I thought that turning on Phantom Planet's last album (*tear*) would help me focus. Quite the opposite. I forgot how much I loved this album though. I love how well they pulled off an album inspired in large part by cults and Lost. I miss them. They need to end their indefinite hiatus.

Speaking of music though, Glee last night (yes I still watch that) had Kurt singing a gorgeous rendition of As If We've Never Said Goodbye. The theater geek in me squeed a lot. Also, they sang TLC and now I have to go dig up those old albums. Thanks Glee.

Ozma makes me miss undergrad like crazy.

Chris and I have officially been together for seven years now. We mark April 18th because it's the day we first held hands, which is cheesy, vomit-inducing, and kind of cute at the same time. Anyway, it's been seven years and we're still swapping comics. I guess we're kind of awesome like that.

We read All Star Superman this weekend, which was kind of amazing. I think he's on Fantastic Four and finally finishing Sandman and I'm starting Transmetropolitan. He also let me borrow Game of Thrones (not a comic, but we were on the topic of nerd talk).

I'm such a dweeb.

On a similar note, I think I'm finally convincing myself to get a Kindle. Gianni has some random e-reader and I might get that if it's compatible with Rick Steves travel books, but it seems to me like the Kindle's the sweetest deal of the bunch. Though, I wonder which one invades privacy the most. Something to look into...I think EFF has some sort of paper or something on it.

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.