My brain melted or I can't think of an interesting post title...PS I'M FINISHED!

It's over. Done. C'est fini. A very nice feeling, if I do say so myself. I wanted to write something witty and interesting, but honestly my brain doesn't seem to be working properly. I think I might have caused it to short circuit or something.

Right now, I'm at my dad's house, curled up on the couch watching Sex and the City. I booked it here yesterday evening after my final, which wasn't over until 5! Ridiculous. After a sushi feast with the padre at Taki, I spent the night hanging out with friends Jenny and Sasha, taking about all kinds of random stuff. I love it. BTW, check out Jenny's new blog she started, Cooking For The Twentysomething Girl, it's wonderful!

I could write about how excited and relieved I am too be done, but honestly I don't know how to quite articulate it all. It's going to be strange next Monday when everyone, including my roommate, goes back for spring quarter and I don't. I get to do what I want, like go to the gym and lay out by the pool or read a book or watch a movie. And I don't have to feel guilty about being distracted from homework, because I won't have any! So weird. I know I'm not the first person to feel this way, I mean thousands of people graduate from college every year, but it's still a strange feeling. And I like it. I can't wait for what happens next!

COFFEE PLEASE

I desperately needed coffee this morning, you can see. And I was very grateful to get it. So delicious.

Remember when I said there would be a real post this week? Yeah, not so much. Turns out, not matter how tired I am, something in my brain does not let me sleep...last night I ended up staying up late reading Mary Wollstoncroft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What the what? Yeah, apparently I like reading late 18th century treatises on women's rights. Go figure. Then I was just reading a bunch of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge for a while. THEN I finally fell asleep around 1:30. And got up at 6am. Ugh. I should mention that both of these were for my Romantic literature final that I have on Saturday, so it was good that I actually started to like the material and understand it more, but I would have REALLY enjoyed a good night's sleep, seeing as I haven't had one this week and probably won't until after finals are over. Sigh.

So, until finals are over, I must forbid myself from blogging because this girl really needs to study. Au revoir!

Wherein I talk about dresses and sleep deprivation

Soooooo.....last night when I got off work at 9:30, instead of coming home and being responsible and doing at least an hour's worth of studying for my final on Wednesday, I decided to go online window shopping for dresses.  Because it is almost spring, which means warm weather, which means I don't have to wear jeans all the freakin' time. I have a love/hate relationship with jeans, and for awhile it has been hate because most of my jeans are too big. Thus they fall and then I am constantly paranoid about my underwear showing. Bad new bears, man. But I love dresses. Love them. And I really think I need more day dresses, because so many of mine are too fancy for normal, everyday clothing, and I would wear them everyday once the weather gets warm (I'm trying to justify wanting so many, please bear with me).

Anyhoo...I spent a good hour and a half looking at about every dress at shabbyapple and PiperLime and well, that just not a smart thing for this girl to do before she goes to sleep. After looking at all the pretty dresses, I turned off my computer, switched off the light and got all cuddled up in bed with the kitten. But did I sleep? No sir I did not. After having spent at all that time staring at dresses,  I thought about which one(s) I might actually be able to buy, then if I did, which shoes and accessories I would wear with them. And for what occasion. Then my mind starts going on all the things I can't wait to do after Saturday. Then I started thinking about all the things I have to this week so that I'm prepared for my finals. Then I started getting a little stressed out and then I was just tossing and turning. Until 3 a.m. No bueno. So I'm really sleepy, hence the rambly and strange nature of this post. Sorry. I really need some coffee.

So after all this what have we learned? Mallory should not look at dresses before bed because that just leads to hours of non-sleep, which is very important at this juncture in her life because she has finals, damnit!

A real post later this week. Hopefully I won't be so sleep deprived. Hopefully.

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!