October 29, 2012

I got to campus at 7:55 a.m., and it is now 11:39 p.m. and I am still in the library (I was not doing homework for a grand total of two hours today).

October 28, 2012

"Intelligence is living in such a way that the doctrines of the Church are active in us--an active and integral part of who we are, and what we are, and what we do, and what we think."

 -David A. Bednar, Increase in Learning pg 75 (read it for an awesome explanation of the interplay of knowledge, understanding, and intelligence)

October 27, 2012

My life is moving, moving, moving, moving.

October 26, 2012

No internet at home (construction workers damaged our internet connection) = no research (I have two fairly weighty research-based presentations on Tuesday) = Phantom of the Opera + roommate + Reese's Puffs rap, which of course = success.

October 25, 2012

I watched a BYU-student-made documentary, "I Am Not My Body", about an orphaned Romanian 9-year-old who was burned--third and fourth degree burns over 75% of his little body, losing all fingers, eyelids, and his nose--and his story of coming to America for medical care and reconstructive surgeries and he said something I'll never forget: when he first arrived in the U.S., the doctors told his new family he should take some time to play and be a little boy before they started surgerizing and so they went to parks and zoos and water parks and when the mom asked him, "Are you happy" he said, "How could I be anything but?"

October 24, 2012

Yesterday meant to be productive, but suddenly at 3 p.m. I needed to go Halloween shopping with my favorite human and then I needed to cook dinner (I never do that anymore) and then it was completely necessary to go watch Brave in the dollar theater (mid-week movie? I think YES!) and then I got home and my internet was down and so my friend came over and we talked til 1 a.m. (gasp!) and then my roommates and I sat in our hallway and talked until 2 a.m. (gasp-er!) and then I realized I would not be getting up at 6 a.m. to be productive the next day, either.

October 23, 2012

The afternoon fog slumped down the Wasatch mountains, a ceiling as gray as the long day ahead, beautiful as the prospect of ping pong tonight.

October 22, 2012

Money or happiness.