Tick, Tock.

Alright. I know. This is not the most appropriate time to write. Cause obviously I shouldn't have any time to write. But the thing is, when I'm stressed, sleep-deprived and on the brink of total collapse, there isn't much to live on. Really. And since I've claimed over a thousand times in this journal..within  and beyond the posts, that I love to write, I thought why not? If I'm going to live up to my passions, I may as well just do it when I want to step back and relax.

So you can penalize for not giving you enough attention, dear blog. Or you could also thank me for actually being productive before the midterms come about...so that the time crunch I'm facing right now doesn't feel all that bad since I know - at least I'm pretty confident I think I know - that I'm good to go for the exam. Emphasis on the think. You see, just when confidence scale tips towards over-confidence, that's when the problem hits. So, my goal, for the next half hour is to keep that in balance and hopefully, instead of gearing backwards to my old habits of massively procrastinating and wasting away countless seconds, minutes and hours I'd actually like to convince and perhaps even give you enough faith to have in me.

I was reading my horoscope and although it is by no means a reflection of my character - because obviously I'd like to have more depth than that - it made me feel quite good when they labelled Capricorn women as the women on top. Or when you witness a Capricorn working, they're always aiming for the top and are pretty likely to get there. In my naive highschool days where I naively used to believe that shunning nerdhood was a good thing instead of bad, I would have totally jumped to twitter and leave a horribly scathing message to XSTROLOGY for writing incorrect things about people. But good sense comes to those who wait. Thankfully enough, back then, the only way I could check my horoscope was a get my hands on a copy of metro...and mind you, their horoscopes are kinda crap. So all in all, I've finally managed to embrace nerdhood - or was I always there in the first place? - and all I am feeling right now, is a sense of purpose...a feeling which has been a completely non-existent in the past two years. And this whole thing, took me fifteen minutes. Progress in gearing towards optimizing time & getting somewhere in life? I sure as hell think so. 

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twitter, the sidekick

Manal has shifted over to the dark sideeeee. Muhahahahaha. Okay no. I used to openly and un-abashedly scrutinized those who joined Twitter - cause after all, its literally a media hoax to get celebrities to spill the beans on their lives. Which I seem to immensely enjoy. Until, of course, I joined Twitter and realized the endless possibilities and stalking I could do with it. It's a jazzed up version of Facebook, where instead of stalking your frenemies you get to stalk - *drumrolls* - CELEBRITIES! (and models, famous-for-nothing people, actors, presidents and promiscuous senators). Oh, the endless delirium.

I know, I know, I'm a decade too late for this. But regardless, how could I possibly be attracted to a social network that restricts its users to 140 words? That's preposterous for a person like me who relishes writing paragraph after paragraph of what happens in her life at every waking second. AND YOU CAN'T EVEN CUSTOMIZE YOUR PAGE? How retarded is that?

But I digress. It's the perfect interface for time-ridden people who hardly care about customization features - as opposing to nerds like me - and would rather tweet away brief snippets of their movements to us, avid fans, who are hungrily waiting for it.

I have to thank James Morgan for his reference to Twitter else I would have never found the rest of the cast of TVD (i.e Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, etc). Here's a picture of the both of em at the Comic Con event. I gotta say Nina manages to look exactly the same in every picture.

And here's one of their conversations I found highly amusing:

Paul Wesley: Why am I always stuck sitting next to Klaus on the plane?

James Morgan: Could be something to do with the fact you asked the guy next to me to switch with you ;)

Paul Wesley: Klaus stop pretending like you weren't the one who asked him.

James Morgan: let's not split hairs Stefan, just be happy in the knowledge you get to sit next to me.

Paul Wesley: I will cherish every moment.

Aw, these two. I wouldn't mind if these two become confidantes later in the show. Even if they do kill people at first. Oh well. Show, even if I totally hate the idea of vampires, you've totally got me addicted. Can't wait till season 3 is here. P.S. And I totally didn't know that Nina Dobrev and Kate Walsh were that close. Amusing, nonetheless. Both are Torontonians, perhaps? Nothing like bonding over Toronto, I presume.

Yep. So that's how I managed to entertain myself on an 8 hour long picnic where I basically just sat on the railing and celebrity stalked. Gotta love you Twitter.

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