what happens when you mix fifteen year scotch and sparkling blueberry lemonade

the trip to dallas what about what you would expect: meetings with extended family members at least twice a day, making sure that outfits were spaced appropriately apart in between visits and that the french your father wanted you to know in reference to random wines and humble dishes from obscure regions “sous paris”, and revealing at appropriate times that you’ve “temporary lost passion for science” and now you’re thinking about art schools in new york. there were shoulders, tenderloins, wellingtons, flambees, puttanescas, maches, wines as gifts from friends who had recently traveled to northwestern italy, the west coast, france, andorra, siberia, THE EASTER ISLANDS!!!111….

it was a lot of fun. i saw the people i wanted to and met a few more awesome ones.

i wish i could write all of my secrets on this thing, but it’s probably best not to.

list:

1. wonder if kate is seeing all of the really good things in peru that i want her to see

3. hope that clifton is having a lot of fun in san diego

4. remember to be more romantic with boys

5. listen to more hopelessly optimistic music from high school

6. master french

5. spend more time with the people that i like before i have to go

7. remind jen how much fun we’re going to have together by writing letters to her