Missing AJH

so many of you are beginning to make the long journey home for turkey day!!!  for the first year in 5 years i am staying put!  I am tres sad about this because this is also the first year in a few that i will not be picking AJH up from UD and transporting her home. 

our trips home in summary:
it was my senior year at the most amazing place on earth and her (ajh) freshman year and she stayed up all night on tuesday crying with her roommates becuase it would be the first time that year they would be separated.

FAST FORWARD ONE YEAR: i arrive at UD to pick AJH up and she is a wee bit hungover and smells like stale bar, she also made me stop at 4 exits looking for panda express because it was the only thing to cure her illness (irish flu).  We ended up getting a feast at Wendy's (they gave us the wrong order and our order!!- it was karma for paying for the cars behind us on the toll-way!)

I will miss her this year as she is not coming home.  perhaps i will have an extra gimlet or 3 for her!

to defriend or not to defriend?

today one of my good college friends posted this interesting link on twitter.  it really makes you think.

i must admit i am an avid defriender and feel no shame in the act; however, the only people i am defriending are not actual friends.  (this sounds defensive i know).  do you really need to be friends with that girl on your freshman hall that you did not talk to but once on the first day of college because she transferred at winter break???  or how about that kid from chemistry 101 who friended everyone in the 300 person lecture?

I also defriend (on accident) a lot of sorority sisters who got married without my knowledge.  oops!

But it goes both ways.  after college ended, i was defriened by a friend of a good friend.  (is the word friend starting to look funny to you too?)  my friend was very hurt by the defriend and i was upset i would no longer be able to follow what this person was doing as we went our separate ways.  this defriend was done maliciously and i think was a bad move.

personally, i like to reduce the amount of access a distant friend has to my information using the privacy features.  that boy you had a great time with at the ZBZ/Gama Psi/Kappa Tau/Omega Chi 4-way (enjoy the greek reference) really does not need to or care to see all the pictures from your family vacation or your cousins wedding, and he probably wont be looking for them, that girl in your pledge class will be!

please read the CNN article yourself and let us know what you think!!!

tour de oxford

For Those of you who did not get to spend 4 (or more) GLORIOUS years at MIAMI.

as Robert Frost put it "The prettiest campus that ever was"King Library where i spent many hours but i never road a bike.

Upham Arch and alex marie. (if you kiss your lover under the arch at midnight you are denstined to become a MIAMI merger

Close up (also i spent alot of time here b.c it used to be the business school before they bulit a new one)

MLF and his house mates. so handsome!

MLF walking in to graduation (i got great seats!)

I am so J. they got to wear red so much better than black, but i guess they are the bicentinnel class.

Also, off my check list Alex Maire, JC and I accomplished skippers, lunch boxes at Steinkellers (no fries tho), fiesta chara, 3 mind probes (no mongolians but thats ok), 1 bloody mary, lots of beers, and FUN TIMES!!!

Gossip Girl Tuesday

in honor of our college tradition, wine tuesday. when alex and i would polish off a liter and half of sauvignon blanc and either a dish of bufflo chicken dip or taco dip and watch tv. (its ok it was college and totall acceptable to do things like that, see we have stoped since graduation, and i have lost those unwanted lbs) as well we have decided to devote tuesday to gossip girl.


the obsession continues