The Ultimate List

Dear Santa,

It's me, Mandi.  Surprised, that I'm writing you...yeah me too.  Hypothetically I'd like to say that I've been a good girl, but I think the jury is still out on that one.  I probably haven't been as nice as I should be or as caring as I could be.  Let's face it...I've been quite rotten at times and I truly am sorry.  In the event that I'm not on the naughty list & I actually get gifts I've made this small list. 

1. The WGA Writer's Strike to end.  It's already Day 34.  I support the writers, but wish that they could settle a new contract. 
2. World Peace.  A little cliche I know.  Maybe it could be better worded as peace among those who I live with.
3. Fairy Dust.  I'd like to go to Neverland. 

I hope that I have been a good enough girl to get at least one thing off my list.  If I do get coal, I completely understand.  Next year, I'll be better...I swear. 

Cookies & Milk,
Mandi

Queen of Senior Sem....Yet again!

Yes, it's quite true. 

I'm Queen of Senior Sem again this week.  No, I don't think anyone really knows this except me and the people reading this, which makes it basically me still. 

Guess who forgot the deadline for the outline?  Well, it wasn't me or the professor.  There only two students in the class, so do the math. *Allows time to do math*  This will most likely lead back to me being the Queen of Senior Sem. this week. 

A bad way to spend a Weekend

So, I'm using Xanga, among other websites, as a procrastination tool.  If I were being the good little college student, I would still be typing up my outline for RE 450, Senior Sem/ Project for Religion Majors, but apparently I'm not. 

This is only the beginning of the end, I fear. 

October 28-November 3: Outlines for Senior Sem. & 401 are due. 

November 4-10: Oral presentation in History of Ancient Greece & rough draft for 401 is due 

November 11-17:  RE 450 rough draft due & 401 final paper due & History of Ancient Greece rough draft due

November 18-24: Presentation in 401

November 25-December 1: Meeting with Goedert over History of Ancient Greece rough draft

December 2-December 8: Papers due in History of Ancient Greece & Senior Sem.

Then FINALS!  Lucky me I only have two...and one of them is Badminton. 

Okay!  Back to work!

failure to complete mission

Like a lot of other people I make to-do lists.  Maybe I outdo most by obsessively making them, but at least I know what I have to do because it's on a list. 

This weekend I had a lengthly lists that included researching three paper topics, studying for a test, writing a paper, and having dinner and a movie Friday.  I only accomplished writing the paper and going out to dinner and a movie.  Of course, my three papers that needed to be researched aren't due tomorrow, nor is my test then.  It's the whole idea, I meant to do things that needed to be done, but I chose to have a break, a weekend and not do a lot.

It makes me feel awful.  Just another thing to make me feel bad.  That's a long list as well.

Mid-life Crisis...Try Quarter Life Crisis

Yep.  That's right.  There is such a thing as a quarter life crisis.  Don't worry I'm not going to buy a sports car.  It's one of those moments when it hits you...hard. 

What in the world am I doing? 

Where am I going? 

Where will I eventually live?

Money?

Did I choose the right major?

Will I ever go to grad school if I'm taking a year off to get life experience?

What is that life experience going to be?

All of this questions hit me going 150 mph in under 6 seconds.  Ouch.  It still hurts.  I'm still clueless.  All I know is that God knows.  Hopefully I'll know soon too. 

Warning!!!!!!!  Spoiler Alert if you haven't seen the season premieres that happened this week. 

Premeire Week was amazing. 

How I Met Your Mother
It was hilarious.  I don't know if it was the guest appearance by Enrique Iglesias or the fact that Ted got a butterfly tattoo on the small of his back.  However, my favorite scene was the final one when Barney opened an email from Marshall which had an attachment to a counter on a site that is counting down to the next slap in the slap bet between Marshall and Barney.  Classic!  I loved it!!!!!!!  If the first episode is any indication to the season, I will be laughing a lot more.

CSI: Miami
Seriously, why do I watch a show that constantly "jumps the shark?"  Horatio has a son.  End scene...do I really want to watch the season now?  Probably not, but will I...yeah...probably. 

NCIS
Amazing.  A-maz-ing.  I am in love with this show.  Last season really let me down, it was labelled the "season of secrets" and there were secrets, but it was said that all the secrets would be revealed and answered in the season finale.  Were they?  No.  The premeire did though!  Tony's girlfriend, Jeanne, was an undercover mission.  (I knew it!)  Jeanne's father is/was the Frog! (I knew that too!)  Tony told Jeanne his true identity which made her feel betrayed.  The car that Tony's alias used blew up, but Tony wasn't in the car so he lived!  Gibbs and the team tried to put the pieces together after being in the dark for a whole season.  The Director believed the Frog killed her father, but is her father really dead?  At the end the Frog was seen floating in the marina...dead.  ( I totally think the Director killed him!)  Watching this episode lead to me being so wound up that I had to sit on the kitchen counter for at least twenty minutes before I could act like a normal person.  I was crazy (in a good way).

Bones
My new favorite show over the summer delivered a great episode too!  Bones (Dr. Brennan) and Booth got back together as partners fighting crime...or just solving murders where Brennan looks at bones and Booth runs the bad guys down and catches them.  Zach came back from Iraq because he couldn't assimilate (really I wouldn't have guessed that!).  Angela and Hodgins still aren't married, but they hired a private investigator to find her long lost husband.  Then there was a case with a nasty cannibal and a secret society.  I'm really excited about this season.

CSI:
Oh. My. Goodness.  I owe my mother coffee because I lost the bet on whether or not Sara Sidle lived.  The Minature Crime Scene Killer was caught in the finale, but Sara disappeared.  Grissom revealed the relationship he has with Sara.  Right off the start everybody was busy looking for her, it was raining in Vegas, and Sara's trapped under a car.  See why I thought she'd die?  Well, there was a nice flashback to season 6's episode, Gumdrops, and a reference to season 5's Gravedanger episode, in which the viewers were reminded that Nick was buried alive and that he treated Cassie (the girl who disappeared in Gumdrops) as someone he would find alive instead of a body.  This scene forshadowed Nick finding Sara.  However, before that...Sara managed to get out from under the car, walk across the desert, and leave clues as to which way she was going for Catherine and Grissom to follow.  Even though I lost the bet, it was an excellent episode and resolution to the MCSK story arc.