So after making a fuss about coming back to this blog after neglecting it for so long, i then proceeded to forget about it for over a month. school has just been consuming my time recently, but in an effort to make up for it, here's a very abbreviated summary. cliff notes style.
- spring break was amazing and fun and sunny and full of good food and dancing and drunken sun bathing and the ocean and even a boy, for a brief blink of an eye
- coming back to school after being in lovely warm florida was awful. it was cold and there was work to do and sleeping became a much sought after luxury that i rarely indulged in.
- so many projects! i had a ton of midterms before break and then it seemed like the second i got back i had round two, but it was even more irritating because they were all like rough drafts or preparatory exercises or early versions of FINAL projects. please please please tell me why it's necessary to turn in an annotated bibliography, an outline with topic sentences, a rough draft, or a detailed plan of a final project which will not be due until mid May? Am i in seventh grade? NO. Do i know how to write a research paper? YES. do i need my TA to make me turn part of it in in MARCH or APRIL so i can get their worthless feedback on something i still have over a month to work on? NOOOOOO.
- passover! went to ohio for the first couple of days, saw my aunt and uncle, first cousins, parents, other aunt, and my dear old grandpa. it was pretty fun even though my aunt and uncle live in a small town in central ohio that is pretty boring, to put it nicely, spoiled city girl that i am. Lots of cooking, eating, synagogue, and seders! (and wine)
food highlights:
- radish salad: grated radishes, tahini, lemon juice, lemon zest, fresh parsley
- charoset: my favorite passover thing!
- lemon curd with dessert sooooo delicious
- potatoes, always so good. dependable and versatile, like a good pair of pants.
- BORSCHT! yeah baby. summer borscht. cold, lemony, beety, beautiful.
- my aunt's potato leek soup! creamy and wonderful.
- kishke! a very yiddishy thing which is hard to explain but it's like jewish stuffing and it reminds me of my grandma.
- lots of food memories and recipes of my grandma's, bringing her to the seder with us even though she's not here anymore. here's to you, grandma ruth!
- plenty of partying and drunken antics. including Smcinty's birthday smash! we threw a rubik's cube party in our house, it was highly entertaining and ridiculous. i ended up in all boy's clothes and B ended up in a pair of S's tiny short shorts (hilarious) and A ended up not wearing any pants and S was very very orange! crazinesssss.
- it really just hit me that there are only two more weeks of classes left. Two more weeks of school, possibly ever? My plan is to work for a year or so and then go to school for design, but if that doesn't end up happening, this could be my last educational experience ever! INSANITY. Also, I really don't want to graduate or leave Hopkins. These four years really have been the most amazing, fun, ridiculous, challenging at times, but rewarding years. I really know who I am now, which is not something I could have said four years ago as a freshman, or even as a junior. I don't want it to end!
