a photo a day

visit to the natural history museum today!  people at the museum today: me, my friend justin, and 10,000 elementary school students.  hilarious.  at least i could see over their heads.

the african animals and the dinosaurs were my favorite exhibits!

a photo a day

rainy sunday.  it's also 4 days until i move, so it's time to make some weird meals with what's in my fridge and pantry.

today's lunch: falafel (frozen, from trader joe's - really good) with broccolini (in the steamer/rice cooker, which is my favorite kitchen appliance), sweet potato, salsa, cheese, and sunflower seeds, all wrapped up in a flour tortilla.  this meal is actually looking pretty good.

a photo a day

Three of my non-grad school New York friends threw me a going away dinner last night, complete with this cake (!!!). We were friends when I arrived and have become even better friends over the course of this year. I will miss them lots and lots.  Sigh. Goodbyes are lame.  (But this cake is awesome.)

a photo a day

brooklyn bridge walk - yes, that's twice this week, but with different groups of friends.  this time was with friends from my cohort as we enjoy our last days together.  gorgeous day for it, too - spring is finally here!

(that's lower manhattan behind us, with one world trade center on the right - they put the spire on top so it's now at its full 1,776 feet!)

brooklyn bridge + grimaldi's

on tuesday talia helped me check another thing off my new york city list: walking across the brooklyn bridge as the sun goes down...

...and eating dinner at grimaldi's, a pizza place sort of under the brooklyn bridge that is famous and delicious.  becky took me here when i visited her once, so i had been before, and the pizza was as good as i remembered it.  actual conversation between me and talia when our large pizza arrived:

me: "that's a lot of pizza!"
talia: "don't you think we'll eat it all?"
me, without pausing: "yep!"

and we did.  YUM.

a photo a day

countdown to graduation: 6 days.  i got my robe today.  things just got real.

some thoughts:
1. yes, i will be wearing a carolina blue robe, and yes this seems traitorous.  however, i have been comforted to learn that UNC's official colors are white and "columbia blue," so ha!  we see who used this color first.
2. have you ever seen a more pretentious graduation robe??  seriously.  it's not black AND it has fancy badges on it?  i am both embarrassed by this robe and totally excited to wear it and be an ivy league graduate.  hooray!

"The Summer Day"
by Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

a photo a day

Peeking through the fence...

what i'm listening to right now

"holding a heart," by toby lightman:


(doesn't this song sound like it belongs on grey's anatomy?)