all good things come to an end

just got back to rochester from a weeklong spring break at home! ashley was able to come home with me too so I got to show her all of the exciting things to see in maryland and dc. ironically the day we flew home from rochester was the beginning of the biggest snowstorm maryland has had in three years (only 6 inches of snow) but still funny-- or annoying. eventually it warmed up and we were able to have 75 degree weather today!! too bad when we landed in rochester today it was 38 degrees, foggy and rainy. oh well. 

this week included: two separate trips to chipotle, a Caps game at the verizon center with Amanda!, a day full of wandering around DC, a second trip to DC with dad, seeing jimmy (Alison's new adorable dog), visiting with Barb, Joe and Eric this weekend, mini golf and batting cages yesterday, Sarah's volleyball tournament this morning and other various fun things. 

verizon center

the white house

jimmy, alison's dog :)

mini golfing

tomorrow is the first day of spring quarter which means... new classes! i actually only have one class tomorrow so it shouldn't be too bad. class 9-12, work 12-4. 

Security Alert

Given the events of the last three days (mostly just today), I don’t think that I’ll have any problem filling 175 post with blog-worthy topics…

Okay, so I’m currently sitting in the BWI airport waiting for my 12:54 flight to Rochester. Except this will be posted once I get back to the dorms because I do not particularly care to pay the $9.95 internet fee. Now that we’ve established that here’s the shenanigans that went down…

big tsa guy: “excuse me, is this anyone’s” shows backpack
me: “uhmm, yeah…”
big tsa guy: “you need to step over here, do you have any knives”
me: “uhm no sir, I have a box of them in my checked bag though..”
big tsa guy: “I’m going to look through your bag” pulls out box of cookies and all of the other contents of my backpack  onto the table “If you had a box cutter in here, where might that be”
me: “uhmm, the front pocket, I don’t know? I told you it was in my checked bag”
big tsa guy: “you mean this…” pulls out large gray box cutter.

me: oops. 

big tsa guy: takes box cutter away.

Big sad face. Although, the scary part is that I had no idea that was in there because... the Rochester security checkpoint missed that... which means I was technically carrying that onboard to go home two weeks ago. Whoops. So much for "heightened security".  So in conclusion, I made it back to Rochester safely but I'm currently box cutter-less. The flight itself was fine although my seat mates were well... gross. Enough said. 

In other things, here are pictures from Christmas 2008. There were WAYYYYY too many pictures to put on here so I uploaded them all to Picasa so if you click on the thing below you can go look at them!

Christmas 2008

It's a Wrap!

I'm home! I guess i've been a bit sidetracked because I've actually been home since last Friday morning! 

While most other people were sleeping,  I got a taxi to the airport around 4:30 am. Small airports are amazing. I made it through security in 10 minutes or less. In fact, we had so much extra time that Drake and I were able to watch an entire episode of Stella and STILL had a good hour and a half to wait. Made it home by 8:30 ish-- before Drake's plane had even left Rochester =)

Alison came over after her class at 11, it was really good to finally see her after THREE months! Went to Chipotle for dinner... mmmm, boy did I miss that stuff. Since Friday it's just been a lot of relaxing and hanging out! It's so weird to go from working all of the time to doing absolutely nothing. My mom has been making me deliciously tasty food -- mashed potatoes, pasta, broccoli! Mmmm.  It's nice not having to eat in a dining all all of the time. Sunday morning we went to church at 9 and then went out to brunch at Eggspectation with Alison and her family.  After breakfast I went over to Alison's house to help her clean her room and see Gali!

Monday afternoon I went over to River Hill to see Mr. Molfino and some other old teachers. It's so weird going back, I kind of felt like I was still in high school. Yesterday afternoon Sarah had volleyball tryouts for MDJRS down in college park so I rode along to go see Corey and Jenni! Helped with volleyball check in and then met up with Corey so I could see their dorm room and catch up. Walked down to rt 1 after Jenni was out of class and met her at Chipotle! It was really good to see them although it was really weird to be on a college campus that I didn't recognize! It's too bad there aren't more chances to see each other.. three months is a long time. Alison slept over again last night-- I believe that she's slept over every night except one since I've been home! 

Home James

Waking up in less than 4 hours to head to the airport to GO HOME!

I guess I should go to bed so I can actually do the whole... waking up thing. More posts when I get home.

Turn Right

Friday afternoon Ashley and I took Heather to the airport (well, Ashley drove since she has a car on campus.. i was just the direction-er). Having not been out much lately, we got a little.. uhm, lost? But it was okay. My favorite part is when I was reading the mapquest directions and they said "Turn Right" that's IT. No, turn right at elm street, just turn right. How silly of them. 

park point, the shopping place that RIT just opened in August.

After dropping Heather off, we went to Red Robbin! Yummm. It was nice to have some non-gracie's food.