Can you feel it under your skin?

Can we just talk about this weekend. So much goodness.

Friday, I went to The Happy Show at the Chicago Cultural Center.  It is free and runs until end of September, so if you are in Chicago, you must must go. I loved the simplicity and truth, and there were interactive elements as well, including riding a bicycle and free gum. Always a plus.

Saturday, my high school friend visited me and somehow scored two free One Direction tickets! We joined preteen girls screaming over five boys who were not all that enthusiastic about their songs and seemed slightly hungover and grumpy. However seeing my friend for a day and dancing was so much fun. It made me slightly jealous of these preteen girls who seem to have no worries in my eyes, but then I remembered they were in middle school and all jealousy vanished.

Sunday, I went to see the Oh Hellos. Let me tell you, the Oh Hellos are great live! Maybe the best I've ever seen. They danced, laughed, jumped, and seemed so genuinely enthusiastic and joyful to play music with each other. I would definitely see them again, and I've been listening to their songs on repeat all day at work. The Lament of Eustace Scrubb was amazing live. Oh man that energy. The post title is from Second Child, Restless Child.

So that was a high. After reading my friends' blogs about their summers in Athens, Greece and cross country biking, I gotta be proud of my little moments of excitement even if they pale in comparison :)

If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.

Thomas Dworzak

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, 

and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 

‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”

- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

I got a love that keeps me waiting

Wait, this video. I love it so much. Work it. I be dancin like him during my study breaks.

 

Ah, he got the velcros

It is annoying to do that thing called homework again. But what gets me through is listening to Macklemore. Check out this video of Macklemore performing Same Love, Thrift Shop, and Can't Hold Us for npr music. He is a genius.

The further out you look, the further out you'll be

springtime from Olivia Rae James on Vimeo.


This may be my favorite video ever. Can I please be her? I posted her photography earlier, when she traveled in Europe for a year. Also check out how adorable she and her boyfriend are. Sigh. The post title comes from the song in the video, The Next Time Around by Little Joy.


Have a lovely weekend! I shall be moving into my first apartment tomorrow! Ooh ooh.

London style

All moved in!  I feel a little discombobulated as classes haven't started yet, and I am just floating around campus.  As nerdy as this may sound, I cannot wait to start some of my classes, particularly my English ones.  Speaking of English.... check out this cool video of fashion throughout the years in London (nice segway eh?).  Ugh I so love style from the 1940s :)

I'll take you home if you don't leave me at the front door

I really could live in this coffee shop.  It is the only place I can make myself update this on a regular basis and get my favorite breakfast (after listening for a good five minutes about the barista's terrible morning of having his bike seat stolen... just give me the coffee man, just kidding he really was lovely...)

On a happy note, i love this proposal video so much.  I don't know what my favorite part is: the literal shaking of the hands to match the lyrics, the i heart you t shirts, or the awkward oops i forgot your bag at the end.

Celebrations!

Yesterday was t-shirt weather and today its snowing!  Such is Texas weather.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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