Epilogue (Part 5)

(Please make sure to read these in the correct sequence! There are five posts that I posted in order, which means that they’ll show up on my blog page in reverse order from top to bottom. They’re numbered (Part 1, Part 2, etc.) for clarity, so please scroll down to the bottom where the archive menu is to find the beginning. Also feel free to spread these out over the next two weeks—I know there are a lot of them, but I didn’t want to leave stuff out!)

(Have you read the others? In order? Okay, go on ahead.)

Dear Everyone,

Sooooo…….as some of you may have guessed, when I say “Zombie Apocalypse”what I really mean by that is midterms. I just sort of decided to roll with the metaphor because I rather fancied the idea of writing a melodramatic zombie apocalypse novella that was also actually an account of the last several weeks.  These last four (oh my goodness, I am such a blogging failure) weeks have been the mad time of midterm mania—big papers have been due, my friends are all taking big tests, and the projects are rolling in. And of course we all have the usual amount of reading assigned each night on top of the special assignments. Anyway, it’s been pretty crazy. I think “zombie apocalypse” is actually a pretty apt metaphor—we all are living off of the food we find in our dorms, looking amazingly sleep-deprived, and answering questions with deadened stares. And the mania really did get to its full level of crazy two weeks ago. Luckily it is now fall break and everything is back to normal!

The photos are not from campus (luckily) but instead from the bizarre Twin Cities Zombie Pub Crawl, which is apparently a thing. This is what I actually encountered two weeks ago driving back from Next to Normal and let me tell you: worst. driving. conditions. EVER. Drunk people pretending to be brainless while unaware of exactly how brainless they’re actually being tend to wander in front of your car and occasionally loom ominously next to your windows. *shudder* But we made it back okay, so all is well!

I hope this incredibly long series of posts makes up for not posting two weeks ago. After this, I’ll try to return to my normal schedule and will honestly try not to deviate again (although I make no promises around finals time!) Thank you all for your patience with this busy college student!

Love,

Lily

My hair has decided to become a shelter for homeless birds displaced by the coming winter. It did not discuss this decision with me beforehand.

P.S. Okay, so it’s a tiny bit odd that some of my Mac friends are now reading this, but I’m planning to carry on as usual and pretend you guys aren’t here. Because then I’d feel weird about complimenting you all the time and my family would start to think I was all alone and tragic and that would be upsetting.
BUT. I have to say hi and thanks to my one and only official follower—RACHEL ROSTAD!!  <3  

Photo Montage of Absurdity (Or, Explosion of Fall Pictures Because Lily Has the Inability to Just Choose a Few) (Part 4)

For those of you who have complained about the (often excessive) length of my blog posts, I have removed the several bazillion fall photos that I would have liked to post scattered among the actual words of my posts and moved them over here. Feel free to skip this post altogether if you are not (1) enraptured by fall color to a possibly unhealthy extent, (2) amused by an unnecessary number of photos taken from my window, or (3) compelled by your love and respect for me to read/view everything that I, in my infinite wisdom, choose to post.

(This truly is a ridiculous number of photos—sorry about that!)