funday quote

As people are moving out...

and on to other things...

“what is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it’s the too huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. but we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

- jack kerouac

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good people

Today I had a [yet another] freakout.  not about my future. or what classes to take. or if i should join the lacrosse team.  but instead, I lost my wallet! It has my ids, credit cards, room key... pretty much my lifeline. I am leaving the country in a week too [well that's another freakout in and of itself]. Needless to say I felt more than nauseous.  I retraced my steps up and down Lumpkin (damn that hill) as the last time i remembered having it was walking out my door to go study downtown.  Then after a lovely lunch with the Thorpe's at Trapeze (the last place i took the family), I decided to relax and just proceed studying for my last finals.  That's when I got an email saying that someone turned in my wallet to the conference center/hotel.  So one more trek across campus and my wallet was back in my hands with absolutely nothing missing- not even the $20 bill!  My point is not to say how lucky I am to have it back (I would've died if it was actually gone), but rather to show that there are in fact good people out there looking out for us.

Share the love and good karma, my friends!

goodbyes

I returned to my room today from my exam to find a note on the door and an even emptier room.  My roommate left. completely up and left for the summer.  unfortunately, this is the only picture i have of the 2 of us:

from our Halloween trick-or-treaters
[this was her first Halloween and yes, that is a garter on her head]

Meanwhile, I am just enjoying my last few days as a freshman :( what a great year it's been!  And to think that this time last year, I was in my last days of high school filled with goodbye/senior activities... crazy!

h2o

So I walked in my room today to take notice to garbage bins filled with empty water bottles...  (and mind you, i did an entire term paper on americans' obsession with bottled water) UNBELIEVABLE

So it got me thinking more about water...

And I would sooooo love to join Liz Clark on her sailing voyage abroad Swell!!!! 

She is the shit! 

can you imagine waking up to this every morning?!!

horse boy

Last night, I finished up this post about the magic of horses and riding.  And then this morning, I woke up to a special on NPR about this story:

I'm adding both the book and movie to my never-ending list of to-do's!

egg hunt OAC

UGA has a new Outdoor Adventure Club! For a service project, our Friday was spent hosting an after easter easter egg hunt for children at the thomas lay after school program. what fun!

our kick-ass t-shirts

i wish the club great success!

funday quote

Because this weekend was Twilight weekend in Athens... and because today was Lauren's Run... I thought Lance Armstrong would be appropriate – stellar bicyclist and strong cancer survivor.  Go Lance!

"Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — whether health or a car or an old sense of self — has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers."  
–Lance Armstrong

this is from another year at lauren's run (nate is on the right in the navy shirt)