Tonite I did the Hoedown Throwdown with Sue in the presence of Miley Cyrus.

My life is almost complete [still waiting for the whole “McFly tours America” bit].

Seriously the concert was AMAZING! Sure, we were surrounded by 7 year-olds [one of which kept giving me MAJOR side-eye] but I had the best time I ever. I’m SO excited I got to go with Susan and Fabi because besides Kaity and Natalie, there is no one else who loves Miley as much as me.

Nothing will top Susan screaming “OH M GOD” over and over and over again and pretty much hyperventilating when the lights went down, or doing the Hoedown Throwdown with Miley, or singing “GNO” as loud as humanly possible, or acting like a total skank during “Party in the USA” [no shame].

Ian Bean

Me: None of the boys in New York like me.
Ian: Well that says to me that all the boys in New York are gay and don’t want to upset their boyfriends.

That made me giggle.

1AM can be such a lonely time.

Just got done watching Elizabethtown with Rachel. It is, hands down, in my top five favorite movies ever. Rach had never seen it before, I think she liked it.

But now I’m in my room. A is asleep. And I’m awake. With no one to talk to. And all I really wanna do right now is just talk to someone.

Bad Day Turned Good

Today affirms my thoughts that no matter how bad your day is, there’s always an opportunity to turn it around.

I didn’t have time to grab coffee before work this morning and it resulted in the WORST caffeine headache I have experienced in all 10+ years of my coffee addiction. Let’s just say there was a point in time where I was standing at my work table, thinking I was going to have to go into the bathroom and cry for 10 minutes just to get it out of my system. Even Mo noticed I wasn’t on my game today and he offered to let me go home early, but we were already short 1 person so I decided to stick it out.

It ended up being a really busy and stressful day at work, so it kind of sucked that I decided to stay, but I really do love my job and I hate leaving early. Plus there are always good parts of the day. Bee stopped by to give me my AP Fall Ball ticket and I just overall love her so that was awesome. And there’s always tons of hilarious moments at work that make the day go by faster, I just wasn’t feeling well at all and it really affected me.

However, Rachel and I decided to go out to dinner to Dojo and we had a fabulous time. She’s really my best girlfriend at my new school. I love her to pieces and we always have such a lovely time together. We had some delicious black bean burritos and just chatted about…everything. Then she accompanied me on a MUCH needed trip to Trader Joe’s.

I’ll skip the rant about how much I love Trader Joe’s, but I will say that I finally picked up some Chocolate Chip Meringues after Bee’s MANY posts on how amazing they are! I’ve never had a meringue and I’m not gonna lie…I think I’m in love [cue the Jessica Simpson song]. I’ve eaten like…5 already. No shame.

My head was still killing me, despite all the fun times I was having with Rach, so we cabbed it home. I didn’t even feel guilty about taking the cab because I had such a long day and I just wanted to be home and in my leggings and uggs, under my covers watching all the Teevz I missed last night.

Speaking of, I’m off to watch Fringe, The Office, Project Runway and Degrassi followed by a movie date with Rach to watch The Proposal. And I’m SO sleeping in tomorrow. BAM!

Today I laughed until I cried.

The Ladies of the Revolution table were all hanging out before Textiles, discussing our final projects. We had to make brochures about the fashion trends for Fall 2010. One of the girls told me she named her faux fur fabric “Fur-Ever”.

She also pronounced the “X” when she said the word “faux”.

Nerd Alert: I Love School Edition.

In my math class today we got a little off topic and started talking about school. Granted, I go to a fashion [BUSINESS I might add, but some people don’t “get” that] school and my college algebra class is at 8 AM, but I was still honestly shocked at what some people were saying.

Some girl was like “I hate school. No offense professor, it’s not just your class. I hate all of my classes.” Most of people in my class nodded their heads in agreement. Then my professor went on this rant about how he wishes he were still 8 and all he had to do was play and watch TV and not worry about bills and schoolwork and such.

But honestly? I love school. I love to learn. I love to read. I love to do homework. I love class discussions. I even love math. I don’t know what it is, but I get enjoyment out of being educated. Your education is the one thing people can never take away from you. The way that you think and form opinions and ideas, no one can ever take that from you. That’s why it’s so valuable to have an education.

I’m content learning just about anything. I may complain about Textiles or College Algebra, but I would never say that I hate it. I would never wish that I wasn’t in school right now. If I could go to school for the rest of my life, I think nothing would make me happier. I hope that when I get a job the company will pay for me to continue my education. I’d like to get a masters or a PHD someday. I’d at least like to take one or two classes the rest of my life if I could. Just to learn. Because I can.

I love reading too because you learn so many seemingly random things, but then one day something I read fits into my life and I feel so accomplished and so cool! That’s why I don’t regret going to NYU and originally pursuing other things. I learned so much there that I would otherwise never know. I learned about art, history, philosophy, biology, literature, journalism, politics, opera and ballets- you name it I probably learned something about it!

But the greatest thing about learning, is being able to have intelligent discussions with other people who have a similar knowledge about a topic as you. I think talking is just about the greatest thing in the world. I could talk [and many can attest to this] about nearly anything until I lose my voice. Nothing brings me more joy that being able to discuss a book, or an article I read recently or even just a television show. I just have this unexplainable love for communicating with people. Most of you probably know that just from reading my blog, without even having ever held a conversation with me.

One of my friends once told me that he thought he had lost his passion to learn. I couldn’t even fathom that thought. He said college had forced him to learn so much information that it had lost some of the appeal. But for me, even things that school “forces” me to learn, things that sometimes seem like I may NEVER use them, I still love absorbing it. It gives me a reason to use whatever I’ve learned, to find new ways to connect it to my life or other things that I learn.

My solution for him? I told him to go out of his way to look up one interesting fact every single day. It only takes seconds with Google and I said it could be about anything. I don’t think he ever did it, but periodically I would send emails and at the end I would write something interesting I had learned that day. I highly recommend this.

Even the most mundane facts can weave their way into your life in the most surprising ways. Once you become aware of something you begin to see it everywhere- it’s the most amazing thing! So yeah. I thought maybe a lot of people felt this way about learning, but I’m just beginning to realize some people really don’t enjoy it. So think of this as a little public service announcement [which I’m sure no one except maybe my Mom is still reading] to go learn something RIGHT NOW!