dreaming of martini.

sad and glad.

thanks so much Jill (@sweetlittlesnippets) for making me immediately turn on “Party in the USA” after reading your post and beginning to think about OU. :(

To be honest, i was thinking about the amazingness bombshitndiggity town of Athens today anyway because it was announced by the Princeton Review that we are the number 1 party school in the nation this year.  Exciting!  though that is sort of a double-edged sword, (de-values our degrees but makes us awesome) I’m very happy.  but i miss that damn place so much, and you can never understand (or knock it you haters!) unless you’re there.  

just like Jill, I started to think about the things I missed about my four years in college, and it’s hard to believe it will soon be two years since I was last starting my final fall quarter.  i miss running across the criss-crossing brick paths on college green.  i miss Jefferson Hall.  i miss Big Mamma’s being the core of our food pyramid and champagne slushies being our liquid sustenance. i miss cuddling up with my sisters on Sunday nights for our TV shows.  i miss long days at Scripps labs.  i miss cramming for tests at the Front Room with SB and lindsay.  i miss sitting in my room with (insert any one of my friends here) doing homework, looking at each other, shutting our computers and running out to the nearest bar for a drink.  i miss sprinting up Jeff hill’s stairs with Carolyn to get the DeeG as fast as possible to go serenading with new girls.  i miss yelling out the DG windows to the Phi Taus across the street.  i miss Randall at Endless Rayz.  i miss spontaneous cruises with sisters with the windows down, music blaring, singing at the top of our lungs.  i miss all my friends being in one place.  i miss working at one of the most run-down, but ultimately one of the most fun bars in Athens.  i miss not having a care in the world.  i miss Figleaf.  i miss Greek Week.  I miss Friday brunch at the sorority house where everyone has a headache and is recapping their Thursday.  i miss running on the bike path.  i miss working at the Golf and Tennis Center. i miss lineup freshman year right before entering chapter.  i miss running into someone late at night in the old kitchen and ending up discussing God knows what.  i miss dancing in the DeeG bathroom while getting ready. i miss recruitment and screaming our heads off at PNMs.  i miss giggling throughout chapter even though it always meant we were cleaning up chairs at the end for being disruptive.  i miss senior send off.  i miss the day where our entire pledge class got up, got together at the bar and then did our wills, followed by a case race and party. i miss everyone i ever met at OU. i miss the porch swing. i miss the wicker lounge.  i miss my sisters.

everyone’s growing up and moving on and i can’t help but think about that, especially with my impending birthday in a few hours.  i don’t want to grow up.  i want to be Peter Pan, and what better place to do that in than Neverland, Athens Ohio. 

October 14-16 cannot come soon enough. OUHC11