it's that time again.

the best time of the year.

little 500 season is now full blown.

i've always had good reasons to love spring in Bloomington, and i'm thrilled that I just keep adding on to those reasons every year.

qualifications were saturday, and although i felt like crap towards the end of the day, it was magical to see everyone i love all in one wonderful place. i'm going to skip a coherent review of everything and leave you with a list.
*nicks
*the fowlers!
*hipster glasses
*jimmy kisses
*"are you sure? hamilton LOVES you"
*revstrong!
*ZBT quals and calling their lawyers
*anything that was said in the pressbox
*"can we share body heat?"
*PATCHES!
*bennetti
*"osterman is my hero"
*"My quals run is 'Kilroy's, Nicks, Upstairs, Kilroys'."

it was just a wonderful day (and a wonderful night before) full of wonderful people.

so in light of my long electronic hiatus, i had to neglect the blog and photo editing... so this comes a little late, but here it is anyway.
remember my wonderful friend emily? well. i couldn't be more proud of her (as usual!).... she wrote a play that was so good, depauw theater decided to bring it to the stage. a selection of wonderfulness from afterwards:







she's just the best thing.

i'm returning from a major electronic hiatus.

major for me, anyway. i just... got into this horrible stagnant funk.

i turned 25, and started my quarter life crisis.

i made a realization that it had been 2 months since i left the state of indiana.

and after realizing this, i became mentally obsessed with leaving the state as the only thing that would help me; i think i actually had a downward spiral directly related to my lack of travel.

and then my dad and i couldn't go to the grand canyon, (poor guy had a disc in his lower spine degenerate!!) and i almost lost it!

thankfully, a couple weeks ago erik and i made the spur of the moment decision to go to knoxville and north carolina, our first "us" trip in pretty much ever.

cherokee, north carolina.

a little bit from a wonderful saturday spent with friends and big sweeties.

i've said before, i'm always amazed at what brings people to my blog. someone googled ' "plobvs" means ' to get themselves here at some point this week. those of you who know what plobvs means, you probably know zach osterman. those of you who are unaware.... i would urge you to get the full effect and talk to osterman. but short and sweet, it's a combination of "please" and "obviously". it's the new "duh", only 10 times classier.

anyway. onward.
session at the vid:














that last one isn't the vid, but it's next to the vid, so i thought it counted.

love.