Rained In

Sept. 20th - Sept. 26th (Week 11): I'm not one to really to discuss the weather, but I feel like it became Spring and here and has not stopped raining. It rained all week, so Lina and I didn't get the chance to run even once. Very annoying. I'm so spoiled when it comes to sunny weather, us LA people sometimes forget or take advantage of how good we have it. Since we got trapped indoors by the rain, we ended up working on assignments due. Mine that was due on Friday was a literature review on one of my main papers about diplomacy and it's effects on Italian Renaissance City-States. It's definitely the least favorite out of my three main papers due this semester.

Came home Monday night to find that Kate had bought us cookies and left them for us on the kitchen table, well wait that's not really true. I found out Kate had bought us cookies the same way we all find out the most recent news, it was posted on Facebook. The picture on Facebook displayed the three cookies Kate had bought for us with a note beside them that read, " Because I <3 you guys!" Could she be anymore adorable? It was just one of those sweet, thoughtful gestures that makes you very grateful for the people in your world. And my green monster cookie was delicious.

On Thursday night we had a girls night since it was the last night Kate would be in town before flying home for Spring break. Our original plan was to go out and make a night of it, but Kate still had packing left to do so we ended up staying in and drinking. Had some good discussion about guys, had some laughs, it was good times.

Friday was kind of a rough day. Lina didn't get a grade she was hoping for and was down about it, so I took her out for a little retail and booze therapy. We decided to do some damage on Queen St. and started drinking around 3pm (hey, it was the beginning of Spring break and I'm a college student again - when in Rome). About an hour into our drink sesh I get a call from a classmate that a bunch of people from my program are drinking down the street at my favorite pub, Mick O'Malleys, so we head over and join them for what was surely one of the sloppiest drinking nights ever! It was great times though and since we are in such a rigorous accelerated program, it was much deserved. However, pretty hilarious when you wake up in the morning and find pictures on your camera that you don't remember taking, or even worse, pictures on your camera of people you don't know. See the picture above of the friendly-looking couple? Do you know who they are? Me neither.

Needless to say, I spent the rest of the weekend recovering (I feel like I've been saying that last line a lot lately), and since it's been raining I haven't had much motivation to do anything outdoors anyways.

Waiting for sunshine and looking into local AA meetings,

Jillian aka Jilly, Jillypet, Jillybean, J-Dilla, J-Bones, and sometimes Crab Cakes