In touch with my inner-craftiness!

So this is definitely not a new hobby, but I have been really reaching into my inner craftiness lately! My latest idea was to cover a slightly bland spot of the war with some magazines. I think that it came out really well, but I may have gone a little overboard.

David stayed with me for the first of the week, so last night I was back to being alone! Not for long though, because Jacob came over and we rented a few movies. We started with A Clockwork Orange, which I at one point tried to read... the movie was just as difficult to make it through. perhaps Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick are simply over my head. So we switched to Pirate Radio-- much better choice for a summer flick.

Michael comes home tomorrow! Hopefully I'll see him..? Fingers crossed!

Athens, I Love You.

Sorry for the lack of posting (I was reading, which you could have guessed if you read the last post!). So although my jealousy is building as all of my friends travel the world, and I am stuck in Athens, I really have grown to love it. Walkers at night, Visitor Center in the morning, pool in the Afternoon, and 2 Story at night, what else could I want?

Attempt VI: Be a Townie
So this is one of the easiest things to accomplish that I have ever tried. I find that as long as I keep my sorority shirts to a minimum, and my visits to Five Points to a max, I have got it covered. The Athens Farmer's Market is another good stop. Tuesday's from 4-7, and all locally grown food and products. Hit it up if you are in the A-Town.

Oh to grow up...

So I sat down to start a new old book today- Brave New World... So I started reading one of my favorite books, which has been water logged, scribbled in, and thumbed over at least 8 times per page, but I could not quite focus on the words. Why? Because of my own notes, circa 2005. These include the insightful phrase, "Ha, so worked up about sex" and some conversations between myself, which are a little intriguing. For example, in my 15 year old handwriting, I scribe, "statement against drugs?" then reply in my 18 year old handwriting, "No, but more widely against an unregulated pleasure." Some of these things are humurous, some are embarassing (where I misspell feminism), and others are really insightful. However, I cannot focus on Alduous Huxley's wonderful message, as much as I can my own thoughts. This being said, I ventured to the bookstore to procure a new copy.

So now I'm left to reflect... should I be embarrassed or proud of my notes in the text? Embarrassed was my initial reaction (come on people, I misspelled feminism? really? I didn't know it lacked a "z"?), but after awhile, I became proud of my progression. I really have grown-up, and I really have learned something. Yes, I may re-read this in five more years, and yet again find myself cringing at my previous ignorance, but let's face it... the more we know, the less we know. As Oscar Wilde said, "I am not young enough to know everything"

How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck...?

So yesterday I decided to embrace my regular past-time of visiting the Athens Zoo! I know that this blog is supposed to be about doing new things, but I can't help but love all of my favorite little animal friends (big if you count the bear)! My favorite, Gus the Woodchuck/Groundhog was in rare form... I tried to explain this to Jacob who laughed at my intrigue with the little friend more that at Gus's antics! From scurrying about, to plopping on stumps, to nibbling on peanuts, he was too cool for school today!

Attempt V: Make new friends, but keep the old.
The more I get used to it, the more I love Athens in the summer. I know that it took a while to get acclimated to the severe lack of people (seeing as how all of my best friends are gone), but it's really gotten me to reconnect with some old friends that I haven't seen in a long time. Keeping friends should be something that everyone works to do, and I know that I get busy sometimes, but it is nice to know that the same people I was friends with in middle school will still be there today! Amanda and I sat by the pool for hours the other day, and you would never know that we weren't just as good of friends as we had always been! I cannot wait to live with her next year, but will be sad to leave my apartment... hooray to new beginnings, and old ones too!

Lasagna or Lasagne?

Attempt IV: Cooking

Today I made lasagna with  Jacob.  We went to Publix (although Jacob was vehemently in favor of going to Kroger and wouldn't stop whining the entire time...) for all the ingredients and hurried home rife with anticipation of our meal to come.  After 20 minutes of preparation and 35 minutes of cooking we joyfully sat down with our plates laden with lasagna, salad, and garlic bread.  After being scolded by Jacob for putting too much sugar in my sweat tea we cleaned up and he challenged me to a game of Mancala!

I'll let you know how the game goes, but I'm pretty sure that I'll win... Love board games.

Oh, and an update on my exercise plan... still sore from p90x, two days ago. I did run four miles yesterday though, so maybe I'll keep it up!

I know this is out of order, but!

So something my lovely friend Laura pointed out is that I mentioned how clean the apartment was... after about a week of that, I started to really slack off. I think that the reason I was so clean, was to keep my mess out of other people's way! Now I'm a disaster! This leads to...

Attempt III: Cleanliness
Need I say more?

Finding Myself... kind of?

So after much ado, and thinking long and hard about life, I think that I have landed on a solid idea. I know that lots of people have different ideas about what solid is, but I think that for me, my solid is happiness. As long as I am happy, I think that I can make it in this world.
So I read through the entire UGA bulletin (well, at least I skimmed it all). I looked at all the classes, all the majors, all the future careers, and I think that what I landed on is Latin, Comparative Literature, and an Art History Minor. So what exactly is Comparative Lit? That’s a good question. As far as I can gather, it is a lot like English… with less analytical essays? I could be really wrong on this one, but I think that that’s it.
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Attempt II: Exercising
So I’m looking for a hobby, and for now we landed on exercise. My abs hurt more than anything, but maybe it’ll get better? I don’t think that this is a promising hobby.