A different V-Day

This year I've taken on a new adventure, I've become part of the V-Day Campaign and by doing so I'm producing a reading of "The Vagina Monologues" on campus as a part of the V-Day season.  V-Day is a campaign to end violence against women.  The V in V-Day stands for Violence, Vagina, and Valentine's (because the V-Day season starts in February and ends in March) and as a part of the campaign they give the rights to several show to V-Day Organizers for Free as long as they (we) promise to follow a set of rules and we donate all the profits to a local beneficiary.

Our production stars eleven beautiful woman from all parts of campus, we have 3 of the 4 sororities represented as well as independents and 3 bloggers!  We have women from all sorts of different backgrounds and comfort levels in talking about vaginas. I'm excited to be able to bring this to campus and bring a new learning experience to the community. The shows are this Thursday and Friday at 7:30 in Back Cafe (in Forrer Hall) on campus and our local beneficiary, The Bluegrasss Rape Crisis Center, will be there both nights with information on what they do for our community.

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." CS Lewis

Hello beautiful people!

The weather's been dreary today, it's rained, it's snowed, and it's rained-snowed.  Incidentally I had the chance to have lunch and tea with some friends for lunch today and it was marvelous!  The place is called, cuppa: a tea café, and it's slogan is tea for everyone and it was splendid.  Two of my good friends, Erica and Alex, work for the school paper, The Rambler, Erica is the editor and Alex writes a food column and his column this week is all about Cuppa.  It's a couple of blocks from Transy at Jefferson and Short and I had never heard of it, but it's time the world knows all about this wonderful downtown find.

This was my lunch, an egg salad sandwich and a small pot of Mandarin Silk tea. 

As soon as we stumbled out of the wet wintery-mix that had been coming down all morning and into cuppa we were instantly transported to a tranquil, trendy oasis filled by the smell of steeping tea and we were surrounded by the natural light from all the windows which somehow transformed the blizzard outside into a real life snow globe.  Yeah, it was that awesome.  They have a larger tea collection than I could ever imagine and lunch was delicious too.

This is where we sat, very cool and cozy. 

The awesome thing about Lexington is that even as a senior I'm finding new things all the time because the city is growing and as it grows it's attracting all sorts of new businesses, restaurants, and the like.  I know I've talked about how much I love Lexington for its perfect size and accessibility, it never ceases to provide something new for me to get excited about.