Do you believe in Ghosts?

So in my drawing class there is a Nadine, Malene, a Kaleen, a Nina, a Keeley, and a Kelsey, all in a row on the roll! It makes me laugh everytime.

Aparently Addison Kirk (one of my friends that's on a mission) was jogging with the YM in his ward and busted up one of his knees, bad! So now he's in a wheel chair, with a ton of huge bolts in his leg. He had to be sent home and might not be able to return to the misson field until around January. Or so his younger sister says. Well, they do say that the closer you are to the spirit, the harder you will be tried and tested. It's still a pain though (literally).

HALLOWEEN is almost here! YEAH!!!!

It's ALARMING!

I'm going to try a new tactic. Apparently my body can adapt itself to be able to do things in its sleep, when the thing is a repetitive action. Such as how I used to walk to the bathroom in my sleep. And then, during seminary I used to be able to sit up and tell mom I was awake... without waking up. NOW I'm turning my alaram off in my sleep. I have an 8 am class Tues and Thurs, and I have twice woken up at almost 9 am with my alarm in my hand, turned off. Aaaah! Fortunately it is a class where attendance isn't take. However, the teacher often teaches things not in the text and puts that on the test. So I have to get notes from someone. Rrrrrgh! I'm going to put my alarm on the opposite side of the room from me, and that way I'll have to get up and the the blood pumping. Also if my roommates get made for me not turning it off right away I'll have even more insentive to get out of bed. We'll see how this goes.

Yesterday I was busy ALL day! I got up at 8:30 amd worked on a drawing and a paper. Then I had class from 10:15 to 12:15. I ran home, finished my drawing, and went to my class at 2:00. I got out of class at about 5:00, came home and ate my first meal of the day, and then headed to the library to print off my test for LT. I then went to FHE. After FHE I went to Music Outlet. After Music Outlet I came home and did my test. After journaling and scripture study I got to bed at about 12:30 am. EARLY! (well, compared to last week)

I finally got my new debit card AND pin #, so this afternoon I'm heading out to find a place that will cut lenses for my new glasses. Over the past several weeks Chloé has assured me that I do INDEED need them! My only problem is that I have to activate the card with an ATM machine. I thought I new where one was on campus, but it didn't like my card. So now I have to find a DIFFERENT one, off campus somewhere. By the grocery store maybe?

Well, it's not going to work for me to go to SLC this weekend. Phooey! But atleast I got a ticket to the Halloween Concert!!!! I'm so excited! They sold out so quickly I barely managed to get one! I'm going to the last showing the last night (Halloween Night to be exact). I'm actually glad I'm going to that showing, because it's the FINALE, oui? It should be good! The theme is Pirates of the Caribbean this year.

Well, I gtg to work.

Cheerio's

Funnness

It's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday!

Hey, did you know? It's Friday! YAAAAAYYY! I CAN SLEEP IN TOMORROW! YIPEEEEEEE!

Yesterday was eventful. I woke up 3 min. after my class started, ran, and got there only 18 min. after it started. They'd barely started. :) (I'd set my alarm, but had turned it off when it went off, but I don't remember doing it.) In my Western Culture class we discussed Aristotle's idea of a perfect play. So we spent to rest of the class time (1 1/2 hours) discussing all the movies we know that live up to his ideas. We watched little movie clips and listened to sound clips. There's nothing quite like having fun while learning, is there?!? Well, my next class we ended by watching a bugsbunny clip. Just for fun. No real reason. Those two classes are so  much fun! I just wish they weren't so early in the day.

Then, in the evening my ward had a Halloween Party. I dressed up, stayed for a bit eating dinner, etc. then went over to my friend Chloe's. There we made chocolate chip cookies and started watching The Importance of Being Ernest. But all the sugar in the cookies left Chloe hyper and she decided we should GO somewhere and DO something. So first we headed to the Spori (art building). While there I was examining a painting someone had left out, and I was pointing to something on it when... I realized my finger had touched wet paint!!!! When I withdrew my hand there was a tiny circular smudge on the smooth, carefully done painting!!! AAAAAAHHHH! WHY DID SOMEONE LEAVE A WET PAINTING SITTING OUT IN THE OPEN, UNPROTECTED, NO SIGNS, ETC???? RRRrrrrrgggghhh! Chloe swore that they wouldn't notice, but, as an artist myself, I know they'll notice! We immediately left the building and headed for the gardens. The whole while I was shouting at myself in my head. That poor poor poor artist! They'd already spent hours and hours on that painting! Finally Chloe managed to calm me down and we got to the gardens. There we took out or cameras and started playing with shutter speed, etc. It was fun.

 Eventually we hiked back to her place, collected some of her things, and went back to my apt. so she could spend the night. I went to sleep at about 3 a.m.

This morning I rolled out of bed and went to my NT class that started today. Technically it was supposed to start on Wed., but the teacher has been out of the country. Well, about 5-10 minutes after I got to class a man walked in and informed us that our teacher had just left. He was feeling ill. So we didn't have class again today. Instead I used the time to run over to the bookstore and buy the new drawing pencils and eraser that I really need.

I want to play cards, I want to play scrabble, I want to eat good food, I want to do something fun with other people. I want to watch a movie. Maybe I'll go see what movies the library has. Hmmm.....

Tagged, again? :)

Thanx Jo. I'm just going to copy and paste the Rules.

Rules:1. People who are tagged need to post these rules, and 8 random habits/facts/quirks about themselves.2. At the end of the post you need to choose 8 people to get tagged and list their names.

Eight things about me...

ONE: My eyes don't point in the same direction
TWO: I made up my first song on the piano when I was 4
THREE: I DON'T snore! (unless I'm really sick and can't breatH)
FOUR: I love animals, and want to have a ton of them one day.
FIVE: I'm really talented at putting things down and not remembering where... AKA I am very good at loosing things
SIX: I love all sorts of music, but on a single song basis
SEVEN: If I had my way, I'd travel all over the world photographing an writing about it, then settle down on a huge plot of land, near all my family, in the midwest and run around barefoot the rest of my life
EIGHT: I love the arts (literature, music, art, architecture, nature, philosophy, speech, culture, etc. etc. anything and anything creative!)

Alright. If your name is listed below, you've been tagg-ed:

Tom
Margo
Am
Chloe
Sarah
Maria
Char
Lacie

Spontaneous Idea

We're studying Ancient Greece in Western Culture right now. I think that it would be awesome to have a few miniatures of Greek statues in my future house library. Like on of Athena from the Parthenon! I LOVE her helmet! Freakin' awesome!

Oh yeah, and in memory of the nolonger existent snow:

P.S. Patricia C. Wrede is one of my all-time favorite authors!

Tagg-Ed!

Alright then. Bordom makes us funny people do funny things.


According to Jo, I've been tagged. "If you are reading this, then consider yourself tagged. As I was tagged two times over, I'm going to combine them into one tag. My tag challenge to you is to do both of these."

First tag is to post the 4th photo in your 4th folder.

This is a picture I scanned. It's of my dad when he was a teenager, sitting on his fron porch with his little sister, Aunt Patrice.

The second tag is nearly the same, 5th pic in the 5th folder on your computer (flash drive in my case):

This is a picture of my little Bro., Sam, when we went hiking last winter.

This is Worth 1000!

I love Worth1000.com.
Here's why. (This is also why I also love photoshop):

Theme- Time Twisters

Theme: Hybrid Produce 5

and MANY MANY more... !!!
www.worth1000.com

Proposition 8

Here is a video clip of Elder Bednar, talking about the Same-sex marraige issue in California.


or go to the website http://www.preservingmarriage.org/

Snow men in the snow men in the snow...

It's attempted to snow, three days in a row now. Ok, so it has snowed, but it all succeeded in melting before the next morning. Last night was the most energetic attempt. HUGE flakes falling like they do in those snow globes. Beeeeeaaaautiful!

I read fast! I've a book in 5 hours the other day! I need to go get a library card for the public library here so that I can actually have a decent selection. (BYUI carries mostly Romances in their fiction sections.)

I understand what makes a starving artist a starving artist. We forget about food. We buy art materials rather than edibles. Every Monday/Wednesday I eat Dinner/Lunch/Breakfast at 5 pm. Oh well. We drink in the beauty around us for compensation.

Midterms are almost here! Man! This semester is going fast! (But not fast enough!)

Take pots and pans and cups and make a tower! See how high you can stack it! It's almost as fun as dominos!

Speaking of dominos, I need to play a good game of dominos or cards. Love cards!

-"I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier..."

Possible contest entry

Ok guys, tell me what you think. What does it need, or not need, etc. Thanx. (just click on the image for a larger view of it.) http://wileydesignchallenge.smugmug.com/

Harkle

NO! It can't be cold already! Last week it was in the mid 70's! I didn't want to dig out my coat yet, so I settled for a long sleeve shirt, a T-shirt, a hooded sweater, a jacket, and a heavier jacket. I roast inside, and freeze outside. Humph!

So, while I'm complaining about the chilly weather, I keep humming Christmas carols. I have my Pandora play list set on the Silver Bells and Fiddle Fever radio stations. "Hark silver bells, sing silver bells..."

So when I write, like stories and poetry and stuff, some times it's a struggle. Not generally, but some days the right words and the right rythms come so reluctantly to my fingertips. But then, fantastically, on other days they seem to be there, just waiting to leap onto the page. These last couple of days have been like that. I was going through my flash drive, deleting unneccessary files, when I came across an unfinished piece of work. Sitting down I read through it and discovered that I really liked it! Ideas started popping into my head, and before I realized it I had been typing for a round hour and a half. All day today my fingers have been iching to get back, and it's been a bit of a distraction. So that's where I'm going next. I'll have to post it here sometime and get people's responses. And in case anyone is wondering, I haven't really sat down and planned this all out, which suprises even myself. It just sort is coming to me. Love it!

Today I really enjoyed my Western Culture class. Right now we're covering the Ancient Greece of lengends and it's quite fastinating. Besides the fact the Greece, Athens in particular, was the first known center for democracy, but also for emphasis to be placed on education and the arts rather than simply war and self satisfaction. Another lovely part of the lesson was going over a few of the wars that were fought by the Greeks, and that, against all odds, they won. Such as the Battle of Salamis and Marathon. I love learning about battle strategies, etc. Unlike many people, the battle scenes from the BoM are some of my favorite to read about. And during AP History, the Civil War was my favorite part. Especially the Battle of Gettysburg where Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain faked out the Confederates an won his battle with only bayonets and a single regiment.

I also love fiddle music! HARK SILVER BELLS, SING SILVER BELLS, FROM EVERYWHERE, FILLING THE AIR...

Hick hick cough cough squeak screeeeeeeeeeeech----!

Today has been... interesting.

Last night the soar throat that I'd had for the last several days finally reached a pang painful enough for me to take notice. I found my mouth dry, my throat raw and prickling, and my glands subtley swollen. Aparently I snored last night-that is when I was asleep. I kept waking up, and I wonder if it was because I couldn't breath. Finally at about 8 am I gave up half sleeping and crawled out of bed, took a book and blanket into the livingroom, and read for an hour. I sat down and finished my drawing for Art 110, which remarkably turned out quite well, showered, at a pot of steaming romen, and trouped off to class. My illness has been affecting my in waxing and waning rotations-at times convincing that I really am not that sick, and at other times making me think "I forgot how miserable and achy all over and horrible being sick is!" Right now, for instance, I feel ralitvely fine. We'll wait for tomorrow to see which way I go -- plumitting like a stone to the bottom of the sufficating pool of "ick", or floating out of danger like a loose feather in a quick updraft of "aren't you a lucky ducky".

I've been reading a book these last couple of days and I really like it! It's called "The Looking Glass Wars", by Frank Beddor. It's Alice in Wonderland as "it really was". :) Very fun and fascinating and well written! READ IT!

"You know the myth...
A little girl named Alice tumbled down a rabbit hole and proceeded to have a charming adventure in the delightful, made-up world of Wonderland...
Now discover the truth... Wonderland Exists!
Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, was forced to flee through the Pool of Tears after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alyss had trusted Lewis Carroll to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere would find her and bring her home. But Carroll had gotten it all wrong. He even misspelled her name! If not for royal bodyguard Hatter Madigan's nonstop search to locate the lost princess, Alyss may have become just another society woman sipping tea in a too-tight corset instead of returning to Wonderland to fight Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.
Meet the heroic, passionate, monstrous, vengeful denizens of this parallel world as they battle each other with AD-52's and orb generators, navigate the Crystal Continuum, bet on jabberwock fights and travel across the Chessboard Desert.
The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, sleepy dormice, and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination. "
-Goodreads.com

So I'm going down to SLC this weekend for general conference, and to get my eyes checked. Over the last several weeks I have noticed more and more how insufficient my glasses' perscription is. I can hardly read the black boards, and criticing in drawing class has become a real headache. Literally. Sigh... the mortal state of the human eyes in this modern age of books, technology, and mounting academic sacrifices! Cheers!

P.S. For some reason I'm really craving Icecream right now! Icecream and shrimp! (not together, but both.)