"I'll write you harmony in C...."

Listening to some Metric this morning. Nice way to start out the day.

Actually, I started out the day with a walk around campus with a friend, followed by tea and the end of an extremely disturbing French film that I hope none of you will ever see - in fact, I wish I had never seen it. Following that which set my eyes on fire, I had a lovely discussion with said friend about our mutual friend, David Attenborough. : ) Good times.

Now, it's Friday. Finals start tomorrow. I need to study. I need to write a paper. I also need to do laundry. I also need to keep packing up my room. I also have this desperate desire to do anything but those things above. How's this going to go?

I think no matter what comes first, be it procrastination or floor-sweeping or whatnot, raucous music will accompany my actions -- and if that's the case, how bad could it be?

Happy winding down of the semester, all.

Also: I have received a challenge from a reader of the movie-chain that I made the other day. I will be addressing that challenge soon! Stay tuned!

A fun exercise in association:

Name two movies that have the same actor/actress in them -- see if you can follow the chain of actors/actresses! I thought this was cool..

Chicago --- Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman -- Notting Hill
Notting Hill -- Music & Lyrics
Music & Lyrics -- Ever After
Ever After -- The Witches
The Witches -- Love Actually
Love Actually -- Harry Potter
Harry Potter -- The Patriot
The Patriot - The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight - The Prestige
The Prestige - Happy Feet
Happy Feet - Girl Interrupted
Girl Interrupted - Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands - Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Two Towers - The Aviator
The Aviator - Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven - Chicago

So, that's for today. : ) Enjoy!!! I think it's really cool.

During the process of cleaning...

I found several cards/pictures/notes/doodles from folks around that I do not think I will bring with me next year, but this post is in remembrance!

Trader Joe's, that receipt that you gave me when I went and bought exactly what I wanted (i.e. blueberry jam, chocolate chips, baby carrots, Irish breakfast tea, sugar snap peas, and cheddar cheese) was very kind and I have fond memories of that trip, but I think it will have to go.
Friends, you know who you are - you gave me a card last semester when I was very ill, and I wanted to say thank you one more time.

Gosh this sounds cheesy.
Maybe I'll skip the individual ones for the rest, but this is my way of making sure that they were noted before they get tossed. Thank you all!! They graced my desk for a good long while.

Yeah, yeah....

I know I said I'd be working on my Anthropology midterm. I know the technical due date is tomorrow, but he's giving us until next week. I know it's been a week since I've had the assignment...I just have this procrastination urge. Call it... a call to blog, if you will.

I've had a couple of interesting experiences today, unprecedented ones. First of all, I brought the wrong folder to a class. x_X I have not done that this entire year, which is surprising even to me. However, true nerd as I am, I noticed that I didn't have the folder while I was at the office hours of the professor for whose class I needed the folder, so there was still time to dash back across the bleeding hot campus to get it. Seriously, folks - it was hot today!

Second unprecedented thing: I left my phone on vibrate during class today. Not on purpose, you must understand. It just... happened. But THEN -- the really incredible thing: I got a text during class!! I always check my phone after class, hoping against hope that I was important enough to merit a message in that hour from 1 to 2 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays -- but never anything, until the day when the bloody thing isn't on silent.

Oh, well. No one noticed, anyway.

I also realized a couple of things that I just think might never change, and I wanted to write them here.
Person X will always be shockingly tactless in conversation.
Person XY will never, ever finish her homework before coming to class. Not this semester, anyway.
Professor XZY will always bother me, even though I try not to be bothered by her. It's a personality issue. (though today, it was a me-defending-some-other-student-that-she-treated-wrongly-thing. Or wanting to defend. I didn't say anything....)
I will always inevitably switch my iPod to Sam's Town while I'm at the gym. (People, have you HEARD this album? The Killers are incredible. I swear, I feel like I could do anything as long as I'm listening to 'When You Were Young', and I feel like the coolest person in the world during 'Bling (Confessions of a King)'. I think I might have even stayed on crew if they had played this during practice, and that's saying something. BTW: I'm officially OFF the team, as in not coming back next year. Just wanted to make sure y'all knew it was official.)
The menu at Founders will never be what I was hoping for it to be. Best to not think of it at all, and then, you know, it might show up!

I also was thinking, just, for the heck of it about what I would miss if I lived in a space station. I would miss sunshine -- nothing else on your skin feels like sunshine does, you know? Even in winter, that warmth is so comforting. And another thing I'd miss -- the feeling when you're hot and sweaty for one reason or another and a slight breeze just catches you and it's the most blissful feeling... Yeah. I'd miss that.
And I'd miss the smell of freshly mowed grass. I feel like if space-station-grass were grown and then cut, it still wouldn't smell the same.

Gotta love this earth, man. Woman. Sorry. I forget I'm still at Mills -- gotta watch myself!

:)

Wait, hang on a sec...

It's..almost...summer?!?!?!

What am I going to do without homework?

I'm going to lie in bed in the mornings, having just shut off an alarm that I set for no reason, and I'll think: "I really ought to get up; I need to work on-----" and then I'll draw a blank, and I will feel so lost!!!

Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to serious cuddle time with my dog, endless cups of tea, movies with my sister, periods of lounging in the sun, and hours of sitting in dark movie theaters...if I can get someone to go with me and pay for part of it. Ticket prices these days...

This is the first of probably several "I can't wait to just be at home" posts... just to warn ya.

It's late. I'm turnin' in.

Welcome to the first full week of May, y'all.

Will you take me back?

Hey, blog. Hey, folks....

I have a confession to make. I've been cheating on you, blog...with...well, several people. Tumblr, for one -- that's a foxy lady right there. Then there's also Buffy, that vixen --- and I can't leave out homework. I don't know what it is, but homework always seems to have some power over me. She's powerful.

So, that's why I've been so weird and distant with you. Those are the reasons that I've seemed so distracted in our conversations and why it seems like my mind is always elsewhere.

My sincerest apologies. Even if I can't promise an immediate change in behavior (given that finals are coming up), know that I do feel very, very bad about my behavior.

So, after I blast through the last homework assignments and those pesky exams, we'll spend some quality time together. Promise.

WHOAAAA ----I can put pictures up on BLOGGER!!!

Holy goodness, this is fantastic. : )

Above is a picture of a part of the monastery where I spent 10 days for a meditation retreat in Thailand...See my other blog (in a couple months) for details. I just thought the picture was gorgeous --- and I didn't take it, so I can say that -- and wanted to show it.