travel diary 3

i'm having a thai food obsession.



when i'm out on the road i make sure to google thai restaurants and i frequent that restaurant until i go on to another city.

i especially love pad thai. actually, that's all i ever order. i feel as if i'm a food critic. so, since i am kind of a pad thai aficionado i wanted to share my best and worst thai restaurant picks.

best:

lemongrass in macon, georgia

the pad thai comes with sauteed tofu which is so tasty. the lunch prices are great and the decor of the restaurant reads young urban professional. the pad thai has a very clean and healthy look.

runner up:

chiriyas in savannah, georgia

what makes the entree so appealing is that every plate comes with a fresh rose on the side. the decor is 100% asian. i love it!

mediocre:

emerald thai in birmingham, al

the ambiance for this restaurant was great, but the price not so much. the pad thai was awesome, but too expensive and little. for $17 i would have liked a little more on my plate.

lek's railroad thai in montgomery, al

just alright

worst:

coconut asian bistro in tifton, georgia

the pad thai was awful. no flavor no jazz just blah. i kinda wanted my money back. but i did order a tiramisu and it was FABULOUS! i then went back again and ordered a coconut soup and spring rolls which was a bit better.

my next experience with pad thai will probably occur in a few days when i journey to SEATTLE, so i will be sure to let you all know how that goes.

travel diary 2

valdosta waycross douglas tifton

over the years, while sitting behind a table at college fairs, i've made several observations about the high school students i've seen and frankly, if these are our future leaders i pray not to live to old age. below is the most random things i've seen and encountered.

1. why do so many high schools students have massive visible tattoos? do parents actually go with their children to a tattoo shop and sign a consent that allows their 16 year olds to receive tattoos? or do kids go out on their 18th birthday and get every tattoo they've ever wanted in one day?

2. has no one ever told a child that if you decide to take a tech prep program in high school that you've pretty much decided that you don't want to go to college?

3. why do the dumbest kids want to be doctors? why do the most unfashionable kids want to major in fashion?

4. student: do y'all have a medical school?
me: no, but we have biology and a pre medical program.
student: oh, I don't want to have to transfer schools. i just want to go to medical school
do you really think you're just going to graduate high school and be allowed to go straight into medical school?!

ultimately, this job has made me fear having children because i'm so afraid of their teenage years.

travel diary

I’m all alone in this world, she said,
Ain’t got nobody to share my bed,
Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand—
The truth of the matter’s
I ain’t got no man.

Big Boy opened his mouth and said,
Trouble with you is
You ain’t got no head!
If you had a head and used your mind
You could have me with you
All the time.

She answered, Babe, what must I do?

He said, Share your bed—
And your money, too.


One of the best and worst parts of travel for me is being alone. generally, I love being alone,
thrive on it,and
dwell in it
but this week was beyond being alone, i'm just lonely; crying in my car lonely; and left wondering why i don't have the kind of camaraderie the other counselors on the road have.

speaking of travel, i'm in savannah, trying not to spend a dime. i have seattle coming up in 18 days (dang, need to buy the ticket) and i would prefer to spend there.

anyway, the poem above is "50-50" by Langston Hughes (my love). this is the first poem i memorized.this is the first poem where i realized that poems didn't have to rhyme or imitate Robert Frost.

another travel season

september is quickly approaching and you all know what that means......
admissions. travel. season.

admittedly, i'm not excited about it nor did i see myself gearing up for another(4th) year of travel.

sigh.

but it is what it is.

this summer has actually been a bit busy for me and i've barely had time to just sit and think. now that i think about it....i haven't even taken a vacation....

yet!



vegas!!!


i mentioned in a post a loooooong time ago that me and my sis were planning a trip there (at her insistence) to celebrate her college graduation. vegas is totally happening in 2 weeks (bought the plane tickets earlier this week). a bit late, but nonetheless i will be shaking my ass in vegas for labor day weekend so i guess i will have a little bit of fun before the reality of my job surfaces.

on the road part III

so, i'm done with traveling for this year! it actually went by really really fast and i had fun most of the time, but really...this travel season served as a reminder of how much my job can suck.

one thing that kept me going through my travels was my playlist. every week i created a new playlist to get me through my long drives.

here's my most recent playlist:

cassie "official girl"



rihanna "rehab"





houston "let me love you down"

t-pain feat. ludacris "chopped and screwed"





beyonce "single ladies (put a ring on it)"



dru hill "I should be"

pink "so what"



fefe dobson "kiss me fool"





prince "beautiful ones'





yeah yeah yeahs "maps"



james blunt "you're beautiful"

britney spears "womanizer"



danity kane "right now"



ciara feat. t-pain "go girl"

janelle monae "many moons" and "violet starts happy hunting"



jazmine sullivan "lions, tigers, and bears" and "i'm hot"

lady gaga "just dance"





stay fab!

on the road part II

hello all!

i'm traveling again in georgia...right now i'm in savannah. next to atlanta, seattle, new york, and london (though i've never been there), savannah is my fave city. it's so southern and quaint in an old southern and quaint way....it's actually charming. it has culture that is beyond southern...it's so georgian that it's almost not georgia.



anyway, let me update you on what's going on.

remember when i said i was working on my shopping? well, i've been doing really well....well, kinda. when i get paid i immediately pay myself then pay the bills (that's what the experts say to do), so whatever is left over fair game, right? no!i'm still working on that part...but rome wasn't built in a day!

anyway, to get around my little problem i tell myself that i'm doing early christmas shopping,but even that is getting ridiculous. case in point - today i was in nine west and saw some cute shoes that my sis would love so i bought a pair for her then bought 2 for me....ugh! but all the shoes were on sale with an additional 20% off....not bad right?

here's what i got if you're curious




okay, next

so i've been an admission counselor for 2 full years now...3 travel seasons. during college fairs the schools are in abc order....so i've pretty much been sitting by the same tables and people since 2006. so tell me why a certain rep from a certain school in a city that stinks (i won't name names this time) acted brand new when travel season started this year? she came up to me and asked, "do i know you?" maybe it wouldn't have hurt so much if we've never spoken and greeted each other before, but we talk ALL the time....i'm outdone!

omg, it seems as if this year is my year to get speeding tickets...i've gotten 2 tickets this year while working...ugh! anyone who knows me, knows i do not speed!



well, i'm gonna get back to top model...i'm really not into it anymore, but we don't have cw at the house so i figure i should watch it.

stay fab!

sick in south georgia

i am sick :(

my flight back from seattle was really disgusting....4.5 hours on a cramped plane breathing in others people's air. it seems as if everyone on the flight felt the urge to sneeze at the same time....sucio!

anyway, i'm back on the road, but this time for the georgia portion (albany, tifton, moultrie, and americus) of my travel...ugh...my least fave part of my territory.

seattle

so, i'm back from seattle.

for some reason the city was not as magical as my previous visits were...dunno, maybe it's because my director (she's no longer my boss thank you)was there. granted she was MIA the whole trip (she really just went for a vacation because she did no work), but just knowing that she was in MY city perturbs me.

anyway, here are some pix from my journey!enjoy!









okay, this last picture doesn't really capture the essence of seattle, but i thought it was cute!


stay fab!