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No one LJs anymore. 

I have no updates either other than I am beautifully and amazingly falling in love.  I feel like a princess and the luckiest girl alive.

In Maryland!

DON'T GO TO TRADER JOES AT FOGGY BOTTOM ON A SUNDAY EVER I DON'T CARE HOW HUNGRY YOU ARE YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED.

Literally they were sold out of every single type of lettuce or lettuce-like substance.  No bananas at all.  Lots of other stuff sold out off.  Couldn't navigate aisles because of so many people.  Line to checkout wrapped around pretty much whole store.  Worst TJs experience ever.

Target wasn't much better.  Next weekend going in the earlyish morning for groceries.

In other news, got the grant I applied for to do autism work at UCLA late August/September.  Yay!!!  No vacation this summer besides weekends  though:(   Will have more money though- so what time I do have will likely be more fun because I can do more things.

~4.5 miles to the Santa Monica pier
~4.5 miles to Beverly Hills (My friends say they see stars all the time at places like the local Chipolte...)
Across the street from UCLA
A few blocks to Westwood Village (Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Restaurants, Movie Theaters)
Santa Monica Farmer's Market a bike ride or very short bus ride away!

I am so incredibly pleased.  Could you imagine living in a place where taking a book to the beach to read on a whim is a very real possibility?  A world where Whole Foods and Trader Joes is a block or two away, and you'd have to exert considerable effort to even find a Walmart?

You have no idea how much I've waited for this day.  Ironically, I move in the day before my 23rd birthday.  What a birthday present!  I'm planning on going to Disneyland (Disney gives you a free ticket for your birthday!  Sign up on their website.) for my birthday. 

I feel like the luckiest girl alive.  Thank you UCLA for accepting me.  I get to live in my favorite city.  I'm so excited.

If I told you that making hot, passionate love to you (since you told me that this morning) hasn't been the singlemost insistent thought on my mind today, I would totally be lying.

Today was my day all around.  I'm waiting for the next bad wave to come and take it all away, but until then, I will stay on cloud nine.  I also finalized housing for DC and committed to the apartment in LA after seeing pictures one of my future roommates sent me.  The place is actually huge.  No more depressed Christine for having to share everything.  Can't beat the stereotypes of the roommates either.  One girl is a 2nd year Economics PhD student and the other is a pre-med undergrad.  Both want an exceptionally quiet apartment and will likely have to study really hard unless they're actually geniuses.  Because nothing annoys me more than a loud roommate.  Although the undergrad will be a sophomore, so I'm sure I will end up feeling as though I'm reliving the terror that is organic chemistry.  I haven't forgot much, so maybe I'll be able to help if she needs it.

Plus, Frontera got my special order correct.  I didn't even think they would let me do it, but they did.  Yay for vegetarian burritos using the cheese sauce from the burrito de puerco.  I didn't have to choose between my two favorite menu items- they let me take the best of both :P
 
I'm listening to Enrique Iglesias and fantasizing about a dude.  That's pretty good for being at home. 

I think I'm sharing a 1 bed 1 bath apartment with two other girls next year. 

I never believed graduate students when they said their life was hell until now.

 

Tomorrow I am tackling Lenox, Phipps, and Perimeter in a single bound!  Oh and Filene's Basement (I love that place!)

Going into Atlanta in the morning with my dad, probably finding a Starbucks to chill until 9 am when stores start to open, and meeting Vivi at 11 to have girly shopping time!  Yay!!! 

My three favorite Georgia malls in one day, :-P 

I still want to go to the High before I leave.  They've got stuff from the Louvre right now...but other than that, I can't wait until DC.

If Netflix can lose money from people who abuse their subscription, I am that person.

Watch instantly is dangerous.

Movies, movies, movies.  Isn't this what summer is all about? 

Totally a bed/computer/movie vegetable. 

I move to DC on the 31st.

Oh, everybody should see "Starter for Ten."  Which is totally all about interdating on a quizbowl team.  Trandel told Robin and me about it, and we were gonna see it- but alas it was exam week.  Though, I guess that didn't stop me going to trivia...anyways, I rented it from Netflix Monday.  OMG, a blonde, intelligent, sexy female quizbowl player seduces other quizbowl dude on her team.  Yay for girls in quizbowl.

I was incredibly amused by the movie. 

I need to sleep.

Lalalalalala.  Not sleeping.

I'm very excited about my job at the NIH.  However, I'm not excited that it's near DC instead of LA.  Sure, I am significantly more excited about being there than staying in GA.  There are lots of museums and fun things to do in DC that are even free.  I just wished I wasn't going to have to wait until August or September for the beach.  I wanted to practice surfing this summer.  Now it must wait.

This summer without LA thing is making me sad.  And I shouldn't be sad.  I should be happy that I have the most amazing job ever.  Really.  I've strangely always wanted to work in a tech transfer office.  And writing the histories of products for the web...that's really me too.  And DC tourism stuff?  I am a political science nerd...and a museum geek; I've always loved visiting DC even though I've been there quite a few times.

But I am West Coast.  I am sooooooo West Coast.  And this is the first summer in three years, I am not in LA.  LA feels like home to me.  It is truly the place where I feel the most at home.  The most me.  When I step inside LAX off the plane, I feel that feeling of "returning home."

And I am very very very homesick.