the last weekend

this weekend was the last weekend of winter break...tomorrow I start my last semester of college (probably ever)! I am very, very ready.

on friday Eric, Joel, Ross, and I rode out to PJ's in sycamore for dinner and beers since it was unseasonably warm. it's about a ten mile ride each way--on the way out there it was an easy ride due to a nice tailwind, but the ride back...phew! so windy! we made it though.

we had a pitcher of Uinta's IPA (I'm pretty sure it's the Hop Notch, but I can't quite remember). it was delicious. Uinta also makes a really great imperial black IPA that I love.

YUM.

on saturday, the eric and I went out to his friend's mike's place for a birthday party. much chaos ensued, most notably a return of Chlamydia the Frog, a oven mitt puppet who surfaces when Tyson is around to teach us valuable lessons about racism, safe sex, etc.

it snowed overnight and the next morning we found the car to be encased in a thick sheet of ice. it took a good 30 minutes for us to hack it all off so we could go home!

hopefully, this semester won't be too chaotic. last semester was just insane...I had a lot of stuff going on--in school, in my head, in general life--and I was pretty miserable throughout the entire thing. I'm hoping this next one will be a little better so that I don't leave college with too much bitterness. my goal for the next few months is to consciously try to have a better attitude, to be kinder to myself (something I struggle with a lot), and to spend more time enjoying myself rather than going crazy trying to get all of my work absolutely perfect. at this point, being so close to the end, I think making positive memories is more important than killing myself trying to get 100% on every single piece of work I turn in.

this is actually the main reason I started this blog...taking photos every day and compiling them into some sort of record will hopefully help me to stay more grounded. I have a tendency to overanalyze and convince myself that my life is boring, I'm no fun, I'm terrible at everything I do, I'm completely useless (especially when I'm stressed), etc.... so I am hoping that taking the time out to look at my life in a more realistic way through photographs will keep me from falling into that cycle.

we'll see...