TED

I've been MIA lately... and I'd go into how busy I am, but I'm sure you guys are all still busier than me, and don't complain. But hey, my high points during the week are when I have to leave my house the least, so take it with a grain of salt.

I'm taking a creative writing class and the teacher made us watch a talk by Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat, Pray, Love while she was at TED, which is a conference-thingy.

I really loved her talk, and just finished watching one by J.J. Abrams that also was really really wonderful. They reminded me of the Moth stories (wait, you don't remember me gushing about that podcast/website?!?! Google it now!) because they are so inspirational and though provoking, but most of all entertaining.

I'd check it out if I were you... especially because I hear the tickets to attend these conferences are like $5,000(!) and they have a ton of videos online for FREE.

Shakespeare Film Festival 2010

So instead of being up in Provo all day tomorrow, I will be here.

(Cedar City..... gahhhh 4 hour bus ride!!!!)

For this.

Seeing Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth

I mean, I'm personally not a huuuuge fan of reading Shakespeare, but boy I do enjoy seeing people act it out. I mean, that is how it was meant to be experienced right?

Any of you going??

PS. I made some new pages up at the top if you want to go check them out. I mean, they aren't really anything new. But organized newly.

(You can tell I'm in summer school by the amount of naps I take)

      "For he is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; and the way is prepared for all men from the foundation of the world, if it so be that they repent and come unto him.
       For he that diligently seeketh shall find"

1 Nephi 10:18-19

Really enjoying my Book of Mormon classes so far. It's like English, but we are studying scriptures!

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PS. Had to bring in one poem we loved and one we hated for my Fundamental Literary Interpretations class and I brought in this gem by Mandy. I may have to frame all her poems and put them on my wall someday. Love them. (Hers was the one I loved... duhh. Oh and if you read this Mandy, my teacher said to tell you good job!)

Who Am I?

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So this semester I am taking a Human Development class. It's actually more of life coaching class because I'm pretty sure the teacher spends more class time telling us how to improve ourselves and discover who we really are, more than the class material. It's pretty interesting (and I say life coaching because his main job is life coaching people).

So for our final project we are writing about who we are. Basically we talk about our personal and professional goals, significant memories in our lives, our favorite books and movies because they reflect on who we are, etc.

One of the requirements is getting ten survey/interview responses to the question "Who Am I?"

So I have people to ask, but to you, my bloggy friends, I am wondering-

  Who am I?

PS. I'd appreciate it mucho if you left a lil somethin somethin. Just a few words or so. Merci!

I may eat my words later but...

I kinda really miss school.  *so* ready to go back in a few weeks.

It's not that break isn't fun, or even that I particularly enjoy all of my classes, but I sure do get satisfaction in completing an assignment or getting a good grade on a test I studied really hard for. Maybe I should have gotten a job over the break? After all that holiday shopping I could sure use some extra cash...

I know I will long for the days of sleeping in, and reading and hanging out all day when school finally rolls back around, but I can't help being excited to be back in the desk, pencil in hand. (Guess the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence right?)

Suppose I can't complain though, after spending the day shopping with my sister, gorging ourselves on a japanese buffet, hearing that our offer on the house has been tentatively accepted, and planning on doing manicures and facials, right??

Hope all of you are doing smashingly well, whether you are in school, about to go to school, working, doing both, or doing your own thang!

A waste of time?

Isn't it the worst when you're all tired and a little out of it due to lack of sleep, but you don't want to take a nap because you have stuff that needs to be done? And so you keep yourself busy, yet everything you are doing is pointless?

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For example, I got much less sleep than I need last night, and I have a math midterm that I desperately need to study for. Therefore I cannot afford to take a nap. Unfortunately I hate studying, like I would rather be writing an essay or doing massive amounts of homework than study, so I trick myself into going on the internet and listening to podcasts or making some food.                                                        

And so, I could in actuality be sleeping instead. Which is all I really want to do.

Guess I'll sign off and study.... you know, unless I find something else to distract me which of course will happen will not happen under any circumstances!

Update: I totally talked to my Aunt for about an hour literally like 5 minutes after posting this. *Go me!*

an example of why kids should NEVER do drugs

So I am taking Biological Psychology this semester and the other day we were learning about how drugs affect the brain, killing brain cells etc.

student with a pot-head personality: Ooh! (eagerly raising his hand) So does smoking pot, like, kill your brain cells?

teacher: well the studies are complicated because a lot of people that habitually smoke pot will also do other drugs, and it is hard to monitor all the variables. And scientists can't make people smoke pot everyday for twenty years for a study. But yes, studies indicate that smoking pot a lot will kill brain cells.

student: that study would be sooo awesome! i would totally do it!

Class: laughs at the ridiculousness of the *obvious* example of what too much pot does to someone

Five minutes later....

student: OH!(raises hand eagerly again) So does it only kill brain cells if you smoke it? Like is it ok if you just eat it?

class: laughs again at the absurdity of this pot-head's questions

teacher: ahhhh, no..... Smoking is worse for you lungs, but it still affects the brain in the same way.

student: bummmmer!

C'mon people, let's try NOT to be so obvious about those specific extra curriculars in the classroom live above the influence...

Touché Mac...

Ok, apparently I spoke too soon.

Macbook Pro has taken revenge for the atrocious peanut butter assaults.

As *if* peanut butter wasn't already dangerous...

Which reminds me of my friend asking me why I was eating peanut butter (back when I was vegan) because "isn't there butter in it?" Oh Sarah, your only ditzy moment will live on forever in my memory..

Today I came home and realized that I left my laptop on all night, plugged in, screen up. I tried to revive it to no avail, and ended up shutting it down by holding the power button down. It's revenge? To be determined *not* to turn back on. Yes, that's right. EVEN though it is completely charged and has no reason to be unresponsive to my attemps to awaken it, it remains shut down.

Tune in next time (wednesday for the follow-up after my genius bar appointment) to find out what happens next!

P.S. It is WAY easier to type these out on macs because it tells me when I mess up easy words, and instead of just trying various combinations, I find myself googling the word.

Oh and I denifitely started school this week.... classes are only so-so

But I feel that I do need to add that I thought I had escaped for the most part, studying the bible at school. Apparently not, as my first class is going over it for literary reasons. I am all for knowing the bible stories, since they are great stories and have been referenced to in TONS of novels, but I think think the four years of theology classes were a little bit of an overkill. Alas my plans are foiled again....