Next week is finals here, and you know what that means. Another list of all the things that need to be done over the next week and a half. Hooraaaay.

( Don't click. Seriously, it'll depress you. )

So, that's depressing. But I've otherwise had a pretty good day today. My little sister got into William and Mary, early decision, so yay for her!! =D And all day I've been rewatching Misfits and getting caught up on The Office, which has actually been pretty good the past few weeks, even though Jim and Pam annoy me now. Ooh, and I stocked up on ice cream and cookies for my upcoming mondo study session, so I'm excited. Mmm. Chocolate.

Oh, also, I saw Dollhouse tonight...
( Spoilers! )

With that, I guess I'll actually start on this list. Maybe I'll go do laundry. Or start studying law. Making a responsible choice for my future. On a Friday night. Being a director had better be awesooooome.

What the hell is wrong with this version of the Grease soundtrack I have? Why can't the songs be in movie order? Because "You're The One That I Want" is NOT the fourth song they play in that show.

*notices readership* Oh. Hello. *removes glasses*

So... I've noticed recently that I don't blog nearly as often as I used to. Seems like all I ever talk about recently is in-depth coverage of TV shows. So I'm going to... be better about doing proper blog entries. Yup.

( TV rambling, a rant in homage form, and yet another to-do list )

Okay. Off to get something done before bed. Or possibly just go bed, so I won't sleep all of tomorrow away as well.

To preface, I have read no spoilers for tonight's HIMYM. But based on people's reactions to them, I have decided to forgo HIMYM tonight in favor of homework. Which is like HIMYM in that it starts with an H and has an M in it, but is decidedly less fun.

That's right, suckers. I'm being responsible.

I never thought I'd say this, but TV can wait until after my homework is done. (I KNOW.)

So PLEASE. DO NOT SPOIL ME. It's looking like I won't be able to watch HIMYM (at least with a clear conscience) until Thursday. It'll take me enough willpower to stay off the comms and all y'all's journals. Don't make it worse by asking me my thoughts on the episode, or commanding me to watch it at that very moment. You guys know I have nearly no willpower as it is.

Here's my to-do list for the week. Just so you know my completely valid reasons for not watching a 20-minute TV program.

[x] Film sounds for assignment 4.
[x] Edit assignment 4.
[x] Outline Eliot paper.
[ ] Write first draft of 15-page Eliot paper, due Tuesday.
[x] Revise 2 poems.
[x] Read Elizabeth Bishop poems (5-7? check syllabus)
[x] Write 5-7 page Bishop paper, due Wednesday.
[ ] Write poem based on Elizabeth Bishop. PUSHED BACK TO MONDAY, BITCHES!!
[x] Study for law exam.
[x] Take law exam, 8 am Thursday.
[x] Relationships program!
[x] RA meeting Wednesday.
[x] Watch Glee live, if I survive to Wednesday night. (Because I'll have earned it by that point.)
[x] Eventually, watch HIMYM. (*bows head*)
[x] Not watch any more episodes of Veronica Mars until Thursday.

This last one on my list may actually be impossible.

You guys remember that video game Lemmings, with the little green-haired dudes that you had to get into their hole by making them dig holes or build stairs or otherwise not walk blindly off cliffs?

As of right now, I am one of those green-haired dudes, blindly following whoever first posted this meme. Hopefully one of us doesn't get bored and make the rest of us supernova. (Also, hopefully I don't get 10 "Ted Mosby"s.)

the I AM meme


ANYWAY. Since my list worked out so well for me last week, I thought I'd make another one for this week, just to help myself keep on track. But I'll be on fall break by Thursday at 4 pm, so yaaaay! And I'll be going home AND meeting darlingchaos on Friday afternoon... EXTREME YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! ^_^ ^_^

[x] Write lit midterm -- 4 questions, 1.5 pages each
[x] Watch 1 film (Cold Mountain, Fargo, Truman Show, Undercover Brother)
[x] Write 1 film critique (Psycho, Cold Mountain, Fargo, Truman Show, Undercover Brother) -- due Wednesday, 6 pm!
[x] Study for media law exam
[x] Law exam Thursday!

That's actually a pretty short list. But each item is pretty time-consuming and stressful, especially seeing as most of it has to be done by Wednesday. Anyway, watch this space to see the items on my to-do list disappear. It's an interactive blog entry. *unenthused* Yaaaaaay.

Exciting things, just to end on a positive note: New HIMYM tonight! New Glee Wednesday! And I'm really, really, really, really excited for the weekend!!!!!!! I get to go home AND meet Lark!! Wooooooo!

It's a checklist for my own purposes, detailing everything I need to get done in the next 25 hours. Hey, if I'm going to be on LJ anyway, might as well use it to help myself be productive, right?

[x] journal 1 (what is modernism?)
[x] journal 2 (Portrait 1)
[x] journal 3 (Portrait 2)
[x] journal 4 (Portrait 3)
[x] journal 5 (Lighthouse 1)
[ ] journal 6 (Lighthouse 2) (absent)
[x] journal 7 (Lighthouse 3)
[x] journal 8 (Passage 1)
[ ] journal 9 (Passage 2)
[ ] journal 10 (Passage 3) (absent)
[x] journal 11 (Passage 4)
[x] intro
[x] reflection paper
[x] finish light plots
[x] intermed. poetry class
[x] film production class
[x] Res Life meeting
[x] Glee (Damn me. But hey, I worked through it!)
[x] sleep (4 hours, beyotches!)
[x] media law class
[x] lunch (Kelly?) I have a pudding parfait in my fridge. I'm going to count that as lunch, mkay?


ETA: It is now 2 pm on Thursday. Class is in 20 minutes, and I never got around to BSing my last three journal entries (2 of which I wasn't in class for, anyway). But I did everything else on this list, which I'm pretty damn proud of. So stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it, modernism.

To commemorate the new year (which doesn't start until next week, but whatev), I'm going to compile a list of the 10 best things I saw, heard, or discovered this year. This, perhaps, is going to be the ultimate fangirly post. Because I saw, heard, and discovered a LOT of really amazing stuff this year. Let's see if I can narrow it down to just 10!

( X-TREME gushing below the cut!! )

I'm going to structure this FIRST EVER PD REDUX OMG as a series of open letters.

(Seriously, don't click in if you don't want to be spoiled.)

( Pushing Daisies spoilers inside... beware!!!!! )
Dear ABC:
If you cancel this show tomorrow (or ever), I will cry. For hours. And then go drown my sorrows in ice cream, which will be upsetting for everyone. Mostly for me. 
Sincerely,
concerned Pushing Daisies viewer

For real, guys. This show had better never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER be cancelled.

Today we had a Thanksgiving dinner instead of an RA meeting (which is why I got to watch this show live for the first time EVER!), and at the dinner they had the cutest cupcakes that were shaped like different Thanksgiving foods, like mounds of mashed potatoes or corn or peas. And I got one shaped like a CHERRY PIE. For real: it had chocolate frosting, and then was covered in red Skittles and then had more chocolate icing criss-crossed on top. It was exciting; I took it home to eat during the PD episode. It wasn't that good, but it was preeeeeetty.

Some time this week I'm going to have to:
-Actually rewrite my short story, instead of writing pointless monologues.
-Write that short nonfiction assignment.
-And the longer one.
-Work on the star projects!
-Drugs... things? I don't know what's going on in that class any more. I probably have to write another paper, with my luck.
-Learn that seventh random Robert Frost song, since none of us know how it goes.
-Chorale concert!!
-Find a ride home. MUY IMPORTANTE.
-Second Life project? (Seriously, why do we have to do these things again?)

ETA:
Real life phone conversation with my mom and me:
Mom: Well, I'm going to go watch Top Chef.
Me: Ooh, I forgot that was on! I'm watching Dirty Sexy Money since I didn't change the channel after Pushing Daisies was over.
Mom: Oh. That show's pretty cute.
Me: It is sooooooooo cute, it makes me want to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mom: .........

Just thought it was amusing. =D

I really don't care if you don't understand that heading. It all amounts to "I hate Twilight", anyway. Overhyped piece of crap.

I didn't do an Office redux this week because I realized I don't care enough to talk about its plot. I mean, I'm still going to watch. The Office won't go the way of Grey's for me, at least not for a while (I hope). I just won't redux/grade the eps anymore. (For those of you who wondered how I liked this last one... B. Mostly because of the stupid Mad Man screwing up my Jim/Pam. Never fear, though: I'll still do HIMYM, and Lost when it comes back (Jan. 21!!). Possibly, depending on how much I like it, Dollhouse (Feb 13... my birthday! And Desperation Day.) will get reduxed as well, once it comes out.

OK, so I just got into Pushing Daisies a few weeks ago, and it's already practically past the brink of cancellation!! That's why Chuck (see icon!) is hiding her face in fear. Like me. Freakin' ABC. This and the Grey's thing has made me mad at it. I mean, I'd never give up on the network entirely. (It's still got Lost.) I don't think I'd ever give up on one network because I didn't like one (or two) decisions it made. Because really, they've all made some really crappy decisions. 12 procedural dramas, CBS? Really? NBC, you renewed Knight Rider? Fox, you... still run American Idol when the past three years have sucked? And CW, you... exist. Oh, and cancelled Gilmore Girls AND Veronica Mars. But they've all had one show I've enjoyed too. I don't always watch the shows I once enjoyed (hello, Smallville! Still on the air, I see?), but I won't quit a network entirely. That's just ridiculous nonsense. Much like the past 3 seasons of Grey's Anatomy.

In conclusion, I might be down to only 2 shows soon. Oh wait, Top Chef's coming back! So three. And back up to 5 by this February. Phew.

I registered for classes yesterday, but I couldn't get into the WT comedy class since it was already full. =( Luckily, I got everything else I wanted/needed to take! Which is good. My 2.5 year schedule is too carefully planned to let a registration matter screw it all up.

My cinema paper got pushed back to Thursday! Meaning I get 2 extra days to write it (yay!) and I might not have to pull a 72-hour writing extravaganza, like I was afraid I'd have to. My goal is to have 5 pages written by Sunday. So far, I haven't read all the source material yet. This'll go AWESOME.

Other things to do this weekend:
-Chorale concert tonight! This, too, will go AWESOME. =P
-Not touch my short story. I got good feedback but realized it has tons of plotholes (luckily, my head has the solutions to all the plotholes). But I can't write it because of my cinema paper.
-Stay away from LJ and the TWoP forums.
-Astronomy Second Life project? I hope not.
-Make the bulletin board that was due YESTERDAY!!!!!! Crap.
-More CW short stories. As always.
-Buy PD DVDs? Because I kind of want to see the first season now. But I have no time to watch it. Hmm. Dilemma.
-Finish watching Buffy season 4 NO! Bad Phoenix! *shocky collar*
-Watch "The Pineapple Incident"? ...Only if you're having a bad day. Oh, I will be. Well, okay then.
-Duty on Sunday!
-Church.
-Burn Twilight in effigy. Possibly while at church.

Oh, how I've missed you (all).

I've just spent the entire weekend in hibernation attempting to get work done, but really just watching and rewatching my HIMYM DVDs. I finished season 3 in like, 2 days. And then I went back and rewatched 2/3 of season 2, plus the commentaries, when I had like 11 poems to revise, a X page paper on drugs to write, another Galileo paper to write, and several thousand pages of research on cocaine and D.W. Griffith (not together) to read. And a good time was had by all me.

This week! Is midterm week! Gah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not going to even attempt to write a to-do list for this week. I'll just want to kill myself looking at all that. I'll just do tomorrow instead:

-Finish reading drugs research.
-NOT skip Chorale again.
-Go to the gym!
-Type up that stupid word list poem and any other ones I might have forgotten to do.
-Look up sources for that drugs debate.
-Study for cinema midterm!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Watch HIMYM. =)
-Go on duty!
-Post HIMYM redux. I know the world wide web is just clamoring for my opinion on these works of genius!
-Remember that Hum&Love is OVER, and there will be no opportunity to psychoanalyze Barney Stinson. Oh, if I could turn back time...

...Yeah, this list is still long enough to warrant suicide.

I still haven't gone a day without watching this show since maybe August. It's bad, guy(s). I've even written poetry based on this show. Damn. I'm going to make Tuesday my first drought day: no eps, no transcript reading, no TWoP! I'm totally serious. It's even started to affect the way I talk. So, I swear: no HIMYM on Tuesday, or may I be struck by-- *thunder* --...A flying ice cream truck. And live!

5 days to home!!!!!! Yay!

(3rd entry today. Sweet Lord.)

So guess who got 3 hours of sleep last night?! Meeeee! I blame NPH and his sadsadsad look, because the angst it telegraphed kept me awake all night. Seriously. (Though if I decided to not blame an actor for all my problems, I guess I could point out that I took a nap yesterday and thus threw off my sleep pattern. But that would be too mature of me.) Regardless, today has sucked. And my ever-increasing workload isn't helping matters.

Here's what I have to do tonight:
-Write a paper defending Copernicus in the trial of Galileo, and have it posted by 10 pm. Right now I have... 1 sentence out of 4 pages. This'll go good.
-Write the frickin' paper on the Columbian cocaine trade.
-Have a roommate mtg. with some of my residents.
-Stop singing "Let's Go to the Mall".
-Read Malena Morling's poems. Zzzzzzzzz. I'm so over poetry at this point.
-Go on duty! Yaaaaaaaay.
-Get sleep!
-Stay far, far, FAR away from LJ and TWoP.
-Not die.

I've failed at all these things so far. Oh well. To work!

I'm buff, everyone!!!

OK, me being buff was a lie. Though I've been to the gym 5 times this past week when my gym attendance average is .000, and I think I've lost 5 pounds this week! Self-five! *dap*

So, I've had this thought. My obsession with pop culture is taking over my life, (as you might be able to tell from my strange above paragraph-- sorry. I've been watching too much HIMYM.) and soon I won't have time for anything any more. Like I decided yesterday was the perfect time to get obsessed with Pushing Daisies. (BTW: Weirdest show EVER, but so cute!) So now I've seen all the eps that they have online, and I'm about to read all the recaps so I can pretend I've seen every episode. And I don't have TIME to get hooked on any new shows! I've already got HIMYM, Lost, The Office, Grey's, and Project Runway... when is all my homework going to get done?! (Hint: never.)

So, I think the thing about Pushing Daisies is that it's too quirky to really be stuck in any one genre, hence its lack of viewership. And while it's great some of its actors got nominated for comedy Emmys, I'm not sure that's the best thing to define them as. Especially when Lee Pace is competing against people like Steve Carell... they're both great actors, but I don't really laugh at Ned so much. He just gives me the warm fuzzies. He and Chuck are so... Damn it, I shouldn't be fawning over this show when I'm trying to convince myself to stop watching it! Anyway, it's on at a bad time for me: smack dab in the middle of RA meetings. Sigh. So I might never really be able to watch it, except online. I will say that it's got a lot of good things going for it: basically all the actors, Jim Dale's narration, black comedy, pie. Only, I don't eat pie. But this show makes me feel like I'm missing out. Anywho, good show!

I finally finished S3 of Buffy! (That's not on my list of shows I watch because... hey, it got cancelled 5 years ago.) Some day, I will finish the series, and my life will be complete, and I can go back to obsessing over other shows. Yeay.

By now, you can probably tell I have no life, except for the things that exist in the magic box.

Lately I've started being better about being not-antisocial. I think. Still spend too much time running around. Or in my room, working.

This past week has been SUPER busy. I've been making extensive lists on Post-Its for all the things that need to get done that day-- on Thursday I had THREE Post-Its! Because that was the day of my not-even-mildly successful program, and I was about to shoot myself in the face to make the stress go away. I haven't gotten any time to sit and just be since last Thursday, which is probably part of the reason why I did nothing today. Except watch Pushing Daisies / Buffy. Oh, AND walk 10,000 steps for the first time in my life! What up!

So tomorrow I have to:
-Meet with my Astronomy group to talk about our massively boring Galileo paper.
-Start writing my drugs paper on... what was it again? *checks* Apparently, the impact of the cocaine trade on the stability of the Columbian government. Huh. Sounds profound.
-Ponder how to write an un-love poem. Because there's no way I'm leaving this one for Thursday again. Psht.
-Do review terms for my film class through Chapter 10. Actually, looking at it, it doesn't seem that bad. Thank goodness I've kept up with them until now! Go me!
-Do my October bulletin board! Geez. It just never ends. Why can't they just be satisfied with the one I put up already? It's a good one... sparkly.
-NOT spend any time on TWoP. I'm almost sorry I ever discovered that site. Almost.
-NOT watch any Pushing Daisies. Good thing I finished all those today.
-Go to church! w00t!
-NOT eat everything in sight in my room. Or anything in sight in my room. Id > superego.
-Go to the gym!
-Call my mommy. =)

How on EARTH has October snuck up on me so dang fast?

2 days to HIMYM. XD