Summer to-do list

Things To Do This Summer:

-Find employment

-Pass the comp exam for my program

-Go to Moab

-Go to Zion's

-Attend at least three (3) local festivals

-Road trip to another state

-Bake and cook to the X-TREME

-Go hiking, lots

-Read for FUN

-Hang out in the canyon again, or find a new cool spot

-Dancing

-Go home (California) twice (2) (can be combined with road trip)

My life the past six years

Things I like about Utah Valley:

-Lots of ethnic food everywhere

-Lots of people who speak random languages and lived in random places everywhere

-Easy to make fun of

-Pretty safe

-Great spring and summer

-All four seasons (it has its pros and cons)

-People tend to be pretty smart overall

-Not having to feel weird for being a Mormon

-Cool mountains

-IKEA close-by

-Not having to worry about people getting drunk and thus fairly annoying pretty quickly
-International Cinema

-Peaches in the summer

Things I don't particularly like about Utah Valley:

-Snow. Too much. For too long.

-Everyone looks too nice; there's too much pressure to be perfect outwardly

-Lots of judging (based on outward appearances)

-No options for a nightlife

-Movies frequently and unnecessarily edited

-Far from most of my family

-Dogs aren't allowed in nearly all student housing

-Being contrary (argumentative) is considered a sin, at least socially if not morally

-Everything has significant potential to be awkward

early morning procrastination

Consequences of Living in Utah:
-Dry skin
-Forgetting what it's like outside of "the bubble"
-Excessive judging
-Dressing in layers (who knows what the weather will REALLY be like any given day?)
-Dressing modestly

Things to Be Excited About This Week:
-Lauren coming to visit
-Watching Pleine Soleil in film class
-Finishing the midterm for French class
-St Patrick's Day (actually it's one of my least favorite holidays...)
-Watching Le Doulos

Jean-Pierre Melville Films I Have Seen:
-Le Samourai
-Bob le Flambeur
-Les Enfants Terribles
-Le Cercle Rouge
-L'armee des Ombres

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