Put on my blue suede shoes and I boarded the plane

To continue my series on my awesomely awesome cohorts, I thought I’d write this month about my former roommate, bridesmaid, and friend in all things labeled “guilty pleasure,” Carol. Carol is currently a lawyer in a swanky firm in Boston, but I met her back when she was a Brown University Research Assistant and wore jeans and tshirts to work (note: I’m sure she would still do this if she thought in a million years she’d get away with it). We shared apartments from September of 2007 until June of 2009, although I’m sure she would agree it felt like much longer than that, given all of the stories that came from that time and the things we still talk and groan about.

In keeping with the last post I made of this sort, here is a list of ten reasons (out of about a million) that Carol is the greatest.

He's a bumpkin!*

Because it is August and because his birthday is in August, and because he was an excellent date to our dear friend Bethany Kent’s fantastic 30^th birthday soiree, and for a bunch of other reasons (some of which, I suppose, you are about to read below), I would like to tell you, today, 10 reasons that my friend John is great.

She was raised in a New England village

When I envisioned this blog, I thought about things I might include in it. One of the things that seemed most obvious in my earliest thoughts was a recurring series about the awesome people in my life. Trust me when I tell you, while there are only a few people I hold close these days, they are a truly remarkable group.

So, I kick this series off with exclamations of praise about my friend Bethany Kent.