The Lighthearted Wanderer

It's been a long time since I've needed a movie to fall asleep to, but today I didn't do nearly as much running around as I should have, I literally didn't make it any further west than Thayer St. and any further north than the Omac (which I guess is still pretty far). But yeah, I don't know why I picked Roman Holiday, the second the music started playing I remembered how it ends. And I have a feeling if I don't end up falling asleep I may end up feeling terribly sad... Ah...Audrey is quite beautiful though... Why didn't I decide to watch Sabrina instead??? At least that one ends more happily...

Although I wasn't literally asleep through the whole month of September, it is kind of a marvel to me that it's been just about a month since we've come back to school. Uh Elaine, why does the beginning of your blog posts always sound the same after a long hiatus?...yeah okay, so what? Anyway...a lot's happened over the past couple of weeks. Going to a different country (Cananada), my mom and Jen visiting, a trip to Boston, learning to cook lumpia, learning to cook a lot of random things, the PAC retreat, FINALLY submitting my capstone project proposal, and jumping on the All-Access gym pass bandwagon. I'm super excited for my ice skating classes, on Wednesday I actually started to skate backwards and do simple crossovers! And pilates is just awesome because I can feel my dancing body getting stronger...if next semester isn't too busy, I'm definitely going to try to do the pass again with ice skating and ballet :) Despite the "doing something good for ...

So since I haven’t had a meaty blog post in a while, I decided I’m going to blog about my one-day adventure in the big city that is New York. Be prepared, I’m typing throughout the day, so even I don’t know what to expect! 5:15am My alarm went off much too early, but I realized with a jolt that I had to get dressed, make some food, and make sure everything I needed was packed. I was planning to meet a trolley at my good old Preston & Power RIPTA stop, but upon looking outside I suddenly became very paranoid that not only RIPTA but the whole world had crawled into a cave to get shelter from the hurricane, and that there would be no way for me to know. So resourceful as I can be at times, I called the RIPTA customer service line, which I obtained by texting Google at 46645. If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s really great for those of us who still don’t have internet on their phones. Text a name of a restaurant, store, hotel, or even just something like “movie theatre” and the zip cod...

I know I haven't written much lately, but I guess that's a tribute that fact that I feel like my summer and school year melded together long before I even realized it. It might sound a little dramatic, but at the very least I feel like I'll be able to take the great parts of this summer and keep them through the school year. Such as... Pretty Places Pretty People Pretty Food :) Raspberry soy smoothie -- my attempt to cool off on this hot September day! So I'm off to NYC/Toronto tomorrow! I'm taking the 6:30am bus, hopefully to arrive at a reasonable hour like 11am, and I guess I'll just be wandering around the city until my cousin comes to get me around 9pm! Definitely more to come, Happy Labor Day weekend!