Wish I was an English muffin... Vox 2008-05-13T16:08:44Z Joie http://joie.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c225238541f219/tags/joie/ ...'bout to make the most out of a toaster. O MY SNAP. tag:vox.com,2008-05-12:asset-6a00c225238541f21900e398f8d79d0005 2008-05-12T06:49:32Z 2008-05-13T16:08:44Z Joie http://joie.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Remember this?

IT'S HAPPENING, PEOPLE.

Joie is going to see Wicked in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 22nd.

...Excitement cannot be put into type.  Except by saying, "OMFGZ I'M SO EXCITEEEEEDDDDD!!!11!1ONEONE!!!111!"

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]]> One more. tag:vox.com,2008-05-09:asset-6a00c225238541f21900f48cf6557f0003 2008-05-09T09:45:03Z 2008-05-13T16:38:46Z Joie http://joie.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Courtesy o' my pal/brother from another mother Brian (the one that married my best friend, not the one I date).  And really, courtesy of a Mister Ludwig van Beethoven:

Joie Molden 1
Joie Molden 1


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]]> Snow day!!! tag:vox.com,2008-01-19:asset-6a00c225238541f21900e398d40bd30004 2008-01-19T21:29:31Z 2008-01-21T19:14:07Z Joie http://joie.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

As you might expect, snow is not so common in Alabama.  At the merest mention of flurries, everything shuts down; school gets out, people run to the store for supplies, and Northerners make fun of us for how silly we're being.  We are silly.  But man.  It is MASSIVELY EXCITING  when we actually get a substantial (for us, anyway) amount of snow.

Everyone spent yesterday talking about the supposed snow we were going to get Saturday.  I checked at 11pm last night; no snow.  I checked at 3am this morning; no snow.  I checked at 5:30 this morning; no snow.

My mom called me at 9:45 and, lo and behold--SNOW!  Falling everywhere!  It was so beautiful, and so exciting, that I threw on some clothes, grabbed my camera, and dashed outside to enjoy it for a few minutes.  After taking a few pictures, I wanted to run back in and call my mom back.  I grab my doorknob and...

...realize that out of what is usually a very responsible habit, I have locked my door.  With my keys and my cell phone inside.  And the only person in Montevallo who has a spare key is Ashton... who has moved to Kentucky.

Big oops.

Fortunately, Ashton's old roommates were very nice and let me in to call the landlady, who was also very nice and came to let me in.  The snow was still falling hard and I couldn't resist taking more pictures:

Snow at my apartment!My car enjoys snow.Very cute mini-snowmen, courtesy of some neighbors.The view from my front window. Gorgeous!!
Once the snowfall slowed, I decided to bundle up and take a walk around Montevallo to see how such a pretty town  and campus would look under pretty snow.  The answer, as you might expect, is pretty:
Random house... with snow!!!Random tree... with snow!!!University of Montevallo + Snow = Very Yes.Red, Green, and White... too bad it's not Christmas.
I know to a lot of people who live in colder climates, all this fuss over such a small amount of snow seems ridiculous.  But people here, myself included, love it, and everyone's just so happy when it snows; every person I passed on my walk spoke to me, talked about how beautiful the snow was, and smiled.  Granted, it's the South, so people are usually that way anyway.  But everyone was so giddy; it was fabulous.  I think the general mood was best summarized by Facebook; when I chose to look at recent status updates of all my friends, about 95% of them involved the word "snow" and had multiple exclamation points.

After walking around for a while, I bumped into a group of fellow music majors enjoying the snow as much as, well, everyone else.  More pictures as soon as I can steal some from Erin, but for now, have a little Heather, Erin, and Joie action:

"We heart snow!"
"We heart snow!"
Joie's Quote of the Day:  [on the phone with my mom]  "My car just pooped snow!!!"

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