We're goin' to DISNEYLAND!!!

I'm pretty sure I'm actually five years old. I love all things Disneyland and so when some friends wanted to go, I of course jumped at the chance. I actually jumped so high I flew into some other orbit because I didn't just go for the day, I bought the annual pass (lemme know if anyone wants to go to Disney, I'd be more than happy to join haha).

So a group of 6 of us went to Disneyland and we had a blast! We started bright and early, getting to the park at 9:30 (it opened at 9) and we left around 11 (closing time was 12). It was a long day but it was the beginning of the holiday festivities! If you have never experienced Disney Christmas, it's truly a completely different kind of magical!

Study Session...or weekend

Do you have that one thing that helps you focus? That you turn to when you have to get work done, study, lock yourself away and come out with a masterpiece? For me there are three things that I can jump between when I need to get down to business.

• Harry Potter movies
• Law & Order SVU
• Classical music

Weirdest combination of things, right? 

I'm not so great with silence. Thus libraries have never been my lock-in when I've had a major test or paper coming up. I need mindless chatter, enter the harry potter movies and SVU. Don't get me wrong, I am a child of the 90's and love all things HP, but it's because of this love that I can do so well with it on in the background. I know this plot line backwards, forwards, inside and out (I'm a hufflepuff in Pottermore, do you know your house?). But despite knowing it quite well, I still don't get bored with it. I can have it playing and know that I have something in that I enjoy, I know, but it doesn't distract me.

SVU is simply that it's always on in marathons and however many hundred episodes are on netflix for instant streaming. You can put it in and let it go, never having to worry, and I've probably seen the episode already anyways.

But classical music has always been there. It's something that I find relaxing, stimulating, captivating and enchanting. There is nothing to really distract me with and take away my focus, so I can let it play while I let my fingers type pages and pages of assignments.

So this weekend, despite it being fall break (which I didn't realize until I logged onto the Library homepage for external sources) I locked myself away with my dog in my apartment to plow through a long list of homework assignments. The next few weeks are going to be quite chaotic and I didn't want to fall behind or worry about deadlines. I made a pretty good dent in the work load AND managed to finish all of the harry potter series, bake cookies, spend some quality time with my pup, and build some furniture. Talk about productivity at its finest! I still have quite a few assignments to go, but I know I'm ahead of the game, so I don't have to stress quite as much! 

*EDIT: You know whats the greatest? When Classical for Studying Radio plays HP songs every other song. Pandora really does know me.

What do you do?