and it goes downhill...

The weather at least. It was rainy and gross outside, so much so that I only made it to 1 out of my 2 classes... that's probably mostly my fault though to be honest. So here's the story: this morning I wake up to find what looks like a popped blood vessel in my eye, so I have to wear glasses. I made it to Russian ok because I was on my scooter and able to mostly shield my eyes. However, while walking to Russian on my crutches in the torrential downpour that is spring in Washington D.C, the hood of my raincoat is blown off my head, I can't hold it up because my hands are busy crutching, and my hair and glasses are getting soaked - basically I just said screw it, turned around and went back in the dorm. Good decision, no? I think so

topshop necklace

old navy shirt

thrifted belt

jcrew pants

Basically that's the only story from my day - ever since we got the final paper assignment for my philosophy class and it says that we can write our paper on Aristotle OR Marx OR Macintyre, I've just decided that since I obviously won't be writing a paper on Marx I should just stop reading him. I read the Communist Manifesto, how much else by him do you really need? Therefore I've been left with a lot of hulu time, as well as time to - memorize all the capitals in the world! Yes, I finally did it! As you may or may not know, I've been studying these for my geography final, and it's been slowly melting my brain. But now its done, and with some refreshers I should be good on that for the final! Yayy!

That's really all I have to say! Have a lovely evening :)

gorgeous day

So apparently Mondays equal awesome weather... almost makes them manageable, no? But honestly, both today (sadly a Monday) and last Monday were beautiful, in the 70's if not over 80. So last week I got to wear a dress, and today I broke out the shorts. It was a pretty awesome moment for me

coco love shirt

h&m cardigan

vintage necklace

martin&osa shorts

The first picture, besides showing my necklace, also shows off the adorable pattern of my shirt! Its covered in tiny little foxes, and I absolutely adore it.

Shows the detail on the back - such a fun, interesting shirt! Got it for pretty cheap back last semester when I visited my friend Beth in NYC for the weekend and we had a Soho day. Good times.

So I had physical therapy today and the good news is that I don't have anything horribly wrong with my foot that is making it hurt so badly. Apparently I just have a lot of swelling in my foot that is pushing on the nerves and causing it to hurt. Therefore I just need to ice it frequently and take regular ibuprofen along with elevation to make the swelling go down and it should start to feel better. That, along with all the exercises I'm doing to strengthen that leg, should (fingers crossed) have me walking fairly soon! And don't worry, I'm not getting carried away with myself - by fairly soon, I mean maybe in a few weeks? We shall see. I've given up on putting dates on when I should be done. It just leads to disappointment and stress.

In other news, I am sooo near Easter Break! I go home a week from Wednesday, and I can't wait to see everyone and get a mini-break from school before the hectic-ness of finals. But for now, I think I will just watch some hulu and eat a bit of the pita and hummus I bought for myself at the library... Yum. Have a good night :)

lazy sunday

Slept in until 11 this morning and it was absolutely amazing! Been doing homework on and off all day but honestly, and as usual, I don't have that much to do, so it's been pretty chill. The weather wasn't as warm as expected - actually, for a while, it was 20 degrees warmer at home in MN that it was here. How does that happen?? But still it was lovely, and tomorrow is supposed to hit 80 degrees - excited to break out the shorts!

zara tshirt

bdg cardigan

vintage necklace

jcrew pants

Bad news about the foot though: it hurts. A lot. And I honestly don't know why! My heel (a.k.a the formerly broken part) doesn't hurt at all. It's every other joint in my foot that screams every time I try to make a walking motion. Got to be honest, its kind of disheartening. But I have physical therapy tomorrow, so wish me luck! Hopefully Sarah can shed some light on whats going on.

It was a pretty fun weekend overall though! We went out to a Lebanese restaurant on Friday night for Jessie's birthday (she's a girl on my hall) and despite the horrible service, the food was really really good (I ate more carbs than I care to recall...) Afterward we got fro yo at sweetgreen - complete with candles for the birthday girl. It was my first time on the metro with crutches, and it went well! 

Saturday on the other hand was pretty chill, just hanging out in the library doing homework and spending the night in the dorm hanging out with friends. But its a good balance, you know? I just don't understand the people that go out every night - its just so tiring! And speaking of people having a bit too much fun on the weekends, one of the elevators was closed today for cleaning because some idiot threw up. When the elevator is your only option to get out of the building and is now at least twice as slow as its previous turtle- speed, things can get a bit annoying. Hopefully it will be up and running again tomorrow...

That's about all I have to say! Hope you all had a lovely weekend too, get some sleep because tomorrow Monday's back again (does it really have to happen every week?) Good night :)

oh thursday

Pretty good day overall - can't believe how the week has flown! I had physical therapy, got to be honest it wasn't as fun as Tuesday's session, with its exciting walking discovery. Instead, now that we have discovered that I can walk we've graduated from picking up marbles with my toes to having me balance on my bad foot. Which, by the way, is physically impossible for me at the moment. I have absolutely nothing in the way of ankle muscles, and it was actually embarrassing how much I failed at it. And my foot hurts. A fair amount actually. But I know that its necessary, its just soreness from the ankle and stress from a general lack of use. I'm getting there. It's been what, 3 weeks of therapy? So another couple and hopefully I can graduate to a functioning undergrad once more

forever21 necklace

old navy shirt

gap jeans

Cut-off head - remember when I said I wouldn't do this? It is actually unfortunate how often this happens, but as you can tell by looking at the time this was posted, its kind of late, I look kind of messy. Such is life.

Guess what? I now know almost all the countries in the world! In the School of Foreign Service, we have a geography requirement, specifically "Map of the Modern World" - a one-credit course based completely on the final, on which we must get 70% to pass. To be prepared we need, among other things, to know the locations and capitals of all the countries in the world. And with the help of sporcle.com (suchhh a fun site by the way) I know all countries - except the ones in Oceania. But does anyone actually know those? And capitals are a different story all together...

Ok I'm going to bed now! For this first time this week I get to sleep in and I plan on getting as much sleep as possible - sweet dreams everyone :)

best. day. ever.

I mean, in the grand scheme of things that might be a bit of an overstatement, but its been a pretty awesome day - my physical therapist told me I should walk in the dorm without crutches! She had me do an exercise where I walked over cones, first with one crutch, then with my crutch nearby, then without them altogether. And I did it! I still walk kind of weirdly, but its such a big step I can't get over it! Oh the things I can do now... I had my friend hold my crutches so I could walk down the stairs outside our dorm like a normal person, and - I showered in a real shower stall tonight! Not in the horrid handicapped stall, with its badly designed bench and wimpy water pressure. I mean, our showers aren't awesome, but I was actually so happy to be in them I didn't even care. So overall, pretty awesome day.

jcrew cardigan

zara tank

gap jeans

Now all I need is for the weather to warm up and to get out of these tennis shoes and my life will be perfect :)

Sooo, my outfit was just ok today, kind of simple, not really any detail shots or extra photos necessary. So I wanted to reflect my happiness with some gorgeous cherry blossom photos! Some girls on my hall went this weekend, and although I didn't go because not only would it have been logistically difficult, but I had a lot of reading, they took pictures and it looks absolutely gorgeous!

For sure will be going out to this next year when I am a normal, walking college student again. But on the bright side, we have some gorgeous flowers here too! Earlier we had crocuses, and these gorgeous red tulips outside of White-Gravenor. And we have lilacs!! I was so sad to be missing the lilacs, my house back in MN is surrounded with them and they smell divine... but I'm rambling again. I still have basically nothing to do. Before 7 this evening I had already done my Russian and Econ for tomorrow as well as doing a quarter of the philosophy readings not due until next week (working ahead? horrible I know). Ughhh I will go insane if I have another movie night in my room while the rest of the world has lives. But oh well. Today goes to show that I will be there soon!

Hope you are all having lovely spring days :)

beautifullll day

Today, it was over 80 degrees. I know. Compared to last weeks constant drizzle and bone-chilling wind, it was absolutely amazing. At times, it was actually too warm. Is that possible? Considering its supposed to rain tomorrow, probably I will regret that statement.

h&m cardigan and dress

vintage belt

Something about this dress: its definitely shorter than I remember. I only bought it recently, when I was home for spring break and shopping with my mother. And it's probably shorter than she remembers too... to tell you a secret (except I'm sharing it, and she shares it, so not really), my mother does not really approve of my summer-dress wardrobe. She finds them all too short. And yes, while I will grant that they are short, I believe that I wear them appropriately (and generally, like today, with shorts underneath). And I'm quite tall, so when stores make normal-length dresses, they are short on me. When they make short dresses? No-sirree those are just shirts on me. So there. How many years is it appropriate for a girl to where such short dresses anyways? Might as well live it up while I can :)

I do like Mondays - never thought I would ever actually say those words. But being done at noon is quite refreshing (especially on such nice days!) and a good way to ease back into the week. Don't think that will be an option next year though. Looking at classes for next semester, and not really sure how its all going to work out! I'm rambling now, so I think I'm going to be done... and watch a movie? Perhaps. Once again, no homework for the evening. So cheers!

rough day

 topshop necklace

 target top

 gap jeans

 kirkland sweater (as I said before, yes, it is indeed from Costo... awesome right?)

 vintage necklace

jcrew pants

My innocence has been shattered. Last night while studying Russian on my bed I look down to find a mouse scurrying throughout my shoes on the floor, not 3 feet away. A mouse. In my room. As most girls are wont to do (despite the fact that I owned pet mice as a child) I screamed and texted/facebooked just about everyone telling them to come save me. I mean, when you have a broken foot and need crutches, you can't even run! What is my life? I was almost content to just stay there, until my roommate texted me saying she googled it and found that mice can climb walls. And my friend facebooked me saying they jump. Really? Are these super-mice? Clearly I spent the rest of the evening in my friends room, despite the venture back in to set up mouse traps (which, may I add, was an adventure in its own right, one that didn't work out so well...). That's really all I have to say, it kind of overshadowed the rest of my week.

P.S Sorry for no faces in the pictures (they are from Wednesday and Thursday respectively, by the way) - as the post explains, things were rough, I think my will to take good photos suffered along with it...