Wake up to the sound of your fleeting heart

Holla.

It's' been a lazy few days for me since I last posted, besides for the day that I worked. Now that school's over (well, besides my final exam which isn't until the 14th), I have nothing left to do but chill, and trust me, I'd love to go out errrdayyy that I'm not working but most of the time that requires money. I'm choosing to be extreeeemely frugal for the time being, at least until I know I have much, much, MUCH more than enough for next semester and I can afford a splurge.

I'm watching Voyage of the Dawn Treader on YTV right now, and it's the last bit playing out right now, when they visit Aslan's country. I am literally in love with this scene, and I get so emotional it's not even funny. This movie gets me man. This movie gets me. Other than the fact that the whole thing is practically a metaphor for C.S. Lewis' religious views that I happen to share, this movie brings back a lot of feels. "...remember that time, when you fell? Asleep, fell asleep at my side - watching this movie about God." Yeah.

Holy mackerel. I legitimately just got goosebumps watching the end of that movie. Okay, I'm clearly out of it so I shall get back on topic.

It just came across me a night or two ago that, while I may be convocating in 2015, it might benefit me to declare a minor while I'm still at school, and while the resources are still available to me. I mean, as a Communications major, I'm already taking these similarly useful classes that can be fulfilled for a Publishing minor (3/4 lower level requirements in the process of being fulfilled to be exact), and after that it's just the upper level requirements that need to be satisfied, which I might end up satisfying in the long run because some of them are also needed for that CMNS degree. Does that make sense? I don't know, it's been running around in my head even way before this but the work load has always scared me off. I really need to speak to my advisor and see what he/she thinks, since CMNS and publishing are so closely related in my department. The most important thing I would need to know is how much this would prolong my graduation. Since my desires for a publishing minor have been discovered a little late, I haven't been accumulating the exact requirements since early on like others have. This means I have a lot of catch up work to do.... and ugh, I just don't know. I want the minor but I don't want the extra work. How typical of me.

So tomorrow is a Civic Holiday in Beautiful BC and that means as an xxi slave, I get stat pay! I'm very excited about this. Sure, I'm only working twice next week, but the fact that one of them has increased pay, I'm none too bothered. Besides, the last two weeks like I mentioned in my previous post, I'd been getting called in like CRAZY to help out. I'm really not too troubled. Let's just hope my former non-spending and all too frugal habits stay put because I haven't really spent a dime in the last month or two, and I'd like it to stay that way. I mean God, I love books and I love my family and I love my friends but damn, do I love money a hell of a lot :P

I might have a camping trip approaching at the end of the month and I'm uber excited about it. It's the tent, wilderness and burning fire kind of camp, and not glamping in a cabin, as others have so accurately described it (this person being the lovely Kimberly Martinez). So I'm interested to see how I'll take to three days and two nights of the bare necessities. Will I be eating trout like they did in the Parent Trap re-make? Will I pull someone's sleeping mattress into the lake as the best prank ever? Probably not 'cause that's cruel, and now that I've put camping pranks out there I sure hope no one gets any ideas, 'cause I am so not the type of person that takes to pranks well... I'm easily the most gullible person sometimes, I can't even take obvious sarcasm unless the person points it out. And I'm supposed to be smart....! Get it together, Gelina.

I was just reading over some of my old posts and for some reason, I got really jealous of my past self. I mean, besides the fact that my past self was younger and had more time for herself and wasn't jam packed with university and two part-time jobs, past Gelina had so much time for books. I would literally be like, "Omg y'all, I'm almost done reading Goblet of Fire in my summer HP marathon and I can't wait to finish re-reading the rest," or "Ok kids I just finished the books I got for Christmas, I really suggest THIS and THIS and THAT and THIS and blah blah blah." And they weren't shitty books either. They were AMAZING books. Like, The Book of Negroes, or Audrey, Wait! AND COME ON, MY HP MARATHON. I mean, every summer I would re-read the series from START to END and now it's summer right now and the only thing I've been reading is "Advertising the American Dream" for my CMNS course this semester. Man, am I depressing. I kind of want to get back into the habit of devouring books like when I did in high school and early university. But man, I'm really low on time.

I also used to make a lot of lists back then. Although, a loooot of them were just homework lists and wish lists for Christmases and birthdays, but I might as well kick them off again with a Books I Want To Read list. I have NONE at the top of my head right now tho, so this list might take me a while to get even at least three down....

Books I Want To Read:

• The Cuckooo's Calling (I mean, OBVIOUSLY)
• Any classic novel - uh.... Winter of Our Discontent, there.
• And you see, I told you, I can't think of anything else.

All that comes to mind are books that I've already read and want to read again. Like Grapes of Wrath or To Kill a Mockingbird. In fact, the last book I re-read was a few months ago, and it was To Kill a Mockingbird, but that's because it is legitimately, hands down, the best book I'd ever read. That, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I can't suggest them and shove them down your throat enough. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THOSE BOOKS, READ THEM NOW IN ORDER TO FIND TEMPORARY BUT LONG-TERM LIFE FULFILLMENT. I know that made no sense, but that's how I felt after having read both of those books. I just breathed a sigh of relief and was content, and that feeling has lasted me a while and I still remember it even now. If a book can make me do that, then it is definitely a good one.

Alright well, although there's many more things floating through my head right now, like why Selena Gomez said that her favourite country to visit was Canada (I mean, it's obvious why but I still don't like her reason for saying so), or why Ross Lynch is considered a "multi-talented musician" when his singing is awful, or how long it takes for a full-size pack of graham crackers to be delivered to a dormitory in New Zealand when I sent it at least three (?) something weeks ago, I should probably go.

Farewell for now.

Song title in this post is from THE most under rated song and band at the moment if you ask me, Paper Kites by Featherstone. This was a happy song for me at a certain time and if you know me it makes sense, but if you don't, you'll just have to be satisfied with it's sleepy, make-you-wanna-go-on-a-road-trip kinda tune.

- Gelina.