8 posts tagged “college”
I spent this past weekend in Virginia with some of my very best girlfriends. There's nothing like spending a few hours with "the girls" and I have many wildly different groups of girlfriends who I love to spend time with. My best friend Kerry and I organized a reunion of sorts among a bunch of girls I went to college with, who I probably haven't seen since graduation. Its amazing how we all kept in touch and what struck me as most interesting was how much we still all know about each other, despite how long its been since we've all seen one another.
Thats right. It was revealed that we are all internet stalkers of each other. When I think about my parents and how they keep in touch with their college friends I realize how both lucky and unlucky I am to be able to internet stalk all of my college friends. I check away messages, facebook profiles, blogs, photo sites, theknot.com, and more recently babiesrus.com registries. When we all got together it was a really bizarre catch-up session based on bits of knowledge we had all gathered about each other in the years since graduation based on our internet stalking. "I saw you were engaged, but I don't see a ring - what happened?" "Your bridesmaids dress in so-and-so's wedding was so beautiful - where did they go on their honeymoon?" "I know you're teaching special ed kids, and you love it - what do you like about it so much?" I think we all agreed it was a blast (even if we were bummed that we did not get the hotter waiter at PF Changs) and we should definitely do this again sometime soon.
Though, I have to wonder if spent half as much time actually calling my girlfriends and talking with them instead of internet stalking them I could save myself some energy and maybe actually stay in better touch with them all. My parents certainly don't know as much about their friends day-to-day lives but their ability to stay close with them certainly is to be envied. So tell me, my internet stalkers - what do you think about how your friendships have been affected by the ability to internet stalk your friends? Does it make it harder to actually achieve real closeness to people, or easier?
I think the 8 hours of Sex and the City we watched are getting to my brain...
The gorgeous sky, perfect weather and amazing scenery. And you know, all my amazing friends too.
Even though the Dukes lost this weekend, I wanted to share a picture I manged to snap of a JMU touchdown at Homecoming. Say it with me folks "J-M-U DUUUUUUUUUUUKES"
I can't believe I haven't blogged since Geeky's wedding. I think I was very tired, from a very long weekend. Don't get me wrong; it was a blast, and I had a fantastic time but damn! Weddings are a lot of work, and require a lot of energy and I suppose I had some amount of "wedding hangover" and just spent a week trying to sit on my ass as much as possible.
As nervous as I was about my toast, it went better than I could have expected and I'm very glad I did it. And this makes two wedding toasts that I've done in which I've made the bride cry. Thats right, some of you may be surprised to hear Geeky has tear ducts - but she does and even if Mr. Geeky didn't make her shed a single tear, I did. I got high-fives from the other bridesmaid's husband because he has know Geeky for years and never ever seen her cry and didn't think it was possible. You may be wondering what my first toast was that I got tears from the bride for - that would be when I was best man for my ex-boyfriend. I'll just let you digest that and we'll discuss some other time. In the meantime - evidence Geeky cried, I don't care what she tells me it was, she cried dammit!
P.S. If any of you want to see my pictures from the wedding just leave me a comment or send me an email and I'll make sure its okay with Geeky to share them with you.
Did I say I would miss my baby sister as she went off to college? I definitely spoke too soon. My dearest sister called me at 2:43am on Sunday morning to ask me whether or not she should call her boyfriend and tell him that some dude at a party she was at was hitting on her. I was so half-asleep I think I ACTUALLY LISTENED to her whole story and then said, as indignantly as I could muster during that state of awakeness "NO!"
The amazing part: she sighed with relief and said "Oh. Okay!" I honestly expected this to turn into a 45 minute debate about WHY I didn't think that her idea was clearly pure brillance, but she just accepted my answer and hung up the phone and I got to go back to sleep without saying the word "fuck."
My baby sister leaves for college this week. Thats just insane to me. I mean, I remember when I hated her because she followed me everywhere imitating everything that I did, and now she's going to abandon me all by myself without anyone to hang out with and get family gossip from? It makes me think back to my freshman year of college which seems like it was very recent - and then I realize that it was, in fact 7 years ago. When the hell did that happen?
I am excited for my sister's freshman year, because I remember what my freshman year was like. It was full of excitement, independence, a very very small bedroom, eating salads on the floor of said small bedroom in the middle of the day. I remember trying to figure out what the hell was "normal" attire for Virginia, because no one ever wore sweaters for some reason and thats all I had in my closet. I remember the stupid "icebreakers" games they had us play in our freshman classes that we never played again. They treated the freshmen with such frailty. Never again are you given such consideration to make sure your life circumstances are good, happy, healthy and prosperous.
I also remember the heartbreak of freshman year, and that random dude who wouldn't leave our room and instead hung out to watch THE FOG until some ungodly hour. I remember our friend Angela climbing the tree outside our room and trying to climb in the window, getting yelled at for walking on the tables in D-Hall, and wandering aimlessly around campus sticking gummy bears on the football office walls at 2am. I hope my sister has all of these experiences, even the bad ones. I am hopeful that I will be able to relive freshman year vicariously through her because as awful as some moments were - I loved every second of it and wished I could do it over and over again.
Ahhh - the sweet, sweet smell of home. I was away this weekend visiting that best friend of mine who is getting married to throw her bachelorette party. It was just the bridemaids and it was SUPPOSED to be pretty low-key. We were SUPPOSED to just cook her a fancy dinner and relax and watch movies. Of course, this is not at all what happened. We had her pick from a menu that we disguised by making it very naughty. For example, the main course was "Italian Orgy." Who doesn't want an Italian Orgy for dinner?. It really is lasgna. Which is almost as good. We ate a lot of cheese - baked brie in puff pastry, caprese salad, lasagna, and chocolate mousse for dessert. And of course we liquored her up, and made her try on all the naughty lingerie we bought her for us, and talked about all the things roomates talk about. Mostly boys.
The best part is that all of our significant others kept telling us to take picures of the event for them, because they were convinced our "sophisticated" all-girl sleepover would eventually result in a pillowfight in our panties. There wasn't a pillowfight, but I did see a lot of panties, and I was definitely groped on at least four occassions. All in all, I would say it was a good weekend. And yes, there are pictures. And no, I'm not sharing. Unless asked nicely...
