Novelties from the past two weeks

I never really thought this before this year, but more and more I find that I really do have friends at work that I'm excited to see at every shift. I love talking to my co-workers and hanging out with them. I've also discovered that I am not yet really prepared to deal with emergencies at work, but hopefully with more training I will be mentally prepared for that responsibility. I could deal with calling 911 for a real emergency if I had to, but less dire emergencies are the really tricky ones because you don't necessarily know what to do about them or how seriously to address them. I know now why one of my co-workers/bosses literally always runs around at the end of a closing shift- there's so much to get done and so many people to herd!

Today I finished a beer and it reminded me of Easter Sunday's family luncheon, where literally everyone at the table tried to pour themselves wine while the cork was still in the bottle. I almost did that this evening with my beer. It was one of those kinds of days.

I straightened my hair this week and people in every class I had were like, "Oh wow! Your hair looks so great! Did you get a haircut?" Even one of my TAs gave it a thumbs up.

Flat-ironed my hair, for funsies

 I found the attention amusing. I personally prefer to leave my hair curly or wavy most days, but I just felt like changing it up and straightened my hair for the first time in...over a year? Did I iron it at any point in the past year? I feel like I didn't... Straight or curly hair, I believe I am beautiful regardless and I strive to compliment people on their personality and character in addition to the surface-level parts of them.


Another thing funny thing happened today. I did some laundry. Haha.

Haha, just kidding. That wasn't the funny thing that happened. I did do laundry, though. Actually there are two funny things that happened while doing my laundry. The first funny thing is that I washed one of my new nice shirts in cold water and it shrunk in the silliest way possible. It's now a too-wide crop top. Oh well, at least I got one or two wears out of it.

First wear: looks nice!

Now it's an accidental crop top. That's the last time I buy a 100% rayon shirt.

The second funny thing is that I washed my shirt from Holi Moli today, which for those who are unfamiliar with the event was a massive celebration involving the aerial toss of colorful pigment by hundreds of people.

Me and my friend Tyler at Holi Moli

Washing the shirt turned it back to its original white color. Well, except for the armpits.

Pink pit stains after the wash. Some things will never come out.

Last night the Carolina Marathon Team had a nice team dinner together at Med Deli that was intended to be a pre-race dinner except none of the people at the dinner were actually planning to run a race this weekend.

 A fun team dinner!

You'll notice this blog post has a lot of selfies. In the past few weeks I have taken more selfies than normal. I tend not to take a lot of selfies but there were several times that I felt that I looked too good, and felt too confident in myself not to capture the moment.