It's almost time to say "Na shledanou".

This week brought about some unexpected and time consuming endeavors that have made packing very difficult! My birthday was nice (but hectic!). I think all of my friends looked cuter than me on my own birthday! (especially since they're all beautiful :) ). I got my big girl license in the morning and spent most of the day sweating it out at UTK scheduling classes before running home to go to the Melting Pot with my family and then rushing home for cake and a low-key evening out with some friends. Here are some photos, there wasn't time for many photos as is fairly obvious:

artichokes, tofu, mushrooms, and ravioli ready for dipping

making a wishhh

cutting the cake Annie made for me and Paige's cupcakes are on the right :) 

Count Down

My flight is officially a week away, and to prepare, I'm going to tackle 1 or more things on my "to-do" list everyday before take off.

This is the Vltava River viewed from Mala Strana. I want to film the swans here.

Cake

I am currently trying to justify making a red velvet cake after skipping my run this evening. To be fair, I thought it was going to rain...

I can't wait to see what baked goodies I get from my friends on my birthday, *cough* Paige. Haha.

Karlovy Vary

The 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is happening while I'm going to be in Prague! It's probably the most important film festival of Central and Eastern Europe and it falls perfectly in line with my schedule. Tickets per film are only about 4 USD so hopefully some people in my program will want to work extra hard with me during the week so that we have time during Saturday to go to the last screenings.

Ticket to Ride

Fresh from the post: Passport! (replacement for unexplainable loss of old one)

The photo booth on my new computer is grainy...questionable.

Why do I enjoy this so much?

I'm not one to really like spoofy rap videos but I kind of love this...This man raps truth, Whole Foods parking lots are really like this, lol.

Disarray

So far I haven't managed to leave my house much in two days. The garage is packed with my belongings (which should now be neatly organized in my room). I feel so odd. I feel weird moving forward. I'm missing someone terribly and it's really putting a damper on the joy of coming home. I haven't seen any of my friends yet (because of circumstantial details I won't bore anyone with) and when I tried to go for a bike ride this evening my keys were suddenly missing (still to be found). I should stop being a baby. Yes,  I should do that next. Reasons I should be happy right now:

1. The weather has been nice.
2. Tessa is downstairs.
3. There isn't a bar next door to me.

My poor little blog

I have been neglecting it so. I will get back to you someday..

Currently:

Finished finals..barely.
Anticipating a big move in a week.
Figuring out how to pack a truckload of belongings into my car.
Looking for a new computer.
Scrambling to say bye to people here and to go to my favorite places before I leave.
Planning for Prague in ohhhh you know, 3 WEEKS. AH.
Sort of not really thinking about my 21st birthday in 2.5 weeks. (How can I be this old already? Is it acceptable that I don't really care about this milestone birthday?)
Starting to realize I have no classes scheduled for UT in the fall, nor do I have any idea what I will be taking.

But most currently of all:
Living it up in Columbus with some very special people.

Computer Woes

When most people spill water on their laptops, it dries out. When I spill the tiniest bit on it, it fries the entire thing and leaves me computer-less for 10 days (and counting). It is finals week and I've been hauling myself to the library to wait in line for computers--not efficient. These finals are just going to be super duper. RIP perfect Macbook.