BEDA Vingt-Huit/Neuf...I'm riding the BEDA Fail Boat

Ok, so here's the thing.  I got to school on Thursday and since then, it has been fun thing after fun thing after fun thing and I haven't been spending much of my time glued to my laptop.  And, apparently I failed at writing in this blog yesterday.  So that sucks.  Because I swore I wouldn't fail BEDA...and I think I have.  Because I missed a day.  Stupid, Ellen.  UGHHHH!

Anyway, so...yesterday, I went to the IU Outdoor pool for a Dance Marathon pool party...in which mostly all that happened was a bunch of outgoing, drunk (or really hungover) college kids got together to "raise money for the kids" and basically check each other out.  It was a pretty hilarious sight, but it was nice to be in the sun and see my committee members who I'd been away from all summer.  Love them all.  Then my mom and step-dad stopped by to drop off the rest of my stuff (and they stayed for far too short a time).  And then I went to Kilroy's (my favorite Bloomington bar...it was recently voted number 5 on a list of the 50 best college bars in American...*gloats*) for dinner/happy hour, ended up staying til 8, ordering pizza to a fraternity house with the friends I was with, consuming said pizza (and an entire bottle of prosecco between 6 people), and then going back to Kilroy's and staying til 2 in the morning.  So much fun.  Maybe not the most responsible fun.  But, seriously...so fun.  And I missed that. 

Today, I went out on boats on Lake Monroe with the rest of my house for a welcome-back-to-the-house sisterhood event.  It was fun, but things that happened made me a bit upset, and I don't care to elaborate here, so we'll just say I had a good time.  And then I reunited with one of my Y'ALL trip friends at Panera, and boy was it good to see her.  And currently, I sit, listening to my Mumford & Sons Pandora station, staring at the few cars that pass by the house, trying to organize my life for school to begin tomorrow.  First on the agenda tomorrow is teaching elective ballet...which actually won't be teaching as so much an orientation thing for the students.  After this semester, I will have taught advanced, beginner, and intermediate levels of elective ballet, so I'll see how they all compare.  Then I have Ancient Greek Culture at 10:10 and then, of course, ballet at 11:30...and whatever else they decide to throw on the schedule.  I'm so pumped to start learning Allegro Brilliante.  Yay life! 

Alright, Imma go figure out my life and try to get some rest so I can wake up for my 8 am tomorrow.  I'm sorry I failed BEDA.  Love you all.  <3

BEDA Dix-Sept...I cried in the car 3 separate times today because of songs on the radio...

Oh my gosh, how freaking cute does Diana Agron look in that picture???

Hello friends.  Today was another boring day in the life of Ellen.  My best friend from home was finally in town this weekend and we hung out last night (had dinner with her family because I'm their 4th daughter, watched bad television, and got delicious chocolate shakes at Culver's...yeah, our lives are awesome and you're jealous).  Anywho, I would have probably had another adventurous day with her today, except that she left to drive to North Carolina for family vacation this morning leaving me with my boring routine of working out, eating, and trying to accomplish something on independent study.  Terrible.  Except it was even worse today because the Y is closed so I had to drive to the Y that's the next closest and it is ghetto, to say the least.  Really old equipment, seriously run down, and I couldn't even find a decent place to do my abs.  Laaaame.  Another gym in town is offering their equipment/classes to Y members for 5 bucks a day while it's being worked on, so I might try that tomorrow.  Hopefully it will fair better.

I did teach ballet today, which was a nice change of pace.  I don't normally think of myself as a dance teacher, and I definitely don't want to make a career of it...usually I think I don't even like it, but I did have fun today and realized I'd been missing it.  We have to teach elective ballet as part of our major at IU, so this fall will be my 3rd consecutive semester of early mornings in the studio, but I'm not dreading it as much as I was expecting.  Plus, today, I mixed fun, "real" music in with the ballet piano stuff, so that was fun.  I even played "Summer of 09" by ALL CAPS...they all really liked it, which made me happy.

This evening I went over to meet my mom and Dave at my grandma's for dinner because my aunt was in town for business, so it was lovely to see her.  And we had meatloaf, which was delicious.

OMG so I cried during at least 3 songs at different times in the car today.  It was so pathetic, and I have no idea what is wrong with me.  I know I'm not pregnant...because that is just not even possible.  But I have no clue what is going on.  So weird!!!  My mom is packing up the car to drive the rest of my brother's stuff down to his college tomorrow.  It is still taking some getting used to...this whole my-brother-is-in-college thing.  Anyway...I don't have much else to report on my end.  Love you all.  Love, me

P.S. On a completely unrelated note, the trailer for Black Swan came out today, and all I can say is WTF?  I was so excited for this movie when I heard about it, but it looks like a psycho/crazy/wtfisgoingon kind of thriller, and it's confusing me.  I know ballerinas can be crazy, but this is too much.  See it for yourself here.  I'm not embedding it.  WEIRDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!

OH!  Also, I got what could be some amazing news, but it's too early to tell...ahh secrets.  There seems to be a lot of that happening today in the blog world...ahem Kristina and Kaitlyn

Currently stuck in my head: "Love Like Crazy" by Lee Brice...one of the songs that made me cry in the car today.  Ridiculous.  But such a sweet song.  I especially love the line "Never let your prayin' knees get lazy and love like crazy."  As I'm working on letting go and giving it to God, it was nice to hear this evening.