Globophobia

Reasons Balloons are Evil:
-Popping them sometimes hurts
-Popping them can give a war veteran panic attacks
-Helium is becoming more and more rare, which is actually becoming a legit issue
-Associated with clowns
-Create static electricity
-Bad for the environment
-They smell bad
-I'm sure a lot of people are probably allergic to them, right?
-I'm not the only one who thinks this.

Spring Break

Things To Do In Seattle:

-eat strawberry cake picked out by 5-year-old nephew

-drink chocolate milk and return the bottle for bottle deposit

-eat turkish food

-check out awesome waterfalls

-get soaked from rain

-visit the Seattle public library

-eat donuts

-play with sister's awesome dog named after an awesome character from LOST

-walk around a city (always always fun)

-check out sculptures at the art museum

-watch some movies (good and bad)

-window shopping

-people watching, eavesdropping

-visit Pike Place Market

-be close to lots of water (current residence = desert; water = awesome)

-spend time with family and friends

Cinescopic

Movies I watched in February:
-Cléo from 5-7
-Die Mörder sind unter uns
-Lord of the Rings (1978)
-12:08 to Bucharest
-Persuasion
-17 Again
-A Dog of Flanders
-Amadeus (kind of... missed a huge chunk in the middle)
-Driving Miss Daisy
-Children of Nature
-Alice
-Man with a Movie Camera
-Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (I skipped out on the end, partially because I've seen three times in like three months now...)
-M
-Pépé le Moko
-La jetée
-The Secret of Kells

Hoarding

Things I currently hoard:

-emails

-txtmsgs

-cupcakes

-cards, letters

-receipts, bills

-schoolwork

-blogs I write in

-blogs I read

-books

Things I will hoard in the future:

-okapi

-cats

-dogs

-tigers

-animals in general

-more cupcakes

-viking furniture

-cooler books, like the ones they put on display at IKEA but don't seem to sell, much to my chagrin

-foreign films

-j crew

Movies

Movies I watched in January:
-Tron (I am counting it since it was during Christmas break, and therefore after winter semester, because my life works in the academic calendar better than the real one)
-Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-The Streets of Laredo
-Metropolis (with the new extra footage)
-Lost Book Found
-Bright Star
-Paris Qui Dort
-Deep Blue Sea
-Inglorious Basterds
-Easy A
-Lourdes
-Memento
-A bunch of awesome animated shorts at Sundance
-Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
-The King's Speech
-Manhatta
-Rien que les heures
-Pride and Prejudice (the long version, but only a couple hours' worth-- at the most)

Les Courses

Grocery Stores I've Been To in the Past Week:
-First Oriental Market
-Bollywood Market
-Sunflower
-Smith's
-Target

Restaurants I Ate at Last Month:
-Bruges
-El Gallo Giro
-Nicolitalia
-L&T (yes, I mean the place on campus)
-La Jolla Groves

Tricks vs. Illusions

Things that disappeared in January:
-My contacts (eventually I got two packages of a year's supply, though)
-My motivation to write my thesis (maybe it wasn't ever there, actually)
-Free time
-The old relief society presidency I worked with
-An old roommate
-My will to bake/cook, for the most part
-Classes (for me!  and, except for the one for which I TA)
-Warm(er...) California weather (when I came back to Utah)
-Cold Utah weather (I've considered this week's highs in the 50s to be practically spring weather)
-My filter (actually, my language has only slipped when no one is around.  The rest of the time it's been quite intentional)
-The bishopric

Things that appeared in January:
-2011 Tintin calendar...
-Two years worth of contacts
-Cleaning checks
-Brand new RS presidency
-A mold-less macbook
-Plenty of things that are more fun than my thesis
-Sundance film festival (AND Tracy Morgan)
-2 seasons of 30 Rock on DVD in my apartment (curtesy of:)
-A new roommate
-Actually doing my MA paperwork stuff!
-New bishopric
-(for me, by way of Rob Macfarland:)A sweet new version of Metropolis on DVD