"I'm not impressed by the look of your dress, by your fancy haircut or the way that you strut. I'm Not Impressed"

-----Why Girls of the University of Minnesota? WHY when it is 30 degrees out, do you feel the need to wear booty shorts, booty skirts or anything else BOOTYFUL? I mean I know we're all supposed to be used to the Minnesota weather and this is supposed to be "nothing" compared to our winters...But when it is raining, the wind is blowing, and the frost is nipping at your nose (and probably your butt), I think that putting on a pair of jeans or maybe even some leggings or tights would be a useful idea!!! No one's checking out your "super cute minnie" on their way across the bridge. Well I am, but that's beside the point!!!-----


Happy Halloween!!! I can't wait for tonight....I'm being a "pumpkin witch" an adorable costume I'm recycling from my older sister- cute and environmentally friendly!

Man oh man I suppose its been a long time since I last posted....This past week was very busy. Fun, but busy.

Lizi and I went to the Guthrie (Lizi is such a prominent character in this blog!) on Tuesday night and then went back to her parents condo to sleep....they have this bed, I must find out what kind it is, because it is the single most comfortable bed I have ever had the pleasure of laying my head upon. Like a cloud. But better.
Needless to say, we slept in. Which was nice, but then we didn't get on the bus we were supposed to (I'll blame the sleep, and not our lack of direction, which was the real culprit). So we went to Caribou to do homework and wait for the next one. It was a very female-populated Caribou! One of the women was reading a book called "The Truth about Love." I felt a little embarrassed that I could see what she was reading. She wasn't trying to hide it or anything, but just knowing what she was reading made me feel so sorry for her. Of course it is unfair and presumptuous of me to assume things about her....but come on! She had apparently just come from yoga and brought in some Subway to eat with her coffee. She was probably 30 at the latest and wasn't married. And suddenly, I just had a huge desire to NEVER be like her.
She was pretty enough, and obviously cool enough to go to CorePower Yoga in downtown Minneapolis.... I just hate the idea of feeling like you need to read books about "how to find your soul mate" or "how you'll know when he's the ONE"....self-help books scare me. And "The Truth About Love" doesn't sound helpful or appealing! Like what was she gaining from that book? Is it the truth about why you don't need love? How to find love? Determining the right love? ???? BAH! I just felt kind of sorry for her...which again, is totally unjustified, she could have a boyfriend for all I know. But it just got me thinking about the future. If you ever see me reading a self-help book about love, smack me.

Liz and Michaella and I went to Grand with a girl from our High school last night, it was a lot of fun. She's still a Sophomore there and she's a bit quiet and shy, but so darling and sweet. We took her to Cafe Latte for cake and coffee and just had a really fun "girly" time with her! After, we went into a boutique called Karma. They had some hats in the window and Liz and I have been needing some hats, so we went in......MYLANTA so cuuute. And fun, and I loved it! All of us wanted to buy everything in there. But we went in needing hats. Well Liz and I both found our hats. They were both pretty pricey. Mine was about twice the price of hers....and it killed me a little to buy it. But it will last me FOREVER (or at least, that's what I keep telling myself) and if I divide the price by the number of times I'll wear it plus the years I plan to wear it- it over and beyond is worth every penny. I've wanted a hat like this for as long as I can remember, plus I can wear it with my formal coat, my leather jacket, and my parka. SUCCESS

Oh and I forgot to mention ---- it has POM POMs!!! *squeal*
This is the picture I sent to my mom muahaha. I've been telling everyone about this damn hat

I watched Donnie Darko last night. My mind has been blown. So scary, confusing, trippy, disturbing, funny, and sad. A real cult classic folks!

Happy Halloween ladies and Ghouls..... ha ha ha.... I crack myself UUP

Over and out.

Pills, Bras and Procrastination

I feel like these past 24 hours have been me=Computer Zombie. I've been in front of the computer, scrambling to get everything done. I went to bed last night (or I should say, this morning) at 5 30am after finishing my take home exam....the one I got last Monday? Yes, the very same! I ended up with a pretty bomb test if I do say so myself. They were all "short-answer" and essay questions that had to be typed responses. I finished with 6 pages of typed glory. Then I slept till 11 and woke up and started cranking out that rough draft that was due last Thursday....No worries, its not late, through a serious of convenient inconveniences, my due date is now tomorrow at 2:30. I'm still not done. But so far, its looking good.

On Friday I went to the mall with my darling friend Lizzi. We hopped on the light rail (our very first voyage using the LR system!) and in 55 light rail min, we arrived at MOA. She has introduced to me a site called heyitsfree.net and she hooked me up with a coupon for $10 bucks off a bra and a free pantie at Victoria Secret! Now if that weren't exciting enough, she had NEVER been to VS before! NEVER. So needless to say it was a very exciting trip which we both came away from as VICTORS of Bra Land. I wont go into detail, but her purchase can be called Girlie Barbie, and mine can be called MardiGras Barbie. Now you know ;) The trip was followed by a fun, and interesting evening spent at Middlebrook.Now, in my seemingly 24 hour period of drinking caffeine and snacking on rice cakes and popcorn (courtesy of my mama--delish) I got to thinking about my procrastination issue-while procrastinating. Can procrastinating get to a point where it is a serious problem and should be treated medically? I know many college students turn to caffeine pills or even Aderall to try to remedy their homework needs, and I've gotta say I've considered both. It's sort of scary how much I procrastinate and what lengths I got to in order to avoid my homework. I get it done, but still. I think I'm probably just trying to find an easy fix for my bad habit, but I still wonder if I've created a monster! My early New Years resolution: Break the Procrastination HABIT
In the midst of all my working and studying (not) and slaving away in front of the computer, I wanted to share two very great and very different songs that I've been listening to a lot lately.

The first song is a really pretty ballad and the lyrics are really beautiful, and the second song has the kind of lyrics that make you smile, while think fondly on a certain type of individual in your life. I know you all have one :)

**both are credited towards my dear older sister who has such a variety in her music selection that I always seem to LOVE**

-Until we meet again-

Hello Kitty Band-aids are the best kind of Band-aids

This day has been filled with more "frustrating" observations. Don't get me wrong, it was a really nice day, but let me list some of these observations:

1- MOST important and most irritating: When people do not hold the door for the person behind them....there are some people who honestly (i think) make strides to NOT hold the door. Maybe there is a contest that is unknown to me where you have to skim in between the door and the wall at the last possible moment, leaving the person behind you to madly scramble for the handle. That's exactly whats going on. Well guess what people?! it is not a fun game. It isn't that hard to extend your arm behind you as a courtesy to your fellow students.
2- When people on the bus/connector leave seats open in favor of standing. It takes up room in the standing people's space and is simply lame. The people behind them then cant get to the seat because your big ole backpack is in the way. If there is a seat open, sit in it. It will make every one's life easier.
3- Another observation on bus etiquette is that when exiting, there is no need to say "excuse me" and try to push past everyone else because you are all going the same way! You'll get out in an orderly fashion, just give it like 30 seconds folks.

Ok I'm done bitching. I just came back from seeing Bright Star with a my gal pal Michaella (some boys came too...) for her film studies class and LORDY it was a goodin. So tragic and beyond romantic! {I flippin love all things cheesy and romantic and beyond the realm of possibility...now you know.} I went into the movie not really knowing what it was about so imagine my surprise and embarrassment when i leaned over to Mk half way through and asked, "wait is the Keats in this like THE Keats, like the POET???" The movie is about a poet, named John Keats....and is filled with poetry....I just thought it was a coincidence. Nope. But the point is, this week has been filled with 2 amazing movies that I recommend to everyone. I cried watching Bright Star and I would have cried at Howl's Movie Castle had I not been in the presence of three boys in a well-lit room....now they know.

I can't wait for the production of Big Love tomorrow night! And then a really fun fun fun weekend up ahead :) I guess this week wasn't THAT bad

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death

I wish I wish for a real-life Howl

I went to bed last night at about 3- 3 30 ish and woke up at 6 30 all in the hopes of passing the anthropology exam with flying colors. Well those colors may be a little murky..... I feel like this has just been one enormously long day. This morning I felt like throwing up I was so nervous for the test...I was also sleep deprived and ate mac and cheese at 7am because I simply could not afford to go down to breakfast (and my milk went bad. awesome right?), so I just stayed cloistered away on the verge of hacking up hamburger mac and cheese. Delish I know.

The whole premise of my first college exam really wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I was freaking out over stupid things like, what if you have a question? do you just raise your hand like normal (yes), and can you write on the test packet? I am such a scribbly test-taker, and what if I ran out of time? I could write on the test, AND I finished within the time limit no problem. It was annoying and daunting though at the beginning because you have to write you answers in those little bubble lists like on standardized tests....scary business. But no, in retrospect it really wasn't as hard as I though it would be. Oh and another fun fact: throughout the entire hour and 15 minutes, there were roof-top workers pounding, slamming, rolling, shaking and YELLING on the roof above our lecture hall....the TAs and the profs were all madly scrambling around trying to figure out how to shut them up-none of them succeeded. It was the most distracting thing I've ever experienced in an exam. Bottom line is that now I know that you really need to start studying at least 3 days in advance because it may work in high school to just not study, or just cram the night before, but NO MORE in college my friends. It has been a learning experience that is for sure! I never again want to put myself through that kind of anxiety AGAIN. check up with me next mid-term....

Lately, Tuesday nights have been Miyazaki night with a couple friends of mine and oh.my LANTA. Tonight we watched Howl's Moving Castle and I think I'm in love. Spirited Away used to be my favorite but this one has given it a run for its money! It was so amazing and magical and Howl is a cross between a hot disneyesque prince charming and David Bowie in Labyrinth (another one of my favorites). And the main girl, Sophie is just a GEM folks. Man oh man. I have a no-repeating-movie rule where I really wont repeat a movie unless I absolutely loved it (obviously I'll repeat if it has been a long enough time but it has to be a GOOD minute). Well this one has moved into my "OK to repeat at any time category." Here is the trailer for when it premiered in the U.S---feast your eyes, and go out and rent this amazing work of art.


And now my friends, bed time for Catherine

C'est la vie

Well well well. Here we are, the beginning of a week upon us once again. I've got to say, the collegiate academic year goes a lot faster then high school, which I really appreciate. We are half way through the first semester already, which to me feels like half way through a whole school year. Because second semester is new classes and basically a new start completely, which I am very excited for. Not only because I'll be done with my stupid Anthropology class, but I'll also be starting my language requirement, American Sign Language, and taking Beginning Acting- I. Am. Stoked.

This past weekend was M.E.A and it felt like everyone had days off from Wednesday on! Except the U of course. Which I guess I understand because compared to everyone else, we start pretty late into September, but nevertheless, I would have loved a five day weekend. Oh well, we can't all get what we want Catherine. Anypoo. I took a tip from all the other kids and went home for the weekend and had loads of fun with the family. We all got manicures and pedicures on Friday (yes, even the boys, and no, its not gay. they now have beautifully soft hands and clean-cut cuticles. don't be jealous.), and then Friday night we all had a wonderful sibling pow-wow at the fourplex, where I also died my hair!! It turned out less than desirable and so Saturday night I re-died it, and now its a nice deep red auburn-ish type color. I like it LOADS. It's not terribly noticeable, which is probably a good thing, but its definitely different!

This next week is going to be the mother of all weeks. Let me give you a quick low-down:
Paper due on Monday
Week-long take home test given out Monday, to be turned in Friday
Anthropology mid-term Tuesday (that's what is about to give me an absolute heart-attack)
Presentation and Rough-Draft for a research paper Due Thursday, followed by a meeting about said rough-draft
and on Friday, after turning in my test, I have see the main stage production of Big Love with my theatre class...which I am super super excited about!! So the week will end on a good note that's for sure

Uuuugh I feel like this has been a super boring post....I kinda have nothing to say. I thought I did, but no. Oh and that one kid I referenced in the "virgo lady" post...all bets are off. He is otherwise occupied by another. Story of my LIFE. :( sad day. Oh well c'est la vie.

Virgo Lady

The new issue of Seventeen has my favorite actress EVER(not) Kristen Stewart on the cover and of course I read every detail of her interview because I like Twilight. Yeah, now you know. I'm not shy! Nor will I stop liking it because other people now look down on me....But anyway my point is that I always read the horoscope at the end and this time it pertained to me SO WELL:::

You've been clicking with this guy in class (yes! yes Seventeen I have!), but to you he's just a friend (no Seventeen, NO). When love planets Venus and Mars connect on the 18th (ironically, we have class on the 18th), he'll start hinting he wants to take things to a romantic level (oooh WHAT? OK!). Awkward! (NO, Seventeen, once again you've gotten it wrong) Just tap into your sweet Virgo nature and let him down easy (hmmm maybe, or how about I don't????): If you play it right, you two will stay friends.(Could this be why I've never had a boyfriend???? What I want and what the stars want are 2 very different things....)

Screw this horoscope.

birthday buttons

All around campus you see people with buttons on their backpacks and I've paralleled these with bumper stickers on cars. Some are funny and weird and others are crazy opinionated, and some I just don't know how to respond to. Like today, I saw one that said, "What are YOU doing to prevent unplanned pregnancies??"......What?..... Now I think it would be fun to decorate my backpack with fun and crazy buttons but at the same time, as we say in my theatre class, "what kind of consequences would come from such an action?" These aren't necessarily bad consequences, they can be good, but I don't know if I want to be stopped on the way to class by someone who "LOVES burritos TOO!" you know what I'm sayin?

My friend Patrick's birthday is coming up and let me tell you-it is HARD to find a good gift for a boy! Literally everything sold in stores are targeted someway towards women...Cute water bottles, cute scarves, cute cute cuteness is all around me and yet nothing boyish! There are only so many polos and henleys you can give a person.... He doesn't wear ties like, ever.. and I'm not about to buy him cologne or a watch....those last ones are the only "manly" gifts I can think of btw. Baaaaa. Maybe I'll settle for a mixed CD! Oh sort of like last years gift? DAMN.

Maybe I can send him some assorted buttons for his backpack!!! The brilliance of my mind astounds me.

gasp! i almost forgot!

Here is a fabulous cover of single ladies that I simply HAD to share:::: yay for adorable talented amazing Brits!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIr8-f2OWhs

boys bOYs BOYS

Going to a school that has approximately 50,000 students has its ups and downs. It can be overwhelming at times, but because of the seemingly endless supply of students, there is also a seemingly endless supply of cute boys to look at. Today alone I've picked at least FIVE who I would be willing to marry on the spot. You see them on the bus, in class (while your eyes are wandering), walking, in the dining hall, etc etc etc! One choice fellow I happened upon today at the bus stop with Lizi. We were waiting for the ever-popular 16 that would take us to Target and while waiting, we were people watching. Suddenly, he appeared. I've never actually been in such close proximity to someone who made my jaw literally DROP. He looked like he had stepped out of a J Crew catalog. but better. Lizi and I were both at a loss for words, we stared and smiled A LOT. He was not married and was definitely not gay.....definitely(?). Maybe he was a professor.....hell like THAT would matter!
Description? Gladly!
Nice shoes (you can really get a lot out of looking at someones footwear), great fitting jeans (a good wash too!), just the right amount of SCRUFF- (my fave), those great roundish tortoise shell glasses (you could call these spectacles), an unbuttoned twill coat with the collar popped, a blue button down- that was actually buttoned down a tad! but its ok, because he was wearing a vneck underneath.....mhmmm. and he was wearing a little satchel/briefcase thing that was brown leather (also my fave). Now obviously we had time to wait a while considering I could make such a clear visual picture of this man, so because we were all waiting so long, he kept doing the arm-stretch-let-me-check-my-watch-thing (Lizi called that arm motion, "beautiful")....so after a couple of those, he reached into that brown satchel and pulled out a BOOK-because of course he would carry one in case he had to WAIT! Love love love. I was sad when the 16 finally came and he did not get on :(
This encounter with my husband to-be made my day. and clearly my night. I'm contemplating going back next Tuesday around 5 to wait for the 16 and maybe I'll have to ask him for the time and he'll do the sleeve-stretch thing *sigh*

Now, I may seem a little boy crazy but its all people are talking about these days! I think its the weather shift, it makes people CRAZY...plus, it doesn't help that its all were talking about in my Anthropology class...there are 3 kinds of mating systems in the primate world: Monogamy, Polygyny, and Polyandry. Can you tell midterms are coming up???

Vitamin C(at)

Yesterday and today I have smelt like a VITAMIN. A walking GNC. At first, I thought it was a shirt I was wearing, but then, after much examination I realized-it was my skin. My body is exuding a vitamin smell.... Now I understand, no one naturally walks around smelling like roses but you know, maybe laundry or even the smell of shampoo is preferable to vitamin. I've concluded that it must be related to the medicine I'm taking. It's a pretty powerful antibiotic but COME ON! Is it normal to have this happen??? I don't think so, especially considering my sister and her girlfriend are on the same medication. Nope, its just me. Freak.

On a more pleasant note, the weather has finally gone back to normal autumnal weather. Chilly, overcast and crisp, but no snow-just how it should be! My brother is coming back to Minnesota from Kansas for his fall break on Wednesday and I was so nervous that it would be snowing for his visit! He was complaining the other day because it had dropped to 50 over there.....its been in the 30's for the past week (at least)...stupid Kansians. His visit has sparked my dad to go all out and take the whole fam on a special outing. At first it was just going to be for the ladies, but now we've convinced him and my brother to come along. The Noble clan will all be going to "Just Nails" for a group pedicure... ! ... I'm so excited. My dad is embarrassed and my brother is nervous he's too ticklish for all the foot-touching but all the girls have reassured that they will LOVE LOVE LOVE IT. I couldn't be more excited. Jim joked that we should get our picture taken and have it be our Christmas card....I'm all for it.

Ahoy!

Well, this is officially my first blog post! I'm very excited to have a place to write down and share all of my college observations and thoughts because I have loads of (what I think are) interesting tid-bits that I frequently do not get to share! Plus, this is yet another effective mode of procrastination...And who doesn't love some good procrastination??
I'm currently sitting in Coffman Union at the oh-so-big-10 University of Minnesota where I am a full-time student. I came to Coffman hoping to get some work done and alas! I created a blog- this type of activity is but a mere preview into the level of procrastination I struggle with on a daily basis. Coffman is an excellent place to people watch while pretending to do work, or sleep or eat or whatever. Its the student union! (and now I sound like I'm its spokesperson). They have a piano which is available for anyone to play and today, someone has been doing a fine job of playing tunes which I am familiar with or am partial too, they clearly can read my mind.

I'm hungry and tired and am supposed to meet someone for dinner at 6....the debate lies with should I wait completely till 6 to eat? or should I grab a snack now? I've opted for the later option and now must go scavenge....