And so it goes

Yeah, I always checked my vox neighborhood but then I read Shannon's post and realized it had been a long long time since I've written in here.  And my last post was a clip from Extras.  I hope you all watched it, too.

Anyway.

It's finals week here at UCLA and I have a Sociology final on Tuesday and a portfolio of revised essays due on Wednesday, then I'm done!  I should probably be studying or writing but since I finished my Psych final I've just checked out for the quarter.  It's a little sad because my psych class was my absolute favorite class of all time and I didn't want it to end, but it happened to be the one that ended first, and my lowest grade will probably be in that class.

I was distracting myself from studying last night and looking at grad schools for psych.  Well, mainly I just compared UCLA and CSUN's psych programs just to see what difference there was between a CSU and UC.  I think I'd rather go into research but I'm really doubting myself academically.  I know this is my first quarter at UCLA and it'll take me time to get used to something that's not ridiculously easy, so I'm trying to be reasonable here, but I can't help but wonder if I'm capable of doing something really interesting.  First and foremost, I need to see if psychology is even something I would like to practice for a career.  I talked to my psych professor about working with him in various research opportunities to just do anything to familiarize myself with the field.  He told me to send him my resume, so I'm excited to see if that will work out!  I think I want to go into research rather than counseling... but I know that requires more math and science skills that I may or may not have.  I'm more worried about whether I'd actually be able to focus and buckle down and do all the work.  But that's normal isn't it?  I'm just at that stage in my life where I question myself and push myself and find myself and blah blah blah.

Why is my roommate's alarm going off?  It's 1am, silly.

So, other things going on.  I saw Andrew Bird at the Orpheum on Friday.  I was the most incredible experience I've ever had, I think.  Whenever I talk about it I inevitably end up babbling on like a teenybopper fangirl, so I'm going to hold off on that for now.  It was probably one of my favorite nights of my life, though.  Oh, aside from having that bum follow us into McDonald's screaming "come here girl!"  Scary.

I'm also learning to swing dance!  I'm only a beginner but it's something I really want to continue and get better at.  It's a great hobby, plus I've met some really awesome new people.  Last Monday I went out with a few of them and even though my feet were covered in blisters after about 4 or 5 hours of dancing, I had a great time.  My favorite dance partner, Kevin, and I have such a wonderful charleston.  It's not that wildly hopping and flailing thing... yet, but it is beautiful.  We also do this one really awesome move called "the pretzel" and on Monday night couples kept coming up and asking us how to do it.  I guess we just looked that good =)  I'm really bummed that UCLA isn't offering a more advanced swing class next quarter.  They are offering salsa, which I'm considering, but I wonder if it'll be as fun as swing.

Well it's time for me to go back to my essays.  I hope you have a good night, friends.  Hopefully I'll see you all over the holidays!

Here's a video of Andrew Bird performing Imitosis, just cause: