An Introduction

picture found via déjà vu

Hello!  My name is Jamie and I'm creating this blog with my dear friend, Susie.  We met when we lived next door to one another in an all-girl dorm at our Virginia college.  The hallway we lived on (in a building just off the main campus, overlooking a cobblestone street) was magnificent.  Every night, us gals in the middle of the hallway would gather just outside of our doors until some poor soul down the hall would inevitably begin to slam their door in protest.  It was terrific bonding (sorry poor souls!)

Susie and I soon discovered that we shared (among other things) a hometown just outside of DC, relentlessly optimistic inclinations, an abiding love for all things ridiculous and a compulsive need to reference 30 Rock.  Flash forward some years and we now live in cities approximately two hundred miles apart.  Susie happens to be a wonderfully introspective person, so increasingly we've shared personal and creative challenges across that divide. 

Thus, this blog was born.  To quote Willy Wonka in that terrifying boat scene, "There's no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going."  We're here to share the things that excite us, whatever those things may be.