Kelsey, 20 Something, nerd of all sorts. Things I like: Television; Doctor Who, Veronica Mars, Bones, among other things. Books; Harry Potter, Paper Towns and anything by John Green, William Faulkner. Movies; honestly too many to really list. Art, I study art history and I appreciate many a good masterpiece. Sports (see I told you of all sorts); do not separate me from March Madness upon pain of death, also Soccer, and anything Olympic. The South, specifically Kentucky. Okay, end of things I like.

IT’S CAMDEN’S BIRTHDAY. SO HERE’S A POST.

Camden is an awesome person, so I felt she deserved a post today, because she’s the person that taught me it’s okay to be a super-fan, that it’s okay to want to dissect the innerworkings of a world and it’s characters. All in all, she’s awesome and I love her.

natfish replied to your post: natfish replied to your post: #pop culture is…

Its pretty amazing. He goes to Bowling Green State Univ. It has the best, and oldest, pop culture program in the country.

Posting this for Camden, she wanted to know where it was.

OKAY! We’re Doing it,

Camden and Kelsey’s School for Pop Culture Studies: Send in Your course listings now!

Fictional Cartography 101: An Introduction to Mythical Lands. 

Special Topics in Fictional Cartography: Mapping Panem

thedoctorwashere answered your question: If I were to be something for Halloweenl, what…

Amy Pond? Black Widow?

birdcage answered your question: If I were to be something for Halloweenl, what…

NATASHA ROMANOFF

birdcage replied to your post: If I were to be something for Halloweenl, what…

or amy from doctor who

SO the majority vote from Tracey and Camden is either Amy or Tasha. So if I go out I will be one of those two.

birdcage replied to your post:  

why in god’s name would you do that. i am so sorry

It was a hangover induced bad choice. So bad. but I can’t stop….

birdcage replied to your post: Okay my hair is way brighter than before. It looks…

just pretend you are natasha romanoff and/or a weasley and everything will be alright!

Camden gives the best advice. We are going to go with Tasha. Tasha could conceivably be disguised as a wide eyed grad student in over her head in Manhattan.

So it has come to my attention that Camden and I basically communicate through tumblr, even though we are friends ‘IRL’ or whatever. Because Camden and I got really close this year, which is awesome, but tumblr and the internet in general has made us closer. I just want to put this out there when discussing the nature of friendship. Because friendship is friendship…it’s all IRL, because this is our real life.

And because our friendship is (now) mostly internet based (because we are going to live 3000 miles away, poo) her influence on my life manifests itself if strange ways. Like, let’s talk about my tracked tags.

My tracked tags (the ones that are relevant to this post) in alphabetical order.

Cheekbones

David K. Webster

Donuts

Eion Bailey

Elementary

Library

Lucy Liu

Map of Panem

Merriell Shelton

This is a Twin Peaks Emergency

WWII

Yo kelsey

So yea. This is my thank you note to Camden for making me a more awesome person.

Attack hug:

Spring Break

So I know this is horribly overdue, but it’s been a rough month and a half since I returned from my epic spring break road trip. Which brings me to the task at hand: My 23 New Things Challenge!

Despite the length of time that has past since my last post, the challenge is still on, and my epic spring break road trip happened to cover several of my challenges.

13. Take a road trip with friends

So I did take a short roadtrip in January with Jennifer, which I was originally intending to count as this challenge, but fate had other plans. It new when I wrote ‘road trip’ I meant it. Camden and I were at a party one evening when the idea surfaced. An epic road trip starting in Baltimore driving south and then a u-turn up to Kentucky to visit home. Seemed like a pipe dream, but it tuns out other people were interested as well. Peter and Christie joined the bandwagon and suddenly the trip was becoming a reality.

Sure, we hit a few snafu’s on the way: Camden couldn’t come at the last minute and that made all of us very sad, Christie had to miss out on the first few days, and it was an emotional trip for all. But it’s hard to avoid emotion when your trapped in a roughly 6 x 6 space for 2000 miles. But It was amazing. I loved nearly every minute of it.

We drove a good portion of our drive down the Blue Ridge Parkway, kind of winging it as we went. We stayed with family and friends, and visited many of the places I spent my summers when I was younger. And I got to show my friends my hometown. Peter and I even discovered that in another life we might have met a lot earlier. His family is from the same small town in eastern Kentucky that mine is. Our Grandparents have known each other for years.

Here is a picture, make of it what you will:

Some Highlights:

Cruisin’ Norris Lake with Turkey

J.R. Hoe and Sons Foundry Tour (Peter’s Family Owns This Place)

Bourbon!!!

Our Awesome Tour Guide, Freddie, at Buffalo Trace

Tasting

8. Take a Vacation on My Own Dime

I am proud to say that despite all the stress it cause in my life, I paid for my portion of this roadtrip with money from my savings, after saving all my receipts and counting up everthing I spent, here is the final budget:

Food: $115
Misc: $44
Gas: $122
Lodging: $115

Total: $396

It was more than I had originally planned on spending, but it was worth it. I had so much fun, it was a really great way to spend my final college spring break.

6. Teach Someone Something

I have so far failed to mention that it was my car we took on this trip. 2000 and then some miles in my manual transmission mini-cooper. Which would be fine, except I was the only person who could drive stick.

For the first part of our journey it was just me, peter, and a long stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway. So I told Peter I would try and teach him how to drive stick. He knew the basic concept, and after a couple of tries and my excellent tutelage he could get into gear on a flat surface. He drove for about a half hour until we had to get back on the real roads. Driving manual is pretty easy when you don’t have to down shift.

He needs a little bit of practice, but otherwise he’s there. Some one get him access to a car and in about a week he’ll be driving like a pro.