Weekly Roundup: Spring Break

It's Spring Break, y'all! Which is, actually, not that exciting for me because I am just lazin' at home and working for a couple of days, but any time off not having to think about school is a break indeed. Instead, I get to think about my weekly roundup posts and the ever-looming horrible decision I have to make that is which grad school am I going to go to. One of these is nice, the other is important. I'll let you figure out which one is which.

Aw, thanks parents!

Music: My "Spring Breakers" playlist. It's not the wildest mix ever, and neither is my spring break, but it's got a couple 'get wild' songs, and more than a couple total jams.

Food: Pasta Primavera from The Pioneer Woman. Ok, in case y'all don't know, TPW is my cooking spirit guide. Her recipes yield amazing food and her posts make me laugh, because she understands that we all want hot bodies and abuse ourselves on the stairmaster for the sake of great asses, but in the end, we should still eat butter. Her pasta primavera was freaking delicious, both on the night I made it for dinner and the next day at lunch. I've also been spending a lot of time at Crepeville in Davis, either for studying or for my lunch break where my co-worker and I are having a mimosa so that the office is just slightly more tolerable for the next five hours.

Television: This is my chance to catch up with every TV show I've been missing while trying to come out of Winter quarter with my head above water. Instead, I'm watching the early seasons of The West Wing. I know, everybody knows about this show. But if you've managed to, like me, pay rent for space under a rock for the past decade, go watch it now. Every single political show since 1999 owes at least something to TWW, and many owe a lot more than that. It set the bar for politics on television, and even though it's not a comedy like my favorites The Thick of It and Veep, the snappy one-liners on any TV show look to Aaron Sorkin as their predecessor.

Fashion: I went thrifting recently, because my mom and I are looking for business casual pieces for my graduate school wardrobe should I be invited to any "professional mixers." (Her words, not mine.) I have scored, so far, a striped silk button down, a classy LBD, a denim shirtdress, and a red Brooks Brothers blazer. They're not really what I'm wearing now, but they certainly wouldn't clash with the rest of my style. I'm finding that I'm (sort of) sartorially growing up, or enough to know the rules of fashion but not enough to not break them once in awhile.

Word: frankly |ˈfraŋ-klē| adverb [ sentence adverb ] in an honest and direct way : frankly, I'd rather stay at home than go to the movies tonight
I am definitely a proponent of the phrase "quite frankly" because, quite frankly, I am a very frank person.