my life may finally be complete

Remember Olsson's Books in Dupont? As sad as I am that it's gone, guess what is coming to that location:

Something called Wagamama. Why am I so excited about this? IT'S A RESTAURANT DEVOTED TO RAMEN.

ramen + tracy = <3


YAY.

<3tracy

nice girls finish last

Scene: After visiting four different laundry rooms in hopes of finding an open machine, I have a meltdown in the Anderson 3 South laundry room. I tried to beat the washing machine in submission only to fail miserably and spiral into a fit of theatrical sobbing.

Ponytail Steve: I think you need to chill out, man.
Me: You want to know what I think, I think I need some fucking Valium!
Ponytail Steve: When did you start swearing? And taking Valium? I thought you were a nice girl!

<3tracy

love is in the air

Lauren: What are we doing for Valentines Day?

Cliff: How would you feel if I made you dinner?

Lauren: What food do you have?

Cliff: Well, with what I have now...I could make you a vodka sandwich. But I would have to borrow some bread.

Steph (via text message): So did you sexy sexy or just kiss?

zoo day with billy and hargadon!!

On Sunday Tara and I went to the zoo with Roxanne and Eric and Eric's friends Billy and Hargadon*. Good times were had by all.

We met some animal statues.

We rode some bears.
I got some bottle-nosed lovin'.

I scared some children.

Oh yeah, and we saw some turtles getting it on.

All in all, a good day. Well maybe not for that kid that I scared. Or that female turtle. But at least the weather was nice, right?

<3tracy

*We spent most of our travel time to the zoo practicing saying Hargadon's name (its actually his last name) but we kept hitting this mental block and calling him Hagerdorn. Below is an actual transcript of our actual conversation:

Eric: Hargadon.
Roxanne: Hagerdorn?
Tara: Hagerdorn! What!?
Tracy: Hagerdon?
Eric: HAR-GA-DON.
Tracy and Roxanne: Hargadon? Hargadon.
Tara: Hargadon? Hagerdorn.
Roxanne: Can we just call him Andrew?
Eric: No one calls him Andrew.
Tracy: I bet his mother calls him Andrew.
Roxanne: Hargadon.

[enter Billy and Hargadon]

Hargadon: You can just call me Andrew.

"obviously you shouldn't be using your office computer to look at pornography"

Just one of the many things I learned at my job orientation today.
For those of you that didn't get the memo, I'm now officially a federal employee. I even took my oath of office! Yes, that's right, I am merely an administrative assistant at the Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission but I still had to pledge to uphold the constitution and all that jazz!

But the more exciting part of the day was that I met a girl I will be working with. Check out these spooky similarities between us:

-We both go to AU.
-We are both sophomores.
-We are both in the honors program.
-We are both from California.
-We are both from SOUTHERN California.
-We are both working Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
-We are both awesome. haha.

She's also in one of Tara's classes. Is it creepy that I know that?

More on this job when I actually have my first day on Wednesday!

<3tracy

even all the way from Brussels, Trent knows me best.

(over Facebook chat, because our dear friend Trent is studying abroad in Belgium for the semester)

Trent: so what has everyone been up to?
Tara: ummmmmm
Tara: i got a job at the library!
Trent: you would
Trent: you are the typical sexy librarian
Trent: with all of those cardigans
Trent: and the hint of a fancy bra


<3 tara

For no reason at all, I am already awake...

even though it is before 7 AM. I think this is a violation of some cardinal rule of college students.

I have never seen a Washington, DC sunrise before.


<3 tara