Usefulness of an undergraduate degree: Today I alphabetized subject headings.

Keeping me awake

I had to wake up at 4:45 this morning for work.  Fortunately, the internet provided me with this gem, which is quite literally making me laugh out loud.

http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com/

NOT SAFE FOR PARENT'S EYES (y'all, my parents read my blog).  There are a lot of "f" words, if you know what I'm saying.

“I’m going to need a fistful of aspirin before you open your goddamn mouth again.”

Things on my mind

Whenever I hear about someone dying, I think to myself "that will be me someday" but then I kind of talk myself out of it and convince myself it's not true.

Inspiration board

I seriously cannot get enough of rooms with bookshelves and other lovely things.  I need to make a bookshelves inspiration board for sure.

I make the best pen-pal

This is a real life verbatim email I sent to one of my dearest friends this morning, which pretty much sums up everything on my mind:

hi friend!!

 

tomorrow is my ischool orientation and i'm so excited! only i can't decide what i want to wear. it needs to say "i'm serious" and "i'm fun!" and "i have a good sense of style" and "it's 100 degrees outside" all at once. i want to wear my glasses because they're cute and nerdy, but they have a terrible habit of falling off my face during times of excessive heat (read: all the time).  also: i have to spend all night putting together approximately a half dozen different schedules so i can be prepared when i meet my advisor. do you think that's too many? 

 

you are the only one who can understand my mixed feelings!  i miss you, i wish we could drink beers on my couch.

-rebecca

Needless to say, she replied with enthusiasm.

Dropping the balls

Really, I haven't posted since Tuesday?  You know, this is just a fun little way to occupy a few minutes of my time each week and I'm not going to beat myself for not keeping up exactly with this little "challenge."  But I do note how sucky I am.

I'm at work where the computer is slow and I'm supposed to post some music I've been enjoying lately.  Here is where I have an embarassing admission: despite my Radiohead tattoo and the years of my adolesence spent pining over this or that band, I don't really listen to music anymore.  I've always considered music to be a fairly private thing for me; I don't like listening to "my" music in the presence of anyone else and since I started living with Ed, I have very little alone time.  Though Ed and I do share some musical tastes, the kind of music I like is weird and as such, I like to keep it a little private.  Most of the time spent in the car or on the bus is filled with the noise of podcasts.  Like every other college educated under-30 year-old, I listen to This American Life fairly exclusively.  Every once in a while, I'll tune into NYC Radiolab or a Ted Talk.  They're good stuff.

But anyways, music.  Once I'm in on a band, I'm pretty much a devoted fan for life (hence the Radiohead tattoo).  I enjoyed The Decemberists in high school and early college, but there was only so much sea shanty I could take in any one sitting.  And then I met Ed.  Ed, a wonderful fellow ex-emo introvert who introduced me to some good stuff.  Like Tarkio, Colin Meloy's (the lead singer of The Decemberists) band from college.  I cannot get enough of their music and it's been a good 2 years since we've been formally introduced.  Here's my favorite tune, I hope you enjoy:

On not eating enough

There's a blog I follow and the writer's first book is called No One Cares What You Had For Lunch and is about how to start up a successful money-making blog.  This isn't that and in keeping with the challenge,  Day Nine implores me to describe today's food consumption.  I put off writing this because I don't eat enough during the day.  Call it frugality or laziness or being too busy, but my body has learned to subsist off few calories.  Case in point:

1. This morning I ate a bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds with skim milk for breakfast.
2. After my morning work out, I had some frozen grapes.
3. Some evil woman brought almost-stale Starbucks cookies for the front desk employees and I ate one, even though they had something like 400 calories and 7 grams of saturated fat.  I mean, come on, free cookies!
4. Upon returning home, I had my leftover nachos from last night's weekly night out to El Arroyo.
5. For dinner, Ed made some tasty spicy chicken patties on whole wheat bun.  I only had half of it but I did have two generous servings of salad with Brianna's "New American" salad dressing.

I hope dessert comes soon in the form of cinnamon sugar toast.