All is calm, all is bright.

While I was Krose Posing my way through Europe (seriously, my Facebook defaults read like a flip book), Stonehill was welcoming a new class to campus—a class that boasts several of my favorite former classmates and current friends. Among those recent grads is an amazing gal pal of mine named Laura, who is about to bring such joy and excitement to my vida loca when she moves to Manhattan on Friday! Once upon a Brooklyn pre-game, circa last summer, Laura and I strolled the streets of the borough’s waterfront in the heat of July, singing Christmas carols to keep cool. In harmony. I’m not even kidding! Now that the lovely Laura is a New Yorker for realz, who knows what wild wanderings will be in our future.

As far as this weekend goes, though, a welcome wagon’s worth of white sangria will be involved.