Best day ever.

This is why today rocks.

1. Chicken Finger Thursday

Every Thursday, it’s become a tradition for the caf to serve chicken tenders, mac n cheese, and waffle fries for lunch, or as it’s affectionately called, “Chicken Finger Thursday.”

Today, my friends, was Chicken Finger Thursday.

2.  No PR class

As Emily can attest, our PR class is a joke. Bah! I strongly dislike it a lot.

Today, my friends, we did not have PR class.

This is what Happy Alyssa looks like.

3. Thanksgiving Dinner

Each year before Thanksgiving, the cafeteria holds a Thanksgiving dinner for the students, where professors and faculty serve the students turkey and biscuits and other stuff I don’t particularly like but will eat because I know it would make my mom happy.

Also, warm apple cider.

4. Camelot…fo free.

One of the perks of my awesome internship (which I love and will miss dearly when I leave in a couple weeks) is that we’re located right beside a community theater, which loves to give us free tix to their shows. Sooo the girls of Del 206 and our friend Carrie are going to go see Camelot tonight, fo free! I have no idea if this is a good or bad musical, but I don’t currrr, cuz it’s free!!!!

5. HP 7.1

And finally, as the world knows (or they should), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 comes out tonight at midnight.

SO.FREAKING.EXCITED.

For the comments: What do you think of Chicken Finger Thursdays? What do you think of warm apple cider? Have you ever seen Camelot? Did you like it?  Are you seeing HP tonight? How much did I embarrass myself with that last picture?

And Then There Were None

So, it’s almost November. As I have zero posts so far for October (…whoops!), I figured it was ’bout that time. Here’s what’s been keeping me busy this semester.

And Then There Were None is a play based off Agatha Christie’s novel Ten Little Indians. It’s full of murder and mystery and tinned tongue and British accents which = good times.

The show has really been a blast; the director is one of my bff’s, a lot of good friends are in the show (and I made some new friends/got closer to old ones), and it’s been fun to play a lead!

Here are some of my favorite backstage looking-suspicious pics from the show. Enjoy!

Backstage with the lovely Eric, playing Justice Wargrave

Matt, who plays Blore, and Eric. Love this one.

Me and  Jamie, the director

Me as Vera Claythorne, looking suspicious!

Suspicious…with a drink in hand!

Even more suspicious!

Suspicious…again!

The set…with many suspicious people!!

I just like this one cuz it shows off my gorg dress.

This weekend is the last full weekend, then one more show next weekend. Fun times!

To see what else I’ve been up to, check out the Del 206 blog!

Great Scott! I finally saw Back to the Future.

I know I’m way behind on this one (read: 25 years), but hopefully the nostalgic factor will entice you to keep reading.

This post is going to be about Back to the Future, a franchise I had never seen before Monday, September 13 (and 14 and 15), 2010.

I don’t know how this happened; it wasn’t held back from me intentionally and I had nothing against it. I guess the opportunity just never presented itself.

(I had ridden the ride at Disneyworld, if that counts for anything.)

When bff Sean found out I had never seen any of the movies, he promptly picked his jaw up off the floor and declared we would have a marathon-watching.

Monday, Sept. 13: Back to the Future

 Oh my goodness, the campy-ness. I loved it. It seems like the writers just couldn’t help sticking in call-backs to earlier moments in the movie whenever they could, and then putting even more call-backs to the previous call-backs. Seriously, the whole movie is just a freaking circle that just keeps coming back on itself. I loved it.

Tuesday, Sept. 14: Back to the Future Part II

Sigh. This movie. Not quite there. I think this franchise is at it’s best when it goes for the time joke (over and over and over again), and Part II couldn’t really do that…since it was set in the future. #fail

One thing I did love was just how wrong the writers were about the future. If only we would have the technology of flying cars and self-adjusting jackets in 5 years. Sigh.

Wednesday, Sept. 15: Back to the Future Part III

First of all, I love how the movie starts with the scene we’ve seen about 5 different times from different angles: Marty’s attempt to leave 1955 during the storm. They obviously didn’t take into account the 20-something college student who never saw the movies watching all three back-to-back and remembering where we left off. #fail

All in all though, this movie was great. They went into the past again (#win) and were thus able to make time joke on top of time joke on top of time joke, even continuing jokes from the first movie. So great.

With this one, it seemed like the writers had a game going trying to make viewers think “Oh my god, I know how this is going to end” as many times as they could, as early in the movie as they could.  I think I had the thought about 6 times, although credit goes to the writers to making me think of a different conclusion each time.

In conclusion, I loved the series. So much campy, cheesy, punny, oh-my-god-they’re-going-for-that-joke-again awesomeness.

…And next up: Indiana Jones.

For the comments: How do you feel about Back to the Future? What series do you love that I need to see?

Moved in!

Well, I’m all moved into college again! I’m thinking this is going to be the best year yet. Why? Read:

1. Senior Year
Well, it’s my senior year of college. Yeah. That went fast. Only one more year of pretending to be responsible until I actually have to be.

I have very mixed feelings about this year. On the one hand, I’m pretty nervous about the actually-graduating thing. On the other hand, this year is going to be amazing. I’m living in a suite with 3 of my bffs, we’ve been friends since freshmen year.

*BLOG PLUG AHEAD* Emily of SplendidEm is one of my roommates, and we decided to start a joint blog about the adventures of our suite. Emily just made our first post, you should probably check it out.

http://del206.blogspot.com

2. New internship
In other news, I started my internship at a local magazine yesterday, and I had such a fun time. I had an internship over the summer where I learned a lot, but I didn’t have nearly as much fun as I did yesterday. I went to a couple photo shoots, proofread a little, wrote some copy, did a bunch of things. I really like the people I work with too, they’re really nice.

3. Hardly any classes
Since my internship counts for credits, I will only be taking 8 additional credits this semester. That’s two regular classes and two 1-credit classes. Yup. Easy peasy. And it seems like I won’t have too much homework either. Yay!

Happy new school year!

For the comments: If you’re in school, what are you looking forward to this year? Also, check out the new blog! http://del206.blogspot.com. Emily and I will love you forever.

Look what I did! Look what I did!

My mom picked up these shelves from a yard sale one day.

I knew I’d need them for my room this year, but they were this ugly shade of brown. Sooo, I went to Lowe’s and bought some blue spray paint and painted them!

I was going to just keep them like this, but I got an idea from this blog I read (she was actually painting a cabinet blue too) to put some paper down on the shelves. Finished product:

Voila!

Ps, it’s wrapping paper.

Bah ha ha ha.