what a gorgeous day!

i've said it before, and i'll say it again: i wish i had a laptop, if only to be able to blog on my balcony in the sunshine. it's a beautiful day! it's the kind of day that lets me reminisce about studying in my bikini on front campus and lets me look forward to days at the pool with erica, drinking beers and talking about girly things. i love this kind of weather. sometimes i think maybe it's not fall that i hold in my heart as my favorite season, but rather spring. there's this sense of joy, of awakening, of everyone emerging from their coccoons of clothing, everyone shedding their skins of scarves and sweaters. i love opening my windows and turning my music up, of skipping past the melancholy winter songs and reveling in the super happiness of those catchy summery lyrics.

adding to my excitement and general contentment is the fact that april is soooo soon! i knew, as soon as i made plans, that march would drag, but in fact april is rapidly approaching and i couldn't be more ecstatic.

i'm so freaking excited about going to dc, visiting nate's family and friends and saying hello to everyone there, wrapping myself up in this sweet idea of city life, an idea from which i usually recoil, but vacations in nate's hometown with him are the best. he knows the tastiest places to eat, the most fun places to drink, the coolest people.

from there, we fly out to new york city! i've never been to nyc, never in my life, something that surprises most people who know me. but i've never been! it's true!

i can barely bear the idea of seeing caitlin again, it's just too wonderful a thought. by the time we see each other, it will have been almost exactly a year and a half since the last time we saw each other in person and while i'm thankful we've been able to keep in touch fairly well, there's just something so.much.better seeing her in person. i can't wait to see her beautiful face. i can't wait to see her smile, instead of hearing it through the telephone. she and i have something so special and not a day goes by when i don't relish our friendship and feel completely in love with what we have, but sometimes it gets so fucking tired, not seeing her. this is the girl who, when we didn't see each other for a DAY, would shriek, 'i missed you yesterday!' and now it's been a year and a half. so to say i'm excited, and to overuse that word utterly, is an understatement. i'm thrilled, truly. and to able to share my very first trip with her is fabulous and then add nate to the mix, and it's almost ridiculous, the sheer perfection. a miniscule part of me keeps whispering in the back of my head, 'ohhh, emma, you better hope you don't get sick in april, becuase you're totally due for an illness.' i'm gonna be flooding my system with vitamin c, sunshine, and exercise. it will battle any and all of my vices.



from there, we head back to dc for a quick stop, then it's on to carrboro, NC! this is the place that nate and i have semi-decided we might want to make our home relatively shortly. however, we've never even been there! so we're gonna make a little day trip out of it. i think, weather-wise, it'll be fantastic timing and i'm anxious to feel out the sweet, small town that i think could be really perfect.

add to all of that amazingness the fact that sean will be nearby on april 27th and i'm going to go up and visit him while he's on tour, and april is shaping up to be the best month of the year!



j'ai voulu de partager avec vous, mes amis. vive les printemps!