i've got a tigress back at home, and i need someone with soul power

oh god i think i have enough time now to write a post. it's been a WEIRD few days. or i guess, weeks now. i graduated, it was so weird... so fast. the senior donee dinner was amazing: forte brought all his own wine, year 2003 for the year we entered slc, and french in honor of michelle meyers leaving this year. we drank so much, and then it was the faculty show, and then the dance - so funny. then we went to a party in mccracken, and discovered a way to get up on the roof. it was really wonderful, i love roofs. so anyways then graduation happened, i could write a lot about it but you know, it was a graduation!

the real highlight was that night, when we went to AQUAVIT. it was quite literally, the coolest and best resteraunt i've ever been to in my life. just imagine: jacobsen swan chairs, a utzon-esque undulating wooden slat ceiling ala bagsvaerd's outer rooms, poul henningsen lights, verner panton chandaliers...oh god.

we ate in the dining room, sitting in these very 70s textiled booths. each table had a alvar aalto vase with nettles in them. we ordered aquavit to begin with - i chose raspberry lime and tried vanilla, pear and black pepper. if you don't know, aquavit is a scandinavian liquor which is basically ike schnapps or vodka, which is surrounded by a lot of tradition and so on - i remember my swedish relatives challenging my dad and grandpa to an aquavit drinkin contest or something when we visited them. so we began with that, and they bring it in these beautiful chilled crystal glasses which look like shot glasses with stems. also, aquavit is by far the most expensive place i've ever eaten - damn. so of course this is one of those places where they give you 3-4 little tasting plates of stuff the chef is trying out, the first one was mushroom soup with sort of pickled shrimp, and then there was salmon foam, smoked tuna, and caviar. i started my actual dinner with this really famous thing the chef magnus makes, the lobster roll, which is a really thinly rolled thing of lobster, pickled apples, and trout roe...and it comes with this little shot of frozen lemon lime juice! i also had to get an elephant beer because that's a classic thing to drink with fish. and then for our second course i ordered shellfish stew, which wasn't really a stew, it was a plate of one of each: lobster, scallop on mushrooms, something else i forget, and some kind of flower stuffed with crabmeat. and then the water poured this saffron/saslify soup all over it...delicious. and then we had this rose hip soup with lime foam over it, and then we had dessert, for which i had a chocolate truffle with lemon sorbet thing. my mom was so excited, because on the dessert menu they had fruit suppe with pepparkroker, and she said grandma ina and grandpa helge used to make it for dessert, and she hadn't seen it since then.. i am writing all this down because it was literally the best meal i've ever had. whoever this chef is, i guess he's a young swede who was raised somewhere in africa, but he's brilliant. we got little packs of pepparkroker to go, haha!
oh god it was so magical...i just had to write about it so i won't forget.

so here i am back in dallas, bored as hell and both trying to get a job while trying to hold out as long as i can without doing it. it's been rainy since we got back - kind of depressing. i don't know anyone here now that caitlin's in chicago, and annicka doesn't come home for another few weeks. my mom took me to see "the lives of others" which was fantastic. not much to report otherwise...the long cold months of boredom at a crappy job await... i'm okay with it though!

there is a hospital inside me it's full of medicine and babies

what a week. work was due friday but forte said tuesday was okay so now conference week has extended itself like a bad cold. actually maybe more like...ebola. my computer has decided to crap out on me two weeks short of making it through our entire college experience together. i have submerged it completely in water, cracked the case, replaced the hard drive twice, replaced the exterior shell, and have dropped it countless times...its been so good and forgiving to me. annicka got a new powerbook pro this summer but i refused to my parent's chagrin. i love this goddamn computer and its tearing me apart to think i have to give it up. today my mom told me to just take a cab to the westchester mall and buy a new one, and i was freaking out, but then i shook the computer in frustration and it suddenly turned on. it's like a real person...

last night was weird. katie's cousin terry is visiting from umich, so that was really hilariously great - hes in a frat. everyone was pretty taken with him - he and jiddy are the funniest dancing partners EVER. i couldve watched that for hours..actually i did. we danced in jiddys room and it was fun. i also spilled beer ALL OVER jiddy's desk and computer, and of course freaked out. she's ALLERGIC to beer, on top of the wetness and beeriness. oh god. i hope to god i didnt ruin anything.

im very excited to be done with work so we can get on to the business of shopping for graduation clothes. unfortunately sarah lawrence makes graduating seniors wear CAPS AND GOWNS for graduation -- wtf?? fucking tacky. not like the academy, where we all had to wear the same shade of white and were led up towards the quad by four bagpipers. oh no, not like that. i guess for sarah lawrence we'd all have to be wearing fishnet and be led up to the lawn by that hookah kid. typing that sentance actually has actually got me feeling physically ill.

one really exciting thing that i found out today is that my dad got reservations for the night of graduation at AQUAVIT! oh yes! its the coolest restaraunt ever, check out the website: aquavit
its by scandinavia house, and its all arne jacobsen chairs and pH lamps and they specialize in herring! oh my god how did my parents think of it, its the most perfect idea ever. they launched their own cranberry aquavit this yr. i hope we actually get to drink some real danish aquavit at dinner but my grandma is coming so it's unlikely. i dunno though she's a white anglo saxon protestant, and we all like hard liqour right?? that rule goes double for us since were both wasps and a swedes (annicka and kelsey, get it???). im just so excited, i dont know if i should wear my black puffy skirt dress or get something new. i havent actually had a fancy enough occasion to wear that one yet but it seems more christmas-y. everyone wants to do a dress shopping day next week so i guess i'll find something then. i need to get my ideas down on paper cuz i'll be taking insane amounts of pictures and i want them to be only marginally embarassing.

whhen is bachannalia?