"Then it's time to go and you find your destination

 with so many different places to call home"

- Death Cab For Cutie, You Are A Tourist

Join something, get a job or go out and meet people. and not OUT like to the bar- drunk goggles are real. Run every day (or the days it's not raining). Draw everything. Write it all down, they all might be at work or in school but things are still happening so if you are bursting to tell someone, tell yourself. Listen to good music, live music, any music. Smile, at the little girl with the wand and the burger king crown, at the Dads playing with their baby, at the couple being cute on their run. No wait, vomit at that couple...no don't. No jealousy. Take risks and don't let stupid little things get you down. When it comes down to it you just have to do your own thing and have fun, others will join in if they want to. But if not, c'est la vie!

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. So be where you are and make that person a good one. 

My first write up for my internship is on the website!

A Dog's Life - Where to get your pet supplies without leaving town | My Secret Boston

What's a Mint Julep?

I'm currently nursing a very big cup of coffee along side a big cup of water. 

Coffee to keep me up, last night was the Derby party for Sara's work. So much fun. 

Water to prepare me for Hip Hop Yoga tonight with Liz.

Yes you read that right, Hip Hop Yoga. We will be "ommming" to the musical stylings of Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas.  Equal parts excited and terrified.  I've gone to yoga classes and tivoed enough INHALE to be decently confident in my ability to downward/upward dog with the rest of them. However I've also gotten stuck in a yoga position and had to have Mom help me out.

This will be interesting for damn sure.

My standard form of exercise is running along the Charles. The beautiful, wonderful Charles. . . 

Yesterday I found myself in the Financial District looking for a place I was writing about for my internship.
(Related: Got feedback on my first piece, it was well received and will be on the website soon!)
((Also related: Next week I get to go to a restaurant and try some of their signature meals!))


Cannot be so close to the Wharf on a sunny day and not wander around.

On the T ride home there was what felt like hundreds of 8th graders. I was silently praying they would not be taking the same T as me, but alas no such luck.

 Too funny and awkward watching them for 6 stops. Painfully awkward actually, I had that secondhand embarrassment where you know you've been in that exact same position and you want it to stop so bad.

 (Looking at you girl who changed seats to sit next to the boy with the purple sunglasses).

Off to the races!

Liz and I met Sara in the North End for some pre-Kentucky-Derby-Work-Party beers. 

That T ride wasn't awkward at all (dripping in sarcasm). Everyone is in their casual clothes or some kind of Celtics gear and there's Liz and Brig, dressed for a party. Thankfully the hats were in a bag, because mine was definitely big enough to knock a couple people out.

The party was at the Seaport World Trade Center.  The place itself was gorgeous and the views of Boston were unreal.  It was fun putting faces to the names we hear in Sara's stories. 

Pictures that will give some hint as to the atmosphere we were in last evening...

Lists

This picture has nothing to do with anything. I just like it.

Cosmo interviewed Max Greenfield, who plays Schmidt on New Girl. Casually looking through the interview and I see this...


Q: Jess, Schmidt's roommate, is super quirky and girlie. What is some stuff women do that guys don't get?


A: I'll tell you right now what it is. Lists. All you guys want to do is make lists of things to do.


Now personally I think he should have just been honest and said guys don't get anything girls do. That said, the lists things is SPOT ON. At least for me. Lists that usually start with "#1. wake up", which I have been mocked for. I can't help it though, I like the outline.

.....

To Do, Today June 6th
1. Clean up around the apartment
2. Pilates or go for a run
3. Shower
4. Look over application and turn it in
5. Go to the places you need to write about for MSB


...See I am aware that all of that is stuff I was definitely going to do today anyways.
In fact I'm cheating because I already did clean up around the apartment. But I just like getting it all down anyway.

Here's a list thats subject to change.

This Summer..

1. Get a job. Seriously.

2. Go to the MFA when it's free on Wednesday and draw

3. Run, run, run. Hartford Half in October

4. Take pictures everyday. Draw everyday.

5. Read more.

6. Don't forget that sometime July you have an online summer class

7. Kick ass at internship

8. Go to Yankees v. Red Sox

That list could continue for the entire summer so I might as well just chop it off there. Eventually it'll be a list of things I did do this summer which is always fun. When we were younger, Emily and I would make predictions. Obviously it was mostly about boys and always super hopeful. However we quit that game when we realized our "predictions" were coming true in all the worst versions of themselves. 

Things have been good this week. Feeling positive about one job (fingers crossed that I didn't just jinx it) and tomorrow we're attending a Kentucky Derby themed party for Sara's work! Last night we were all casually sitting around on our computers in our big hats. I guess we're all a little excited.