I bought my plane ticket for London today.
It’s making everything seem more real now.
When I was paying for it, Oasis started playing in the background. That can only be a good sign!

I am so in love with the Kinks right now. So so so good.

This morning, I found out the Maccabees are playing the NME Awards Tour in February! (If I’m in England,) I am so there! This has to happen! Like it really NEEDS to happen!
I missed the chance of seeing them two years ago in L.A. because the friend I wanted to go with thought I said Mumm-ra instead of the Maccabees (because they totally sound the same)!

Fingers crossed I’ll be in London come February 20th!

Alison ‘VV’ Mosshart, originally uploaded by elvislocke.

I was on the SDSU campus today and I noticed a Dead Weather poster on a bulletin board. I got really excited because I thought they might be playing a gig there, but it was only an advertisment for their album. I made it my mission to leave the campus with one of the posters of my hero,  Alison Mosshart. SUCCESS! Now, I have to find a place to put my new poster without interrupting the harmony of my room. This is going to be a bit hard.

Today, I also bonded with one of my professors’ husband because 1) he was tall enough to reach the Dead Weather poster and 2) he seems the only other person in San Diego to know what a hipster is.

Oxford might not happen after all. Apparently to get in as a student visitor, you must have a certain number in your bank account. Poor college student that I am, I probably don’t have enough! I need to try to get more money from my school or get a student loan. My dreams are being crushed and it hurts so much.

This is so overused but FUCK MY LIFE.

I’m so in love with this song. I’m about to play it (endlessly) on repeat, while I work on my presentation for next week.

Today as I was watching TV, I realized Alex Turner is starting to look like Michael Jackson.

I really want to see Arctic Monkeys in Spain next year! I have to work out the kinks though.

Yo. Long time no type.

Junior Year of college is too much work and not enough time. I don’t think I’ve lost this much sleep in my entire life.

My days are school, work, school, work with some coffee breaks in between. I’m biting my tongue at saying I wanted to come back to school during the summer. Maybe next summer I should just hibernate.

In other, more exciting news, I got accepted to the Oxford Study Abroad Program I applied too! If I had gotten sleep the night before I found out, I would have jumped for joy. Needless to say, I only had the energy to smile from ear to ear.

Now my immediate goals are: pass my Biology class (or withdraw from it), get the beautiful new Canon G11 (as Best Buy wanted to charge me close to two hundred dollars to fix my old one), have enough money to go to however many gigs I want in England, and have enough money to travel. Greece and Egypt I have my heart set on you and Paris and Rome I miss you!

In a few months this blog is actually going to be interesting! I can’t wait!!!

P.S. I think I’m getting flu-like symptoms again. You’d think I would develop some sort of immunity by now.

H1N1 (aka Swine Flu), originally uploaded by The.D80.Project.

Last Tuesday (after my Arctic Monkeys concert) I woke up and found out my voice still wasn’t back since I lost the night before from too much singing. I thought it was just my voice, but as the day went on, I got a fever, then body aches, and eventually a cough. It was so bad by the afternoon that I could barely make my way back to my dorm room. It seemed like I had swine for the second time in a year (neither time has been confirmed). Wednesday, I could not go to class. I called the Health Center to see if I could get an appointment so they could tell me what was wrong, but surprise surprise … they told me not to leave my room under any circumstance. Basically, I was left to die if I did have swine flu. Apparently my life is worthless. Good to know when I graduate and the school starts asking me for money. Anywho, as you might be able to tell I’m much better. I still have a cough, but it doesn’t hurt to move. Yay NYQUIL. I highly recommend it if you present flu-like symptoms and your Health Center refuses to see you. That shiz works.

I just realized I haven’t done one of these since last December. Almost a year, crazy! Well the other day when I was moving back to San Diego I heard a couple of my favorite songs in unexpected places.

While eating at Denny’s with my friends after driving for two hours and unloading most of my stuff, I began to hear “Stuck on Repeat” by Little Boots playing in the background. I wasn’t sure of what I was hearing so I listened hard and it was. Needless to say, I was very excited!

Then I was watching the CW (remember the days of the WB?), when a commercial for the Vampire Diaries came on and “Hang You from the Heavens” was on it. The song doesn’t really make me think of vampires on its own, but now that it’s been associated with it might.

Today, I might have been the happiest I’ve been all summer.

I went to the DMV (such a lovely place, NOT) to take the written test for my driver’s license. Two and a half hours later … SUCCESS. I PASSED. I was so sure I was going to fail, I just wanted to hand the paper over and get out of there already, but I passed. I informed  everyone that had ever driven with me (in a golf cart or automobile) of this monumental occasion, even one in Ireland. Now, I just need to practice for the driving test and don’t have to panic about driving next to a cop. I will be asking everyone I know with a car to let me practice, but I’m pretty sure only two people (the ones who have let me drive illegally) will let me.

I’m so ecstatic. I’m one step closer to the Beetle I want! I have even been brainstorming what I’m going to name it. I contemplated one of the Beatles’ names. I’m a dork, I know.

P.S. If you have to go to the DMV make an appointment before because the lines are ridiculous. I’m so happy I did. Those two and a half hours might have had a few more added to them!