Motivation

You know those days when you have EVERYTHING you need to be doing and yet you have absolutely no motivation to do any of it?

Today is one of those days. Despite the fact that I have a 15 page final due tomorrow at noon and another final at 2, I'm still hanging out on Pinterest.

I'll just leave this right here and be on my way

Books to Movies

I went to film camp. I know all about turning books into movies and how it's a different medium and I know that inevitably, things get changed along the way. The one thing I can never bring myself to like about books that are turned into movies is the way they erase what you had previously imagined the characters to look like. I've recently started reading the Hunger Games, knowing full and well there was a movie due out next year. Just today, I decided to peek around some pictures to see if they lined up at all with what I was thinking. And they didn't :( Jennifer Lawrence is a great girl I'm sure but she is not nearly ANYTHING like how I imagined olive-skinned, black-haired Katniss. Probably because she's blue-eyed and fair-skinned. Peeta is pretty accurate since there's only so many ways to picture an adorable blonde boy but the one casting I am not prepared to accept is Cinna. I'm sure Lenny Kravitz will do a great job but this is my Cinna:

His description:

Most people who live in the Capitol follow very absurd fashion trends. This is not the case for Cinna. The first time he is seen in the book, he is described as wearing a simple black shirt with matching pants. His one strange fashion choice is gold eyeliner, which brings out the gold flecks in his green eyes and which Katniss describes as attractive. Other than that, Cinna looks very normal, with close-cropped natural dark brown hair.

It will probably be the reason I can't bring myself to see the movie. I refuse to have my Peter Facinelli look-alike, young, well put-together Cinna taken away from me. Can't you guys see it? Or am I just crazy?

It happened.

I know, I know. I haven't posted pictures of the elusive Falala mug yet but there is a reason. It's a reason that, I am sad to say, I thought I could avoid entirely this semester but it seems like old habits die hard. As you probably know, my immune system and I are consistently at odds. It is of the belief that it doesn't matter if I'm sick or healthy at the worst possible times in the semester and I don't understand why it has to act so irresponsibly on a school night. And yet here we are.

I have bought every cold medicine I could get my hands on and none of it has worked. Because I'm pretty awesome like that. So for the next few days, I'll be out of commission, trying to be productive with my cold-addled brain. Here's hoping everyone else stays healthy!

Case Closed

I know I had some of you on your feet for the last post but today, the short-lived saga came to a close. I hardly got any sleep last night so I knew I was going to be in desperate need for caffeine. I decided to go with Red Bull from the local HEB since my stomach was feeling weird anyway and coffee isn't exactly known for making those kinds of problems better. BUT THEN, as I was grabbing my car keys, M approached me and told me she had been craving Starbucks and wanted to know if I would go with her.

Sure. I thought. I could settle for plan B. So we headed down to the Starbucks and I glanced over on the shelf out of habit. No falala mug. Disappointed, I got in line in front of a display full of Christmas coffee when, LO AND BEHOLD, there was a falala mug, tucked in behind the bags. The absolute last one. I grabbed it and practically beamed sun rays at everyone until I got up to the front to order my latte. I informed the cashier I would be purchasing the FaLaLa mug and you know what she did? She gave me my latte for free. IN MY MUG. After washing it out for me! Can you believe?

Needless to say, it made my Monday astronomically better and the mug now sits comfortably on my dish rack :) Pictures soon to follow.

The Case of the Falala Mug

About a week ago, I was poking around Starbucks, like I frequently do, when I laid my eyes on this beauty:

(This is the only picture I can find of it! It's the cutie right in the center and comes to us courtesy of here)

I don't know what it was that drew me to it but it was instantly my favorite thing on the shelf. At the time, it wouldn't have been the soundest financial decision to buy it but I swore to myself that next time I came, it would be mine. That next time was a few days later. I was tired, cranky, in desperate need of a latte when I remembered: MY FALALA MUG! So happy!

Imagine my surprise when, literally just 3 days later, it was gone. Completely ripped off the shelf. There wasn't even one left. I was devastated until a friend of mine told me it would probably be online. A quick search verified that it wasn't there either. And so, I'm taking a break today from my horrible schedule to search for this mug so I'm not plagued with regret for not having bought it originally. But seriously, does anyone know what happened to this thing? I know Starbucks puts out more tumblers than any other store but 3 days? Really?

Any breaks in the case would be much appreciated!

In the Next 36 Hours...

I have so much I haven't blogged about! Like my weekend trip to Austin, a pretty crazy football game and other odds and ends but unfortunately, the craziness that was term paper week has spilled over into the weeks that followed. In 36 hours, I will be driving back home for Thanksgiving but until then, some pretty crazy things have to happen.

1. I will have to conjure 4000 words in the next 12 hours. Minus 2 for class. Minus 3 for a MUCH needed nap. 7 hours.
2. I will FINALLY go see Breaking Dawn with the roommate :) Do not judge!
3. I will take a test I haven't started studying for
4. I will review a merits brief
5. I will do MORE work on the insane International Law project we were assigned
6. I will rehearse for a meeting with the university president

And I'm just going to stop there because this list is getting overwhelming. But when all this is over and I enjoy my Wednesday/Thursday/Friday (because that weekend will be devoted to more work), I will catch you up on current happenings :) Until then, wish me luck!

Way Back Wednesday: Class Songs

SO, when I was a senior in high school, we got to vote from 4 songs which one we wanted to be our class songs. Two of them were country and I, not being the biggest of country music fans, automatically eliminated those. I ended up voting for Here's to the Night by Eve 6. It was the only song I had actually heard and I felt like it really summed it high school. Great nights, great friends and having to say goodbye to it before I felt I was ready (Here's to goodbye, tomorrow's gonna come too soon). It really IS a good song and I would encourage everyone to listen:



They were going to announce the song at prom and, when it finally started to play... I didn't recognize it. I know it is SUCH a well-known song but I guess I was out of the loop. My date and the bff and at least half of our table jumped out of their seats and started screaming along, air microphones and all. I wish I had thought to get a picture of it or SOMETHING, it was so entertaining :) I liked it right away but it wasn't until I got to college that I really started to appreciate it. For some reason, it was all the rage my freshman year and was ALWAYS playing on the radio. It was probably the soundtrack to my first semester at college haha And even now, it comes on often enough and we always sing, air mikes included.

I have decided, some 4 years later, that I like this song better than the other one. To clarify, I like it better as a class song. Yes, high school was about incredible times that ended but that song was entirely about looking back. This song is about look forward. It's honest (some will win, some will lose), it's hopeful (hold on to that feeling...) and it is just TOO fun to dance to :) And for some reason, everytime I hear those chords kicking off the song, I think about that hilarious moment at prom, the excitement of graduating high school and shipping off to college and now, the excitement of graduating college and launching off into the world :)



Thank you, class of 2008, for being FAR better song pickers than I was :) And just for fun, I'm going to throw in a few 'action' shots of prom. Disregard all of the pairings and things. Predictably, they've all broken up AND, fun fact, the girl in the last picture, (hereby referred to as the BFF) is now engaged to a sweet man who loves her (not pictured.) Enjoy!