Procrastination

Things I should have done:
-Homework for French 322
-Homework for History 314
-Homework for History 303
-Homework for Philosophy 202

Things I shouldn't have done:
-bought that plane ticket I immediately had to cancel
-watched hours and hours and hours of TV on Saturday and today
-overdrawn on my checking account
-stayed up until 3AM repeatedly this weekend

Things I did that were good:
-Go to Sego Art Festival to see Brinton Jones
-Go to O-Lib
-Dinner with Dema
-Bought plane ticket to Massachusetts
-Called my parents
-Drank lots of teas and other tasty beverages

Sin

Top Ten Comfort Foods:
10. Wendy's (hamburger and chocolate frosty)
9. Taco Bell (red bean burrito, no onions)
8. In 'N Out
7. White bread (especially warm and fresh)
6. Tartine (buttered bread) dipped in chocolate milk
5. Tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich
4. Mexican food (the more authentic, the better)
3. Chicken and wine sauce (mom's recipe)
2. Jello (most especially bavarian jello)
1. Anything Grandma Hayman cooks

My Worst Vices:
-Coveting and jealousy
-Spite
-Anger
-Apathy
-Procrastination and avoiding responsibility
-Stinginess
-Gluttony
-Sloth

Favorite Ice Cream Flavors:
-Chocolate Chip Mint and Cookies and Cream (together)
-Chocolate chip cookie dough
-Graham cracker
-Bubblegum
-Cake (a la Coldstones)
-Vanilla with toppings (especially Belle Helene- with poached pears and hot chocolate syrup)
-Rocky Road (thanks to Dad)
-Raspberry and Cream Cheese (thanks to the Creamery)
-Lime sherbet

Grumpy

Pet Peeves:
-A dirty kitchen
-A perpetually messy house
-No coasters
-Things done not-my-way
-People who are loud
-People who are irreversibly messy
-People who have no self-awareness, who are conceited, who are self-centered

Eras In Which I Would Have Thrived:
-Victorian Era
-1950s
-1960s (square)
-Ancient Greece/Rome (as a male)
-1940s

Eras In Which I Would Have Suffered:
-1960s (hippie)
-1970s
-Romantic Era
-Medium Aevum
-The Viking Age
-1920s
-1930s

Insomnia

Places I like in Utah Valley:
-Center Street, Provo
-Orem
-Olib (my affectionate nickname for Orem Public Library)
-Target
-Harvest Fresh
-Certain parts of BYU campus (the JFSB, the benches between the MARB and Kennedy Center)
-My apartment

The Best Ethnicities For Cuisine:
-Japanese
-Chinese (not fast food style, but steamed buns and wontons)
-Mexican (and by extension, El Salvadoran and Chilean and all other Latin American cuisine)
-Indian
-Thai
-Creole

Things I crave on a daily basis:
-Burritos-- enchilada style or taco bell's basic bean burrito
-SPICE
-Chocolate
-Steamed buns/wontons/gyousa
-A significant other
-Adventure

Illness

The Symptoms of Meningitis:
-Fever
-Severe and persistent headache
-Stiff and painful neck, especially when trying to touch the chin to the chest
-Vomiting
-Confusion, and decreased levels of consciousness
-Seizures
-Sluggishness, muscle aches and weakness, and strange feelings (such as tingling) or weakness throughout the body
-Eye sensitivity and eye pain from bright lights
-Skin rash
-Dizzy spells

The Symptoms of Mononucleosis:
-Fever, which may range from 101 F to 104 F, and chills
-Sore throat, often with white patches on the tonsils (which may resemble strep throat)
-Swollen tonsils
-Headache or body aches
-A lack of energy and fatigue
-Loss of Appetite
-Pain in the upper-left part of the abdomen, which may indicate that the spleen has become enlarged

The Symptoms of Influenza:
-Fever (usually high)
-Severe aches and pains in the joints and muscles around the eyes
-Generalized weakness
-Ill appearance with warm, flushed skin and red, watery eyes
-Headache
-Dry cough
-Sore throat and watery discharge from the nose


The Symptoms of Strep Throat:
-Severe and sudden sore throat without coughing, sneezing, or other cold symptoms
-Pain or difficulty swallowing
-Fever over 101 F, lower fevers may indicate a viral infection and not strep
-Swollen lymph nodes in the neck
-White or yellow spots or coating on the throat and tonsils
-Bright red throat or dark red spots on the roof of your mouth at the back near the throat
-Swollen tonsils, although this symptom may also be caused by viral infection

(http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/common-topics/default.htm)

What seperates the boys from the men...

Things that make someone attractive:
-A well-proportioned body
-Confidence
-A good attitude
-Intelligence
-A good sense of humour
-A smidgen (or more) of mystery
-Tolerance and patience/ an open mind
-Passion for something (especially for something unexpected)

Things that make someone unattractive:
-An obvious lack of care for their body/health
-Pride and vanity, arrogance
-Low self-confidence, a poor self-image
-Complete apathy
-Negativity
-Ignorance

Public spaces

Things I pretend to be in public:
-Belgian (francophone)
-Confident
-Attractive
-Disinterested
-Normal

Things I like to do in private:
-Talk to myself
-Read books
-Watch bad tv shows
-Daydream
-Explore the internet
-Shower, etc.
-Eat

Things I consider to be my own weaknesses:
-Lack of self-confidence
-Shyness, timidness
-Awkwardity
-Poor health

icebreakers

Questions People Ask that I Never Know How to Answer:
-"So why don't you have a boyfriend?"
-"Why do you study history?"
-"Are you Japanese?"
-"Want to know something cool?"
-"Where's your name from?"
-"What's the best/worst date you've ever been on?"
-"What's one interesting thing about you?"
-"Can I have your phone number?"

Severely Awkward Moments In College:
-People asking me if my boyfriend of the time was gay, or making comments along these lines.
-Running into a boy I had a huge crush on freshman year and just staring at each other for about a minute, not having anything to say. Finally, I said "okay!" and walked away.
-Trying to pay someone back for a movie ticket, but doing everything in a completely awkward way.
-Not realizing a boy from my class was talking on the phone, looking at him confused for about 20 seconds, and then just walking away.
-Not belonging in a tango class.
-Asking a guy who friended me on facebook if I knew him and then finding out that he was in my group for a class I was still in.

Social Situations that Frighten Me/Elude My Understanding:
-Going public places alone.
-Flirting seriously.
-Networking.
-Chatter with classmates/acquaintances.
-The eye-contact with someone you know, and vaguely remember, but aren't friends with.
-People who say "hello!" or "good morning!" or "Hey!" when they DO NOT KNOW ME.
-Talking to strangers without having an emergency.
-Flirting.

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami books I have read:
-Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
-The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
-Sputnik Sweatheart
-Wild Sheep Chase
-Dance Dance Dance
-After Dark
-Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
-The Elephant Vanishes

Haruki Murakami books I have currently checked out of the library:
-The Elephant Vanishes
-Dance Dance Dance
-After the Quake
-Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami books I am currently reading:
-After the Quake
-Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami books I have yet to read:
-Hear the Wind Sing
-Pinball, 1973
-Norwegian Wood
-South of the Border
-Underground