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( How I Met Your Mother 4.21 - The Three Days Rule )

( The Big Bang Theory 2.21 - The Vegas Renormalization )

( Chuck 2.22 - Chuck Versus the Ring )

Ugh, I'm so exhausted. This is what I get for staying up past midnight when I have to wake up at 7 AM for class after already getting too little sleep the night before. Why am I taking another 8 AM class next semester? Clearly I am crazy. In any case, I don't have much left to do this week, which is nice. I have a project for Differential Equations on Thursday, but I'm not too worried about that right now (although maybe I should be). And after Thursday morning, I can relax a little (until Saturday when I start having to freak out about everything I have to do for next week).

Hope everyone who celebrates it had a happy Easter! My Easter consisted of getting a plastic egg filled with M&Ms from my RA and then having a ridiculously busy afternoon. It's actually kind of a miracle I got everything done. I probably wouldn't have if it weren't for a friend from German texting me about studying, so we studied together for an hour, and then after that a friend from stats coming over and working on the lab. If he hadn't shown up, actually, I would probably still have been doing the lab all morning since he showed me how to do a bunch of them and also caught a bunch of mistakes I was making. But thankfully those things did happen and my stuff got done before class. The fact that there's new HIMYM and TBBT definitely helped me get through yesterday and this morning, anyways. (So excited for the episodes! Not too much longer to go!)

I'm really tempted to do another picspam now for favorite Sheldon/Penny scenes. This is probably not a good idea as this weekend is going to be very busy. Really, all the remaining weeks of school (only 4 left! 3, not including finals!) are going to be super busy. But it didn't take too incredibly long to do the Barney/Robin one, so maybe I'll try. Or I'll just do random single scenes that I love separately instead of doing a huge top 10 type thing.

Registration for classes for next semester is in a week and a half, and I don't really have much idea of what I'm taking yet. I keep meaning to look at the classes, and then... I get distracted or have schoolwork or whatever. I know I want to take Cognitive Psych and Intermediate German (although there are two different sections for Intermediate German and I need to decide between those), but other than that, I'm not sure. I'm thinking about Directed Research in Psych which is the capstone for the major where you conduct your own study and write up a huge paper and present it, but I'm not sure if I'm up for that yet. I mean, I have to take it at some point, but I don't know if I want to do it immediately or if I should put it off a semester or two. My absolute favorite professor is going to be teaching it, though, which is making me lean towards taking it. And I still have one space to fill even if I do take that. blah.

New layout! brokenrecord__ It... kind of looks a lot like my last layout. Well, the header. I mean, I like it more than my last header, but... yeah. I wanted a new layout because my last one was from February of 2008 and I've never had a layout that long and I was getting really tired of it, but... now I kind of realized why it's been so long: I've had absolutely no inspiration for making headers. And I fiddled around with stuff for hours, but I still came out with this. Oh well. Maybe over the summer I'll try to be more creative. But I wanted to get this done yesterday, so there it is. I changed the actual layout of the page, too, and I definitely like that much more. I had been using the same style (just modifying the colors and header) for years, too, and I needed a change. This one may or may not also last over a year. I still want to fiddle around with the text and colors a little, but I probably won't do that until later.

I went to see the apartment on Thursday. It's not ideal, but it'd definitely work. ( Apartment Stuff )

We got Good Friday off this year for some reason (I don't remember ever getting it off in high school, and I definitely didn't get it off last year here) so I've been enjoying a nice three-day weekend. It feels like Sunday now, though, so I'm starting to get anxious/nervous about all the stuff I have to do this weekend (none of which I looked at yesterday), but luckily I have 2 days to do everything in.

I really want to participate in picspammy's challenge this month, but I don't know if I'll have time. Plus, I have like a million things I want to do. I think right now, though, I'm definitely leaning towards a picspam of my favorite Barney/Robin scenes (I know, huge shock, right?). I'm not sure if that totally fits with the challenge, but other people have done stuff similar to that, so I think it'll be ok. I think I'm too indecisive to choose just one favorite scene from a particular show, and if I do just one, I'm going to want to do a bunch more. But we'll see. They always take me forever to do, and next weekend is going to be super busy, so I don't know if I'll get it done in time, and I might lose interest in a week or two.

ugh I love HIMYM so much. ( Very, very random HIMYM thoughts )

Oh man, I've been so obsessed with this show the past week (...which is probably pretty obvious). I also may have watched this Barney/Robin promo far more times than is reasonable (spoilers up to the most recent episode, but nothing past that). The part in the video where Barney goes "I can't sleep, I can't eat" totally kills me, even though in the actual show the full line is played more for laughs and isn't quite as dramatic as it seems there. But it's an awesome promo, and what I love is that it was actually put out by CBS and isn't even fan-made. Of course, being as ridiculously obsessed with the show as I am right now, I am very sad that there isn't a new episode airing tomorrow. But I did discover that there will be 24 episodes of the show this season instead of 22, so there are still 5 episodes left to go rather than 3, like I originally thought.

In real life news, I might have a place to live next year. I haven't wanted to say anything about it yet because, well, what happened was that I was talking to a friend of mine from German, and she was asking where I was going to live (I guess this was like a week and a half ago) and I was like "I don't know, but I REALLY don't want to live on campus next year." And she was like "Well, I have a friend who's a senior who's going to be leaving her apartment, I could ask her for you." And I was like "Oh sure, that sounds great," but I wasn't really expecting anything from it. And a week went by and she didn't say anything and I kind of forgot about it, but last Tuesday we were talking again and I was like "I got a crappy room draw number so I definitely need to find a place off-campus" and she was like "Oh, I guess I should ask my friend for you!" And I was like "Yeah, sure," again, even though I didn't expect her to, but then the next day when I saw her, she had actually talked to her friend. And I asked her about when she would be leaving, and she's not moving out until like September 1st which is totally perfect because I didn't want to have to live here over the summer. And she said that I should probably talk to the landlord, but if I wanted to see the place first, she'd talk to her friend about me coming over. And so yesterday she texted me her friend's e-mail so I could e-mail her about seeing the apartment and she just e-mailed me back and so I'm going to go check it out on Thursday afternoon probably. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but this would be really awesome if it would work out.

I have a test in Research in Psych on Thursday which I'm not too nervous about, and a project due in Differential Equations which I'm freaking out about. Especially since my group hasn't even met yet. Li said she'd send an e-mail around Thursday night, which of course she didn't. So I sent one this morning, but no one's responded yet, and I have no idea how to do any of the problems. ugh, I'm kind of hating this class. But on the plus side, we're randomly getting Good Friday off this year (I swear we never got it off during high school, and we definitely didn't get it off last year so I don't know why we are this year, but whatever, not complaining), so at least I only have 4 days to get through this week. I really can't wait until it's Thursday.

Well, I talked to my parents about the whole housing situation for next year thing, and I've decided not to do the room draw on Tuesday. Which means that I'm officially going to be living off-campus next semester. It's exciting to think about, but I'm still stressed out about finding somewhere to live. I guess I'll just try to look for a place, and then when my parents come up in May when the semester is over, we can look some more.

I totally just found out that Jim Parsons (Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory) turned 36 last week. He so does not look anywhere near that old. I would have guessed late 20s. Then again, I'm terrible at guessing people's ages. But still, he does not look 36 to me.

I did end up starting my How I Met Your Mother DVDs last night. I'm already through most of Season 1. I'm justifying it to myself because I'm pretty sure I did a lot more work last night than I would have done without watching them. Anyways, I have some random thoughts on the episodes I've watched so far. ( How I Met Your Mother 1.01-1.15 )

I'm back at school now. Today and yesterday have sucked. Yesterday I opened my season 2 Buffy DVDs because I was planning to take them with me to school, and the fourth disc is missing. I looked everywhere I could think of, but I couldn't find it. I have no idea where it is. I haven't watched those DVDs since I was like 14 or 15. My mom said she'd look for it, but I'm not optimistic, and I really don't want to have to spend $60 on a DVD set I already paid for.

Then this morning I was putting on my favorite sweatshirt and the zipper came off. I mean, I can still wear it, but I like wearing it zipped up. It's not even old! It's one of my newest sweatshirts; I got it last August. blah. I also remembered this morning that I have a German test on Friday that I need to start studying for, especially since I forgot everything we were doing over Spring Break.

I was also upset because I got an e-mail from Amazon saying they were unable to deliver my How I Met Your Mother DVDs to school and I would have to go to the nearest Post Office to pick it up, which would have been incredibly inconvenient, but on the tracking information it said it had been delivered, so I went to check this morning and it was there. So at least I don't have that to deal with.

Anyways, I have to go to class in about an hour, so I should probably finish my German homework and then maybe start making flashcards for the test. I really can't wait for this semester to be over.

I've randomly been in the mood to listen to Neil Patrick Harris singing stuff in musicals. Don't really know why. I guess I was listening to Dr. Horrible the other day when I was studying for my test in RIP, and I wanted to hear him singing in other stuff, too. I got Assassins and also three songs he sings on from Evening Primrose (I keep wanting to call it Primrose Empath and I couldn't figure out why until I remembered that that's the title of an episode of Charmed in the third season. I haven't watched Charmed in ages; I have no idea how I still remember episode titles or from which season they're from). Does anyone know of anything else he's been in that I can listen to? I don't know why I want to, but as I said, it's just a totally random urge. I'm also desperate for a new episode of HIMYM, and I'm regretting now having already watched the episode airing Monday because now it's just that much longer to the next new episode.

Anyway, the German quiz I was complaining about yesterday turned out fine. For one, she said she'd only count it if we did better on it than we did on the test, which apparently no one did, so it was basically a pointless quiz. But secondly, I think she must have graded on a curve, because I got an A/A-, and I got nearly half of them wrong. Heh. She's also starting to seriously remind me of my French teacher in high school that I hated. I actually don't hate her (the German professor, not the French teacher), I'm just kind of amused by it. I accidentally came to class about 15 minutes early yesterday because I started thinking class started at 1:00 instead of 1:10 for some reason (my brain yesterday was being really weird; for example, I was reading an article about Tim Pawlenty and I was like "Oh man, where is he the governor of again? Oh yes, Germany." And then I was like "...ok, wait, there's something wrong with that..."). So anyway, I was kind of hanging out outside class and she was there early too and she was like "Oh, you're doing so well in class! You should major in German!" And then I was like "Oh, I'm a sophomore so I've already declared majors, and it'd be too difficult to double major or change at this point, but I might minor" which I might because I'm terribly indecisive and basically want to major/minor in every single subject. And she was like "Oh you definitely should. In any case, keep it up."

Oh but the point more of why she reminds me of my French teacher is that both of them seem to have favorites. ( Cut for me being long-winded and babbly. )

I also got the third lab from stats back yesterday and I miraculously got an A- on it. I have no idea how that happened. Actually, this is kind of like with the German professor, where I'm pretty sure my stats professor favors me a little. Since the last time I mentioned she was going on about how much she likes my writing, she's told me that about 3-4 more times totally out of the blue. It's awesome, but totally random and weird and kind of inexplicable. But whatever, it works for me. In any case, I'm glad that most of my assignments have been going well. My quiz and project in Differential Equations are still making me upset.

I can't believe that this is the last day of February! I feel like it should be mid-February at the absolute latest. Less than 2 weeks now until Spring Break! I just need to get through this week, really. I probably don't need to study for the stats test too much because it's open-notes and open-book, and German won't be hard to study for either (I've already started studying for it, actually, so I should be fine by Friday). Really, the worst thing is just the ~10-page research proposal for RIP. I'm really terrified about that. I've never written anything like this before. But hopefully it'll go all right and I'll get through most of it this weekend and be able to finish it Monday/Tuesday morning so I can go over it with the professor before we have to hand it in.

I got done with my last final yesterday morning. I think it went well? Like, I was expecting it to be harder than it was, but it was harder in different ways that I didn't expect, if that makes sense. In any case, I think I did well, provided I didn't make loads of stupid mistakes, which... I do pretty often. I checked most of my answers, but I developed a really terrible headache about 10 minutes into the final and it had already been 2 hours and I just wanted to get out of there and get lunch and finish packing and leave. So we'll see.

Anyways, I'm home now, which I'm happy about. I'm not really sure what to do with myself now, though. Like, there are loads of things I've been planning on doing that I haven't had time to because of school, but now I'm like "Well I can't read a book, I have to do... something." I feel like I still have finals to study for and papers to write and such.

I woke up to the announcement of the Golden Globe nominations for TV on the radio and there were actually loads more I liked than I thought I would. First of all, though, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS! YES. Also, MICHAEL C. HALL and Dexter and Mad Men and True Blood (there are probably shows that deserve it more, but I don't care because I love this show ridiculous amounts) and Anna Paquin and Sally Field and Rachel Griffiths and John Hamm and Hugh Laurie and The Office and Steve Carell and 30 Rock and Tina Fey and that was about it. HIMYM should have been nominated, but I can forgive them for nominating NPH. I'll actually probably care more about the movie noms and wins than the TV ones, but I've barely seen any of the stuff nominated at this point, so right now I'm focused more on the TV. (I am very happy about Heath Ledger's nom, though). I'm hopefully going to see Milk within the next week and I also want to see Frost/Nixon as soon as it gets here, but it isn't playing anywhere here yet.

Ok, I think I'm going to maybe read a book today for fun (oh god I don't know when the last time I did that was).

So I set my alarm to get me up at 8:30 this morning because I need to write a 5-page paper today (btw, current word count = 0! I'm doing well here.) and I don't have class until 3 on Tuesdays. And then there was a power outage in the middle of the night last night in the dorms. So I didn't wake up until 10:15. sigh. At least I didn't have class this morning. I was talking to a girl in my German lab, and she said that you could tell who used their cell phones as alarm clocks and who used actual alarm clocks plugged into the wall by who actually got to class on-time. But yeah, so I lost a couple hours of work due to that. I totally would have gotten up sooner if my bed was de-lofted because then I would have been able to see that the clock wasn't working since I totally wake up at 7 AM every morning because that's when people come to clean the bathrooms and lounge area and stuff (very loudly. And yes, this is VERY annoying. I'd like to sleep in past 7!), but I couldn't see the clock and I forgot to put on my watch last night when I went to sleep, which I usually have on, and yeah, basically, that kind of sucked.

But the paper isn't due until Friday, so at least I do have time. I just wanted to finish it today because my parents are coming up Thursday and I'd like to spend time with them rather than writing a paper. And Wednesday I'll only have a few hours because of all my classes and homework I'll have to do that's due Friday and such. Of course, the several hours I wasted today procrastinating on-line not writing my paper had nothing to do with the power outage. But whatever. It'll be fine. I'll get it done. And she describes it as a library research paper, but it's really not, because all it involves is summarizing 4 articles on a topic (my topic is international adoption) and then finding two organizations that deal with problems relating to the topic and describing how they help parents in that situation. So, really, it's pretty much nothing, and I've written longer papers in the same amount of time where I've had to do much more analysis. So that's probably why I'm not freaking out yet. Although maybe it would be better if I were freaking out, because then I'd actually get something done!

Also, remember how I was worried about the two math quizzes from last week? Well, we got full credit on the group quiz that I thought I had screwed up for my group, and I initially got a 15/20 on the second quiz from Friday, but then it turned out that he hadn't realized that I was using the right method and did everything right, but I just found the expression of the vector wrong (ugh, it was so stupid, because I had found the expression of the vector in the previous question correctly, and if I had just used that instead of finding it a second time, I would have gotten full credit), so I talked to him and he gave me an 18/20 (the two points off being for my ridiculously stupid math error). So that turned out well, although it would have been nice if I had gotten full credit on the second quiz so I could do worse, potentially, on future quizzes. But whatever, apparently I have a better grasp of the concepts we were learning last week than I realized.

Um, what else? My Research in Psych exam yesterday was ridiculously easy, and now I'm kind of regretting studying at all for it. I spent like 3-5 hours total Sunday studying for it when I could've spent, like, 1, and still done just as well. Well, that's assuming I did do well. I may have made stupid errors. But I could've spent that time starting this paper on Sunday instead of leaving it until today. For that matter, though, I could've started writing this paper Sunday before I started studying (because I didn't start studying until like 6), or even on Saturday, when I originally planned to start it and then did nothing.

Bottom line: I'm getting an A+ in procrastination this week! sigh.

I missed most of the TV stuff last night. I saw How I Met Your Mother which was fun, but nothing spectacular (kind of a filler episode), and Heroes, which was... fine, I guess. I liked the premiere more. I really just don't care about what happens in Heroes, though, I'm finding. I'm starting to consider not watching it anymore, but I don't know. We'll see. I would keep watching it, but there are just so many TV shows on Mondays. I really want to watch Gossip Girl, but I haven't yet. I'm not sure when I will get a chance. After this week school should get less hectic. I hope. It's mostly just hectic this week because of my parents visiting; last week was probably more hectic in terms of how much stuff I had to do. I'm really looking forward to seeing my parents, anyways.

Oh, last thing, this girl on my floor is in the final 100 for the next season of America's Next Top Model! Pretty cool. I might actually watch next season if she makes the premiere.

So, remember that math group quiz I mentioned yesterday? Well I did get my group a 20/20 on it (...I feel kind of egotistical/conceited/whatever saying that, but... I really did do all the problems, and then they just checked what I did to make sure I didn't make any stupid math errors. I mean, I explained how to get the answers and stuff to them when they didn't get it, I didn't just take the quiz and do it, but yeah), and not only that, but we were the only group to get a perfect score. And actually most people failed it (I think most people were saying they got around a 9-11 on it).

So then, our professor had to go take a conference call for the first half of class because he's on this national math board of something or other and he's the chair and it was supposed to be at 4:30 but the time zones got confused and it ended up being at 3:30, at the start of class. So he was like to me "You go to the board and explain how you got the answers to every problem because you were in the only group who got a perfect score and you've gotten perfect scores on all the other quizzes this semester so far." So I spent the first half hour of class explaining the quiz problems to my class. Which... was weird. I'm shy, ok? And I don't really know anyone in that class. Actually I do kind of know a couple of people now so it wasn't as awkward as it could've been, but it also wasn't like I was just explaining stuff to a bunch of friends, you know? So yeah. I don't know, it just felt awkward. I'm actually really surprised everyone did so poorly. I mean, I had no idea what was going on in class most of the week, but then I did the homework and read the sections in the book and... it was laid out pretty clearly. At least, I thought so. It's not like I studied any, other than doing the homework. But whatever, now I feel better if I cost my group points on the project since I helped them on the quiz. And the professor was like "Well, you all pretty much sucked, so we're going to take an additional quiz this week with all the same questions (except with different numbers), and it'll be a take home quiz, and that means you can drop one more quiz score from this semester, and most of you will probably want to drop this one." So that works out well for me, since I know what I'm doing and I get to both keep this score and presumably do well on the take-home quiz, too.

Anyways. Enough about school for a little bit! I'm actually going to talk about TV for the first time in forever! I watched the season premiere of Chuck yesterday (it's up on Hulu.com even though it doesn't premiere until next week) and oh man I forgot how much I love this show. I think this season is looking even better than last season, though. ( Minor spoilage )

Also:

( Gossip Girl )

( How I Met Your Mother )

( Heroes )

I still haven't watched Prison Break, but whatever. It's sucking a fair amount this season, not that that should be surprising. I wouldn't watch if it weren't for Michael/Sara.

Ok now I need to study for my German test tomorrow and write a 5 page reaction paper and not forget to go to my German lab at 3 this time (sldkfj I still can't believe I did that). I probably won't have anytime to watch anything tonight since I spent most of this morning catching up on last night's TV. Oh well.