Antique keys at Vermont's largest indoor flea market. 

Riverrrrrr :)

Sculptures or dementors??

The field!  Best place for snowball fights and midnight walks.

The woods -- best place in the world to run and escape the urbanity insanity. 

Typing Words and Rocking Out

I am in the finals crunch.  2 papers, 2 presentations, and 2 tests stand between me and psychological freedom.  I'm currently revising citations (ick.) and analyzing budgets (gross.).  And I've decided that this process is made exponentially better be rocking out to some hard-core, classic jams.  Here's a quick playlist so you can better envision me head-banging in my room as I furiously type on my keyboard.

Dream On -- Aerosmith

Welcome to the Jungle -- Guns and Roses

It's My Life -- Bon Jovi

Crazy Train -- Ozzie Osbourne 

Since You've Been Gone -- Kelly Clarkson (not classic rock, but you'd be amazed how many words I wrote during the whole 3 minutes and 15 seconds of this song)

PS  This is just a quick study break.  I'm back to the real academics now :)

I scream, You scream, we all drive 40 miles for Ice Cream!

I don't mean for that last post to sound super dramatic, because we have gotten out to do some fun things.  For example, the other weekend, we decided to drive all the way to the Ben and Jerry's factory for some ice cream.  Now you might say, "Rachel, there's a Ben and Jerry's store less than 5 minutes from your house, why in the world would you drive 45 minutes to eat ice cream and then promptly return home? Do you have brain damage?"  And I would say "Totally worth it."  Short story is we were bored, Andi, Andrew and Laura had never been out to the factory and it was the perfect day for a drive.  Now, we didn't actually leave Burlington until after 4, so we missed the last tour, but it was still worth it.  PS I ate some weird combination of peanut butter ice cream, marshmallow fluff, chocolate and caramel.  Delish.  

Quintessential Vermont-ness. Red barns in a sunny field. 

This justifies the 40 mile drive. 

Laura, our fearless leader. Note the amazing trees through the windshield.  It was early November and we still had color like that!  Reason #2 the trip was entirely called for. 

Sunset through the window of our baby Subaru. Everybody was lost in thought just starting out the window and then we all agreed -- we love this state.