happy list!

     So I should have posted this on Saturday, but alas, I was too busy being a badass coxing then being Alice.

Ballerina!

1) falling asleep on one of my boys or having one of my boys fall asleep on me on the ride to or from practice

2) looking exactly like Alice in Wonderland for Halloween

3) Halloween. period.

4) having Halloween on a schoolday, so I can go to classes dressed as a ballerina

5) spending time with my parents and my aunt and uncle

6) going to see In Time, even if the plot of the movie was too good to have Justin Timberlake star in it

7) having my first head race, my first varsity race, and my first first place finish all being the same race

8) having a story flow out of my head and onto paper and having my characters come to life

9) discussing philosophy with a couple of my boys in the Dunne basement, then watching Once Upon a Time with my girls

10) getting a super great grade on my chemistry midterm!

Halloween

     This was a big weekend for me. We had the Head of the American on Saturday, Halloween shenanigans Saturday evening, and my parents have been here since Friday. Oh and I have a philosophy midterm tomorrow that I have not began to prepare for yet. oops. Oh well. I'll get everything done.

     I have oh so much laundry and Once Upon A Time to watch with my friends Meggan and Lauren. But lots of laundry is exactly what you get after a big weekend! I had so much fun last night as Alice in Wonderland, running around with a bumble bee, a kitty cat, a construction worker, and various other shady characters like Buzz Lightyear, Carmen Miranda, Ke$ha and a couple of greasers.

Here's some pictures from last night [I looked so friggin' much like Alice]:

Sorry. Construction worker absorbs all da flash!

All photos credited to Meggan, Lauren or Kendra. Not sure who took each individual one! :[

the Maine

Photo from seeing the Maine at the Regency Ballroom
 in San Francisco last October.

     Well let's not lie to ourselves now because I'm always obsessed with the Maine, we all know that [I do have two separate posters of them on the wall of my dorm room and have seen them live too many times to count], but I am especially obsessed with them lately because they just announced the release date for their third full-length album, Pioneer, as Dec. 6 [pre-order starts 11.1.11 (I'm loving all those ones) so you know I'll be online Tuesday to secure my spot]. After their sophomore effort and first major-label release, Black and White, received some heat for so many of the tracks be co-written, Pioneer will be completely penned by the band and self-released through Action Theory Records. 


Andddd I'm going to see them in San Francisco this November at the Bottom of the Hill. It's gonna be my second time seeing them in San Francisco and my... well.. I'm not sure how many times I've seen them over all.. woops! But anyways, I'm so friggin' excited because I was so bummed when they announced their fall tour with Taking Back Sunday wouldn't be coming to my neck of the woods [I blogged about it when the tour first was announced and very nearly cried when I realized that two of my top five favorite bands were going on tour together and weren't playing a show within rock-throwing distance of me. I mean, I live next to one of the largest cities on the West Coast! How can you not come to San Francisco??] and because the Bottom of the Hill is this teeny weeny theatre that doesn't even have a proper backstage area! I bought my tickets as soon as I heard about the show because I'm pretty sure the theatre has a maximum capacity of about 20 people. just kidding, but it really is tiny! And the last time I was there was to see the Matches :]


Here's the promotional video for the announcement:

Poster from the first time I saw them live. Thank god for Hit the Lights,
if I hadn't gone to this show to see them, I wouldn't have discovered
3OH!3 or the Maine. Or at least it would have taken longer to.

Photo from their show in Portland this summer at
the Wonder Ballroom [the venue I first ever heard them at].
This kid leaped on stage, knew all the words to their songs,
and was killing it for the crowd. John Oh was so shocked.
and also flying high on something illegal.

P.S. Head of the American in two days!!

P.P.S. sorry these photos are so shitty; they were taken with cameras other than my super duper fancy Nikon. I promise I'll have super wicked awesome pictures from the show November 20th!

a day of firsts

     So as you know, this past Sunday was the Wine Country Classic. And.. well.. Santa Clara University Men's Crew pretty much kicked ass and took some names, those names being Sac State and Sonoma State. Yeah so Sunday was pretty much amazing. And it was filled with firsts:

I drove up the 101 for the first time.

[Sorry, no picture. It was too dark and far too early.]

I coxed my first varsity race. 

My seat.

 I coxed my first head race.

My boat.

 I coxed my first winning race!

[and we got gold medals. be jealz]

My boys.
Photo by Karla Gaitan.

I got thrown in for the first time

[it's kind of a tradition to throw your coxswain off the dock after a dubya]

yep. that's the top of my blonde head you
can see in that big splash.

 I drove over the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time.

Photo by Wally Gonzalez.

 I ate at Ike's Place in San Francisco for the first time.

Yep. It was a good day... oh and...

p.s. Head of the American in four days!!!

the Wine Country Classic tomorrow!

 

I love me some Lexington in the morning.

     Well we had short practice this morning than got to land and got our de-rigg on. As per-usual, I helped by tightening the nuts on one rigger and bungee-ing one seat, but Karla and I got both our boats safely on the trailer, which is our only real job.

     But this post isn't about de-rigging [although it is wicked fun]. It's about the Wine Country Classic tomorrow!!! Karla and I get to drive up tomorrow morning around 5:30am, so we can in Petaluma by the 7am coxswain meeting, but we don't race til noon, so we'll have almost two hours chillin' at the regatta before the guys even leave campus. But ohhh well. A coxswain's gotta do what a coxswain's gotta do, and if that includes waking up fecking early to get all the information for the race, well I'd rather be more informed than not. Especially since this is mine and Karla's first head race ever. I'm so excited, but also super anxious/nervous/freaking the fuck out. But I'm tipping a lot more towards the former than I was in March last year [before my first race ever]. Well as a de-stresser before the craziness that will be tomorrow, Meggan and I are baking some shit up in the Kennedy kitch. Should be funsies.

Hurr're some pictures from dis mornin':

look at those eights

whatta cutie.

Biiig Time.

Rustle.

go broncos!

these guyss..

"Don't fall into the trap of eating three donuts and feeling sick.
I did that last time." --Mark Bluth

Brooks is a classy one.

PS Petaluma... TOMORROW!

PUMPKIN PATCH

     TONIGHT WE WENT TO A PUMPKIN PATCH!

     It was friggin' awesome. Technically it wasn't actually a pumpkin patch, but a bunch of already picked pumpkins in a parking lot. ahahh doesn't sound that great, but then there were a bunch of blow-up play-pens [one of which my friends Kendra and Lauren went into without paying for it.. awhhhh sheeee-it!] and the pumpkins were adorable.

     It was pretty dark once we got there [I got a little lost I have to admit... I kinda have an inability to turn around when I'm lost], so sorry if the pictures aren't up to par! But all that matters is that we had an excellent time and came outta it with some wicked awesome pumpkins.

     Oh and I wore a pumpkin-orange sweater [going to a pumpkin patch in October just screamed sweater to me!] and some Halloween ribbons in my hurr.

     But I have to admit, going to the pumpkin patch made me miss October in Oregon so so much. There's an amazing patch [at a legit farm] really close to my house and we went to it a couple times when I was younger. I miss the crisp, cool autumn mornings and October evenings in Oregon, wearing sweaters and boots and wrapping up under a blanket to watch an Oregon or a Valley football game. :]

Hurr's some pictars:

That's how a fucktard parks.

Kendra!

These goats were crazy. They were swarming anyone who got close.
I think they were hungry :[

Stand Still. Look Pretty.

Trouble makers!

So artsy.

didn't even make it to Halloween :[

peekaboo!

:)

Now some pictures from Meggan's camera!:

PS Petaluma in two dayssss!!!!