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I have a test in about 24 hours that I have barely started studying for. Like barely. And now that I'm sitting down here, notes open, I don't like it. BORED. CAN'T FOCUS. WHAT TO DO. BLOG!

I'm really angry that these girls in my media law class got a copy of the test beforehand and got 99s. Pretty sure that's cheating, so annoying.

Also in media law as me and Ralph Lauren were looking at shoes online, I uninhibitantly (sp?/word?) said: "Target fake leather boots look so cheap. *smh*"  And of course girl in front of me kicks up her leg and says, "these are Target boots"

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Never speaking again. I am so embarrassing.
1. Not 2 weeks ago, I wrote on my list of things to buy at target: $39.99 brown boots.
2. I do actually like them. A lot.
3. Hers did not look that fake.
4. Ok I mean they did. But who wears Fendi leather to class on campus?
5. Why am  do I act like such a clothing snob? We all know I'm 99% Target and Clearance rack TJ Maxx 99% of the time. (..1% for my precious BCBG gems).

File this shit under who the hell do you think you are, stop being rude and careless.

live by this

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. 
-emerson


success is the ability to go from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm.


Fall down seven times.
Stand up eight.


Let whatever you do today be enough.

Get over your hill, and see what you find there.
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

Dom

Hilarious as he is, I don't care what Dom says.

 I like being single because I can look at pictures like this and pretend he's mine. 

If I weren't single, I'd be with someone less attractive and probably less fun. 

I like the uncertainty. 

I like the hope. 

I like the possibility of perfect.

hot men

nothin like it

Look out at the Sea, there's your whole life

HEllo Hello! Back from IMS and getting back on the study grind. But I wouldn't just hit the books without leaving you a little view into what my little marine science adventure was all about. Because I KNOW you're all just on the edge of your seats waiting for answers- "What did you do?!" "Where did you go?!" "Did you see any dolphins?!" Ok i won't leave you waiting.YES GOOD BEAUTIFUL LORD OF THE HIGHEST I SAW DOLPHINS!!

Here's what it was like. One of the guys on the trip came running (or as fast staggering-walking as you can do on a ship moving 40 mph) to me sitting on the back deck of the boat and said, "SHANNON. DOLPHINS. COME NOW." Which is when I sprung from the industrial cooler I had made into a seat and bounded to the bow (front of the boat) and leaned back with my arms up screaming "WOO HAHAHOOHOO HELLOOO DOLPHINS I'M HERE AND I LIKE YOU GUYS A LOT." And everyone else on the boat followed to come see what the commotion was about. And I yelled up to Captain Joe (yes, his name is really Captain Joe) to slow down. And he did, so we got to watch my favorite underwater loves play until they flipped and splashed away. But not away. They then found our wake and started following in it. Which is my favorite thing ever. Seriously. It's great. Like magic. Ok here are some other pictures. Didn't get pics of the dolphins because.. just no. But did you like that? Think this is a pretty good description of how it went down.

My "team" -we were the Grouper Troopers- collecting bottom water samples

Marc pouring the Rhodenine B dye into the water off the back deck. 

Dye dispersing. We did this to measure the diffusion rates of the water in the estuary at this station. 

You can see the little eddys forming in different areas in the dye.

They happen longitudinally, laterally, and depth-wise. 

That's my smart talk for- 3D.

Aka, lots of mixing. 

This is what the dye looks like after about 12 minutes. 

We stop tracking it once it diffuses completely. 

Here is some sediment. 

Sticky, Silky, black. Light sulfur smell. 

Pretty much no oxygen in this stuff.

Make great face masks for soft skin. 

Yes, we really smeared this all over our faces. 

And other parts of our bodies. 

Like legs.

Here we are lowering the YSI instrument into the water at different depths.

 I was holding the end of the cord that has a little computer that measures stuff like 

Salinity

temperature

 depth

Dissolved Oxygen

chlorophyll

at the different depths.  

And then we record. In our Grouper Trooper booklet.

This is what 10 grand looks like. 

Behold, the YSI.

Marc likes pointing out the tea-colored water in our wake. 

The humic acids make it that color. 

And you can't drink water with humic acids in it. 

Which makes determining humic acid presence in our water extremely important to knowing just exactly how to treat and how much to disinfect it before it's okay to drink. 

Great trip! The parts that weren't so sciency, well, I don't have any pictures. 

But if you can imagine what a night before a cruise, group of college kids restless from a long car snatcher-van drive, our own waterfront cottage, 2 cases of beer, a big back porch and a lot of getting to know eachother would look like...

That's what it looked like. 

 Manteo and Kitty Hawk Thursday. Can't wait. 

You think I'm pretty and I like the way you talk. You like my music and I like the way you walk.

Okay so I can't stop listening to this song. And I'm about to watch Dexter and stay up too late and regret it tomorrow morning. But. It's not tomorrow morning yet. Live Like Shan #345: Live in the moment.


LiViN' dA vIdA lOcA

HOW YOU DOIN MIAMIIII

Here's a lil song for you. Love him. And his gorgeous lil 17 year old self. /ifeelold.
All my friends are turning 21. I still got a lil while. /imimpatient
I had a really stressful day. The kind of stressful where at the end of it you don't know what to do with yourself  because you're still in day-mode.  So now it's 11:52 and i'm all like, "Whaa where'd my day go"
and then i'm all like "Naah don't tell me I don't wanna know"
My legs are itchy because they're dry. It's barely fall and Winter's already like, "Suckaa got ya now and summer won't be saving you any time soon!" Winter hates me.
Kind of like Blue's roommate. Which I can't figure out why. But it kind of hurts my feelings.
In light of it being Monday and being that usually Mondays are so.. Monday and being that today was so.. Monday.. I'm going to think of 3 things that were good about today. In spite of it being Monday.

1. Great turkey sandwich on Ciabatta with pesto, mozarella, tomato and onion. And the sandwich maker and I flirted a lil bit and he gave me two pickles on the side and winked. But thinking about it now, it was probably a "You're gonna need those salty pickles after all those onions you're about to get on your breath..Heh heh heh. ;)"
2. My group in my advertising class being equally exhausted and stressed and making jokes about it. And when we were laughing really hard as we walked into class late, not realizing we were late until.. we realized we were late. /my life is awkward
3. Drying off from a hot shower and pulling on a soft t shirt and smothering your lips in balmy chapstick. Mmm. It's the little things, guys. The little things.

I'm off to upload some HerCampus content.
But first i'll leave you with this text message i just received:

"It's Caroline I read the message, you were gone Kelly said you were good at flirting I need help"

See that boys? Kelly said I'm good at flirting. So where are you hiding?
Come out so I can flirt with you. I'm good at it, I promise. Kelly said so.

Here are some things needed for C's arrival:

yep, that's pretty much it. 

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MY C

                                                                                                                                                   ^..see what i did there?