Thursday Night Thoughts

Loving this song:

Wanting a brown-er version of this hair (someday I may work up the courage): 

And wondering if this blog will ever become more than a carefully orchestrated sliver-of-myself.

It's Christmas So We'll Stop

In two days. TWO DAYS.

I wish I had the motivation to study for my Bio 100 and Elang finals, but I really don't right now. Two consecutive 7 am finals sucked that out of me.

But I am currently very much looking forward to:
-Sleeping for more than five hours at a time
-Finally compiling my London scrapbook
-Running again

-Making homemade marshmallows (pumpkin? egg-nog flavored?)
-DRIVING
-Reading for fun
-Visiting Tacoma's brand new H&M

And that's all for now. That should get me through two more finals. This song also helps:

YouTube Gems (or why five-page essays take me six hours)

This adds a whole new dimension to the only-slightly-overplayed Christmas classic:



Haha and this. I don't even know where to start. Or whether to laugh. Or cringe. Or... dance? Although several lines are quite problematic from both doctrinal and feminist perspectives, it's still pretty catchy.

Procrastination Sensation.

Welllp. I've done just about everything one can do to avoid writing my bio paper on the relationship between water temperature and algae (algal?) growth in Provo River. Including:

-3 hour nap

-Shower

-Blow dry and style hair

-Clean room

-Make dinner (wheat penne with roasted vegetables and grated parmesan)

-Clean kitchen

-Compile Christmas playlist

-Check Facebook, Gmail and all the blogs I routinely stalk

-Check blogs I rarely even visit

-Double-check Facebook, Gmail and blogs

-Clean kitchen

And I'm running out of ideas. This would be a whole lot easier if I wasn't making quite literally all of my data up. And if I could figure out how to make charts in Pages. And if I could actually find some relevant, peer-reviewed sources. Maybe I'll make those up too? That seems too obvious. Oh well. I'll just restart Sufjan's Christmas album and try again. Last assignment before Thanksgiving!

p.s. This is quite nice.

I see you stir the fog around.

This song shuffled onto my ipod this afternoon and I immediately deemed it the perfect first-day-of-November tune. A little lonely and foreboding. Yet a comfortable brand of melancholy.

It has taken me awhile to adjust to his voice, but I'm warming up to it. Kind of like Joanna Newsom. After a year of cringing at her occasionally screeching vocals, I'm learning to appreciate her for the lyrical genius she really is. And her voice isn't half bad either. If you're new to Joanna I'd start with this:

Mincing up the morning, slightly bored

I hate when people steal my favorite napping couches.

(She's not even sleeping.)

And vending machine dinners.

(Processed strawberry danish?)

And 12 hour days on campus.

But work is fun.

And I'll be 21 in two days.

Also, if anyone knows how to embed song links in blogger with yahoo media player will they pleaseeee enlighten me? I've wasted far too many homework-hours trying to figure this out.

That's all. I'll just be attempting a Bon Iver-induced nap in very noisy hallway.

The dog days are over.

So midterms are finally catching up with me. Just in time for General Conference weekend. I have a bio test this afternoon and a few more next week. But it seems like the weather is finally turning! I woke up to a brisk 45 degree morning. And weather.com promises a high of 65 in the near future. Tights, boots and blazers here I come.

Tonight: Thai Ruby and a free Lower Lights (see previous post) rooftop concert perhaps?

Additonally, I need suggestions for my next creative writing project. I have to do something completely out of my comfort zone and then write about it. The only suggestions I've received so far would probably get me arrested... What can I do that I would never do?