Hooray! Today I impart on my 21st year of life!
Most people are beyond thrilled this day. I mean, you get to buy alcohol, and go to bars, and... and... its legal!
Sorry, that's just not me. Alcohol has never been taboo for me. My parents were giving me wine mixed with water at dinner since I was a toddler, I've been sipping my dad's scotch since I was old enough to voice a question, and we had a general don't ask, don't tell policy in my house that only had the exception of jail time for serious trouble. (Nobody has gone this far yet, so I can't say exactly what the consequences would be. I just know that if we were ever to get arrested, we shouldn't waste our phone call on our parents.)
All this put together means I never had that burning teenage rebellious phase where I went out and got rip roaring drunk, even when I got to college. Sure I drank, but not the way most teenage girls do: wildly imbibing anything and everything to get as wasted as possible.
When it comes to alcohol I tend to skip the beer kegs and binge drinking. Wine, rum, and tequila are the 3 drinks for me: tequila for shots, rum for cocktails, and wine anytime (there's a reason I studied abroad in Italy). Not that I snub every other kind of alcohol, but usually I'm a strong believer of a time and place for every drink.
Oh, also the whole drinking in public think may have lost its novelty in the last 3 months where drinking wine was not only allowed, but expected at dinner. And nobody ever carded you. Yeah, those were the times.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
A Bookaholic
"Hi my name's Jackie, and I'm a bookaholic"
(Hi, Jackie)
"Its been four hours since I finished my last book, and I'm not sure how much longer I can go. I've got 4 books on my bookshelf right now and another waiting to be picked up tomorrow..."
But seriously people, I've got a problem. I average about a book every 3 days, and that's only because I do occasionally have to participate in the real world and do things like work and go to class. During the summer, I average a book and a half a day. Yeah, it's bad.
How can I help it though when I've got such easy access to so many books? Not only do I have all the books my family has collected in the past 25 years, but then there's regular book stores, $1 book stores, summer book sales, the LA county library, the online database for the library, and Goodreads behind it all telling me there are more books out there then I could ever hope to read! I guess a part of me started to realized I'd have to join the real world soon and started consuming as many books and stories as I could before it was too late.
Now, I'm a English Literature major, so I get my fill of "classics," and I genuinely enjoy those. (It's hard to find me a book I don't enjoy. If you've got some sort of plot line and a little character development, I'll bite). However, left to my own devices for so long, I tend to lean toward the Young Adult genre and toward the paranormal, fantasy, and sci-fi divisions of that.
But because I acknowledge that I have a problem, I've decided that since I read a lot more than any normal person does to begin with, I should start being constructive in my reading habits. Does that mean I'm going to give up my dirty vampire books? No, definitely not. What it does mean is that I'm aiming at 1 out of every 10 books I read coming from my learn to live life shelf, or as I've labeled it, my "quarter-life-crisis" shelf, because that is honestly what I'm going through. This shelf is a compilation of reading lists I've found with names like "20 Books for Girls in Their 20s" and "Career Books Every Young Woman Needs to Read." 1 in 10 may seem like I'm not going to get anywhere, but what that really translates to is about 1 of these books every other week. I've already read half the books on these lists, but the other half of them and I are about to become very closely acquainted. Those are the books that I'll probably chat about here (because really, if I don't write something about books, then I'm not talking about a very large part of my life).
(Hi, Jackie)
"Its been four hours since I finished my last book, and I'm not sure how much longer I can go. I've got 4 books on my bookshelf right now and another waiting to be picked up tomorrow..."
But seriously people, I've got a problem. I average about a book every 3 days, and that's only because I do occasionally have to participate in the real world and do things like work and go to class. During the summer, I average a book and a half a day. Yeah, it's bad.
How can I help it though when I've got such easy access to so many books? Not only do I have all the books my family has collected in the past 25 years, but then there's regular book stores, $1 book stores, summer book sales, the LA county library, the online database for the library, and Goodreads behind it all telling me there are more books out there then I could ever hope to read! I guess a part of me started to realized I'd have to join the real world soon and started consuming as many books and stories as I could before it was too late.
Now, I'm a English Literature major, so I get my fill of "classics," and I genuinely enjoy those. (It's hard to find me a book I don't enjoy. If you've got some sort of plot line and a little character development, I'll bite). However, left to my own devices for so long, I tend to lean toward the Young Adult genre and toward the paranormal, fantasy, and sci-fi divisions of that.
But because I acknowledge that I have a problem, I've decided that since I read a lot more than any normal person does to begin with, I should start being constructive in my reading habits. Does that mean I'm going to give up my dirty vampire books? No, definitely not. What it does mean is that I'm aiming at 1 out of every 10 books I read coming from my learn to live life shelf, or as I've labeled it, my "quarter-life-crisis" shelf, because that is honestly what I'm going through. This shelf is a compilation of reading lists I've found with names like "20 Books for Girls in Their 20s" and "Career Books Every Young Woman Needs to Read." 1 in 10 may seem like I'm not going to get anywhere, but what that really translates to is about 1 of these books every other week. I've already read half the books on these lists, but the other half of them and I are about to become very closely acquainted. Those are the books that I'll probably chat about here (because really, if I don't write something about books, then I'm not talking about a very large part of my life).
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
An Introduction
Hi there!
If you've stumbled across this blog, you may be wondering what it's going to contain. That's a good question... I still don't know the answer, but here's how it got started:
I spent the last 3 months in Rome with a semester abroad program. It was beyond amazing. I blogged about it the entire time, and when it came time to wrap that blog up, I thought, 'hey, this was fun lets keep doing it.' But what do I blog about, when I'm not roaming around Italy and Europe and seeing amazing things every day? That got me to thinking, 'well, what do I do normally?' and then 'what am I doing with my life?' And I realized I have absolutely no clue because I am more or less very out of touch with reality.
I've now been back on American soil for over 2 weeks, and in 1 year from last Sunday I will be graduating with 2 rather useless BA degrees and no real career prospects. So I decided to make this the blog of a girl taking her life and shaking it off, shaping it up, and putting it all back together again.
So here I go: 50% nerd girl, 50% society lady, 100% out of touch with the real world. These are the chronicles of a girl who will be joining the real world in a years time and has no clue what to do when she gets there.
If you've stumbled across this blog, you may be wondering what it's going to contain. That's a good question... I still don't know the answer, but here's how it got started:
I spent the last 3 months in Rome with a semester abroad program. It was beyond amazing. I blogged about it the entire time, and when it came time to wrap that blog up, I thought, 'hey, this was fun lets keep doing it.' But what do I blog about, when I'm not roaming around Italy and Europe and seeing amazing things every day? That got me to thinking, 'well, what do I do normally?' and then 'what am I doing with my life?' And I realized I have absolutely no clue because I am more or less very out of touch with reality.
I've now been back on American soil for over 2 weeks, and in 1 year from last Sunday I will be graduating with 2 rather useless BA degrees and no real career prospects. So I decided to make this the blog of a girl taking her life and shaking it off, shaping it up, and putting it all back together again.
So here I go: 50% nerd girl, 50% society lady, 100% out of touch with the real world. These are the chronicles of a girl who will be joining the real world in a years time and has no clue what to do when she gets there.
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