Life lately

It feels completely foreign being on my blog right now seeing as it's been four months (!!) since my last post. I was really in a groove for a while, then I fell off the wagon, and have been slowly building up to this post (which I realize, after that introduction is going to seem lackluster, but bear with me). I've been reading, watching, eating, and seeing wonderful things, and at this point it's just selfish not to share.

First up, in May I went to Paris with my grandma and that will need its own post once I figure out how blogging fits into my new life of living in a new neighborhood, having a new job, having a new boyfriend....yeah, lots of big (and happy/necessary/uplifting/motivating) changes around here. Anyway, Paris is always inspiring. I read A Moveable Feast  and ate chocolate croissants and watched my grandma's eyes light up like saucers when she saw the Eiffel Tower for the first time. Magical.

I also just finished reading The Interestings--I know I'm very late to the party--and thought it was great. It was refreshing to read contemporary literature after a semester of Shakespeare and Austen, and Meg Wolitzer is an incredibly talented author who made me think, hey, I can still read great books without crossing titles off of my "classics-I-must-read" list.

Much of reading The Interestings happened on the beach in Miami, where I stayed at this quaint boutique hotel with two of my best girlfriends from college. We also discovered the tequila mockingbird (with vodka substituted for tequila) and drank them nightly at our hotel bar.

And this is it for my rambling list, but last night I saw Boyhood and oh my god. What a fantastic movie. If you haven't already heard the buzz, they filmed it in Texas over the course of 12 years. Ethan Hawke, whom I love from the Before Sunrise trilogy, plays the father and it focuses primarily on the son, Mason. Mason begins as a cute, chubby boy and we watch him through his awkward pre-teen years up until his high school graduation. They really felt like old family friends by the end of the movie (it's a long one, but I suppose you can do that if you spend over a decade filming...) and it resonated in the oh-man-haven't-we-all-been-there kind of way. I would highly, highly recommend this movie.

So there's a very abridged update of my life, and I'll look forward to posting more regularly again. I've also agreed to write for another blog, so more on that once the ball gets rolling :).