I'm Soooo Popular!

Woo! Two followers!

I feel like I passed a huge hurdle today... I'm no longer the loser with only one friend. I've never been so excited in my life.

Jenny and Lisa... you two are my heros!

Everyone else... that means you mom... feel free to join them:)

I Have A New Face!

Yesterday I decided to venture into the world of new eye wear. I've been wearing glasses since I was 10 years old and until college, I got a new pair of glasses every other August like clockwork. I didn't get a new pair because my old ones were broken or anything, I got a new pair because by after two years, I was sick of my frames. They were always too big or too round or not cool enough. Then, my the summer after freshman year in college, I decided to switch to plastic (I'd been wearing wire before). And I found these lovely frames.

I loved them. They were pretty, they made me look intelligent, and they had super cute lions on the arms and on the cleaning cloth. I wanted to keep them forever. And I did... almost. But after four years of abuse from the sun and the stress of daily activities, my amazing frames started to wear down. Even the lenses had taken abuse from my body... after four years of blinking, my lenses were covered with tiny eyelash gouged scratches. Crazy!

So I decided that it was time for a change. So my parents and I headed over to Lenscrafters and started to go through the store's gazillion frames. Of course, the first pair I found was a new pair of my old frames. And I almost got them again.

But then I found these beauties and I fell in love.

They are super pretty, but they also look kinda like my old ones, so I'm pretty sure that no one notices that they are different... bummer.

One Spark Starts the Fire

This could possibly be the coolest thing ever. Quotables makes matches, something I've known for a while, but what I never realized is that each match box features a "spark=inspiration" kinda quote. Cool huh? Check 'em out!

Nothing Like a Little Déjà Vu to End the Week With a BANG!

Five years ago, my ballet studio performed Cinderella for it's spring performance and a Disney themed baby recital. It was my senior year in high school and I was supposed to be the Winter Fairy in the former performance and the Little Mermaid in the latter.

But, I broke my foot. No ballet for me. Story of my life.

Fast forward to Saturday, when this year's ballet and parts were announced. Our spring performance is going to be parts of three different ballets, act 1 of Cinderella, act 2 of Coppelia, and the first half of the Little Mermaid.

Sound familiar? I thought so.

Well as you can probably imagine, when I heard what ballets we were doing, I sort of had a mini freak out. It was small and in my head, and I was very contained on the surface, but internally, I wanted to cry a little bit. You see, when I found out that my broken foot would prevent me from dancing in (what I thought would be) my final ballet ever, I was devastated. Now, when I sort of feel like I'm re-living high school, it's a little weird to also be re-living the spring ballets I never got to dance in.

And then, after I finished my mini-freakout, I had another. What if, by some crazy universe altering something, they decided to cast me in the roles I never got to be? I'd get to wear a tutu one last time. I'd get a solo. I'd be murdered by all the girls who actually care, no, obsess over what part they get. The girls who put up with class four days a week and go to summer camp and basically do whatever it takes to look good in class. (I did this, too, only back in my day I had class five days a week). The point is, it would never happen. In a way, I don't deserve to get good roles anymore because I'm basically just a pseudo-student. I'm not real. I don't care about it the way that they do anymore. But, a little part of my unfulfilled high school senior self, hoped for a miracle.

In the end, I got two very good roles. I'm going to be the dancing teacher in Cinderella (a small solo) and one of the Little Mermaid's sisters in the Little Mermaid. I'm pretty excited about this, but at the same time, I'm still a little sad and honestly, a little apprehensive. Hopefully the déjà vu won't go as far as my health :)

Is Your Mind as Amazing as Mine?

I was cleaning out my old emails today and I came across this one that my grandmother sent me. Normally I think forwards are pretty silly, but this one was cool...

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

yes. I could read that with no problems at all...

Because I'm Still A Bio Nerd at Heart

Best. Video. Ever.

via http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/ and youtube

Why? Well...
1. its awesome
2. it reminds me of college and all those times that we watched this... for fun
3. it reminds me that I'm still smart
4. it reminds me that I don't totally fail at life (science-wise) because I still understand most of what's going on in this video and could probably still whip out some of the pathways that surround it.
5. it has super fun music


Go on. Watch it. Be nerdy. I am.

Wise Words to Live By