#35 - LIST FRIDAY, Fifteenth Edition

Reasons I Am Freaking Out

• Religious Studies midterm
• Political Science midterm
• French test
• Stage management test
• messy room
• stupid health insurance opt-out
• stupid tuition wanting to be paid

Things That Are Making Me Feel Better

• Grey's Anatomy
• the fact that I seem to be getting less sick all the time
  
• Jim and Pam
• Thanksgiving is next weekend! Three days off!
• the prospect of going to a quiet library tomorrow morning
• the prospect of going to Chapters after that
• the prospect of getting blinds in my room
• the prospect of having clean clothes
• the prospect of all my English and French homework getting finished tonight
  
• Kenzie being soooo nice jacketsy

Ways In Which I Could Significantly Increase My Productivity

• stop watching The Office commentaries
• stop downloading the BBC version on Pride and Prejudice
• stop going on stupid addictive Facebook
• stop reading Middlesex
• stop texting people
• stop writing this list
  

#34 - Do You Want To Sit At My Table?

My fighting fame is fabled
And fortune finds me fit and able

In celebration of finishing a first draft (even though it almost killed me)... my essay writing playlist:

• Anchorage - Michelle Shocked
• The Book of Write-On - Joanna Newsom
• Set the Fire to the Third Bar - Snow Patrol f. Martha Wainwright
• The Dress Looks Nice On You - Sufjan Stevens
• Dogs - Damien Rice
  
• Ice Age - Pete Yorn
  
• Coney Island - Death Cab
  
• Blue Light - Bloc Party
  
• From California - The New Amsterdams
  
• The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service
  
• Umbrella - Dog's Eye View
  
• Nightswimming - REM
  
• Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
  
• Feel Flows - The Beach Boys
  
• Samson - Regina Spektor
  
• My Coco - Stellastarr*
  
• I Hear the Bells - Mike Doughty
  
• Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL - Sufjan again (he seems to show up at least twice on everything)
  
• We Drink on the Job - Earlimart
  

#33 - LIST FRIDAY, In a Pretty Good Mood For Once Edition

Ways To Procrastinate Writing An Essay About Procrastination
(note: It helps to have a special event the next day which requires much thought and preparation)

• try on everything you own in hopes of finding something to wear to the wedding tomorrow.
• upon deciding that you have absolutely nothing to wear in your overflowing drawers and closet go to two different malls to buy an entirely new outfit.
• watch TV while you alter new outfit. for bonus time-wasting it helps if you hand-sew.
• Finish watching What Not To Wear. It is vitally important that you see thorugh to the end the transformation of the frumpy television executive.
• talk on the phone with your sister.
• make a call to your grandmother telling her you can't make Thanksgiving at her house. You were dreading this call, but in the face of actual homework it doesn't seem so bad.
• call best friend and co-ordinate Sunday brunch.
• go on Google maps and look up: your house to the wedding location, wedding location to hotel, hotel to friend's house in Saskatoon, your house to the house of your friend down the street, friend's house to China
• catch up on facebook correspondence.
  
• construct a playlist of perfect essay writing music (this should take at least an hour)
• clean up iTunes songs, deleting doubles and making sure all titles are properly capitalized
• spend half an hour trying to decide how to do hair for wedding. decide to do it like you always do.
  
• make a list of all homework due in the next two weeks, and make a schedule of when everything should get done. exclude essay you are currently avoiding.
• realize how much stuff you have done tonight that is not said essay.
• make a list of all that stuff.
• post that list on the internet.
  

#32 - LIST FRIDAY, An Edition

Songs To Listen To When You Are In A Bad Mood And Plan To Stay That Way

• Dead Ends - Chad VanGaalen
• Tennessee Train Tracks - Rocky Votolato
• Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod? - The Mountain Goats
• Lavinia - The Veils
• How to be Dead - Snow Patrol
• Wonderwall - Ryan Adams
• Colorblind - Counting Crows
• Recovery Room - The Jealous Sounds
• Blue Light - Bloc Party
• Talk Show Host - Radiohead
  

Help me!

I am grumpy and headachey and uninspired. List suggestions??

#31 - From "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"

"That is what really made we want to fight for my pubic hair!" - Maria Bello

"You better hope your children are doing perverted sex act with food!" - John Waters