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This weather is giving me whiplash. Forget hypomanic episodes. I don't have time to enjoy the sun between all the tornado warnings and torrential downpours that Athens has been all about lately. Boo! I have failed to dress appropriately every day this week. Go me! I'm either severely overdressed, like yesterday when I was bundled up in rain gear and winter wear in the seventy degree afternoon heat (without ray bans no less). Or today, in shorts and a tee shirt in the winds that were gusting up to 20 this morning when I flew. Fail. Epic fail.

I am so very over this semester. Two and a half weeks of class left. What what. This good news does come with a hefty bit of baggage in the form of finals and papers. But what are you going to do? Unfortunately I'm letting my apathy get the best of me. Yesterday, instead of studying for my quiz in linguistics, I opted to watch an episode of Gossip Girl. Since the quiz was optional, there was no motivation whatsoever for me to exude any effort for it. I mean I guess it would have been nice to drop my lowest quiz grade in exchange for a better one, but I wasn't too concerned. Apparently I was not alone. Crazy professor lady handed out all of the quizzes, and everyone sort of glanced at it and then we all simultaneously stood up and peaced out. The poor girl who sits next to me desperately needed to drop her last quiz grade so she asked crazy professor lady if she was kidding. She wasn't. Whatevs, lesson learned--gossip girl trumps studying and all's well that ends well. Or something.

 

Big things are happening for the Jennings fam: Victoria got into College of Charleston and Paul got his driver's permit!! Ah! Why are they growing up? It's weird. Family Photo Op--Easter 09:

Sexy. I know.

PS Easter rocked my world. Like really. I started the day with a breakfast of reese's cups and fried eggs and toast. Then after church the madre got to steppin on her feast-preparations. Moms outdid herself--between the best ham of my life, mac n cheese, sweet potatoes, caesar salad, french bread, and that delicious Welch's bubbly that we love so much.. oh my. Food coma shortly ensued in the form of a three hour nap (after 12 hours of sleep the night before. nbd.).

FYI Coldstone came out with cupcakes. Paul Melanie and I tried one this weekend, and if I had to describe it in one word, that word would be LETDOWN. Let me paint a picture for you: The sweet cream cupcake comes in a chocolate shell. Said chocolate shell is filled with a scoop of sweet cream ice cream and about a centimeter-thick slab of dried-up yellow cake. All of this is garnished with a frozen cool whip frosting and two chocolate shaving curls. My favorite part was the chocolate shell.. yeah no good. Plus it's overpriced. Fail.

New obsession: Angel Taylor. Favorite songs are Make Me Believe, Chai Tea Latte, and Epiphany. The CD is called "Love Travels" and it's amazing. Love it. Love her.

I FINALLY saw Slumdog Millionaire (no thanks to Scott) on Friday at the dollar theater in East Cobb. I had to drive through hail and torrential rains to get there, but IT WAS WORTH IT! If you haven't seen it yet you absolutely must. It's so good. I was talking to my dad about it last week at dinner and he said that what he took away from it was that he will never ever go to India. That same night, Tia-ita's fb status was "Just saw Slumdog Millionaire. Gotta say, I've always wanted to go to India. Now I REALLY want to go to India." Ha. Oh, Tia-ita. I'm so freaking excited for our C Rica reunion dinner next week at Deany Weany's house!

Oh and Amy Poehler's new show "Parks and Recreation" sucks a big fat one. So sad. The pilot episode is free on iTunes right now and I watched it on the elliptical today.. I didn't laugh once. Triste.

I'd like to leave you with the poetry of Paul Abdul. Enjoy.

peace love and chai tea lattes