YTW Promo

If you missed "Alice" on the SYFY channel this week, I must say you missed out. I really enjoyed it. Yes, at times it was really cheesy (the flamingo things were really bad) and predictable, and they tried to squeeze way too much into two nights. I could go on about how they could have done it better (give the cheshire cat a better role!), but overall, I think it is worth a watch. The Hatter definitely makes up for most of the bad parts about it. So here is the promo for the show, and as of now the whole thing can be found on youtube. Enjoy!

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Too... busy...

I can make it...

So here it is people, the home stretch to break. I have 4 tests and 4 papers (daily homework be damned) and then I am done with the semester. One of those papers is due tomorrow, and I have barely started on it. Another is due on Thursday and I bet you can guess how much work I have done on that one. This is horrible because my body is teetering on the edge of good health. I need to stay well but my immune system seems to have other plans. I predict it only getting worse since I have to stay up late every night this week. I just have to stay focused, and then I can reward myself with a lovely Christmas vacation. 

It's Wednesday!

First of all, I would like to apologize to my readers (all two of you) for not posting on schedule. I was sick last week with a cold and I am still trying to catch up. So anyway, here is today's video, which I find bloody hilarious. Though other people may not get it... but I do and I love it. So there! 

Good thing I have YTW

I am glad I have YTW to fall back on when I am too busy/lazy to post real things. I will say that Halloween was an absolute blast, even if only 5 people understood my costume.

So this is the video I wanted to put up, but I am not allowed to embed it. LAME. So you have to click the * link.* It is worth it, it is a pretty funny video if I do say so myself. 

But if you are too lazy to click on that link, here is the video you get instead:

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The weather is so nice today, and I cursing myself for wasting the warmth by wearing pants instead of a skirt. Oh well. I am going to go for a run outside after class, so that will make up for the absence of skirt.

And without further ado, today's video!

Ha.

Instead of doing my homework this afternoon, I made applesauce. And It is damn good. So there! Take that snobby professors! (I'm a DOCTOR cus I went to school for 50 years, so college kids can ADORE me while I destroy their youth, just as my professors did to me back in 1857! mwahahahahahahahaha!!!!) 

So yeah. I am gonna drop out of school and become Martha Stewart when I grow up. Because she knows that making applesauce is waaay more important than writing haikus. In Italian. 

Ahh!

I almost forgot about YTW! Mainly because I keep forgetting what day it is the week. But just one more day and it is the glorious weekend!!!  

Don't Push Your Luck

Today was incredibly warm for this time of year in Michigan. It was a wonderful day for weather! I put on a skirt, a sweater, and fall ankle boots and skipped about campus all day in the crunchy leaves. It was really pleasant. However, I wanted to yell at all the people I saw with their winter boots, hats, scarves, and Northfaces zipped to their chins. Don't they know that they have to enjoy this weather while it lasts? Soon (in a few days, maybe hours) the sun will go away and forget about Michigan till April. I believe that by dressing that way they are sending out the message that they are ready for winter. I'm not saying that they should go back to sandals (see previous clothing rant) but really they could wear fall attire for a little longer. The season is so short, and it needs to be treated properly! 

Sunday Afternoon

I don't even bother turning on the food network anymore. I can't even bring myself to capitalize its name. Serves them right. I just hope that somehow, they know that they are being punished with improper grammar. Take that, evil TV corporation! Until they let me know what has happened to my beloved Brian Boitano, they shall be disgraced with lower case letters. 

So I have been thinking lately that I should change the title of my blog. With the exception of YTW, my entries tend to be pure rant, rather than small thoughts. It cannot be helped. There is just something therapeutic about sending rants out in cyberspace where someone else may read them and agree. (And I don't need anyone to remind me about how unlikely it is that the legions of Brian Boitano fans are flocking to my blog to see what I have to say on the matter.)

Let me post a little non ranting for once. This weekend there was a renaissance fair (faire?) on campus. I only had time to quickly walk through it, but it was fun nonetheless. I wish 

I had more time (and money) to spend there before they leave. There is just something about those fairs that make 

them so much fun. Maybe the air of sillyness that I seem to associate with men who dress like a cross between King 

Arthur and Jack Sparrow. Heh heh...

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I have been on a major David Bowie kick lately. I don't think it will be going away anytime soon...

Right now this is my favorite video to watch. It is a great song and he is so young in this video! I also think it is funny how crooked his teeth were. Now they are perfectly straight. I wonder how that happened. Hmmmm...

Seasonal

Ahh, fall in west Michigan. The leaves are starting to change, the geese are migrating, the air is crisp, and the long quest to stay warm and dry in foul weather has begun. The transition from warm weather to freezing is very short here. Cute fall jackets and skirts with boots? Yeah, you can wear those items for about 3 days before having to switch to a coat and many, many layers. And the freezing weather sticks around till the end of March. Oh well, it is a good thing I like snow. 

But what I don't understand is when I see people (usually, but not always girls) bundled up, complete with hat, scarf, gloves, jacket, pants, and looking rather cozy, except for the sandals on their feet. And I see this a lot. It is almost like an insult to nature. And fashion. Like wearing Uggs with shorts (or wearing Uggs at all). But seriously people, You are going to bundle your body up but leave your feet quite literally, out in the cold? And it hasn't been just cold, it has been rainy too. You can't really expect to go long in west Michigan without some precipitation. 

I just hope that these people wise up and start wearing some proper fall shoes. 

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Enjoy :)

Hot Mess

My life is somewhat of a hot mess right now. The only real joys I have are eating at Fresh Food, the knowledge that the weekend will come again, and the satisfaction I get from saying the phrase "hot mess". Say it with me: HOT MESS. Hot mess. Hotmesshotmesshotmess. Anyway, why is my life such a hot mess right now? As if the fact that I am a poor college student wasn't enough.

1. I am behind in 3 classes. Significantly behind. Like, I have so much work that I don't even know where to begin, and if I work on getting one subject done, the others have to suffer.

2. My new tights somehow stained my fingernails blue. They are a blue plaid type of pattern and when I put them on this morning, the color rubbed off on my hands. It washed off my fingers but the color on my nails seemed to intensify aftr meeting up with soap and water. I don't even want to think what these tights are doing to the inside of my skirt right now. I fear that the khaki may look more like denim when the day is through.

3. I have so many assignments due this week. I know that goes along with #1, but it is such a big thing that I think it should be mentioned twice. Besides, #1 is more about being behind on my reading, and this one describes more of why I can't catch up on that reading.

4. Because of #1 and #3, I don't have much time to go to the gym. I am losing all the progress I made in the first weeks of the school year.

5. My dirty laundry is overflowing. I won't run out of clothes, because I am blessed with an extensive wardrobe, but I am afraid that the dirty laundry might aquire some form of intelligence and mobility and come attack me in the night.

6. If my laundry does decide to attack me, I will be ready for it because I don't get to bed until about 4 am (reason #6 why my life is a hot mess). So if it is planning a sneak attack it should wait until daybreak. But we all know that evil supernatural laundry can only move about at night, so I am safe.

7. Brian Boitano has dissapeared from his Sunday time slot, and I have no idea where he went to. Food Network is not giving me answers, but instead they are throwing Paula Dean dipped in butter and deep fried at me through the airwaves. Not cool Food Network, not cool.

8. All the other things I want to do are being pushed to the wayside. I am in 3 organizations but I really only have the time to dedicate to one, and I hate that. I want to go on trips with the backpacking club, but I don'y have the time, or the gear, which leads me to my next point.

9. I don't have any money to buy the things I want. I want to buy some proper backpacking gear so I can go on these trips, but I don't have the money. I only have enough money to buy the food I need. I have no income. I have an etsy account that I could seel things on, but then I don't have the time to make things to sell.

Hot mess. Most definatly. I just keep telling myself that this college thing is worth it. It is hard to believe when school is keeping me from all the things I love to do. When I am staying up late reading about things that I have no interest in, it is hard to make myself believe that I want to be here. When I find myself dragging my feet through boring classes, drinking gallons of coffee (coffee on campus tastes like hot garbage, by the way) just to get myself through the day, and finding that there isnt't enough time in a weekend to catch up on work and sleep, it is really hard to make myself believe that I am in the right place, doing the right thing. I had better get a job when I graduate or so help me...

Not Happy!

What Would Brian Boitano Make was not on the Food Network today when it was supposed to be! Every Sunday at one I faithfully tune into the Food Network to watch the hilarity that is Brian Boitano. Last week I got a hint that something was awry since they played a rerun rather than a new episode. But this week he wasn't there at all! And foodnetwork.com is set up horribly, so I can't find any useful information. Oh sure, go there to find any recipe you would ever need, but try to find info on your new favorite show that has suddenly disappeared from the tv? Impossible! Oh Brian, where did you go?

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As promised!





I'm excited.

Boring?

I have come to the conclusion that my blog is pretty boring right now. I mean, you really can't blame me since all I do now is muddle through school days. But I am determined to make it a better blog! I have been thinking about what I like to see in blogs that I read, and I think I will incorporate some of those elements in my own bloggity blog. (Blog is such a funny word, isn't it?) So! Fom now on there will be more pictures, anecdotes, videos (I am reinstating YouTube Wednesdays!) and maybe a piece of fiction thrown in here and there. I am also going to try to update more often, because I hate when readers have to wait DAYS to here from their favorite blogger. So wish me luck and watch for improvements!

Where is the new episode?

Every Sunday I watch What Would Brian Boitano Make on the Food Network. But today it wasn't a new episode! They showed the first episode of the season. I am pretty upset. Since the fiasco with Pushing Daisies I can't help but be a little wary when they start messing with my favorite shows. All I have to say is there better be a new episode next week. Or else. 

In other news, I think one of my professors killed a sofa to make the outfit she wore to the last class. (I am not saying which prof in order to protect myself, lolz) But seriously. She was wearing a blazer made out of this thick fabric with this big floral pattern on it. I immediately thought of upholstery.

One thought.

The image of a half eaten banana just popped in my head. You know, when someone will cut a banana in half, and eat one part of it and leave the rest to get brown on the counter. I remember my grandparents on my dad's side doing this a lot. Who wants to eat just half of a banana? It isn't very big or filling, so why not just eat the whole thing? Do they ever get around to eating the other half? The fact that people do this really bothers me. And this is what I think about when I should be doing homework.

Mid Week

I took an accidental nap yesterday. I just laid down on my bed when I got home from class and completely conked out. I must have needed it if I fell asleep so quickly. It is only September but it already feels like that I have been here for months. Gah. I am so busy! And I want to more. I don't know how I am going to fit it all in. I am in three organizations, I am learning how to sew, I am head of Project PD, I go to the gym everyday, I am adding a minor and I want to study abroad. There just isn't enough time in four years of school to fit it all in. I want to graduate in 4 years, but if I study abroad I don't think I will be able to.

Good news! I think I will have time to actually sew something this weekend! And I have a fun post planned for when I upload the pictures from my camera.

I would rather...

Be knitting than my homework. I am awfully fatigued today and I just feel like curling up and doing something crafty. I have been dying to break out my sewing machine since I got here. But I don't have the time. I know what you are thinking, if I would get my homework done early then I could devote some time to craftiness. But in order to get my homework done right, I have to devote hours. And once I'm done with classes, go to the gym, shower, and eat, I am exhausted and short on hours. Oh well. 

Back to School

So Blogger changed the way that I sign in, so for the longest time I couldn't log in to my account. Boo. But I figured it out today! So guess what I am doing instead of homework! That's right. 

So here is a thought for the day. At the gym I have noticed that the girls with the cutest exercise outfits are also the ones that take working out the least seriously. Hmm. Today when I went to do some laps on the track I noticed two girls standing by the railing (it is an elevated track) talking on their cell phones and clearly not working out. They stood there the whole time I was running and then when I was doing my cool down, they met up with some friends, ran two laps, and left the track. And they were thin. How does that work? Do they eat nothing? My prediction is that their bodies will catch up with them and their hips will spread after they have children. And by the shorts they were wearing I know that they will. 

My Goodness

I haven't posted in a long time. First my internet was down, and then I got lazy, and yeah.. lazy. I work a lot. Well maybe not a lot, but it certainly takes a lot out of me. But I have been very productive this summer so far! I have read six books, knit over half of a blanket, started to learn how to sew, made many many hand pies, cookies, cupcakes, and a deep dish apple pie... mmm. I have also started going to knitting group at the local yarn shop Wednesday nights. I still dearly miss my knitting group up at school. I have also started a huge knitting endeavor involving my beloved show Pushing Daisies and the clever knitters at Ravelry.com. More on that later as it develops. But I am very excited about it! 

Ok, bad news: I have no idea where my camera is. All of my things got all shuffled around when I moved home from school, and I don't remember when I used it last. Maybe it is in a random bag/purse. I hope so. I can't imagine where else it could be. And I want to document the summer I have left...

More bad news: my computer charger is on the fritz again. Sometimes it works just fine, other times it doesn't work at all. I am going to get it checked out tomorrow, so hopefully that problem will be eliminated. 

Last of the bad news: I have a bad farmers tan from working outside. Yuck.  

YTB in the Library

Finals suck. A lot. But I took a break and found this clip. Hahahaha guys are so dumb!

Finals Update

One final down. I think I did good on it... It took me less than an hour to do and it didn't seem that hard. Today I didn't have any finals but I did have an interview at the Writing Center. I hope I get the job! Tomorrow I have my Italian final and I have to go to a class after that and watch other people do presentations. Then on Thursday I have a presentation and a paper due, and then an online final after that. I am not worried at all about the online final. The other ones I am a little worried about. Especially since my paper need to be 1200-1500 words and I currently have 300. Go me!

I can't WAIT till this week is over...

Finals Week

Finals have begun... I have my first one in less than an hour. ewww. I have one today, none tomorrow, one on Wednesday, and two on Thursday. One of them on Thursday is a group project presentation. Double yuck. If there is no YTW, you know why.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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This is a great song from a very funny operetta called Candide. I love this video the most because of the conductor, he is so into it! I think that he is also the composer. So enjoy!

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Awesome, no?

Mysterious Dorm Happenings

So I have come to the conclusion that bad little elves come in my room and throw perfectly clean clothes in my hamper when I'm not looking, causing me to always have to do 50 loads of laundry every 3 hours. If anyone knows how to get rid of these elves, I would love the advice. 

Double YTW

So this week, all my lovely readers, you get TWO videos! This first one I found last week and it just cracked me up! Especially with the changes they have made to Facebook... But that is another rant for another day. The second video I found today and I can't wait a week to put it up. This is another one that gave me a mega lolz. Enjoy! 

WTH is a failwhale??? 

Now, I have watched a few of this guy's videos, and I must say that he is rather strange. But his cat is just the cutest thing in the world! He reminds me of my kitty Binx.

Memories

So randomly memories pop in my head. Here's one for ya:

So when I was little I would spend a lot of time at my grandma's house waiting for my mom to get off work. I spent longs hours watching my two older cousins (brothers) play video games. I know, I had a very educating childhood. So this particular memory is from the time that my cousins discovered the phrase "your mom". They were playing Mortal Combat and would integrate "your mom" into one of their many battle cries. Me, being the smart cookie I was, piped in and said "you have the same mom!" Then one of them replied, "no we don't" and called the other one a bastard. Took me years to figure that one out. Just thought you all would like to know.

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Came across this video last night when I couldn't get to sleep. I especially like the mini shoes!

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Last week I was on spring break, and it was SO nice. But alas, I am now back at school and swamped with work once again. So this week's YTW is in honor of some of my homework. I am reading the play The Odd Couple for my theatre class. After I read it had to do this big project on it. Yuck. But for now, enjoy the movie trailer. I wish I had a copy of the movie so I could watch it for inspiration!

Oh, and did I mention it is snowing again? Yeah, everyone is pretty miffed about that.

Update!

So I finally have a few minutes to breathe and update this poor, half-neglected blog. Actually, I should be using my time in the library (that is where I am currently) to get a jump on my reading that I half to do over spring break. But I won't. I am way ahead most of the class anyway, because unlike them, I actually DO the reading. Honestly I don't know how they write the papers if they don't even read the books. But now I am getting ranty. Let's move on.

Ok, new rant. I haven't been sleeping very well lately. I am not sure why. No matter how late it is, I just lay there, wide awake. So I am going to blame something for this unexplainable lack of slumbering. I blame Sunday night. Or rather, Monday morning, because this took place at 1:00 in the morning. I was all showered and ready to get into bed to finish my homework, when (of course) the fire alarm goes off. I hate the fire alarm. And this wasn't the only time that it went off at a horribly inconvenient time. One time it got me out of bed an hour early in the mroning and forced me to stand out in the cold in my pajamas. I was also in my pa-jim-jams on Monday. My hair was wet too. So my roomie Mel and I threw on our coats and boots and trekked out into the freezing weather, cursing all the way. Because God forbid we get trapped in a building where someone down the hall had an epic cooking FAIL. (What i want to know is, what the hell were they cooking at ONE IN THE MORNING???)So we stood out there, and guess what! Just guess. My hair froze. Yes, FROZE. At first Mel didn't believe me, but I had her feel one of the icy locks hanging off my head. Just perfect. But wait! There's more! So the police come (the fire department knows by now that our building fails at cooking, and it's no big deal) and let us back into the building. They shut the alarm in the hallway off, but the ones in the individual rooms continue. And they are LOUD. Mel and I shut ourselves into the bathroom because luckily the sound was slightly muffled in there. This alarm goes on for about five minutes straight. I told Mel to go smash the thing but she wouldn't listen to me. Go figure. So by the time I brushed my teeth and finished my remaining homework it was about 2:30. And my ears were still ringing from that @#@#%^#&*&#$@% alarm. Ever since I haven't been able to fall asleep until sometime close to 4:00. Go me.

I must run to class now (LAST ONE BEFORE SPRING BREAK!!!) so I will write Update part deux when I have the time,

YTW Spoiler alert!

I have lots of things to blog about, but no time! Maybe I will catch up one day, But in the meantime, here is a video for your viewing pleasure! 

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Watch this video! Then watch Demetri Martin's new show on Comedy Central! Wednesdays at 10:30.

Check it out!

If you haven't seen Coraline yet, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Go see it, and watch out for these: Coraline Secrets

Sorry I am so boring!

I don't have much to blog about lately, because most of my time is spent doing homework. I have had so much work this semester that I get this terrible sense of guilt any time that I am not reading or doing other homework. Like right now, for example. I haven't hit a major stress point yet, but it will probably come sooner or later. I have to spend almost every spare minute I have when I'm not sleeping, eating, or in class on homework, otherwise I won't have enough time to get it done. I can't afford to leave everything for Sunday anymore, because everything that I have to do is so time consuming. I even read while I'm in the gym. Yay for exercise machines! Thankfully the work I have to do isn't impossibly hard. Like I said, it is just ridiculously time consuming. Right now I am wasting precious minutes and cutting into my slumbering time... 

But I don't want to complain too much. That is plenty for now. :-) I do take pleasure in the simple joys that have popped up recently. Such as:

*My "soundtrack" playlist on itunes. I have the soundtracks to Wall-E, Coraline, Chocolate, and Zelda: Ocarina of Time on shuffle, and I must say that it is on the awesome side of perfect.

*Figuring out my housing for next year. Yay apartment 13A! 

*Reading the 1 star reviews of Twilight on Amazon.com. Seriously people, these are HILARIOUS. Go read them. Even if you like Twilight (why...?!) you may find these observations comical. 

*Knitting group! I've started going to a knitting group on Thursdays. It is really the perfect end to my week of classes. The people that show up are so much fun to be around and I love getting off campus for a few hours.

*My new ringtone! I uploaded "Exploration" and "End Credits" from Coraline onto Myxer.com and sent them to my phone. I am currently using "Exploration" for my text ring. I love it! 

*Madcap Coffee shop downtown. Great atmosphere and great chai! Mmmmm... chai...

So that's it for now, I'm off to do more homework. Maybe I'll be in bed before 2:00 AM for once! 

YTW+

Back at a grueling week of school after a grueling weekend at home (8 page paper that was due on Monday took up the majority of my weekend.) And if I judge by the weather, this is not West Michigan in February. It is 54 degrees out! The snow that was piling up over my knees last week has been reduced to sad, icy clumps scattered across campus. Girls are walking around in shorts and flip-flops, and guys are sitting outside smoking hookah. Everyone has been asking me if I've been enjoying the weather. Hmmm, well that would be a big fat NO. I hate when the weather is like this. Because I know that it is just going to get freezing again, and we won't see the sun again until mid April. I only like 54 degree weather when I know that it is spring for sure and the tulips are peeking out of the dirt. Also, I can't enjoy much of anything right now because I have contracted a nasty little cold. Blech.

So the youtube clip of the week? Here it is! And if you haven't gone to see this in theaters already, SHAME ON YOU. Go see it. NOW. 

YTW Gets a Little Culture

Here, educate yourself. This is one of the the Best. Songs. Ever. Sung by probably one of the coolest and most talented men ever. And he has a pretty sweet scarf too.

Ok, old plan out. New plan:

I can't remember what movie the quote in the title is from. Can anyone help me out?

Anyway, here is the plan. This is a list of all the things I must do in the next week or so, in order of due date. I am setting my academic to-do list in internet stone, so maybe, just maybe, I can stay organized for once. 

1.  3-4 page English paper

2. Keep up with Italian that is due everyday

3. Keep up with readings in Civ and Eng

4. Online response to English readings

5. Italian workbook

6. Online response to Italian movie

7. 8 page Civ paper 

8. Catch up on Rader Terms if I have time  

*hoping for the best*

Will some one please make it stop? Please???

I have so much work to do this weekend I don't even know where to start. So I'm starting by posting a blog update. Go me! I won't bore you with the details of all my homework assignments. Because, quite frankly, it is too painful for me to describe. 

So right now I am waiting for Melanie to get out of the bathroom so I can get ready. Then we are going downtown to the art museum because she needs to go see it for a class. I don't mind, I've been wanting to go see it for a long time, but I just wish I didn't have so much work to do. Maybe I could bring my laptop on the bus and start one of the three papers I should be working on... ugh. Typing that was painful. 

So in other news I am super excited to go home next weekend and see CORALINE!!! I can't wait!!! I have been following all the updates about online for a little while now and I am just so super excited. It is almost enough to take my mind off the looming homework and laundry I have to shovel through before next weekend...

Well, just livin' the college life...

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My alarm didn't go off this morning. I made it to class on time but the whole day has been off. Wednesdays usually are. 

YouTube clip time!!!

My favorite part is when he stops moving his mouth to look at the moustache. HAHAHAHAHA

YouTube Wednesday

I have decided that I will never make up for the lost blogging time. And I really don't care. I neglect the internet all the time now because my life is now ruled by my reading list. I may do a separate post about that when I have time. But for now, to keep this blog going, I shall post one of my favorite YouTube clips every Wednesday for all four of my readers to contemplate. So here is this week's clip, enjoy! 

This is in my opinion, the best scene in the movie Ocean's 12. 

Hmmmm

Okay, so I lied. No update this weekend. I had too much homework. Maybe tomorrow. 

I promise

I promise I will write a new post this weekend. I will, trust me. I just have to get through this first week of the semester and all of the bloody homework I have already. So stay tuned.