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Beauty Queen of Only 18.......

7/1/2011

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I have great news, guys! I am more than halfway done with my hellish summer school schedule. Apparently, chemistry is also going to get even easier. I can almost see the rainbow that comes after the storm. I am so, so happy. There is still a lot more hard work to do, but at least I know that I will survive. I don't think that I will ever have a schedule again that is this challenging. My classes will be more spread out in the fall, and they are all in one school!

Today, I was like this:
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(minus the pornographic part)

 I slept until 10:30 am, and then I napped for two more hours on the couch. I'm cutting myself some slack, because my weeks are so hard! I also caught up on the first two episodes of the fourth season of True Blood. Amazing. I have been so busy that I didn't even know that the new season started. A guy in my biology class told me!

I had another reason for sleeping late. I planned on going to bed around 9 pm last night, but that was before better plans popped up! I was hanging out in the tutoring department before my chemistry class yesterday (I now do my homework there so that I have help in case I have questions) and decided to lurk on Facebook for a few minutes. I saw that one of my besties Goda put up a status saying that she had an extra Maroon 5 ticket at Ravinia Festival last night. I've always been a big Maroon 5 admirer, so I immediately sent her a text telling her that I wanted to go. It was good timing. I'm sure that somebody else would have snagged the ticket. 

Ravinia is one of my favorite places to go in the summer. They have an open-aired concert theater that is surrounded by acres of lush green lawn. I used to go there when I much younger with my parents to listen to classical music. Since then, I've gone to see Rufus Wainwright and Ben Folds (and MAROON 5 last night!!). Most people get lawn seats (as opposed to sitting in the pavilion) and get there as early as four hours before to get a spot on the lawn. We always bring food, blankets and citronella candles. It's so much fun to go with a small group and lazily pass the time until it gets dark and the music begins. 

Goda and her work friends took the train up from the city and got there around 5:30. Since my chemistry class ended at 5:20, I knew I was going to be very rushed and get there much later than everybody else. I came home, jumped in the shower and threw a blanket, a bottle of wine and tupperware filled with grapes and salmon ravioli from the night before. I then drove to the downtown area of Highland Park (a gorgeous northeastern Chicago suburb on Lake Michigan), parked in a free parking garage and got on a free bus to Ravinia. They make things so easy! Then Goda met me at the gate with my ticket. 
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There were so many people. 
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I ate my salmon ravioli and drank some wine that I got from Grumpy's 80th birthday party in McLaren Vale! Of course, I shared it since I had to drive home in a couple of hours. 
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I didn't even need to bring the ravioli, because there was already a spread of food with people who were eager to share. It includedJimmy John's sandwiches and chips and guacamole and peanut butter M&Ms. 
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There was a severe thunderstorm warning, and we could see dark clouds and lightning from where we were sitting. We were so scared that it was going to pour down on us, but the storm miraculously went around us. We only got a few drops of rain. Chicago  city, however, got a crazy hail storm!

Maroon 5 eventually started singing, and we had a blast. We were standing up and dancing and singing the whole time. I knew every song. 
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Can't you see Adam Levine on the TV screen below? What? You can't see it? What is wrong with you?

I probably could have walked up to the pavilion and gotten some better shots, but I was having so much fun where I was. Who knows....maybe I'll see them in concert again! I sure hope so. They were great. 
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Here are photos from tonight's Friday Night Pizza for your entertainment. 
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Tons of mushroom and eggplant and cheese! I decided that I don't like eggplant anymore, but there wasn't very much on there anyway. The shitake mushrooms were super duper fantastico. 
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More recaps to come! I still have to talk about my birthday and other stuff. I'm supposed to wake up early with my parents tomorrow morning and run 6 miles, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen. I don't want to wake up early, but if I sleep too late, it will be too hot to run outside. That means that I have to run on the dreadmill. Seriously, how anybody can run more than a mile on that thing is a mystery to me. I'll figure something out. I am supposed to be training for a half marathon next month, right?


Also, my title was the opening of "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5. 
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    I am  a Chicago-based Registered Dietitian working primarily in Acute Clinical Care. I started this blog in 2010, before I even knew that I wanted to be an RD! Now, as an active dietitian, this blog will become part of my life again. Read about my current healthy habits, but please peruse my old posts (from 2014 and before) to read about life as an RD student and my previous years in Australia!


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