Where in the world...

...is Whitney?

These are the days I wish my name was Carmen Sandiego. Just for the sole purpose of using it as a catchy title. I guess it wouldn't be so bad also having a theme song but I think I'm getting off track.

The purpose of this posting is to update all my wonderful readers with my whereabouts. I took a lovely/lengthy hiatus from blogging because I thought if I waited long enough I'd actually have something to update the world with...like a job. But alas, here I am a few months down the road and still jobless so you are getting an update on where I've moved myself to.

So, where am I? I am in Austin, Tx and apparently also in what feels like Hell for multiple reasons. Let me break them down for you:

1) the steady temperature here is 105+ degrees.

--I really wish I was joking but I'm not. I could wake up at 5 am, turn on my car (because that's all how we tell how hot it is), and read triple digits. I could also repeat this when the sun goes down circa 10pm and it would be the same deal.--

2) I'm poor

--like, literally. so poor that I now have an allowance that I get from my parents that covers everything from the grocery store, eating out, drinking, shopping, to anything/everything else. I urge all of you to try to live on $50 a week...go ahead, try.--

3) I ran out of makeup today so now I'm not only poor but I am now poor and ugly...can it get ANY worse, people?

--if you know me you know my makeup and you also know that $50 won't cut it. guess I won't be eating/drinking/living for two weeks. Which is actually fine because I shouldn't go out in public without my warpaint on--

Now, I don't want to seem ungrateful because all in all I have it much better than 85% of the population. I don't pay rent (thank youuuu seester), I still get an allowance (thank youuu mom and dad), and even though I'm miserable I get to live another day healthy as can be.

Other than Austin feeling like Hell it actually is great. Great food, great people, great times. When I first got here (three months ago to the day) I made a list of the things I wanted to do. I don't think many of you are going to be surprised when you hear that the list was 99.9% full of places to eat. Here is where I learned a big lesson...

--When moving to a new place you do NOT need to eat at all the places you've put on your list within the first month. You have MOVED to this place and those places you want to eat at aren't going anywhere and neither are you. So for the sake of your skinny jeans PACE YOURSELF!--

That being said Austin is great for eating. It is also great for making friends because everyone is so nice. I haven't met one person that didn't want me to join their posse. Now, that seems like bragging but it's the truth. I'm sure being as cool as I am hasn't hurt in the friendmaking department but the point here is that everyone accepts you for who you are not knowing you and will instantly invite you somewhere and be yo fran which is real nice when you are real lonely.

Now that I have given you an update on where I am and what I am not doing with my life I am going to go continue to not do what I do. But, I will leave you with a preview of posts to come with their titles: Long Distance Friendships and How to Live on 50 dolla.

--love.whit--

It's game day in athens.

Because I had an internship that revolved around game day during football season I missed out on a lot of the great things that Athens has to offer on game day. The tailgating, the friends, the seats to watch the game, I can say that this fall I missed all of those things....not to mention that I had to dress like a lezbo in a polo, shorts, and sneaks but that's neither here nor there. Now that fall has passed and football season is gone it is time to pay attention to basketball.

I'm not going to lie, mainly because I'm not a liar, but also because anyone reading this knows that Athens isn't exactly the hot spot for college hoops. Whenever basketball season rolls around Athens seems to hibernate but not this year. Actually, in being completely honest I had been neglecting anything happening at the coliseum until my roomie reminded me I had two games to say that I had gone to one, whoopsie. So here it is wednesday, at the office, at the end of basketball season, and I'm officially going to my first game of the 2011 season.

I've decided to make this day as game day as it can be. After I get off work I will commute home, ie travel 5miles to my APT. I will change into some red and black attire and wait until my bff jack picks me up. Then we will drive to a prime parking spot, walk to cali'n'titos, drink some BYOBs, and walk some more to the game. I'm sorry if I have let you down in making this day as game day as can be but its a wednesday night...I can only do so much. Since I haven't been wandering from tailgate to tailgate I have had plenty of time sitting here at the office being productive to practice my sideline cheers, plan my gametime eats, anddd figure out how many freebies I can take home from the game and put into the hoarding closet at the APT. As it nears 5:30 and I get to leave the office anddd as wednesday transforms into game day I leave you with this...GO DAWGS and to hell with Vanderbilttttt.

The Past...

Have you ever stopped and looked back into the past? Thought about the decisions you've made or the mistakes that you wish you could take back? I'm sure most people don't sit around thinking about the past because there is no way to change it but lately I have been thinking about the past I have created for myself mostly because it has shaped the present I live in and I have began to wonder, if I had known where my past decisions would bring me would I have made the same ones?

I do not think that there is an exact answer for this one question and I guess that is part of the fun in playing the game. As I sit here writing this blog for all to see I'm plagued with my past...no one should be plagued by their past. If you have ever watched the Butterfly Effect you will know that one small action leads to a sequence of events and one change sets off another sequence. So, in looking at the past and at all my decisions be them good or bad, I have determined that I have to take them all for that they are worth. If I went back and changed one small mistake I could possibly be changing one great accomplishment.

There is a reason that the past is the past. The sooner that we realize this the sooner we can accept the gift that is the future and live in the present that is today. And if you are wondering why I've taken the sudden stroll down memory lane there is a simple explanation and that is that history should not be repeated....lessons learned, experienced gained, tomorrow is a new day, live.