Monday, August 16, 2010

Emily is my Buddy

So...Emily made me this photo album before I left for North Carolina that literally brought me to tears. I mean, I was really emotional! It chronicled our life together from girl scouts to college, showing images of every school play, cookie party, and college party in between. Then it hit me - Emily and I have been friends longer than most people in our generation will be married (sad, but true). I wanted to repay in my own geeky way so I made this Prezi...Enjoy, Emily!


Sunday, August 1, 2010

Embunny: The Art of Unemployment, Hereafter Known as "Postgraduate Bliss"

While Oolong is busy preparing to save lives, Sammy to save the physical world, Grass to save the internets and North Carolina, and Chris Seale to save.... academia?.... Embunny is busy with some of her own, equally challenging and blissful activities:

Saving postgraduate hope and quality of life.

Embunny finished her indentured servitude to the
Alumni Association mid-June, packed her bags, and moved back to her family home of 16 years. Severing ties with Charlottesville (minus midsummers, Grammy, and necessitated returns for OSG family dinners), Embunny felt free, free as could be. She ignored her inbox. She went museum-hopping. She gave her lifesamples blog some TLC. She caught up on America's Next Top Model reruns, 2009 and 2010 blockbuster hits, and developed a new addiction to HGTV. She embraced new culinary endeavors, branching out of the baking realm and touching raw meat for the first time... ever. An ill-fated "pita night" aside, she cooked dinner for her family each night and embraced her true calling as a
housewife. She traveled from city to city, across Virginia, living out of her car and visiting friends. Ferry rides, fruit picking, water aerobics, zumba classes, Trader Joe's, a weekly kickball and flip-cup league, going to the lake, 1000 piece puzzles, and a nightly glass of wine have made up the majority of Embunny's time.

That's right, all you world-saving, employed, salaried, studious, educated, driven, and going-places-in-life OSG followers - you're jealous.
Now I'm off to paint a wardrobe and cabinet with a nice nightcap of Cabernet Sauvignon.