best compliment ever

student: do you watch the office?
me: i do.
student:...pam beesly...
me: haha yeah
student: [nodding] yeah, i can see it. you're cool like pam.

almost as awesome as when i heard a neighbor shouting out of his house last night around ten: "hey, what setting do i put it on to dry a full load of garments in one shot?"

my food cravings

i get some weird, random food cravings. and i don't mean once in awhile--pretty much everyday i have some weird food craving. i'm not sure why this is. some have suggested pregnancy, but it's definitely not that. it's possible that i just love food and am thinking about it a lot of the time. maybe i'm crazy. but whatever the reason, once i get that craving, i won't be able to stop thinking about it if i don't satisfy the urge soon.

some of my recent cravings include:
slab pizza. this is a frequent one, as well as the catalyst for this post. i'm really wishing i had a slab of chicken cordon bleu pizza right now.
sour candy. mostly sour patch kids. i don't know what it is; sometimes i just get in that crazy candy mood.
chocolate chip pancakes. a couple months ago, inexplicably, at 11pm, i had to have some chocolate chip pancakes. so i rounded up some of my dear friends and we headed to denny's. craving crisis averted.
crepes. there are just those times when i want a crepe, dang it. i've had the awful waffle in my head for days because i can't wait to go back and get another crepe. the nutella! the fresh whipped cream!
burgers. i don't get this one too often--my fragile constitution can't take big juicy burgers all the time. but every once in awhile, one of those big juicy burgers really hits the spot.
sandwiches. my love of sandwiches is well-documented. i get the sandwich craving probably once a week at least.
ice cream. my sister and friends know that there are times when i just declare "i need some ice cream. right now!" and then i either run to the store or to coldstone or to dairy queen and enjoy some delicious ice cream.

so there you have it. some people think i'm pretty weird, but really it's just that i love food.

delightful weekend: part one (sleepover at emily's)

almost none of this weekend was planned. it just ended up being awesome, which is probably a testament to how many great people i have in my life right now.

this is going to end up being more of a list than anything else, because i could go on and on about everything we did. so i'll try to be more brief. also, why am i the worst with taking pictures of stuff? that reason alone makes me want a smart phone really bad. but anyway.

• emily, sloane, and i have been trying to schedule some time to watch felicity (post forthcoming--it's taking me forever to get all my thoughts organized about this crazy show.) for some time, especially since i finally caught up to them. friday was the appointed day. i went to emily's after class, at 4, sloane brought this amazing cupcake something-or-other ice cream, and we watched an episode before sloane had to leave.

• meredith and tess met up with us and we headed to cafe rio for dinner. it was delicious as always. after dinner we made the trek to costco, where such glamorous items as toilet paper, water bottles, and vitamins were purchased (passive voice used intentionally to protect the identity of the buyers.

• here the festivities really began in earnest. we decided, on the way home from costco, that we might as well have a sleepover since we really just wanted to hang out with each other anyway. so we gathered our sleep essentials and reconvened. emily and i have been talking about watching amelie and making rice pudding for ages, so we finally did that. amelie=beautiful and funny and happy. homemade rice pudding=creamy and sweet and one of the best things ever. 

• then, it was getting pretty late, and at first i thought things were winding down. but emily was determined that we should make a lip-sync music video, and that lead to a little game i like to call "fun with photobooth" and a lot of taylor-swift-music-video watching.

• finally, we went to bed. i did wake up in the middle of the night to the crazy lightning and thunderstorm that was happening, but i swiftly fell asleep again. when we woke up, we decided to go visit tess at work at the awful waffle. i love a good crepe, so i was pleased with my nutella and strawberry creation. and the whipped cream made me want to die. it was so good.

this concludes part one of this series. stay tuned for more exciting news.

go listen to this!

remember how i really love the avett brothers? i was so sad this summer when i couldn't go to their show in salt lake because i was coming home from lake powell. but they have a new album coming out, and the lovely people at npr have decided to give us a first listen to the album, the carpenter.

here's the single, too, "live and die." it's good.

love this commercial

in the absence of the olympics, i forgot how much i love this commercial for, of all things, the google nexus 7. i guess i'm a sucker for depictions of dads with their little sons. there's probably some psychological meaning in there somewhere...

stylewatch: polka dot jeans

it’s been a while since i did one of these, so i thought i would highlight one of my favorite trends of the moment. the proliferation of polka dots in the past year has aroused in me a long lost childhood love. my favorite swimsuit when i was a kid was this awesome pink and purple polka dot one piece. a real beauty. but anyway, back to the jeans. 

i’ve seen these all over the internet, and then yesterday, on the first day of school, i saw no fewer than two girls wearing polka dot pants. i probably would have seen more, too, but i was only on campus out and about for like an hour and a half. 

so, please come with me on this journey, through this gallery of polka-dotted delight. i’m on the hunt for a beautiful pair of my own.

i die over these jeans.

a more subtle polka dot print, but doubly awesome for the color.

images via my stylish board on pinterest and natalie holbrook's babble post on this very thing.

summer rainstorms

one of the best things about summer, besides the sun and no school and flowy skirts and sandals and being outside and the sun staying out until 9pm and ice cream and love in the air, is the summer rainstorm. i haven’t been in that many rainstorms this season, but this weekend i got caught in two in two days. 

saturday i walked to the other side of my complex in search of a party. when it turned out to be taking place in lehi instead of provo, i decided to take a walk around the block while i was out. i felt a few raindrops, but i kept walking, and within two minutes, rain was pouring down. i was getting soaked, but the combination of warm air and cool rain made me smile rather than run back inside with my hands over my head. 

and on sunday, i spent the afternoon on the balcony, and as i sat up there in my camp chair, the sky changed from bright blue to light grey to dark, muddy slate. the rain started slowly, again, but soon it fell hard and fast on the awning above me. i was covered and protected from the wet, but then the wind changed and i could feel the rain. 

this is pretty cliché, but i love the smell of rain and the smell of the world after it rains. everything is clean again. it’s exactly how i feel right after i get out of the shower and before i have to decide what i’m doing with my hair, which ruins the reverie.