YTW

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...

YTW

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. 

YTW

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...