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team spirit

centerpiece

music

lady

family

food

I love macaroni day. i mean the turkey is cool too but it really comes down to how much macaroni and cheese can i get on my plate without hurting myself.

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I hate being early!!

it's not fun being early anymore. my flight has been delayed an hour and a half. my butt is numb from sitting. I refuse to pay for internet access. The girl sitting on the wall near me wont shut up.

I want WAWA DAMNIT!

-girl

at the airport

i was nervous i would be waiting in line after line at the airport. i have had a great experience at the airport so far...this is rare. My aunt dropped me off, i checked my bags at teh curb, there was no one in line ahead of me. i hate going through security, they barely looked at my boarding pass... now that i think about it i'm not sure woman at the end of the metal detector looked at my pass at all. Hmmmmm......

i'm like 2 hours early for my flight. i'm never early, this is kind of exciting.

Only thing better than people watching on the bus is people watching at the airport. There's just sooo many people to secretly judge.

I'll be home soon. I already called daddy. we are going to WAWA as soon as we leave the airport!

--philly girl

i have a love hate relationship with CTA

i really despise public transportation, but thoroughly enjoy people watching. Of course the best place to people watch is on a bus or train. The Chicago Transportation Authority really needs to make my people watching more enjoyable. Frequently i get on the bus and it smells like vomit or dead animals—i know bums need a ride too but can we fabreeze them first if they aren't going to bathe?

i appreciate the crazies and loud baby mamas when they are not sitting next to me. You see some really interesting people on CTA. sometimes you run into someone normal who will talk to you bout how crazy everyone else is—that's always fun.
If i could i would ride the L all day and take pictures of the lovely/crazy/ghetto/ignorant people i meet.
camera phones are my best friends

i was on the train today and happy with my ride. i really love seeing polite people, they are wonderful. On the L people were practically tripping over themselves to get lil kids and elderly people a seat. Of course i was sitting next to the rude girl with her legs all in the walk way.

i wanted to smack her in the leg and tell her to stop being triflin. Old ladies shouldn't have to step over her tacky boots just to sit down.

Karmas a bitch, that girl is probably going to trip getting off the train.

-girl whose my mama would have never let her stretch out on the train like its a living room

i heart art

i love this. i stumbled upon this Brazilian artist named Patricia Ariel.
the watercolors are so beautiful. She clearly likes drawing women—women and art just go together.

speaking of women and art.....
i have always loved seeing Alphonse Mucha posters. i remember seeing the paintings/drawings in calendars, vintage and poster stores. i want one....one day.

officially in college

Yesterday i finished my first quarter (yes, quarters not semesters) at DePaul University!
its crazy it went by soooo fast. The quarters are only 10weeks but I swear it was shorter. It has been an interesting 10weeks.

i have moved out of my parents house, moved in with my aunt, enrolled in classes, wrote more essays than i did in my entire senior year, stayed up till 5am many times trying to finish homework, got sick 3 times, enrolled for next quarter classes, fell in love with Chicago.

it is still kinda weird to say i am in college. i knew it was gonna happen and i am enjoying being here (when i'm not up at 5am doing homework), but its weird. When i first got here i was hype because i've never had this much free time. i didn't know what do with it. Now i know. HOMEWORK—it does not control my life if i space out my work, but i'm 18, time management is still a work in progress. homework, studying, sleeping, eating, going out. its possible to do all of it if you keep a schedule which i don't. Next quarter i got this forreal forreal.

i really love being here but i cannot wait to go home and see my family and friends. i didn't think i would miss everyone so much. im going to be home for 6 weeks straight (great benefit of being on the quarter system) i already know what i want to do. TAKE PICTURES

i haven't been able to take many pictures here since my friends here have totally different schedules from me, or just have no desire to wander the city with me for hours taking random pictures.

-girl

only took forever for me to start my own blog

i finally have my own. i have been putting it off, thinking of reasons why i shouldn't have one. Namely i have too much stuff to do to.

Buuuut when i think about it i spend countless hours on facebook doing absolutely nothing. At least i can post something that may even be insightful, but above all [a]musing.

Hence the name [a]musing.
Muse: |myoōz| verb [ intrans. ]—be absorbed in thought.
noun—musing: an instance or period of reflection.
When ever i go on a random rant about something my mom (lady) says "the random musings of Asha". They are random but i find them amusing and i feel i should share, so i GoTellLady.

-girl (lady calls me girl)