Ten Things I Wish I Could Say to Ten Different People:
1. If you're trying to impress me, you're going about it all wrong.
2. I know it's your goal and within your reach, so why aren't you going for it?
3. Just letting it go would be much easier than this act you put on.
4. I wish I knew the right words to show you the truth.
5. You might think of me as a sister, but I don't think of you that way.
6. I'm pretty sure I can't trust you the same anymore.
7. I'm only doing this to keep the peace.
8. The times you do call almost make up for all the times you don't.
9. Stop measuring yourself in relationships and be happy being you.
10. I hope you can see how much better off you are now even though things didn't turn out as planned.

Nine Things About Me:
1. I'm way more introverted than I let on.
2. I fall too hard, too fast.
3. I stay up way too late at night.
4. There are things I've closed myself off to so much I can't cry about it when I want to.
5. Graduating doesn't scare me as much as not graduating does.
6. I truly want to live in the UK at some point in my life.
7. I honestly believe I can will myself to never have Depression.
8. Being recognized isn't nearly as important to be as making a positive impact.
9. I wish I was more organized.

Eight Ways To Win My Heart:
1. Love God
2. Make me laugh
3. Do small things to show you care
4. Impress me with your intelligence
5. Dream of foreign adventures with me
6. Be honest, even if it hurts
7. Show kindness to everyone else around you
8. Be patient

Seven Things That Cross My Mind All The Time:
1. I miss Pac Rim
2. I love Coldplay
3. Hmm, Career... Go abroad... Career... Go abroad....
4. I should get ahead on my homework. Oh, look, I'm behind.
5. Is this really what I want to do with my life?
6. I wish I had some kind of view from my cubicle.
7. I wonder what I'd be doing now if I had...... (this part varies)

Six Things I Do Before I Fall Asleep:
1. Check my email
2. Put forth a weak effort at tidying up
3. Brush my teeth
4. Search for the best pillow arrangement
5. Try to read for a while
6. Turn out the light

Five People (or groups of people) Who Mean A Lot:
1. Mom
2. Family
3. Lindsay
4. Pac Rimmers
5. Lambda

Four Things You Love Wearing:
1. Jeans
2. Tank tops
3. No shoes
4. Sunscreen

Three Songs You Listen To Often:
1. Yellow by Coldplay
2. 22 by Lily Allen
3. Why Do You Let Me Stay Here by She & Him

Two Things You Want To Do Before You Die:
1. Live in the UK
2. Change someone's life for good

One Confession:
1. One of my biggest fears is that I'll never let myself take the risks I need to in order to really enjoy life like I want to.

Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend


Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Well, I decided I wanted to give this blog thing a try again back at home. This will probably be even harder for me to keep up with from home with constant, free, high-speed Internet access because there aren't thrilling things to tell from day to day. But, then, I'm sure there's always something for me to throw out there. This will be just a place for me to put whatever random thoughts and confessions I have out there for... probably just me to read later.

Today, I start with my refusal to join Twitter. I was invited by a friend to join today, and I figured I'd read their information page to see if for some reason this time I could be swayed into joining this latest phenomenon. Among their arguments to join, I found these to be the least convincing:

• Eating soup? Research shows that moms want to know.

• With Twitter, you can stay hyper–connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing...Twitter puts you in control and becomes a modern antidote to information overload.

Sorry, Mom. If you want to know when I'm eating soup, I'll just text you. Then again, you haven't asked before, and I'm not sure who's moms these researchers were asking. I also appreciate that being hyper-connected is now the antidote to information overload.

I think this all just goes along with a recent Times article about the "25 Random Things About Me" fad chain-letter note on Facebook, in which they claim that this trend, "is threatening to consume what little remaining free time and privacy we have".

So... why am I writing a blog? Certainly not to keep my life private and separate from anyone else's, but as a way to rant, spill, or simply keep a record of whatever seemed important to me today to laugh at later. That is if I even get past post #1.

Other than that rant, I had a test today that I'm pretty sure I failed. Well... looking back, maybe I made a high C. But I studied for that thing like crazy, and as much as I wish I did better, I knew going into it that I was going to walk away feeling second rate. Two more tests this week. Both equally intense. So! On that note, I'll leave you with these wonderful lyrics by Coldplay. This is their song Lost!, but the song Lost+ featuring Jay-Z on the Prospekt's March EP is great too.