Uh, right. 2014. Ok.
Let me call myself out on the three-month gap right quick: Lily, you haven't written anything in three months are you ok are you even doing the bike tour anymore do you still have an unhealthy obsession with waffles
Yes. To all, yes.
I'm very, so, so, so ok. I think some time last week I involuntarily cashed in all my good karma points (accrued from what I estimate to be my last two lifetimes) and as a result had the absolute best sequence of days ever. In fact, I think it may very well have been my favorite consecutive 96-hour block of time I've experienced. The 96 hours began Friday midday when I found out I was accepted to Harvard's urban design summer program; I'd been waiting to hear back about for over a week past when they said they'd have decisions out. Finally, I just called them and I was like hey guys what's up and they were like oh yeah hey cool come up here and I was like yes.
So, that happened. I flung my excited self back home from campus and my friend Jonathan shows up at my door with a bottle of champagne and a congrats card. And he proceeds to get me drunk off champagne and bourbon renewals as I scramble to get everything prepared for the Prairie release party that night (Prairie is The Fine Print's annual creative writing + arts journal). He sobers my appropriately celebratory self up with an epic eggs benedict creation and then we head to the F.L.A. Gallery for the release party. And the party was absolutely amazing and despite the biblical downpour, turnout was super solid.
Then the next day two of my friends, Diana + Jeremiah, got married, so I weddinged all day. Purely fantastic, but words wouldn't do the day justice, so I'll just leave it at that.
And then the celebrations continue with news that my good friend and co-editor, Sam, landed an internship with n+1 (super sweet brooklyn-based mag). Some serious vicarious excitement going on there.
And now that everyone's up to speed on my life as of late, let's talk bike. Bike. So, I had originally pinned my bike tour for May. I'd fly out to Seattle on May 7, do my bike thang till San Francisco/June, then proceed with my summer. This plan, however, was contingent upon some pending summer program decisions, so I kept my options open. Sometime late February, I heard back from Berkeley regarding my [IN]ARCH application (similar urban design studio program as Harvard's Career Discovery). I got in, was super excited about it, and decided I'd hold off to hear back from Harvard before cementing my decision. If I didn't get into Harvard, I'd plan on just doing my bike trip after the Berkeley program ended in August (no use in zig-zagging across the U.S. since it'd be like: bike trip in May, wedding(s) on the East coast in June/July, jet back over to Berkeley for the program...hasslefest '08).
Anyway, so now that I know that I'm going to Harvard for sure, I've decided to start my bike tour in August. This'll give me a week to explore Cambridge/Boston once the program ends, and then I'll be off to Seattle. But it's also very likely that I'll just sleep straight through that entire week given the intensity this studio bidniss is looking like it'll be. Yikes.
Dang, that was a lot. Okay, next post is going to be all bike. Promise. It'll also be up sooner than three months from now. Promise.
P.S. I finally switched platforms for the blog! This design is much better for on-the-go posting, as I'll be doing on tour. Plus squarespace is pretty dang great, I'm coming to realize. I was using IM Creator before and it wasn't really doing much for me; plus, I essentially had to redesign my site each time I wanted to add a single new post. Got real old real fast.