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Yay! Thank you! I’m definitely still up for doing asks. It’s a snow day =]

11: what’s an inner joke you have with your friends?Hmm… I don’t know if I really have any running inner jokes with any of my friends right now.

12: what’s your favorite planet?Pluto. I don’t know why. It just is. I think it’s a planet again? Even if it wasn’t it’s still my favorite. There’s just something about liking the underdog.

13: what’s something that made you smile today?Well it’s only just 8AM, but I have been up for a few hours and have had a few things to smile about. 1) a text message a dear friend sent me last night after I went to bed that I saw when I woke up, 2) seeing all of the snow outside - it’s kind of magical as long as you’re not outside in it, 3) having an anonymous ask here on Tumblr, 4) an update video from Orla Gartland ( @orlagartland ) on Patreon, and 5) I made myself some hot chocolate.

14: if you were to live with your best friend in an old flat in a big city, what would it look like?It would be very nerdy and magical with lots of fairy lights up everywhere. And it would be neat and tidy in the common areas because I love cleaning things. My best friend @hunre‘s room would be a mess. There would be lots of musical things everywhere and books and we’d have a cat for me and maybe a dog for him. We’d have a pantry stocked with lots of cereal and tea (and I suppose coffee, too, for my best friend) and oreos. It would be a wonderful, safe, introvert-friendly space.

15: go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is!Well I found a super gross fact, but I’m not going to share because no one should have to hear it. But here’s another fact: you can cry in space, but your tears don’t fall.

16: what’s your favorite pasta dish?Macaroni&cheese. Can’t go wrong with that.

17: what color do you really want to dye your hair?I don’t want to dye my hair any color. I like it just the way it is.

20: what’s your favorite eye color?Blue. There’s just something about blue eyes that’s really striking.

22: are you a morning person?Not really. Even though I have to get up really early to get to work (and therefore end up waking up earlier than I intend to on Saturdays) I’m not really a functioning human being. Like, I can function, but I don’t like being around other people unless they’re one of my closest friends who I know won’t expect me to talk a lot and we can just sit and be together.

24: is there someone out there you would trust with every single one of your secrets?Yes. My best friend.

26: what are the shoes you’ve had for forever and wear with every single outfit?Well I haven’t had them for forever, but I wear my black fake-chucks (aka Airwalks) with pretty much every single outfit.

In less than three days, I will be in a plane flying over the Atlantic Ocean, en route to The Netherlands.  The past few days have been incredibly hectic and full, but have completely flown by.  I’ve been scrambling to see as many friends as I can and say as many face to face goodbyes, while at the same time working on packing and get my life in order.

One of those goodbyes took place over the span of a weekend.  On Saturday the 16th I took a bus to Boston, where my best friend and wife, Emily, met me at the bus/train station.  I spent 2 days with her at Brandeis, and over that time I met the majority of her school friends (except for Ryan because he’s a poop and was getting a new dog) and had the opportunity to see most of my friends that also grace the halls of Brandeis University.  Two of my favorite experiences of the weekend was surprising one of my best friends and babies from my time in NFTY, Rachel.  Emily and I maaaaay have lied to her and told her I wasn’t coming, only so that I could surprise her and blanket her in my love.  I also received a surprise over the weekend; when Emily was in a capella practice, my friend Lee (also from NFTY) ‘babysat’ me.  My surprise was one of my best friends from NFTY, Allie, who I hadn’t spoken to in ages.  Allie is the type of friend where you can go forever without talking and pick up where you were in an instant.  I wasn’t sure if I would be seeing her while at Brandeis, so being surprised by her and spending a few hours with both of them was wonderful.

I’m actually really lucky that I have so many friends like Allie, in the sense where I can pick up where I left off after months of not talking.  Emily is one of those friends.  She and I are used to spending great amounts of time apart, as she spent an entire school year in Israel my freshman year of college, and she goes to school several hours away from me.  Another one of my friends, also from NFTY (there’s a theme here, isn’t there?  Apart from the fact Emily’s not from NFTY...), Morgan, is the same way.  We go for months without talking and then the conversations flow just as naturally and there’s lots of weird selfies and laughter and hugs.  The day after I got home from Brandeis I saw Morgan.  Now, I wanted her to meet the boyfriend (I have one of those, his name is Henry, more on him later) and some of my school friends, and so she and I went out to school.  We got lunch and dinner with my friends Allie and Laura, with Henry, and hung out around school.

Tuesday was the day that it really hit me that I was going abroad and leaving everything: my family, my friends, my boyfriend... for almost five months.  I broke down crying for the first of five times thus far, and once I had recovered from my crying, Morgan and I went back to Jersey, and I bid farewell to her.

Wednesday I went back out to PA to see my school friends one last time.  I had lunch with my friends Tali, Mandy, and Esther, which was super nice, especially since Tali was abroad last semester so this was my only time seeing her.  And then I hung out with Allie and Henry and Zoey, among other people the rest of the night.  I slept over in PA, and had brunch with Henry this morning.  Within these 36 hours I cried another four times by the way.  After brunch I said goodbye to my boyfriend... potentially for the last time until May, and went home.