say what you will

but these people sure know how to manipulate your pride.




and some of those are pretty awesome rings.

ladies is pimps too, go and brush your shoulders off.

i am teaching katietibbitts to post pictures.

(therefore, disregard this post. or not.)



explora like dora, these swipers can't swipe me. (thanks bff)



pretty self-explanatory

GOOD JOB KATIETIBBITTS!!

oh yeah

mr. and mrs. smith = AWESOME.

(sigh)

this weekend was freshman orientation here in buies creek...

it was pretty surreal b/c i don't at all feel like a senior. i feel like it wasn't long ago at all when i came to orientation...bernie was in one of my sessions pretending to be a freshman, chad was my UFO leader, i met tommy burns in the reception line, and tim jenkins at the mass comm department stop.

it was just plain weird to be the old one....i don't know what to say about it, except that i was very jealous that these people are just starting college and i have to leave soon.

the speech went surprisingly very well...BIG thanks to tim jenkins for his inspiration. the sessions went well, as did the reception. i met some really cool freshmen, had some really good ice cream, and saw really good friends.

and we'll do this again in 2 weeks...

i think this calls for some freshman year pictures:


me, linds, and katie at spring fling


jodi and i at chili's - the infamous "singing sensations" picture


rebekah, linds, katie, and i when people used to dress up for games


valentine's dance, put on by the freshman class :)


jeff and i at the sister hazel show


me and the future roomie!


at the game before an SGA meeting...when I used to wear girl ties (and look! it's dave behind us!)

GOOD times.

behind the melody the words don't mean a thing

i've been trying to write my speech for freshman orientation since last thursday and each time i really try to sit down and write it, i got nothin'.

and i definitely should be done with it by now.

so i need a little inspiration, if anyone inspiring reads this.

thanks in advance.




"ain't that what you want them to know?
all they get of you is what they get out of the show.
the rest is mine, i guess, the beauty and the mess, to hide."

tim jenkins, HERE'S what's going on in the creek...

we got bored one night (imagine that).

so we put on everything katie owns and went out for some university photo fun.

and that is what happened in the creek this week.








soooooo, basically nothing. haha.

f.y.i.

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haha.

sick cycle carousel

i know i say this over and over, but i am so thankful for all my friends.

each one of them have such different personalities, interests, appearances, etc. but we can all still manage to overlap.

right now i am reading mitch albom's "the five people you meet in heaven." it's so interesting how each of our lives connect. i started thinking about it more today after reading clayton's blog regarding the same book. i even thought about that when i was checking my facebook messages yesterday. obviously, i don't know everyone here at campbell, but i'm sure that eventually on facebook, i could eventually connect to everyone through a friend, an interest, a favorite movie, a "group," and so on. that's a really small example, but it really represents my life here at campbell. it makes me wonder why exactly we choose the certain friends we do have and not some others. i know it's a combination of things like characteristics and beliefs, but i think that we could potentially all relate somehow.

...but maybe i'm just idealistic. is that naive?

for example, we met a girl at the brewery last night who will be a senior at campbell in the fall living in reardon. she hasn't lived on campus, so that explains why we wouldn't really have crossed paths yet, but i was very interested to find out more about her since i had never run into her. turns out her name is michelle and she is an art major. it was really nice to meet someone who doesn't already have an idea of who they think you are due to opinions they have heard from others. that's the one thing about campbell -- the grapevine.

and i'm certainly not accusing anyone else, b/c we all do it. i know i have pre-conceived notions about people here that i don't even know and that sucks. all i can do is conciously pay attention when i'm doing that and try my best to overcome those. i think the best way to do that is probably to put yourself in situations with those people so you can get a taste for yourself, even if it's uncomfortable.

over and over, i've found that all of my growth comes when i'm out of my comfort zone, so i find myself aching not to be comfortable.

i think that's it.

pretty proud of myself

i just made a full brochure for sga for freshman orientation AND wrote the welcome letter for the handbook, ALL since i got home from work.

all b/c i sent myself an email at work today telling me what i HAD to do tonight b/c i had been putting it off for so long.

i couldn't let myself down.

"young adults" are so cynical

i wonder when that stops.

everybody wang chung tonight

kt, clayton, and i saw the breakfast club last night at lincoln theater.

and we had a pretty awesome time, if i do say so myself.



yes, here they are folks. and they're returning to raleigh the first saturday after we get back to school this fall. mark your calendars.