Aliens!!

Well hello again blogosphere!  Gosh, I haven't written a blog post in more than two months! So much awesome stuff has happened in that time - I went to the zoo (twice), and got slightly drunk one of those times... I hiked Grimes Glen again, went on another wine walk, watched Pitch Perfect two more times, and went to Fairport Canal Days and the Greek Festival on the same day with dearest Jojo.

 I love these limb-flingy things

 I spent the 4th of July at a wonderful lakehouse  with my best friends, where we put two people on one person kayaks and clumsily paddled about (and Dan and Nicole flipped twice!). We got to see fireworks all around the lake...it was so awesome.

I saw Despicable Me 2 at an overcrowded drive-in, played some awesome Kan Jam, had ice cream at the lake a few times, left my wallet at the sandbar (and begged Dan to come back and find it with me, which he did :) - what a great guy!).

I got lost on my way to and from Ithaca, but when we finally found a waterfall, it was beautiful! Then I got a fakin (Jessie's word, not mine!) lettuce and tomato sandwich at this vegan cafe, got asked to be in a music video, and gave a guy a dollar for bus fare in hipster downtown Ithaca. 

I also got to see Meg again, sing weird Indonesian karaoke, roast marshmallows, visit the Carousel Mall for the first time, and now I'm writing this from my family vacation in Cape Vincent in the 1000 islands. Our house here is super cool - we have our own dock and a water trampoline (which accentuates my natural lack of grace), and the house used to be a stop on the underground railroad! How cool is that!?!! Oh and the title of this entry - across the river (in Canada, eh), there are like 30 windmills - huge grayish industrial windmills with flashing red lights on them. And all the lights - probably 60 of them in total - blink at exactly the same time. I feel like I'm going to be abducted by aliens. Canadian aliens.

Anyway, I'm also feeling so preemptive homesickness because, in addition to all the wonderful summery things I mentioned above, I've also graduated with my Master's degree, passed my national licensing exam to officially become an OT, and accepted my first travel OT assignment in Lubbock, Texas.

My adorable little stowaway

That's right, Texas y'all. Oh gosh please don't let me pick up that accent. please. A week from this Monday Jessie and I will depart for our first OT jobs in Texas. It's a 2 day road trip where we'll get to see the world's largest fork, a section of historic route 66, a huge-ass ketchup bottle on the side of the road (idk if that's the biggest in the world or whatnot), and the gateway arch, among other yet unknown attractions.  Everything I've dreamed about in regards to OT and travelling is coming to fruition, but it's certainly going to be bittersweet leaving my friends and family. 

So that's what you have to look forward to blog-wise...I'm hoping that I can blog more consistently in Texas, because I'm sure I will have a ton of good stories to share.