Hello everyone! It has been toooooo long. My big news, that I'm sure everyone has heard: I GOT INTO NYU!! There were doubts for awhile there, as to whether I would make anything more of myself than a child tender, but it seems that after all I will be pursuing a higher education! I'm so excited! I have decided on political science as a major... I will probably be registering for classes within the next couple of weeks, I can't wait. I don't really have any details yet about where I will be living or anything but I should be finding that out soon as well. In the meantime, I am still with the kids. Katla is going to be a year old on July 1! I can't believe it, I have been with her almost every day since she was a month and a half old, it's amazing how she's developed, it's like watching her grow into a little person overnight.

at the opposite end of the spectrum from my pseudo-motherhood: I have registered for bartending school! My first class is next monday, the 6th of june. They go from 6pm to 10pm monday through friday for two weeks, then i even get a diploma, haha... but the best part is that Authentic Bartending (really original name) has a relationship with a bunch of bars and clubs and hotels around the city, so their graduates feed right into the system, so that will make a job search much easier. I am keeping my babysitting job, obviously, this would just be part time in the evenings and i think it will be especially good to have in the fall when I'm in classes all day and can't have a day job. I'm just excited for some interaction with people my own age. It looks like it will be a lot of fun. I went in the other day to pick up my workbook, which is a telephone book sized manual of drink recipes and bartending terms-- go on, ask me how to make a gin ricky.

it's been so brutally hot here, my apartment doesn't have air conditioning and it's about 120 degrees in my room. luckily KC and Baldur have AC in their apartment, that's a lifesaver.

Cailin was here to visit me last week and we had all kinds of fun. we walked across the brooklyn bridge one day, making the mistake of wearing stylin' shoes rather than functional kicks and no sooner were we in manhattan than we had to go to a shoe store and get some different footwear. Aside from that discomfort, we had a great day-- we went to the Met and met up with our friend Tiffany, who's on the crew team with Cailin. She lives in Queens, so hopefully I will be seeing a lot of her this summer. There are actually quite a few midd kids in nyc for the summer, so chances are better that I'll have some social interaction, although I doubt my abilities to function properly in an adult conversation given my everyday company.

Cailin and I also went to Tabby's bachelorette party. Having never been to a bachelorette party i wasnt really sure what to expect, but was a little frightened considering certain stigmas of such events. It was so much fun though, we did a lot of eating and a lot of dancing. As a testament to the extent of our dance floor action, Cailin and I had to hit the 24-hour drug store on our way home, once again for a change of shoes, as our 6-in heels would not have taken us back to Brooklyn in one piece, if at all.

We also got to see Aunt Lauren, which was great! She introduced us to a wonderful pizza place in the city which I'm glad to know exists, although my wallet and my waistline would beg to differ. I'm hoping to rack up a bunch of addresses and go-to destinations for the fall as a tactic for luring potential friends who are new to the city.

Let's keep this blog going! Miss everyone, love everyone! xxox