Jack > Dave

Well we can get to my life later but I have decided that Jack Johnson is better than Dave Matthews for the sole reason that at Live Earth Dave Matthews only played one song and Jack played 7! yes that is a 7:1 ratio, so Jack wins! By the way I almost got to go to Live Earth NY but I'm glad I didn't cuz I would be soo upset that Dave Matthews only played one song. But nope and its okay since I had an amazing day anyways and the whole thing, all 9 concerts is online... http://www.liveearth.msn.com/ if you are interested.

Well this past week was great. I finally got a break. I had five days to enjoy live and be in great places with great people. Drove up to Jersey with Rachel my housemate on Wednesday. We have been getting along great, one of the few people that I have met here that I see myself being long term friends with. We have extremely different interests but know enough about each others interest to have good conversations about them but we are seriously the same exact person. We have the same personality, we both talk way too much, are very passionate yet somewhat obnoxious people. We even sleep the same, on our stomachs at the bottom of our pillows. We also seem to even though having very different experiences but have taken very similar lesson from them. It is really great to have someone who may not know me horrible well but really understands me and just how I think. By the ride home we were finishing each others sentences. Normally it takes me at least 3 months of spending way too much time with someone. So basically it is just great to have someone I click with.

So where I left off. We took a bit of a detour on our way up and visited Philadelphia or more looked at it and realized we went the wrong way. It allowed me though to for the first time in my life to go through 5 states in one day, not just in one day but in 4 hours. So weird. Anyways then I made it up to the Shore and enjoyed a nice evening with the family. I love being in quaint little places. Which would be the great thing about living out here is that I could just drive up to the Shore every once in awhile. Thursday looked as if it was going to be a nice day but not so much. Was chilly and cloudy so instead of the beach we went to go see Life Free or Die Hard. Which was a much better movie than I thought it would be, and I new it wasn't the first one but I had no clue it was the 4th so I now have all the Die Hard movies in my queue. Then we played baseballish on the beach which was lots of fun. I remember doing it last time I was out here but its a lot better when the youngest playing are 14 and not 8. 14 to 20 seems like a much smaller age difference than 15 to 8. Its still big but getting smaller. Then we did dinner at Pete and Elda's which was great, although I once again did not eat pizza there. I know I'm the weird child. Then later went to a cute coffee shop with just the girls and it was really a cute place, plus its open to 3:30am. I would love to have a place like it by campus. Friday we went to the beach and it really was a perfect day. Although I find that you have to pay $7 to get on the beach ridiculous. Yes in many (but not the best) places in SoCal you have to pay $7 to park at the beach for the day (or 7 hours) but you could also bring down 4 or more people in one car. So for my fam it would cost $28 to do a beach day. That is horrible. Defiantly the Cali better when it comes to that.Well it was great to spend the day at the beach, it was a Red Flag day with freezing cold water, but I still spent sometime good time in the water. Nothing keeps me out of the water (except for Jellyfish), and neither the cold or the waves were that bad. After the beach I was dropped of at the train station and made my way to Princeton. It is a gorgeous campus and area but the more Rachel talks about it the more I think the only go thing there is the academics. The Social scene seems horrible and clicky and just not much fun, they have no all school parties, only exclusive ones. That would ruin Redlands. Well we wandered around a bit and got Sushi for dinner. Then made our way into the city after waiting a bit too long for the train. Then I had a great college night. Just hanging out with a bunch of people in an apartment doing nothing special but having a good time. I miss those nights and Ive only been gone a month and a half. Then we attempted to sleep in but it did not really work. We then went down to the theatre district to see if we could get tickets to see Avenue Q, but we didn't win the lottery which is cool. So instead we wandered around Times Square for awhile and then at Lunch at the Hard Rock. I love Hard Rocks, putting three of my favorite things together music, history and well food. I'm really starting to think I want to do my Thesis on something in the 60s and it may tie what was going on it the world and how music/pop culture portrayed/affected that. Who knows let me know what you think. I just keep writing down ideas, sometimes when I go back to them I don't like them but the 60s just seem to stick. Well anyways...then we made our way down to canal street where I bought myself some pretty purses and I am oh so happy about that. From there we wandered down to Ground Zero. It was really cool to see it as well as the plans for what they are going to build. From that we grabbed are stuff and came home. Part of me wishes we stayed longer but I was so dead by the time we got home it was really good to have Sunday to catch up. I'm pretty sure I am going to make it back up there another week, with Brittian and possibly others, who knows. Katelyn might be there two so that will be lots of fun. I want to go up Thur and stay till Sun exploring and what not. I wont have anything till my tour at 11am on Mon so I can just get back late.

That was my big adventure. Today we were out of session which was nice and there wasn't much else going on. My tour didn't show up and the most productive things I did were organizing about 200 letter by date and writing Dani a letter. Well things are good. I'm half way done. Only 5 weeks left and I'm home. Seems like I just got here but there is part of me that can't wait to get home. Well I am sure it will come soon enough yet too soon.

Love ya All,
Meg