Howdy!
It seems like it’s been AGES since I wrote something here! And you know what the quick-fix is for zero blog motivation? A new theme! I felt like my old theme had way too much stuff on it. Just stuff everywhere! And though the fancy Web 2.0 clickables seemed cool, it seemed like I was forgetting that blogging should be about the content, not about how many visitors and comments you get. That said, here’s my life thus far in reverse chronology:
Last weekend, I went to visit Jamie at her university! Jamie gave me a tour of her classes as well as her new dorm room. On Saturday, we “re-discovered” a cute little diner out in the middle of nowhere. It was a very small town (and a very conservative one), so Jamie and I felt like outsiders in a place where all the other customers were grandparents and their grandchildren. The food was okay (they burnt my sandwich) but the ice cream was awesome! Jamie tried the orange sherbet and I had the strawberries n’ cream. It was divine!
Later that evening, we met up with Jamie’s former roommate, Morgan, and went to Indianapolis for dinner. It was quite an adventure. After shopping, the plan was to go to a Mexican restaurant that Jamie had discovered online earlier that day. The restaurant had some great reviews and the website was impressive. When we finally arrived there around 9:30pm, we found that the restaurant was in the heart of, possibly, the worst side of town. All the surrounding buildings looked abandoned and shady and there was no one on the streets. Needless to say, we got out of there as soon as we could! We ended up eating dinner on the northern end of town at a Mexican restaurant located in Broadripple Village. The highlight of the night occurred afterward at a local hookah bar. Almost a year before, the three of us were in Broadripple and vowed that we would all try hookah for the first time together. According to Wikipedia, a hookah is a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) instrument for smoking tobacco in which the smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water. I’ve never smoked anything in my life, so I was a little nervous, but also really excited!
It actually turned out to be a lot of fun! If you’ve ever smelled incense before, then you know what what a hookah bar smells like. All the people there were very chill and there was a wide variety of people too! It was nothing like the shady crowd I had imagined. Also, smoking from a hookah isn’t as difficult as it seems. I was worried that we would be coughing up lungs like the smoke-virgins we were, but smoking a hookah is pretty much breathing in flavored air. When you’ve savored the taste a bit, you breathe it out. Easy. All in all, we had a really good time.
On a different note, last week was my first week of fall semester! I’ve got a really good schedule this time around (Fridays off! Woo hoo!) and I’ve got some pretty interesting classes as well:
Monday & Wednesday
- Principles of Logic | 4:30pm-5:45pm
- Native American History | 6:00pm-7:15pm
Tuesday & Thursday
- General Geology | 9:00am-10:15am
- English Literature | 10:30am-11:45am
- Principles of Sociology | 12:00pm-1:15pm
Is that not an awesome schedule or what?! No more 1, 2, or 3 hour breaks! Yessss! I love college. I think I may have to dedicate a future post to how much I love it.
Finally, the week before last, my boyfriend, Mik, came to visit all the way from England! We met last November on Omegle and became pen pals. Over time emails became instant messages, instant messages became phone calls, phone calls became Skype calls, and nine months later, we finally met in person! Talk about finding love in unexpected places, right? We visited an amusement park, went shopping, watched movies, and spent an entire day with Jamie at her lake cottage. While we were there, she used her photography magic and took some lovely photos of Mik and I:
Overall, it was a wonderful week and I miss him dearly! A long-distance and international relationship can be difficult at times, but he’s well worth it! I’m one lucky girl! ;D
Anyway, that’s all for now!
Wow! A blog post three days in a row! Go me!
I’m currently in Ohio for the weekend, visiting my uncle and the rest of my family. It’s just a small gathering before the fall semester starts and we all have to go our separate ways again. My mother, grandpa, and I arrived here at about 11am and while we were waiting on my father and brother to arrive, my uncle said he had a special treat for my older brother and I.
Apparently, my uncle’s coworker’s friend works for the PGA (Professional Golfer’s Association) and through him, my uncle scored some tickets to the World Golf Championships–Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. Basically, the PGA selected the 50 best golfers from around the world to play in this tournament. I saw pro golfers from England, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, and the United States. And in case you’re wondering, yes, I saw Tiger Woods. (He was already done playing when we got there, but I got to see him practice!) Now, I’m not much of a golf fan (it’s totally boring to watch on TV), but being at a professional tournament and seeing the players close-up was totally cool. I was literally an arm-length away from Swedish golfer, Alexander Noren. I would have taken oodles of pictures, but cameras and cell phones weren’t allowed past the entrance. Over the course of the day we bounced from course to course, ate lunch in the Championship Clubhouse, and got some gear from the gift shop. My brother and I got a couple of tourney visors! So cute!
On a different note, I have spectacular news! I’ve got a new hostee, Eunjung! Stop by her blog and show her some love!