Tv Shows Post!!

Ok, so there were a couple things I left out of my last post. For one, I haven't talked about my tv shows for a long time. Mondays are Gotham, Scorpion and The Originals. Gotham is pretty good. The stories stay interesting and as an origins story it stays on track with what we expect to have been the life of a young Bruce Wayne and a younger Jim Gordon. I absolutely love how Ben McKenzie plays his part. The only baffling part is Barbara. We know she's Jim's future wife but she just left him in the last episode and isn't she supposed to be Batgirl? I'm not sure how all of this is going to work is Bruce Wayne aka Batman is barely a teenager if so yet. How long does she wait to be Batgirl and how old is she going to be??

On to Scorpion. E! Online gave this story that Katherine McPhee was going to be singing in an episode (last week's episode) and she barely sings like 2 lines of a song and it was nothing more than a whisper. We all know she can belt out songs like she did in Smash and this was just a let down. I was expecting so much more and then we got that. I guess I just got my hopes up and then got disappointed. I now see why some people don't watch trailers for movies. If there aren't any expectations then there's no let down. Scorpion is going strong. I still see it as a normalized and more realistic Alphas. I say more realistic because when Nick the genius watched it he still saw flaws and parts that aren't realistic. It was cool to see that Ralph's dad is the journalist guy from Scandal. There's something off about him which I guess keeps people watching to see what's going to happen.

The Originals is becoming a bit like the Vampire Diaries which is a bad thing seeing as I stopped watching The Vampire Diaries. For me it's going from episode to episode with a drawn out story. Just let their mother and father meet up and have the all out brawl that's bound to happen since the mother wants to save Klaus and the father wants to kill Klaus. And now with the added factor of Klaus' real father, there is bound to be a fight between the 3 of them. If there isn't then that would just suck. 

Tuesday is a quiet day for tv shows which means more library time. On Tuesday is only The Flash. I love how there is always an added factor in every episode. From Felicity visiting from The Arrow, the ulterior motives of Dr. Wells and Barry wanting to tell Iris everything. The previews for next week are interesting because it shows the guy that can turn to metal which I've only really seen in the X-Men series (tv series and movies). X-Men is Marvel but The Flash is DC so maybe there's a bit of a crossover there, I don't know. I'll have to do my research on that which means I'll just ask Nick :). 

Wednesday is another quiet day for tv. It's just The Arrow on Wednesdays. This is one show that really keeps me thinking about it for the whole week. Like who really killed Sara now that we know Roy didn't do it? When is Oliver going to find out about Thea and Malcolm Merlin? In what episode is Laruel going to become the new Black Canary? There's already a picture out of her in the full outfit so I know it's going to happen this season. I'm still bummed about Oliver and Felicity and I know if/when Felicity gets together with her boss Ray is going to stir up trouble with Oliver. All in all it's promising for the rest of the season. 

Thursdays have gone through a change. I don't watch How to Get Away with Murder anymore partially because I have an early class at 9 on Fridays so going to bed so late is not optimal. That and I also got a bit bored with the story. I know everyone is all hooked on it and the risks that they take but to me it focuses too much on maybe 1 or 2 people and the others are a bit forgettable. That's just me and I don't know if that's changed since I stopped watching it but I don't feel the need to watch it anymore. So that just leaves my Scandal. Let me just say once again that I LOVE JAKE! :) Fitz is starting to bug me a lot. He's acting like if he's entitled to have Olivia and that things can just go back to normal. She left for a reason and she chose someone else for a reason. That doesn't change just because she's back. Olivia also needs to learn to say no and to walk away from Fitz. If she keeps treating Jake so horribly he's going to leave her and she'll just go running back to Fitz. Uggghh. I find it hard to relate to weak willed female characters which makes me not want to watch the show anymore. This is why I couldn't bring myself to read 50 shades of Grey. Anyways, back to Scandal. I want to know how Olivia's dad knows everything going on. Well for one he obviously has another informant in the White House which should have been obvious to Olivia and Jake once the other guy was put in jail. We'll just have to wait and see how they deal with that. 

Thursdays also consist of White Collar now. I'm actually all caught up and this season seems interesting. We still don't know what Neal is up to but we know it has to be big because he went to the trouble of getting a contract. I'm excited to see that Elizabeth is pregnant which makes me wonder if she's pregnant in real life. There's only been 2 episodes so there isn't much to talk about.

My Fridays consist of Hawaii Five-0. I'm not so sure I need to watch this every week. I can just wait until the season finishes and binge watch it later. The story is a bit annoying in that it's so drawn out and they bring back old stuff. Like Wo Fat. When are they  just going to kill him and save themselves stress in the future. They finally did that in the last episode but that whole kidnapping thing could have been avoided if they killed him when they had the chance. There's still no sign of Grace this season and I've realized that since they added Grover to the team there is never an episode with all 5 of them in it. This happens whenever a 5th person is added. When Catherine was on the team Kono was having a bit of trouble or whatever. There is never an episode with all 5 of them because its just too many people. At least when Catherine was there she would stay behind and do the research part while the other 4 went out into the field which worked out great. With Grover, he's out in the field too and it throws off the dynamic between Danny and Steve. They both try to be his second which is weird.

Onto my Sundays. Revenge is so so good right now. Emily's dad is back somehow and is up to something and she won't just tell him. Well she did now but it took her forever and Victoria was just playing it up and enjoying herself. If i was Nolan I would have told him straight away but I guess since Emily said not to he couldn't. Daniel is still stupid so nothing has changed there. All I want to know is where David Clark was for all this time. I am so happy to see Brian Hallisay from Privileged on the show now. Claire and I have a running joke that he never says more than 4 words at a time but I say he's too good looking to talk that much lol. He doesn't need that stress in his life :). 

Heartland is still a staple for my Sunday viewing even though I end up watching it on Mondays. Nick hates to hear that I'm watching Heartland because I always try to find similarities to our relationship between Ty and Amy (I do it to bug him). This show also keeps my dream to own a horse alive which he also doesn't like. 

Soooo last night was the premier of the Lifetime Aaliyah movie. At first when I heard that Zendaya was going to be a part of it I was sort of looking forward to it, but they she pulled out. This was when information about the project started to come out like the fact that Aaliyah's parents weren't a part of it and her own friends like Timbaland and Missy Elliot weren't asked or weren't included in it. To me that's a bit disrespectful and it just shows you're making a movie just to make a movie. The point of it all is to showcase someone's life and show the world someone who was obviously loved and respected as a singer and actress. This is just a money making venture and it seemed like they didn't care about who they offended because they were given the green light to do it. To me, an entertainer of her stature should have a movie on a bigger platform. Not a Lifetime movie. For all the things that she accomplished in her life she shouldn't be showcased as a weekend movie special. To me she deserved more than that. But now it taints it for whoever wants to do the movie right. It's always going to be compared to this one. From what I've heard, the movie wasn't that great. The actress they got to play Aaliyah was Alexandra Shipp. She just starred in the new Drumline movie and for me her acting bugged me. She was trying too hard to speak a certain way and it fell in and out a lot. There were a lot of things wrong with that movie. Anyways, I feel the same way about Lifetime doing the Whitney Houston movie. I don't know if her family was included  but once again as a person of her stature she should get more than a Lifetime movie. 

From looking at this it sure looks like I watch a lot of tv but to me these are the only times I'm not thinking about work so its like a bit of a break for my brain which is needed to survive so its not so bad. 

Anyways, the library is about to close so it's time for me to get going :)

Where is November going so quickly??

I can't believe how fast November is going. It feels like yesterday it was now October. With this fast moving November means that finals are coming fast and I have projects to finish up along with homework, aaanndd trying to study on top of that. Basically I've been spending a lot of time in the library. I think I'm just getting tired from everything this semester. This always happens which is what makes finals so difficult. Everything from the semester is now weighing on  you and all you want to do is sleep and catch up on whatever Netlflix binge is next. I've been trying to counteract this and keep a relatively good schedule. I've even been doing my pilates more often. So far I only have time on the weekends to do a full workout but I've doing my squats, laterals, and wall push ups on mornings before I go in the shower. It's been working out pretty well. Yesterday I did my pilates in the morning which was a bad idea. I was sore and complaining for the rest of the day. I really don't know how people exercise in the morning and don't just go straight back to bed. I love that with a night time workout I can just take a shower and go back to bed. No pain felt. 

I have about 4 more weeks until Barbados and I have 6 Chefette rotis left :). That means I can probably eat one on the plane and then get moooore when I land. 4 more weeks also means that finals are in 3 weeks. I've realized that a lot of my group members rely on me to do most of the work. Sometimes its the other way around but right now I'm working on 2 group projects where I was doing most of the work. It's good because that means I know what to do and everything but its annoying because I'm doing everything and I can't study or do my homework. 

Anyways, I have now accepted the fact that winter is here. It's getting really cold and I've been holding out on wearing my heavy winter jacket purely out of being stubborn. I at least need to wear a hat to keep my head warm. This morning I thought I had a sore throat but thank God I didn't. Last week I stocked up on flu medicine and everything but I still don't want to get sick. 

Hair wise, I've been really lazy. For the past 2 weeks I've just been doing protective styles just to get my hair out of the way and away from the harsh sweater materials. It works out great because I leave it up for like 2 days, take it down for the night, and put it back up in the morning. When I take it down it gives the perfect twist out curls/waves.

You can't really see it but they're there. After I washed it I realized my hair is getting pretty long compared to how it was a couple months ago. I know I've been trimming it with every relaxer so I really didn't expect a great difference in the length this quickly. When I get it done in a couple weeks I'll make sure to take pictures. 

In other news, Nick had his review for his Phd stuff and his presentation went really well so he's now officially a second year Phd student at McGill. Of course I knew it would go well but with all his freaking out and stressing out it's just good to know it went well. 

It's about that time when I should be getting out of bed and start doing stuff. I have to go buy my breakfast stuff and then off to school. I want to get there when the library opens so I can maximize on study time but that never happens. My bed is too comfortable and warm for me to leave it that quickly. 

I need to talk to Greg and make a plan for when we're going to watch The Hunger Games movie that suits his work schedule. I'm waiting to watch Big Hero 6 when I get home to watch it with Nick and maybe Claire if she holds out and waits for me :) 

So yea, my week once again consisted of work and the library and will continue this for the next 4 weeks. The only thing keeping me going is the thought of going home to play halo. 6 weeks of doing nothing and playing halo, going to the beach and eating. 

KThnkBai!

Work, work, work; Story of My Life

This are getting crazy around here. I have so much work to do all the time. Sometimes I feel like I'm getting it done and then there are times when I feel like I'm so far behind. So far I'm caught up on 2 of my classes which makes me feel really good. I have a group project looming over my head right now and I feel like my group members aren't putting in enough work to get a good grade which is bugging me since I need an almost perfect grade in the project to make up for my abysmal midterm. So I've been doing the heavy lifting for that project but I sort of don't mind because then I can make sure it's done right. We have a girl in our group that isn't a finance major so she sort of has no idea what's going on. 

I just finished watching the first season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

I had downloaded the season in the summer but didn't get around to watching it yet but Claire forced my hand by starting to watch it with my dad. Turns out I had watched about 5 episodes before but I still watched them over. It's a good show if you still want to get your Marvel fix in between the movies and I really like how it incorporates what happens in the Thor and Captain America movies. It's really integrated which is great and can allow for more crossovers. I really like Fitz and Simmons and how they interact with each other and with everyone else. I don't know why I like nerd-like characters so much but I can't help it. I still want to know what is so strange about Skye so I'll be watching season 2 in the vacation.

I read the most recent I Am Number Four book, The Revenge of Seven.

This book was really good. It's been so long since I read the previous book that I forgot some of the things that happened but it wasn't so much that I couldn't follow along. What was cool was that there was a scene set in New York and of course I tried to see if I had ever been there, but no. I couldn't picture it so I have more exploring to do. I really hope they do more of these movies. For one they have good stories and I think Alex Pettyfer needs work :). 

As usual there was something going on in Time Square when I was leaving my class. Since I wasn't meeting up with Robert (my cousin) for lunch I roamed around a little before heading back to campus downtown. 

The dressed up characters are always around but I was really excited about Big Hero 6. I want to watch this movie sooo much but with Nick because he would probably appreciate the corny jokes a lot :). As usual I spent Friday afternoon/night in the library until Hawaii Five-0 started. I actually get a lot of work out of the way like this so I'm gonna try to keep that up. 

Unfortunately my mum's cousin died this week. She had been sick for a while but its still sad. I hadn't seen her since January because I didn't want to go to the hospital. Everyone who went said she looked pretty bad and completely different so the only memory I have of her is a healthy one :). That makes 2 deaths in the family in a month. I'm not going home for this one because I have a lot of work to catch up on from the last time I went home so I'm just doing my best to get everything done. 

I'm about due for a study break and lunch. The library is pretty full today but I got my favourite spot still so its not that full. My world is back to revolving around school which sort of feels bad but Thanksgiving break is coming up so that will be a welcomed change.

KThnxBai!

Carla

Getting Back to Normal

So it's been about another 2 weeks since my last post. My birthday came and went and I did absolutely nothing. I wasn't in the mood to celebrate anything so I stayed in bed and watched Netflix and other movies. It was a really relaxing day of ignoring everything and staying in denial. I did do laundry though, 3 weeks worth of it. The rest of the week went by in a blur as I prepared to go home. I made sure to get a whole lot of work out the way so that I wouldn't be too far behind when I got back. 

Going home was surreal. That's the only way I can put it. I had been telling myself that I'll be home at Christmas. I had a whole countdown going on in my head and I had begun to picture everything for going home for Christmas from the drive home and who I would see when I got home. Family and friends of course but a big part was seeing my Granny. When I left home in January it was in such a rush and I didn't really get to say goodbyes properly to some people so this was the chance to do that. But I went home 7 weeks early and it felt weird. First of all, I didn't sleep the Thursday night so that threw me off once I got home. Robert and his fam jam were on my flight as well but I slept for most of the flight as usual. I didn't even make it through take off which was a relief seeing as I get super duper light headed during take off. By the time Saturday came I had no idea what day it was and my sleeping schedule was all messed up. 

Once I got home everything was starting to sink in. I tried to ignore it for most of the time there but on Saturday night I had a massive stress headache from ignoring everything. I don't even want to describe the next couple days. It's a funeral, what do you expect. So yea, that happened and there was lots of food and stories to be told afterwards. I did manage to get in some xbox on Monday night which was good. My cousin Brianna caught onto Blur pretty quickly so playing with her was fun. I started to fall asleep in the last race we played so I came in last. I don't even know how I was playing and falling asleep. Usually playing keeps me awake. 

By the time I had to leave it felt like I had been home forever. I didn't get to go to the beach since it rained for 2 days straight but it still felt like a full trip. One thing that bugs me is now that I'm back everyone keeps asking me how the trip was. Am I supposed to say "it was great burying my Grandmother, thank you" or do I say "it was horrible being back home and seeing all my family". At first I would completely ignore the question and just smile back and change the subject. Now I've resolved to just saying it was a good service. The end. In a way I would just like people to stop asking and just get on with it. Pretending things never happened is my specialty and I am so good at lying to myself so let's try to stick to that. Nick says its sad that I have to keep lying to myself to get through the day but it gets the job done. I'm functioning which is the goal of it all. 

Anyways, I have about 2 weeks of work to catch up on and a presentation to prepare for. On Friday I had a great revelation. I am a nerd. I enjoy spending all those hours in the library, especially on a Friday night when everyone is out doing stuff. It's quiet and empty and I like it that way. I got some work done and had a whole lot of coffee to stay awake and alert. Having a Starbucks in the cafeteria is a blessing and a curse. Oh, I started back doing pilates on Friday as well. I need to get in some cardio so I have to go register at the gym since I have free membership and find time to go. 

So there aren't any pictures in this post. I wasn't really in the mood for pictures when I went home. Now that I'm back I'm trying to get everything back to normal and take a lot of pictures :)

Later!
Carla :)

Turning Point

So it's been 2 weeks since my last post after posting weekly for a while. Yea I've been busy but this blog post is sort of a turning point. Once I post this, there is no turning back. I was all set to write this post last Friday or Saturday and was already organizing it in my head. Then Nick came to visit on Saturday night and we spent the day at my Aunt's house on Sunday so there was no writing to be done. Then on early Monday morning I get a call at around 5 in the morning from my granny's house. All day on Sunday I was talking to Claire about my Granny's health since she was sick and wasn't looking to good. All I kept thinking was that she wouldn't be able to travel the following week and I would have to wait until Christmas to see her. As it turns out things went downhill pretty fast and she died early Monday morning. Writing it down means that it's real, which is why this post is monumental. Admitting out loud took me a couple days and I kept telling myself this was just a huge Halloween prank just to get me to come home for my birthday. For the first couple nights I would lie to myself over and over again saying that she was fine and my family is playing a prank on me. Then once I stopped believing that I would go through everything I could possibly remember about her. That helped me sleep a couple nights but I still wasn't sleeping an entire night. I really don't know how I would have done if Nick wasn't here for those couple days. I kind of felt obligated not to simply curl up in a ball all day with him here. 

So that was basically my week. I still had to do a midterm that Wednesday which could have gone so much better if I had time to finish studying but with everything going on I couldn't focus on anything. The first day I was actually able to focus on anything for more that 5 minutes was on Friday during class which felt really good. It's still not at 100% but its better than when I sat in class on Thursday and stared at the bored not understanding anything. My professors have been kind of sympathetic about it but its grad school. I can't really expect them to let me hand in stuff late or to do midterms separately cause then it gives them more work so I didn't ask. 

It's Monday and I just left a midterm which also could have gone better if I had finished studying but we'll see how that turns out. I have a project due in 2 weeks but I'm going back home this Friday so I'm missing out on group-meeting time. So I have to start that early and do as much as I can while I'm here. Oh and tomorrow is my birthday. My 3rd annual 21st birthday ( I think I have that right, I'm turning 23). I don't even feel like celebrating anything. Granny used to call everyone in the family for their birthday and this would be the first year I won't be getting a phone call at the crack of dawn telling me happy birthday. As much as I used to complain that those phone calls woke me up, they made the whole day better. 

Anyways, I have a heck of a long to-do list to get through this week with laundry, packing and picking up documents to carry home. Oh and projects to do. Great. This just shows that even though my world may have stopped for a couple days, life around me is still going on and I still have to keep up. People are only going to be sympathetic and empathetic to a certain extent so I can't take it for granted. 

I actually forgot everything I've done for the past 2 weeks. There was a Walking Dead sort of exhibit in Time Square that I got caught up in. 

And that's about it. Time to get these things checked off my to-do list.

KThnxBai :)

Carla

How can school be this stressful??

Why oh why is the weekend so short? :( It's a Saturday and I'm in the library. I have so much work to get through I really couldn't risk staying home and being distracted so here I am and here I will stay until I finish all my planned work or the library closes. (It would probably be the latter). This has been the most stressful 2 weeks of the semester and I have another 2 stressful ones coming my way. Isn't business school fun?! I had a group project due yesterday and I was so close to getting through it drama free but of course someone had to go be a diva and complain about having to finish it the night before when it was her own fault we started a week late because she was off vacationing. This just enhances my dislike of people, mostly new people. 

Anyways, my week went by in pretty much a blur because of this project. On Thursday was a career and internship fair here at Pace and let me tell you it was pure bedlam here. There were over 100 companies here which is great but the space provided to these 100 companies was small already and then add all the students and alumni it was crazy. I look awesome of course but the heels I wore only lasted about 30 minutes cause I wanted to get through the crowd without worrying about stepping on people's feet in my heels. 

I wore the pretty basic all black with a nice grey pea-coat-ish coat. I could have done without the coat cause it was hot inside. The fair was good all in all and I got my resume out to a couple good businesses. One bad thing was a lot of the businesses don't sponsor international students so that is a big set back. So yea that happened and it was good. 

Somehow with all the stress of the week I still managed to get in my tv shows which were big stress relievers. Gotham was good as usual which I like. Scorpion was really good and it becoming more and more like Alphas which I don't mind so much because I absolutely loved Alphas. Dance Moms is becoming more of a guilty pleasure for me. I don't really care what happens in the episodes but its a good time waster for when I take a break from doing work. My Wednesdays are still void of tv shows which will end once Arrow starts back next week!! :D. Scandal still baffles me. I don't understand how Olivia keeps Scott Foley away and chooses Fitz over him. I mean have you seen him in uniform???

How to Get Away With Murder is having a slow start. We all know the show itself is about the underlying story and not necessarily the story of each episode but we saw the same flashbacks from the first episode. I still like it but I wish it would get on with it a little faster. 

Hawaii Five-0 is giving me the same feeling. After watching all the episodes back to back to back its hard to watch one episode at a time and get excited about it. And the underlying story of this season doesn't seem all the interesting just yet but I'm sure it'll get there eventually. 

Class yesterday was a bit painful to be a part of. We had gone through a lecture presentation as usual and then she was going through a question with us. Instead of her doing it she got people to come up to the board and do a part but no one knew what they were doing. Like NO ONE! Well I did which was a miracle seeing as I left the room for a while to go blow my nose. At first it was funny cause we thought that just that one person didn't know what to do but then it just kept happening. She didn't call on me to go to the board but she did ask me to explain to them exactly what they were supposed to be doing. So I'm here in the library on a Saturday reading up on everything to make sure I can continue to answer all the questions she throws at me. 

Anyways, my "settling" time is all gone and it's time for me to get to it and hit the books. 

Toodles! :)

Premiere Week!!!

Heeellllooooo blog world. It is Saturday morning/afternoon and it is actually warm/hot today!! I say that like if I'll actually be outside but I'll be at my desk working all day. Hopefully I get all my work done so that I can go to Brooklyn tonight. If not I'll just go tomorrow morning and spend the day. This week was pretty much an off week, I only had 2 classes all week since this week was Rosh Hashanah which is the Jewish New Year. So I only had class on Monday and then on Friday morning...... This Friday morning class is killing me but I do it cause I have to.

Anyways I'm almost through with premiere week!! Yaaaaaaay!! On Monday was Gotham and Scorpion.

Gotham was pretty ok, I mean it was the basic introduction to all the characters. I like how Jada Pinkett Smith acts in this and once again I like how its a strong female role. It's interesting to see a non-fat Penguin and how he got his start in the underworld of it all. I knew I was going to like Benjamin Mckenzie in this cause I think I love him in all his shows. So yea that was good. I was excited to watch Scorpion because it looked a heck of a lot like Alphas. The plot behind it is practically the same, people with "gifts" are hired by the government to help solve problems. It's not the supernatural stuff that Alphas had but the underlying concept is the same. Watching this was made especially funny cause I was watching it with my sister over Skype and when she realized it was Katherine Mcphee was especially funny. 

My Tuesday shows are kind of slow. If I get bored I'd watch Dance Moms but then I'd just stream the voice the next morning while I eat breakfast. I really like how the judges now seem to be evenly matched. I always felt like in the first couple season, no one wanted to go to Cee Lo and then with Shakira and Usher, Shakira was the underdog. Now with Pharrell and Gwen, its anyone's game. 

I don't watch anything on Wednesdays so those are work nights. I actually stayed up pretty late on Wednesday night doing work until like 3 in the morning. I was on Facebook and a couple of my friends are starting their Masters and I saw one say that having all this free time is a bit deceiving because you actually have a lot of work to do. This week was the perfect example of that. I had 3 days which should be enough time to do all my work but I spent my Tuesday at the supermarket and watching random stuff online. So by the time Wednesday came around I was a day behind. 

Onto my Thursday tv shows! I love Thursday nights. I have until 9 to do all the work I can until Scandal starts. For the entire beginning Claire and I were hoping they would say they were in Barbados but once again the Bahamas won that one. Once again I should put it out there that I love Scott Foley! :) How Olivia chooses Fitz over Jake all the time I don't understand. I feel like I need to watch over that episode because one week is too much to wait to get my Scandal fix. 

How To Get Away With Murder is such a Shonda Rimes show. She jampacked that first episode with so much everything. Viola Davis plays that part so well and I am so happy to see Alfred Enoch from Harry Potter get a good role.

Once again I watched this with my sister but she was like 10 seconds behind me (I don't know why) so I would tell her "spit out your gum so you don't choke" when I know she would be shocked at stuff. It was a fun night which was spoiled by the fact that I had a 9am class the next day. 

Class was exceptionally boring yesterday and everyone seemed to be half asleep. I have a group project due for that class next week and we are nowhere near where we need to be right now so that is going to be a stressful finish. I might go to school today to get some information from the library later if I have time. Or more than likely I'll just go in on Monday morning before my afternoon class and put in a couple hours. Sigh, I guess this is the life of a Master's student. After class I went to visit my cousin at his office in Time Square which was really cool. Having family around is so helpful and I think it's why I don't really feel so homesick. I'm always around family which is like a piece of home all the time. 

Right now I'm having a big problem with my allergies. I know I'm allergic to lactose so I bought the lactose free Yoplait yogurts.

The fact that I'm sneezy, congested and my eye is itching is evidence that they aren't really lactose free. Or there's just something in there that I'm allergic to. Unfortunately I bought 3 of them, so I have one more yogurt to eat cause I am sure as hell not wasting it. I think I'll eat that tonight and follow it up with some allergy medicine. 

Anyways, I haven't even eaten breakfast yet and I need to start my day so that I can get some work done. I did some last night but I need to finish it and do some more reading for my class on Wednesday. It's about a month into school and I really want to stay on top of everything. I also got a little "me" time while watching my Thursday shows and painted my nails :)

I love fall colours but not so much fall weather. It's too indecisive for my liking. 

Anyways I'm out, time to be a busy bee!

Can this be Normalcy???

It's been a while since my last post of ranting about housing. I'm still in the Brooklyn Heights Residence seeing as everywhere is all full. At this point I don't really want to move. I'm all unpacked and moving now will only disrupt my studying. I was hoping it would all be resolved in the first week so if I move it would have to be at the end of the semester. 

Anyways, classes are going pretty well. After shuffling around some classes I'm still on track to graduate next May *fingers crossed*. This semester is a doosy. I always knew it was going to be harder than the last one since these aren't purely pre-requisite courses but the amount of reading and work is a lot. I mean you really have to stay on top of everything and really plan what you're going to do each day with all this "free time". Right now its a Friday night and I'm trying to get some work out of the way so that I can finally go watch Guardians of the Galaxy tomorrow with my cousin :).

I'm probably the only person left who hasn't seen it. 

TV show wise, I started over watching Suits. It was a big decision to start over and just watch it to begin with since I was so far behind. I'm all caught up on Hawaii Five-0 after starting over so Suits was just next on the list. I'm still catching up on White Collar, I'm on the last season now so there isn't much left to watch. I also read a book on Tuesday while I got my hair done. This one was called Anna and The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.

Yea I know it's not like my other books but I haven't been able to find another supernatural series like Elemental, Significance and Lux. Speaking of Lux, I read the final book of the series. This is how you end a book series people. I wasn't left with any questions, no wondering or what ifs. Everything was wrapped up in a bow and that was that and let me tell you it was a GREAT book. I have to wait for the next I Am Number 4 book and another series I can't remember so I have research to do later. 

As I said its Friday night and I'm in my room. I have an early Friday morning class in Midtown so I have the entire afternoon to do whatever and then the night to do more of whatever but today I found myself a little bored with all the tv show watching. I tried to watch Malificent but I got like 10 minutes in while I was eating lunch and didn't feel like finishing. I just felt like doing something, anything, that didn't involve me just sitting there. I would exercise but Roomie sleeps all day and night and is on the weirdest sleeping schedule ever. I'll start my workouts after next week. Next week I have a couple days off so I want to buy some stuff I've been postponing simply because I didn't have time. 

Today was apparently a great day to be in Time Square.

First there were all the people lining up to get the new iPhones, I didn't walk past the Apple store but I could imagine what it looks like. The NYPD had a couple cars on display and there was a cycle-thon in the middle of Time Square. It's times like these that I have to remind myself that I live in New York. I did it. I made my dream come true and I'm living in New York. Now all I have to do is work to stay here. 

Anyways, I have to get some work done so that I don't feel guilty going out tomorrow night. It's starting to feel like normalcy and I'm getting a bit of a routine with everything so I'm not as anxious as when I first got back. It feels good. :)

So yea, later!!

Carla :)

Housing Update

So this is the update from last night's rant. 

Number 1) The room rates are actually not the same for all the buildings, St. George is the cheapest which I'm guessing is because the building is so old. They say that its the cheapest because the discount it because of the laundry and transportation. Ok cool but the building is still extremely old and a lot of the things are near falling apart. 

Number 2) The other building set up like St. George is 182 Broadway but it is $760 more basically for a newer building. And laundry is $50 for the entire semester. So basically if I were to do say 4 loads of laundry each week and go travel to school 5 days a week I would be saving $305 for simply being in an old building in St. George. Or you can look at it as spending $305 to be in a new building and in a room that doesn't have exposed wiring kept up with duct tape. 

I honestly think that if Pace wants to have housing, at lease make sure that the standard of the housing is the same for all the buildings. Simply having one less expensive that the other is not enough. You apply for housing expecting a certain standard and they think that simply paying less can make up for it. 

I have other problems to figure out other than why they can't have proper accommodations for their students.

Later!

Pace Housing is a complete joke!

So it seems that when I go on vacation, so does this blog. Sorry about that. Anyways, this post is gonna be a rant. Just warning you. Like I'm warning everyone applying for Pace housing. Don't do it! Seriously they don't know what they'r doing. Aside from the craziness of putting grown masters students to room with sophmores, they have this thing of saying that all the residences are equal so the room rates for all the buildings are the same. It's ok to say that if it was actually true. How can laundry be free in one building but not in another and yet you say that the residences are equal? That means that I now have to pay more that the people on Fulton just because of location! Then the rooms in Fulton have their own kitchen in the room making it more like an apartment but here at St. George we have a fridge and a microwave... how is that equal? Furthermore the standard of the building is completely different. I understand that St. George is an old hotel that they refurbished but there is nothing cool about having to see duct tape going around a door to hold up a wire so that the tv can be plugged in. There isn't even a light fixture in the room. We have 2 measly lamps that barely do anything. And yet they say the buildings are equal. 

No matter how much I try to get a room change, and how much I keep saying I want a single room, I somehow still have a double room. Now I would just settle for a double room back at Fulton. Laundry alone is going to be expensive. It's $5 for a laundry card and THEN $2 per load. That is CRAZINESS!! On top of that is the additional transportation costs that I didn't have a Fulton. But housing still says, "All the residences are equal". I've never seen so many people tell a lie knowing its complete crap. But they still try to sell it to you. And the guy in charge of it all is so uncooperative. I mean you send an email asking if its possible to change rooms and he comes back with this aggressive attitude saying its too late and I have to stick it out?? Not when I'm paying all this money. I will get a room I like and I will be comfortable. 

Sigh, I'm so annoyed and its only the first day. On top of that when I came in my room this morning I found my new roommate sleeping in my bed with wet hair on top of my comforter. Seriously?? Even if you didn't know when I was coming back at least be prepared. I'm going to unpack a little so that I can be a little bit comfortable here until they sort it out. 

Later! 

It's Been Too Long

It's been a long time and I've sort of been avoiding doing this post because its been so long and I sorta didn't know what to write. A lot has happened since my last post so here it is. I dropped my class cause it was just so stressful trying to get information out of the teacher and for a course that is so important for my degree I really didn't like the fact that I was simply copying formula and not really understanding what was going on. And there wasn't enough time to do everything. Cramming a course that will already be intense in 12 weeks into 6 weeks is just madness. So yea, I dropped it and now my summer has started 3 weeks early. :)

Last week around this same time I started watching Scandal :D. 

Errmahgerd I was addicted to it and finished all 3 seasons in 4 days. Crazy, yes but when your summer course is driving you crazy its the only thing left to do. And now that we all know Columbus Short isn't coming back to the show that obviously means that Olivia's dad killed him which isn't going to end well. I was sooooo happy that Jake went with her. I have a soft spot for Scott Foley since he was on Felicity and I loved him there. Teen Wolf has also been really good.This whole deadpool with the list of supernaturals in town is crazy but Scott finally has his Beta!! He has problems yes, but he listens to Scott so that's ok. But who the hell is the Benefactor and how is Derek going to get back his powers???

I started watching a show called Bitten like 2 days ago a little bit out of boredom and a bit of being curious. 

I found it basically because Laura Vandervoort is in it. It's a good show but I sort of this that for werewolves they're kind of weak. Its too easy to kill them and they have no other power other than turning into wolves. The show is about a pack of wolves (there is only one pack apparently) which includes the only female to ever survive being bitten so of course all the other wolves want her so of course the pack is attacked. It's not for the faint of heart, it has its fair share of violence and gore so if you have a soft stomach its not for you. So far it only has 1 season so once again I have nothing to watch. I even started watching over Royal Pains for something to do but what I really want to watch over it suits. I don't even think I watched it from the beginning so I should get started on that. 

I started reading a book series called Tangled by Emma Chase but it only lasted me like 3 days. (it was only 2 books, the second is called Twisted). 

Anyways, to me this was a tamer version of Fifty Shades of Grey. It was still a little crazy but the girl isn't at soft and silly as the one in Fifty Shades of Grey which is why I was able to finish it. My next challenge is to read over the Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead. I read the first one but I haven't read the others so that should keep me busy until the next book from the Lux series comes out. So many books to read! :D

For the rest of the summer the plan is to find one spot where they're filming White Collar. On Monday I found Boardwalk Empire for the second time. 

Hopefully White Collar is filming downtown soon cause I really don't want to have to go too far to find them. I'm still waiting to watch from season 5 too so I should get started on that. 

Last week I made the mistake of watching Lone Survivor by myself. 

It's a great movie and I knew from the title that everyone but one had to die but watching them die was so heartbreaking. Like seriously continuing to fight through gun shots and falling of how many cliffs is absolutely crazy. I've always had great respect for anyone military but this added a bit of sadness to it cause its what they're expected to do. Of course after watching I had to do a full research on everything from the movie to find out that it was a book first and that the book kind of exaggerated a little from the original story and then the movie embellished from the book. That doesn't make it any less sad though. 

So far I've gone back to Brooklyn every weekend but this weekend I'm staying in the city to do some exploring like finally going to see Wall Street. I'm also going to be exercising since I technically have nothing else to do with my time. Some more awesome news, not only did I beat the game 2048, I beat it TWICE!!

That's right, I made the 4096!! I haven't been able to do it since but I will. Anyways, I have food to eat and fat to burn!

KThnxBai! :)

Back in NY!!

I'm baaaaack!! I've been MIA for a little while with everything going on. I finished my course which went extremely well so hopefully I can retain a lot of what was in it. I'm back in NY and I moved back into the school dorm today after an awesome week in Brooklyn doing absolutely nothing. 

During my last week in Canada we did a whole lot of stuff. First we went to watch Transformers: Age of Extinction in IMAX which was cool.

The movie was good with all the special effects and everything and I always love to see Mark Wahlberg in any movie but I don't think the whole nerd thing suits him without it being comical. I found it a bit difficult to take his character seriously when he was talking about being an inventor and stuff. It reminded me of his character in Ted. I didn't find it extremely awesome like other movies but I have to learn to judge Transformers movies on a different scale because of the Michael Bay factor. The story isn't going to be as great as I want it to be but there will be always be action. 

We finally went to have brunch at a restaurant called L'avenue which was fun just getting there.

Apparently there is always a line to get inside and be seated but we only waited about 15 minutes. Inside is a little cramped and the tables are really close together but the food is awesome.

I had the western omelette which was really big but really good. I only ate about half of it there but I tried to finish it. 

Back to the movies, we watched How to Train Your Dragon 2.

It has been so long since I watched the first one I almost don't remember it but I think I remembered all the important stuff. The second one was awesome! It made you laugh, a lot, made you cry, a little, and gave you a bit of everything. It helped a lot that I didn't watch any of the trailers so I had no idea what it was about or what was going to happen. I am so tempted to watch both of them over or maybe just the first for now. 

On to World Cup news. I still think this has been an awesome tournament. Most of the matches are entertaining and even though there haven't been a lot of goals in some of the matches they're still entertaining because you could tell the players are passionate. I didn't get to watch the USA vs Belgium match because I was travelling but I could hear the screams and shouts from a bar in the airport whenever something happened. Speaking of the airport, my little 2 hours flight was delayed for about 2 hours and there were some not too happy customers who decided to shout at the agents at the desk. All I could think was what could the agents do about it? There was a ground stop at JFK because of air traffic so our plane couldn't land even if we did leave on time. What were the agents supposed to do? Eventually we left and when we landed there was even more traffic to get to our gate. 

Anyways, back to football. The match that really annoyed me was the Brazil vs Colombia game. The referee let the game get out of hand which is totally to blame for Neymar's injury. The referee refused to give out cards and penalize hard fouls so the players got even more physical. Then with the Argentina vs Switzerland game my poor Di Maria got injured :( The rest of matches are going to be interesting especially with the Germany team having a bunch of sick players.

Right now I'm waiting for my sister to come back from the dance show back at home. This is the first time I'm missing the show since I was 8. There was one year I didn't dance in it but I've always gone :(. This means its been one year since I stopped dancing. To get back into it I'm supposed to go check out some dance studios that do drop in adult ballet or modern classes. 

Anyways, classes start tomorrow and I still have a lot to do to become settled so its time I started doing it :)

Toodles! :D