So I've been catching up on my TV shows and my usual Youtube videos and this past week has been crazy but first I'll start on the new music I've been listening to.
I got Hozier's album a couple months ago but I totally forgot that I had it so I did the whole listen to nothing but the album for about 2 weeks and let me tell you I LOVE this album.
It has an indie feel to it but his voice just pierces through the music. I already liked Take Me To Church and Like Real People Do but now I'm in love with In a Week and Foreigner's God and so many other songs. I could just list all of them now and they'd still be good recommendations. The songs are sort of similar to each other but then so distinct that it allows for easy listening from one song to the other. There's hardly any realization that one song has finished and the other one started which I love in an album. It makes it more of an album and less of just a collection of songs that happened to be recorded at the same period of time. I guess it makes the album have more of a theme which is easy to relate to. Whenever I listen to an album like this I keep going back to Songs About Jane by Maroon 5. That was in my opinion one of the best albums in terms of the theme of the album. Ed Sheeran is really good at that as well.
Right now I'm getting into Ludaversal by Ludacris. So far it's good but I've only listened to it like once through so I don't really have a feel for it yet.
There's definitely a feel of the old Ludacris in there which I have been waiting for along with a lot of other people. There are a lot of features on this album and a skit which reminded me of the skit Kanye had on his album a couple years back. When I get to listen to it a little more I'll have more of an opinion on it.
Ok, onto tv. First I have to mention The Voice. I haven't been able to watch the show live but I always watch the videos of the performances on Youtube to keep up with everything. Someone who was sort of under the radar for me was Kimberly Nichole on Christina's team. I didn't see her audition or her battle round but I did watch her playoff performance and it was good. Her top 12 performance was spectacular!! I've been watching it almost every day this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRa6F4lhHM
She sang House of the Rising Sun which I am only now realizing might not be that popular of a song but whatever. That has got to be my favourite performance on The Voice ever! There are so few that can even come close. Another favourite of mine is Meghan Linsey on Blake's team. Her voice is so clear and precise that put with her country style is just so beautiful to listen to. The strength of her voice sort of reminds me of Carrie Underwood. I feel like she can sing anything and it would sound good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4WigosCgK4
She sang Girl Crush by Little Big Town which has had its only bit of publicity and controversy but I still like the song. I really don't know who's going to win this year. To me Christina and Blake have really strong teams but then it only takes one person to win so it could be anyone.
Arrow is being crazy right now. They've faked Roy's death and written him out and now they've "killed" Thea. The previews show them taking her to that fountain of youth pool or whatever you want to call it but I really have no idea where this is all going or why. There has to be some condition for them to be able to take Thea there and it can't be good.
The real reason I wanted to do this post was because of Scandal. (I know I'm skipping a lot of other tv shows but Scandal still has be rattled.) I've been live tweeting for the entire season hoping and praying that Scott Foley would retweet me simply notice one of my tweets and now Shonda has killed him off and he will never be able to cause his character is dead. I mean WHY??? And why did he have to be killed by the new hott guy??? I was just beginning to like him and think he could be good for Olivia/Alex but she's gone and made him evil. But boy is he a good liar. Losing Jake is such a shock to the story line and I completely did not expect it, I'm still a little in shock. Claire only just watched it so I got to relive it all over again with her reaction. *Sigh* I don't know what to do with myself now without Jake. Olivia is going to be broken once she finds out and especially when she finds out who did it.
Anyways, the library is about to close so it's time for me to go home and do even more work, yay me. Hopefully this week's shows take pity on me and don't give me a anxiety like Scandal did.
baii!!
Another Friday, another day in the library being completely distracted. I've eaten lunch, caught up on a tv show but I still don't feel settled enough to do work yet. So why not do a blog post. I know in my last post I talked about feeling like my time here at Pace was running out but then I was like hey! I still have a summer course to do so I've got a little more time being a student left to enjoy. I think what I was feeling was that I'm running out of Chefette rotis. Even though they're small, I only have 3 left :(.
Yea they're palm sized but they're still a bit of home I get to have each week. And now I have 3 left, symbolizing 3 more weeks before the semester ends but its actually 4 weeks left so somewhere along the lines I had one when I wasn't supposed to. Anyways, I have projects to finish/start and exams to study for. So far my midterm marks are looking good, some better than others so I have to make sure to just finish strong.
On a brighter note, now that it's spring that means I get to wear all my cute tops that I've been collecting. It's also made me aware that I need shoes. I need some ballet flats and sandals so I think a trip to Call it Spring is in order. I would order online but I have weird feet in that they're extremely narrow which makes shoes fit me differently so I'd prefer to try them on. I think I've gotten my allergies under control somewhat so venturing outside shouldn't be a problem. I say this with a swollen, itchy eye so I could be wrong but eye drops seem to be working.
Another thing I'm excited for is to go to the Today show summer concert again. I really want to take advantage of the free things and the weather and I had sooo much fun going to see Iggy. I would go to the GMA ones but those are in central park and that's a large area and a HUGE crowd which I don't like so much. I prefer the smaller Today Show space and they have a hell of a lot of security.
Yesterday was my 4th anniversary with Nick. It doesn't really feel like 4 years I think because we don't keep track until this time comes around every year. We just kind of go day to day looking for something new to do, sort of like mini adventures which is fun.
Oh I almost forgot to mention, I watched Daredevil!!
I'm a bit squeamish so there some parts that were a bit much for me but I got through it. Once again I love a show that has a double plot going on, an underlying one and then one for each episode. Without that I feel like there's no pull to watch the next episode. I looooooved this show. I spent so much of my time not watching it just thinking about what was going to happen next. I also like the casting and the acting. Everything seemed to fit together very nicely.
I also read The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks.
I don't really read Nicholas Sparks books but I really needed something to do so I read it and I am sooo happy I did. At first I didn't like the switching of the story lines. By the time I got invested on one story it would switch back to the other one and I felt like I was being ripped out of a scene almost. I was tempted to skip a chapter just to continue that story but I didn't. Most of the book I tried to figure out how these two stories were going to cross and then I thought that maybe they never would but they did in the best way possible. Even I didn't predict the ending. There was an article on E! online a couple days ago about how Nicholas Sparks is ruining chick flicks because he doesn't write about strong independent women and they want more movies and books about that. I get it that there is a movement in that direction but what is really wrong with a good romance book or film? No one complains about the action films that are dominated by men so why are they complaining about this? Sometimes people just want a good chick flick where we know everything is going to be alright in the end. It's comforting and is a safe place to just relax into a story. I am all for movies and books with a strong female lead, I didn't even like the 50 shades books because she seems a little weak willed so don't think I'm against those roles but don't go putting something down to pull something else up. That's not how it should work.
So before this turns into a rant let me go get some work done. I think I'm settled enough to put in a few good hours.
Carla :)
I have no idea where spring has gone but I'm not really complaining. For that brief week of spring my allergies were seriously messing with me. I woke up with itchy eyes and an itchy throat and it was just awful. Keep in mind I don't really take my allergy medicine as I should because I mostly feel like my body will regulate itself somehow and it usually does. But that week was full of allergy medicine.
It's finally hitting me that my graduation is next month!! I have about 5 weeks to finish up everything and then its graduation. I still have a summer course to keep me in the bubble of being a student but one that's over I will no longer be a student. Scary but also exciting. It was weird cause yesterday was the job and internship fair here at Pace and everyone I talked to kept reminding me that when I say I graduate in May, I actually mean next month. The event went well. I got my resume out there so hopefully it turns into something. I want to go back to career services to get some other opportunities since the last time I went I had no idea what I wanted to do in Finance. Now that I do, I really want to take advantage of them. On Wednesday night was a networking event for Graduate students which was also a good event. I talked to a couple people who are past alumni of Pace that had some good insight on entering the working world and how to approach networking. Mainly networking is to build and foster a relationship and not just to job hunt. That part comes later.
Right now I sorta feel exhausted and ready for a vacation. I don't know if it's still the low energy from midterms but I just don't feel like doing anything. Well no, I want to get my work done but I just don't have the energy. And I refuse to use chocolate and sweets to get my energy up.
Last Sunday I went to have Easter lunch with my family which I almost missed. I totally forgot that Easter was that weekend since I was so wrapped up in midterms. It was honestly a great day. I walked down to Atlantic Avenue from my street and I roamed around the little shops and restaurants down there. A lot of them serve brunch which I could try out the next time Nick or Claire comes to visit. It's only when you're with family that you realize how much you miss being around them. Not just family, but people you can just be completely comfortable around. That is one of the downsides of being so busy with school. Most times I'm too busy to miss being around them but then you get that lull in the workload and you feel it.
Once again I've gone through a week without taking pictures. I feel really bad about that but I haven't really done anything besides school. All of that will hopefully change once the semester is over. The good thing is that I've been really keeping up with my workouts and I feel really good about that. I just need to get in some cardio and I'll feel better about that.
Anyways, time for me to finish my assignment that is due on Monday and to get some research done for my project. Fun.....
KThnxBai!! :)
Midterms are over!! With all the stress of midterms finally over I feel like a need a week off which is probably why midterms are supposed to happen before spring break. But no. All of my midterms were 2 weeks after spring break so I have to go straight into getting all my projects completed :(. For tonight though I'm just going to relax, maybe clean a little if I feel up to it. What I mentally feel like doing is to do some pilates but physically I just feel exhausted so that's a no.
So this week I've been listening to Alex and Sierra's album called It's About Us. I did the whole listen to nothing but the album for as long as it takes to get tired of it and I must say it took me a couple tries to get into it. On my second try I actually got into it. My favorite song and the whole reason I got the album is Little Do You Know. This song is just so subtle and nice and really sounds like a songwriters song. I also really like Bumper Cars and Broken Frame. I've been really liking these types of songs lately with my sudden loving of songs by Cassidy Ford. The next song of hers that I'm obsessed with is called Only You.
Unsurprisingly I haven't done much other than study so I became very familiar with the study areas in my dorm building and the people that frequent it. Most of them are fine and just keep to themselves but then you get the others who think that because you're checking over your work from your financial calculator with your scientific calculator that you don't know how to use it. I just needed a new calculator.
The countdown to graduation is on and I have a million things to do like send out my announcements and pack up and move out, again. It's looking like I'm spending the summer in the dorm for my course and then after that I don't know. I'll figure it out when I get there.
I'm going to go fall asleep now and hopefully wake up the day after finals finish. A girl could dream :)
baii!
