The Lighthearted Wanderer

Let's make this Halloween memorable, warm Fall weather FTW!

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/index.asp Isabella Stewart Gardiner museum in Boston--anyone around named Isabella? You can get in for free forever! But college students are $5, a great deal cheaper than the $12 for normal adults...yay collegiate life :)

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!

What my summer life consists of: 1. Baking Yellow Cupcake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting 3 Layer Yellow Cake with Brownie Filling and Chocolate Frosting - Other favorites include: "Unrolled Cinnamon rolls", Bread Pudding w/ Seven Stars Bakery Sweet Bread 2. Nail Polish Nina Ultra Pro 709066 "Peacock Blue" Lancome Le Vernis "Untamed Plum" - Wish List: A Good Topcoat. More "grown up" looking nail polishes. Cremes as opposed to shimmers. Colors besides purple or blue. 3. Television - I've rewatched Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy. In addition, I've zoomed through Season 1 of Parenthood...and I just now discovered my favorite (though the only) anime I've seen, Ruroni Kenshin, has all 3 seasons uploaded! Summer shows that I've been picking up include Pretty Little Liars, Huge, The View, Wipeout, and Minute to Win It. I started watching Top Chef but it doesn't get uploaded anymore :( anyone...