A random homeless-looking busker at the BART stop was singing Bring Him Home. It threw me off a little and while his voice was deeper than Valjean's voice is supposed to be, it was very pretty. I wish that I had small change to give to him. But alas, I did not.

I can't believe how fast this semester is going by. I just scheduled my training with my replacement intern and am discussing last day deets.

Where did these months go? gahh

I haven't been blogging lately and that makes me sad. Random free Internet time that should be spent on better things tends to go to Yelp and even that tends to be a rarity. Honestly, I'm hardly even on Facebook anymore. But I wanted to say hi. Have been drowning in work and dreaming of Europe. Listening to Rick Steves podcasts like there's no tomorrow. I wish I had his job.

Okay. I have to be up in five hours for class.

So I think it's about time to get off of my high horse and accept and embrace the fact that I like reading Science Fiction and Fantasy. I've spent too much time in those aisles of bookstores the last few years looking for Neil Gaiman books to deny it at that point...maybe it's because he's just so crazy awesome. I've started going through the Terry Pratchett Discworld series. Yeah. I think it's about time to just give in. Maybe I'll even get around to reading Ender's Game and Asimov books.

Chris, Gianni and I are trying to see if we can read 52 books this year. I've read two - Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Steig Larsson) and Soul Music (Terry Pratchett). Maybe accepting this genre into my life will allow me to actually reach this book goal this year. Maybe.

"I feel... thin. Sort of stretched, like... butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday. A very long holiday. And I don't expect I shall return. In fact I mean not to."

I should not be this exhausted three weeks into the semester

The semester's gotten off to a busy start. I have a lot of night classes and a lot of early mornings, so I'm not quite sure where to fit the gym into all of that, but I guess I'll have to squeeze it in somewhere. I'll figure it out next week when I've settled into the schedule a bit more

So, we forgot to put James's chickens back in the coop after letting them run around everywhere all day. I guess I was too engrossed in the Jersey Shore marathon that's been running on MTV. Anyway, we just ran around outside in the dark looking for the silly chickens. Turns out that they all made their way back into the coop and were sleeping. I guess they are smarter than I thought.

My Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2010

It was a hard list to put together as this was a pretty good year for music. Am leaving out some fantastic albums. It pained me to leave things like The National's High Violet or Sharon Jones and the Dap-King's I Learned the Hard Way (a recent obsession) off of the list, but I think this is a good indication of some of my favorites of the year, even if it is very focused on the first half of the year.

1. 1) Beach House – Teen Dream

2. 2) Arcade Fire – Suburbs

3. 3) The Tallest Man on Earth – Wild Hunt

4. 4) LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening

5. 5) Best Coast – Crazy For You

6. 6) Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

7. 7) She & Him – Volume 2

8. 8) Tame Impala – InnerSpeaker

9. 9) The Morning Benders – Big Echo

1 10) Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love

In before the 2010 ends. Next is my official end of the year mix, but I should probably get work done.

Did I mention that in January, I'm going to be seeing Hair in LA? I'm so excited. I've wanted to see a production of this show since I was in high school. When it was on Broadway, I had planned and subsequently failed to execute trips to NY to see it.

First I need to get through this IP Licensing final. :( Worst finals period ever.

Still alive, but I think I'm hitting zombie mode soon. Crim Pro, Admin Law and now Animal Law are all out of the way. I tackle Copyright on Thursday and then I'm just left with IP Licensing and Data Privacy. IP Licensing is a take home that I've heard is going to be an absolute bundle of joy. Data Privacy...who knows.

It's been a fairly non stop marathon the last few weeks. Pretty exhausting, but I guess I knew that going in. On the upside, I don't really have much time to sit around and dwell on the previous exam I've taken.

But three more finals and I am free-ish until January. Still have journal stuff to do.

On the plus side, despite Thanksgiving, a ton of cupcakes, and a box of Swiss chocolates, I've managed to lose a little weight this finals period. Yay? I blame the kickboxing.

Random mini rant related to my last post: Why do I only have the movie soundtracks for Rent and Hair? I know I have original cast recordings for both. Where did they goooooo? :(