Today is November 20th and I have exactly a month till I am done with my undergraduate career!! It is SURREAL!  <- my favorite word to describe the indescribable. The other 3 have reflected on their Moho experience earlier in the year.. I didn’t think my time would come this fast. I’m still grappling with the floods of memories and random situations we’ve landed ourselves and the valuable lessons I’ve learned along the 4 years in my New England Education. However, today I’ll just focus on the not so distant memories.

Halloween this year was definitely extraordinary. It was the first time in my life that it snowed in October. The east coast blizzard was insane. Still feels unreal. This was the first weekend I actually decided to be socialy engaged as I had taken it upon myself to be a recluse in my last semester. Since Halloween fell on a Monday, the Halloween weekend began on the 29th and I found myself at Lit in Amherst. With never any excitement to dress up for the occasion, I wore a sparkly white dress and a tiara made out of cotton.. which came to a conclusion that I was “snow” or “heaven.” You can kind of see my fail attempt at the Ombre Hair.

The next night was my friend’s thesis performance at Amherst College . And ironically enough, it started snowing around 1 or 2 in the afternoon and by the time I got on the bus to Amherst, it was a major blizzard but it didn’t seem to phase me. It was a Winter Wonderland with NO ONE AROUND. The play was excellent and I was on my way back walking across campus with a friend. Oh dear lord, it felt like I was in one of those adventure movies with snow flying in my face at every direction and branches falling off trees around me. Then electric lines getting struck by falling branches lashing out a blue-ish/green lightning across the sky.

It was quite beautiful but also extremely dangerous to be out. Needless to say, I was stranded in Amherst College for the night. Luckily my wonderful friends had my back.

There was a blackout across campus and the whole valley actually, so the party I found myself in turned out to be a nice hang out with a diverse group of people. We stayed up all night chatting, listening to music, conversing in various languages and even created a new drink which I proudly call the “Snowman.” A huge drop of freshly fallen snow into a well blended cocktail. Slushie galore. Heres us demonstrating the making of the “Snowman.” Eugene (pictured below) themed the night as “The Winter Wonderland of Amherst Hipsterdom” which was pretty genius in the moment haha:

You can’t really see what I’m wearing but I wanted to wear the flower piece on my hair, and wore a pink dress, a theme for spring as my costume. Since I had on a striped cardigan, we decided that I was pollination. And oh yea, bumped into this couple dressed as Helga and Arnold (from my childhooood!!) at some point in the night, before the blackout:

I was able to get back to Moho the next day and we still had no power. I am TERRIFIED of the dark. But I am also terrified of leaving my door open at night and have random strangers walk in. So the blackout made me go to bed early. As I lay in the dark, it dawned upon me that time jumped at an accelerating rate that I couldn’t fathom!! It would be November on Tuesday! Which would mean, I’m graduating soon, still unemployed and I’m going to turn another year older -_-. That mini panic attack kept me up for awhile but I got through it. Its like I needed the light to go out in order to process what I needed to grapple with the immediate reality that felt so faraway. Anyhow, fast forward about a week later, and I was on my way to a birthday celebration/work event in NYC! One of the roughest weeks of my life. Anyhow, it was a cupcake filled birthday this year! Started with Ashley’s yummy homemade cupcakes for me (which I unfortunately do not have photos of ]= ), then Aileen and my traditional Baked by Melissa mini cupcakes, Jacs delicious vanilla homebaked cupcakes at the Prohibition event and finally the morning/breakfast cupcakes a La Amritha . Prohibition in Ella Lounge was a success (supercute venue with a live jazz band upstairs and a speakeasy downstairs), here are some photos from birthday/event. Also yay for Aileen and her polaroid camera, and Shirley for her photos <3.

Dirty thirty, only because I’m in denial of my real age -_-

Twas a good event and happy birthday . I’ve definitely developed an appreciation for cupcakes at this age lol.