Can you believe school starts next week? Where did the summer go? Blows my mind.

Last week I flew to Indianapolis to give a presentation at Dow AgroSciences corporate headquarters. Talk about a great audience! The corporate group that I spoke to listened intently and even managed to laugh at all my corny jokes. Win.

Flying back home was a nightmare. I ended up waiting in an airplane with a drunk lady and a mess of impatient people (including myself) for over an hour which caused me to miss my connecting flight out of Chicago. Have I ever told you how much I love South Carolina? It is truly God's country.

After Indianapolis, Jesse and I drove down to Folly Beach to join my family at our yearly vacation spot. Fifteen minutes after we arrived, my mother informed Jesse about a curse associated with boyfriends coming on our family beach vacation. We call it "the Folly curse". Why? Well, two previous boyfriends that my sisters brought didn't last. We hope the curse is broken though. Laura's boyfriend proposed on the beach last year.


While we were at the beach, I spilled a cup of coffee on my butt. Before you die laughing, let me explain myself. When I walked into the kitched I discovered that my dad made a delicious pot of coffee. How could I resist? So I added some milk and decided to heat it up in the microwave. To say that I left it too long in the microwave would be an understatement. That stuff was hot! So after I got my delicious beverage out of the microwave, I crawled into bed with Charity to sip it while we watched tv. Big mistake. A tiny drop pilled on my butt, I jumped, and the stuff ended up all over the place. So there you go! Second degree burn with a small area in the center that is third degree.

After we drove back from Charleston, I had to get up at the lovely time of 3:45 to make a 6am flight out of Greenville. To say that coffee saved the day would be an understatement. I think this means we're friends again.

My travels took my to St. Louis for our monthly AFA meeting. Our first business visit was to ADM's headquarters in Decatur, Illinois where we gave a presentation about AFA and got to learn about their company. As I was looking around the room it struck me that there was something distinctly similar about the eleven or twelve guys standing around the room. All of the sudden it hit me. They were all unusually or fairly tall. Every single one. I guess that would explain why my neck felt a little strained later on in the day.
Our meeting also took us to Champaign (IL), and concluded in St. Louis where we visited Monsanto's headquarters.
The real adventure began when I tried to fly home. First, my flight was delayed due to late aircraft arrival. Then, it was delayed due to mechanical issues. Finally, hours later, it was delayed even longer because the pilot had reach his maximum number of hours. In the end, I think it was all just a ploy to get us to spend more money in the airport. Mission accomplished.

What else have I done? Well, I moved in to my lovely new apartment with Audrey, Courtney, and Kristen. This is going to be a great year. Slightly crazy... but great.

I wrapped up my internship by going down to Columbia to give (yet another) presentation about my internship. This time it consisted of a SWOT analysis of the business along with a few recommendations. This time the bold, confident, side of me seemed to disappear and the conservative, reserved side of my surfaced. Yes, I was a little intimidated. Thankfully, I started to loosen up about halfway through.

Today I got up at 4 am along with some friends and went to the J. Crew warehouse sale in Asheville, NC. Everything there is so cheap it is practically a steal. It was like Black Friday on steriods.

GUESS WHAT?! I got a camera. This means that I will be posting pictures in the near future. Woohoo! Life is too good not to at least attempt to capture a moment of it.