(Not Really An) Update

Hey guys,

I was just watching old beach footage out of nostalgia, so I thought I would post.  Not a whole lot to report up here, unfortunately.

Weekdays is mostly just work and working out.  Work is work.  I'm not really in love with what I do, but the opportunities are good and the pay isn't bad these days.  My coworkers are pretty great, which is awesome.

I'm "bulking" these days, something with which NJ is intimately familiar.  No ice cream based shakes these days, but plenty of whole milk and heavy cream.  Up about 5 lbs over the last couple of weeks, and up almost 10 since spring.  I'll be competing in Mr. Olympia before you know it.

Weekends are generally lazy, with some blogging and working out.  I used to go out with my roommate Zach occasionally, but his boyfriend is in town now, so we don't get out as much.  Every few weekends I meet up with a work friend, Matt, and his friends to drink Scotch and watch UFC.

Stephanie's fall break is Thursday and Friday, so I'm taking those days off and flying down.  We'll be in Elkin Thursday and Friday, then Boone Friday night through Sunday.  Next trip after that will be early November to Raleigh!  Really looking forward to seeing everyone.

I took a picture of my desk, which is pretty much the same as the last time I posted it.  You can see my tiny pumpkin though.  You know how I love pumpkins.

Can't wait to see you all!

Warren

RVA

'ello everyone.

Sorry to just now post. School is very busy but also a lot of fun. Richmond is actually a much cooler place than I was expecting it to be. My classmates are cool and pretty talented (one of them can even beat me at ping pong). And Meredith and I have been getting to see each other about every other weekend so far which has been nice.

The Beacherblog has been lacking imagery recently, so I'm going to fit the stereotype and make this post mostly pictures instead of words. Speaking of which, I just started a picture/image blog called SixOfOne where I'll post some of the stuff I make during the next 2 years.

This is the VCU Brandcenter, it's a pretty cool space:

This is my apartment, it has high ceilings and exposed brick:

I pretty much spend all my time doing work in one of these two places. That's all I have for now. If any of you ever feeling like taking a trip to River City, I'd love to have you and we have a giant L-couch to crash on that is approx. 100x more comfortable than whatever you are sitting on right now.

Love,

NJ

Confessions of Workaholics

Hola mis amigos!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope everyone is doing well! Kyle and I have been non-stop busy this semester!

Student teaching has been quite the learning experience for me. I just recently got reassigned a new teacher to work with. But no worries, all is well :) And in December I'll be done! Hurray!

Kyle has been working as usual. And now he's starting to apply to Law Schools! We're both so excited for wherever we'll end up. The hope is that we'll be moving to Winston-Salem next summer but of course anything can happen. We'll keep you updated!

Sorry this post isn't as exciting as dealing drugs or cutting people up, our lives are pretty boring. Which is why we all need to get together and hang out! I am super excited to do something for Halloween.

Hope everyone is doing well. Miss and love yous!

Love, Kyla

Cuttin' people up!

Hey guys!

I really hope everyone is doing great. It seems like forever since I've seen you all, especially since I have had so much new stuff going on, and I miss you all! So I helped Krishna move into Norfolk with his parents and his new roomate, Aravind, who is Indian, and from UNC, and was a bio major, and is from Greensboro and is very nice, so that is good. They both have a sweet apartment literally across the street from campus which is very nicely furnished with dressers and bookshelves that we assembled as well as an awesome suede couch with reclining chairs that we had to take the front door off to get in!

After I helped Krishna move in, I came down to Chapel Hill last Tuesday to get settled into my new place (the second floor of a very nice home, which is off Hillsborough St. so it is really close to campus and Meredith, of a women with MS who uses a wheelchair, so I have the whole second floor to myself! and she is very kind and is only charging me utilities!!!). She has a crazy cat named Lucy who hates me, which she made clear by biting me and trying to scratch me as much as she can (which fortunately is not very much since she has been declawed, although I think that is a cruel practice, esp. if you have seen the movie Bolt, which I highly recommend!) I think Lucy has finally come to accept that I will be living here and has been trying to hurt me less.

So last Thursday, I started a 3-day orientation, which has been awesome! I am soo glad that I chose Carolina, it is definitely the best program that I applied to and also the best fit for me. I have 26 people in my class including myself, and everyone is soo nice, it has been so easy getting to know each other and we are all equally excited about the program! We have also gotten to know the faculty and second year students very well, who are all so welcoming and awesome! It definitely be a vigorous program, but it also looks like it will be a ton of fun, plus I love what I am learning and it will be my career in the near future! This semester is broken up into 2 8 week blocks and this first block I have gross anatomy with a complete cadaver lab!

My cadaver is a kind old man with lucky for me, very little fat. The first day I dove right in (you get over the ick factor pretty quickly) and removed the skin from his back, and reflected his superior back muscles to get to the deeper ones, which I removed so that today I could saw off part of the vertebral column (with a bonesaw! which is definitely the worst smelling activity ever!) and we exposed the spinal chord!! It is all soo cool (I hope I didnt gross you guys out too much, sorry, I just can't get enough of it!)

So anatomy is what I spend most of my time doing, usually 1-5 everyday. Another group's cadaver has a tattoo of people having sex on his stomach, which is pretty awesome, and proves that there are all types of cadavers out there! So everything is going great, except that my car was broken into in the driveway where I live last week. I can't believe it, they broke a window in and all they stole were my jumper cables!!! I really don't have anything of value in my car, which I guess they realized a little bit too late. But, I was pretty lucky since a neighbor left her purse in her car and had both her car and her purse stolen. So I mainly have been busy getting ready for school, getting immunizations, fixing that window (which included going to get the glass from a junk shop in the middle of nowhere North Carolina), getting to know my class, and doing dissections!

I definitely miss Krishna a lot, especially since we really only get to talk to each other at night since we are so busy, and can't wait to see him on labor day weekend, since we both have labor day off, although we are not sure yet who will drive where.

I hope that everyone else is doing well! Btw Steph, I spoke with Cari today and she said that you were coming into town for her bday on Oct. 7th! I am soo excited and can't wait to see you then, we will def hafta hang out! Yay! And Angie, what time do you have lunch, do you eat at the Beach? I want to see you! And Meredith, sorry I didn't text you back yet, but we should get food soon (maybe this Sunday?). So, sorry this has been soo long, I am just so excited about everything!!!

Love,
Stina

Drug Dealer update

Hey guys!!!!!!

Figured if I updated everyone on my life maybe some people would update me on theirs, so DO IT!!

I haven't seen most of you since 4th of July but the rest of my summer didn't consist of a whole lot. Came back to CH at the end of July for a friend's wedding in Kinston. Just helped my parents around the house. Got a new laptop cuz I was afraid the one I had was gonna explode since I had it since freshman year lol.

I've only had 2 days of pharm school so far so it hasn't been that bad. I was very excited to see all of my friends. I don't think this semester is going to be as difficult as last year but ya never know.

As many of you know, I have new roommates (and I miss Jordan like crazy already). My new roommates are Eunji and Kashmira. Both are seniors. One is in the school of nursing and one in the school of public health. Neither of them have even turned 21 yet so I feel extremely old. Both seem nice but not nearly as clean and organized as I would like. It could be worse though so I'm trying to think positively.

I think that's about all the news I have so far. Seriously though, I need updates on lives, especially those of you who have started new programs. Hope everyone is doing well.

love, love, love
Ang

Update From The Empire State

Hi friends,

Hope everyone is well.  Figured I was past due for an update.  Some of the rest of you are past due.  For example, I have no idea if Jordan is alive at this point.

Anyway.  Today was a huge day for my company, Clickable, in case you missed my hailstorm of tweets and FB posts.  We launched a partnership with American Express OPEN, which is their small business unit.  Our software will be powering their search marketing product, which will join a lineup of other services they offer to their (6 million) cardholders.  You might have seen the commercials for AcceptPay, which is another of their services.  They will run similar commercials for us in the winter.  Here's a blog post from our CEO (my cousin) explaining more.

The product microsite is here: http://www.searchmanager.com/ac/Home.aspx, and you can find yours truly pitching our services offering  by going to the "Assist" tab and clicking "watch our video to find out more."  It's about 90 seconds of pure Warren excitement.

In other news, Lee Allen will be joining the Clickable Assist team in August, if everything goes according to plan.  That will be a decided improvement in the friends in NY department for me, as well as a great hire for our time.

Also, I have been/am being promoted to Account Manager after having been with the company for only a year, which is exciting.  It becomes official on the books July 1, but I've been performing all the duties for a while now, so I'm pretty prepared at this point.

Enough about work.  I'm extremely excited to see everyone on July 4 weekend!  I will be arriving Friday evening at about 8 and leaving Monday at about 5.  Stephanie will have to leave Sunday, unfortunately.  I hope everyone has cleared their schedules as much as humanly possible.  It's been far too long since I've seen all of you.  I hear there is to be a cook out one day, as well as much drinking of brown and generally as beach-trip-like an experience as possible.  Put your beacher hats on!

As if the July 4 trip weren't exciting enough, Krishna and Christina are visiting me in NYC this coming weekend, which should be a blast.  

Can't wait to catch up with you all more in 10 days!  Love to all!

Warren

Hola Mis Amigos!

Hola everyone!

The semester is almost over! HURRAY!!!! I guess only me and Angie can get excited about that stuff anymore... :(

Life is so crazy right now. I don't know where the time has gone. We've been raiding liquor stores all over Raleigh with no success for moving boxes. We're averaging about two boxes per shelf. We have 4 bookcases with 5 shelves each. It's going to be rough. But we're so excited to move!

Speaking of moving...the official date is May 15th and there's free food and drinks all day long for anyone who'd like to help. So basically I'm going to come hunt down anyone who doesn't show up, k :D

Kyle and Angie are picking up the U-Haul at 9 while I'm at work and we have to turn it back in by 6. Kyle's parents are also going to be around since they're bringing our bed down from Boone. Hopefully we'll have enough strong men to move all the big stuff. Kyle said us ladies are in charge of fragile stuff, like his TV and my china. lol (Just kidding on the TV, he'd never let me try to carry that thing by myself).

So guess who is spending 5 1/2 years getting a double major but probably isn't going to use it? You guessed correctly. I think I'm going to start studying for the GRE this summer and start applying for schools in the fall. I'd like to begin classes the same time Kyle does. I think I'm going to go all the way and be a professor instead. Teaching has always been my dream. But high school just isn't what I thought it was going to be. We'll see though, I seem to change my mind every week.

I guess I should say something about Kyle. He likes to play on his XBOX when he gets home from work everyday. But on the days I work late or have late classes, he does make dinner for me which is sweet.

Well I have tons more I could talk about but I have a lot to do today. Hope everyone is well. We miss you, Warren and Stephanie!

Love, Kyla