Adios, amigas.

In honor of friendships chock full of late night chats, nail-parties, lots of laughing, lots of eating, beach Fridays and night-swimming, among many, many other things, two of my favorite people and I did a little photo session last Saturday.

To make the photos a little more interesting (because we can be pretty boring people, y'know!), we had classy, classy cardstock mustaches.
To make the world a more entertaining, when we were done, we stuck them to a handrail on campus and drew faces. Last I checked, they were still there, a week and some change later.

 

The cheese-tastic, requisite photos with the school motto were also done, in the most serious manner possible. Clearly, we were all meant to be models. 

(Somehow I conned my roommate into taking some photos for us, even though she had a full day of studying planned. She is wonderful, clearly.)

I've been preparing myself for a life of solitude and study once both of these lovely ladies leave, I think it'll work out quite well for me. 

Mmmm, mmmm, good.

Certainly there are incredible, awe-inspiring, adventurous ways to start a day off. Today, making a avocado, cheese, tomato, lettuce mustard sammich on a whole grain bagel (and having friends around to laugh at my camera in hand through the whole process) was a pretty good way to welcome in the weekend.

I might've mentioned this before, but I am one lucky girl.

Sometimes I forget this. I enjoy school immensely, but I do tend to get caught up and stress out about it a little more than is probably good for me. (Was I up until two last night rewriting a paper that I rewrote completely again, for the third time, after I woke up? Yes. Yes, I was. Am I going to get an A on that dang paper? You bet I am.)

Those times are when I need little reminders of how lucky I actually am.

Reminders like this:

I wish I'd thought to bring along my wide-angle lens, which would've made for a much better photo, but that will have to wait for another day.

Early last week, after a two hour long Astronomy lecture that dragged on for what felt like five hours, I decided that being productive was overrated. With a little bit of time to kill before I had to be at work, I threw on my swimsuit, grabbed my towel and a book and walked three minutes to the beach, to sit in the shade and ignore the fact that I had chapters of studying to do and pages of papers waiting to be written. It was one of the best decisions I made all week.

I'm bad a resolutions.

...Clearly, seeing as I resolved to be better at posting and then this poor little blog has sat ignored for the past two months.

I've certainly been busy, with both work and school as well as taking advantage of all the rad things there are to do as a college kid in Hawaii. I've even been photo-documenting most things, but most of those photos have simply sat in a folder on my desktop.

To try to make amends, I'll share a picture of one of the most beautiful sights to ever been seen by these two eyes of mine. Feel free to be as jealous as you'd like.