season 5

so second semester freshman year (season 2) my friends and i decided that we lead fascinating lives and should be offered a reality show by MTV or VH1 or some cool network. This is a crazy idea and will NEVER happen...but we liked to refer to our semesters as seasons for the reality show that was in our heads.  

well now we're saying goodbye to season 5 and it seems like we were saying goodbye to LC on the hills and welcoming Whitney on the City. (yeah i went there...i just made a Laguna Beach spin off analogy). we've introduced new characters to our lives, said goodbye to some old ones who started their own reality show, and we've even lost pounds/gained pounds and lost some color in our skin.  

this season has been...interesting to say the least. i, myself, have gone to JMU twice (when i'd never been before in the other seasons), VT on a whim once, had friends come visit, and spent wayyyy too much money on gas...and alcohol. oh and i'm not a teenager anymore! go me! (:

every wednesday there have been "humpday" parties that are themed and of course i got dressed up like a fool for every single one of them. however, i did some great PR for season 7 (can't wait) . i'm predicting that christmas break will be a good season ender and a good season 6 beginner. 

hopeful predictions for season 6 include:

1. quadfest

2. baseball games

3. tanlines (cute ones)

4. settle down? (probably not)

5. internship

finally i feel productive

monday: wake up, go to class, go to lunch, class, class, LIBRARY, dinner, gym, LIBRARY, sleep

tuesday: wake up, gym, LIBRARY, class, LIBRARY, meeting, LIBRARY, meeting, dinner, sleep

wednesday: wake up, meeting, turn in paper, present for 30 min, lunch, class, class, meeting, LIBRARY

thursday: wake up, class

friday: wake up, class, lunch, class, class, DRINKKKSSSS

what is wrong with me? i see this schedule and i cringe at the amount of time i spent in the library. in total i probably spent about 20 hours last week in the library (it felt like more and might have actually been less). a friend of mine would text me and ask what i was doing numerous times that week and every response was "in the library doing some work"

there is nothing wrong with this because it is college, isn't it? students should have 4 places of residence: dorm (or off campus house/apartment), classroom, library, and frat house. why did it seem like i was the only one in the library every time??? i guess i'm just not used to longwood high school giving me so much work in one week. 

weekend was good. nothing to spectacular (other than the amount of sleep and relaxation i got). though i did watch seasons 4-6 of That 70s Show all weekend. thank you stephanie!!! (:

promise me you'll stop in to see an old friend

so i'm not really sure why this is coming up blue and underlined but it doesn't matter. i'm not trying to impress you with my font color, size, or style. 

so i went home last weekend. yeah, its been a while since i've spent a weekend at longwood or our brother school...hampden-sydney. but oh well. i went home and realized how much i missed certain things. not just things dealing with home but a lot of things. and not just my family because i can call my mom everyday or more than once a day and she'll never tell me how annoyed she is with me for doing this. i miss cox 234 (not the room itself but the memories that we had there and the things that i left there). i miss north cunninghams and our random spontaneous trips, simply because mandy had a car and we didn't have to ask our parents.  i miss talking to someone everyday all day about absolutely nothing and him not caring. i miss having something to do every night of the week. even if it meant watching madden, dance parties on the hall, or water fights for no particular reason.  i miss slug goo, sewage holes, having money, crushing on your best friend, proms, football games, and most importantly i miss a couple monarchs, a captain, and a hokie. (: 

But she wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts

jmu this past weekend...what an adventure.
i've decided that no matter where you go or who you meet; if there are a group of guys around taylor swift will be played and sung very badly at the top of everyone's lungs.

i stayed with two of my guy friends from home and one of their friends from school this past weekend. i got there around 5:30pm sat in the bookstore parking lot and called will about 8 times before he finally picked up and came and got me.

my apartment at Longwood is very "homey" we have pillows and curtains and our rooms are nicely decorated...will's apartment has furniture that the school provided and a giant mess in each of the rooms. no decorations (besides the half naked girl in their kitchen and homemade beer pong rules on the wall). guys are different and we have to live with it girls.

i got to see a lot of friends from home this weekend which was great! made some new friends b/c there wasn't anyone there that i knew and i didn't want to follow my home friends around the whole weekend. i referred to the strangers as people they looked like from farmville and they fought me on it for a while until they decided i was only there for a couple nights and that i was awesome and they probably didn't want to upset me. (:

all in all it was a good weekend.

why does everyone have a twin???

So...this blog only somewhat has to do with twins but i'll get to that later. 

The start of the semester has been pretty good so far. I've made new friends, lost some old ones, moved into a not-so-big-girl-apartment and planned some kick ass trips.  

Everyone seems to be turning 21 in the year of 2009 besides Raquel and I...which i've decided I'm ok with. There is 5.6 calories in one table spoon of whipped cream and there are 96 shot recipes that call for whipped cream. That means (not to get all math nerd on you) that if I lasted through half of the 96 shots with whipped cream on my 21st birthday I will have consumed 268.8 calories JUST in whipped cream. That doesn't include the cases of beer I will consume that weekend, the mixed drinks my friends will buy me, and the other shooters that I will take that day...oh and the hours I will spend in the gym for the rest of my life. Not to be cynical or anything...it just helps me get over the fact that everyone is turning 21 and i'm still 19. 

Ok so to explain the twin thing; the first week of school I took a different route from the landings to CSTAC (the new communication studies building) each time I found myself walking towards one of my friends. Whether its Megan look-a-like, Raquel's funnier twin (I only say this because you yourself said it first), Michele's look-a-like (who ironically is named Michelle), or the numerous ginger chunks we see around campus I seem to find them and in the early delusional morning force myself not to wave at them. So I pose this question...why don't I have a twin? Maybe next semester someone will send me a text saying "definitely just saw your twin" or "there is another Erin bopping around Longwood" or something along those lines. 

JMU this weekend!! 

Ice cream paint job?

so as i've mentioned before in my last blog post...7 years ago. i've had a very good summer. i've done some things that i never thought i'd get off of my ass and do.

i've been working and spending money a lot...oops :/ but last week the owners of the restaurant i work at decided to go on a cruise and close down for a week. a week that i thought would consist of me sleeping till noon, eating all day, partying all night and doing it all over agian was replaced with not one but two beach trips and a trip to charlottesville to repel down a 100ft mountain (which also meant we hiked, swam in a spring with frogs, got eaten by bugs, and killed every muscle in my body). it was a great week. i didn't get to sleep in one day that week but it was worth it.

however, with every good thing comes something bad. my parents are a little livid with me at the moment because according to them i'm only home one hour a week (LIES!!!) so me, being the stubborn person that i am, have not talked to them since monday and probably won't talk much to them for a week or so. i go into work every night when they get off work and i leave bright and early saturday morning for myrtle beach to babysit. sorry parents but i guess you picked the worst week to be super pissed at me and try to make up ): guess we'll try again when i come back!

hey are we dead yet?

so...the summer is still GRRREAT (as tony the tiger would say). there have been a few mishaps though. to start off i will say all of the things that amanda and myself have done without causing trouble (surprisingly).
1. amanda lives in norfolk (nuff said).
2. i've been living in the big city of franklin my whole life
3. i was in baltimore after the orioles won...walking down dark allies and scenes of gun shots
4. we've driven past gang initiation sightings

there is a lot that could have gone wrong in these four scenarios...yet didn't. amanda and i tend to find more trouble being just the two of us then when we do dangerous things with a group (coincidence? i think not. amanda is bad luck...she will disagree if asked but just go with me on this one)

last night we innocently went to wal-mart (the town "hot spot") for paper and a movie. on our way out we were approached by a man at a red light. had it been 12 hours earlier and the man didn't smell of liquor things would have been great and we probably would have sat down for coffee with him at the local huddle house. HOWEVER...he was creepy and recently released from prison (where we don't know what he did but were assured it was not rape). he asked for a smoke, a handshake, money, and a kiss on the "jaw" and after 3 yes's we had to downright refuse the last request. how does this happen? well when a person is in prison for however many years and their only prayer is that they will meet two white women at a stoplight...god answers prayers. thanks god. (not to be sacreligious or anything...but c'mon)

anyways...beach trips have been great. more to come. work sucks. sun is amazing. i passed out the other day...that was exciting. (:

oh and i'm still alive...clearly.

ahh summer

so on april 31 i traveled the 2 hours of flat, grassy, non congested road that took me home. its been a little over a week and i'm not bored of home (which is a great sign considering i'm an hour away from a mall/movie theater/anything that will truely waste my summer money).

i went to baltimore last weekend with courtney for the orioles vs. yankees game. it was great. i finally felt like a grown up (like college and being on my own didn't really do that). we drove up without a parent (which in all the previos trips to baltimore we've had an "adult" with us), we had our own hotel room, we drank beer, we walked around baltimore looking for things to do, and didn't have to answer to anyone. it was amazing.

this weekend i'll be heading to the beach (if my father approves of the trip). i'll be leaving after i get off work tomorrow night at 11pm and taking yet another 2hour, nonparental trip to a more fun destination. it will be 3 days of complete "bro-ing" out as i will be with a lot of my guy friends. wish me luck!

ahh the great sounds of summer!! can't wait to see how the rest of my summer vacation will be! (:

girl talk?

So I, along with the majority of college students between Hampden-Sydney's campus and Longwood's campus, went to the Girl Talk/Funky Monks concert on Thursday (GREEK WEEK).

The atmosphere was to be expected: hundreds of already "feeling good" students, hundreds of I'm-going-to-stay-"feeling-good"-because-I'm-over-21 students, good music that everyone already knew, GLOW STICKS, and friends. I had the time of my life.

Now for those of you who do not know who Girl Talk is or who the Funky Monks are here you go:
Girl Talk = Gregg Gillis, a turn table, and thousands of unauthorized songs that he mixes together and creates a frenzy amongst college students. He's the guy that no one expected to be as HUGE as he is today.

The Funky Monks = Red Hot Chili Peppers's cover band...SUPER GOOD!!!

Anyways, this concert was great and Longwood's Spring Weekend will have to do a lot to top it....

ps...it rained and i never made it on my run to Hampden-Sydney. FAIL (;

death run...

I'm running to Hampden-Sydney today.

1. its a 6 mile run
2. i don't run
3. i hate running

why am i doing this? i'll get back to you on that one...

Beyonce's Destiny

as much as i loved destiny's child about ten years ago...what's going on with their lead singer these days?

i'm not a follower of beyonce knowles but i have listened to a few of her more recent annoying songs.

"If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man."

now, beyonce, we all know that if you were a boy you'd do a lot more things than understand and try to be a better man...not going to go into anymore details but i'm just saying, there are more things that you would do than that.

now here is a lyric from her song "single ladies (put a ring on it)"

"Up in the club, we just broke up
I'm doing my own little thing
You decided to dip but now you wanna trip"

now if you look at the picture to the right ----->
you will notice that beyonce and her hubby are very happy together and showing no signs of a "single lady" ------->

now i'm not here to rag on beyonce's love life or her choices to vacation at...i'm just saying that i'm a real single lady but i don't run around talking about my husband and how happy we are and how i'm so glad i'm not a single lady...lies beyonce...LIES.

i've become rather fond of the song "diva"...so far. so i will not talk about that one...yet.

i wanna go to college for the rest of my life...

so to stick with my original plan of writing about music i guess i'll get back on track. sorry about the last random post (just felt like writing about that)

well recently there has been a new song (is it new? or is it just new to me? who knows?) that basically depicts college perfectly (or at least semi-perfect). its called "i love college" by asher roth. here are some lyrics that really caught my eye:
"with my good friends is all i need
pass out at 3 wake up at 10
go out to eat then do it again"

no if you've done this raise your hand. and if you didn't raise your hand use the hand that you didn't raise and smack yourself in the face for lying.

now if you have heard the song, it is not a perfect example of college (or longwood for that matter) but it is definitely a good representation of the fun weekends, crazy weekdays, and everything else that makes college fun and entertaining.

"i cant tell you what i learned from school
but i could tell you a story or two"

everything about this song just makes me think about how i'll never forget the crazy times that my friends and i have had on a friday night (whether it involves a party or not). i'll always remember the story of pavlov's dog and i'll never forget how to write a case study (thank you dr. rao) but i'll always come home for breaks and laugh my ass off at that one time i found my roommate dancing in an empty room to "hotel california" by the eagles and simply shaking my head as a response.

"do i really have to graduate
or can i just stay here for the rest of my life?"

i'm ready to move out into the real world; but am i ready to grow up? am i ready to wake up and simply remember that mound of paperwork i finished the night before? am i ready to leave the classroom experience and the nightlife that IS college? ....not now.

"man i love college"

why am i friends with these people?

so i spend a lot of my life wondering how i find the friends i find...and why i'm still friends with them. i've got two sets of friends (when i say two sets i really mean about 10). i've got the friends that i've ridden the bus with from age 4 to age 16, the friends that i was only friends with because they went to high school with me and now we go to college together (the not-so-real-friends as i like to call them), then i've got the friends that i eat at d-hall with, hang out in my room after d-hall with, hang out one hour after they've left my room and we've eaten yet again at d-hall with, and live at hampden-sydney with (after our homework, eating, and everything else you can do at longwood is over with).

talk about a complicated life i lead! i've miraculously met 4 girls from my hometown that i have everything in common with from the way we all wear glasses at night and contacts in the day to the way we've all become less conservative since high school. and then to add to this group i've met 3 girls at longwood that we've all got only one thing in common (the fact that a certain curry suite had a major influence on our freshman year) but has all managed to shape the way we act, think, date, and even drink. (; there is also a group of hampden-sydney gentlemen that loves to hang out with us...is it because we're girls or is it because they actually enjoy hanging out with us? i choose the second one...even if its wrong.

there are many other groups but its too complicated to blog about...and well i just don't feel like explaining it to people that don't know me or them.

but anyways i guess i'm friends with all of these people because they are the people that i've become accustomed to and who have become accustomed to me as well. i'm not sure how things happen but they do. about once a month (yes this is how often we discuss this) my college friends and i discuss how we all met and how fucked up it is that we owe our BFF status to boys that we unfortunately still talk to.

is it the stars, luck, destiny, alcohol, or longwood's housing systems that bring my friends and i together? who knows. but for now whatever has brought me to my 10 groups of friends is working and i'm content. (;

Epic Music Fail

Well, as I was decideing what to write about in this blog, several ideas came to mind: Rihanna and Chris Brown (WHAT WAS HE THINKING!!!??), diversity amongst communication studies majors, Hampden-Sydney boys vs. Longwood boys, etc... All of these ideas are things that are interesting, but not something I wanted to use for my first blog post.
How often do you go to college and find a roommate that fits your personality to a T? Well it definitely didn't happen to me my first semester. However, i did find a good one for my second year in college. She's great and she has a great personality. BUT she loves country music!!!
I'm not sure how to stress this to the true effect that it is but I do not love country music.
Faith Hill's sappy love songs, Brad Paisley's redneck adventures on a river, and Taylor Swift's strange ability to turn a tragedy about "two star-crossed lovers" into her own life does not make me want to listen to country music all day...or any part of the day for that matter.
Maybe it's because I'm from the place where people actually believe that Romeo and Juliet ends happily and that the best thing to do on a Sunday afternoon is floating on a river drinking endless amounts of Bud Light, but I have never grasped the concept of how this could make someone happy, relaxed, or even intelligent.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not the girl who sits and listens to Bach and Beethoven all day but that is just my thoughts on country music. Tom Petty, Elton John, Coldplay, and yes, even Britney Spears and Lil' Wayne make me happy. These people have upbeat, relazing, and fun lyrics that make me want to have a good day.
Well this is my first blog post on my rant of how I feel that country music is an epic fail. (: