tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49818881631308190192024-09-08T06:51:38.481-04:00I rarely pass up on an opportunity to do something new, and often I find myself in crazy, random, and unbelievable situations!Spontaneous Adventurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532945560825281583noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981888163130819019.post-38850129972534510922012-10-31T14:01:00.003-04:002013-10-21T03:48:43.252-04:00

Thought for thought.... If money were no object, I'd travel more and have more adventure. I'd have my own TV crew to explore the world with me, showing others how fun things can be if you're up for whatever comes your way.  What would you do?

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I found this little gem while I was cleaning out my email...I think this was during my phase when I wanted to become a travel writer. Hilarious...but true. On another note, I'm slightly disappointed to say this...but I had the opportunity to go to El Salvador (yes, the country!!) this past week and after many sleepless (er, rather, 1 sleepless-ish) night, I decided to forgo the

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My oh my how long it has been!  I can't remember when my last post was (i know there was a pretzel picture, though).  Heck, it may have just been last week but I cannot remember.  I REFUSE to remember.  Last week was my last week of finals..EVER.  It brings me great pain to remember finals week and the many sleepless nights (and days) that I spent confined to the library

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So it's 2:11am and I am up wide awake, YET AGAIN.  I'm watching some lame-o on CNN rag on the President and the U.S. military tactics (I don't approve of this), but I'm too lazy to get up an change the channel.  What a predicament. PS. Someone I know who knows someone who knows someone told me of a person who may have helped kill Osama Bin Laden. It's like the 6' of separation thing,

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Su-Chen Pak of mtvU ! So, as you know, I was selected to participate in a focus group with mtvU yesterday.  It was quite awesome, especially after having taken video production class this semester.  I got to meet Su Chin Pak (pictured below) and got $50 for only 3 hours of nonsense work!  There were ~20 girls there from GT and Spellman and we watched a short video on sex/labor

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So today I found out that I was selected to be part of a small focus group regarding social changes and how they influence young people. It's for MTVU. On my way to fame.On another note, I was tempted to change my profile picture on Facebook to that of me standing on St. Andrews golf course, in honor of Kate and William. I ultimately decided against it, but its the thought that counts. My

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So I've tried the journals- FAIL. I've tried the pictures- FAIL. So why am I attempting my blog?? simple. This NEEDS to be documented. My life's outta control, kinda crazy, and completely random. So this "travel" journal continues not through my travels abroad, but through my travels in life, and the COMPLETE randomness associated with it :)

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Friday July 23- Sunday July 25Today I only worked till 4 as my train to Oxford was at 6pm. We spent this entire week setting up the GOM Aramis strain analysis system. The system is very complex and requires the precise positioning of the high speed cameras located under the glass plate. The field of view of the cameras to be the perfect size to entirely capture the bottom of the foot as it

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Friday July 16- Sunday July 18thThis weekend I went to Sandbanks (borough of Bournemouth...where I went last time) for yet another beach volleyball tournament! I left work early on Friday and drove down from Loughborough with Felix and Kristen and a girl named Holly who works for Volleyball England. Volleyball England is headquartered across the street from the Sports Tech Institute. It was

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Hi everyone-Sorry I have been wayyy out of touch on my blog recently. I have been awfully busy since July with travelling and what not. However, I will fully update everything to this current week at somepoint this week. You can look forward to hearing adventures about a bedazzling beach volleyball tournament in Bournemouth, a wonderful weekend in Oxford, and profound Peak District hiking and

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Saturday, July 10thToday Kristen and I went to Cambridge to visit my good friend Chip and his girlfriend Charlotte. We took the 8:40 train to Leicester and arrived in Cambridge at about 11am..not too bad, right? NOTHING like Oxford last weekend, geez! As I wrote about earlier, last weekend I went to Oxford..nothing like two fine cities to weekends in a row. Cheers to that. Anyway,

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Thursday, July 8thToday at work Gihan and I spent the entire day setting up our rig for our experiment. I went from not knowing what a nut, bolt, or washer was...to being a pro at using Alan keys and assembling aluminum posts together! The rig looks like parallel bars that would be used to lower oneself down from 0 weight to full weight on a glass plate. We are putting high speed cameras and

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Wednesday, July 7thToday after work I played football (soccer) with the guys after work. Although I was the only girl, it wasn't intimidating or anything because it is just pickup and really there are people of all skill levels. Unfortunately I did not score my hat-trick, but that's what I get for playing defense all my life, right? I think I assisted like 4 goals though!! Too bad 2 assists

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Friday, July 2- Sunday July 4thSo I was still determined to go to Oxford even if I would be able to meet up with friends for only a short while! Spent a veryyy long time at work finding a very cheap and round bout method to Oxford! Anyway, I managed to find THE CHEAPEST MOST INCONVENIENT ROUTE. EVER.Here is my itinerary!4:15am. Catch bus to Leicester. (above is a picture of the sunrise on my

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Thursday, July 1stHappy July! Can't really remember what I did at work-- Ohh yea, spent about the entire day working on a literature review for the experiment Gihan and I are about to do. We are going to be using a computer analysis system to map the strain on the bottom of the foot when a person is standing and then try to relate that strain back to a pressure profile of the foot when a person

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Wednesday, June 28Usual day at work today. Played around some, did some work, played around some more.Yesterday I was convinced to play football after work with the guys-- and I did so only on the basis that my friend Rob made a deal with me that if I scored a hat-trick (3 goals), he would personally buy me the Jabulani (the world cup ball that costs 80 pounds!!..like $120). Anyway, hadn't

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Tuesday, June 29Today after work I went wakeboarding with a few people from the Sports Tech Institute. Drove about 40 minutes North to Nottingham where the National Water Center for all water sports is located. It is all man made, and I greatly underestimated it's size before seeing it! It is actually quite large, and looks like a proper lake! Nottingham is also where the world headquarters

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Saturday & Sunday June 26-27On Saturday I woke up and went for a sweet 9 mile run at about midday. My friend Alex ran a marathon last yr and thus was able to point out some very good running loops for those longer distances! I really like running in the area..er should I say fields..surrounding Loughborough. Running in the country and not seeing any people nor roads really is so refreshing

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Friday, June 25Being that ALL of the students have left campus (sad), there is really nothing to do other than work, run, eat , sleep, watch football, and talk to friends. And the whole watching football and talking to friends is something I certainly do not mind! Tonight I went to a pub with Kristen, Guy,and Felix for a good bit of time. It was such a nice evening, and was very relaxing to

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Wednesday, June 23Today was a great day at work being that USA won the world cup in the 2nd minute of added time over Algeria. Landon Donovan did it again! England also had a victory against Slovenia. This means I move into the second round of our pool at work. I was nearly about to cry being that U.S had lost, but my favorite Donovan yet again pulled it out in literally the last minute of

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Monday, June 21stToday is the day! WIMBLEDON!! We were woken up by the sunrise at approx 5am, and groggily got up after a poor nights sleep. Felix went to get in the queue to go check in our tent/ bags being that you obv can't bring those in to Wimbledon. We got in the queue at about 7am and received our wrist bands at like 8:30. The wrist bands represented what court you had a guaranteed

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Sunday, June 20thToday we woke up at like noon...maybe because we stayed up soo late playing SingStar (ey yai yaii). Anyway, we went out to lunch/ breakfast at a little pub nearby and then off we were on the Tube to Wimbledon!!! Even the Wimbledon tube stop had a mini- turf tennis court. Exciting!! Because we had planned to get excellent tickets, we decided we just HAD to campout the day before.

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Saturday, June 19thAlthough I stayed out quite late last night, Kristin and I woke up early this morning to catch the train to London. LONDON!! Felix invited me to go to Wimbledon this weekend and camp out on Sunday for the opening day (Monday). Kristen, the other intern from MIT, also came with us as did Rob. Rob was the guy who we went with to Bournemouth for the beach volleyball weekend (

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Friday, June 18This was the last night that all my friends from David Collett were here, so naturally we all got together and had one last hoorah before everyone headed home for the summer.Anyway, went to FND, and boy was it jam packed with students celebrating the close of term! SO FUN! I am seriously going to miss everyone I met SO much, and I had SOooOOoo much fun this past 1.5 months. If

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Sunday June 13-Thursday June 17Hi all,So this week I was pretty tired from the weekends craziness and did nothing too worthy of mentioning. I'm back on and in full swing with my training schedule for Georgia Tech cross country, so running/stretching/exercises/showering probably take about 1.5-2 hours daily. I wake up at 8ish, at work by 9ish, have fun all day, eat dinner 5:30-6ish, talk to

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