If You Thought I Was Awkward Before, You Should See Me Now

This weekend I had to go dress shopping for my graduation dress.

That's right, I'm graduating! Well, probably. I have to finish my thesis first. It's not going well...

Anyway, I'm a bit in denial that graduation is actually happening. What I mean to say is, I know that graduation is happening for SOME people, I just don't know that it's happening for me. On account of the thesis.

On the off chance that the paper decides to write itself, though, I feel I should be prepared, which is why I went shopping this weekend.

I don't know when I first knew that Banana Republic was the greatest clothing store ever. It may have been when I was nine and found out it was very expensive. Or when I was 15 and read All American Girl where the heroine gets three suits from BR. It might have been two years ago when I got my first BR dress. Or a year and a half later when I got my first suit. Or a month ago when I got my first LBD. What I'm trying to say is, Banana Republic has been there for all of my major life moments.

It only seemed fitting that I buy my college graduation dress there as well.

I walked into the store on Saturday and tried on many dresses, but couldn't find any I loved. I figured the best way to deal with the disappointed would be to head to the Barnes and Noble across the street. When that didn't work, I went to the library.
 

This is a true statement. There is a book out there to combat any type of evil you could ever imagine.

I walked out with four books that I'm calling my road map to success.

1. The Southwest Airlines Way by Jody Hoffer Gittell. My thesis is about planes and Southwest Airlines. This book is about planes and Southwest Airlines. It's just basic math.

2. What They Don't Teach You in College: A Graduate's Guide to Life On Your Own by James M. Kramon. When I picked this book up, I read: How Not to Freak Out About Graduation. Then I read the first page and found out it's actually about contracts and insurance and taxes. I'm not sure I'll actually get around to reading this one, but seeing it on my shelf makes me feel better about life.

3. Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-Of-The-Millennium by Judith Martin. You can't imagine my excitement to discover yet another Miss Manners book. Where else can you find gems such as, "'Isn't etiquette always a matter of making other people feel comfortable?' This would make politeness an activity exclusively for suckers and wimps. And, of course, sluts." Nowhere, that's where.

4. Jane Austen's Guide to Dating by Lauren Henderson. This one would take too long to explain, and even then I'm not sure it would make sense. But while I'm reading this, my sister is reading What Southern Women Know About Flirting: The Fine Art of Social, Courtship, and Seductive Flirting to Get the Best Things in Life. Be prepared for updates on what we are learning. So far, she has learned that a nose job is a good investment. I've learned that straight men only give compliments when they want to sleep with you. These are important life lessons.

Zombies, Run!

 I love running.

#truestory

Sometimes it's hard to be motivated to go running, though. That's when I discovered Zombies, Run! It's probably the greatest app since Shazam.

This app tells a story about zombies attacking you while you run. Zombies start breathing in your ear, and if you don't run fast enough you get ambushed.

It is so great.

You could go running during the daytime, but I recommend going at night. Preferably through dimly-lit areas. It really adds to the excitement.

Now, I'm not one of those crazy people who actually believe in zombies. If/when the zombies attack, though, I want to be prepared.

I Think I Finally Lost It

Every time I think about how close I am to the end of the semester I remember everything I still have to do and how little time I have to do it.

Then I start freaking out and watch Netflix movies and do puzzles instead of the homework I'm freaking out about.

Seriously, in the past 24 hours I finished an entire box of cereal. (I eat cereal when I'm stressed/watching Netflix/doing puzzles.)

Anyway, tonight at midnight I finally decided to write the essay I've been putting off. This is how I started it:

            I’ve been putting off writing this paper for a long time. Partly because I’m a procrastinator and partly because I’ve learned so much this semester about myself and about Tucson and I don’t know how to summarize it all in one paper. But it’s mostly the first one. And now I don’t really have a choice, so here goes.

I hope my teacher appreciates my humor during finals week. Or is as sleep deprived as I am so that she finds this entertaining.

Whatever. At least the paper is done.

Miracles Happen

The weirdest thing happened today. I finished my math homework before midnight. Also, I actually understood what I was doing.

Most of the time I just make math up when I'm doing homework because I have no idea what's going on.

But today I actually knew what my homework wanted me to do, and I could do it!

Prepare yourselves people, the end of the world might be coming.

Kitchen Painter

Four months ago I decided to paint my kitchen.

Within two weeks I had finished the top half.

Two months later I finished the bottom half.

Two weeks after that I finally got around to telling the Internet about it.

So, for the record...

My kitchen looks awesome (finally):

And has hidden inspirational quotes on it:

It's pretty much my own Sistine Chapel. Minus the chapel part. And the Sistine part.

11:11 Make A Wish

Once upon a very long time ago, Plato wrote "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."

About five years ago, '?' on Yahoo Answers went on to explain this further. She said, "Math is all about rules and analysis....Everything has a solution, everything has its theorems and postulates and reasons. I guess some mathematicians would try to apply this to life, and assume everything has a procedure that will get you to the right solution, everything has an answer, everything is able to be analyzed and figured out. This isn't true."

I don't know if anyone else finds that as entertaining as I do, but for some reason I found it extremely insightful. Especially for Yahoo Answers. Also, '?' is completely wrong.

It is true.

This reminded me of a chart I saw once upon a time. I call it the Geek-Nerd Chart:

I'm happy to say that I fall mostly on the nerd side. Except when it comes to Doctor Who, because I love Doctor Who.

Today I watched the episode of Doctor Who where David Tennant regenerates into Matt Smith. It was heartbreaking. Seriously, I started crying. That's probably weird, but have you seen David Tennant as the Doctor? You would start crying, too.

While mourning the loss of David Tennant from my daily life, I found out he also starred in the wonderful movie called The Decoy Bride. So I found it on Netflix and watched it.

Scottish David Tennant plays British James Arber. British Alice Eve plays American Lara Tyler. And Scottish Kelly Macdonald plays... Scottish Katie. It was filmed to promote tourism in Northern Scotland.

As you can imagine, it's not a very good movie. I've already seen it once before and I thought it was awful, but then I realized David Tennant is in it and now it might be my new favorite movie.

Also, did you know David Tennant makes about five cameos in How to Train Your Dragon? They're all on YouTube in 5 second intervals if you want to watch them.

This is what I've been doing all day because I have a test tomorrow. It's amazing what you can find on the Internet when you are supposed to be doing productive things with your life.

I'm really going to miss David Tennant in Doctor Who.

Happy Veteran's Day!

People in the military are awesome. I don't know if they get told that enough, but they should.

You know what else is awesome? War propaganda posters. We've all seen these classics:

But what about these forgotten gems?

WWI:

WWII:

 

 

Apparently women became much less trustworthy during the 1920s... Wait, that makes sense.

In other news, Netflix took down all of my favorite Audrey Hepburn movies.