Procrastination and I'm a winner

I should really be working on my English essay. And my history final. Well, I am. Kind of. In that I write for a little while, and then I take a little break to obsessively check Facebook, Twitter, all the blogs I read. Then I write a little more. English essay is almost done, which will be a relief. The goal is to finish it in the next few hours, then devote the rest of the weekend to the history final and editing everything. Did I mention both are due Monday? Then I get to take finals! Whoopee! (Can you detect my sarcasm?)

But it will all be over soon, and I'm getting really excited. Like, sometimes I get so excited I can't really breathe or even believe that I am actually going to be done. Done. DONE. I feel like I've been in school forever so the though of being done, really done and not just for a summer or winter break is hard to comprehend. Of course, grad school will probably happen...eventually...not for a while, because this girl NEEDS some time off from the stress of paper writing, lecture note taking, and exams. I hate exams. Ew. 

Anyway, this is the end of my procrastination post. I need to get back to work. Really, I promise I'm going to get this shiz done so I can move on to more exam prep (yay!).

For now, lets drool over these really amazing dresses that I want but cannot afford and have absolutely no need for.

Dress: Enza Costa

                 

Dress: Haute Hippie

Images viaShopBop

Bagel adventures and some froyo, yo!

I, along with my friend Alexandra, have been conducting bagel experiments several times a week during my brief break between classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Today was, of course, no exception. So after our history class, Alex and I trekked off campus, through downtown Davis to the yummy Posh Bagel. And it was d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!

My bagel: pesto with butter, tomato, onion and cucumber...basically a food-gasm

Alex's bagel: sourdough with butter and cinnamon sugar. She also got a mini cheese bagel with mustard. YUM! 

We have tried many a bagel over the course of the quarter, such as: blueberry with peanut butter, asiago with cream cheese and lox (YUM), pesto with just butter (YUM), chocolate chip with peanut butter, jalapeno with jalapeno cream cheese, and so many more I can't even remember them all. This Monday will be our last day of classes, so our last day of bagel experiments, which is sad. But really it just means that I need to think of one epic bagel so I can go out with a BANG.

Anyway, after bagels we decided to get some froyo at Cultive, yo. It was 11:30 in the morning, but man, I needed that froyo.

Cinnamon bun and cupcake flavored froyo with fruity pebble and cocoa pebbles. Yeah, I know I pick awesome flavors

 And it was good...so, so good. 

Tonight I'm off to Sacramento to visit my cuz, Miranda, and we are gonna go eat even more yummy food thanks to a gift certificate I have to this fantastic restaurant, Chops, and I'm excited. They have calamari. And mini sliders. And delicious fancy cocktails. So expect some pics posted tomorrow (taken with my new fav Instagram. I'm a little obsessed with it, can you tell) of all the deliciousness we experience.

Cheers!

Something I love: FOOD

I'm really into food, and some days I actually get to make things instead of resorting to frozen dinners from Trader Joe's (which I love). An sometimes I get excited (only a little) when I make something and then I get to sit down and eat it. Silly, but it's one of the little things I take pleasure in amongst all the stress in my life right now.

I know, I know, I didn't "make" the last two things, but opening and eating them made my day sooooo much better. How awesome are Girl Scout cookies? Don't they just put a smile on your face, just thinking about their deliciousness?

Look two postings in one day! (AKA I am amazing)

I want these shoes and I want them now

So yeah, the blog is now called "A Sparkly Life." Laugh all you want, but I kinda likes it. Cause I think everything is better when sparkly or glittery (both literally and metaphorically), ya know?

CAKE

See? Isn't some stuff just soooo much better when sparkly?

Anyways...so I will post a few times before this quarter is over, especially when I feel the urge to procrastinate, but things will start in earnest AFTER finals. Which for me end on a Saturday. At 5:30pm. Whose messed up mind decided to put finals on a SATURDAY AFTERNOON? Right before spring break? Well, for me I'm actually graduating, but whatevs, it's still LAME.

Some things I'm looking forward to that will make my life post-grad a little more sparkly:

• watching movies on Netflix and not feeling guilty about homework I should be doing
• getting to read books, FOR FUN
• having a social life
• not having to ride the worst bike every to school everyday
• eating normally
• no more sitting in overheated lecture halls
• sleeping again

Yeah, I'm pretty excited. Soon, so so soon!

New and Improved (Kinda)

So I've been a very bad blogger...not updating in nearly four months. How irresponsible of me! 

I've decided I want to get back into blogging, and I will, I promise. I just have to wait until the end of this quarter (March 19th), and then I will actually have the time to write down all my random thoughts that go through my head on a daily basis. 

But until then, I decided to redo the blog and make it not only about books, but everything going on, yo. I gave the blog a new name, but I'm still not sure if I like it, so that might change as time goes on...I hope anyone and everyone who reads (if anyone actually does) enjoys!

Peace out!

I'm famous, so obviously I can write amazing novels

So I know I'm not the first critic of these celebrities turned writers, but I just had to say my part. Hilary Duff, Nicole Richie, Lauren Conrad, Pamela Anderson, and now SNOOKI from the Jersey Shore, are all "writers." Well, we all know what that means. They maybe say a few sentences in a meeting, then a ghost writer takes it from there. And these books end up on bestseller lists, maybe not at the top, but they are still there. Sometimes I hate people. Who is buying these books?

I can bitch and moan all I want about these people becoming writers and nothing will happen, but it still really bothers me. These are people who probably never grew up wanting to be writers, they just had the opportunity handed to them along with their "fame". I mean, SNOOKI? Seriously? She's famous for being on a shitty reality show on which all she does is get drunk and hook up with greasy guys. And she gets a book contract? NO. I could go off on tangents about every single one of these women, but I will not, at the risk of looking petty and immature.

I don't think I'm some amazing writer, but there are plenty of people out there who are and deserve a chance. Not Lauren Conrad, not Hilary Duff, not Nicole Richie, not Pamela Anderson, and not Snooki. They don't need the income from a book that they didn't write. Especially books with plots that are so cliche and writing that is barely a step up from high school or the Twilight series.

Come on people, skip these manufactured novels and read something worthwhile and interesting.

Bret Easton Ellis

I don't know why I haven't been posting...too much going on I guess. School, work, life in general. I also don't have anything to say right now...

Read Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis. So amazing. Also very graphic and kind of depressing, but I love his writing, because it's so distinctive. He describes certain horrible things so flippant and kind of detached, that it makes them seem more real...I don't know if I'm describing his writing accurately, but he definitely has a way of keeping me hooked and continually thinking about certain points in the novel.  

Imperial Bedrooms is a sequel to his 1985 novel Less Than Zero, which is one of my favorite books. It is narrated by Clay, the main character from the first novel, and and takes place twenty five years later. Ellis uses a post modern literary device, in that Less Than Zero was an actual novel written by a friend of Clay's in the eighties, but did not necessarily portray Clay in an entirely truthful light. This allows Clay in the present to be more fully developed and we learn more about his narcissism, sadistic and masochistic tendencies, as well as his exploitative personality that I didn't necessarily get from Less Than Zero. This Clay is extremely unlikeable, but at the same time utterly fascinating. It was a great book, but definitely not for everyone.

I just started reading The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and it's very, very absorbing, so I'll make sure to post about it soon as well.

Ta ta for now...I must go study some francais!

Oops!

So I'm still reading all the books that I mentioned last time...I've been distracted. It's summer, I have no school and I've just been hanging out with my friends, stress free for the first time in...months. There's also other things that have come up, in my personal life, that are NOT to be discussed on this blog, but trust, they are good, very, very good. I'm all smiles right now and excited about the days and weeks to come.

It's been hot as hell here in Davis, I'm escaping back to Marin this weekend and I can't wait, because no matter how hot it is there, it's never as bad as it is in Davis. Today was 107!

So, this is all for now, my friends, but a detailed update to follow soon!