I must say

Things have gone from spectacularly well to pretty darn crummy quite quickly.
this weekend was so much fun! i have already written about it in like five letters so i don't think i will bore you with too many details, but it included a retreat for Activities, a freaking hugely awesome bonfire and a sobe bomb with Matt, Daniel their friends and a bunch of my roommates, and ended with a very nice dinner with daniel and his roommates and then going to Matt's to watch sahara.

on the other hand my week started out with my ipod dying my glasses falling apart and sleeping through my first class WOOHOO!!

spanish oral test and written test tomorrow and a paper to write tonight this week will be very interesting.

i hope everyone is well.. family i love you!!!

Busy

i have been awfully busy as of late

i found out i got a 87% on my spanish test, i am very satisfied with that score.
school and what not has been way good everything is going relatively smoothly. My Russian Culture class was freaking awesome today we listened to russian pop music it was pimp. I kinda have a crush on this guy in my class his name is roger he is awfully cute, i only mention it because our relationship reached a new peak today in that he sat near me and we actually spoke opposed to the wistful gazing across the room that i have been doing previously this is quite an achievement.

last night i went to adopt a grandparent with melissa and jw it was a lot of fun we met some awesome people. tonight i have another meeting for activities, it should be good we are going on a retreat this weekend so that will be neat. I am pretty sure i have to think up a bonding activity for twenty five people crap i should get on that i suppose.

if you have the resources you should check out the song

Fall Saddles by Why?

i promise it is worth your time --thanks dia

Why?

listening for the hoofs of the rescue party.
waiting for some ghost pony to glide into berkeley
with an old fish bowl for a tear trap strapped to its ghost saddle.
and it moves slow like an exercise bike on an airport walkway.
something that wouldn't smell like ground ants or glossy magazine cologne,
but a wet street after light late summer rain,
a wooden match just lit,
or something new in the green subject of a landscape painting,
or something new in the foreground in a poster of some asian mountains
that says "patience" in a funky italics.
-The Hoofs

the flu?

i think i have got it.

it has been a very unpleasant 24 hours but i think it is clearing up a little.
I talked to my parents today it was very nice,i love them so much they are so good to me. I hadn't talked to my dad in a long time, i told him i was going to call him at work but decided not to in case he was busy and he said "call me at work anytime" it made me happy. have i ever said that i have the best family in the whole world because i do. and don't you forget it

Thanking Strangers

1. Thank you Free Hugs boys in the student union you really did make my day


2. Thank random young man who offered to take my garbage to the dumpster for me, you made me feel so good.
3. Thank you nice waitress you made my experience ten times better than it would have been otherwise.
4. Thank you to the countless young men on campus who have opened doors for me this week.
5. Thank you girls in my grammar class for making me feel comfortable while teaching about coordinating and cumulative adjectives.
5. Thank you to everyone who's blog I read for providing me some escape when i need it.

So much to do

I am going crazy i have so much crap to do in the next three days, i am feeling like i did during finals week, i hope this eases up a little bit.

This morning was really nice. I got up and took a shower ate some breakfast got ready very slowly then tricia stopped by and i got a ride to class from her. I also finished we the living this morning, it is probably the most depressing book i have ever read. it is awful, but it is really good. lallalala

ok well break time is over i must get back to those races

stupid apartment complex

the internet is out at my apartment again i am pissed so here i am blogging at the library in an uncomfortable fashion. today was crazy because of the lack of internet and my massive procrastination i barely completed the assignments due today but i did do it and that is the important thing AND i actually got up early to do them i am proud of myself woot go me.

I got a letter from david today it was grand it made me very happy i always am happy to recieve mail woohoo. I think i am just about ready to get out of this library
oh yeah i renewed my temple reccomend so hopefully next week sometime we will go do baptisms i am excited! i haven't been in the longest time! woohoo YEAH TEMPLE! anyhow. good night

grumpy

i am grumpy so i am going to go the gym, take a bath, and then read my book. I don't want to go to a movie, i don't want to go swimming i don't want to sled or off road or go to comic frenzy i just want to exercise and read by myself. This is how i like to spend my weekends. i like relaxing i like staying in bed with a good book. I like watching movies in my pajamas. That doesn't make me lazy and it doesn't make me unhealthy i just like doing different things. blegrh

bleh

here i am at the libvrary waiting for my Russian clas sto start in 3 and a half hours mreh the balmy negative thirteen degree weather is the only thing keeping me from going home. I still can't handle this whole blogging in the library thing it weirds me out a little bit anyhow. Last night megan and i went to the Philosophical society, it was very interesting, the people seemed very pleasant. It is weird how much stuff i do involving school up here, in High School i wouldn't be caught dead at a school activity. mreh. So yesterday i ran into church date it was wierd, i am willing to give him a chance to redeem himself from his overwhelming awkwardness, we will see if i ever run into him again. ok i guess i should do something productive.

today was pretty much uneventful. I went to the activities meeting and it was good. Nick, stephanie's ex boyfriend, is now the coordinator over me it is nice to have a friend in there he is hilarious. ok i must sleep if i am going to get through an hour and half of grammar tomorrow

Language is like a beautiful nymph running through a primeaval forest

that is a direct quote from my grammar professor, ridiculous
I have been meaning to write for a long time and thus i wrote this during my break and am just now typing it up.

My first weekend of first semester has come and gone quite uneventfully on friday i hung out with dear mary fora while and then megan and i went and handed out flyers for activities at the dance. I kind of like doing that because i can just sit and watch people and it is fun to be able to meet new people and what not. On saturday i had a study group for doctrines of the gospel it was quite productive and informative. the two guys in my group are both return missionaries and two or three years older than me so they are quite knowledgeable that always makes the conversation more interesting. we were talking about knowledge and light it was spiffy.

Sunday was typical first fast and testimony meeting of the new semester. pretty uneventful. yesterday i had my first ed 200 class it is the first pre req for all of my education classes i think i am going to enjoy it we talked about wether or not we should be un-biased teachers it was interesting to me because it never even crossed my mind to teach with a bias our teacher stemmed the question what if students ask you personally what your beliefs are. In my mind i would never ever tell a student my beliefs i certainly would not deny them but i would not confirm them either. It is a good class thus far

Monday night was our ward FHE it was ok we did meet some pretty cool guys in our ward. I don't know how i feel about our new "brothers" they seem a bit sketchy in my opinion.
So last night after FHE tricia megan and I went and worked out and then stopped at an apartment to chat with some girls in our ward. We were sitting there talking and this guy came in named chris and i knew that i knew him from somewhere so we asked each other all sort s of questions to try and figure it out. It turns out that Fall semester of my freshman year my roommate me my roommate and some of our other friends randomly ended up playing ultimate frisbee with him and one of his friends. we ended up exchanging numbers but never saw or heard from each other again. WIERD! So i guess he is in my ward and he seems like a really nice guy we talked about books and music and what not i hope i can get to know him better.

I just got out of devotional President and Sister Clark spoke it was good but not as good as last semester

any how have a good night everyone

lallalla

ok pretty much the best first day of school ever.

this semester is going to be way tough though. i am taking this ridiculous grammar class and i started the reading during my break and it made me want to cry.

i am also taking spanish which will be very interesting, i am going to have to work really hard but i think i can do it.

i am also taking doctrines of the gospel which i am really excited for, we don't have a ton of people in our class and i was feeling pretty comfortable with the people around me so i am happy about that. not to mention my professor is so awesome!
I am excited to go to my russian culture class tomorrow, it should be very interesting i am praying that i don't actually have to KNOW russian to take the class but there weren't any prerequisites so i think i am good. anyhow


we al went and saw Stranger Than Fiction tonight, it was the best movie ever! i felt like such a nerd though because i was like the only one in the whole stinking theater that was laughing what lameoids

ok i guess i am going to go to sleep

bleh

today has been pretty stupid.
a lot of misplaced things and overdrawn bank accounts.

but cass finally woke up so i am a bit happier, i am going to the bank here in a bit so i can straighten things out and maybe buy some food and soap. I don't think i am ready to start up again tomorrow mreeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh

back in the berg

rexburg that is.


i really do love it up here. But the first night is and always will be hard. especially since cass isn't back yet i am feeling a little lonely. And i just barely realized that it was 2:30 gosh it does NOT feel that late. anyhow i am back and safe all unpacked and de-cluttered i rearranged my room so it looks really nice now, i am very pleased. anyhow i guess i am going to go to bed now

new year?

i have always felt slightly indifferent to the new year it is kind of silly in my opinion.it is just a day why should i resolve to be a better person, shouldn't i be doing that everyday of the year? regardless (irregardless hahaha) i am making some resolutions my mom always brings out the old resolutions and we make new ones for the first family home evening of the year a tradition that is kind of fun in my opinion. anyhow here they are in no particular order

study my scriptures and pray more
attend the temple at least three times a month
lose some weight
get a 4.0
become financially independent
study hard
have fun
make new friends in sandy


i might add some more if i think about it. but i feel like these are good goals. james is applying to law school because he is a genius and got a killer LSAT score. what a guy. tomorrow i return to Rexburg it will be grand i am sure.