January 2011
53 posts
i really wish i was at the nye party at remy’s dancing with no shoes on and drinking grand-ma shots instead of sitting in my room alone watching anderson cooper’s midnight countdown. not. fun.
December 2010
33 posts
2010 in review:
january
started the year off with good financial luck:
it sleeted in clemson, which led to lark lifting a tree:
february
got a sweet valentine’s package from my madre:
fell hard core in love with madeleine.
it really snowed in clemson:
and i had an epic photoshoot with some of my favorite people:
i fell on jenny’s birthday and sprained my ankle:
march
i’m...
My take: Why my church rebelled against the... →
best albums of 2010
15. She & Him - Volume Two: dreamy. why does everything zooey touches turn to gold? ”…and i know, and you know too that love like ours is terrible news but that won’t stop me crying, no, that won’t stop me crying over you” hopeful and haunting at the same time.
14. The Morning Benders - Big Echo: again, super dreamy and floaty feeling. takes me someplace altogether...
they tell me when to eat, they tell me when to work, they tell me when to go outside. and the rest of the time i sit in a cinder block room lying on a bunk reading or listening to music. no real way to get out. it’s a little bit like i’m in prison.
i need to be outside. and real outside. snow is not outside. i need to be in a place where things are constantly changing....
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: an... →
all the college-age guests here boast about which ivy league school they go to. this article is really hitting home right now.
stoned out of my mind on painkillers. i hate this feeling of not being in control. but it’s the only thing that keeps the whiplash from owning my neck. hopefully it will be better tomorrow.
side note: i’ve been using the same bag of ice all day. when it starts melting, i just tuck it into the hole i made in the snow right outside my window and come back for it in an hour....
fell yesterday and hit my head on the snow/my helmet. blacked out. had to call ski patrol. got strapped down to a back board with a neck brace on. went down the mountain on a sled. got transfered to a gurney (on the back brace) at the alta clinic. got x-rays. inconclusive. got transfered by ambulance to alta view hospital. still on the back board. got a cat scan. no fracture. after 4...
thoughts....
i guess i’ll start by saying what i did expect. i expected snow. a lot of it. i expected to ski a lot. i expected to work hard.
i expected outdoorsy, mellow, fun-loving, accepting people. that i’m still trying to find.
i didn’t expect to find myself sucking up to people to try to fit in. i didn’t expect to find myself back in high school, where if you...
“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too...”
– Tim Gunn (via elizabethanne)
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with...”
– Marcel Proust
so i was watching miracle on 34th street on tv and a commercial came on for the james taylor/carole king live cd and they played a clip of “carolina in my mind” and i started bawling. then i started to make the most epic homesick playlist ever. that may have been a bad idea, but regardless, i thought i’d share it here, for both my fellow vagabonds as well as the folks still in sweet home...
Watchcomealive:
Stephen Colbert explains how Jesus was a liberal democrat.
everyone should watch this.
1. i drove (someone else’s car) in snow last night for the first time with three intoxicated backseat drivers. i’m pretty sure i didn’t go over 15 miles an hour.
2. i have several people here saying “soup sandwich.” it makes me very happy.
3. apparently when i drink i start talking shit.
4. they have sweet tea vodka at a bar at snowbird. it wasn’t...
just got out of the (outdoor, heated) pool and my hair had literally turned into an icicle. sheesh!
i’m having a homesick day. i keep looking at the pictures of the oysters and marsh and island sunrise on my wall and i wish i was there. i miss my parents and my brother and my dogs. i miss my job at outside. and i’m getting sick. and i still suck at skiing.
i hope i get over this soon. i just keep thinking…i could be waiting tables at home making five times what...
1. i can’t stop listening to girl talk.
2. i can tie a neck tie. and look damn good in it.
3. i can ski three runs a day now! my leg muscles are already getting intense.
4. i deleted dude from my phone and facebook. it’s a big deal. feels good.
5. time here moves very weird. every night around 7:30 it feels like it’s midnight. it never fails.
6. i made my first...
i officially want one of these. or two. →
"A Winter's Love"
So I’m reading this book by Madeleine L’Engle called “A Winter’s Love” and it’s freaking me out. Like a lot. And making me wonder. If at some point in the future I had to choose between staying in a blah marriage or leaving for love, what would I choose? I know which I’d want, but at what cost to other people? And if you could feel that way even if you...
1. wiping out hurts. like. really hurts. i took a little tumble that ended in a somersault and five barrel rolls. and i can barely move today.
2. i love running food. maybe it’s the people pleaser in me, but i love when people look up and see me coming and hope fills their eyes that it’s their rack of lamb or salmon or filet on my tray.
3. sorel boots are hard to put on.
...
jenn: i was thinking about the good ol days today...it feels like a lifetime ago
jenn: and how different my life is right now
jenn: or mainly, how different it was during the summer, because except for my philly sumer it has been the same for 4 years now
me: yeah hahahah
me: mine definitely took an unexpected turn
jenn: i still can't believe you are actually in utah right now!
me: ME EITHER
me: WTF
me: how did this happen?
me: everyone is like "so how did you end up here from sc?"
me: and i don't really know how to answer
jenn: hahahah how DID that happen
jenn: how did you even know alta existed
jenn: or come up with this idea
me: bianca and i were like...we don't want to get a real job
me: and then we were like...we have summer work, what could we do in the winter?
me: and we were like...skiing is seasonal
me: and we were in the office and we were like, "mpo, do you know anyone out west who would hire us?"
me: and he said yes
me: and they did
me: and here we are
3 tags
officially in love
1. don’t wear workout pants if you are a ski noob. you WILL get wet. (but it will be worth it if it’s the only way to get out.)
2. it’s far easier to go fast than slow. the only time i fell was when alex was telling me to take the turns slow. i got back up, and flew through the rest of the turns and was fine.
3. i could only get the baby hills in before my legs started...
first day out
i’ve met some really cool people so far. my across-the-hall neighbors have a guitar and a banjo, which is nice entertainment. there are a bunch of other non-skiers here so i’ll have someone to learn with. i have a touch of altitude sickness so i’m nauseous and really dizzy…i think i’m going to take a quick nap before our 1:30 meeting. this morning i learned how to...