That Was Brutal

Well, that was the longest 'short' week of my life. School started on Tuesday. But my day started earlier than school. Why would I ever subject myself to work so early in the morning!?! I guess that the $8.80/hour had something to do with it. Luckily, they are going to give me a different job to do, thus increasing my hours. No complaints there. As far as school goes... I'm going to be busy. And that's no exaggeration. I'm taking the equivalent of 14 credits, though it is really only 7 (Spring and Summer are shorter, so you have twice as many hours of class and go through the material twice as fast as normal). My Chinese film class is interesting, it's just that it's 3 hours long, twice a week. And being at the end of the day, it gets somewhat hard to keep awake, much less focused. As for History of Utah, well, I'll just say it's not the most riveting class I have ever taken. Gymnastics and Clogging, however, are tons of fun! If only my body didn't hate me for abusing it like I have this past week. But it will eventually be all good. Even if I am nice and sore and tired, at least I'm really enjoying myself.

As if school and work weren't enough for me, I was called to be the 1st counselor in my Elder's Quarm presidency. So I'm going to be nice and busy with that. But I really like the other guys that I'm serving with. The president was my home teacher last semester and is just an all-around good guy, and I live with the 2nd counselor and secretary. I am really looking forward to working with them.

So all-in-all, I'm pretty stinking busy. Which is good. I like busy. Busy is more fun, though possibly somewhat detrimental to my health. Two nights ago, I went with some friends to a midnight showing of the new X-Men movie, good movie by the way, and I was somewhat tired the next day. Then last night, I stayed up with mostly the same group of friends and watched Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (very funny, I highly recommend it). After it was over, we sat and talked until about 3:00am. I sure appreciate the fact that I'm regaining a social life after a somewhat boring semester last semester, I just kind of wish everything hadn't fallen on me all at once. Oh well, I guess if this is what the Summer has in store for me, BRING IT ON! I'm ready for it!

Amending the Revision

Ok, well, I figured out the problem why people couldn't see my paper. But I've fixed it. So if you still want to read my essay, click here.

I Love Books!

They got here! About 2 weeks ago or so I ordered 耶穌是基督 and the new 三合一 and I got them today! Ok, so probably not too exciting to you guys, but the first one is Jesus the Christ and the second one is the new Chinese translation of a triple (BoM, D&C, and PoGP). It is very exciting. AND!!! I start my wicked awesome fun (minus one class) Spring term on Tuesday. Those are only related because I will have a really cool Chinese film class. And I'm excited about clogging and gymnastics, not so much about History of Utah though.

I called a friend who took the Chinese film class a year ago and he said I could use his books, saving me about $40, pretty cool if you ask me.

I was at the book store, and they were out of the next book in the Ender's Game series, so I looked on line and found them and the parallel series, Enders Shadow, for cheaper than I could get them for the regurlar price, so I ordered them :-).

Like I said, I love books!

A Revision

Well, I revised my That's Absurd! paper and just wanted to get some feed back on which version everyone thought was better. Click here for the revised version and the original is just a couple posts down my blog. Oh, FYI, the only part I really changed was towards the end. Enjoy!

Fantoms and Phinals

Don't you hate the feeling of not having something that you have grown accustomed to? I've had the same watch for probably close to 10 years. It has been a great watch. But it broke. Granted, it's been probably 2-3 months since it broke. But I still get that blasted 'phantom watch' feeling on my wrist. I'll shake my arm to move my watch, which isn't there, down to its proper place. It bugs me. Also annoying is the phantom vibration of my phone in my pocket when it's actually in my hand or otherwise out of my pocket. Why does the body play tricks on itself? It's rather annoying.


On another, unrelated subject, I love a good book. It's been a long time since I just sat down to read a novel because I wanted to. I had never read Enders Game, so when I sold my text books back the other day, I picked it up. I highly recommend it. I started reading it today and would probably read through the night and finish it if I didn't have work at 5:00 tomorrow morning and a final or two to take tomorrow which I need to prepare for. Gosh darn school getting in the way of my college experience!

Bad Play Project

I love theater. I especially love acting, but right after that comes a good play. Here in Provo, there is a community theater called the New Play Project. What they do is they give new playwrights the opportunity to have their plays acted out on stage for a first time. Well, some times, the plays that some people wright are just down right bad. A while ago the founders decided to do a compilation of the worst plays that people have written over the past few years. After the plays were selected, the directors were given one day to select the cast and put the whole thing together. Most of the plays were pretty short. When you bought your ticket to watch the "Bad Play Project", as they called it, you were given a complimentary bag of projectiles. The way we were to vote for our favorite bad play was to cast our projectiles at the actors on the stage. It was probably one of the most fun experiences I have ever had as part of an audience. The play that won was Pride & Predigest & Telletubbes: The Musical. It was pretty painful. Oh, but it was so fun to boo and hiss and throw things onto stage. What a great Friday night!

Personal Essay

Well, I just finished my last paper for my English class, and I must say, I'm rather proud of it. It's most definitely my favorite paper I have ever written. So I figured I would share it. If you are curious, click here to read it. Enjoy!