DEAR 2011

thanks for giving me a fabulous spring semester with 4ouston and a new home at AOII with the best housemates of all time, watching me fail my astronomy class with Maria, introducing me to some of the most amazing people in the whole world, giving me the most wonderful big in the world, Megan, making me a certified bartender, giving me another ridiculous summer with Camp Terrapin, making me read Infinite Jest, taking me to Nicaragua to hike volcanoes and explore coffee plantations with sloths, making me declare my major, letting me stay with my wonderful DC friends multiple times, and watching me make some hilariously bad decisions along with the good ones. oh, and thanks for making Mike put up with me for the entirety of 2011. thanks for giving me the best friends in the world who put up with me no matter how ridiculous I can get. no thanks for all those sinus infections or for making my caffeine addiction worse. it’s cool, I still love you. 

2012, I really hope you can keep up.

P.S. started 2011 with Valerie, ending it with Valerie. it’s the right way to do it, obviously. even if we won’t be on a yacht this time.