It has recently come to my attention that this blog is a mess, visually.  Just the sidebar.  It’s my fault, I’m lazy.  Things aren’t aligned quite right, and there’s an odd bullet point hanging around.  I mean, things could get dangerous over there in the sidebar.  Watch your back!

Also, my room is incredibly messy.  I haven’t kept a clean room like I did my freshmen year when I had a roommate.  Whether I was or not, I always felt like I was being judged on my cleanliness.  I think I would have felt this with any roommate, and not particularly the one I had.  But now that I am living alone?  I cannot be bothered.  Though I do get aggrivated with myself sometimes over the mess, and today is one of those days.

But I think my room and website usually reflect the opposite of my actual real world life.  I’ve hardly skipped class this semester, I’ve been completing all my assignments in a timely fashion, and I’ve even been doing the reading beforehand for classes.  I review my syllabi every night to make sure I’m on top of everything.  I almost do not recognize myself as a student anymore.  I also have been keeping up appearances at the gym, so that leaves little time for me to be in my room, let alone clean it.

So excuse the mess while I work on my GPA and improve my 5K time.  If you would oblige.

This weekend I visited my home in Franklin. Originally the trip served a purpose– to replace my windshield which will surely crack all the way through and fall in on me one of these days. But no one would do this for me on a weekend, so I came home anyhow to spend time with Audra.

On Saturday we went to see Catch and Release (which was pretty… harmless). We went to Target before the movie and bought Valentine’s Day conversation hearts. On the way home Audra and I didn’t really talk to each other, but we had a conversation by passing the hearts back in forth. Because the only things we really needed to say to each other were “u go girl” and “awe some.”

However, Audra and I went a little overboard on the actual eating of the conversation hearts. At dinner with my parents that night Audra (who was quite full of sugar) said “hey, I can’t have conversations anymore. I don’t feel so good.”

Today I won my very first game of Spider Solitaire using 4 suits instead of my usual 2. I feel accomplished.

I also won a battle I’ve been having with myself for close to two years. I’m sure you can already guess what it was from the format of the post title.

Last week I finished reading a book. This was also a big accomplishment. I have a bad habit of starting books, reading quite a lot of them, then starting another book before finishing the first one. The book I finished last week was The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. I highly recommend it if you like Chicago or crimes involving gas chambers. I love anything to do with Chicago and architecture, which would probably explain why I actually enjoyed The Lake House, but let’s keep that between you and me. I’m now reading Little Children by Tom Perrotta and am surprised at the fact that I might actually finish it. It’s a shame I didn’t make a New Year’s resolution to read more because I would be doing awfully well at it.

Also, there’s a new Friday Night Lights on tonight.  If you’re a Nielson household would you please do me a favor and just turn your TV on to NBC at 8pm Eastern?  I need this show to get renewed.