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? :(

I really shouldn't be up right now. Due to blue screens of death (it is finals time so my computer is due to crash as it has the past two semesters), outlining, a dog that barks incessantly at night, and a crazy recent addiction to Sudoku puzzles, I really haven't gotten much sleep the last few days. Boo to that.

I am, however, one lecture away from finishing my Criminal Procedure outline. Considering how long I've been working on it, I should actually be finished but...yay 3L procrastination? Anyway, almost done, so I am up at an ungodly hour and feel like I'm hitting zombie mode soon.

I had to take a break, though. Chris asked me a question earlier that had been bugging me ALL day. Way back when I was a freshman at UCI, I took C7, the Introduction to Criminology course. For some reason, this is what led me to switch my major to Criminology. I'm not sure why. It wasn't nearly as exciting as some of the Crim classes I later took. I guess I just hated Humanities Core that much. Seriously, the English major thing was not working out. I loved my Crim major, though, so I'm not complaining. A lot of things I learned in that major (as well as professors I either had/heard of/had dinner with) have shown up in my Crim Pro class, so that's been kind of cool. But I digress.

Anyway, our big paper for the class was to analyze a song about a crime and then write about the crime...or something like that. I don't remember the details. I wanted to do my paper on "Every Step You Take" by The Police and talk about stalking or something, but that didn't pan out. Chris reminded me about that paper today and asked which song I ended up using. I couldn't remember. I remembered that I didn't do the Police song and I remembered that my friend used a song on rape, but I could not remember the actual song I ended up using.

I eventually turned to my old friend, Live Journal. After going back through entries from 2004, I found an entry talking about the paper. I guess I ended up using the song "Walking in Space" from the musical Hair. I think I discussed illegal drug use or marijuana or something. I don't remember.

(Speaking of which, if someone really loved me they'd take me to LA when Hair is playing there...*cough*)

Random final note: Accidentally started listening to Bachelor Girl. Do you remember that band at all? They only really had one hit here and, even then, it wasn't that big. I was obsessed with them freshman year of high school. Brings back a lot of memories.

Okay, I really need to finish this Crim Pro outline so I can focus on Admin Law tomorrow. I know you are all completely jealous of my life and my six finals right now.

I've decided that I'm subscribed to far too many blogs through Google Reader. Went through to trim out some of the ones that I never read (not too successful, but whatever). I think that when I first started using Google Reader, the majority of the blogs I followed were related to the environment and music. I think now, it's become some crazy mix of food, webcomics, soccer, IP/Tech, music, and entertainment. I trimmed them down a bit for now, so I'll see if that makes me slightly more productive than before.

Today was another one of those lost days. I spent a lot of the evening in one of those random music ruts and insisted on finding some new music to listen to. Passed up the new Maroon 5 album. Nothing that they ever make will be as good as Songs About Jane. I didn't like the last album and this one wasn't exciting enough for me to actually want to buy it. As a result, my being over them overrode my compulsive need to cling on to an old artist I used to be obsessed with.This is a new and strange feeling. (Although, I don't think I'll ever be over Songs About Jane. That was just a great album).

Anyway, it's far too late and I should go to bed.