I agree with Danielle about how spring break after you graduate from undergrad will never be the same. And as my spring break included the first week of starting my first “real job” (as an unpaid intern I may add), I had a slightly more stressful one that the week on the beach and solid tan I was used to coming home with. However, I was lucky enough to get to spend my down time with my friend, Heidi from undergrad, my sister, Dana, Liz and some of my other volleyball friends who decided to come down to DC for spring break this year.
Having old friends come and visit you after you haven’t seen them in a while is the most refreshing experience for me. You always start rehashing old memories and find yourself reverting to the person you used to be in when you used to spend all your time with them My friend in particular happened to be a teammate as well as a friend, so even when we needed our space in college, we didn’t get to have it. So I guess you could say, we couldn’t be much closer and sort of turn into the same person when we get back together. (Which reminds me of “Sandcastles in the Sand” from How I met Your Mother- greatest show ever). So when we got together this break, things were no different.
After a long first day of work, I felt like I had learned a million new things about the real world. Needless to say, after I spent the day as an adult, I found myself right back in college ready to take on the night! Heidi happened to come down to DC with 4 younger volleyball friends and I joined her with an older friend from the team and my sister. We had a weekend full of fun-filled college style adventures: a DJ at the 9:30 Club, Adams Morgan, jumbo sliced pizza and Shamrockfest.
We all went into this fun-filled weekend with major plans to dominate the DC scene. I for one, love to go out for the sheer experience of meeting new people and spending quality time with good friends while having a blast. We had our first opportunity to do just this at the 9:30 Club. Little did we know that going to the 9:30 Club on a night when the DJ only plays Lady Gaga, Madonna and Kylie Minogue would be a gay dance party, but being the social chameleon I am and the awesome people they are, we had more fun than ever dancing completely free-spirited with a bunch of amazing new friends.
Now, each of my friends from college has their own special unique personality, but Ill tell you, Heidi is an original gem (which is all I can really say about that, but I can also include this embarrassing picture that i think pretty much sums it up).
Spring Cleaning??
Once her, Dana and my friend Liz and I got to Shamrockfest, Heidi disappeared into the mosh pit of insanity, only to come out with a massive blow to the knee, a bruised foot and a freckled new best friend who took her on all the carnival rides she could ever ask for. This girl knows how to get her socialism on, but she is always wary of lies and deceit. She always makes sure to check out people’s background by quickly and sneakily looking them up on google just by entering a couple of key ingredients of the recipe of trickery they told her, and then she calls them out on it (and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel- name that movie). This one in particular happened to claim he played basketball at a division one school, so she put in his name and school and the word basketball into Google to find he was a 28-year-old alum who never saw the court. Now, this is the typical way people in college like to take advantage of Google on a daily basis- to enhance their social networking skills.
One way I think my blog is relevant to Google is that I keep it interesting by writing about varying topics from week to week. I love to keep it social while including my friends in popular topics as well as movies, TV shows, and quotes that I know and love. My links and topics are always different like Dyanne’s blog, which generates a wide variety of content drawing in a large variety of people. I have people asking me about foods that are “accidentally vegan” as well as my running hobby all the time. I also like to use images in my blogs to help describe what I’m writing about and to keep readers interested and alert. The Google site Bing is an image based search engine that I love because I can visualize my search feedback before going to a site and finding out it’s the wrong one (which is helpful to the fast paced results I expect with today’s technology). There’s this great comedian I think of who explains how technology is amazing today but nobody’s satisfied with it, which totally explains my own personal feelings about the expectation that technology will and should always be perfectly convenient when I need it.
So to end, here’s a little slideshow of my spring break as a week of moving back while I was moving forward, and my adventures with old friends to make new ones.
Chameleon 