Reasons Why May Was Pretty Okay

For one thing, it rhymes!

5/1:  Checked off my May Date right out of the gate.*  I felt like one of those people who does their visiting teaching at the beginning of the month (except I totally didn't visit teach this month...), but anyway--my friend invited me to see the Alvin Ailey Dance Company perform in Boston.  The performance was amazing, and I was really good at pretending I was one of those people who can make snobby conversation about ballet.

5/2:  My roommate had a birthday party and I baked a Nutella Bundt cake and it was quite yummy.  I'm getting good at this Bundt cake thing.

5/5:  We had a memorial service for the cadavers from Gross Anatomy.  I played the ukulele in public for the first time ever and it was not terrible.  It was probably not terrible because I played with two great violinists and a cool guitarist and therefore wasn't alone.  We played "Somewhere over the Rainbow" and it was quite fun.

5/9:  We had a Mother's Day-themed church meeting and it wasn't the most depressing/cliched thing ever!  A man gave one of the best talks my feminist ears have ever heard.  It even made me emote.  Then there was a luncheon.  Goodness all around.

5/13:  My sister turned 32.  We are old now.  Also I finished my self-defense classes by getting into three different combat scenarios and kicking arse in all of them.  I got some pretty bad bruises over my anterior superior iliac spines, but you should have seen the other guys.

5/16:  I took my Histology final, officially completing my first year of classes in PhD school.  I also did awesomely on the Histology final.  Then I went to a birthday party for a guy in my ward and rejoiced in the fact that the semester was over and now I have no excuse to be non-social.

5/17:  I went to a going-away party with a pal who is moving away probably forever.  There was bowling and I came in third place.  This is not bad, considering I haven't bowled in years.

5/18:  I invented a new theme activity:  Broadway and Bundt!  This means that I bake a Bundt cake (this time it was peach) and watch a musical (this time it was The Music Man).  I invited some friends over to join me (because even though I can, I probably shouldn't eat a whole bundt cake alone) and it was quite fun.

5/20:  I decided to undertake a very ambitious project in a very short amount of time.  It's kind of a secret so I will not write more.  Don't worry...it's not getting myself married off or anything like that.

5/22:  I got crepes with my friend Jourdan.  They were yummy.

5/23:  I went on a friend-date with the aforementioned friend who is moving away forever.  We went to Quincy Market and rode in a water taxi, which is probably the coolest way of getting around the city.  Then we accidentally crashed a high school prom and got in trouble because we clearly look like people who sell drugs to teenagers.

5/24:  I went home to Pennsylvania as a surprise for my sister, who has been very bored since she has not been able to go back to work after her surgery.

5/26:  They had a Memorial Day ceremony at the local VFW where my dad is in charge of some stuff.  I sang the National Anthem and got paid to do so, which was pretty awesome.  The chaplain was this adorable 96-year-old man, and when I met him, I found out that he was a paratrooper in WWII who just happened to land at Normandy and liberate Auschwitz and a bunch of other stuff...no big deal.  But really, it was pretty special.

I am still in Pennsylvania now, and we've been doing lots of errands and chores (spring cleaning and getting rid of old junk that we've hoarded such as owner's manuals for appliances we no longer have and copies of "Buns of Steel" on VHS).  I am going back to Boston tomorrow and I'm pretty excited for what June has to offer.


*I promise, rhyming isn't going to be a running theme...at least not deliberately.