Weekend at Bernie's!

...Except with the trinity in Charleston!

This weekend was filled with super fun shenanigans, graduation, dresses, a road trip, elaborate photo shoots, a British love interest, family dinners, Sex and the City-esk roof top cocktails, and even talk of the apocalypse. It's the making of a perfect movie. One maybe as perfect as Weekend at Bernie's...without Andrew McCarthy.

But as all good things must, it had to come to an end. I'm still trying to come to terms with why fun things end so much quicker than not fun things. Like, working seems like it takes 20 hours and Weekend at Bernie's trinity weekend was maybe....5 min.

Perhaps one day, I'll be better at savoring the good, and finding good things to savor in the not so good.

it's on!

great things are about to happen...

get ready for it

dramamongers

Have you ever noticed that some people just attract drama? Or, they create a climate of drama for themselves? Or maybe a little of both. These people LOVE the gossip, the speculating, the talking, the secrets, the scandal! But, why?

There's a lot of drama going on at school right now, which has gotten me thinking a lot about how different people deal with drama in their lives. Now, I'm not going to lie, I love to hear about the drama just as much as anyone else but I HATE to be involved in it.
Basically, because of budget cuts and low test scores 8 teachers were "let go" on Friday. All day Friday people are walking around naming names, speculating who should or shouldn't be fired and counting off people on their fingers like it's nothing! Certain people were feeding off the drama that this created and others were fueling the fire.

People like this are everywhere..I've known them throughout all chapters in my life and its always the same story.

Not Santosha.

Fiyeroooooooooo!

So, last night we went to see the traveling cast of Wicked at the new Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC).

So, first I got a little tipsy on white wine before (quite appropriate in my opinion; I had to mix in with all the white upper middle class southern women). I tried to make some jokes to the people selling the wine, and they kinda weren't having it. Which brings me to my side point- people never want to joke anymore! Maybe its the serious climate of the world right now, maybe its the stuffiness of the 'theatre', maybe its that I'm not that funny and people don't want to crack jokes with me.... sad. But come on...throw a girl a bone!

Anyway...Wicked was really good! I was pleasantly surprised. I tend to never have high expectations for traveling casts of things, but these guys rocked it!

Wicked was cornily delightful. And, I can't get the songs out of my head.

Elephants = love!

As an elementary school teacher I am often asked mundane yet thought provoking questions such as: What's is your favorite color? Favorite food? Favorite season?
It's somehow refreshing to have to consider questions like this. And, I often find that one's answers to questions such as these tend to reveal an awful lot about his or her true self (or Self).

So, recently I was asked what my favorite animal is, and it didn't take long to come to the conclusion that the elephant is the one for me!
Not only are elephants exotic and somehow dinosaur-like, but they are some of the kindest creatures on the planet! They are loving to each other and other animals around them.
They have the ability to create compassionate relationships and feel grief when one of their own dies. Amazing! Elephants also exhibit signs of self-awareness!

Elephants are absolutely beautiful. They are the largest mammal on the Earth, yet their hugeness is filled with grace. Each movement is slow and deliberate. Perfection.
Throughout time elephants have been in symbol of wisdom and intelligence. I mean, their brains are bigger than ours! Maybe elephants should be running things...

And this is the conclusion of my report on elephants.

I hope that one day, in another life, I can be an elephant too.

Pangaea

It's really weird to think that millions of years ago, all the continents were connected into one mega super continent. Dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Crazy. Then, it makes me wonder if in a million more years, people will think back and say "Woah, its really weird that a million years ago there was only 7 continents. And, these strange people things drove cars around and ate these things called cheeseburgers"!

Even crazier: civilization as we know it is just a tiny little blip in the history of the Earth. And if Earth continues to exist for the rest of time, the size of our blip will continue to decrease until we are nothing but a fraction of a blip. Thus, as time and civilization furthers we are projected into a state of pure insignificance.

But, then I'm brought to the thought that we couldn't be totally insignificant. Especially if you subscribe to the idea that everything is a sum of the things that have happened before it. Like, if you go back in time and kill a fly- the whole world would be changed.

Pangaea. Shit.

A reason to be excited

Spring is coming to an end (yay!), which means no more pollen, hot hot heat, backless shirts, and yummy salads! Jason has planted lots of delicious veggies in the garden. And, while many of these here are store bought because the others aren't ready, we are using our very own lettuce! Hip Hip Horaaaaaay!

To make:

Combine lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, cheese, avocado and dressing of your choice. Eat it.