More With the Eyes

"I spend all my time trying to capture the moment.  And when I do, I'll interrogate it an torture it."
Jarod Kintz

Just a few of the lovely friends I made abroad.

Sparks XXXII

Scoopers

Glasgow, Scotland

Moon pies

Mango hookah

Talking to Grace

Grace in general

$5 movie Tuesdays

The new semester approaching

The exciting things it is bound to bring

Starting to feel productive

Owning like twenty crap taps

Thrift stores

Peach iced tea

Quality time with Aubrie all summer

Being rebellious with Aubrie

Talking about study abroad stuff with Natalie

Cool, crisp nights

The people who acknowledge that I've done something good

Getting a spontaneous foot massage 

Baking brownies on rainy days

Coming back to this blog

Even though I haven't written anything important in months

Actually making progress on my novel

Marvel movies...all of them

Parks and Recreation, for seriously being one of the best shows in the universe

Watching season two of Orange is the New Black with Aubrie

Reading horrible, badly written books for shits and giggles

Feeling better about your own writing

Kim Kardashian Hollywood, for being addicting and ruining my life

Having a girls day on Thursday

Already preparing for not only my junior year of college, but for leaving the country

Sparks XXXI

Decorating my room at home

Having every available surface holding some sort of trinket

Getting drunk with old and new friends (well...I was sober)

Scrunchies

Dirty, summer feet

XXXX Large tie dye t shirts to sleep in

Waking up at 11:00am

Spending the week with friends

Bumming around Green Lake

Walking into all the little shops just seeing what we might find

Bonnie's birds

Leaving Janee's house at 6am because her house was freezing and we couldn't find blankets

Trips to Minnesota, filled with talk of the future and ridiculous games of would you rather

Buying excessive amounts of junk food for the five hour trip

Eating hardly any of it

Shopping sprees at the Mall of America

Shrimp sandwiches

Finding the perfect lipstick

Roadtrips to Duluth

How gorgeous and unique Duluth is

How instead of building new buildings for shops like Dairy Queen, they get put into already existing ornate buildings

Antique-ing and the antique tins and pill boxes that come with it

Eating at the wrong, but still good, restaurant

Pulled pork sandwiches topped with deep fried pickles

Playing 'baseball' with driftwood and stones

Light houses on ice covered water

Therapeutically throwing rocks into the water for at least half an hour

Enger Tower

Spitting off of Enger Tower

Walking around the sculpture garden

The benches that were sarcastic, condescending, but full of truth and obviously my favorite 

Climbing up a sculpture, breakin' the law

Seeing The Neighbors while eating licorice

Panera bagels and frozen lemonade

Scoring deals and pants at the mall of not America

Going to the zoo

Seeing a giraffe drink another giraffe's urine AS IT WAS STREAMING

The crazy monkeys 

Especially the one with the creepy-ass white face

The adorable snow fox

The greenhouses 

Exotic flowers from all parts of the world

Homemade slushies

Seeing a minor league baseball game

Personally getting harassed by all the characters walking around

"Okay...now we need to find the freeway"

Hearing that at least two times a day everyday for four days

Watching every High School Musical consecutively

Just kidding

Being lazy

Cut up adult carrots

Going to Scoopers with Aubrie and Hailey 

Helping them film their Spanish video

Hanging out all day at the beach with Aubrie

Getting manicures with Marshall and Aubrie

Receiving life advice from my manicurist

Going to DQ and being extremely inappropriate while surrounded by children and their disapproving parents

Starting this summer off right

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Bringing back memories by listening to Michelle Branch's Spirit Room, twice

This was my first ever CD

Just two more finals to go

Leaving Thursday afternoon

A week planned for Minnesota

Aptly named: Michelle and Josie Take on Minnesota (aka Ali's House)

Plans to go to Coldstone and watch Frozen after the dreaded Psych final

My psych professor fucking loving me

The RHA picnic and the NRHH picnic

Dinner dates with friends at Hu Hot

Dead Hours, I actually don't mind them

Sour Patch kids in my mailbox

Care packages from my parents with some of my favorite things

Like white cheddar popcorn

Finishing Dexter, even though it tore apart my soul

Starting Revenge

WHICH IS SO FUCKING GOOD

The fact that I haven't done laundry in two months

All nighters

That was a joke

A Cappella concerts that were amazing / witchcraft 

Trying to go see a movie, only to realize that we had all been looking at the wrong times

Settling for raspberry hot fudge sundaes at Culvers 

How cool is it that I got to Sparks XXX

Pretty fucking cool

Not having to start work until June 4th

Just two more days, just two more days

The Art of Being Bare Faced

"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance."

Naomi Wolf

Sparks XXIX

Almost putting this chapter of my life away

The people who go out of their way to offer me opportunities

My lack of makeup for quite some time

I literally haven't taken a shower since Sunday, no shame

My fantastic, wonderful, awful, burden of a research project about my favorite topic feminism

How much my professor loves it

My amazing research partner Emilia, literally couldn't have done it without her

Eating packets of strawberry licorice in the wee hours of the morning with her

My habit of getting Darn Good coffee

The fact that the lady sees me come in and immediately starts making my order because she knows

What a gem

Care packages from my parents, including, but not limited to white cheddar popcorn and pistachios 

Listening to old school music while being productive

Ice cream socials with the LLC

The Shrek soundtrack, literally the best

Completely dominating my final English essay...

...And I wrote it the night before

My sister's cold water challenge...dear god

Doing homework in Religions instead of listening to lecture

Cinnamon sugar bagels with honey butter feed my soul

The Intuitionist, the most bizarre mix of boring and intriguing

Recycling old papers

Taking down pictures, making it real

Being able to leave the window open all night

Having the perfect weather: cool light breeze, crisp air, sun shining

Late nights that could be worse

Nicole for literally being a savior

The amount of times I have said literally already

One more day of class, h0lla @ m3 

Sparks XXVIII

Blowing giant bubbles in the room

Red rain boots

Fearlessly splashing through puddles
The hilariously hideous and awkward selfies I had to take
With modes of transportation
While holding an umbrella
Like three different people actually laughed at me as I crouched by a scooter...

Adult carrots and grapes for a late night snack

Baha'i gatherings and discussion

Mango Mexican soda and butter cookies to help everything slip down

Kind and listening Aunts

Stealing more posters from the hallway

Fudge cheesecake from Hannah

Chicago this weekend!

Impressing professors never gets old

Getting a jump start on projects

Glasgow, Scotland, I need you in my life now please

Badass piercings that are healing

Cozy beds that can't bother to be made

A book that isn't as bad as I originally thought it was going to be

Looking up interesting quotes in the name of homework

Interviews tomorrow that I will (hopefully) rock

Wow, twenty-eight Sparks, wow

Trying my first snap pea and liking it

Peanut butter chocolate chunk giant ass cookies

Planned trips to Minnesota

Finals that were on Friday at 8am that are now the week before at 2pm

The thoughtfulness of others

Parents who still do things for their daughter even though she is busy in college

Actually feeling like am more adult-like and truly in my twenties

Almost closing this chapter in my life