I am so not ready.

Two days until France! I am menatlly ready, or at least until I get to the airport and have to say goodbye, but I have not even started packing. I made a list today, but I don't know how to pack for two months!!

But that's not what I wanted this post to be about. Over the weekend, my dad wanted me to help him redo some sinking brick pavers in the driveway. "It's artsy, you'll like it, it'll take 10 minutes" he said to me (it actually took like an hour). I wasn't exactly enthused about it, but he didn't have to persuade me much, I'm just a good helpful daughter. Working with my dad reminds me of being a little girl and fetching the correct wrench from the toolbox and "helping" him fix up old cars. But while I was moving the bricks, I had an epiphany that it was very similar to real-life Tetris. That's where I get my love of Tetris from! I finally figured it out.

Also, judging by the trailer, the new Winnie the Pooh movie looks so cute!!!

Anna and the French Kiss

Since I'm going to France this summer, my friend lent me her copy of "Anna and the French Kiss" to read. Reading for fun feels so good now that school is out. I thought the book was really cute and relatable, but there's just one thing I kept thinking. Do characters ever remind you of people in real life? There's this one guy I know who I kept picturing as St. Clair, even though they are not that much alike. I guess because he is shorter than me and he always wears formal clothes and he is not American (ooh, Canadian, how exotic) and he speaks French. So I guess I associated the two of them and I think it affected my view of the interactions of the people in the book because I was superimposing fiction and real life. But I guess that's how all things are. I interpret the things I read with ideas I have formed up to that point.

There's another character I associate with someone in real life. One of the boys in the band "Big Time Rush" reminds me of my co-worker this semester. That's embarrassing to admit that I even know who Big Time Rush is (my brother sometimes watches Nickelodeon while I am home, and I have nothing better to do with my life...) and it's just secretly funny to me, because they do all these cheesy typical boy-band dance moves and I laugh in my head when I think about it.

Happy Mother's Day! My mom does so much for me, I need to get her a present and let her know I appreciate her more often :)

Swiss Cake Rolls

Oh the taste of chocolate on my toungue makes me feel so much better. I am planning on moving out of my house-at-school and back to my house-at-home for the summer (or at least the beginning of it) after finals are over (only 24 hours left until freedom!), so I have been trying to eat up the food that I have left. I'm basically down to noodles, and I'm not in the mood to cook them or eat them. So I drove to the store and bought Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls and kiwi fruit. And it feels so good. "Stressed spelled backward is desserts." That's what they say, right? Who's they? I don't know.

I just had to get away. My computer is the key to studying, but even though I have powerpoint slides of food microbiology open, I can't force myself to look at them. I keep going back and forth between facebook and youtube and nothing is new. So that's why I drove to the store. I have noticed I tend to drive to random places when I need to clear my head. Maybe it's the motor city influence. Being in my car alone I feel really free, and I can sing whatever I want and I can open the sunroof and put my foot on the gas pedal and go anywhere.

I feel studied out. I actually tried not to procrastinate this year, and I started studying for my Monday exam last Thursday, for my Tuesday exam starting on Saturday, and now the motivation is being convected away from my body (good heat and mass joke, eh? maybe?). But on the bright side, I am done with ECE forever! Everyone is starting to be done, and I still have two left. Whine, whine, life is sooo unfair.

Today is my half-birthday and one month until France! I want to go swimming. Also, I think my stupid eye problem that I had at the beginning of April is coming back :/

And let the records show that I have eaten 6 out of 12 Swiss Cake Rolls while writing this. That's kind of a lot. And yet I foresee myself eating more as soon as I press "publish post."

If you don't look you might miss it.

Today I was biking home from the caf and I saw the most beautiful twilight. Gorgeous pink and blue. The pink was so brilliant, but it was easy to miss if you were behind a building or something. I feel so lucky and connected to the universe when I see such beautiful sights. That kind of stuff can improve my mood instantaneously.

In the caf, I had a homemade milkshake. About an inch of milk, then fill up the cup to about 3/4 full will vanilla soft-serve, and generous amounts of sprinkles and chocolate chunks on top. I even added some strawberries for a twist. Then stir, and eat. Yum! I love going to the different stations of the caf and putting random things in a cup. They did not have chocolate chip cookies today and I was slightly disappointed, but nbd.

Also, obligatory "Osama bin Laden is dead" statement. I feel like lots of people are celebrating, but I feel like it's just sad that the world is like this. People shouldn't have to rejoice over a death. Maybe I would feel differently if I personally knew anyone who was directly affected by the 9/11 attacks. This isn't the end though; he's just one man. I don't know. I need to pray about it more.

1 exam down, 4 to go.