This Week I Learned:

• that I LOVE the BBC television series, Sherlock.  Filming of season three doesn't start until March; I don't know how I am going to survive until it premieres!

• feelings that resurface are feelings that never truly went away.

• that The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling starts off incredibly slow.  I'm twenty-five(ish) pages in and nothing has happened, about ten new characters have been introduced and I am tempted to give up on it (which is saying something because I am a very devoted Rowling fan).

• that much to my immense disappointment, peppermint mocha flavoring at Dunkin Donuts has a ridiculously short season.

• that Chanel No.5 is incredibly pungent and can almost cause me to pass out.

• that ten thousand people are killed every year by drunk drivers.  I learned this when there was a drunk driving accident in my town last week, injuring three passengers and one even ending up in a coma.  Drunk driving is a choice.  A stupid choice, yes, but a choice nonetheless.

• that I am a hardcore Directioner.  No shame.

• I have been right to be afraid of entering a Hollister store all these years.

• that Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is on my "Top Ten Worst Books Ever Written and Should Never Be Read" list.  I already knew that though, I learned that the hard way during my junior year of high school.  This week I learned that I will be forced to suffer through it once again this semester in my Modern British Fiction class.  I am not a happy camper.

• that broccoli cheddar soup from Panera is always better in a bread bowl than in a regular one.