1. I have to pee so bad but I am in the Guest Hospitality Suite for another twenty minutes and Jesus.

2. If you come to Orientation and you are from Texas, be prepared for me to terrify the crap out of you because I LOVE PEOPLE FROM TEXAS AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.

3. I got into a flame war on the internet yesterday with some guy about gun politics and I knew I shouldn’t have but he was really really unintelligent about a lot of his views (or at least was framing them in very unintelligent ways) so I had to take him down a peg (along with two other awesome OLs) and it was awesome.

Have an awesome day!

Here’s the thing, and it’s totally stupid but true, I’m totally living what I love this summer, and even if it’s just some slogan my college uses as an internal (and sometimes foolish) pep talk, hearing it all day everyday has reminded me that’s what I came here to do and I want to do it as much as possible and goddamn, you guys, this job is so much fun and I can feel it making me into the person I wanted to be all this time (approachable and friendly and confident and easygoing and helpful [so fucking helpful]). 

And for the first time (probably ever) I’m completely happy with waking up fucking early as shit and going to work. And that’s what we want, right? That’s what you should strive for. 

I’m hungover but it is so worth it because my coworkers are seriously exactly what I needed in my life. I haven’t laughed that hard in such a long time.

Goddamn, I love being an Orientation Leader.

cultivate calm.