January 22, 2018 My family is one of those families who has a gym membership but never uses it. That is, until this week as I decided to get in shape. I am a competitive dancer, and have been for 13 years, but my body still isn’t where I want it to be. I hate how the bottom of my…
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NOTHING I CAN DO.
When I was a sophomore at the University of Michigan I worked at a coffee shop in the natural history museum. I’ve always wanted to work with specialty coffee downtown Ann Arbor, but was too intimidated to apply for a job without any experience, and not a lot of availability. My co-workers were other students from all different kinds of…
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MUYAL – TULUM, MEXICO
Myself and 30 others loaded into two seemingly interchangeable vans as we tried to recharge our near empty physical batteries for what was planned for that evening. We were headed to a bar that was built around a cenote, a natural pool of freshwater. After a half an hour drive along roads that can hardly be considered such (I’m pretty…
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i am. jamming
the song impossible by @nothingbutthieves has literally made me happy cry several times this week. it’s so beautiful and brings back so many memories. do you have a song that does that to you? https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAISSUFpUo/
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i am. hugging
there’s a lot of things that are different in hawaii versus michigan. one thing being greetings. when i run into friends in michigan my initial urge is to throw up a peace sign, yet in hawaii its more common to receive a hug and a kiss on the cheek (just like in england). & until i made this greeting a…
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i am. bartending
& it might be my favorite job i’ve ever had. i literally get to talk fo people all day and listen to stories about their lives (& alcohol makes people wayyy more open). are you interested in hearing any of them? if you’re around rochester, come have a good time @pbrochester https://www.instagram.com/p/CL6-z9NFG4J/
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i am. not an “influencer”
i get asked fairly frequently what i did to grow my page. i am beyond honored that this blog that started from my desire to express the true me to people who had an unfair misunderstanding of who i was turned into what it is and is inspiring others to start blogs as well, but when i am asked how…
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i am. making peace with my body
i sound like such a cliché saying this, i know but gosh dang does it feel good not to look at pictures of myself in a bathing suit & think “fat” at every single one of them. it took me so long to get here (i’m talking like 15 years) and i did so many things to make it to…
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i am. an english major
& yes, i do want to be a professor. well, actually i’m a communications major with minors in creative writing and social media. but if i wasn’t already in too deep, you bet i would have switched to english. anyway, that’s beside the point. whenever someone asks me where i go to school & what for they visibly show the…
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i was. deferred (and waitlisted)
if you have been with me on this whole blogging journey since day one, you will know that i was deferred, then waitlisted, from university of michigan. with admissions released yesterday (& what feels like all of my wicked smart friends getting deferred) i feel like i can maybe share some insight. note: like always, take this for what it…
