sweet!

I have glorious news, my darlings!

Today, I woke up at the glorious hour of 1:30pm and checked my email. I had a message from one of my Write On for Israel (WOFI--an Israel advocacy/journalism program I did during my junior/senior years of high school that took me on a free 2 week trip to Israel during the summer after my junior year), saying that a one day DC fly-in is being arranged by Jewish communities across the country, to lobby congressmen and senators re: Iran. I was offered a spot in the Chicago delegation, representing WOFI alumni, with my travel and registration fee reimbursed. Of course, I said yes. Not only do I get to go to DC for free (again...this is actually the 2nd time I'll have gone to DC through WOFI), but I get to miss a day of classes to do it, and there's NOTHING anyone can do about it. Also, it's on a Thursday and I have no Friday class, which is good.

I rock.

I decided I want to start running 5k races. This involves training to run said 5k races. I started that today, and will look to enter some races in October and December.

Here are other little things that happened today:

My dad and I had a discussion about beer pong. It went like this:

Dad: Sarah, have you heard of beer pong?
me: (Oh, I've done more than hear about it...) You mean pong or beirut?

Dad: What's beirut?
me: What most people call beer pong. Actual beer pong involves breaking the handles off of ping pong paddles and then using the paddle to hit the ball. It's how they do it at Dartmouth. (I know, I sound like a huge snob. But it's true.)

Dad: No, that's not beer pong.

me: ...yes it is...

My dad then showed me a video that someone posted onto Facebook. It involves people making insane pong shots. My dad was going to send me the link, but the only way to do that would have been to share it through Facebook...and that would involve being Facebook friends with my dad. So I don't have the link to share with you. Sorry.

My mom brought home nail polish for me and my sister.

me: Thanks for the nail polish.

Mom: Which color did you take?
me: ...well, considering that they're both dark purple, I took dark purple.

Mom: No, they're different colors.

me: ...what colors are they?

Mom: Well, they're almost the same. It's a negligible difference.

me: ...I see.

I'm wearing said dark purple nail polish right now. Because I'm awesome like that.

I also said the phrase "dumb fuck" in front of my grandma. Oops. My dad told me to watch my language. He almost never does that. They want my grandma to think that I am a good person and don't swear. Oops.

I also played Guitar Hero, aka one of the best games, ever.

So as you can see, today was kickass.