Yay, Winter Break!

Wow, what a feeling! I ticked off all my final exams, returned my rental books, completed all the small errands that pile up at the end of a semester and finally I'm free.
Also, I've been experience an unprecedented bout of optimism. Good things just keep happening! Yes, I may have promptly come down with a sore throat immediately after I'd done these things, but optimist that I suddenly am, I only care that I won't have to get up early for the next 3 weeks.
Besides that, a friend of a friend gave me his old  kindle on Friday with some of my top picks from GoodReads and I've already read two of them.
Ah, life is good.
Love,
Vicky

Fixing a Broken Heart... With Stand-Up

     Recently, someone very close to me had their heart broken. If you're not familiar with the ailment, then I can only describe it as a very painful process with only one known cure: time and the support of loved ones. While I can't make time move faster, I've really been going out of my head trying to distract her and find stuff for us to do that will make the passage of time a little more pleasant.
   So as of late I've been plying her with stand-up comedy. But not just any stand-up, only the most jaded, most intelligent and the funniest stand-up. Here are a few:
 -Louis C.K.- Is he my spirit animal? Maybe. He's one of the funniest people just talking about his everyday life and he's appropriately pessimistic about relationships.
-George Carlin- Did I say Louis was pessimistic? Scratch that, what he does doesn't even come close to this hilariously jaded legend. Prepare for that funny bone to be offended and tickled on so many levels.
- Bo Burnham- Musically and comically talent, this upstart isn't your traditional stand-up artist, and thank god. He'll have you jamming and questioning the logic of everything with songs like #Deep, God's Perspective, Words Words Words, and Repeat Stuff (repeat stuff, repeat stuff, repeat stuff...)
- Russel Brand- Forgive him for the Katy Perry thing. And watch Messiah Complex. DO IT NOW.

All of these will have your heartbroken friend (or your heartbroken self) not caring about what happened for a good hour or so. Seriously, who can care what's happening when there are such wonderfully fucked up people in this universe?
Love,
        Vicky

Some of My Favorite Things... Music

Some of my recent faves:
- I Can't Stop by Flux Pavilion
- Happy by C2C
- Killer by Bastille
- Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bus

- Gone in the Morning by Newton Faulkner

- Good Girls by 5 Seconds of Summer

- Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran

- Try A Little Tenderness by Otis Redding

- Sweatpants by Childish Gambino

- You Song by Lil' Wayne ft. Chance the Rapper

- Float On by Modest Mouse

- Thunderstruck by ACDC

- Girls by The 1975

But trust me. There's more.

Love,

Vicky