and the award for text of the day goes to...

Stephanie: Man fuckit I'm gonna make myself nutella empanadas.

the coveted feet

Lydia Semenov is precious.

Can't touch this

[and the award for best text goes to]
Stephanie: MC Hammer is in our office lololololol

It's a hard knock life.

Justin: This has been my day so far:
8:30 - wake up.
9:00 - look at things on the internet.
9:45 - queue things on tumblr.
10:30 - read
12 - decide to take a nap.
2:45 - wake up, look at more things on tumblr
3:30 - decide to take shower
4:15 - troll Facebook
4:42 - poder why I am so lazy while I lay belly down on my bed in a towel.
4:43 - decide to text vina about it.

Stephanie: Omg we were watching tv and we were like...is this a lesbian KY commercial?? then we remembered we were watching Beetlejuice on the Logo Channel hahahahahah.

Donald Glover, WEIRDO

[via text]
Meekus: Put on Comedy Central!!!! Donglover alert!
me: (aloud to self) I'm just going to assume he means Donald Glover.

"vina missed the bus" texts

[my NY Honors professor's reply to my 7 AM email of shame telling her I missed the bus]

Selena: No sweat. We will miss you. Have a savory breakfast instead!

(she knows me so well.)

Mariam: Does this mean you're coming to Thanksgiving Taboo?!?!

Bates: What are you going to do now?

me: Go to the gym and Thanksgiving potluck. 

Bates: So basically you still win. 

me: yeah man, I'm baller like that. 

Justin: First of all, after all the "ARE YOU GOING ON ARTSBUS IN NOVEMBER?? You'd better go! It's the last one we can all go on together. I don't want to be stuck with crazy people by myself!" And where are you? Not here. Which leaves me to deal with crazies. By myself. 

(two minutes later)

Justin: Bleh. I kinda don't want to go anymore.

me: I overslept and missed the Artsbus for the first time ever.
Boek: Haha! Welcome to my world!

Hey hey hey, Caleb Prevatte! Sketch White Castle trip aside, I have only fond memories of New Jersey.

[via text]
Caleb: I was just seeing how you is? I haven't talked to you in awhile and we have many adventures to partake.
me: I like adventures. I was in Jersey until yesterday.
Caleb: I feel bad for you. I'm glad you made it out alive.

What stereotype?

Meekus and the tasty chicken from Lee's 

[via text]

Pa: Tiondra just walked in the back and said out loud: "I smell chicken." Me: It's me, my sister went to this place in Richmond and I brought it to work...I ate it all. Tiondra: You can't bring chicken around black people!

Party predators

[via text]

Steph: Do you have a +1 for Nasreen's wedding? Q can't make it so I told Thribbys we should all ride together. 

me: Nope, flying solo! The three of us going to the wedding together will be so much fun!

Steph: Yayyy. I think Jojo's going too! I wish all of us and Mariam and Alex could take a party bus to the wedding. 

me: That would be fun too! Too bad none of us owns a van hahah. 

Steph: Because we're not shady child predators. 

We are party animals, part two: Return of the Auto Correct

[via text]
me: Not that I've done much today but I could totally take a nap.
Steph: I'm about to nap! Babysitting a oily is exhausting lol

(five seconds later)

Steph: Puppy not oily!!!

Yes, because I carry popsicles with me on the regular.

[via text]
Ginnie: You never brought a blue popsicle to my place, have you?
me: Um, no? Weirdo.

No friends but they have charcuterie.

[via text]

Boek: What are you doing tonight? We're at Eatbar in Clarendon if you wanna come. 

me: Sitting in sweats and designing things at Mason. (check website/menu). They have avocado butter and chicken & waffles! 

Boek: vina, why the hell aren't you here with us? XOXO, Sandy. 

          We have no friends. Chris. 

Oh, Dad.

[via text]
Dad: Yesterday I saw a small golden turtle in the garden right beneath the water hose outlet. It could still be there!

Getting a taste of my own medicine

[via text]

me: I'm hungry, can you bring me lunch? 

Meekus: What sammich you want? 

me: What are my options? 

Meekus: Whatever you desire. Prosciutto on a baguette with lettuce, spicy mustard, salami, and brie. 

me: Damn, that sounds delicious. That sandwich needs to be in attendance at our next outing. 

(four hours later)
Meekus:

me: This bitch.

The peach hipster dream

[via text]

me: I had this awesome dream where we went peach picking at Mason. I threw a bad one and this hipster slipped on it. You and I were laughing hysterically.

Russian Rachel: VINA THAT WAS NO DREAM. YOU HAVE THE GIFT OF SEEING THE FUTURE.

[via text]
me: Man, it's like 90 degrees out and I'm going to be carrying around some soup.

Justin: Just beware that I'm not a barrel of fun today. 

me: You're always a barrel of fun. 

Justin: Today I am a barrel of Dayquil. 

me: Soon you will be a barrel of lentil soup.

Not the staring moms!

[via text]

Russian Rachel: tmi update: I'm babysitting at a baseball game. I think a bug went down my shirt. It was moving, tickled me, and I itched/squished it. NOW I HAVE A DEAD BUG DOWN MY SHIRT BETWEEN MY BOOBS AND I'M IN PUBLIC. EWWWWW. I CAN'T EVEN CHECK TO SEE IF IT WAS AN ANT OR A SPIDER! THE MOMS WILL STARE. 

me: To clarify, am I allowed to blog this?

Russian Rachel: As a fellow blogger, I permit the use of that text.

Traveling via SMS with Steph and Amie

May 12 Greetings from Ohio! It's frightfully flat.

May 13
10:29 AM Greetings from Indiana! It's still frightfully flat.
2:30 PM Greetings from Illinois! Bird country huzzah.
5:46 PM Greetings from Iowa! So far it's just like all the other states starting with the letter "i"
10:11 PM Greetings from Minnesota! Dontcha know.

May 14 
11:22 AM Greetings from South Dakota! It's so Calamity Jane out here.
8:46 PM Greetings from Wyoming! Feels just like South Dakota.
10:02 PM Greetings from Montana! Gimme gimme gimme gimme MO gimme MO

May 15
3:40 PM Greetings from Idaho! No, u-da-ho.
4:49 PM Greetings from Washington! Or the Starbucks or the Starbucks or the Starbucks.
10:05 PM Greetings from Portland!  Weeeee! Seacrest out manggg

May 18
Steph: Guess what I ate today
me: doughnuts?
Steph: Macaroooooons- key lime and chocolate cinnamon. and then Earl Grey truffles!
me: Earl Grey truffles?!
Steph: Yeah! We have to go to this place. It's called The Pix. I had a goat cheese and onion tart. Also, I took a pic of a hipster on a bike for you hahahaha.