Just Sayin'

We have a problem in my apartment. And that problem has one smell: the smell of feet. My roommate has the smelliest feet I have ever encountered in my nineteen and a half years of life. This odor, something akin to dried moose vomit, permeates our apartment, clinging to every surface like a noxious nail fungus of doom .   Now, before you think I'm a foot stabbing, horrible, tell-tale roommate, let me just say that my roommate knows that her feet smell. She's just as horrified by it as I am. We have conversations about it all the time. Some of the most serious conversations that take place in our apartment revolve around foot powder and odor eaters and weather or not you can wash sneakers (for the record, I maintain that you can). It's gotten to the point that, unless it drops below 40 degrees, we leave our window open pretty much all the time. Now, let's just be clear, regardless of what you might think, windy, sunless, rainy 40 degree weather is cold . And in Penn...

So, I recently heard that Disney is making a live action version version of Cinderella , and I can honestly say that I've never been more excited for anything in my entire life (except for maybe The Winds of Winter , but that's a separate blog). Anyway, I'm pretty sure that Disney is making this movie just for me because they know how that I've seen Ever After at least 25 times and if there was a Disney version of that movie, it would shoot right past Titanic to the top of my guilty pleasure movies list. I'm such a girl.  Now, I'm not just excited about this movie because I like Cinderella , although I do like Cinderella. I'm mostly excited because every actor ever, from every TV show I've ever liked   is going to be in this movie. Let me paint a picture for you. Richard Madden is going to play Prince Charming. Can I just take a minute to say "!!!!!". I mean, after he and his entire family were brutally murdered on Game of Thrones ,...

So, I recently saw a YouTube video that ranked all the Disney Princesses from best to worst, and I got really irritated with it because I thought the YouTuber got a lot of things wrong (although, to be fair, it really is a matter of opinion). So I decided to do my own Disney princess ranking from worst to best, you know, because that's how grown ups spend their time. (I know I said best to worst in the title, but it just sounds weird to say worst to best, so sorry for being one of those tricky people who writes misleading blog titles :P). Someone Needs an Attitude Adjustment Tinkerbell - I know that Tinkerbell isn't technically a Disney princess these days, but she was considered one of the original Disney princesses, so I'm going to include her here. I'm going to be honest here, I lover her, but Tinkerbell is an AWFUL person. I mean, she's jealous and spiteful and vain and she get's angry so easily. Not to mention that she totally threw Wendy under the...

So, I have a lot of friends who don't really like the Beatles and this really, really breaks my heart because I just love the Beatles. I mean, I know that this music is like 50 years old, but it's just so good. In fact, the Beatles have actually held up pretty well - there's a reason they still sell Beatles posters at Wal-Mart. (I have one on my wall, even though it makes me feel sort of uncomfortable because I feel like George Harrison is always looking at me). But, I think that the reason some of my friends don't really like the Beatles is because they don't know their music well enough. Let me clarify that I don't know anyone who actively dislikes the Beatles. I'm pretty sure I couldn't tolerate that. I just know a lot of people who are like "eh, the Beatles, they're okay". No! They're not 'ok'! They're brilliant! I think the problem is that when most people think of the Beatles, they think of "I am the Walrus...

So, if you've been following my blog for any amount of time, you know that I'm a big fan of A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones . Because of this, I've written a lot about Game of Thrones on my blog, which I feel sort of bad about because a lot of people who read my blog don't really care about Game of Thrones . So, I've decided to start a new blog that's just about Game of Thrones . I'll probably still blog about Game of Thrones on this blog, but I'll be doing a LOT of additional blogging about Game of Thrones on this new blog that I didn't feel comfortable doing on this blog. Including in-depth reviews of every episode of the new season of Game of Thrones . I'm also planning on republishing all my blogs about Game of Thrones that I've written on this blog on my new blog . So, if you're interested, you can find all of my thoughts on A Song of Ice and Fire in one place. Anyway, I hope this is helpful to you. Enjoy the ne...

So, yesterday I read this article that turned out to be an April Fools Day joke and I think I've been angry ever since. You know you're an English major when someone plays an April Fools Day trick on you by telling you that a book is going to be released early. Public service announcement to the universe: that was NOT funny! In case you didn't read this article, it basically said that The Winds of Winter (the next installment in the Song of Ice and Fire series) was going to be released at the end of this season of the TV show. Let me say that again: someone thought it would be funny to post  an article saying that the book everyone has been waiting for for three years was going to be published in two months. That person, was clearly not in touch with reality. For those of you who don't read A Song of Ice and Fire , suffice it to say that this book is a big deal. Like, there are people who started reading this series in the 90s and have been patiently waiting for...