It's chilly and rainy outside

and I love it. it makes me feel like I'm experiencing the season.

so with only a few days left before Christmas, I still have some shopping to do, and a whole lot of baking. Where has the time gone? I'm baking pies, and cakes, and tarts, and cookies, cookies, cookies galore. BUT I need to do that wednesday morning so I can get them out that day--talk about procrastination!

now that I'm on break, I'm determined to be productive:

1) reading list--I haven't picked up a book that wasn't required for school in a dang long time, and I need to fix that:
+ the feminine mystique
+ some hemmingway, mostly because I've only read 2 of his books, and neither of them were the heavy hitters, For Whom the Bell Tolls or The Sun Also Rises. Plus, this is perfect hemmingway reading weather.

2) college aps--I want to get this out of the way now, because I don't want to be bogged down by it in february when I'll have tons of other stuff to do. left on the list: SFSU, UW, GWU

3) G.Y.M. 'nuff said.

right now I'm in the middle of grading exams. I've got grades to turn in before Xmas--actually due tomorrow--but its just so long and time consuming, that I can't bring myself to finish it. hopefully i can get them done in the next 2 hours .O.O.

The Things I learned on the First of December:

+ the signature salted carmel hot chocolate from starbucks is NOT made with milk. ( o.o ) I'm not quite sure how I feel about that...

+ socks made from bamboo, despite how comfortable they are, simply can not stand up to wear quite that same way as cotton socks. I am, at this very moment, shedding panda socks all over this chair.