They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Aww!' "

It's weird to see a friendship reduced to "stuff"

When you thought we were done being friends you gave me back my stuff.  Who does that?  Why did it have to be instantaneous and so painful?

In the years of friendship that we've had you felt that by returning a few thing could mark "the end". How odd.

Anyways, stuff is working out now, I suppose.

What I've Learned From Orientation Pt. 2

1. Global warming is a "power-hold by the government to control industry", or something like that anyway
2. If a mom is trying to hook you up with her son you should probably be concerned. 
3. If a mom is trying to hook you up with her other son, the 25 year old med student, then you should be concerned.
4. Parent Orientation meals will be the death of me.
5. Writing a haiku about it will make everything better.
6. Coloring books  and crayons can solve almost anything, except a headache
7. Bacon guy and I have similar head band preferences.
8. I love my heels because my feet don't seem to hurt after wearing them.  Miracle shoes.
9. Painting my nails black now is fashionable.  In 8th/9th grade it just made me emo.
10. 5:30am is a horrible time to wake up, but 5:00am is even worse.

Here are some of the haikus we've written:

The omelette station

A dangerous place to be

Now my pants don't fit

Bacon is yummy

Bacon helps me meet new friends

Bacon is yummy

Here I sit, alone.

Why are none of the deans here?

This makes me anxious

Rachel is tiny

Parents call her "the intern"

She is more than that

Silver Eagle Suite

Why is this place so darn cold?

I need a jacket

Flash! A blur of green

The OL's guide the students

Such helpful people

"It was just bacon!"

Kimberly was defensive

We all know the truth

The presentations

Timeliness appreciated

Don't make me stop you.

13 hours days

I must really love my job

Sleep comes second now

As a reminder

Seven fifteen at Union

Khakis and grey shirts

My staff is the best

Rachel Rassmussen and team

I am proud of you

Thinking in haikus

I don't know if I can stop

I really need help

The Union is cold

Kimberly likes to cuddle

Where is bacon man?

Chris has a full glass

This glass is made up of sass

Go talk to parents

Exciting real talk

Parents ask the darnedest things

Please date my student

it is pouring rain

Are you freaking kidding me?!

Texas weather stinks

What's tuition draw?

Do I write my students name

I should keep reading

Cart 897

The breaks are a bit scary

So many flip flops

Session 3 began

We met a very strange man

Turkey or chicken?

Verde and Turkey

In Orientation? No.

But they love our girls.

Yesterday was rough

But today is looking up

Smiles all around.

Also,  got it confirmed that my dad actually interviewed with the CIA 3 or 4 times.  How cool is that?!  My dad is amazing. I wish I could have his life in a memoir to always read.  It is that cool.

What I've Learned from Orientation Pt.1

So this experience as a Parent Orientation Leader has been awesome, crazy, insane, yet still fun.

I'm going to be keeping a running log (in theory) of all the random things I've learned.

1. The temperature in a building can be "not only uncomfortable, but unhealthy"
2. Deodorant and undershirts just aren't enough
3. The open bar at our receptions is merely a pregaming the dorm socializing the parents will do
4. You can never have enough easels for signs
5. 1000 people can't fit in the fourth floor of the Union
6. The walk from the Coliseum to the Union isn't bad, until it's 100+ outside
7. Playfair is more fun when you've already done it once
8. Heels on the first day only, then crack out the tennis shoes
9. The only time where I will wake up at 5am, shower, leave home while it is still dark, get home after dark, shower, and sleep for 3.5-5.5 hours before doing it all over again
10. Parents are some of the greatest people ever.
11. Parents have some of the greatest stories and most honest questions
12. If there is a shuttle open, they will take it.  If there is not a shuttle open, they will vocalize their need for one.
13. Always have shuttles
14. Our new stadium is beyond awesome. I'M SO PUMPED
15. I am considering going Greek
16. Just because you burn a piece of paper doesn't make the change official; it's just the right steps in the right direction.
17. Parents love to talk about their kids
18. The poetry my coworkers can write would blow most people away.
19. I work with Harry Potter fanatics, and I love it.
20. First impressions can be wrong, so can second or third
21. Sometimes we all just need to take a moment
22. Always wear your hair up, or at least have bobby pins with you, along with chapstick
23. The farmers tans from the Orientation shirts will sneak up on you if you aren't careful.
24. Parents will go wherever you direct them, students? not so much
25. You're not nervous; you're anxious
26. The fight song is forever stuck in my head.
27. The vegetarian lasagna is where it is at.  I kid you not, soo good.
28. The cheesecake bites and lemon bars could be fatal to my plan to stay in shape.
29. Orientation stresses me out so badly, I actually almost want sleep.
30. I need to buy some green TOMS or converse...

Why breaks aren't good for people like me

Okay
We are starting our second (third?) week of summer break and I am already a hot mess.

Today:  Went to bed at 4am, woke up at 10.
It is now almost 2 o'clock and all I have done today is dance around to the new Gaga album (paws up everyone!) in my underwear (Can I call that working out?) and put on some mascara.
Unless of course we are counting the insane amount of blogging/tumbling I've been doing.  Seriously,  I've joined the tumblr world (about time, right?).  It is addicting.  Like I need another reason to stay up 'til all hours of the night.

If I don't have something to do I become the most unproductive person in the world.

Tonight, Tonight

"Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change the less you feel
Believe, believe in me, believe
That life can change, that you're not stuck in vain
We're not the same, we're different tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight
And you know you're never sure
But you're sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade in your city by the lake
The place where you were born
Believe, believe in me, believe
In the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe there's not a chance tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight
We'll crucify the insincere tonight
We'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight
We'll find a way to offer up the night tonight
The indescribable moments of your life tonight
The impossible is possible tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight."
-Smashing Pumpkins

What was with tonight? That was so odd. I don't understand. I'm not going to really question it, but I will ponder it. Glad to be home where I can freak out both internally and externally.

I'm really nervous for this summer.
I'm scared that because I work so much I won't get to balance my three different groups of friends.
I'm scared that because in my free time I will be balancing these friends that I will miss out on truly bonding with all of them. I hate shallow experiences and I really want to make everything work out.

I can do this. I can focus for one more week

"Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight"

Life is kind of wonderful at 3:10am

That's really all I need to say.

I took at walk around 1am and just walked around campus, blaring Florence+The Machine and simply marveling at how far I've come in my life.  I am happy to be alive and happy to be successful.  I may have my huge amounts of stress, and I may not handle it in the best ways, but I am truly proud of where I am in my life.  I may have some confused thoughts about people in my life and where they stand, but who doesn't have those problems.  I may want to ask those questions, but why mess with a good thing.  I am so happy right now.  It has hit me like a "bullet in the back".  I wasn't expecting it, hell, I shouldn't be this happy.  But I am.  I am going to take it and run with it.  Maybe it was the change of hair to allow a re-evaluation of myself,  who knows.  But whatever it is, I like it.  Now I need to go finish the rest of my papers that are all due tomorrow at midnight.

"You always look so cool"