A couple weeks ago I was accepted as a contestant for the Miss Illinois USA pageant. Now, the question is…do I do it or not? The consensus so far has been a unanimous yes and the adventurous part of me is screaming “DO IT!”, but the sensible me keeps reminding me that A) I’m super [...]

Amongst the inside jokes my friends and I are continually forming during our time abroad here: “It feels like I’m walking on…rocks.” “That’s because…we are?” “I’m totally not as sloppy as her!” “I feel like Angelina on MVP night.” “It’s the bread before the bread.” “Hey guys, so what’s your 5-year plan?” “But why is [...]

“At eighteen years of age what troubles me is not that I am what I am, but that others are ignorant of my superiority. I am small, but my feelings are big — and great is my vanity.” – Sui Sin Far The original draft of this post began as another “I just had an [...]

Was going through some of my old Facebook notes when I found this: “Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle. The frog hopped into [...]