Labor Day (AKA the official end of summer)

Summer Check List:

-Road Trip to California

-Manti Temple Pageant

-Found a job

-Passed my comps (hurrah!)

-Hiked Squaw Peak

-Read some books (mostly Hunger Games)

-Baked a moderate amount

-World Cup!

-Invented a diet based on a summer movie

-Road Trip to California, Again

-Taught exactly one (1) Sunday School lesson

-Went to IKEA a few times

-Threw a party for the World Cup (Lionel Messi's B-day)

-Went to Lagoon (pretty much THE theme park in Utah)

-Visited Seattle area

-Procrastinated all things related to thesis!

-Changed the color of my skin (aka got a tan, even if it doesn't look like much, it's still there)

-Procrastinated a hair cut

-Moved! At the beginning... (it threw me off to move in April instead of August, actually)

-Learned about The Wonder Girls

-Got lost in Midway

-Went camping with friends

-Provo Freedom Festival (three different days...)

-Camped out for 4th of July parade

-Watched a season and a half of '30 Rock'

-Went to Thanksgiving Point (Farm country)

-Went to my nephew's B-day party (he was visiting Utah right before moving to Tennessee)

-Went to a concert in Salt Lake and forgot my wallet (money AND ID)

-Went to a FREE concert in Salt Lake

-Went to a British Tea House in Salt Lake, then the British Store next door

-Ate Liege waffles once (1) and Belgian style fries once (1)! It's like being in Heaven, guys.

-Went to the Timpanogos temple (while Provo was closed)

-Played mustache badminton

-Provo farmer's market

-Bought a bike

-Discovered Sen. Orrin Hatch's (R) musical talents

-Helped some friends out with their mix tape release

-Attended said mix tape release party

-Never once (0) washed my car... gross

Midsummer Check

Things Accomplished So Far This Summer:

-two road trips, both to California (one to Riverside, one to Santa Cruz)

-return back home (once)

-Manti temple pageant (the Mormon Miracle Pageant)

-found a job

-passed my comps

-go dancing (once)

-hiked Squaw Peak

-started Notre-Dame de Paris and gotten farther than all previous attempts

-some baking (and cooking, as well)

-watched World Cup games and NBA final games, too

-invented a crazy diet

-visited the beach

-taught a Sunday School lesson (actually, it's tomorrow, and it's the Preach My Gospel class, not Gospel Doctrine...)

Three Day Weekends

Things I Have Done Recently that Were Not a Waste of Time:

-Go to California and stay an extra week

-Study for Comp exams

-Go to the gym

-Sleep in most days

-Hike to Squaw Peak

-Watch Prince of Persia

-Start Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo... for the fifth time

-Visit with old friends

-Make new friends

-Bake things, especially tortillas and peanut butter bars with chocolate ganache frosting

-Catch up on the latest Eurovision results (Turkey got #2! That makes me happy)

-Pass my comp exams (making the past year good instead of a huge waste of time)

-Laundry and cleaning

-LOST season finale (I liked it overall, but then I have no problem with questions going unanswered. Quite the reverse, actually)

-Bathing (apparently this is also the secret to Jake Gyllenhaal's work out for Prince of Persia)

-Sharing jokes with an old friend

-Chatting

Merci

Things I Am Grateful For:
-Dogs
-Entertaining movies
-Good movies
-Good food
-Good family
-Sufficient time to procrastinate
-The time to go home for a weekend in the middle of a semester
-Critical theory
-Humor
-Things/people that/who are funny without knowing it
-Ice cream
-Dark chocolate
-Asparagus
-Salmon
-In-N-Out
-France (the country)
-J Crew
-Warm clothes in winter
-Dentists who fix bad teeth as best as they can
-Doctors
-Good eyeglasses
-Jewelry
-Watches
-Cell phones
-Arguments about stupid things (how else would I pass my time?)
-Music
-When dogs have those dreams where they're chasing something and their legs twitch like crazy
-Papers that are challenging (but worth the effort)

Frustration

Classes I am enrolled in:
-Hist 301 (late middle ages)
-Hist 303 (the reformation)
-Hist 314 (eurofascism)
-Phil 202 (history of modern philosophy)
-Fren 322 (advanced composition)
-Rel C 355 (Judaism and the gospel)

Classes I have tests in in the next 10 days:
-Hist 301
-Phil 202

Classes I have stuff due in the next 5 days:
-Hist 314
-Hist 303
-Phil 202
-Fren 322

Classes I am majorly behind in:
-Hist 314
-Hist 303
-Fren 322
-Rel C 355

Things keeping me alive:
-facebook
-2 trips out of utah in November
-going home for thanksgiving
-tea