Hand me the Geritol

OK, so apparently at the tender age of 21 I am too old to go to the lodges. I've been saying this all semester, and after finally making it last night ... I was right.

"I just wanna daaaaance" basically sums it up. Seriously. All I want to do is dance. With my friends/by myself jumping around like a loon. I do not want to dance with any boys, espeically any freshmen/sophomores (sorry to the boy who looked like he was 14 that I ditched like twice last night. The first time all of a sudden all my gals were gone and so I just sort of ran away. And the second time it was during Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" and so I literally told him: "This is my jam. I have to jam out to it. By myself." He got the message.)

Maybe this just had to do with the fact that we were at SAE, the only lodge that was open, and I'm not particularly fond of that frat, and the music BLEW. Seriously, Black Eyed Peas was the only good thing in a sea of weird techno. All I wanted was my Rihanna, guys.

Watching guys and girls grinding, watching guys and girls making out ... hmm it was all weird and voyeuristic. Don't think I was drunk enough. Shout-out to the attractive black male who asked me to dance. Yes, he ASKED, instead of being a creeper and just grinding away. I turned him down, because after all, it was my jam, but I appreciated it nonetheless.

Oh, and my feet got really really dirty. Damn lodge floors. Direct quote from me as we are exiting the lodge: "My blister's acting uppp!" See, I sound like a grandma.

SPRING

Not to be cliche ... but Spring has sprung!

Ok, we have a beautiful campus but today it was just gorge! And everyone's breaking out the sundresses and sandals and seriously our school is like a freakin' J.Crew catalogue (and yes I'm inside blogging this I'm a loser, but I can't lie I'm slightly scared to be outside for long periods of time because I'm out of sunscreen).

Speaking of J.Crew - why are you so damn expensive, yet so damn adorable!?!

That's why I'm obsessed with Lands'End Canvas, just as cute, but at a cheaper pricepoint! Just wish it had a physical store but we can't have everything we want, can we?

Things I really really like:



This has a ruffle so I'm basically sold (I'm wearing a J.Crew vneck with ruffles right now what can I say I'm a ruffle fool).



Remember the time when yellow was so hot? Well, I think this dress could bring it back.



These are pretty much identical to the ones that J.Crew had last summer that I really wanted but couldn't justify spending so much money on them ... OK so these may not be any cheaper but I digress. They cute!

All images from Lands'End Canvas Web site

I definitely wore some Lands'End back in the day. I want to bring it back!

Back to the grind...

Well I'm back at Richmond after an awesome break at home!

Highlights: Watching the Oscars with Molly (I have a lot to say about the Oscars...but I won't. Except that they way they presented Best Picture was very very off).

Going on my first ghost tour in the French Quarter!

My first run on the neutral ground!

Lots of yummy yummy food (including oyster po-boys and my mother's crawfish etoufee!)

Lots of going out! Wahoos! I love Tulane bars! Especially The Boot Happy Hour, which I had brinner before, duh.

Just being home. I love home.

And I feel good about this second half of the semester. Lots of good things coming up! And I'm going to try and and stay on top of my work but check back with me in like a week and half...

Food?

So this morning I watched a DVR-d episode of Oprah about, well, food. She was inspired by the documentary Food, Inc. (which I have not seen and don't plan on it because A. I read Fast Food Nation and B. I can do without seeing more of the footage they showed on the show, thankyouverymuch).

But it seriously raises A LOT of ideas about food. And I flirt with this idea all the time. Usually after seeing footage of baby chicks but whatever.

So my new thing is eating real food. Like, as unprocessed as possible. Which is a ridiculous goal, I know, and I fail at it a lot but for instance, I try to eat carrots instead of potato chips with my sandwich at lunch. Carrots - unprocessed! Woo!

And I tend to eat meat only once a day (failed at this yesterday. My mom made me brinner and I was dying for some bacon with it, after having eaten some steak at lunch. My b.)

I don't think I could ever go fully vegetarian, because I like meat. And I think this is OK, because I don't love it. I'm perfectly fine eating a really good cheeseburger every once in awhile than eating red meat all the time. And I can justify this because I do think humans were meant to eat meat. Not the way it's being handled in the farms right now, sadly, but humans have been eating meat since the hungry Asians chased the wooly mammoths across the ice bridge and started North America. Seriously. And I think if chickens and pigs were treated more ethically, than they would definitely fall under the title of "real food."

Michael Pollan, an author who writes about food and was featured on this Oprah episode, has been gaining a lot of buzz lately with his new book "Food Rules" and his mantra: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Ima try to follow this.

The Price for Eating Yogurt

So I buy a yogurt today while at Target doing some shopping, as part of my airport lunchie.

Hmmm. No spoon. Can't get through security with it. So I start asking around the food places before security, to see if I can't just have a plastic spoon.

No, apparently I can't. I had to pay 16 cents at Applebee's.

Good yogurt though!

Funny story

So long time no update, readers. I feel bad, but I am BURIED under schoolwork and midterms. But that's OK, because spring break is the light at the end of the tunnel! But I just wanted to share one funny story.

So I stayed up late Wednesday night, working on a paper (didn't finish, no big deal). And didn't put on make-up this Thursday morning (or this morning either for that matter), so it is dark circle central up in here.

The scene: Me, walking to the Pier. It is really really sunny out, so can't really see anything either.

Kevin Grayson, football player/coolest person ever is walking toward me. Little do I know that a teammate of his is behind me. So yes, it's sunny, it looks like K-Gray is looking RIGHT at me. He asks, "How late did you stay up last night?"

And I was like OH MY GOD ARE MY DARK CIRCLES THAT BAD?!? So I say "Wait, are you talking to me?!?"

He laughs and I realized that there was another guy behind me. So I laugh it off and say "Because I was up really, really late!"

Anyway: need to remember my sunglasses. need to not slack on sleep. and Kevin Grayson is awesome!!

And now it's offically Spring Break!! Ow ow NOLA here I come! Am drinking wine and doing laundry - great night!