Tuesday Thought Update

Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts

#1- I watched My Life as Liz last night again at 10:30, and I'm not sure if I'm so in love with it anymore. I am very intrigued. But the mean girls are way meaner than girls would ever actualyl be. The popular girls actually go out of their way to do mean stuff to Liz (ie: send her 10 carnations telling her to meet her secret admirer at the dance). I just don't feel like people woudl eer do that. I knew the popular crowd in high school, and I knew the not popular crowd, and I just feel like the two groups weren't really concerned with each other.

#2- Intermediate II looks like it will be a ton of work but at the moment it feels like while it may be time consuming it wil be doable. Dr. Smith is kind of intimidating, but he gives me the feeling that I will be able to succeed. I am a tiny, tiny, tiny, bit worried about my group (which is basically my "universe" for the whole class, we do everything together). I know one of the guys, J, and he seems really reliable and I trust him. And I know one of the girls is really smart, but there are two people who I don't really know, and I'm not sure what kind of "vibes" I get from them. To be honest, I think one of them is a girl someone told me cheated in their Cost class last semester. And nerdy as it sounds, I take academic integrity very seriously, and if this girl ever tries to cheat on the group work, I think I'd freak out on her. But, so far, it looks doable. I hope!

#3- I'm enjoying a HEAVENLY coffee right now. I really needed it.

#4- I have an 8AM TUe/Thur this semester. I'm sure I'll get used to going to class that early, and it's not that I mind getting up. But my problem is that waking up early, and then not "doing" anything active tends to put me right back to drowsy.

#5- I keep not getting up when I want to get up. I really want to get up at 6AM every day this semester. I think I need to get one of those old fashion alarm clocks (aka not my cell phone) and use that so that i have to get out of bed if I want to reset it.

#6- Where it was so humid yesterday, when I went to bed last night the apartment felt muggy so I opened my window. Boy, did I regret that decision when I woke up this morning in my shorts and tshirt freezing my butt off.

#7- Sometimes I wonder if I have something wrong with my neck because I almost always feel like I have a sore muscle in it. (It's sore today). Usually I just assume its from the way I read for classes and such, but I haven't read for them much yet. And it's still bugging me.

#8- I need to go to get some black "dress" shoes. I read that professional women shouldn't wear flats, and the only pair of "dress" sheos I have are black flats. I think they'd be closer to "ok" if they were more fancy, but they are round toe'd and they have a little decorative button on them.

#9- My birthday is two weeks from today. I am honestly kind of dreading it. It means that I have to retake my vision test for my license, and I'm worried that I won't have the same vision as last time. Which would mean they could, in essense, either revolke or limit my license. In an area like Salisbury, that idea is kind of stressful.

#10- Sometimes when I'm walking around campus, I really hope that I'll run into someone I know. Why? Because I realy want a hug. :P I feel like that's weird.

MTV Guilty Pleasures

I've always thought of people who compulsively watch TV shows on MTV as kind of ... weird? I never saw the thrill to shows like "The Hills" or what was the other one? "Laguna Beach" and now "Jersey Shore"... I just didn't get it. I never really got into them I guess. I would watch shows like "MADE" but I didn't watch them religiously, but when I would happen upon an interesting episode, I'd tune in. However, lately, I've discovered two little "guilty pleasures"

#1 Teen Mom
- I know, it sounds so weird and like something that I wouldn't like, but I love it. It's four mom's Macy, Amber, Catelynn, and Farrah... and they all have such different circumstances. Let me give you a little information if you don't know. Macy and Ryan have a son, they are trying to work on their relationship, but Ryan is immature. Catelynn and her boyfriend (name forgotten! woops!) gave up their daughter for adoption and it seems it has pulled them even closer together. Amber and her boyfriend/fiance aren't doing great. They have a daughter, and they want to be able to be together and happy around their daughter, but they don't want to surround her with an unhappy family... which I think is pretty mature for 16 year olds. And Farrah has not been with "the baby's daddy" on the show (or on 16 and Pregnant) as far as I can tell, ever, except long enough for conception. Also all the girls are in school in some way, which I think is really impressive. I don't know, I really love the show. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes, but I still think it's really interesting.

While I really like all the couples the one I'm most interested in as Amber and Gary (ha! remembered his name). I feel like they are both pulling really hard to do what is right for their daughter. And I feel like while Gary is sometimes kind of immature, he's definitely 'trying' to do the right thing most of the time. (In 16 and Pregnant, he bought some really expensive gaming system, and Amber got upset because they had a daughter on the way, anddd he went right back and took it back and felt like a complete idiot, and THEN he bought her an engagement ring.)  Anyway, they're the couple I find most intriguing.

Side note: I'm not sure how I feel about season 2 of "16 and Pregnant"- the girls on this show look to be a little trashier. Plus, there are 10 girls, that seems like it's going to be a lot more to keep up with. I'd rather just keep watching Teen Mom.

New Episodes Tuesdays at 10PM

#2 My Life as Liz
To be honest, I've only seen like two episodes of this show, and I do think it's fairly new, but I really like it. The girl Liz isn't super popular from what I can tell. She hangs out witht he "gamer/emo" crowd (in high school) but she doesn't come off as being like an over dramatic "punk" girl, which is normally how those girls are portrayed. She seems so sweet, and just like someone who never really fit in witht he "popular crowd". Apparently she used to be friends with them sort of, and then they turned on her? Oh, so typically high school. She reminds me so much of someone, but I can't really figure out who. Anyway, I'm really interested in seeing how this show works out. :)

New episodes air on Mondays at 10:30 (Ahh, sweet it's over in time for the 11 news!)