Tuesday, March 29, 2011

GEOLOGY


This past weekend I decided that I want a master's degree in Geology. I really do! I don't know when or how but I want it. This amazing realization came standing on an exhumed meandering stream channel in the Morrison Formation with my Sedimentology class. We had to make as many observations as we could about the outcrop and then make an interpretation. We didn't know anything about it when we got out of the vans but by the time we got back into the vans we knew what this area had looked like 145 million years ago and where the dinosaurs came to get a drink. We are really good at putting puzzles together and it was really exciting. Two and a half more years for school is not so much to ask for that kind of satisfaction.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

"Challenge of the day: use one word to describe Jimmer."

This is actually the sign that I saw today in the check out line at the BYU bookstore. I didn't have anything original and witty to say but it made me laugh non the less. I have officially caught the Jimmer bug and am feeling so nervous and excited about the game tonight that you would think that I am on the team. Problem is, I have a physics class tonight...it starts AT 5:30. I might argue with my teacher that when your school is in the sweet 16 for the fist time in who knows how many years and you are holding mandatory class with 200 students, you are not going to have their attention or understanding anyway; CANCEL CLASS! Good thing that I have my iPod and there is an internet conection in that room! Phew.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Anne spelled with an "e"

I have been listening to all of the "Anne" books by LM Montgomery and I feel like moving to the country. There is so much more scope for the imagination there after all. Dark, basement apartments are not so suitable to dreams as the haunted forests but maybe if I have an imagination of my own, I can imagine that my dearest Anthony and I are really living in the woods. I am just starting Anne's House of Dreams and of course this gets me thinking about what I want in my house of dreams. Anthony and I have made a lovely home in our apartment but college apartments are transient and we will never fully have a home until we have settled. What do I want that home to look like and be? I guess no matter the furniture, yard, or square footage, I have the important things figured out. I want my husband and my future children there, I want it to be a safe place and one where everyone who comes in it will feel love, I want a home where I can teach my children about God, and I want it to be organized and clean without being scared to live a little and accommodate Saturday morning forts. Yes, this is my house of dreams. One where you can leave your troubles outside and be sure of love inside.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Of horseshoes and hand grenades

Do you ever just feel "almost?" Almost what, you may say? Almost anything. Almost done with homework, almost done with this semester, almost starting a new semester, almost home, almost clean, almost focused, almost financial affluent, almost smart, almost pretty. Yea, admit it, you know exactly what I am talking about. Those times when you just feel like you are never quite there, never quite arrived. Then there is the other side of almost: almost having a breakdown, almost failing, almost a mess, almost disorganized to the point of insanity, almost to a new weight record. Yep, I guess everything does have its opposite. Hmph.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

A new day

It is 8:00, I have been up two and a half hours, I cleaned my house already today, and my eyes are very angry. I guess in order to successfully get up that early and get things done requires sleep the night before. Who knew?!

With that in mind, today is still going to be great! Anthony and I made new goals yesterday for FHE and this time it feels different. This time I am going to change. I have lots of help too! Heavenly Father and Anthony and both going to help me (a) get enough sleep (b) get all of my homework done (c) watch less tv and (d) fulfill my calling. Get ready day! Here I come!

Friday, March 4, 2011

Alarm clocks...

...they really just can't win with me. Either they work and I wake up and I hate them or they don't work and I am late and I hate them. All in all, alarm clocks have it pretty bad. Is there really anyone that wakes up to one, even if it IS your iPod, and says "Wow! I am so grateful for that sound that wakes me jarringly from a restful sleep and screams at me to get up!" If you do, I submit that you are crazy. Anthony and I should really give up uses songs that we like to wake us up because then, after a little while, you stop liking them. One of Anthony's favorite Jpop groups is no longer something he can listen to in the car. He says he just feels like he is waking up all the time when they sing. True, sad, and true.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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I am feeling utterly uncreative and dull right now. Anthony and I have had a really dumb week. As we were leaving the house this morning he asked me if this week was over yet. Unfortunately, I had to answer in the negative. We have just been worn out, under the weather, and a bit frantic. Is this going to be the story until I graduate? Sometimes he asks me how much homework I have and I just laugh (and or grimace depending on the mood) and tell him that I have enough homework that I would never to done with it so I had better just make time for him inbetween. Don't get me wrong I like school and I LOVE geology but I would like to cook Anthony dinner sometimes, clean my bathroom, go shopping so that we can eat, read a book unrelated to rocks, and take a nap. Is that too much to ask and are other people in college asking the same thing?