What's up? I love having Fridays off.  It really gives me the opportunity to be lazy for a day, and then have the weekend to get hw done.  Today I went to a communications internship fair which was productive, then went grocery shopping (which was productive AND necessary) and worked my butt off @ the gym. Yay! Oh, I also did two loads of laundry and cleaned up my room. I am f-ing amazing. Way to work a Friday and make it worthwhile.

I wasn't feeling the Jewishness tonight, so we didn't go to Hillel, but tonight is a party for our friend Jason who is going on ESPN's reality show Dreamjob (Tuesday night peeps!).  The winner gets a job with ESPN...Howww amazing! So though I didn't hit up Hillel, I'll see all my kids tonight at the fiesta.

I have MAD amounts of reading to do, so I think I may isolate myself in the library tomorrow and get it done.  Chances are, though, I'll end up reading in my room, on my bed.  Much more comfy.

Last night, Lizzie and I watched PCU...I have been sooo anti going-out lately...I know I shouldn't be this way,  but I'm such a homebody now.  I like chilling at home, in pjs...I don't like the effort of having to get ready and look cute, plus I've been really tired lately.  Too bad I'm at the most alcoholic campus on the planet and nobody feels the same way.

I haven't updated in FOREVER.....around a month, exactly...but now I'm back at school and will get back into the groove.  This year, SENIOR year (ahh), I'm living in an off campus apartment w. my loves Nicole & Lizzie B (a sorority sister of mine).  The apartment is about a two minute walk (literally) to my sorority house where I have a meal plan this semester (4 dinners, plus one free meal)...However, I'll prob be going a little more than that calls for.  For lunches not at the house, I usually make turkey salads and heat up some vegetable soup or make Smart Ones microwavable meals.

I've been on a real health/exercise kick since I've been back.  Annoyingly so..I've been watching what I eat pretty carefully  (with the occasional deviation, but that is rare)and working out almost daily..plus I'm taking a dance aerobics class twice a week, and she's kinda Nazi about it..Sweet, I want a HOT bod by the end of this semester...I just want to develop life-long habits and maybe (ok, ok, DEFINITELY) lose a few pounds while I'm at it

Let's see...The party scene has been lame.  Been to a couple stupid house parties. Been to the bars twice. I hate the specific bar so maybe that's why I feel the bar scene sucked. Went to our fav Jew frat party Friday.  It's soo sad..We've grown up so much.  When we were freshmen and sophomores, we LIVED for those parties. It was so cool to have all the older bros paying attention to us..now we're seniors, everyone is younger, and frat parties are so freaking lame, even if you're friends with the brothers (more on that in a sec).  It's just a lot of freshmen girls getting drunk and acting like sluts.  Haha, maybe that's why we liked it freshmen year.  And, I feel like a lot of our friends in the house have since graduated or that things are just like a little different since London.  Also, of course things have been weird with one of my friends.  As of right now, we've been here about two weeks, and I just feel like our friendship is going down the drain. Not that we were ever like BFF or even super close, but whatever weird relationship we had, I just think it's slowly diminishing.  We seem to have nothing in common anymore and nothing to talk about.  I used to think we were SOO similar; now I think we are headed in completely opposite directions and are in really different places in life. I'll keep you updated..I shouldn't even be sad about it, based on the up and down history...it's just different and it's change and it is a little sad to me, to tell you the truth.

Besides that, it's good to see my bestests that didn't go abroad with us.  Some things don't change, and those amazing relationships haven't. It's nice to pick up where we left off! The other night a bunch of us went to the mall for some eats @ American Cafe (delicious salad with chicken, strawberries & walnuts--such a J meal!), and then we went to see Garden State. It was sooo fun to reconnect.  We also spent one night playing poker and gossiping at the boys' house, and another night activity was spent watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory on the quad.  Of course my delinquents brought alcy! I still have been anti-alcy for the most part...I could care less if anybody else drinks it, I just haven't wanted it for myself.  We'll see if I break down and get drunk.  Not really counting on it, though.  In the past 9 months, I've probably been drunk twice.  Haha, I'm a loser!

Of course, things are also different because of stuff going on at home....However, let's just say everything will be ok..you just gotta fight and stay strong!

It's been a hard week. My grandmother died on Sunday after a lonnnnnnng battle.  It's been really tough on my Dad because he's been flying back and forth from Denver to Massachusetts for the past few months.

Anyways, I'm doing fine, as I knew she was sick and she was 86 years old and lead a fulfilling life, so I'm really at peace with it.  The funeral itself was tough, but besides that, this death hasn't been as hard as my grandfather's last year's. (This wasn't his wife who died..). Perhaps our relationships were different, perhaps now I know what it's like to lose a grandparent, perhaps I've grown up, perhaps I'm stronger emotionally. Who knows? Anyways, I know her memory will live on because she was a wonderful person.  Rest in peace.

I had a great weekend. Friday night, I met up with Nicole & David for dinner. We went to Cucina de Pesce and I had a scrumptious chicken marsala dish.  Then later that night, Nicole and I went to Melissa's 21st at Second Nature. Her parents rented out a room in the lounge and filled it with appetizers, carrots and dip, peanuts.  Needless to say, I munched the whole evening and probably gained back the couple pounds I had dropped! (Oh well, I'll lose the weight when I get back to Colorado).

Saturday, we woke up and went to brunch, our favorite meal in the whole world! We went to this amazingly good cheapy place: Around The Clock. Eggs, toast, and hash browns for under 4 bucks. (I decided not to have a healthy weekend as I splurged the night before..so why not continue?!) Nicole and I went to the Met and had a really fun afternoon looking at the art. Nicole is like my museum partner anyways considering we went to a billion in Europe (or so it seems).  We spent the afternoon gazing at Van Gogh and Degas and Monet masterpieces.  Really cool to think that we've seen a lot of this work in museums in Paris, London, and Amsterdam. We rock. 

Saturday night I went out with Matt and Su.  We went to this place Jezebel for dinner. It's like REALLY nice, classy soul food. The decor is really funky, and all the waiters are these striking hot black men in tuxedos. They give out cornbread muffins instead of bread.  I had grilled salmon (rather than BBQ) salmon with mashed potatoes and string beans.  Besides the corn bread and the mashed potatoes, it was a healthy meal! Then we went to see Sly Flox, a show on Broadway starring Richard Dreyfuss. Elizabeth Berkeley (Jessie) from Saved BTBell was in it too. SOOO good! Then we went to this famous lounge on the Lower East Side called the Lansky Lounge.  Meyer Lansky was a famous Jewish gangster who was big during Prohibition. We had drinks.

Sunday, I met up with Nicole and we went to see Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway. SO good, but I was SO sad that since it was a Sunday matinee Joey Fatone wasn't performing. However, the guy who was his understudy was amazing. All for now.