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

Sparks XXVII

Calls from Grace from Uruguay that kind of scare the shit out of me, but I love anyway

Skype conversations, even if it's only for a few minutes

Ice cream, all day, everyday, specially when it's from Coldstone

Life talks with amazing professors

Being done with finals on a Thursday

Piercings that make me feel a teeny tiny bit bad ass

Smoking hot waiters at Applebees

A Capella concerts and half priced appetizers with Ali, Michelle, and Claire

Free ice cream

Launching my research project, aka my baby

Research partners that have become really, really good friends

And they totally get it when I want to ave a lazy day and not actually work on psychology

Hugs from Hannah

The show Dexter, I don't know how I would have survived the semester without it

Season seven is soo good

Aubrie, for being the best sister ever

Kind texts from parents

Almost finished with my second year of college

It's been a hell of a learning experience

I Confess

"Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." 

Oscar Wilde

Sparks XXVI

Old rings

Coffee coffee coffee

Too much raspberry syrup

Ganesha for taking away obstacles and being a beautiful symbol

Class recommendations

The fact that there is a feminist literature course?  Um, yes, sign me up please

Sara, whoever you are, thanks for putting your RELS 100 notes online, you fucking rock

You are the reason I got an A

Intricate glass bottles that cost $2

Opportunities, opportunities galore

Planners are my best friend

So are large sticky notes

Weird dreams that are still making me laugh

Scotland?!  Come to me, baby

Upcoming weekends in Chicago

Psychology conferences

Ani DiFranco and your strange soulful funk

Partners who can rock SPSS

Me...who can rock Qualtrics

The view out my window

Flipside, I always get so excited when there is a new issue

Being on Psychology Club exec board with Hannah

Being the NCC for NACURH...how did this even happen?

Apple crisp with vanilla bean ice cream

V-Ball and all of it's glamorous, gorgeousness that is pretty inexplicable

Fantastic and supportive friends, old and new

Mystical quotes that go over my head, but hit my heart

Purpose

Boing

Dear Spring, 

Please rear your beautiful head, I've been waiting patiently for you.  I can feel myself getting restless in my own skin and my mind has been prone to wandering.  I refuse to believe this beautiful night with the almost-warm wind brushing across tired cheeks as we maneuver around shrinking snow piles in our thin t-shirts could be a tease.  You know better than anyone that I don't take winter well, it wears me down to a dull point.  No matter how brightly the sun shines or how vibrantly the windows twinkle with intricate ice formations or how softly the snow clings to the barren arms of trees, I cannot shake the darkness that winter brings.  It is suffocating, claustrophobic.  It is weary.  It is uninspired.  It is empty.

You are life.  Renewal. Growth. Revival. Restoration. You are energy. 

I promise when you make your grand, albeit fashionably late, entrance, I will worship you reverently.  I will stroke your blooming petals with care, lay my cheek to the ground, and experience your greatness and divinity with all of my senses, because there truly is no separation between my body, my soul, and the rest of the known reality.       

Sparks XXV

Skipping my first class ever

Knowing it is pointless anyway

Feeling like the weekend is extra long

Being able to intellectually talk about Audre Lorde with my favorite professor

Getting book recommendations from him as well

Getting a position on exec board

SLED

Recognition stars from Hannah

Adventures with Celia, Michelle, Brandon, and Janee

Red Robin for the first time

Endless rootbeer floats

Watching basketball and actually being excited about it

Michelle after she drinks Dr Pepper

Emilia for being understanding

My parents and their sassy-ness

New seasons of Bob's Burgers

The room to myself for a night

Impressing my psychology professor

Doing a feminist two-factor study for a research class

Seeing myself becoming more outgoing

David...I mean Brandon...No, David

Back massages from strangers...

Cheesecake frozen yogurt, yum!

Clean rooms

Hitting the wind chime every seven seconds

Frozen mint mochas

Taking the bus up the hill while mother nature shit a foot of snow on us

Extra large cheese curds and fried pickles

Milwaukee Burger

Genuinely kind strangers who are literally better off not being so nice to you

My sister's text: U up?  (She is so fucking hilarious, I wish she was here)

Grace's comments on my blog posts

Grace's blog posts about her adventures

The fact that whenever someone asks me about my roommate, I immediately think of Grace

I then refer to my current roommate as a fake roommate and make sure it it clear they know Grace is my true roommate

True story

Lovely weekends with old friends and new friends

Sparks XXIV

A new found appreciation for oranges

Audre Lorde, one of my favorite people ever

Liberating acts

Red nails

Peanut and chocolate granola bars

Silent Study with Michelle

Sun and warm(er) weather

Glasgow, Scotland

Finishing study abroad applications

Katy for writing a letter of recommendation 

Gray

Iced vanilla chai

Shopping sprees with friends

Walks followed by lunch out with Ali and Michelle

Walks followed by coffee dates with Amelia 

2048 (damn you though, damn you)

Mad Men to sooth me

Tuesdays, for so many reasons

Getting ten hours of sleep for the first time in a really long time

Frozen soundtrack, never gets old.  Ever.

Interviews for Ambassadors

Sugar cookies from the caf

Impressing professors 

Psych Club Jeopardy 

Weekends without the roommate 

Finishing to do lists

Passing a level of Candy Crush that took for-fucking-ever to complete

Vandalizing the back of Michelle's notebook

Hannah for being a really, really good friend 

Procrastination (not really)

New dresses with daises on it

Actually feeling inspired
Contribution that is appreciated and looked forward to

Learning