Expert Procrastinator

I consider myself to be an expert procrastinator. Basically, any time that I really really really need to accomplish a task in a set amount of time, I manage to take forever completing it. It's really a marvelous skill to have. Usually around the deadline, I manage to get everything all nice and organized. Law school applications are going to be no exception, I see. After spending a few days working almost exclusively on my personal statement, I have typed astonishingly little. And I am hating everything I write. I'm blaming this on being out of school for over 6 months, which means I've gotten used to not having to write papers.

Instead, I write for my job. Sometimes. But it's significantly harder to write about yourself, and why law schools should love you and let learn marvelous legal things. If nay law schools happen to be reading this blog, please let me come to your school. Even though I procrastinate, I've never missed a deadline! Ever. So don't let this make you think I wouldn't be a good law student.

While I've been writing my personal statement, I've been reading fashion blogs. I love them. Which always makes me think guiltily about my own little blog. Poor, abandoned Kentucky Southern. I'm just too much of a perfectionist to ever publish anything. But I want to start writing for my little blog again, and share some pictures from earlier this year!

This summer, Lexington hosted the World Equestrian Games. They were a BIG DEAL and the entire city went crazy. Local artists decorated horse statues and they were located all over downtown. So of course, a couple of my friends and I decided to take pictures with them. Because that's what we do...take lots and lots of pictures! Enjoy these fantastic photos, taken by my friend Ben.











Annd, the photographer, Ben!



These are the best photos that will ever be on this blog, since my friends have all the photography talent. I'd love to learn, but who has the time between writing personal statements and procrastinating writing them!

Who Am I?

Who am I?
I am a Kentuckian and a Southerner.
I am a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky, with a BA in English.
I am a first year associate staff member at a college campus ministry.



I love literature.
I love vintage.
I love France
I love UK Basketball and Football.
I love dresses and cowboy boots.




I want to write a novel one day.
I want to own an historical house in the country one day.
I want to make a difference in the lives of people.


This blog is a combination of all of these aspects of my life...these things I love, these things I am, and these things I want to be.

Welcome.

The South. Definition: [the area that] constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States, which has developed its own customs, literature, musical styles, and varied cuisines that have profoundly shaped traditional American culture.

Kentucky. Definition: As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state. Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on the fact that native bluegrass is present in many of the pastures throughout the state; Kentucky is also known for thoroughbred horses, horse racing, bourbon distilleries, bluegrass music, tobacco, and college basketball.

There’s a place in the world where rolling green pastures border a winding country road on either side, where horses gallop alongside their foals to the fences that border the farms. There’s a place where dry-stacked stone fences edge a pathway shadowed by the hanging branches of the tall oak trees overhead, where the sunlight glints in the space left free by branches and leaves, forming a patchwork on the mossy ground beneath. There’s a place where the wild beauty of nature meets manicured and well-tamed farms, where the cool clear water of a creek winds its way by an apple orchard, where green apples cling to gnarled branches, waiting expectantly for fall. I love this place...no matter where life takes me, I know that Kentucky will always be a part of me.

Some say Kentucky isn’t part of the South. I wholeheartedly disagree. Girls are ladies here; guys are gentlemen here. We love SEC sports and sweet tea; bowties and vintage dresses; high heels and cowboy boots. Some of us speak with a drawl, some don’t have an accent at all. There’s something unique, yet fully Southern, about these people, about this place.

It’s horse racing. It’s cowboy boots. It’s sweet tea. It’s flowered dresses. It’s Wildcat Basketball.

Welcome to my home. Welcome to Kentucky Southern.

(top photo courtesy of my friend Evi at http://20dc.tumblr.com)