Another List

● I only have one day of class left, and nine days until I'm completely finished with this semester.

● In less than two weeks, I will be headed to Austin.

● As it's finally December, I can now be unabashedly enthusiastic for Christmas and, unlike the last three months, no one can be annoyed with me for it.

● Once I finish all of my essays, I'm going to use the paper to make a million snowflakes.

● I am probably getting sick, and have eaten roughly twenty of Ricola's cherry honey cough drops since yesterday.

● StarKid's new musical Twisted was finally released, and I cannot wait to watch it.

● This is a really good song.

● So is this one.

● Currently on season six of my perpetual Frasier marathon. Daphne and Niles are still not together.

● Only 23 days until Christmas!

-Maggie

April 11: Tiny List of Good Things

1. Finally finishing a paper
2. Watching New Girl
3. Getting my purse
4. Thunder and lightning
5. Listening to Fun.
6. Eating chocolate delight
7. Going to bed

-Maggie

April 7: Seven on the Seventh

Seven Books I Hope to Read Soon:

1. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
2. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
3. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
4. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
5. Not That Kind of Girl by Carlene Bauer
6. Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson
7. How to Be Single by Liz Tuccillo

Seven Books I Think Everyone Should Read:

1. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
2. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
3. One Day by David Nicholls
4. Plan B by Jonathan Tropper
5. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
6. Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
7. Paper Towns by John Green

Seven Books I Want to Buy Eventually:

1. P.S. Your Cat Is Dead by James Kirkwood
2. Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann
3. You Know Who You Are by Ben Dolnick
4. Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
5. 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker
6. Publish This Book by Stephen Markley
7. Disaster Preparedness by Heather Havrilesky

Seven Movies I Have Seen A Million Times

1. Elizabethtown
2. The Emperor's New Groove
3. (500) Days of Summer
4. Across the Universe
5. Love Actually
6. When Harry Met Sally
7. The Devil Wears Prada

Seven Shows That Never Get Old

1. How I Met Your Mother
2. Glee
3. Will & Grace
4. Friends
5. Sex and the City
6. Modern Family
7. Doctor Who

Seven Songs I'm Digging Right Now

1. "Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men
2. "Hummingbird Heart" by Charlene Kaye
3. "Up From Below" by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
4. "Some Nights" by Fun.
5. "All the Rowboats" by Regina Spektor
6. "Five Years Time" by Noah and the Whale
7. "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Goyte featuring Kimbra

Seven Musicals I Need to See Live

1. Wicked
2. Rent
3. Spring Awakening
4. Chicago
5. Mamma Mia
6. Anything Goes
7. Les Misérables

-Maggie

GOD, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY.

Anyone who follows me on Twitter or Tumblr, is my friend on Facebook, or has ever been around me when I've talked about or watched Glee who continues to be my friend: God bless you. Especially you people who do not like Glee and yet still love me despite my being in love with a television show. You know who you are.*

So, yes, Glee is back and the first episode was wonderful. I am not ashamed to say that any time Kurt and Blaine came on the screen I lost all dignity. There was squealing, general flailing, and at one point I was literally running laps around the coffee table. My grandparents were in the room for half of the episode and I am sure they are now regretting letting the crazy grandchild live with them. I did warn them several times that it was probably for the best that I watch Glee alone, but they did not heed my warnings.

I watched the first two episodes of How I Met Your Mother during my break today, and as jazzed as I get about Glee, How I Met Your Mother still holds the top spot on my list of favorite television shows. It's just good. Why don't you watch it? You really should.

Fall is the best season for many reasons, and one of those is definitely the television. If you have the same love of sitcoms and crime dramas as I do, then you will agree.

This past weekend, my grandparents and I went to visit my family in Albany. It was a nice visit in which I played volleyball with my siblings, sat on the front porch during a storm, visited KaCee and Jacob, and cuddled with Schnookums. Schnookums is the best dog in the world, okay?

This weekend is Albany's Homecoming, but I will not be able to go because of work. I am sad I won't be able to see everyone, but next weekend will make up for it. I am driving to Austin to stay with Melany for the weekend, and we are going to Quiet Company's release party/concert and the Austin Teen Book Festival where I will hopefully get to meet Maureen Johnson and Jackson Pearce! I was originally just going for the festival, but then I found out about the release party and Melany and I bought our tickets. I'm very excited for this because 1) I love Austin, 2) A FESTIVAL OF BOOKS, 3) Quiet Company is awesome, and 4) Melany is my best friend and it has been too long since we've seen each other, especially considering how codependent** we are. It will be a seven-hour drive, but it will be WORTH IT.

Anyway, school is okay. Spanish is still too early and math is still math, but what can you do? When I get down about having to get up at six every morning or with the fact that math homework takes me so long to do, I focus on two things: 1) Natalie and Lizzie have it much worse, and 2) At the end of this semester I will get to go to New York.

I still can't believe I'm going to New York, and do not think that I will really believe it until I'm actually there. It's so exciting though. I'll be buying my plane ticket soon, and then just working on saving up as much spending money as I can until it's time to go. January 7th, come swiftly.

-Maggie

* You are Shelby. And KaCee, though KaCee still hates me sometimes.

** We have honestly talked to or texted each other every day since we left Albany. It's actually incredibly sad.