Word of the Day: Hitlarian.

The word has nothing to do with this piece of heaven I found.  I just thought it was wonderful and am going to see if I can use it astutely once a week in a conversation.  It could become "my" word.  I have been told repeatedly in the past I use "nonetheless" often.  I like to correct when people say "irregardless" so I suppose "regardless" could be another alternative, too.  Or, bacchanalian.

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Inabilities

Here is a list of things I am not able to do:
1. snap my fingers
2. whistle (I am getting closer, though)
3. play the guitar (exception: whatever I played after the IPE in Armstrong)
4. draw a near-perfect to perfect circle free hand
5. 1260s in the halfpipe
6. text and talk at the same time.  You could have Edward Cullen propose to me, but so long as I am texting, I will mutter something alike to "yuh-huh" or "yah..." or even "oh... so then what...?".  It's a curse, really.

I cannot end a list with an even number but today I make an exception.  I cannot be bothered to think of more - this list will do for now.

I like things.  Here are two of them, selected for their awesomeness.  I will buy you a bunny if you know who is the original band that sings the first video, without cheating, and within the first 15 seconds of it.  The bunny has to be white, though.  I like white, too.

AND this:

The usual love/love-to-hate relationship

It is that time of year again, the time that I start realizing how much I procrastinate.  I really thought I was on top of things this semester, but this past reading week has proven me very wrong on that assumption.  The Week of Hell starts tomorrow: a 10 page position paper due tomorrow, a tough-ass midterm, a very detailed paper proposal, and another midterm awaits me this week.  I have been tempted far too many times this past week to go purchase a glass coffee table and re-enact last April's accident, in hopes of getting a medical note so I can get extensions on everything.  Yet that would seem to just pile things up more and more, so a 6 hour night/early am of paper editing and editing and editing awaits me.

Despite this pressure to punch out an amazing position on Argentina and the NPT in a quickly decreasing amount of time, I have found time to write this and share three things:
1. I made delicious biscuits at 10 a.m. while everyone slept off their hangovers - we had a full house and it felt like summer, so nice!  So I have decided that cooking is my therapy for almost anything in my life - late night, stress, boredom.
2. I frackin' love Bruce.  Still.  Forever.  How can anyone not just want to lay on the floor (or cook) and just listen???  Beautiful everything about his music.  This is my current song on repeat by him (mixed in with some Tik Tok and T Swift, of course), only on his Live 1975-85 album.  Bittersweet.

3. I own a coffee table from Value Village.  It was $10, has tacky brass edging that I love (obviously), and it came already named!!!  "My name is Jack" was Sharpie-enscribed on the bottom.  Naturally, we added to that today and Jack has new tattoos of a Rom-Nom Dinosaur that is about to devour an Awesome Kitchen Whore with Ho Heels, a mariposa, a picture of Paradise (with no food or Bruce though, that might need to change), and a poorly-depicted New Years Jack in the Box.

Kitty Goes to Vancouver (2010).

Here are pictures of my trip to Vancouver, a long overdue visit to see Andrea and her beau.

In Sum: I love Vancouver but I would miss the snow.  I pretended I was camping when the air mattress deflated mid-sleep one night, it was fun.  Red-walled condos scare me.  It is too warm in Van for outdoor skating rinks - sadness.  I did not meet my soulmate there, that is ok though because I discovered the magic of Glee.  It took up my life for two days after I returned home.  I have an obsessive personality to some significant degree.  Neat.

P.S. Thank you, Dad, for buying my ticket  <3

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Christmas Reading List

Fact 1: Next semester is my last as an undergrad; I will be joining the ranks of Underemployed-Because-I-Have-A-Political-Science-Degree status.
Fact 2: This scares me to no end.
Fact 3: Going back to school to obtain numerous Master's Degrees entices me to no end.
Fact 4: To keep my mind somewhere in the realm of processing information over the holiday season break, I intend to read several books with all my free time. This will keep me primed for endless readings on China, non-proliferation and Latin America for the winter semester.
These are the ones I am thinking of tackling:
1. (finish) The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. Breaking Dawn
3. Guns Germs and Steel*

I am saving The Count of Monte Cristo for next semester, I have heard many good things and feel I need to give it lots of time, over time.

*This one is a dream. If I can finish this in such a short time, I deserve a kajillion amazing things because it is a killer to read, this will be attempt 3. It can sit on the shelf and make friends with Shake Hands With the Devil, for it too has been rejected several times. They are too good to read, that is my defense.

Move Your Body Up and Down and ..... Push Up!

I never said I was a role model.
I aim to change this.
I am going to do a crap load of pushups. Everyday.
Man pushups, not girly ones.
Then, I will be able to do more than you and you will be forced to look up to me.
More on this later.