Where did the time go?

I've been trying to figure out why I'm not in a blind panic to study for finals this year. Sure, I'm reviewing a few hours a day, every day, but I'm not in this mad dash to learn every last bit of info either. I feel like I should be though, and I wonder, what's up? Is the course work a bit easier for me this year (maybe....I didn't have Stats this year!) Am I just getting complacent or lazy? I did look at the stack of reading I've done this year and though a voice inside me keeps telling me I should have read more, looking at that stack I don't know I really could have. It's pretty large. And I think I retained a lot of it. I'm reviewing main points and key articles.

I think the biggest reason for all this though is that when I thought about it, I realized that I started my course work a month and a half earlier. I took an extra week of a break over Christmas, but I still read somewhat over that, and I didn't take any time over spring like I did last year. Also, my last exams are almost a week later than last year. So I guess that's really it. I didn't have a course that didn't absorb half my study time like stats did last year, and I have been doing my course work for a much longer period of time.

I'm having a bit of fun with it though. I'm making Marketing flash cards while I watch Battlestar Galactica.

Right now I want to....

....fly to Barcelona


message someone


see the ocean


run (it's 1 am)


eat a banana split


laugh until I cry

why is Twitter so addictive?

Seriously, why? Facebook is bad, and I never got too into Twitter for the first 2 years I was on it. But recently I added a bunch of news feeds and now it's like Twitter mayhem. There's ALWAYS something interested to read on there. Something noteworthy is posted every minute or two. Someone help!

Spring Fashion

I love spring...it's my favourite fashion season. Fall has nice wools and subdued colours, but while the greys suit me some of the browns and rusts do not. I also have to bundle up more than I'd like to. Winter I always feel like I have to layer to the point of looking like I'm wearing a puff suit. Summer is wonderful and I like heat, but it's hard to be fashionable when it's 38*C outside; you pretty much just want to wear a silk or cotton sundress and absolutely nothing else. Spring is a nice happy medium though. It's warmer than fall and you can wear a little more than summer. There are all sorts of cute, light jackets you can pair with things and you can choose a skirt or pants. Also, I like the colours for me a lot better...I really look best in pinks, blues and summer whites!
Summer is by far my favourite season. When it comes to weather, the hotter the better (at least for me). But Spring fashion beats Summer clothing!

Other than loving the weather, I've been pretty busy. My exams are in less than a month....eep!

The Crystal Ship

I'm often torn about the Doors. Sometimes, I really enjoy their music. I think Ray Manzarek is a really talented piano/keyboard and John Densmore and Robby Krieger (drummer and guitarist) weren't half bad either (all three were previously jazz musicians). When he wasn't wasted, Jim Morrison was a decent singer. I guess I'm torn because I don't find their lyrics all as brilliant as I did when I was 18...a lot of them don't make any sense. I love The End but I hate the talking interlude in the middle. And for the love of god, if you ever see any recordings of Morrison, sometimes he's so wasted and it's pretty sad. I had the sheer luck of finding a record in a dollar bin in Canada of Jimi Hendrix, guest starring Jim Morrison at a live jam gig in the late 60's. In a way it's an interesting piece of history, but it's also totally unlistenable. Both were so incredibly wasted that I'm amazed either managed to hold a guitar/microphone. Words are slurred beyond comprehension, notes became random. It's actually really sad, because both did have talent but their respective addictions really often got in the way of them actually utilizing that talent and eventually ended their lives.

Anyway, the reason I made this post is because I really, really love this song. I kind of feel that it's a hint of a band the Doors could have been all the time, if they weren't trying cater to 60's pop (I just don't think they were a pop band) and Morrison's alcoholism. I've tried to cover it, and failed. Badly. It's an amazingly hard song to sing.