Listening to Lou Reed as though his drug-addled conciousness will help me make life decisions

The best plan I can come up with presently is moving to Mexico City and teaching English and maybe getting into a little bit of the good kind of trouble.

In all seriousness? my friend asks me.

In some seriousness I reply.

We're gonna make it to the beach on time

How do people live in places besides California? I can't even comprehend.

If you close your eyes does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

Coming back home is never quite the same once your friends have moved away from their parents' houses down the street to their own grown-up houses. I still come back to town like I did in college, staying in my old bedroom. But everyone else is gone and they don't have a winter break anymore.

So let's make things physical

All I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me

I am so into this song right now, it's ridiculous. I need to stop listening to sexy music. IT'S JUST FRUSTRATING.

Some nights

Just spent all day watch Don't Trust the B-- in Apt 23 (which is hilarious; James van der Beek as himself is a work of art). Then fell asleep on my couch. That's what happens when you go to jazz clubs 'til 3 am then have to get up at 8:30 to coach a soccer game. Today is just one of those days where you eat a lot of food and listen to Kate Nash and evaluate how being alone/lonely makes you a stronger person.

It's a new art form: showing people how little we care

We're so happy even when we're smiling out of fear
Let's go down to the tennis court and talk it out like yeah

Um, where did September go? When did I discover that I absolutely love 3rd graders? How did I get here? And why are you in my apartment?

I die a little

It's August already, and I am back in Kansas City. I do not like it one bit.

Entonces quiero que me llames enamorado

Entonces quiero que me llames enamorado 

Tierno, suave, también puedes decirme cariño, ángel 

Mejor llamáme deseo, papito, chongo, caballo, hipogrifo y delirante 

Llamáme loco, fresco, tímido, discreto, atento y caballero 

Llamáme primero 

Porque no probás con anunciarte 

Llamáme a gritos con calentura 

Diciéndome sexy en egipcio 

Llamáme amigo, común, elegido, regalo 

Llamáme para inventar caprichos 

Llamáme con nombres falsos

Do I wanna know?

I've dreamt about you nearly every night this week
How many secrets can you keep?
'Cause there's this song I've found that makes me think of you somehow
And I play it on repeat til I fall asleep

Sleepless in Oakland

It's only 11 pm and I wanted to go to bed an hour ago, but my body just wouldn't let me. That's what I get for staying up late and drinking too much last night. I think I always say this, but long island iced tea: NEVER AGAIN.

Songs I've had stuck in my head during standardized testing

 

My students were like, Why are you dancing?, because THERE IS MUSIC IN MY HEAD THAT'S WHY. Also state tests are super boring. To take and to proctor. Boooooo!

Tomorrow is Monday so I should really go to bed

You give me fever, when you kiss me 

Fever when you hold me tight 

Fever in the morning 

Fever all through the night 

But what a lovely way to burn

If it kills me

There will be feast and dancing in Jerusalem next year

Ojála que se acaben sus penas

Sometimes I listen to rancheras and Patsy Cline and get kinda emo.

One week left

One week left of institute. This is my jam. I never thought I'd say this, but I can't wait to go back to Missouri.

Institutionalized

TFA's Institute is pure insanity. There is so much to do and yet still only 24 hours in the day, when we really need at least 30 to do everything we're supposed to be doing. As a result, I am listening to insane amounts of bad pop music. One Direction and Carly Rae Jepsen are the only things banal enough to keep me from going crazy.*  Also, I bought a Justin Bieber poster at Wal-Mart.

*Even alcohol is too exhausting at this point.

Any old time you keep me waiting

Saw the Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys show at the Oracle Arena last night. It was amazing! I didn't think the Black Keys could sell out an arena! The last concert I saw in an arena was The Who!

The Arctic Monkeys played for almost an hour, even though they were technically just the "opening act".  Alex Turner, my future husband, was cute and charming as ever. Although they didn't play "Fake Tales of San Francisco" which I think was a major MISSED OPPORTUNITY.

And the Black Keys were awesome! They played mostly their more upbeat songs, which kept up the temo and energy. My friend had told me she had seen the Black Keys at Cochella last year and they weren't very good which had ruined her taste for them. I don't know what they did then, but this show was amazing and has only served to further solidify my love. I also went with my friend Jeren, would had never been to a concert before. Maybe I've set his standards too high now.

Música cachonda

ca-chon-da: adjective
1. Ruled by sexual appetite; in heat (hembra).

No se necesita plata pa' moverse, necesita onda y música cachonda
No tengo mucha plata pero tengo cobre
Aquí se baila como bailan los pobres

Live fast die young, bad girls do it well
My chain hits my chest when I'm banging on the dashboard

You pulled out my heart but I don't mind bleeding
any old time you keep me waiting

These songs are probably not the most productive for trying to write a Spanish essay, but I'll be damned if they aren't sexy as fuck.

Countdown

I just keep telling myself, I can do it; this is my last semester.

Bogus spiritualism

This yoga place in Long Beach has this great promo for new students--$10 for 10 days of unlimited classes--so Laura and I have been going to yoga at 8:30 am (I know, an almost ungodly hour for a college student) almost every day this week. It's nice going to a yoga class where the instructors don't say stupid things like, "If you're going to check out, make sure you do it consciously." I guess that's why the university gym is only $10 per semester.

Also listen to the this song because while it would be the most condescending break-up call ever, it's a good song!