That's all for now, darlings! Have a wonderful week!
What a whirlwind week! There have been some very hard moments, but I was reminded that there is so much to be thankful for.
1. Know that you matter to someone. You've positively impacted their life, and you are loved. With this in mind, tell someone how much they mean to you. You never know how much that might mean to them.
2. On a lighter note, I spend yesterday at Camino's again! Two words: Maple Latte. Yes, it was as delicious as it sounds. AND now I'm best friends with the barista. Win.
3. On Friday, two of my friends and I decided to be spontaneous and go see a late night movie. Our choice: About Time. It was heartwarming, interesting, and surprisingly substantial. Grab your mom, your brother, your dad, your friends, anyone and go see this sweet film. I can guarantee you'll leave the theater smiling.
4. Registered for my classes for next semester! I'm taking 2 communications classes (Law & Rhetoric, as well as Organizational Rhetoric), an art history class (19th Century European Art), an entrepreneurship class (Design Building and High Performance Teams), and I'm auditing an intensive elementary French class. My dream of finally learning French is going to come true!
5. Alexis Ohanian came to Wake to discuss his journey and how he founded Reddit: the front page of the internet. Besides being one of the coolest cats around, he offered great advice and encouraged everyone to take a leap of faith and pursue a dream.
What I'm looking forward to next week:
Date Function on Friday! The theme is GΘLD RUSH. I'm thinking of either wearing my Koalafornia Mank, maybe a California flag as a cape, and being the "California Gold Rush." Or, if anyone has a suggestions, send them my way!
That's all for now, darlings! Have a wonderful week!
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Sam's Saturday Inaugural Post
Hello darlings! As part of my goal to blog at least once a
week, I’ve decided to try this thing called “Sam’s Saturday” where I’ll recap
my week and give you a glimpse of what’s on the agenda for next week!
Without further ado, here’s my inaugural Sam’s Saturday:
5.
Lilting Banshees, Wake’s comedy troupe, had a show this Wednesday. My best
friend and I almost fell off our seats, we were laughing so hard. The dude next
to us actually did. Which made us laugh even more.
4. Hairspray! My best friend and I went to see Wake’s musical, Hairspray, last night. It was AMAZING. The cast and crew did an incredible job, and they had the audience singing and dancing and smiling the whole time!
2. Instead of doing homework on night, my best friend and I decided to throw responsibility to the colors of the wind and watch Pocahontas instead. Best. Decision. Ever.
1. I finished reading “In Cold Blood,” by Truman Capote for my English class. If you haven’t read it, finish reading this blog post, shut your computer and sprint to your nearest local bookstore and buy it. It’s an aggressive book, it’s depressing, shocking, disturbing, and heartbreaking, but in the best way. Discover how Capote changed the literary world forever by creating the “creative non-fiction” genre, and why he said, “this book will be book of the decade,” even before he had written 1 word of it. Truman Capote = the man.
Sneak preview of next week:
Tests,
Papers, and Presentations! BUT, while that might not sound exciting, my
communications professor approved my paper topic. Which is analyzing the film Midnight
in Paris and how it’s a representation of historical analogy and collective
memory of the 1920’s. I’m STOKED.
That’s
all for now, dearies! Have a lovely rest of your weekend!
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Apologies and Aspirations
Hola Alligators! This whole
semester I’ve been writing papers and critiquing and analyzing and theorizing
and equalizing and every other –izing you could think of, but what I haven’t
been doing is digitizing. And by digitizing, I mean blogging. And by this, I
mean that I feel terrible for not blogging in a while. And by a while I mean
almost 5 months…
So, here’s my New Year’s Resolution! I’m getting a jump start on it so by the time January rolls around, it’ll already be a habit. Here’s my goal: Blog at least once a week. It’ll be a short little post, it might just have a picture of something I baked with a caption, but I think if I get in the habit of posting, it’ll become second nature!
A little update: Remember that 2-mile run I was training for over the summer in order to pass my health class? Well, a month ago, guess where I was? On a track. Guess who I was with? My entire health class. Guess what I did? RAN 2 MILES IN 19:58!!! I PASSED. I did it. Literally months of blood, sweat and tears culminated in my receiving an A in my health class. I never wanted to see another pair of running shoes or listen to my “jogging” playlist, hit up a treadmill or a trail ever again. This runner’s enthusiasm had run out.
Confession: I haven’t gone to Wake’s gym all semester, and I’ve only gone to 3 workout classes. I worked out almost every day this summer, felt great, and was really proud of how my endurance and strength were improving. Then, I got back to Wake and all of that went away.
Until this Tuesday! I was in my room, about ready to take a nap, when I got a text from my best friend saying she was going to the gym, and asked if I wanted to join her. I was about to send a polite decline, and then I saw my running shoes out of the corner of my eye. They had somehow crept out of the depths of my closet (I stashed them in there after the health test), and looked like they were itching to go out. I thought about it for a second, deleted what I had started to write, and responded, “Be there in 10 minutes!” I threw my hair up in a bun, tossed on some workout pants and a mank and laced up my running shoes.
As I entered the gym, Eye of the Tiger came on. I took this as a positive sign as I surveyed the gym. My options were arms, abs, cycling, elliptical, or weights. And then I saw it. Right next to my best friend on the elliptical. My archnemesis. The thing I had seen at least three times a week this summer. The thing I thought would be the bane of my existence.
I saw the treadmill.
Maybe I was just lonely or maybe I missed the feeling of a continuous ribbon of traction beneath my feet, but I walked over to it, fully intending to get on the elliptical two machines down. Instead, I hopped on. I stretched my calves and Achilles and told myself I was only going to jog for 3 songs. I pressed “quick start,” and set the pace on 4.4 out of 10. Slow, but not agonizingly slow. A good warm up. I would barely notice I was back on it. I only had 45 minutes before I would have to run off to class, but I figured this was better than taking a nap.
Once I hit that green button, all bets were off. 3 songs turned into 5 songs which turned into 10 songs, which turned into 12 songs. 4.4 pace turned into 4.8 pace, then 5.0 pace, then 5.2 pace and finally an all out sprint for the last minute of running. And .5 miles turned into 1.2 miles which turned into 2 miles which turned into 2.7 miles.
Yes, you read that right. 2.7 MILES. And the best part was, I could’ve kept running much longer. So I will.
Today, I went back to the gym and ran (not jogged, but ran) 2 miles in 19 minutes. This weekend, I’ll go on another run. Next Tuesday, I’ll be back on that treadmill. Next Thursday, I’ll be tearing up that trail.
This girl is back in the race, and back in the game. Which game? You ask?
The Pretty Pink Prep game, of course.
So, here’s my New Year’s Resolution! I’m getting a jump start on it so by the time January rolls around, it’ll already be a habit. Here’s my goal: Blog at least once a week. It’ll be a short little post, it might just have a picture of something I baked with a caption, but I think if I get in the habit of posting, it’ll become second nature!
A little update: Remember that 2-mile run I was training for over the summer in order to pass my health class? Well, a month ago, guess where I was? On a track. Guess who I was with? My entire health class. Guess what I did? RAN 2 MILES IN 19:58!!! I PASSED. I did it. Literally months of blood, sweat and tears culminated in my receiving an A in my health class. I never wanted to see another pair of running shoes or listen to my “jogging” playlist, hit up a treadmill or a trail ever again. This runner’s enthusiasm had run out.
Confession: I haven’t gone to Wake’s gym all semester, and I’ve only gone to 3 workout classes. I worked out almost every day this summer, felt great, and was really proud of how my endurance and strength were improving. Then, I got back to Wake and all of that went away.
Until this Tuesday! I was in my room, about ready to take a nap, when I got a text from my best friend saying she was going to the gym, and asked if I wanted to join her. I was about to send a polite decline, and then I saw my running shoes out of the corner of my eye. They had somehow crept out of the depths of my closet (I stashed them in there after the health test), and looked like they were itching to go out. I thought about it for a second, deleted what I had started to write, and responded, “Be there in 10 minutes!” I threw my hair up in a bun, tossed on some workout pants and a mank and laced up my running shoes.
As I entered the gym, Eye of the Tiger came on. I took this as a positive sign as I surveyed the gym. My options were arms, abs, cycling, elliptical, or weights. And then I saw it. Right next to my best friend on the elliptical. My archnemesis. The thing I had seen at least three times a week this summer. The thing I thought would be the bane of my existence.
I saw the treadmill.
Maybe I was just lonely or maybe I missed the feeling of a continuous ribbon of traction beneath my feet, but I walked over to it, fully intending to get on the elliptical two machines down. Instead, I hopped on. I stretched my calves and Achilles and told myself I was only going to jog for 3 songs. I pressed “quick start,” and set the pace on 4.4 out of 10. Slow, but not agonizingly slow. A good warm up. I would barely notice I was back on it. I only had 45 minutes before I would have to run off to class, but I figured this was better than taking a nap.
Once I hit that green button, all bets were off. 3 songs turned into 5 songs which turned into 10 songs, which turned into 12 songs. 4.4 pace turned into 4.8 pace, then 5.0 pace, then 5.2 pace and finally an all out sprint for the last minute of running. And .5 miles turned into 1.2 miles which turned into 2 miles which turned into 2.7 miles.
Yes, you read that right. 2.7 MILES. And the best part was, I could’ve kept running much longer. So I will.
Today, I went back to the gym and ran (not jogged, but ran) 2 miles in 19 minutes. This weekend, I’ll go on another run. Next Tuesday, I’ll be back on that treadmill. Next Thursday, I’ll be tearing up that trail.
This girl is back in the race, and back in the game. Which game? You ask?
The Pretty Pink Prep game, of course.
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