Today I had class, walked six miles, found about a million restaurants I want to try and places I want to go, watched Glee, had a completely fabulous time with my roommate, finished a hunk of my reading for Friday, read the paper, didn’t check my phone for hours, worked out, caught up on my emails, and planned my applications for backup summer things.
It could just be being somewhere new, but I really really like who I’ve been while I’m here. I know it’s only been 4 days, but I really want to keep all of this up for the rest of the semester because I feel amazing.
Annnd four and half hours later, I’m listening to this song on repeat (power ballads are among my major weaknesses), giggling with my roommate over the massive list of awesome things we’ve found to do while we’re here, and just completely and totally overwhelmed with how awesome this semester could be - but really not in a bad way at all. :)
(Source: reasonstolovevictorious)
My (probably) absurd goal for DC is to go somewhere new everyday.
It seems like this is not something I should commit myself to - I have a full time internship starting in two weeks (so much excitement there) and I’m taking three seminars (which is one class short of a full load, but see above about full time internship). On the other hand, I’m in a massive awesome city, so how hard can this be? Within a block of my apartment, there’s probably 20 places I could hit and my place of employ is quite centrally located.
I just feel like I fell too easily into just staying in my apartment last semester and I want to go out and meet people and have experiences and enjoy the fact that I’m somewhere new. Like, right now, I’m done with all my work for tomorrow and I sort of want to just curl up in my bed. But, the rain’s going to stop soon and so I’m forcing myself to go out and start trying coffee shops and get a paper.
I’ll be one a day blogging it to keep myself honest. I don’t know if this is something I can actually do, but it seems worth trying.
The theme song of Victorious has been on the top of my pump-up/inspirational song list since Summer 2010. I love the song, but I wasn’t compelled to check out anything more from the series until I randomly happened upon “All I Want is Everything.” I was feeling low and the line “halfway kinda sucks” fit nicely with my mindset (my username is halfway0there for a reason) and so I started poking around at the series.
Two minutes into my first episode, I was entirely and completely hooked. It’s basically a festival of my sense of humor and my taste in music and it just makes me happy.
I claim to have the pop culture tastes of a 12 year old, and (if the above hasn’t proven it) I’m really not kidding. My top 25 songs on iTunes are very much an embarrassment. But, for some reason, I’m not insecure about liking Victorious. I don’t even feel like I should be - there’s just this sense that I like what I like and if it makes me happy, I should just run with it.
I have a lot of hopes/dreams for this semester. It’s going to inherently be different than anything I’ve ever done before and I just want to take the newness of it all and run with it. I don’t know if it’s the fact that I’ve accepted some portion of my tastes, the excess of inspirational music, how I finally found black boots that I love after seven years of searching (no exaggeration - I have oddly shaped feet), or what it is, but I feel so much more confident in myself and ready to go. I’m so excited for today, tomorrow, and this entire semester. Bring it on, I’ve got this, etc, etc, etc. It’s going to be amazing.
(Source: reasonstolovevictorious)
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it - or my observation of it - is temporary.”
Another chapter in the saga of John Green summing up my thoughts better than I ever could.
I was trying to go with a pack for half hour, chapter of TFIOS, but I gave in and just powered through the second half of the book. I saw a bunch of the plot coming from a mile away but oh my god, I’m still a sobbing mess.
I don’t think it was as good as I was anticipating, but due to my sobbing through the last half, I was too emotional to really care. I think I’ll have a clearer idea of my thoughts after a few rereads.
I also now find the Anne Frank House slightly romantic, but that’s another problem for another day.
The Jack/Abbie years are basically the straight up festival of badass I was anticipating. But like, actually, everything Jack McCoy does ever - I feel like I should be twitchy about the realism of it all, but then he just does something insane and I can’t care because it was that awesome.
(in other news, Amazon tracking informs me that my TFIOS is going to be delivered today, 2 days earlier than estimated. THIS HAD BETTER BE TRUE.)
(Source: katmky)
You can’t design your life like a building; it doesn’t work that way. You just have to live it and it will design itself. Listen to what the world is telling you to do and take the leap.
here’s to 2012 :)
(Source: loadsofgifs)
four point oh for the semester and my cumulative gpa is finally where I want it to be :)
2011 has generally been a bit of a not-great year, but I got a lot out of academically/career-wise and I’m ready to take that and run with it into 2012.
Oh my god, things I didn’t even know I shipped until they happened. I like this better than Robin/Ted.
Annnddd to prove I’m an adult, I added a “Law School” label to my e-mail today.
My solution to how tired and completely overwhelmed I am right now is to get even more invested in the love lives of fictional 16-year-olds via hardcore marathoning. That season 3 promo was just cruel, Nickelodeon. If you break them up, you will also be shattering my heart.
I should mention that the reason I feel overwhelmed is that my grades come out tomorrow and I have a vaguely solid idea of what I want to do after my current life plans conclude at age 27, which depend very much on doing very well in everything proceeding them. See, I have… mature qualities. Or something.
(Source: eyamarie)
one month :)
