- stealing pens

- red balloons

- eavesdropping into interesting conversations in Starbucks, and being pleasantly surprised when the conversations are shocking or scandalous

- summer dresses

- solving riddles

- “Miss?”

- using colloquialisms like “the bees knees”

Things that annoy me:

- when men call women bad words

- over zealous baristas

- not having a pen on my person

- when socks slip beneath your feet in shoes

- plaid wearing, “The Velvet Underground” listening, annoying hipster chicks.

- Hot for Teacher,  Van Halen

- this scene of the Addams Family Values movie.

- Jimmy Stewart

- this.

- A Softer World

- nerdy boys

things I don’t want to think about:

- that I’ll be a SENIOR AT UCLA in three months

- the word “coagulate” especially in regards to the thing I’m eating that second

- how long its been since I washed my sheets

- how accurate that guy was at the party last Saturday when he drunkenly explained to me that he thought he may have accidentally peed down that apartment’s trash chute.

- the future

In one hour: watching 500 Days of Summer and planning my schedule of classes until I graduate.

In one day: eating chicken milanese with my roommate tonight and then Diddy Riese tonight with a friend.

In one week: Taking a southbound train home to San Diego all by myself.

In one fortnight: Practicing the harmonica and ukulele that I’ll bring back from home!

In one month: Spring break! The end of my Milton class!

In one year: (almost) Earning my bachelors degree from UCLA.

In ten years: Ye gods. A mortgage? Grim death? I’ll hope for a husband who says “bless you” when I sneeze and children with cork guns.

Me: Honey, I’m sorry to tell you this, but this is the real world.

Zaire: No. No it’s not.

Me: Yes it is.

Zaire: No it’s not.

Me: I think we’re not understanding each oth…

Zaire: ISN’T.

Hello, midterms. How lovely of you to stop by.

guess what kind of dog we’re getting

me: a cat

Jessica: yes

no

http://www.arearottweilers.com/images/graphics/lotarcrnivitez11ab.jpg

me: SHUT UP HE’S ADORABLE

won’t he eat your baby though?

Jessica: haha no

we’re going to wait until the baby is 6mo-1yr

and then get the puppy

so that way, he’s raised around babies

me: so it’s got a chance of defending itself?

Jessica: hahaha

something like that

me: nice

good parenting

I think this is an amazing idea, that dog looks sooooo cuddly

Jessica: I  know!!

they’re super smart

me: I just want to let him roll around on my bed and then go chase a bad guy

Jessica: and very protective, but not at all aggressive

well, unless they think you are going to harm their family

me: that’s good

i like that in dogs

Jessica: me too

me: i do what a chihuaha though

wait. yours will eat mine

frick

Jessica: and he’s big enough to pull around a doggy cart full of babies

lol

not necessarily

when will you get a chihuahua?

me: when i’m jobless and a stoner in my mid twenties.

duh

On the sunny side, here’s a list of really interesting websites I found today:

Cotton Fabric – Stain Removal | Clothing Labels | Laundry Tips

25 New Year’s Resolutions for Going Green in 2010 : Planet Green

Issuu – You Publish

Simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io

shopgoodwill.com – Categories

TripIt | Online travel itinerary and trip planner

And for the icing on the cake, I re-discovered this gem from my sister’s website:

Autocomplete Me

Have fun procrastinating! I sure did!

In any event, here I am on a murky Tuesday afternoon. The sky looks like it would if you were to lie in the bottom of a sink full of soapy dishes and look up. I really should be reading Lycidas for my midterm next week or working on my paper due tomorrow that is only half finished [if that] but it seems much more important to me to do exactly not those things. I’ve been really struggling with the concept of time lately. See, I’ve spent the last week fretting about the paper due tomorrow, and all of that time spent worrying has got me nowhere. I’ll worry worry worry, and then all of a sudden I will realize that no, I’ve got all kinds of time. All I have to do with my life right now is go to class, come back to my dorm room and do work. I don’t have a job or an internship or any other obligation except schoolwork right now, and compared to people taking twenty units with a job and an internship and an off campus apartment, I should have loads of time. For me, it’s got to be a problem of perspective. Sitting at my desk in my room, all I can think about is how much I have left to do, how tired I am, how I have no time left, how it’s all about me me me. The realistic me wants to shake myself and shout, you stupid girl, wake up! You can do everything you need to do even when you think it’s impossible, when have you ever not turned in a paper half finished because you had no time? So far my track record in school has proven that I’ve been able to accomplish much worse under much worse conditions before and emerged triumphant, why is it so easy to forget that? Why is it so tempting to give in to your own shortcomings and forget that you can, in fact, do it?

These are just some thoughts that are racing through my head lately. I am convinced that being a student in college has got to be one of the most stressful and nerve wracking times of your life, but somehow everyone seems to make it out in the end. As my dad always says, you’ve just got to keep your eye on the prize and hold on.

I’m also going to spend a lot of time listening to the Twelfth Street Rag by Pee Wee Hunt.