Dear Pumpkin Spice Latte,

I'm glad it's finally acceptable to be around you again. I know that technically you're always around if we really want, but me and most of the rest of the world really only like you at this time of year. It's nothing personal- well actually, it technically is, but that's not your fault. You just don't fit in with Spring, Summer, and Winter (they can be pretty clique-y). It's really unacceptable to be seen with you when I'm hanging out with S, S, & W.

But when Fall comes back from vacation, then it just feels right for us to be together again. When Fall comes traipsing back into my lives, he brings perfect weather, pretty colors, and good feelings. S, S, & W are just jealous, really, because they can never be as awesome as Fall. So by default, they don't like you either, which means I have to pretend not to as well. And honestly, at that point, you're a little too much for me to handle. You need some help letting go. It's inevitable, and there's really nothing you could do about it. It's just your nature, you can't fight who you are, insert another consoling cliche here.

But, PSL, when Fall comes, you're a star. You go so well together, and the two of you together go so well with me. You warm me up with that pumpkin taste and scent that brings me tingly fall feelings like no other flavor can. You make me want to carve a scary face into one of your relatives, ride on hay, and get the crap scared out of me (this is a good thing, I promise). You make me wish that Michael Buble songs would play up in the sky as I walk around outside. You make me wish that I could skip around and sing and hug people without looking super special or possibly being arrested. And the rest of your family are stars too- pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cream cheese muffin. And you 3rd cousin twice removed, apple cider, although he usually shows up late. And part of what makes me love you so much is that it's really inappropriate to be seen with you when we're hanging out with S, S, & W; this makes me look forward with great anticipation to the day when we can be together again.

I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you taking me back again every year, even though be both know that I'm just going to leave you again when Winter runs fall out of town and I can no longer be seen near you. I really appreciate our time together, especially when you allow me to have you with nonfat milk and an extra shot so I don't get fat but I stay energized and pumpkin-y. You really do know what I like, and you spoil me so. I hope you enjoy our seasonal affair as much as I do, and that it gives you everything you need as well.

Love,
Tess

Breaking News!

The library on campus is being converted into the latest social gathering/dining area!!!

Or so that's what Mr. Intimate Phone Conversation with Long Distance Girlfriend Guy, Eating Aromatic Dinner at the Computers while Conversing at Full Volume About our Father's Money Gals, and Mr. Brag About Last Weekend's Party would like us all to think. And they have me convinced.

Now, I realize the semester just started, but for many of us crunch time has already begun. I also realize that floors one and two are considered "group study" floors, but what no one seems to consider anymore is that it is STILL a library.

If you want to study on the first floor, forget about it! ESPECIALLY if you need to use a computer and didn't want to lug yours 8 blocks from your apartment. All of the computers are used by people checking their facebook for an hour while others are waiting to print something to look through the catalogs. And if you want to study at one of the tables, you might as well try studying on the set of the View.

The second floor is even worse. Especially now that they've added the new group tables that look like restaurant booths. They are pretty cool and comfortable, but they make people forget, once again, that they're in a library. Moving past those, I finally found some room to study with my roommate near the new computer area. Instantly, I see a girl Skyping at full volume. Roll eyes. Next on the agenda: we get to enjoy a full conversation about all the girls some guy either couldn't keep off of him or that he scored with all weekend. Lovely. Onto another guy, who has a full volume intimate conversation with his long distance girlfriends. The next person I hear say "Ooooh girl" in a soft voice is getting punched in the nose. Was that Qdoba I just smelled? With a hot steaming side of full volume conversation? Conveniently located at your nearest BRAND NEW computer? Yup. "I hate talking to my dad but I really want his money" was the last straw. Packed it up for the third floor...

"Whisper Only Floor"....within two minutes of being there, one girl is talking on her phone and we can hear a whole group's conversation from across the other side of the floor. Eventually it settles down and we get some actual work done. And if you're the lucky winner of today's study lottery, you can get a group study room there, too and avoid the gladiator battles over the second floor group rooms.

The only place worth going in the library is the fourth floor. Almost no one is ever there, even during finals. It's beautiful silence and as of yet has managed to avoid being taken over by those who thing library attendance is fashionable.

Are you trying to convince yourself that you're studying? Or do you wanna brag to your friends about how many hours you spent there, conveniently leaving out the fact that you did zero studying?

Whatever happened to "Shhh, this is a library?"

On Vampire Slayage

As you all don't know (but will in about 2.5 seconds), I have recently decided to start rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the beginning, since it's been so long since I've seen it. And I've come to one main conclusion.



Buffy kicks Twilight ass.





Forgetting the fact that Twilight sucks already, when you compare it to Buffy....well it grinds Twilight's pathetic little existence into dust- sorta like when a vampire gets vanquished.





First of all, the girl in Twilight is a whiny little b****. I can only say this about the first two books, because those are the only ones I could stomach ( I know, I know, but I was curious what the big deal was). Buffy, on the other hand, goes out and kicks demon derierre on a daily basis. Who in their right mind would look up to a pathetic whiner over over a karate-chopping hottie?



Also, WAY more ironic that a slayer falls in love with a vampire than if a random moody, fragile bratty, selfish, ungrateful chick who does nothing but feel sorry for herself. Sure, Buffy feels sorry for herself sometimes, but come on. If you had to spend your adolescent years patroling graveyards and spiking the ugly-faced soulless, you might have all little self pity going on too.



On their breakups: I've only refreshed up to the first couple Episodes of Buffy Season 3, but Buffy's break up with the Angel (gorgeous!) was way more respectable then Twilight girl's breakup with Edward (not very attractive). My reasons for this start with the basis of each vampire's so-called "goodness."



A vampire CANNOT choose to be good. It's pretty much the definition of a vamp. They don't have SOULS. Duh. Being soulless pretty much decommissions your moral compass. So when Edward and his little "family" decides to be good, ugh. I don't even know what else to say. Just plain stupid.



Angel, on the other hand, does not DECIDE to be good. He is cursed by gypsies to get his soul back unless he has one moment of pure happiness (and he's unaware of the "moment of pure happiness stipulation). He has his conscience back, which was a good conscience when he was human. So he has an actual reason to be good.



Reasons for vampires' attaction to their previously mentioned counterparts: Edward to twilight chick- his blood called to her. OoooOOOOoo. How lame. Angel to Buffy- it was obviously ironic because of the slayer thing, but she respected the fact that he had a new tortured soul and he was obviously turned on by her slaying ability. You know, normal stuff. None of this "your blood is calling to me" junk.



Now that they're together, of course they have to break up. Twilight reason: I don't want to eat you. I'll give 'em this one, that's a good reason. What is wrong with this break up then? She loses control of herself and passes out into the woods for days until someone finds her, and spends the next however many months being a mindless, depressed, blowing off her mom (which she did from the beginning anyway) and now her dad (who I'm not entirely sure she even likes anyway, great role model) and anyone at school who tries to be her friend (yet claims to be lonely- again showing her ungrateful whinyness). Yada, yada, yada, my life sucks, I miss edward and his pale, transparentness, and non-personality that totally meshes with my non-personality. Edward comes back, yay, I now have a reason to live again! Ugh, spare me.



Buffy break up reason: Angel loses his tortured soul again because he shared a moment of pure happiness with the Buff-meister. Bummer. He goes off to be evil and try to kill her, all the while taunting her, her friends, and even her mother. He won't let her forget. She knows he's not the same, really, and part of her still loves him. But once she's over the "I lost my virginity to him which made him evil again" thing (that sucks), she is determined to send a spike though his sorry ass (ironically, it was Spike the Vampire aka Angel hater who helped her do this). And when he gets his soul back, she doesn't waver on this. She kisses him, tells him she still loves him, tells him to close his eyes, and- Vanquished! Then she disappears for a few months to deal with this on her own and keep the danger away from her friends and mommy because her current culty life style attracts the kind of people you don't bring home for dinner. Comes back, apologizes, back to slayage.



Sidenote: Seth Green makes a better werewolf than Taylor Lautner. Why, you ask? Yes, Taylor has bigger muscles. But come on, it's Seth Green.



Demographics for audience: Everyone could like Buffy. Not saying everyone did, but everyone could. It wasn't just the Vamps; it was demons, fish guys, giant bugs, zombies, anything else that could be evil. It had hot girls (to entertain guy fans). It had hot guys (to entertain the girl fans). And it had violence (to entertain everyone fans). I'd love to go around fighting all day and saving the world on account of "I'm the Chosen One" and my skills with a wooden spike. Who wouldn't want to be Buffy? I'd rather be awesome than be with Edward (who is NOT the "perfect" guy by the way. For those of you who think he is, and you ruin your relationships over this nonsense- well, then you deserved it. Yes, offense). Twilight/Edward obsession is purely for pre-adolescent fantasy-obsessed girls who can't appreciate what they have...(again- Yes, offense)



Lastly, and probably most important, the awesome 90s-ness in Buffy. She's always using violence (none of this modern, ninny, touchy-feely crap that tv is obsessed with this decade), 90s slang (what gives?), 90s fashion- 'nuff said (<--see what I did just there?), and the corny jokeage (there I go again)(Giles (British dude) talking to himself about the current zombie attack caused by Buffy's mom's foreign artifact: Ooh, look at this exotic mask I just got. It raises the dead, isn't it pretty?). Did I mention the 90s slang? I totally miss it.



In closing,

The '90s were awesome, Twilight sucks, and violence is fun. That is all.

Let's see how this goes

So, I finally followed suit and made a blog!

...Ok, so that's a semi-lie. Apparently I made one back in November, did two posts, then forgot about it. I don't want to know what they say.

I guess I decided to make a blog because I think it's semi-therapeutic. Also, I see lots of funny things around campus that I feel everyone else should know. And my life is super interesting.

Brief Intro.
I'm Tess, technically a junior but I have three years left because I changed my major and took a year off. My major is Forensic Chemistry and I work as a CNA somewhere and as a receptionist somewhere (I'm not telling where for either, because I don't want to get in trouble for anything).

I guess that's it for now. I'm going to play around with the settings on this thing.