Life lately [brain + photo dump]

Hello loves!

I keep telling myself I'll keep up with blogging better once my comprehensive exam is done, once classes are done, once I graduate... but the fact is, life is BUSY. I finished my comprehensive exam over FOUR weeks ago, and classes ended Monday...

So, I hope you'll just be happy to see me when I'm here and not miss me too much when I'm gone. Like your favorite flaky friend who is oh-so-hard to make plans with but whom you love dearly. :)

Here's a glimpse at my life lately. (that is, the part of my life that wasn't work + papers + presentations + job applications...)

I attempted for a while to walk or run a mile a day in May. That fell apart pretty quickly (#postmarathonslump), but I did manage to convince Pat to take a walk with me on campus one evening!

He took this sneaky picture of me while I was taking the first picture. (#bloggerproblems)

I celebrated my last Capstone class on a patio with my lovely friend Ashley.

 I ran a 5k that was 19 seconds away from my best time ever. (I'll take it!)

My wonderful friend Sam visited, and we went disc golfing! (aka the boys golfed and I walked around and talked at them :)

 This is what a disc-golf walk ends up looking like:

And finally, I had my last college class this Monday. These lovely ladies and I started together and now we're finishing together. (also, you can see in this picture that I chopped my hair off :)

Upcoming in my life: Me and Pat are both graduating this weekend!! Which means -- The Meeting Of The Families. My little sister, Anna, has met Pat's dad and aunt, but they're the only ones who have met. So my parents will be meeting his dad and aunt and everyone will be meeting Pat's sister. It should be exciting!

We also each have three ceremonies!! Luckily, two of them overlap for both of us. Pat and I will each miss one of the others' ceremonies (does that make sense? his business ceremony is at the same time as my hooding ceremony. booo).

And we're also having a graduation party Saturday! SO MANY THINGS.

And then next week, we're taking offffff on a trip to Oregon and Washington. I'm SO excited. We're going to hike Mt. St. Helens, meet Shauna and Tim and see my friend Jacque and do lots of cool things.

I am not sure when I'll be posting again. :( If you want to keep up with me, I'll be on Twitter and Instagram -- find me there!!!

Lots of love,

Zig-A-Zig-Ah

Did the girls in your school go CRAZY for the Spice Girls?

When I was in fourth-ish grade (don't remember quite for sure) the Spice Girls were everything. Our school talent show was bursting with girls performing dances to their songs or singing or lip synching and dancing. Everything was girl power and if you had the movie Spice World you were practically required to bring it to every sleepover so we could watch it four times in one night.

Girls also began hanging out in five-person clumps at recess. You each claimed one of the Spice Girls and you became that Spice Girl.

I was the last member recruited to my group, so I had no choice.

I became Posh Spice. Which would not have been my first choice. But at least I was a Spice Girl.

Now, many years later, Buzzfeed has finally given me the real answer.

I am Scary Spice. Hear me roar.

Have you guys taken the quiz? I've currently got openings for four Spice Girls to join my club. We'll hang out at recess, meet by the flag pole, and create synchronized dances to Spice Girls songs.

Who's in?? (Other Scary Spices need not apply.)