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!