brokenrecord

I'm flying back to school tomorrow. Not looking forward to this semester. I just have so much stuff to get done. I have to drop a class and try to get into another (which I should be able to, but I'm not 100% sure about, and it's just a hassle). I have to figure out if I'm really set on double majoring, because if I am, I need to take classes at UCI this summer, and that's expensive, and I don't want to waste my parents' money if I'm just going to give up on it because it becomes too difficult. I need to find somewhere to live in the fall which is close to campus because I don't have a car there. I have to write a research proposal for Research in Psych II which I'll end up actually doing next year in Directed Research in Psych which is my capstone project for the major and I'll have to present and is really scary to think about. And after this semester, I'm going to be half done with college. I can't be that old that I'm halfway through with college! I don't want to have to start making decisions about my life and find a job or go to grad school or whatever. I am so not ready for all this.

I've been doing pretty much nothing here this week. I can't believe it's gone by so fast. I've been watching a lot of Hitchcock films with my mom. Oh, and I watched the Skins premiere. For some reason I'm really looking forward to this season. I don't know. I was disappointed when I heard the original cast wasn't coming back for this year back when it was first announced, but all of a sudden a few weeks ago I started getting really excited for this season. I loved the premiere, and I'm really excited by the new characters and the new cast. I think Emily is my favorite so far, but we'll see. There isn't really anyone I hate so far.

Anyway, I'm spending my last afternoon home going to see Frost/Nixon with my parents. I'm looking forward to it. After that, the only film nominated for Best Picture for the Oscars that I haven't seen will be The Reader.

I think all the guys in my English class are starting to feel weird about the fact that there are like 15 girls and 5 guys in that class because all of a sudden, they're all starting to grow beards. It's kind of hilarious. At the start of the semester there was like... one, maybe two guys with just a little scruff, not full beards, but now all of them have like... full-on beards. And it's only been in the last week or so.

I think I'm starting to get into the habit of posting every other day, and I'm afraid that's going to go into every two days, and so on until I never post anymore again. sigh. I'm fighting against it. The amount of schoolwork I have to do in the next 5 weeks is not going to help matters any. On the plus side, I'm pretty much done with my major English rewrite that's due Thursday (I just need to edit a line or two and make sure I didn't add any typos when revising). On the minus side, that was probably the lowest on the list of assignments I have in the next 5 weeks that are causing me stress and anxiety. We got this 35-second abstract film assigned in Film Analysis today that's due in two weeks that I am absolutely freaking out about. But I still have stuff to do for Thursday and Friday, so I'm trying to freak out about one assignment at a time. I can probably start worrying about it over the weekend.

Oh, but also on the plus side, I realized that my English paper that's due Thursday is 2100 something words and it's only a little over 6 pages, and the Film Analysis paper I'm going to have to do at the end of the semester is supposed to be 2000-2250 words and I estimated that to be about 10 pages when apparently it's more like 6-8. So that's good, at least. Slightly less pages I thought I would have to write. And it's kind of weird, it feels like I have a lot more papers and writing to do this semester, but I actually have fewer total pages to write than last semester. I guess it's just because my classes as a whole are harder than my classes last semester, so I feel like I'm doing more writing or I'm going to have to do more writing.

I watched Skins and it kind of killed me, but I don't really have any more in-depth thoughts than that. I love Chris and Jal loads, though. And Maxxie's new boyfriend! I saw that in the unseen Skins and I was wondering if he'd show up in the real show. That makes me happy.

Time for getting some work done before my psych discussion group that's in less than an hour!

So I officially have tickets to Warped Tour at Pomona on June 20th! That's only 6 days after seeing Panic/MCS in Anaheim. That'll be a fun week.

Finally caught up on TV stuff. (Well, I only had two hours of TV to catch up on.) I don't really have anything to say about Torchwood or Skins other than Skins was amazing (and I'm pretty sure Chris is my favorite character of the show, which I always forget when it's not his episode because he's really not very present in any other episodes, unlike a lot of the other characters, but then it's his episode and I reminded about how awesome he is) and Torchwood was just ok.

( Lost 4.07 )

I'm still kind of not over the fact that Lost is actually been really good this season. It's like with The O.C. where it had a great first season, the second and third seasons pretty much sucked (The O.C.'s moreso than Lost's, though), and then the fourth season is all of a sudden good again.

( The Return of Jezebel James 1.01-1.02 )

Ok I have a headache because my sleep schedule is all screwed up from the time difference (I feel like 2 hours shouldn't make that much of a difference, but it does) so I'm going to go take a nap or something.

Stolen from overthemoo! Write 10 things that made you happy recently & tag 10 people do the same.

( With visual aides! )

Please request photos for my photo meme! Three people have requested photos now (two there and one on Facebook), but I'd still like more! I am going to post reminders about this and badger more people into requesting photos probably every day for the next week, just to warn you. I'd really like to take loads of photos.