Ok it's been like four months since I appeared on here...sorry about that one (and thanks for all the messages! I'm thankfully not dead or anything) I don't promise to come back to this...in fact more than likely I won't. But I'm now a Twitter addict so you can watch my life over there

https://twitter.com/kenzibeans 

I finished my first semester at Columbia...and graduate school is kicking my ass and I'm completely in love. I've made the greatest friends there and actually feel like I need a bigger skull for all the amazing things I'm learning. 

Life's been pretty wonderful. New York City has become my home and I can't really imagine leaving (I'm visiting my parents now, and frankly my hometown just doesn't feel like home anymore...)  So I just wanted to let you all know that I'm doing really well over here and hope you are too :] 

Oh and p.s. if you haven't seen "Perks of Being a Wallflower" you should, and if you haven't read "The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance" by Elna Baker you should! 

"If you're not early you're late"

"I have a family here. A family in England. If we had a poodle I'd have a family in France." "I've been de-(name of old boss). It's like deworming"

I was upstate all week nannying for those two little kids. 

In their backyard is the most amazing view of the Hudson. View the view. 

And as you can see in the photo I got the view from this almost-comfy big flat rocks. So for my hour-long break, I'd bring a book, my phone and my headphones to the biggest and flattest rock and I'd chill and be the happiest thing ever. View me being happy.

and then a bee landed on me.

View what I believe this bee looked like.

  So I mean...I sort of jumped up/swatted...and threw my iPhone into the river. So I dove into the river! Into the CONTAMINATED. DISGUSTING. Hudson River.

So the adorable family I'm babysitting is taking me to some little lake town with them all week! With any luck I'll have internet and therefore have something to blog about because aside from having a few friends visit me this week and reading A LOT I've really not had much to say.

That's the only downside to having moved to the city. I miss nature terribly. I sit in the window in the courtyard but I miss big open green. I've seen one squirrel in the last two weeks...

So I'm basically really excited to hang out with my 2 and 4-year-old buddies and be outside :] 

Woke up this morning and rushed around getting ready to head up to my field placement in the Bronx to get my ID and take tests and blah blah blah

As I'm getting dressed I see something move on the floor.

Now for the last month of living here something moves on the floor I freak out, certain that there are mice or cockroaches or something horrible in my room. And every time I laugh at myself because I knocked something over and it's not just rolling around.

Well today was different.

Cockroach.

Big. Fast. Cockroach.

So I preceded to get up on a chair and scream until my roommate woke up and squirted at it with Clorox Bleach.

This made it run around the room and dance a little!

Then after we both stopped screaming we realized that since cockroaches were built to survive nuclear holocausts, it was probably mocking my little squirty bottle of poison and dancing under the cool shower. So I threw a sneaker on it.