Slumdog, Skinny Bitch

It took me an extra month, but I decided to make a New Year resolution. I'm going to start a new diet. Mainly because I felt disgusting today. Maybe it was because I decided to reward myself for walking through the snow and ice to school by buying myself two donuts and a coffee. Probably not the best way to start a sleep deprived morning. Also I tried to cook some chicken for lunch and it was the worst chicken I've ever cooked. I was crabby to the max and decided it was time for a change, that's about when I discovered the book Skinny Bitch and ordered it on Amazon... The problem is now I have to wait till Tuesday to read the book and start the diet. I did manage to read the first five pages online so now I guess I'll just start a pre diet diet to kind of warm me up, you know, get me ready to go full steam a head dieting. So from now on no more coffee, soda, cigarettes, or alcohol. I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be having ice cream or sweets like that either, so I'll just do my best to stay away. Simple right? I don't smoke, so that's easy. I can be D.D. this weekend, no problem. It's just the coffee. That is my only weekness. Although in Paris when I hadn't yet grown a taste for esspresso, I would go days with out it. So I know I have it in me! There is faith yet!

Keep sipping on your water with lemon wedges. You can do this.

Snow day, huzzah hurray!

Today is one of those wonderful days when you wake up and realize the next four hours of your schedule is magically freed, and you didn't have to drudge through the snow and ice to figure it out! Today would have been a lot less magical if I didn't check my email when I woke up this morning. It always sucks when something is canceled and you don't realize it until you've already put in all the effort to get where ever you're going. Now I have the apartment to myself, I'm clean and showered and watching Frasier while drinking my coffee. Perfect? I think so. Although I do have to go to my one class that's after 12 p.m. and work later.

I know exactly what to do to make this day even more perfect. I'll cook an awesome lunch for myself since I have all these herbs and parsley from making crab cakes this weekend.

This feels a little to perfect. Something is bound to go wrong here... ha ha no, that's impossible.

Stand by for further updates.

Inauguration filtration awesomenation

Today I am fairly certain I watched CNN for about half the time I was awake. The funny thing is I thought I wasn't going to be able to see the inauguration at all because I had classes during the day which hadn't been canceled, but I actually spent the entirety of my second class watching President Obama being sworn in and giving his inaugural speech. Of course when we were watching the speech in Business Journalism we had to note when he mentioned business and the state of the economy so watching the inauguration could somehow be related to class. After about 4 hours of watching the television- at about 5 min after the parade started I realized I could only watch a car moving at a snail's pace for so long and decided to try to be productive. I don't think I really felt the full magnitude of the awesome moment in history I just witnessed.

Some day I know I'll realize it, and I'll probably wish I had watched that car creep down the street the length of the parade route.

The first week of school is almost over and I'm already worn out. The first week is suppose to be the easiest one, not the one that sets your head spinning. I've already had one paper I've forgotten to turn in and three text book chapters to read. And the first week isn't even over yet! What the hell is going on? I will definitely be making a trip to the library this weekend. This isn't fair! It's my last semester as a college student and I'm barely staying a float. Why do I get the feeling it's going to be a stressful semester. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's going to be an inverse pyramid semester. I doubt it. Probably more like a thick long rectangle because the work load will never lighten up. This incredibly cold weather is putting a cramp in my usually positive demeanor. At least I am one class away from the weekend. Which isn't that big of a relief since I'll be reading and researching for most of it. Ok enough, only two things can get me out of my horrible stinky mood. Chocolate and 30Rock. Maybe a pizza too? No! I can't completely loose control of some semblance of a diet every time I am feeling overwhelmed or stressed or I'll end up looking like a beached whale when I'm on spring break. Deep breathes. That's the key.

Deep breathes and chocolate.

Getting ready to go back to school. It feels particularly odd this time. Probably because the last time I started a semester at IU was a year ago. I also don't know what the apartment I'll be living in looks like. I'm sure it'll be nice, I just feel oddly overwhelmed so my reaction of course is to do nothing at all. But I should do Laundry. That would be a good start, not too involved, but a lot of progress would be made on the packing front. Now that I'm back to watching television on a television, I think I'll go do that for a while until it's time to put the clothes in the dryer. What a riveting life I lead, can you stand it? I can't.