Another Procrastination Tactic

So I really should be reading at least one of the 96 pages from my textbook, or preparing a presentation that i need to give on monday, which is the day after tomorrow, but...

I'd rather write a blog post. Plus, I know you all have missed my posts, so I don't dare deprive you for even one more day. :) ha ha. Please note that was a joke.

I have seen Bride Wars three times now. I officially state my opinion on it: I do NOT like it. It could be written better, it's just mean, and I expect my chick flicks to make me feel good or to teach me something significant. That movie is crap.

I've finished the Book of Mormon from cover to cover for the first time. It's better when you actually read it like you would read a normal book.

Kim GRADUATED yesterday. Wowza. I came to Wyoming to visit her, and so did some of our friends from West Jordan, and so did some family members. I've been having a pretty good time, and we're making a fire at the KOA our friends are staying at! It makes me miss real camping. Also, Aurielle got married and her reception was yesterday, but I came to see Kim graduate instead, but I hope she is happy--she most likely is. She is made to be married.

I SHOT A SHOTGUN! and i daresay, i'm rather good at it. i'm not to bad with a pistol either, but the shotgun was way fun!!!! i really want one. not now. actually, i don't want to own one. i just want to shoot one again.

my job rocks. i record engineering courses and edit them for computerized courses. it's kinda like interet courses, but these will be on portable hard drives, so we can use larger files and better quality content. ...i didn't make it sound too exciting. i get to use a lot of software and i'm gonna have a kickbutt portfolio piece when i'm done! if that's not exciting still, just take my word for it. it's AMAZING!

on a parting note, i wish that i could gather all of my family and friends from all over the country and the world (some are vacationing overseas--cool!) so that i wouldn't have to miss anyone just one day! that's a long way of saying i miss you all!

...i have to do homework. BOOOOO homework!

Gargamellow

i have not been reading this summer
this makes me puzzled, and sad, because i think of the books i could've read, and i miss them. i love my books. and now i have the host, and i need to wait a week or two before i can read it or breaking dawn, which i don't have yet, which also makes me sad.

but i'll tell you what, summer school is almost done and then i get to go camping and back to wyoming to visit my family! yeah who!

my favorite quote: "Don't make me come down there!" -God

my favorite songs: "Forever" -chris brown; "shake it" -metro station; "Don't trust me" -3OH!3

i have a new haircut. i dont' remember if i blogged about that. pixie cut with long bangs now. looks awesome no matter what...well, not really, but it's a pretty flexible hair style. i like it. i will have to get a new picture now.

i miss a lot of people. my family. itineris buddies, including teachers. aurie. my west jordan ward.

the relief is that i have so many friends and such good roommates here at old farm and at usu.

and writing.

when i feel sad, or when i'm losing touch with myself, i just have to write. it doesn't matter what. it could be a blog. it could be fiction. it could be a report or a proposal. it could even be notes for class at school or church or something i'm studying on my own time. writing reveals me, and it makes me feel at home no matter where i am.

so i'm looking forward to my internship...that i haven't blogged about yet!!!

i'm going to intern for the teaching cather, which is based at the university of michigan or something but they have a representative here at USU. for this internship, i'll do basic editing and checking references of articles they publish, but get this: i have some design and marketing opportunities with this internship! that's right, the guy who interviewed me said i could propose redesign plans for the cover and layout of the journal magazine thing...i'll find out what they call it...and i can come up with flyers or pamphlets or something to hand out when he makes presentations to advertise the teaching cather, and i might help him with those presentations/speeches, and if i have time i can redesign their website, or at least make a proposal for redesign! oooohhhhhhhooooooh I'm excited.

and...i'm also writing a proposal for kate, my roommate in the next room, because she doesn't want to move into another apartment at old farm but they want her too, so i'm going to make a proposal outlining the benefits of keeping her in this apartment. i've already got some winning material drafted for this proposal. and even if it fails, it's good practice and call me weird but it's fun. ha ha...i really am a geek.

i celebrated my mom's birthday without her and here's how: i put the strobe light and blacklight in the living room and cranked up the music. i ate chocolate cake, lemon custard aggie ice cream, and danced the crap out of myself. my roommates were very agreeable in this mood, as my mother's birthday happens to also be the birthday of kate, my roommate next door. so i danced and danced and danced with my roommates. it was fun. happy birthday mom and kate.

Yestoday

Yesterdaaaaaay....was quite eventful. Today, it still could be. I think I will relax for the rest of the night though. I am extremely tired today.

But Yesterdaaaaaay....

I set up my summer schedule and registered for all of my summer classes. This included going back up to campus to drop a course that I couldn't drop myself and replacing it with another one that I couldn't add myself (this required going to two offices in different buildings on opposite sides of campus--don't know why they couldn't put the two offices next to each other).

I also went to the financial aid office to figure some stuff out with fafsa. Good news: I'm getting more money soon.

I also made an instruction set for cropping photos, eliminating red eye, and changing backgrounds in adobe photoshop. This took a long time because of stupid pictures being different sizes, text boxes not aligning correctly, and callouts moving around whenever I changed anything on the document. It took a while.

I also started getting my website ready to put together. I have a feeling that this is going to be harder than it looks. I do not like DreamWeaver because I cannot click and drag things where I want to put them. This means I have to make all of my photos the same width before I import them into my website, or they won't align perfectly. and I am a picky person when it comes to alignment. Actually, I'm a picky person overall.

And someone, I don't know who, clogged the toilet, and I didn't want to take care of someone else's crap so I drove up to the campus to go to the bathroom at 4:30am in my pajamas with messy hair and stinky breath. I have a new respect for people who don't have indoor plumbing and have to use outhouses or the equivalent.

And I ran into one of my friends from Convergys on the campus. Her name is Lorana, and she is a sweet-fireheart. She set me up on a blind-double-date (blind for me, not for her) this friday. We are going bowling. And I might have a date on saturday with my chem partner from last semester--Kelly Juhasz. I am not so sure that it is technically a date, but who knows? But I am not sure I want dates right now. I mean they are fun, and so I will go, but I hope these guys don't expect anything to develop with this. Because frankly, I do not want a boyfriend while I am in school. Weird, I know, but true.

And I got another stinking instruction set from my reading theory class. That instructor is a nutty professor I tell you. And he likes the TV show House. I like him a lot. But I do not like this instruction set assignment he is giving us.

But there is happy news about this assignment! I get to write instructions for anything as long as I include visuals! So I am going to write instructions on how to make book earrings (for an example, search for "book earrings" on wikihow). I think I will make some for myself and all my friends who like to read! Though, that will probably take me a considerable amount of time...maybe I will do it on summer vacation...oh wait, I am going to school this summer...never mind.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. -Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

Mother Teresa

I bore my testimony today. That is good news.

I have to start my social life over up here at college. My guy friends are going on missions this summer. My girlfriends are going home this summer. Some of them are getting married. Some are transferring to other colleges. One is staying I think. Aurie doesn't know if she is coming back. My friends are leaving me. It's a strange feeling. I'm used to doing the leaving. And I really, really do not like it.

So I need to start over again.. Doors close and other doors open. I've discovered that sometimes opportunities come with heartache more than excitement.

But I found something along the lines of what the Big Post was about. It is from Mother Teresa, and it is taped on my wall above my light switch so I see it many times each day:

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway.

It was never between you and them anyway.

Goodnight everyone.