What I Accomplished Last Week:
-Packed all my stuff
-Moved it to my new house
-Cleaned my old apartment and checked out
-Wrote and gave a talk in church
-Wrote and gave a lesson in church
-Met a homeless man who gave me a good new perspective on life
-Told a woman how to get to the hospital to meet her daughter who was in labor
-Went to a free Bright Eyes concert
-Ate a Liege waffle
-Helped other people move and clean
-Made a podcast (it's not a real thing yet)
-Forced people to listen to Dolly Parton
-Rode my bike
-Took a friend to the airport
-Took off my glasses and jumped in the pool
-Hung out with Argentines
-Went to the temple with a roommate
-Hung out on a hammock
-Went to a bonfire
-Watched a lighter explode in said bonfire
-Talked about stuff with people (very ambiguous rhetoric)
-Went to a wedding reception for one of my favorite people in this world
-Got visit taught
-Ate a free dinner care of institute funds from the ward
-Hung out at the hospital cafeteria and saw the usual random people there, including the guy who stole my bike lock (and gave it back ten minutes later)
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Boredom
What to do for fun:
-Bike rides
-Open more and more accounts for things on the internet
-Start a band
-Learn the lyrics to a random song
-Txtmsg random people
-Gchat
-Read articles/talks/devotionals/random stuff online
-Stalk someone on facebook
-Actually do homework
-Go to ward activities
-Find someone who looks bored and start talking to them
-Eat something
-Play the guitar
-Make lists
-Call someone on the phone
-Read lots of blogs
-Write a blog post
-Write a letter
-Write in a journal
-Clean
-Paint nails
-Bake something
-Daydream
-Go for a walk
-Go for a drive
-Go shopping
-Plan out a schedule for the next week, semester, whatever
-Look for jobs/housing/graduate programs
-Think about new hobbies to start
-Doodle on a piece of paper
-Drop by a friend's house just to see if they are there
-Watch tv/movies
-Go running
-Go to the gym
-Bike rides
-Open more and more accounts for things on the internet
-Start a band
-Learn the lyrics to a random song
-Txtmsg random people
-Gchat
-Read articles/talks/devotionals/random stuff online
-Stalk someone on facebook
-Actually do homework
-Go to ward activities
-Find someone who looks bored and start talking to them
-Eat something
-Play the guitar
-Make lists
-Call someone on the phone
-Read lots of blogs
-Write a blog post
-Write a letter
-Write in a journal
-Clean
-Paint nails
-Bake something
-Daydream
-Go for a walk
-Go for a drive
-Go shopping
-Plan out a schedule for the next week, semester, whatever
-Look for jobs/housing/graduate programs
-Think about new hobbies to start
-Doodle on a piece of paper
-Drop by a friend's house just to see if they are there
-Watch tv/movies
-Go running
-Go to the gym
Friday, July 8, 2011
What to do the first week of July in Riverside, California
Things to do when visiting family:
-Go to Disneyland for a day
-Ride Star Tours at least twice while there, along with Pirates and Thunder Mountain
-See Cars 2 with all the children
-Go out with old friends a few times
-Push the nieces on the swingset in the backyard
-Spend time with a german shepherd
-Talk about what's going on in Provo, Mesa, Nashville, or Riverside these days
-Go watch fireworks at a family friend's house
-Watch Mt Rubidoux catch on fire just a few minutes into the fireworks show
-Wait for a long time to see if the fireworks will start up again-- mostly wait for the fires to be under control
-Watch roman candles in the field close by catch the field on fire
-Get bitten by mosquitoes and have those bug bites swell up to ridiculous sizes
-Don't even open thesis related work
-Finish off that book almost a year after starting it
-Go to Costco
-Go to the Galleria at Tyler
-Go to Von's and Trader Joe's
-Eat lots
-Macerate some meyer lemons from the backyard
-Make shaker lemon pie
-Make world peace cookies (aka chocolate korova?)
-Bring a loaf of avocado pound cake in suitcase to share with family, while leaving a dozen muffins for the roommates
-Text people a lot when bored
-Watch Harry Potter 1 with the nephew who had just finished the book a few days earlier
-Play the piano, mostly when no one's home
-Eat thrifty's ice cream sandwiches
-Let a niece be entertained endlessly by emoticons on gchat (the blue crying face is the best)
-Play basketball with family or just solo
-Ride a bike with flat tires that are also completely deteriorating and think about buying new tires for it for the future, but never follow through on that
-Spend time with family, alone and together
-Sleep in most days
-Listen to awesome testimonies in church about how great and tall trees are
-Go to Disneyland for a day
-Ride Star Tours at least twice while there, along with Pirates and Thunder Mountain
-See Cars 2 with all the children
-Go out with old friends a few times
-Push the nieces on the swingset in the backyard
-Spend time with a german shepherd
-Talk about what's going on in Provo, Mesa, Nashville, or Riverside these days
-Go watch fireworks at a family friend's house
-Watch Mt Rubidoux catch on fire just a few minutes into the fireworks show
-Wait for a long time to see if the fireworks will start up again-- mostly wait for the fires to be under control
-Watch roman candles in the field close by catch the field on fire
-Get bitten by mosquitoes and have those bug bites swell up to ridiculous sizes
-Don't even open thesis related work
-Finish off that book almost a year after starting it
-Go to Costco
-Go to the Galleria at Tyler
-Go to Von's and Trader Joe's
-Eat lots
-Macerate some meyer lemons from the backyard
-Make shaker lemon pie
-Make world peace cookies (aka chocolate korova?)
-Bring a loaf of avocado pound cake in suitcase to share with family, while leaving a dozen muffins for the roommates
-Text people a lot when bored
-Watch Harry Potter 1 with the nephew who had just finished the book a few days earlier
-Play the piano, mostly when no one's home
-Eat thrifty's ice cream sandwiches
-Let a niece be entertained endlessly by emoticons on gchat (the blue crying face is the best)
-Play basketball with family or just solo
-Ride a bike with flat tires that are also completely deteriorating and think about buying new tires for it for the future, but never follow through on that
-Spend time with family, alone and together
-Sleep in most days
-Listen to awesome testimonies in church about how great and tall trees are
Monday, June 20, 2011
Life Lessons
Things I Have Learned Recently:
-The guitar (not super well)
-Patience (kind of but not super well either)
-How to be more open than is comfortable (still working on that, too)
-How weak I am
-How strong I can be
-All about different cords and cables for audio/visual equipment
-Hard work is worth it sometimes
-David O. McKay was an awesome husband
-So was Harold B. Lee
-Hope is possible without seeing how things will happen, if they ever even do
-Sleep is not overrated, but hard to get sometimes
-I like capitalism
-I'm pretty smart and capable and stuff (more of a needed reminder)
-It's not fun to learn the same lessons over and over
-Finding patterns is kind of really fun. For me.
-Emotions are good if you accept them
-Emotions sometimes still are the worst even then
-Stability and routine are things I actually really crave
-Knowing that I need/don't need something and actually feeling like I need/don't need something are very, very different things
-Perspective can be really hard to find
-It's really easy to spend money without thinking about it
-Being stable and having a good, solid network of friends for support is worth a lot more than any words can describe
-Music is really good for catharsis
-Movies used to do that for me really well, but now are overwhelming a lot of the time
-I am really funny (not that I didn't know this before)
-I like talking to strangers about things like beeswax, CSAs, history, trivial matters
-I miss some of my old hobbies a lot
-Touching hot pans is bad for my skin
-Being outside is a really good form of therapy
-Writing in my journal is another really good form of therapy
-Talking to friends/family is another really good (better, even) form of therapy
-Being optimistic is sometimes hard but it's always worth it
-Taking risks is also really hard, but it can lead to very rewarding experiences and lessons I couldn't have learned otherwise
-I don't like school enough to go on and get a PhD, but sometimes I wish I did because I do actually really love school enough to keep going on. Just not enough for the work and life-sucking quality of graduate degrees.
-I should stop being as shy as I am, but I don't really want to talk to other people a lot of the time. Not enough to actually do it
-I'm really stubborn and moody and prideful
-Laughter is one of the only ways to break the above
-It's really easy for me to be distracted at inappropriate times
-I can carry a joke on until it becomes something very serious, like how comic book characters are all based on scriptural characters. That joke may have lasted like 24 hours, actively naming comic book characters and the scriptural characters that correspond.
-I have no clue what I want to do even three months from now, or where I want to be. Like, literally.
-Life is good, even when it's hard
-Even when things can't get much worse, there's a silver lining in that it can (and often will) always get better
-It takes work to feel comfort and hope sometimes, but that work is always well worth it
-Just going through the motions sucks, so trying to be optimistic and actually like my life is really important
-Time helps perspective, so do prayer and scripture study.
-The guitar (not super well)
-Patience (kind of but not super well either)
-How to be more open than is comfortable (still working on that, too)
-How weak I am
-How strong I can be
-All about different cords and cables for audio/visual equipment
-Hard work is worth it sometimes
-David O. McKay was an awesome husband
-So was Harold B. Lee
-Hope is possible without seeing how things will happen, if they ever even do
-Sleep is not overrated, but hard to get sometimes
-I like capitalism
-I'm pretty smart and capable and stuff (more of a needed reminder)
-It's not fun to learn the same lessons over and over
-Finding patterns is kind of really fun. For me.
-Emotions are good if you accept them
-Emotions sometimes still are the worst even then
-Stability and routine are things I actually really crave
-Knowing that I need/don't need something and actually feeling like I need/don't need something are very, very different things
-Perspective can be really hard to find
-It's really easy to spend money without thinking about it
-Being stable and having a good, solid network of friends for support is worth a lot more than any words can describe
-Music is really good for catharsis
-Movies used to do that for me really well, but now are overwhelming a lot of the time
-I am really funny (not that I didn't know this before)
-I like talking to strangers about things like beeswax, CSAs, history, trivial matters
-I miss some of my old hobbies a lot
-Touching hot pans is bad for my skin
-Being outside is a really good form of therapy
-Writing in my journal is another really good form of therapy
-Talking to friends/family is another really good (better, even) form of therapy
-Being optimistic is sometimes hard but it's always worth it
-Taking risks is also really hard, but it can lead to very rewarding experiences and lessons I couldn't have learned otherwise
-I don't like school enough to go on and get a PhD, but sometimes I wish I did because I do actually really love school enough to keep going on. Just not enough for the work and life-sucking quality of graduate degrees.
-I should stop being as shy as I am, but I don't really want to talk to other people a lot of the time. Not enough to actually do it
-I'm really stubborn and moody and prideful
-Laughter is one of the only ways to break the above
-It's really easy for me to be distracted at inappropriate times
-I can carry a joke on until it becomes something very serious, like how comic book characters are all based on scriptural characters. That joke may have lasted like 24 hours, actively naming comic book characters and the scriptural characters that correspond.
-I have no clue what I want to do even three months from now, or where I want to be. Like, literally.
-Life is good, even when it's hard
-Even when things can't get much worse, there's a silver lining in that it can (and often will) always get better
-It takes work to feel comfort and hope sometimes, but that work is always well worth it
-Just going through the motions sucks, so trying to be optimistic and actually like my life is really important
-Time helps perspective, so do prayer and scripture study.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Listening to NPR music, mostly
Songs I Listen to a Lot Lately:
-Two against One, starring Jack White (from Rome by Daniele Luppi and Danger Mouse)
-Stone Rollin' (from Stone Rollin' by Raphael Saadiq)
-Heart Attack (from Stone Rollin' by Raphael Saadiq)
-All Cried Out Redux feat. Doug E. Fresh (from The Light of the Sun by Jill Scott)
-Le BOOM (from The Light of the Sun by Jill Scott)
-Rolling in the Deep (from 21 by Adele)
-A la faveur de l'automne (from A la faveur de l'automne by Tété)
-99 problems (from The Grey Album by Danger Mouse)
-Justify my Thug (from The Grey Album by Danger Mouse)
-Detroit (from Rush by Black Gold)
-Plans & Reveries (from Rush by Black Gold)
-Le Premier bonheur du jour (by Françoise Hardy)
-Sleep With One Eye Open (from a Tiny Desk Concert with Chris Thile and Michael Daves)
-Bury Me Beneath the Willow (from a Tiny Desk Concert with Chris Thile and Michael Daves)
-Red Devil (from a Tiny Desk Concert with The Kopecky Family Band)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Best of me
My Favorite Blog Posts on My Other Blog:
-Milou v. Bolt
-Rooney Concert
-Last Summer's Diet Plan
-Uncle Stephen's Tiger Claws
-Don't worry, the cat's not dead...
-Peaches are really important to me (but maybe not to the same degree as dogs, in the end)
-Not really that great, just something I think about a lot
-I blew the cover of my confidential middle name....
-Remember when I thought I had swine flu but actually had mono?
-I still think about this one a lot because of an inside joke I represented here visually
-I still love Martha.
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-Milou v. Bolt
-Rooney Concert
-Last Summer's Diet Plan
-Uncle Stephen's Tiger Claws
-Don't worry, the cat's not dead...
-Peaches are really important to me (but maybe not to the same degree as dogs, in the end)
-Not really that great, just something I think about a lot
-I blew the cover of my confidential middle name....
-Remember when I thought I had swine flu but actually had mono?
-I still think about this one a lot because of an inside joke I represented here visually
-I still love Martha.
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
How to Procrastinate a Thesis
Things I Have Done Today:
-Learn how to play the guitar
-Watch random tv show
-Read news stories on NPR and Le Monde's website
-Read emails
-Read through my Google Reader
-Make foods to eat
-Overbook myself on several different days
-Think about what I should be doing
-Open up Microsoft Word documents for my thesis
-Almost clean my room
-Clean dishes
-Put away dishes
-Minimal amounts of getting dressed and other things to make myself presentable to the general public
-Browse amazon.com
-Write out my tithing for tomorrow
-Agree to go to ward prayer tomorrow night
-Procrastinate calling friends about dinner tomorrow night
-Watch trailers for movies on apple's website
-Watch trailers for movies on youtube
-Listen to Tété
-Listen to Ben L'Oncle Soul
-Spend a lot of time on google calendar thinking about what I have to do next week
-Think about running/showering
-Think about road trips I want to take, mostly either to Southern Utah or California
-Ditch out on Stake Relief Society service projects because sleep is more enjoyable
-Learn how to play the guitar
-Watch random tv show
-Read news stories on NPR and Le Monde's website
-Read emails
-Read through my Google Reader
-Make foods to eat
-Overbook myself on several different days
-Think about what I should be doing
-Open up Microsoft Word documents for my thesis
-Almost clean my room
-Clean dishes
-Put away dishes
-Minimal amounts of getting dressed and other things to make myself presentable to the general public
-Browse amazon.com
-Write out my tithing for tomorrow
-Agree to go to ward prayer tomorrow night
-Procrastinate calling friends about dinner tomorrow night
-Watch trailers for movies on apple's website
-Watch trailers for movies on youtube
-Listen to Tété
-Listen to Ben L'Oncle Soul
-Spend a lot of time on google calendar thinking about what I have to do next week
-Think about running/showering
-Think about road trips I want to take, mostly either to Southern Utah or California
-Ditch out on Stake Relief Society service projects because sleep is more enjoyable
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