welcome, spring.

stop and stay awhile.

and maybe get a little springier.

just a thought.

image here.

do you ever have those days that you wished you had stayed up all night studying?

but knew you couldn't stay awake?

hate that.

thanks to last weeks speaker in my romania prep class, i might have found the title for my blog of recording memories. and it's so good. and by might, i mean i did. and by did, i mean i may or may not have already created it. but have yet to embellish. all i did was steal the domain name. haaha. it's a start. stay posted. so excited.

i think i've decided what i want my mini-research topic for my time in romania to be. so excited.

i love romania. but the write-ups up the wazoo for everything i do there and that i am doing now might possibly kill me. aka, they pretty much are.

there's something wrong when i realize that i prefer anatomy lab to lecture. oopsay. the tides have turned. this may or may not be partially due to the fact that i have to take a midterm today that i'm very not ready for. but i also have less motivation to study for lecture than lab. it's ridiculous.

patruzeci şi opt de zile.

coping time. but seriously. you know who you are. kind of. this year will be a big adventure in lots of ways.

i saw the king's speech last friday. PHENOMENAL. i'm literally speechless. it's SO SO good. i'm obsessed. i want to watch it again and again and again. and i don't even feel guilty. so if you want to guilt trip me about the fact that it's rated r, don't try. it won't work. i don't trust anything about the current rating system. and use my own personal judgment. and especially after seeing it, personally i don't think it should be rated r based on how the way movies should be rated based on their content. it was absolutely incredible. though i do admit i'm biased because it completely and totally revolves around my personal area of interest. but sarah said the same thing about it. absolutely phenomenal. we both would have turned around and gone to it again if there were another showing after ours. and yes, i do plan on buying it. and watching it over and over again. and the soundtrack. buying and listening over and over again. i maybe just pre-ordered the dvd. maybe did.

i spent all day saturday looking like this:

(photo to prove to the world that i do actually study and do homework. i just don't always talk about it. that's boring.)

aka, sarah ann and i recreated a library setting in our apartment. because we didn't want to actually go to the library. we're lazy. sue us. it was such a solid study way-too-many-hours-at-the-kitchen-table session. and my ipod even played along by doing a good job on shuffle. no shuffle fail this day. precluded by st-em breakfast date and jen-em french date. and followed by the byu basketball game (wahoo!) that i may or may not have accidentally slept through. and watching life is beautiful. [note to self: don't go into a movie knowing nothing about it. especially when it turns out to be a movie that drastically changes tone halfway through but seems super cute at the beginning. not a good idea. the crying gave me a headache. darn movie. on another note, i want to learn italian someday. why not add another language to the list?]

despite popular belief based on any pictures or personal interaction you have with me, i do my hair sometimes. ok, so maybe it's only like once a month. or less. this month's was friday night. and therefore this picture is my air-dried-after-the-temple look. it works. ha. kind of. oh well. on the bright side, it was less than 24 hours since it had been washed! that's a big step. and i may or may not have washed it since friday. may or may not, mind you. it could go either way. just sayin.

the parkinsons are coming this weekend. i may or may not be super excited. ok, so i am. this means family gathering. i love family gatherings. oh, and deb and i are kind of soul mates. slash the same person. hence even more love.

cool. welp. about that anatomy midterm. we all know what i'll be doing for the rest of the day. i want my free home-cooked meal and be-in-a-real-home-for-awhile from bro.crawford's house for fhe tonight. therefore, i have to walk into the testing center by 2:30. ish. crap. ready, set, cram.